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Now let's dive right back into Tara through the campaign.
Manny Polos, Greg, Yeah, he sees you when you're sleeping.
He knows when you're awake. I'll I'll jump into the recap
after this, but currently you find yourself and I'll say the
first name for the first Go around Kalaman Zarhorn on a
giant table larger than life. You're you're standing on it
physically and you see items that are also of that size
variety surrounding you and you're standing atop a map.
You have a compass to the South East and candles to the South or
the to the North East. And on the other side of the
table get some books, cards, keys, some dice and some more
maps that it looks like. And maybe some other ledgers of
of stuff I didn't actually. You probably can't physically
see it on rule 20. I just realized because I've got
to do this. I've got to ascribe it
controlled by what's your Oh, did you join
you. You joined the the Rule 20
campaign. You said you were on there, and
you've seen those rules. So I'm in there.
I just realized, oh, I see it. Here we go.
Save. I saved.
We level up on a long rest, right?
Yep. Well, you just read long rest,
so it counted. You just guys finished a long
rest, but do you see that? Do you see the map that I was
talking about now? No, as of right now I do not.
Might have to refresh if you if you haven't because I did give
you control of a singular token. There's a couple of others there
that I can kind of I let you look at, but I was physically
from the description you gave, I think the the one that I gave
you might be your your chosen one but we'll see.
Do I need to do the roll 20 tutorial before I could see it
Cuz I just reloaded. I'm seeing all of you guys at
the bottom left of the roll 20 seeing the the chat room it
should be is it? Is it just Gray or black or
whatever? Everyone else see the table
though, because I think your characters are still here.
I see it. Cool.
OK, good. Making sure it wasn't something
on that part of it. Let me see if I need to.
OK, give you control of that. Maybe I'll refresh it once and
it'll go through too. Yeah, I'm just.
I'm zooming out, zooming around the the map space if you will,
and I'm not seeing anything. How about now?
Nope, I'm reloading myself again.
Yeah, that should be you. See, I just shared my screen.
You can see what I'm seeing. Odd, just blackness this pops
up, but I don't know if I need to do that.
I mean, I'm assuming if you can skip it or whatever, it would be
fine. Oh wait, I know what I did now
dynamic lighting vision on for this token.
Here we go. That happens a lot too.
There we go. Need to name more of our
episodes. Technical difficulty I guess.
Anyways, you see the you should be able to click on the one to
the far right. That's the one that I assigned
you to right now. If you're OK with that one.
I also found these other ELV tokens that you're welcome to
choose from, and you're also welcome to make your own token
and get back to me and I can drag and drop it from anywhere.
Any image file that you find for what you think you would be
better appropriate. OK, that works.
I'll just yeah, we'll just stick one on the right to start.
Cool. So you should be able to click
that token there and you should be able to move them around.
There you go. And that will be used for main
mainly just to let me know that you're interacting with
something you know move your token closer and gives gives me
a better understanding of what you're trying to do.
Usually whenever we're interact acting with things on the on the
maps. But yeah, so you find yourself
on this big table and you're you're looking around.
You probably would look up once at least, and see that there's a
starry vast expanse above your head, like a more more than
expected amount of stars of a void that you're in currently.
Not sure what other ponderings you might have or what actions
you might take, but it's up to you what you doing.
OK, give me one second. So, Mike, push to talk is moving
my character in here too. Every time you speak, you move.
That should be much better. Oh, that's the first time I've
tried to push the button. So yeah, I mean, I guess I've
moved towards the move towards the, the compass.
Sounds like at least a good start.
So you move towards the compass, Do you do anything to interact
with it? You're move is you're moving.
You do see you know the edge of the table approaching and and it
also has a vast expanse of stars over the edge that's aren't look
like the night sky. So it sounds like I need to find
my way out of here is the compass.
What What direction is the compass pointing?
Can I tell you, look at the compass and it is pointing
almost east on the compass direction, which is kind of a
northeasterly location from your actual physical direction.
But it also seems to be that the the needle on it, especially
since you're so you're so small comparatively to it, it's about
the twice this or three times about the size of your actual
physical person. You can see the needle
distinctly pushing up against the glass on the inside, almost
as if it's trying to come. Would would come out and point
up if it could. Can I attempt to break that
glass? Absolutely.
You're gonna wanna roll me a. How are you actually gonna do
that? Being my first question, I would
maybe attempt to hit it with the like the butt of my short sword.
OK, we'll call that an attack with a short sword then still
too, so you can roll to hit. Which would give me Yep, that 12
there definitely hits an inanimate object and eight
piercing damage it just from the regular attack.
We'll call it blunt for this particular case, but you you
smash it up against the glass and it doesn't doesn't but
budget kind of off of it so that you you can tell it's a little
bit harder, maybe because it's the scale issue.
You know it kind of like a even if an Ant had a sword and was
smacking at the edge of a compass, it probably wouldn't go
through. OK, well that doesn't seem to to
work. I'm not going to waste my time
doing that, at least not in the moment.
Worth a try though. Let's just go, let's go explore
and I guess I'll try to move up towards the candles.
Kind of check them out. You see that there's wax pulling
in them. They're they're good. 15 feet to
the top of the where the wick's burning right now.
So you're standing at the base of them and there is, they are
dripping some wax trails down to the bottom pulling on the table
a little bit. OK, I'm not going to try to hit
that with my sword. I don't need a hot wax hitting
me. Let's just keep moving.
Are these papers like I go up to the papers.
Is is it light enough for me to, like, lift and try to move out
of the way so I can see the like the map underneath?
Yep. Yeah, you can.
You can physically move it. It's still, it wouldn't be able
to pick it all up in one go just because of its length.
The a little troublesome, but you you can pick up an edge of
it and you look under it and you see a map that's physically
under it, that of one that you you're probably at least vaguely
familiar of. And this is where I'll take you
to. There's a little journal up at
the top, right over near the chat features and such.
If you hover over it kind of looks like a like a book with a
couple star points on it. Yep, got it.
And then you go to handouts, and Allelopolis is actually where
this one's living. And there's map, Map, Taurus
Globe. You see that under under the top
sheet of paper which just reads in Common Tariff, the path
unfolds What I can see from the edge of this.
I mean is there anything on the map that's on the table that
gives me like AX marks the spot anything or is it this map?
No it it it is the map of the globe that you know that like
the earth that you're from but you're the planet rather that
you're from. However you're you're unsure if
you're even on that planet currently.
As to the views around you at least you know the stars don't
quite look the same from this direction wherever you are.
And there is another compass that's at the bottom of the map
that is catching your eye with it showing you just the
orientation of the map. OK.
And is the orientation like a standard north is north or is it
twisted around any direction, the standard orientation on the
map? OK now if I can lift it up and
move the top one out of the way to see the map, can I lift the
map up and see, well, can I read this paper on the very bottom?
Is it made in a language that I can understand?
Then the last piece of paper that's on the on the map there
is you. As you're lifting up the the
map, underneath of it there is a whole language that you're
unfamiliar with, but it it seems to be written in relatively
small font for the page. But other other than that, I
don't know what might catch your attention besides that you can't
understand it. But you do know it's a language.
OK, what's what's some languages that you do know too.
I didn't brush up on that before.
Common. Uncommon.
Elvish. OK, yeah definitely don't any of
those. I guess it'll just go around
check everything else out Over to these dice.
Is there is there anything about the dice that's unique Anything
that can I push them over? Can I?
Some of the smaller ones, you can push them over pretty easy,
but the D20 being the largest of them seem it wouldn't be unless
you put some extra effort into it.
You can tell that you wouldn't be able to even roll it about as
let me see, I think it's roll over there.
There it is. Yeah, it's it's physically twice
the width of you, but the smaller ones you can you can
kind of just put your shoulder into them and roll them over.
But this one you'd have to probably, you know brace
yourself and maybe even run at it or something.
Can I attempt to like shove my sword sword like underneath of
it and like kind of leverage it to to to try to turn it to the
20s facing up? Absolutely.
You're going to want to roll me a a strength check.
Seven, definitely quick on those.
That's what comes up on the die as you roll it over and it goes
over to three or four sides before it stops.
When you get it leveraged over and it starts to kind of
pulsate, if you will, and the dice itself.
And then from the edges around it you can see that the faces
start to come off of each other and you see a a throbbing
darkness on the inside of it that's pulling, that pulls you
in the the sensation that that is alluring.
I don't know what that would be for you, but it's a it's a
darkness, but it's alluring. It means what?
What it means that I'm kind of like interested.
Yeah, yeah, yes. It's a whatever sensation that
you would associate with that, that the that it's trying to
pull you towards it. And also pleasantly though, as
if you know, fine looking something, something was calling
your name. Not a huge fan of that.
I mean, can I can I see if there's anything magical that I
know of about it? Like there's anything I
recognize that I've seen before or studied in the past.
You can definitely tell it's magical, without a doubt as to
what you might know in the past. You could either roll an arcana
or a history, depending upon how you how, how much you're
thinking about that magically. I guess it's up to you.
I'm gonna roll on Arcana just to see if it's like if there's any
if the if like. I've read anything about this
type of magic before and anything that can give me an
idea of what what it is or anything like that. 122 The only
thing that you can think of and it's more of a stray thought
that enters your mind when staring at it all is in in in
some bar in your youth you would been playing some dice and you'd
overheard a story of a raving or from a raving madman off in the
corner as you guys were playing and just kind of laughing at him
but still buying him drinks just for entertainment for the
evening. Probably you you heard heard him
talking about how the universe and you are only vague on that
term even works but that it's all just random chance and he
that's why you guys liked listening to him and he believed
that there was a dye in the center of all universe of all
the universes that spits out more and everyone is created
that way. OK, so you said, the first time
I rolled it over, I noticed some of like, the sides falling off,
some of the numbers coming off and revealing an interior not
completely off, like not to the ground.
It was more of like A and they the faces protruded to expose
the edges which have the darkness that's inside of it
currently. That's alluring.
OK. I'd like to do, I'd like to try
to do the same thing I did before.
Wedge it, roll it over one more time.
See what happens. All right.
Yeah. Give me another strength check.
Oh, natural 20 with the plus three there.
So you roll it one more time. With wedging your short sword,
your sword under the edge of it, lift it up and you see just as
you're lifting it over the 20 roll up over in front of your
face and then land on top and it completely opens up.
And the blackness that was ever so alluring kind of starts to
fill everything that you know. And there is nothingness.
You are nothingness again, which is what the sensation was before
you were just on the table from wherever you were.
I did forget to say that in the beginning, but where you find
yourself now is going to be completely foreign.
Let me get you over there. You guys are in the pocket.
Rocket Doink, you actually here? What?
There we go. Start to feel your senses coming
back as you're fading back in from nothingness to a reality.
Real sense, you know, you're first things that you're
noticing and seeing around you is that you're up against a bar,
leaning up against it, and beside you is a unconscious,
more than likely passed out, drunk, singed man who his hair
is blazed away and his he had what looked like some remnants
of alcohol doused over him before he caught him, had been
caught on fire just from the shoulders up, but otherwise
unharmed and breathing softly. And then you're kind of turn
around from the bar and you see three figures discussing at a
table, eating over here some things.
And it looks like from my head you'd actually come over to the
couch cushions as opposed to sitting around the table where
everyone else was. But Oh yeah, I'm.
I'm skulking in the corner on the couches, just being
observant as per usual, And Franklin are being the only one
that's actually kind of facing that direction.
Notice this black void appear over the bar before its center
is up against the side of it and starts to form into a a person
that you can see there. If you want to describe
yourself, this would be the perfect time, Cal.
All right, yeah. First thing I want to do, I just
popped through a portal in time. That gentleman on the ground, he
looks like he doesn't need. Does he have a drink in front of
him? Are you talking about the the
burned burn victim? Yeah, you can say that.
Yeah, he he does does have most of a drink in front of him.
Any other drinks on the bar or is it all empty?
Based on this picture, there's there's at least one full mug on
the bar. I'm gonna.
I'm gonna grab that mug and chug it because I don't know what the
hell just happened to me. It got situation saving through.
Well you're good it it just leaves a nice kind of hoppy
after taste in your mouth with a refreshing crisp head to begin
with. That you.
I think this is the first, like actual drink that you've
described that actually sounds tasty.
Hey, I like my weird drinks, I know, but it's like he gets the
nice taste in beer. Come on, the other ones were
nice tasting. I think they were just a little
eccentric and left, like weird after taste in our mouth or
something. All right, so after I down that
drink, I guess I I'm gonna walk over to the the table, introduce
myself. What's going on, guys?
My name is Cal. I don't know where the hell I
am. You guys, can you guys tell me
anything? You guys know anything?
I assume most of these people are unresponsive.
Yeah. Besides, yeah, yeah, it looks
like they're all passed out. Got it.
OK, cool. The other ones are like,
actually, when you walk over, they're like, ah, shit, another
one. I'm not dealing with this.
And they walk away. I'll be over there, though.
Where's where? Moira.
Fuck. Did you get in here?
Sorry, I didn't catch that. How the fuck did you get in
here? I I was hoping you could tell
me. I look at Franklin and I'm just
like, I thought you said this place was safe.
Relatively. And then SoCal for your, for
your information, you see sitting at the table among the
people who all stood up and got walked away.
Have you ever read Franklin the Turtle, The Child, Child.
Like the children's book, It's vaguely familiar.
Yeah, that's what you see. OK, You see a child, like
basically a child sitting at the table with a large bowl of what
appears to be like Froot Loops, but with all but with like
something wriggling in them in the bowl as he pours milk into
it. And he turns to look at you and
he says, well, Owl is unexpected.
Hi. I'm Franklin.
And you're dead. And I'm dead.
Yeah. Welcome to hell.
He kind of gestures around. Well, this is hell.
This is our house. But we're in hell.
And you died. I think.
I at least I think we're dead. Well, I don't really feel dead
like it doesn't. Doesn't.
Wasn't what I imagined it to be. Yeah, and he takes a big bite
and you see what appears to be maggots or larva of some kind of
falling out of this. Froot loops or off of the spoon
onto the end of the bowl. Yeah, you'd think that.
And then he hops down, like kind of cleans off his hands and
walks forward, pulls out of his pocket. 2 little icons here,
you're gonna probably want these.
And holds them out. Put this on along with your with
your with your new torque. You realize for the first time
too that around your neck because he's gesturing there is
a necklace torque just an O if you know what those are.
That's kind of the it's got the two ends to it.
So it kind of, it's basically just one braided rod that's bent
around the back of your neck with an open point in the front.
And the charms he's handing, you have little loops on him to loop
up all over top of and onto that.
So this one is a poop symbol, but it's gold.
This is a key to get into the house and this other one looks
like a clerk lock Rab. Keep the swab out of you inside.
It is a little treat that will heal you for what HP if you go
down. We just use the ball, so don't
put this on. Hello.
I'll give you a tour. So, wait, you're telling me to
put these on right now? I don't even know what they do.
I don't know who you are. I've set up Franklin.
Hi. And I wait again.
I I I know you're Franklin, but I don't know where I am.
I don't know how I got here. I was just on a giant table.
And. Oh, you did that too.
OK. Here.
Come sit down. He'll gesture to the table.
Do you like cereal? Not the cereal that looks like
you're eating. It's got extra protein.
He'll walk over to the bar and grab a thing of, like, bran or
some crappy cereal. Sorry.
You're a adult, right? Tricks are for kids.
These are my favorite. Yeah, of course it is.
Adults, roll my eyes. All right, here's the milk.
So where are you? The Boyer is around here
somewhere. Hold on.
Hey, AMS, pull a little what appears to be a insect out of my
pocket. Can you go go find the Boyer at
Burger? Over here?
We've got a new visitor. He looks at you and then crawls
on to your hand and goes. And then he looks straight ahead
and then just looks back at you and, not wanting to contradict
you, just jumps off of your hand and kind of flutter jumps over
to vomita directly across from you on the couch.
I think I found her. Good job.
He's an excellent detective. He recently realized that
reality isn't real. So anyway, what do you want to
know? Well, I didn't notice Vomira at
first, but I turned around after just noticing her.
Now I introduced myself to Franklin and her.
I'm Cal spearheads. Rest.
I don't know who you are, where I am, but seems like I'm almost
out of options. Yeah, look at the Moira to see
if she wants to say anything. I stand up and I'm just like,
Yep, I'm Romero. We're stuck in hell.
You gotta free of God to get out of here.
So. So wait, we're in hell right
now? Where are where?
Where is this room? Where is this bar?
Who's the the dude? Burned on the floor.
Passed out on the floor. Oh, that's just one of our
companions. He was an idiot and lit himself
on fire and then threw alcohol on him.
Don't ask. Yeah, we should probably do
something about that. Franklin all hung up up, walk
over and cure wounds him. Anyway.
He goes and sits back down. Just another fight.
Or who was that? Warren.
So wait, you said you were on
the giant table with the stars. Too many to count as well.
Yeah. Well so that was like ages ago.
Yeah. That's what I think.
That's when you died I'm pretty sure.
And then so all right. So this is going to sound crate
well I'm not convinced that we're dead.
I don't know. Here.
Let's let's start at the beginning and like the basics
before we get to the metaphysical realities of if we
exist or not. Anyway, so he gestures around.
This is a magical space, like a house that exists inside of a
pocket reality that's housed inside of a rock that we can
carry around door Boy, I'll give you a quick tour.
He hops up and picks up his cereal and walk around with it.
There's gonna be some things that are shocking.
Don't don't be shocked. All right, so this is like the
touch. Anything that looks dangerous.
Yeah, that. Yeah, that for sure.
Somebody lost a head. I've been trained.
I've. I've been trained better than
that. Thank you though.
So this is like the bar lounge area.
Very dice. Seeing that my drink is empty, I
go to you, walk up, and you see that there is a full bottle of
that. It looked like Warren was about
to bust open because he just finished just what left in his
glass of whiskey. And him, some of the people that
grab it. Go ahead.
Hey, don't be. Don't be pointing fingers.
Hey, I have a Cleric. I grabbed the bottle.
I'm like, here, I'll pour you one.
And I you.
Is it working? Who'd you pour one for?
No. So you said there's a bottle of
gin that Warren was about to crack open.
Yep. So I pick up the bottle.
I'm like, here, let me pour you one.
And I pour him a glass and then take the bottle and walk away.
Does not respond. This continues to sleep on the
bar. And then I take a take a swig
and try behind the group Constitution and you're is that
saving or regular check saving. That's one of the pins if you
wanted to know for your reference there to Cal is Get
drunk. Getting drunk.
What did you get 21? Oh yeah, you're you're you're,
you're good. You'd get the the notes of the
distinct notes of juniper. That is the name namesake of Jin
for the most part. But then there is a good bit of
nosy pepper, ground pepper after afterwards that kind of finishes
it off sweet, and then some floral, fruity flavors that
linger. So and I I trail behind them a
wall. Franklin gives him a tour, just
kind of eyeing him up, trying to see what I can, what information
I can gather just from like what he's wearing and like what, like
weapons and equipment he has. As we're walking down the
hallway, I've I've noticed there's there's looks like a
bunch of those those bugs, whatever ahead of us.
And I say what the hell, there's more of them.
Yeah, these are by family and friends.
So I have a swarm keeper, so they work for me.
Well, for us, but all right. Here you'll see a big shift
laboratory being set up by a bunch of insects wearing nurse
outfits. Notice there's two others to the
left, and I just kind of give them a look.
Once over and down, introduce myself from across the table.
You can tell the ones talking to the other about the baby that
she's holding in her hands and Flint needing to take care of
him more. It is nod to you and continue
with your argument. All right, then moving, moving
on. Can he can he see, see the baby?
It's not just like a baby. You see as you're walking
farther and when they nod to you that the baby in her arms has
two heads, well, that is a first, but seems like it is a
day of firsts. So yeah.
And the chambers that you're walking through are kind of
cavernous. They are looking like they're
hewn into rock just to give you that baseline of of it.
And that first chamber you went into was Dome shaped and now
you're entering into a second one that is again Dome shaped.
That's right. With a sorry the a walkway above
your head that you can kind of see dangling down from it.
Fairy lights to light the cavern.
Yeah, we got gifted this place by a wizard.
And he pulls out another rock he loves at this rock with his
sisters, and he puts it back in his pocket and then he gestures
to the left. He says there's the the
laboratories where we do some experiments.
And then to the right there's a large cage over there that seems
to be hewn out of the rock of this, like cavern.
Be very careful around there. There's a giant skeleton monster
we've got stored in there and there's orange safety codes
around it so that you don't get too close.
If you put your something in there it will eat it.
So I I looked as he's saying this.
I look to the right and notice that what looks like a pile of
skeleton bones. I proceeded to put my hand like,
on this, the hilt of my short sword, like on my side, just
kind of hair looking around and slowly, slowly relax and take a
wide berth away from that. That right there, that's our
secret weapon. One day we're going to need it
to be able to unleash a giant monster to like, you know, like
soften up our a bigger monster and we're going to release that
thing. OK.
I like backup for sure. Yeah.
So that just passed there. In here is the bedroom.
That's Bob. He's dotted at enemy you.
You go up the ladder and you start to poke your head over it
and you see a crocodile with its head just on the edge of the
bed. Just look up at you non
threateningly. What's up crack you get as a
response. I'm not familiar with that
language, but nice to meet you. There's a couple other people
out here sleeping too, so we got to keep keep our voices down, be
courteous guests. So how many people do you have
here? He whispers.
I have no idea anymore. But they kind of like wake up
sometimes and then sometimes they have colbas and then
sometimes, you know, kind of like a revolving door of people
like, you know, adventuring really hard and then sleeping
for like 4 or five days, you know, I do understand that.
So I tiptoe back on the ladder, doesn't make any more noise.
Take that wide berth on the skeleton monster again and
follow Franklin. Yeah, it it's supposed head the
other day. It's OK.
We squeezed her for all of her blood.
So it's no problem. As you walk by the crickets to
the biggest of the bunch, you know, Ferdinand salutes and goes
back to work. But there is Ferdinand.
He was the first of the brood. He's the the head hot show, so
to say the biggest elder of the of the colony.
OK how many others do you have with him?
About 40 million. 40 million, yeah.
Here, look at this. And then he walks into the next
room, which appears to be big cavernous room with like beaches
around the outside. And then on the top of the
ceiling appears to be some sort of hive that's being constructed
along the side of one of the walls.
They live up there. Walls.
All of the walls, All of the walls now.
OK, Yeah. I pretty much assume it's this
whole chamber and and and these things are fiercely loyal to
you, right, Franklin? Fiercely loyal.
Yeah. OK, OK, 'cause I'm not the
biggest fan of bugs, but if they save my life, I can learn to
love them. Yeah, they're really good
people, you know? If you just get to know them,
talk to them once in a while, you know, Anyway.
So you can take baths in here. There's some tubs, some boats.
If you want to do some joyriding.
There's a bunch of turtles and wildlife in the water.
I did tell the insects not to kill all the the wildlife.
So, you know, hopefully they're not.
And yeah, that's basically the whole place.
There's another exit, like a manual exit past the bedroom
down here. But since everyone was sleeping,
I guess we won't do that. Plus we don't really need to use
it. A gestures to the poop symbol
gold thing that he gave you. If you just hold on to that and
will yourself in and out of the pocket rocket, it's what it's
called. You'll go in and out, but don't
go out because we're literally in hell, all right.
We're not not don't go out. But the gold poop symbol, Yeah,
is the key, is the key to the the the pocket rocket.
Got it. And this is like a safe, a lot
of safe zone, but like, you know, a pretty safe zone.
We still have to keep track of rock outside, but OK is so so
that's the tour. You can go upstairs too, if you
want. There's hammocks and stuff, but
OK. How calas to Vomira and Brent?
How long have you guys been here?
Like like in hell or it the pocket rocket?
Couple hours I guess. Like, I mean, how long have you
been traveling together? How long have you 2 known each
other? Several months at least.
Yeah. I don't really know how long
I've been in hell. I've been in hell for like,
feels like maybe at least a year.
I don't remember. Josh, would you have any insight
on if we would know how long we've been here?
You guys wouldn't really ultimately know because there
isn't much of it's been all time.
Warbly, Yeah. There's not much to keep track
of time down here, especially cause of the spaces you've been
in. There's either been a lack of
sun or just a constant amount of light that's kind of emulating
the sun. No, really.
In between. There's no, like I've never even
seen the side. Day and night cycles.
So you know the days kind of all blurred together at this point.
You're guessing it's been it feels like it's been years, at
least for yourself and Myra that since when you entered hill.
Yeah, ages ago. Yeah.
So as far as I'm aware the original group that I joined
later filed their way, accidentally stumbled their way
at the hell. And then he gestures to the
torque around her necks. We got contracted by the God of,
I don't know, negative energy. God of evil.
What do you call him? Maniopolis.
I thought it was a God of mischief, but that's lucky, so
maybe not. Anyway, like the primeval force
of the world is trapped basically in hell by a series of
locks. And they promised us we could
leave if we break all of the locks and then free him.
He's the God of deception. No, the God of deception was the
one that was looking into the mirror.
I'm talking about Maniopolis, the big one.
Like Gaia. Gaia and Oceana, whatever you'll
call him. Yeah.
I can't remember what I did. He's the God.
It's like the father of the universe.
Be of the world essentially. So just be aware we're being
listened to And he gives you a very intent look and and with
that to out of your torque it seems like comes his voice and
he is all right hidden my name. Yeah.
Hello. Can you hear me?
Who is this? Oh hey.
Got a new one to the bunch. This is Maniopolis.
Hopefully you get another another one to help you with
breaking those seals. Cal kneels out of respect and
simple doesn't know what else to do in the moment, 'cause
everything is just so has no clue what's going on.
Is is, is he kneeling? I really can't see you out of
these things. Yeah, he is.
And Franklin kind of like kicks at you a little bit.
Get up. Not that kind of not that kind
of guy stands up quickly, brushes brushes the dirt off his
his his knees and just stands there.
Just doesn't know what's happening.
He's still taking everything in. He goes well, well just is
appreciated. I don't get much respect from
the rest of the crew here. So it I I tried to help out
where I can, but they don't really trust me.
I can still tell holding up a piece of paper that says don't
trust him. Franklin.
What? What does that say, Franklin?
If it says I never learned how to read or write, 'cause it's
all scribbles, that's a pretty picture.
Yeah, you did a good job. All right, Cat.
Yeah. Cat Lean's on the wall.
Looks around just kind of like taking in the surroundings.
And he's just like he's trying to remember like where he was
before this. The giant table with the dice.
Can I can I check to see if I remember where I was before this
all went down? You could, but I would say that
that's fully up to you. So you can make that whatever
you want it to be. That is your back story, so to
say. And that's where from that map
too. You can let me know if you like
any of those areas that haven't been culminated or populated, if
you will, on it, let to let me know where spearhead is, right
spear, spearhead's rest is. And yeah, I know you'd left
there to go kind of reclaim your honor, but I didn't.
I didn't know where you would want to go and what would have
been happening. Maybe from there, but I'm
guessing it would have been a short journey before you ended
up on the table. Yeah, all right.
So no, no check neither. Got it.
Oh, that reminds me, you were you were out of the table.
Did you get anything? Check your pockets.
All right, I'll check my pockets.
You put your hand in both of your pockets and then in your
left pocket you feel a 20 sided die.
Wait, do I have one of those? Does it look, does it look
similar to the big one I had to like leverage over?
Are you taking it out? Oh, yeah.
Take it out of my pocket. OK Everybody sees you and you're
holding it and you're looking at it thinking this does look like
the one that I was leveraging around on that giant table.
But normal sized, We don't really know what these are, but
everyone got something, some sort of item when they came
here. Did I get an item?
I don't think so. Some, you know, some people
didn't get stuff depending upon how they interacted with it at
all. Because I think it's more so
like if you just stood there and kind of stared off into space
with, you know, bored like that sucks.
Oh well, nothing really happened.
But, you know, yeah, it was so long ago.
I can't remember like what I did.
But I didn't remember. I think you looked at the.
I think you looked at the map too, because most people end up
looking at the map and they try to touch or do some things with
other things, but never really take it anywhere.
If, if, if, especially in the beginning, I think I wasn't
really thinking of these things as as things that can come with
you after the fact. Yeah, I think there was also
like there was like a couple of us on the table at one time too.
Yeah, in the very, very beginning it would be multiples
of people. So I think you guys ended up at
those points just interacting with each other more than
anything. OK Yeah, I just wanted to like
double check, no worries. So these seem to be wildly rare
objects, so don't lose it. We don't really know what each
of them does, but each has great potential.
All right, OK, Gal puts it back in his pocket, tops the outside
of his pocket to make sure it's there as deep as possible, and
kind of turns just back to the other two.
Hey Josh, did that look like the one that I found?
No, the one you found was 13 sided and it was like the the
one that Cal just pulled out was a bit more of a well, obviously
AD 20 comparatively it it's got a lot more sides on it than
yours. But besides that noticeable
feature, the one that he's holding is fully Gray, almost
almost white. Bone white actually.
And then the one that you have is has got no color and or all.
So it's got a bunch of colors on it almost like they're kind of
mixed around. No.
Like, it's think of a think of a Rubik's Cube that's been mixed
up, but only two of the faces have been solved on it.
OK, that's interesting. Cool.
I still don't tell anyone about it.
So yeah, that's that's a general kind of breakdown of where we
are. We're in hell.
We're out like Level 5 or something like that.
If you were to leave this place, you would enter a rope with a
magic beer that is that basically killed us like total
party killed last time And there's a demon in there and I
don't know if you really want to deal with that on day one.
So and he pulls out a sack of diamonds.
Looks like hundreds of diamonds. I don't know if you guys are
interested. Today it's check out the
Infinite Tower. The only difference between
this, these diamonds and regular diamonds is there's a bit of a
glint coming from the inside of them.
Rather than hitting them and refracting off, I look in front
of them like a star. Sorry, Good.
I look at Franklin and I say, I mean, I've seen diamonds before.
Those don't like like normal diamonds.
What are they? They're not.
If you eat wood, you will get transported while you sleep into
a tower that has an infinite number of, like, boss robes, you
know, like fight robes. And then there's a guy there who
if you get the farther in you get, the better item you get at
the other. It's like a game show.
All these these hands went over. Yeah.
I take AI grab it and I take a look at it like what is it?
Is it is it big? Is it a big diamond?
Is it a small diamond? Can I I can't chew diamonds.
I think it's like a pill. Oh, so it's.
So it's a drug. Got it.
It's, it is. It is about a size of a very
large pill, but it is shaped kind of like a rough cut diamond
in the in the shape of itself. So each one of them has slightly
different shapes, but the when you're looking at it closer, you
see that glint as, especially as you stare into it, kind of take
over your vision a little bit more as if you were looking at a
star farther off in the distance.
They're very pretty. Yeah, I mean they definitely are
pretty. What kind of, what kind of
enemies are in this tower? I mean, I've only fought bandits
in the past, like, and you know, I honestly, I don't know, I
didn't do it last time, but I would assume that together we
could probably take them. Oh yeah.
Also, if you die there, you don't die in real life, you just
wake up. And how many of these Simons did
you have? He looks at the sack like 200
and 25230. I've been using some of them
that are Chuck Chuck at traps like a bunch.
Well, if you don't die in real life, I mean, what could what?
What could be worse than where I'm at now?
So why not? Franklin walks up to you and
then grabs your like, reaches out to your face and looks
deeply into your eyes. You don't know the half of it
yet. It's going to get so much worse.
And then he smiles brightly and then skips off to get the Moira
the lawyer. You want to go to the infant
tower? Absolutely.
All right, I got to grab some stuff to get ready.
Bring something to do because I want to try something while I
get there. Also, the trick with the
Infinite tower, if you don't have to defeat the monsters, you
just have to get through as many levels as possible.
Yeah, I do. We don't want to use our zombie
trick this time, do we? We want that for like the whole
group. I mean, because that's only
going to work once. So we should do it with wait.
Wait till there's more people. Yeah, and it'll for sure.
Like we can we could try to get as far as we can by sneaking and
stuff, but I don't want to. I don't know if I want to use
the the ace up the sleeve yet. Yeah, I think maybe we save that
for because I think the more more bodies we have the better
that it'll be more effective. Yeah.
More bag for your buck. He turns to you.
We figured out a scheme to try to like, deem the system but we
think it's only going to work. What?
So we don't want to use it yet. I'll explain it all later, but
it's probably a lot for someone who just died.
Cal. Cal looks.
He denies at you in agreement and then looks around and says
you guys have a a a pisser. I have.
Feels like I haven't went to the bathroom in ages.
Franklin gestures at the pool. Nature's pisser.
You're you're bugged. I think there's a bathroom too.
No, I mean, you're just releasing ammonia and nitrogen
in the system and it's a it's a necessary thing.
Otherwise the plants will have nothing to eat.
This is an ecosystem. Cow.
Cow proceeds to slide down past the bathtubs right to the edge
of the water kind of a little further away.
So because he is vulnerable when you know when he would sit out,
try. I'll walk away.
Give me some space you when you're going past the bathtubs,
notice what you can only guess. Must have been the corpse of a
person because their face is squished off to the side.
Or no, not their face. The the there's arms and leg
that you can distinctly see, squished and rolled up into
almost a log shape, floating in a pool of water.
That that one. One of the ones that you walk
by. God, this first sounds so
fucking nice. Cat cat looks over there, aims
to stream at it. It's in one of the hydrates.
Oh, wait, no. Yeah, we usually should throw it
over there. Actually, that's probably what
has happened. By this point, the crickets have
realized that that's trash and put it into the into there.
So you you're actually go ahead and roll a performance.
Yeah, on how good your stream is.
All right. I've I've had better with a 11.
You were able to definitely hit it because it's not going
anywhere fast in in the pools of the water.
It does start to unfurl a little bit, but your stream pushes it
farther away and you you keep trying to push it farther and
you're standing there. My stream runs out and just
gonna put everything away, buttoned up, and then turn
around, head back towards the the middle of the area.
All right. Well, I actually have to go to
the bathroom real quick as well, so I'll be right back, if that's
all right. Yeah, sure.
So Franklin will go grab some stuff for preparation.
You notice too, that your crickets have meanwhile acquired
some glasses and such and set up a little tiny burners and and
such. It's coming along, boss.
This is Ferdinand. When you pass them by.
Perfect. What was she doing?
And what are what are you what are you building over here A a
laboratory. Yeah.
For all of your bodily fluids that you've been collecting.
Well, not just bodily fluids, but like, yes, we do need to
figure out the limitations of the of the effects of that.
We also have the the slime goo that gives you memory loss.
You got to figure that one out too, though.
We have less of it. I see, I see.
But yeah, you know, just try to learn more about our
environment. I like it.
Yeah, they're kind of an extension of yourself.
Could you roll me a medicine to see what they how well their
setup is going 26. Very nice.
You you when you're looking by, you do see that they've taken
because you've been able to communicate with them and you
can kind of actually partially guide them whenever they do have
some questions. You you've kind of set up like a
two way St. in your mind at this point to be able to help them on
some things on set up. So it does look like it's coming
along good actually. And he wasn't just fibbing.
Hell yes, he's a professional. He's the head of the tribe.
I'm so proud of him. He's had so many children, you
know being a father what are the world's greatest gifts?
He looks over to the skeleton monster affectionately at the
hive on the walls. Yeah.
Anyway, so I want to try to do something when we get to this
guy. Going to be fine, just more of a
quick hack, but is there anything you want to like, work
on for some time? Like, you know, like a
particular Marshall style or like, like a training regimen or
something like that. Because I think we might be
there for a little while. Like in the lavatory.
No. At the Infinite Tower, I have a
theory like what kind of skills we want to, like, test out.
Yeah, I have AI have a theory, if you want to go over it, since
I guess we have the time. All right, so so the infinite
tower, the way it works, the way that I understand that it works
is you go to bed and you either die, but you wake up there,
right? And you go through the infinite
tower, and when you die, you wake up again here, right?
Yes. What happens if you take more
than 8 hours to do? You enter a coma?
Oh, like to get through the tower.
Like, like if you're like if you're at the tower for longer
than 8 hours. Yeah.
Like what happens if you're there for 30 days in the tower?
Well, I think that would just be lumped in with how, Like, dreams
don't really have time. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking.
So if you go there, it doesn't matter how long you're there.
Yeah. So if we go there and we just
chill in the lobby and work on some, like, training regimens
for like, you know, a while and then go through there the tower
and die, we'll just wake up tomorrow morning.
But we'll have all the benefits of, you know, however long we
spent training, possibly. That's my thinking.
I feel like there has to be a downfall, but I don't know what
it is yet. I have no idea, but I'm going to
go find out. Also, we still want this guy to
like us so that maybe we can convince him to let us rent a
robe. That would be nice.
Gain some allies, allies, and insert eventual space that's
free of. He points at his his neck where
the torque is. I don't remember if Manny talked
to us while we were there or not last time.
I'm just thinking we take these off before we go there so that
they don't cope with us. I see.
Then we'll be free to say whatever we want to this person
outside of any interested parties.
Definitely a possibility before bed.
We could we could, we could give it a we could give it a shot.
I still, I feel like Manny would still have a way to listen in,
but definitely worth trying. Yeah, I mean, we need more
information about how this Pocket Dimension infinite Tower
works, but definitely that's what I want to talk to Isabel.
Are you guys talking about Ishabel's tower?
Yeah. Times in from the from the
torques. You know it's rude to listening
to people. Minneapolis.
Hey, I get bored. What am I supposed to do?
You know I'm trapped here. What?
What else am I going to do with my time anyways?
Why don't you start a cult? I tried that.
It didn't go well. But because you listed it up.
People. No, no, no.
Because I weak flesh bodies. That's usually why.
Anyways, yeah, we hate he. He could probably provide you
with a space that you guys talking about.
But because my influence is mainly limited to Taurus, so and
he's kind of off Taurus. Yeah, that's what I want.
Well, yeah, that that would get you what you want.
I don't know how open he's going to be to it though.
You know what? I would be kind of cool,
actually. If you did talk to him, you
could probably he's he's a he's an odd one.
But you could probably get him on your side with some chocolate
or. I know that's hard to come by.
What the fuck is chocolate? I think I'd heard Fraz given you
some last Oh yeah. And he pulls some out of his
pocket that that's I didn't eat it yet.
That's one of the things that's kind of hard to create in your
own dimension, honestly. Just one of those weird magical
things that happens from food existing.
Really. Yeah, chocolate's a weird one.
But you know, so I could have used my my ability to create
food for this weird hell clay stuff to make more of the
chocolate. Yeah, because now that I have a
sample of real chocolate, I haven't tried my hand at that,
but I wouldn't suggest it. It seems like chocolate has to
go through its natural stages to to actually imbue that loving
effect that it has. I had no idea what you're
talking about. I've still never tried
chocolate. Oh, sorry, buddy.
Yeah, it's OK. I guess.
I'll. I guess I can't have this stuff.
I'll just. I guess I'll just have to give
it up for the good of the cause. All right.
I walked back up to you guys after kind of just like walking
around and kind of just taking in where I'm at.
What was going on and what we're doing now and come up kind of
like fidgeting with the the things you gave me.
And because of so much new stuff, can you guys remind me
like what? What are these things you guys
gave me the gold turd or what are they?
What do they do? Yeah.
So the gold turd is the key inventory, by the way.
Just if that helps, too. Nice.
Oh, it. Oh, it is.
Yeah. I put most of those things in
your inventory. I created the Charms as custom
items. That's something you can do just
for your reference in the future if you go to manage inventory,
when you're under inventory there's a If you Scroll down add
custom item and then you can add whatever you want to your
inventory that way just with a with a title and a little
description of your own. If there's more elaborate items
that need to be created I I try to make them physically in D&D
Beyond and share them with you. Like the torque is something
that I've actually created in D&D Beyond to to show you all
the all the things easily and I can quickly add it to anybody in
the inventory. Can you double check that you
added those to mine? Let me see.
I'm all I'm not seeing it either in my inventory or would be the
first thing on the list. It's purple for me or for Cal.
For Cal, I'm going back to yours.
You never did. I mean, I have like, my, like
notes in the inventory of like, stuff I've picked up, so I gotta
have them written down there. But I didn't realize you can add
it to your own inventory, too. I just found it.
Yeah, you should be able to, at least for the torque.
I've made that an easily edible item because everybody pretty
much has that. The when I was talking about the
charms, though, I didn't. Just kind of when I was in the
manage inventory portion go to add to custom item and add those
but I did do it for Cal because I know this is a new feature
that you're just learning on the fly.
So figured it figured for your in when you guys were talking
about stuff I could I could easily add add stuff to
inventory. I am looking at yeah backpack is
where I put I put it. I called it crab crab, but it's
supposed to be just crab charm. Oh, I see it now.
I can't see the torque knuckles of communication.
Cool. It sometimes does take a little
second for it to communicate. I had to refresh.
No worries. Crab crab Magical D20 poop
token. Yep, I just.
And what I did for those is I just added the description that
Franklin gave basically. And you can do that in the
future for stuff to your inventory.
I try to catch it for people that are like in the midst of
something. I know that they haven't and I
have a second to add it to their inventory.
But otherwise, it's of your own discretion to try and remember
to put stuff in your inventory because if if you forget from
one session to the next that you had a thing, that's how losing
things works. Yep.
Got it. All right.
So the talk is to talk between party members.
Yep. Yes.
And to God. Hi.
Hi, God. One of them.
Hey, I'm the only true God. Franklin shakes his head.
And the crab crab. What does that do?
That's the crab charm. I've just mislabeled it for the
for your advisor. Mm hmm.
It brings back one HP if you eat it, and if you get down to 1,
zero, or zero HP, it'll bring you back up to one
automatically. We just won't tell you how right
now. Got it?
OK, yeah, I mean, I guess. I mean I've seems to like I
feels like I've lost some of my my fighting ability.
I don't know what happened between before and now, but you
know you mentioned some training earlier, Franklin, so that
wouldn't be a bad idea in my mind.
Yeah, we were gonna lay down here a second and then go to
Ishmael's tower. And then I was going to see if
we could choose the system a little bit for a while and get
some exercise in before heading through his tower.
All right, lead the way. He just kind of stands there.
Well, you you eat that diamond I gave you, and then you go to
bed. Oh, it's that kind of diamond.
Got it. Yeah.
Keep, you know, put stuff with you if you want to take
something with you I guess and that's that's like equipment or
in the backpack or whatever pretty I think.
So. All right.
Does need to be on show like like carry away or you guys do
you guys do encumbrance or no we don't really think about that
too much. It's just when considering
lifting stuff sometimes. But considering we carry a base
with us, like storage is not a big problem.
Yeah, you just got to also consider if it actually fits in
whatever you're trying to like carry.
Basically, if you can pick it up and you can remember that it's
there as the actually biggest deciding factor.
Speaking of which, before you guys just slumber off, I did
have one question. Where did those orange cones
come from? Franklin?
Did you like. I mean, I can imagine that the
crickets are kind of like bringing stuff from some of the
stored goods from Zach, but orange cones?
The dwarves who built The Who built the jail thing, would they
have provided orange cones? They do not know the meaning of
safety. No, that's true.
Then they would probably be just painted rocks that are orange.
OK, sounds good to me. Those cones that I put on the
map are painted rocks. Got it.
Kind of conically shaped, yeah. Of the most triangle shaped
rocks, they got a little bit of a stink to them.
And you, Franklin, are kind of wondering maybe that's where
some of the dead crickets are going to, to one of their uses.
Edge of the rocks, a ground up kite in this material for the
paint. Well, all of the dead crickets,
to specify, all dead crickets are to be fed to the skeleton
monster. To grow the skeleton monster.
Oh, I just set up a breeding program.
I did not know that Sir. They've they've they've been
currently being fed to the fish and the stuff that's been
inedible and nor by unquickly biodegradable.
We've just been composting and oh, I mean let's do like a nice
like a nice mixture split. Let's keep let's make sure we
keep the ecosystem healthy in there.
So make sure you do give some to them.
You know. Yeah.
What whatever you've got left could go to the skeleton monster
because I'm sure we're going to murder a lot of people.
Right. And we'll feed them to the
skeleton monster that so. All right boss.
But I I think that they're going to.
The skeleton seems somehow incapable of processing raw
matter. It just kind of chews whatever
it has in it up. And I think I found the remnants
of your friend's head at some point.
He's saying this all in cricket, too.
So did you really? Oh, I'd like to see that.
There's not much left of it, though.
Oh, jeez. All right.
I do have the skull. Or actually, rather, there's her
skull And you just you see him point behind you and you see a
skull, a newly formed, like a it's got a little bit of gunk
still in it, floating through the mass of of it that that's
riding against the bars. He goes over and picks it up,
and then he comes inside of the mass of the skeletons.
Oh man, I'd really like to have that.
He's going to hold on to skeletal mass, but it doesn't
hold on to meet mass. Got it.
I'm going to cast command on this skeleton monster and tell
it to drop the skull. He looks over at Bob.
I'd like to provide Bob a new body and nothing would be better
than our previous party. Bepper, let me see one second
here. If you want to send command,
that would be helpful. While I try to bring up this
carrot, this creatures, I think I might have to create this
creature. There you go.
Oh, I can actually send it to you.
I have it. Oh, the the giant skeletal
bones. Yep, I needed it for reasons.
Oh, so you created it. Awesome.
That would be nice. One second.
You base it off of Skeleton Commander here.
No, I was gonna. I haven't.
I don't have that one. It's grim, hollow stuff.
I am snipping it, and I will send it to you on Discord a
minute. OK.
Speak one word of command to a creature.
Target Wisdom saving. OK, sent it on Discord.
It has a Wisdom saver plus zero. Nice.
So 20. Think he got a natural one.
It immediate it. It seems to freeze its entire
motion, even up against the ball bar, and all of it drops.
All of the bones of the mass of it drop, but the seen it
seemingly kind of congeal, almost like you can imagine.
It's dropped its head and it's not making any noise, but it
kind of pulls back from the bars when you say that and the skull
that you want falls out through the bars and onto the floor in
front of you. Sweet in the split second.
Franklin cast that spell. He he had like a pallid, like
skeletal ghostly look to him. And then he goes back to normal,
Walks forward, skips forward, picks up the skull, turns your
own, proudly displays it. This used to be our ally.
She died. Her remains are rolled up.
It's in like a little like log somewhere over there.
But now that we have her head, we could ask her questions and
we could make her into a new body for Bob, the skeleton or
the alligator who's actually a floating skull.
When when you mentioned the the rolled up body over there
somewhere, Kyle's eyes get wide. He just looks around, kicks his
feet on the across the ground, kicks some dust up, and then
just doesn't say anything. That's so good.
All right, He pets the skeleton monster before it gets up again
and says that's a good boy. As in, backs up.
All right, I'm going to store this skull and then turn to the
others. All right, let's take these dive
insurance and get over. We're wasted time.
Bottoms up. Bottoms up.
Night. Night, bitches.
I've never done drugs before. Well, Maya just looks side to
side. Think we have to go to bed now
and nothing happens as you guys swallow it.
All right, you guys got a spare bed around here?
Yeah, any of the empty ones that here or he points upstairs.
There are a bunch of headaches upstairs.
If you really want, you could join me.
I sleep at the hive. Now.
You have fun with that. How do I get upstairs to the
hammocks? There's an elevator over here.
One of these two. So looks like Vomira went in to
claim her bed and you get in one of the lifts and you see a a
very obvious lever that you pull and it goes up the track of what
looks like a very long ladder for for a little while and takes
you up to the top level, which you can see is just a more or
less a walkway with hammocks hung in between the two of them
and the fairy lights just dangling from the walkway.
All right, look around, kind of just get my bearings.
How's the light up here? It says the fairy lights
lighting the whole thing up or is it kind of dimly lit?
It's brighter up here than it was down down there, Just
because the the fairy fairy lights you can see actually are
hanging, that are hanging down, are connected to the ceiling.
Which are these streams of kind of a silken thread that drop
down in between the two walkways, but up above you is
some you can see. Closer now is the they're
actually Chrysalis's of sorts that are starting to form on the
ceiling and slowly drop down and you're wondering whether or not
those might be bugs of some sort.
Too fucking bugs, man. Proceed down the hallway.
Kind of like keeping, you know looking around checking
everything out. I notice somebody in the second
hammer. Yep, trying to see if they're
are they awake, are they asleep? Can I tell?
They mostly seem to sleep, their hoods pulled over their head and
they're just, they're not the OR the hammock's not even swaying.
You know, with their with any motion or anything, there's a
soft rising and falling of their chest.
I I gingerly kind of hop into the hammock and try to get some
shut eye after everything that happens, happened today, all
right. Franklin reminds everyone to
take their torques off, and then he takes his off.
I take mine off as well as do I I set it next to yourselves, as
you doze and you. But I keep the I keep the the
charms. I put the charms in my pocket.
OK, just getting you guys over to the other map here.
One second and you guys do that with no problem.
It doesn't seem like, you know the torque's glued to you or
anything like that, because no one's actually tried taking them
off all that much. Grab Franklin here and the
charms come off as well into your pocket.
Vamayira guys are thinking just about the solution, especially
Franklin and Vamayira. Maybe about that mirror and how,
how how best to maybe break that seal.
Because you're still thinking, you know, to break all the
seals, to let Mannyopolis is going to be your best bet to get
out of hell. But as you do, and you're feel
that falling sensation as you're starting to fall asleep, it
continues on longer than you thought you're, or rather that
you're used to. When you start to feel like
you're catching yourself in a void of nothing, this before you
wake up and you land on your butt.
Nothing harmful from a fall, but it feels like you just fell
right into that spot that you're standing right now, which is
directly across from a gentleman at a desk who's got some ledgers
in front of him and he's looking down at them.
He hasn't even looked up at you guys who've plopped down in on
your butts in front of him a good 10 feet away from him.
And he just announces, yes, we've got Vumira back to us and
two people that I haven't met yet.
Yeah, I told them about this place and they just didn't
believe me. So I had to.
I had to bring them and show show them what this is all
about. Yes, well, my name is Ishmael
and welcome to the Infinite Tower.
May I have your names? He's he looks up from his Ledger
to look at you guys both in the eyes and hold a writing utensil
over the over them. My name is Matthew Die Camp
Vomira, an issue here, and my name is Kalumin Zarhorn.
Well, it is a pleasure, he says while writing down the names.
What happened to your other companions, Vomira?
He says while writing the names. They're off on another quest
right now. OK, well, whatever.
Don't have to tell me the truth. I don't give two shits.
Anyways, I was glad to see that you came back.
It was pretty entertaining the last time you made it through
here. Only only three levels, but
that's that's a good lead distance.
That's rare, especially going down the downwards route.
It's usually the most dangerous but I could start you got you
off where you left off the last time.
He's I think it's he looks down. He's like ah the ocean level.
I think you were swallowed whole grizzly way to go.
But yeah, that you could you could start off there or we
could roll with the fates, see what where where you end up.
And you see he's he's looking back and forth between you and
his ledgers. And then he closes that book
that he just written your guys's names in and holds it over his
shoulder and it floats off over towards the bookshelves that are
on aligning either side of the the fountain that has an archway
over top of it. And then another book floats out
and he says the rewards are quite great.
If you can make it past past that.
Or you could just, you know, start from here and work your
Bay way back to wherever you want.
Infinite is infinite. He just kind of says, I have a
few questions. Hi.
Oh, hi, Matthew, was it? Yeah.
But my friends call me Franklin. You could call me Franklin, too.
That's odd. That sort of rings a bell.
It's like a nickname. OK, maybe a middle name.
Should I have written that down? Yeah.
OK. Anyway, he kind of walks
forward. This tower is really nice.
Is he yours? Well, and he runs his hand
across the desk. That's the the book that he just
had in his hands. And you can see that it's
another sort of ledger's book and just has different letters
on it, some of which you can, some of which you can't
understand. And he's leans over and goes the
IT is nice. I do, I do attest to that but it
is mostly you know its own space.
So and anything you see here I can pretty much create or have
created. So I appreciate the praise.
Good day. You're welcome.
Now, are we allowed to have any input on what the reward we get
is? Feisty one.
I see. Hey.
Yeah, I guess you could I mean, perhaps make a wager with me and
I can. I can, you know bet against or
for you the the best way that I've I've known to increase your
odds at getting something extraordinary.
For this scenario, I think of what you're trying to get at
anyways is you tell me how far you think you can get and you
tell me what you want. If you get that far, I give you
what you want. If you don't get that far, you
get nothing. Cal Butson, he he says, well, I
mean how will we know? We don't know what we're
fighting. That's the game.
It's a risk. No risk, no reward.
He did say going upward would be a little bit easier, but you
could do we get if we started where Vibora died, right?
Do we get 4 rewards for going further than say if we went 3
levels from the start versus 2 levels from where she was?
Are you You're so you're asking if you made it farther than 3
levels this time past where you? I'm not sure if the the
questions a little vague. I'm sorry, are you asking if you
better get 6 levels you would get a better prize?
Is it for to say, I'm just trying to judge to see if it's
worth starting over versus going back to where Vimora would die?
Like if we get fewer levels ahead from Vimora's turn, say we
get to level 5 there, Do we get a better return for our
investment that if we started it over and got like 3 levels into
the? I see.
I think I understand now you you're you would probably I I'd
change it up so the if you went down or up from here it would be
different from the last time and the only benefit from starting
off where you were last time is that you knew what that room
sort of held. So that's that's just my
kindness to you all sort of say if letting since your return and
to start off with a challenge that you at least had a
perspective on as opposed to walking into who knows what
because yeah about that it's it's unknown to me no matter
what we do. Oh, you don't recall.
Yeah, yeah, that's fair. It was pretty quick.
It seems like he leaps back through one of the the ledgers
and heroes. Yeah, you didn't last but a few
minutes in that room so can understand.
Boy, Hey, boy. OK, so no matter.
No matter. No matter what we do, we're
walking in blind. Yeah, more or less So.
OK, separate question. Is the architecture of this
tower continuous or is each room in its own plane or space?
Oh, good question. Plane and space are kind of the
same thought at least. However, I I can elaborate in
that the tower itself is contiguous.
It holds its own shape, which is that of Infinity, and Infinity
takes many shapes as you can imagine.
However, each floor or plane is in its own level, so anything
beyond that level cannot cross to the next level without my say
so. Got it.
And your say so is subjective to what you find abusing.
Yeah, more or less. I'd say that the you know the I
can come to some deals. I've come to many deals in my
time and relatively good to work with, at least from my reviews.
You could check my astral views, but you don't have access to
those in this plane. Do you have a way I can get
access to those? Well, my tower might be infinite
in one way. The infinite sea is that only
accessible by those who have attained godhood.
So do that. No, dear.
So that makes you a God dead. Oh, and then I lean into
Franklin and I whisper we'll become gods if we freed Manny,
will we? So he says.
So he says at that point too. You guys realize that the torque
isn't on your on your necks and from IO the charms are still in
your pocket. You don't have to whisper here.
I think I heard Manny. He can't reach you here.
Yeah, I know. That's really interesting.
You would never consider renting out space, would you?
Renting. So like you value your
independence, do you not? Yeah.
Really. Honestly, I I find it quite
boring. That's why I invite people here.
But there are things that I do value, and I would be quite
willing to trade for them. The most accessible outside,
outside of this realm, that I have no access to, is Do you
happen to have any chocolate? Franklin gets a big grin.
I do. Oh, He pulls out the bit of the
bit of chocolate he has. This is the real genuine thing.
And I'll let you know, I have never tasted chocolate.
This was going to be my first taste.
So it's even that more expensive, more valuable because
you're you're you're taking candy from a literal child.
Is that better or worse? It's a little bleak, but I
understand the value of what you're trying to say.
Great sentimental value. Yes.
I can probably do one year for that, that that piece you've got
there. It seems to be missing a single
square. That seems fair.
Yeah. But we we had one person who
wanted to try. I apologize, but we could
probably get you more I think. I think it was two.
I think Mommy and myself tried it Two.
Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't recall the that Vermirer, but I didn't know that
Mommy tried it because I was it was I was like I thought I tried
it, but I wasn't 1% sure. So I might not have tried it.
But I thought I did think you were definitely thinking about
it but no real effects took over Mama when she tried it so you
weren't as interested of it especially because it was
described as just like a loving Oh yeah yeah you're right but
Yep. Anyways so he it was if that's
the the deal I I'm seems more than fair and to get more I
would certainly be willing to extend the spaces lease.
You might have to give me a while to work that up though and
it's fine. I would request it's not out of
its out of the realm of things here a down payment of half of
that bar until the space is complete he will break off half
the bar and hold it out. You've got a deal by Fred.
Wonderful. And he grabs the bar.
Before he does anything with it, though, he he flips over to like
what looks like a a graph paper of of sheets at the back that
are intended for ripping out. And he scribbles down the deal
on it, what looks like at blinding speed and you see a
five page contract in seconds come out in front of you.
Just sign here at the dotted line and he's holding the
chocolate bar with in one hand in the contract and the other in
front of you on the desk. I'll take the contract, but I'll
say all right, well, I got to read over this a minute.
Can I sit over here? Oh, what other question before I
sit down to read this, what happens if we go past like the
regular time period of sleep? So like if we are here for more
than 8 hours. Also a good question.
I like your initiative, the X high five.
He just looks at the hand that you've raised and he's pausing
in the middle of his sentence and he goes no thank you, but
the the end of the time frame is approximately your sleep
pattern. However, that works inside of
your own dreams. Sometimes it could be longer,
sometimes it could be shorter, but it all depends upon how it
kind of plays out on inside of here.
And this is just me talking candidly.
We can work it that you guys are still in the tower for sessions
in a sleeping coma, so to say, if that's something you were
open to. It just depends upon how the
session lines up with the next session and whether or not it
just kind of either kicks you out of the tower in the mid
middle of where you were at the end of the session and you go
into back into regular game play to figure out with other people.
That was that was entirely me trying to abuse the mechanics of
the tower to get 156 hours of studying.
And yeah, I understand completely, but that's it could
potentially work like that if there's many sessions where it's
just you guys, but I think the the the time inside of here is
going to reflect in our sessions respectively.
So like if you guys are asleep and still inside the tower, as
of next session, nobody actually tries to wake you up.
You could still be in those in the tower, so to say.
Got it? But all right.
Well, then I will quickly review the contract and then I will try
to add an addendum that gives that divvies out like the astral
diamonds of this location to a number of individuals versus
just one. OK.
Do you want to roll me trying to get to somebody here and get
started on the the tower? Sorry, I've been wanting to do
this for a really long time And insight.
Check on the document if you're reading through it quickly.
Wisdom, Let's go 25. You are quite certain that it
spells everything out in what you guys had come to agree to on
the astral space as a year's time limit for the the rest of
your chocolate bar that you currently obtain or or hold on
to and with contingencies for if you obtain more chocolate to
extend the time frame and that the space be every everything
that you want there is. You do notice a back door for
Ishmael security wise because it is inside of his own thing, but
otherwise it seems like he's limiting that space to be even
not accessible to him until he were to open that back door.
And he does does hide that a little bit in the language.
But you do catch on to that those Franklin signing.
Is Franklin signing on behalf of the entire group?
Are party members singled out? That's I guess a good question.
I can sign on behalf of myself if that's more comfortable, and
then just divvy out invitations as needed.
I like that. Or OK, Franklin will put a
clause in that note that says that unless they being us, take
direct violent like movement against Ishmael, he has to give
at least a 24 hour notice before using the back door clause.
And then that the astral diamonds that are provided for
entry be divided equally among three people, three people in
particular, someone named Rarl Rarlson, Matthew Nikamp and
Franklin the Turtle. Oh yes, I have Franklin.
I have, I have Franklin already down in my ledgers.
I can add Rorrel Rorrelson. Not sure I've met him but you're
already a part of this as the signing person on the contract
for the space for the for the back door.
Can the just one simple change there can it be a knock knock
procedure there and an acceptance of entry We'll we'll
change it to that. And then lastly here I just
wanted to touch base. Is this you you you signed it
your own name so it's only your space and I have this contract
only with Matthew Nikamp then. Yeah it would be with.
Well it would be with a primarily shared between the
three individuals listed. But I would like the ability to
invite others and I just treated my allies as guests.
Let me just and make a note of that and he pulls out another
what looks almost like a a quick sketch he'd been doing while you
were doing your own doing looking through the paperwork of
of the space for you. Is there anything in meanwhile
that you would like in the space particularly too Obviously most
things that are created there won't be able to be taken out
It's kind of part of my imprisonment here but I do have
something wait in there imprisoned here sanctioned be
more like it. Yeah.
I don't get to interact with the rest of the the gods I know as
you might know them. Yeah, more gods.
It's politics. Who sanctioned you to to be
exiled here. We could kill them for ya.
Yes, you'd you'd have to get a little stronger.
They are working on cosmic levels.
That's how I've been imprisoned here myself.
But don't worry, We will be. It's less of an imprisonment by
this point, because what is prison besides the the another
space for you to exist in? And if you're happy with that
space, is it really imprisonment?
I mean, what defines? Yeah, we're not gonna give him
that Anyways. I guess to answer your question,
though, it was quite a few gods, to put it in your understanding
of things. They're a little bit bigger than
gods, but I don't know. I have to create a word for them
like a super God, find it. Is there a name?
There's some colloquially in languages that you wouldn't
understand. I he tries to tries some tongues
out and he's like and none of it comes across as actual words,
just sounds to you. I write down what he said
phonetically. That's right.
But if it helps you any, I mean, they're on a cosmic level, so
maybe cosmic gods is an easy way for you to understand them.
As opposed to playing gods. Yeah, playing our gods and
cosmic gods. Just another rug up the chaid up
the ladder. So they're the God of the gods.
Got it? A real God.
God. Yeah.
They generally only exist as energy for the most part, but
they take forms every now and again.
Well, shall we go up or down or What do you think, Gal?
Be my guest. He gestures behind himself to
the stadium. Maybe you want to go up to make
it easier for Cal. What level are you, Cal?
I mean, how, how powerful do you feel?
How much experience do you have? I feel like I have none.
You know, being teleported through a giant dice on a giant
table with stars and ended up in a place with a bone skeleton.
I thought I knew something, but apparently I don't know
anything. So we got small.
Yeah, it's fucking wild. All right then we should
probably go the easy way, right? I was going to vote for up, just
because it's different than last time for me.
I concur is is that up Is up the easy way?
I can't remember. I think that's what he said.
But the question is, yeah, question is, yeah, if someone
goes down, do the rest of the party keep going and see how far
we can get? Maybe I had another thought too.
Here, let's huddle up, group, huddle up.
So I've got the spell called Meld into Stone that lets you
travel through stone for eight hours.
We could just meld into the stone and just go through the
rooms, through the floor, down through the stairs, every other
floor in between and just keep going.
I think that's a great idea for going down.
I mean, remember guys, I have no experience here, Bill.
That's what I'm saying. Like we would be inside a
Stonewall, not fighting, just moving.
Can you? I think that would work on all
three of us. Let me look.
I think it would. I think that would work great if
we're going down because I feel it'll be hard to kind of meld
up, whereas like if we're going down, we can just like gravity
pull us down, you know? All right.
It's a third level. I have two third levels.
So I could cast it on both of you.
Let's see that lasts for 8 hours.
Just trying to think if see if I could figure out how to get a
another spell slot back. Divine domain proficiency?
Yeah no, I can only do it twice. Let's just go up and do it the
old old fashioned way. Yeah, let's go up and do it the
old fashioned way. Before we do that, as we
prepare, I think we should all sit in a circle for 10 minutes
while I lead us in a Batra of self fulfilment, which is my
Inspiring Leader feat, where I just have us say I believe that
we are real, we matter. We are not just figments of
someone's imagination. We are not just players and
pawns on a board. We exist, our feelings are
valid. And what does that give us?
That will give everybody 8 plus my charisma.
So everybody gets 10 temporary HP.
For how long? Yeah, I'll post.
Where is it? There it is.
Inspiring leader. Spend 10 minutes inspiring your
companions. A creature can't gain temporary
hit points again until a this way, until a short rust.
So until they are lost. OK, Franklin, I feel like I have
double the amount of health. Wow, that's really bad.
Yikes. It's a good thing I am a cleric.
Yeah, good, good thing we, you know, did a little long rest to,
you know, recalibrate. Well, I I have a light crossbow,
so, you know, I can just, you know, shoot anything from far
away so I don't get smacked around easy.
Yeah, just just as long as you just, you know, keep running,
keep moving forward, you know, just don't stop.
Keep running. I'm actually gonna walk up to
him right before we enter and touch him on the chest and cast
Warding Bond between me and Cal. I will.
Franklin, what are you doing? We just met.
I know. Touched by hand.
Touch his head Level 2. Sorry.
Where is it? There it is.
Display in VTT. So for the next hour, Franklin
will actually cut his palm so that there's a little blood and
make and touch you and make a mark on you.
And then there's a magical kind of tether between the two, both
my hand and the mark. You'll have a plus one to AC in
your saving throws and resistance to all damage.
Any damage you take, I will take instead or so you'll get.
Basically I'm taking half. Half of all the damage you're
going to be taking is going to come to is going to me.
Well, thank you Sir. I feel I do feel stronger.
Of course it's important to keep you alive.
Do I do anything for that in? In D&D Beyond it would raise
your AC by one just so you don't forget.
I don't know how that works or how to like because you get a
plus to your saves too. There's a plus one like in your
spell box like gains a + 1 bonus AC and things that I can click
on it. Sure.
I mean I think just the biggest thing is just try to remember
that you have this. I think you have a + 1 already
to your AC currently from your armor.
I believe it is 'cause it just rolled it.
Oh wait, it says Warding Bond. Franklin Tortle, Then it came
from you guys. Yeah, I mean, what?
But it looks like AD 20 + 1 from both both you guys.
I was just guessing. That was to say wording wording
bond though, that's interesting. I don't know.
Oh, so you guys just clicked on that plus one?
That's on the thing, 'cause I just did it too.
Exactly. I see what you're saying.
Yeah, I just clicked on the plus one, so I don't know what it's
doing, just doing. It could be just one D20.
Plus, I think that's just a VTT translation error partially.
Yeah 'cause I think, yeah, it could just be like, you just
like make a note and then like when you roll stuff, just like
you can also go to verbal, verbal, the plus one, your armor
class, click on it and once you've clicked on it, there is
customization. Underneath that you can add an
override. So it would so your override
would be 17 because it would be plus one and you'd say, yeah,
just as long as you remember to take it off.
Yep, you can also do additional magic bonus, which is just like
adding. Or is this additional
miscellaneous bonus which will just so like I have an
additional I have an additional magic bonus of one because of my
like Cloak of Alvin Klein that I'm wearing.
So it just like adds it into like the calculation.
Yep, And you could do it there too, with that additional magic
bonus as opposed to the override.
But and then how would you add the bonus to a saving throw
'cause it's plus one to saving throws?
I would just remember that one because otherwise you're gonna
have to go through it looks like that was just the easy one.
I figured. So you didn't forget 'cause
there's other things you're gonna have to remember like
this, but the saving throws, you can edit them as well.
It's not as easy though. It's not looking like it's not
simple. Click and and put the thing in.
Yeah. So those ones, I would just
whenever you roll them, remember to add that.
Then a plus one for those two. And is this an actual hour?
Is that like is that how duration works or is it
duration? Game hour is game hour.
I'll let you know it's much faster than our hour just to
keep that in your purview. Got it.
But yeah, just just remember to take off the boarding on your
armor class when? I like dissipates once.
Once that once that ends and we find out that it ends, then we
can just remove it. Yeah, I just know I'm like that
about if I can't visibly see it, I'll forget about it and I'll
just have have a plus one forever.
Yep. Franklin will also walk up to
each of you guys and himself and cast aid.
So everybody's hit point maximum and current HP increases by by
5. Did we lose him?
Still hear me.
But I didn't hear the bleep. I didn't either.
I just heard. Yeah, that's what I heard.
Sorry. OK.
I my phone died. Oh, I cast aid on all three of
us. Everybody's HP goes up by 5:00.
That's not temp HP. Just total HP for eight hours.
For eight hours. Yeah.
No. Think that increased you from 10
to 25, I think, Well, it was an additional 10.
So you added additional. Well, the additional 10 was a
that and now you've got five. So you've added 15 total.
Yeah. Yes, with the five is to our Max
HP. Yeah.
And it's not temporary, it's just HP, but it's how long is
the spell good for? Eight hours, 8 hours.
You can see the chat there. He gave you AIDS.
Lovely. Is that how you cast it too?
You just kiss him like right on the mouth for your for your
semantic, for aid. Yeah, you guys are doing this
while you're walking up the stairs, up, up, up into there.
So you can you can you can think about that and get it back to
me. You don't have to tell me right
now, but you make it up the first set of stairs into the
first room. And the the first thing you're
noticing, besides directly across from you.
The next set of stairs, which actually seem to be going down
now, are leading to a that you can see just the first step,
barely under some brush that seems to be filling that entire
space all the all the way around.
That's the opening in the floor you know is is full of brush
that's overgrown in that space. And you're hearing as you're
stepping down the final steps into the room.
Although you were stepping up, you are now stepping down.
You hear some whistling just happily merrily while they work.
It seems like you're noticing 2 over the edge of the stairs as
you're nearing the bottom. Some people milling about in a
small little patch of field and haven't even noticed you yet.
I'll just roll. I continue along the side of the
wall and walk towards the brush to get a closer look at it, to
see if there's anything weird looking about it.
I'm not going to touch it. I'm just going to, like, look at
it closely. Dove,
did you hear me? Sorry.
Yeah, Internet's been weird. Oh, no worries.
I I know it kind of said it softly.
So it's what I was just checking so I have advantage because I
have my cloak of Alvin Khan with the hood up.
Nice. So 26 you you aren't noticed
actually with disadvantage, I'd guess if you guys aren't hiding
down walking the rest of the stairs.
Franklin and Cal could you rule me if you're trying to be
sneaky? If not then otherwise you just
you two are just noticed by one of the workers in the field.
It just has oh hey well you're kind of crouched down next to
the shrub and in the shadows of Omara you realize that it's
probably more than shrubs. There's some thorns throughout
it and they're the the thorns, especially in the front where
you're at are dripping with what looks like blood.
Awesome. I guess so.
Hi, Franklin. Waves, Cal.
Cal looks doesn't even know where fucking boy Myra went.
She's just kind of snuck off somewhere.
He looks at Franklin's back at Franklin's hat as he waves to
whoever's out there, and he's just like, all right, I guess
this is what we're doing. And Waves as well.
It goes. Just careful at the bottom of
the stairs there. Those shrubs will eat anything
that you that you let them. Oh wow.
Otherwise, welcome to the farming floor.
It's very nice here. We've got just about anything
you could imagine food wise. Sometimes if we're good at our
job, we get, we get rewards. I'm supposing you're the new
addition to the team. You live here?
Yeah, I think you do now, too. No.
We were set here to clear this floor of monsters, I
adventurers. Then I take out a torch and
light it on fire, and then I throw it into the bushes.
As you're lighting the torch. Does a 15 hit you?
It does not. OK, a vine whips out from the
inside of it and tries to knock the torch out of your hand, just
mitching missing. And you toss it into the the
midst of it and it's sort of engulfs it and you hear it goats
as it kind of makes a chomping sound, swallowing it, the torch
that is sweet. It does catch some of the
branches that were it was on, but it does seem to ooze
something around it to try and put it out as it's swallowing it
nice. I I kind of move off the stairs
a little bit noticing some amazing smelling food on one of
these tables. I guess to the right looks like
there's it almost looks like I've seen it before like, like
it's like, oh, to ping if you hold left
click down, that'll ping do that.
Yep, there you go. Yeah, you recognize it to be a a
food similar to some of those that are grown around the rustic
villages in in your area. What we would know of like a
mixed green kind of salad with some leafy greens and a bunch of
cherry tomatoes with that, a grilled kind of mushroom all
throughout. I walk up to the the one sitting
on the bench next to it and I asked him what is what's up with
this? Oh, that's one of our rewards
for doing a good job. We've all eaten.
I I guess that was somebody else's meal.
Maybe yours. I don't know.
We usually only get one per person.
Must have known that somebody else was coming.
Well, are you still hungry? Would you like a slice?
Go ahead. Oh, no, no, please.
If you're so inclined. It's all yours.
It's like I said, we've all eaten.
And he goes back to chopping up mushrooms.
That's what he's doing. Can I see if he's lying?
Yeah, that'd be an insight. But who has he eaten?
21, You know for sure. He's kind of standoffish, but
you're not. You're you're kind of guessing.
It has more to do with his knowing you.
You know, you guys don't know each other that well, and you
kind of just wandered up and but he more, more or less seems to
be telling the truth. You know, from at least with his
words none of them have been lies.
I say, all right, what what other food do you guys make
around here? Wait, what's what do you guys
grow? Well, we don't really make too
much of the food ourselves. We just kind of do a lot of prep
work. And then from there other people
I guess somewhere else in the tower might actually do the
cooking. Points to the to that the salad
more or less. And it was that that one, like I
said, appeared after we'd prepared a bunch of other foods.
We we generally just grow. Sometimes we prepare some of it
like I'd said. But that's pretty much it.
That's all our job is. Wake up, go to sleep, work, wake
up, go to sleep. Get rewarded as well throughout
the day for with meals. I don't know what else what else
is there other than sleep? Eating, shitting.
Sometimes you know other things, but that's for more comfortable
company. So while they're doing that, I
take out one of my rations. OK, since it seemed to eat the
fire, I'm going to see if it like just likes to eat things
like feeding it satiates it or like, makes it seem like it's
like a little bit more satisfied while you're So what do you oh,
so while you're digging in your sack for your ration, everyone
go ahead and roll me initiative and vomita with disadvantage.
Also, I can't see the map. You guys need to scroll really
far down if you're on the right page.
It's just the way I've got them laid out.
I got it. Welcome to the far, big lad.
Never seen so many plants. Initiative tweet Franklin's
smelling some flowers gets a three.
This spells really dice. Wait, it says in D20 chat says
you wanted to send this result of this role to the turn
tracker, but no valid token was selected.
Does that mean anything? It it just won't populate my my
turn order thing here. I just if everyone wait a SEC
what I'm going to do actually I'm here run encounter and give
you a bit of a description while I'm doing some other stuff which
is what you see before you imagine is the Bush sort of open
up those points that were kind of drippy blood kind of form
into a grin of a mouth that opens up that is.
And it almost looks like it shifts under the bushes and kind
of shuttles back and forth and you see some larger about human
sized dandelions pop through some of those the the branches
of the brush and they kind of come to themselves on this
thing, this entity. You don't see any eyes or
anything specifically form out, but you do start to see some
Slytherin tendrils in the mists of the brush as well.
And that work. Where'd it go?
Oh, here we go. It's sort of does some of the
brush does sort of form up. Still taking up most of that
space in the opening, but looks like more like this.
If you can see that token there. Yep, I can see it.
It looks like some sort of like wild things creature and I need
to go over here this. Could you guys read off your
initiatives? For me, I had a 5.
That was my disadvantage role. Thank you.
I had a three and I have 17. Nice.
So you actually get to move first.
Actually, though, I should probably.
Well, no, we're just not going to give them that.
Oh, sorry. On the backs, on the back of the
creature, those dandelions I was mentioning seem to take a
defensive posture, almost as if Shields with their big faces
facing towards you. Vomitra and Franklin?
Who's. Leaning down to sniff one of
them, I would guess then it would be the all of the other
creatures that the humanoid creatures that are looking to be
somewhat Elvin in nature, but it's kind of hard to tell.
Maybe they're half human, half elf, but they all sort of streak
at the sound of that, of of of it animating, and run to the far
back of the room, the farthest point away from it, and huddle
and cower. I don't think all of them make
it quite over there, but that's what they're gonna be doing with
all of their turns. So we'll see that.
And I think then we've got Callum or do anything.
I I shout, What the fuck is that thing?
Also seeing seeing the all the other little oompa Loompa
motherfuckers run to the far side of the room.
I'm gonna how many spaces can I move?
That would be your movement speed.
Which looks like 30 here. Uh huh.
So each one of those are five. I'm gonna go.
I'm going to move three spaces over kind of like between the
tables maybe defensive kind of defending and then I guess I you
guess what I'll launch a crossbow shot at the the
shielding like dandelion things on top of its back.
OK. There are approximately 4 or
five of them. Hard to tell exactly right now.
Do any of them look any bigger or smaller than the others?
They're more or less around the same size.
I'll just target the one that's like closest to me from my my
vantage point. OK, best shot, natural 20th.
Yeah, nice. That'll definitely hit in your
damage. It looks like they're three plus
crit 4 for a total of 6 7/7. Thank you.
Bounce back and forth. Damn it.
No, you're good. I just wanna make.
I appreciate it. So you see your bolt sink into
the center of one of the dandelions and it kind of
shutters, but otherwise it doesn't really interact.
There's a bit of clear liquid that kind of runs out of it, but
nothing. Nothing.
No scream, nothing like that. And that was your some of your
movement. I didn't know if you wanted to
move anymore. An action.
I don't know if you have any bonus actions you want to use,
but if that wasn't, that's it. Yeah.
I think I'm going to stay right here for now and just pass my
turn. All right, so the creature in
front of you guys takes those tentacles that are writhing
inside of it, the the vine tentacles that are arriving
inside of it and start swinging them out to try to grab you. 2
come towards you. Vomira and one towards Franklin.
The last one would have been Franklin.
So those are to hit 13, a 24 and an 11 respectively.
So which one is for me? 1111.
That'll mess. OK 13, I'll mess with the 24
we'll hit. But I'm so I'm going to use
Uncanny Dodge, so I'm going to use Uncanny Dodge so when they
attack I can use my reaction to have the attackers damage have
it. So we've got a total of 10
slashing damage that comes at you and there doesn't.
If it hits, that just seems to be the point of this.
So this one hit, so you were currently grappled by it.
So this one, like I was saying, they're coming out to try and
pull you in. They're kind of encircling you.
You're currently grappled, which means you would have to use an
action to try and escape. Gotcha.
But the so 10 damage so half would be 5.
Yes you took five slashing and it is trying currently to pull
you. You can feel the tension in
after it's wrapped itself around you toward it itself.
But sweet think that its turn for now and then Yep it would be
your turn of a matter with Franklin on deck.
All right. So this thing is that just like
a like a like fields, is that like a like a lifted table?
Is there like any sort of elevation to that or like if I
wanted to those are just like I just that's just like you can
just run them straight across it.
Those are just like fields that they've been using as farmland.
They they OK. I just wanted to double check
that that's what that was. OK.
So I'm gonna use my action to try to escape.
All right. Deck saving though for something
else. Why does it not tell me?
I wanted to say it was a Dexterity saving throw.
Yeah, I know that has You're restrained, which you have
disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws.
I felt it. Let me go back.
It's trying to. It's trying to give me the pop
up here. It says.
Also ends if the effect removes grappled creatures.
Speed moves to zero. It can't benefit from bonuses to
its speed. Creature grappled is restrained,
It's grappled there, so she is grappled and restrained
currently. Until the grapple ends, she is
restrained. Let me just do a quick Google.
I don't know why it's not telling me.
Yeah, I wasn't sure if it was like a straight up like saving
throw or if it would be like a skill.
I would. I would put it towards
Athletics, honestly. Like they're saying because
Dexterity in my mind you could go with Acrobatics specifically,
but Dexterity savings? Yeah that's the other thing like
I would think it would be that's the other thing I think you're
you're currently being like it's it's it's probably main mass on
you so it's gone around both of your arms and you're standing
there with it kind of around your both of your arms and
holding you tight like that. So at this point, I would say it
would be a strength. You're trying to muscle your way
out and or an athletics check to try and get out of this thing.
OK yeah. I wasn't sure if it was like a
choice of using Strength versus Dexterity or if the monster was
leaning towards one or the other.
So I'd have to like, use Strength to get out versus.
Yeah, I just kind of had to think, think through the
scenario a little bit more. All right, then we will try to
escape. I will not escape with a six.
No, you're sitting there going pretty strong plan.
Yep. Let's see.
Well, I don't think there's anything else I can do right
now. OK, then we've got Franklin.
Does it look like Burr? Burr, does it look like?
Looks like. Yeah.
At least that's right. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. All right.
It's my turn. I don't know.
Did we lose them? I don't know.
I don't hear them. Silence means yes.
Continue. Sure.
It's been the rule so far, at least in this context.
I'm gonna cast Command on this creature.
OK, Wisdom, right? Yes.
Wisdom save DC-15. We've got a 18.
Damn it, it succeeds. You feel probably a link because
I'm guessing it's a a a mental command.
I mean, there's also the the semantic portion or the verbal
portion of it, I'm sure. But there's kind of that magical
connection you feel actually in your mind, this guttural tone of
just no, almost. That will probably be my turn,
because I don't really have bonus actions take any damage.
She did, but it was only like 5. Do I have any bonus actions?
Nope. OK.
So you'll just kind of position himself.
Yeah, I'm good. All right, then it'd be the
dandelions with Cal on deck here and they oh, what's the
positioning of everyone? Oh, so you did take a step back,
Actually didn't, didn't you? Or was that I wanted to put
myself in between the monster and cow.
OK, the OR was I next to the dandelions?
Was that when I was, when I was looking at it?
You were last. I thought when the shrubs were
still there, you were up close to it, sniffing one of the
flowers. That's why I was like, you moved
back then. I would not have moved.
OK, Gotcha. I don't know.
I was standing right next to it. Sorry.
Yeah no worries, no worries. And and in that case one of the
dandelions probably the one you shot actually cow would produce
like 1 singular seed without its puffball at 1st and just kind of
you you kind of hear a with A5 to hit.
I don't think that hits. You cut out there real quick.
I'm sorry. I don't think the five to hit
hits. It does not.
So you, you see a seed fly past you hit one of the walls next to
you, and actually probably the bench over here flies right past
you back up there. And the other ones just kind of
ready themselves. Oh, OK, I see it now.
And the one closest to you for or just just closest to you,
Franklin tries to kind of swing its head at you for 8, which I
also assume does not hit. But as it gets closer, you see
that it turned its head slightly and some of the pedals are razor
sharp that just go past your cheek without touching it.
That was scary. Then it would be your turn.
Cow. All right.
Von Mora is still grappled, correct?
I'd like to move up a little bit 3 squares next to the stairs and
I want to try to try to take a take a yeah make a what?
All we heard was take A and then it cut out.
Sorry. Take a take a shot with the
crossbow at the at the vine. That's like grappling grappling
her maybe try to like break her free.
OK, so that should be a normal attack role right?
Yep. Yikes.
Don't know if that 17 it goes just off of one of just over one
of Vomata's shoulders into the wall.
I I yell out Sorry. Still figuring this out.
All right. I'll give you a thumbs up.
Those were all my honors. Any bonus action or other
movements that you had? No, I think I'll.
I think I'll actually I'll step back two squares kind of under
the onto the grassy the grassy dull if you will and then my
turn OK yeah this guy so no. OK vine once actually 2 vines
lash out towards you now Franklin 16 wow.
And and A and a 1919 might hit one second.
Nineteen will just hit. OK that would be this damage.
Here the well did it roll with damage the first time?
No it does not. OK, good.
Oh, it does. The 19.
No, that was something else. 99 points.
Yeah, nine points came through. OK, good.
Rough slashing? Not at all.
Feel the barbs that were dripping with blood, prickier
skin and vomira. Let's see what this happens when
I just trap do this, says 17. I still don't quite understand
how that exactly works. OK, so I think I I get it now.
Does a 17 hit me? Yes.
Yes, 17 hits. OK, so you are pulled towards
the creature and it's the thing that you would consider.
Its mouth opens wide enough to let you into it, and what
appears to everyone else as you're kicking and screaming,
I'm guessing gets swallowed by the creature Sweet.
The inside of another beast. Let's go.
And there is no sounds coming out after you're swallowed.
You are currently restrained. You need to make me a
Constitution saving throw. Oh no.
Fuck yeah, Natural 20. Very nice Natural 20, baby.
It might not be a good thing though because what's happening
is don't say that you're you're you're not stunned at least
because as you're swallowed there, you feel as the light
kind of closes around you, this sappy substance start to spread
across to you. You can feel that it's trying to
kind of dull your senses and and stop stop you from moving and
everything, but you're not sure if it's the MSG coursing through
your veins or what. But you're still able to hold
onto, onto, onto your consciousness and and and not to
lose that, but you are restrained.
You do notice though that the SAP somehow, as it's starting to
cover you and you're starting to have a little bit of anxiety
over the fact that you're not gonna be able to breathe somehow
it starts to encapsulate that your Airways and you're still
able to breathe in this current point in time, but you're you
could tell you're then squeezed down into another section of
inside of the the beast. You're not no longer in its
mouth and everyone else from the outside does see that it's mouth
does open again ready for the next.
And Franklin, since that one did hit you, you are grappled and
you are restrained as we discussed.
So you would have to use your action to try and escape it or
you don't have to, but that would be and it would be an
action to try and escape. That's what I was trying to say,
and Yep, ah, return. It would be your turn.
Yes, you were inside of the beast.
Conscious, restrained. And let's let's see with that.
A restrained creature speed is 0.
It can't benefit from any bonuses to its speed.
Attack rolls against the creature have advantage.
The creature has disadvantage on Dexterity saving throws, so
since you didn't get stunned this turn, you could try to
escape one more time with the strength saving throw.
This would be something since I'm inside, could I potentially
try to hack my way out? Hack the planet like to like 2.
Jagger attacks from inside like you're or did he's like swallow
the vine as well. Like the vine is still wrapped
around me you're you're restrained so you like I was
saying as opposed to grapple. Grapple kind of holds you in
place and you can still kind of wiggle around a bit.
Restrained is you have currently no movement capability.
I I would, I would say that's the difference between the two
And so how am I restrained by the SAP and the the the whatever
part of you that you're inside of the creature.
So you're very restricted in your movement as opposed to the
grapple. So do you mean movement, as in,
like, you know, like the distance?
Or do you mean movement as in, like, I can't even move my arms?
You can move your arms a little bit, but it's very minimal.
It's like think of yourself right now as being bound, gagged
and in a hole somewhere and covered in SAP that's somehow
letting you breathe. I would say.
I would say, like I I'd said if you want to try and escape again
out of it, I I would put it to a strength role to try.
And, you know, it's like I'm kind of of the mind, like I'm
kind of the mindset that like, I would just like sort of accept
it and then just try to like hurt it from the inside, like
attack from the inside instead of trying to get out.
Restraint does give you disadvantage to Dexterity deck
hand attacks. Yeah.
Attack rolls. That's right.
OK, So that's how you could do I I could roll it.
So if you wanted to try the attack, it would be just with
disadvantage. That's like in my mind, like if
I'm swallowed, like, the only way I'm going to get out is by
like hacking my way out and just trying to like do damage from
the inside. I get that.
So if you wanted to try an attack roll, just be with this
advantage. Nice
21 hits, 21 to hit. You guys see the monster bolt re
reel up with no other discernible signs of anything,
so it'll be a 7, OK. However, my sneak attack is if
there is somebody, is it within 5 feet?
Yes, within 5 feet of the target.
So is Franklin within 5 feet of the enemy?
Because if he is, then I would get the sneak attack.
OK, yeah, get it? OK, so then it would be 14.
It'd be 14 damage. OK, now I have two weapon
fighting. Would my restrained take away my
second attack or but I still attack with disadvantage again,
you could still attack with this advantage again.
I would say you're on the inside, and you probably were
already holding the daggers when it grappled you.
It's not like you had to get it out of anywhere 14 to hit that
one. You feel the you feel the first
one sink into the kind of softer bits that are surrounding you,
but the other one you can can feel it kind of just drags
through some SAP. It doesn't touch anything as
you're trying to wriggle about. Okey Dokey.
Oh, I forgot to ask. So I can hex something, but it's
verbal, semantic and material. Is this that making it so that I
can't really be verbal right now?
You could try my my I would. I would say that I would say
that it would more than likely work it just because your intent
is there and the sound would come out.
It might not just be the sound you expect is all or like a OK,
OK, yeah 'cause I meant to do that first but I forgot so I'm
going to catch text on it now. OK, Which gives you advantage.
So hopefully right then some other no, it just does extra
damage when I hit. Gotcha, gotcha.
Which is why I meant to do it first.
But forgot. So next time we're on.
No worries. You start drawing with your nose
on the inside of the creature of the hex that you want to try to
do. Try to right work is and that
will be my turn. All right, Franklin with the gal
to follow the dandelions. Oh boy, you are currently
grappled and restrained. Yeah, let's go with Athletics or
Strength for saving through. If you're trying to escape, I'm
instead going to cast a Sanctuary on myself.
Let me pull that up for you. I remember this.
I'm just trying to. Yeah, I'm gonna need to read it.
My warder creature was in range against attack until the spell
ends. OK, I see that it's a bonus
action at least, but you don't. The thing that it doesn't say in
there, which was I was trying to read through again here, was if
it's already attacked at this particular point in time.
So I don't think it ends the restrainment portion of what's
going on right now. Is that portion doing automatic
damage as I'm being constrained? No, that's fine you're you're
currently still just grappled. But if it does make another
attempt to attack you, it would have to either lose that attack
like it says or change the creature.
But I think as of currently, it is not attacking you.
It's has attacked you. Past tense.
Yeah, it's just now in the future, as it tries to do
something, it has to roll. Yep.
Yeah. All right.
So I will do that. Then I will.
I will use my action to cast evil eye at the plant holding
me, which I do not think triggers sanctuary as it is not
a damaging spell. Harmful spell.
You don't have to tell me if that counts, otherwise I might
not use it. So evil eye, I'll display it for
you. Basically just gives them
disadvantage against me. It specifically says cast a
spell that affects an enemy. Period comma the very last wait
hold on effects an enemy. I got it all right then.
Never mind. I will not do that.
He is safe. So I can't see Vamayira at all,
can I? No, not currently.
Vamaya is engulfed. Vamaya.
Try to stick your hand out or something.
All right, that'll be my turn, I think.
Because, all right, if I tag it, it'll break my sanctuary.
I can heal you if you stick your hand out.
I guess. Then what I'll do is I'll, I'll
reaction, prepare a healing word for Vermora.
If she can stick her hand out. OK, 'cause you used your bonus
action. I got you.
Yeah. So the Oh that doesn't that do
anything. And the dandelions on the back
attempt to shoot off towards you. 2 again Cal for a 5 and 11,
which I I believe also don't hit.
This is strictly against armor class, correct?
Yes. Yeah, they even hit.
So again, they speed, spit sound seeds towards you, and they fly
off on either direction. Then it's your turn.
OK Is there any way me to see if this creature has any like
blatant weak spots? Anything I can see that would
like make it, you know, something I should shoot for as
opposed to just like at its center mass at this time?
That would be really hard to tell.
You could just roll. Where is it now?
Either a nature check or AI think that's going to be your
best bet. Does that take an action?
Up doing a check like that? An investigation?
Not not at the stable. Also, talking is a free action,
just so you know. OK.
Gotcha. You're just kind of looking to
try and ascertain something not really taking more than 1/2 a
second or two, I'm guessing, right?
Yeah, exactly. I'm just kind of just like for a
glance, like to, you know, so Nature 15, you your best guess
is inside of the mouth, but you're kind of worried about
that because you don't know how far Venmira is down in that only
because the rest of it is covered in either plants or dirt
or rocks. So that that that seems like the
only internal mass of the creature currently that you can
visibly see from this angle. All right.
I have two questions for you. Yeah.
First one, Vimora's hex. Is that only for her, her damage
against them? I believe so, yes.
OK and 2nd, my crossbow bolts, do I need to keep track of them
on beyond you guys do that or does it's secondary?
If you think you can make it fun as part of the story then sure,
go ahead. If it's more of an encumbrance
and think we can kind of just you in your free time you're
you're just standing there making crossbow bolts you have
an abundance of them. So the the answer is a question
simply no you would do not really keep track of that.
OK gotcha. All right.
Sounds good. All right.
I'll just. I'm just going to just fire
another crossbow bolt at the creature and see what happens.
16 This time you're aiming for the creature that just hits.
You hit the center in the back, just between some of the
dandelions into the what looks like dirt of some of the other
grasses that are growing there. You hear it kind of thunk into
place. And it.
Yeah, agitatedly. You wanna roll some damage?
It says 8 piercing on there. Oh, thank you.
I think I even looked at it. But then I went over to the
other page and totally forgot. All good.
You all right. Anything else you want to do?
So you said I can like, can I yell at these like, little
farmer dudes over here? Yeah.
And I want to yell at them and be like, like, help us, you
fools. Like, get like, anything you can
grab to throw at it. Anything you could do, like pick
up to to help us. We're trying to.
You ran away, so we're trying to save you right now.
Your friends are dead. Leave them.
Never. It happened once in my life.
It never happened again. Just keep cowering.
That was the only response you get.
Otherwise, just whimpering. All right, I'll let my turn on
that note. All right, The large creature
starts to try and pull you in Franklin into its maw out of
just pure response. I know that if it does that, it
has to try and target another creature or lose its attack.
So it just kind of loses that particular attack.
It kind of stops there with you, and it's just close to its
mouth. And I don't know how you want to
describe Sanctuary, but I've been thinking of it as, like as
it's trying to complete a reaction.
It kind of just is like, feels almost like its thoughts have
been deleted. And it just goes like, huh, What
was I doing? Sure that works for me.
OK. So you get right up to its mouth
and it just stops. It doesn't.
Does not respond. And then it's the same creature
that Vomoira is fighting is inside of currently.
Yes. And I can see down its throat
kind of yeah, there is a space. There is a space that you could
call its mouth, and then there is a shoot after that that that
it goes wrapping around and down into somewhere that you can't
see, but you do not see Vomira. Nope, shout in there.
Babira stick her head out his throat.
And I just like, I'm leaning in, kind of leaning into the mouth
trying to like get a get a a a, a set of Yuan of Amira.
Also, we'll wait until your turn, actually.
Anyways he those two OK so yeah it just it it just kind of stops
there right there and some of the the vines come out together
3 that are that have been attacking and ready ready
themselves almost it looks like waiting for somebody to come
within grasp of it. And then it would be your turn
for Mayra. Which you're going to need to
make me an another Constitution saving throw from the SAP.
Eight. Oh no.
Are dunned. I'm done for.
You're incapacitated, can't move, can't speak, only.
Oh, you can speak only falteringly.
I guess is trying to read that portion of it, but you you can't
move automatically fails Strengths and Dexterity saving
throws attack rolls against the creature.
Against you if you were, since you're stunned to have
advantage. But yeah, you're you're just
like paralyzed basically at this point.
And you gain one level of exhaustion.
OK, We can definitely get through one floor, right, guys?
So you don't have an idea. OK, I have an idea.
You want to meta share it. I'm not against meta sharing,
but you you currently don't have any movement or anything like
that. There are any, right?
So what what I want to do is I want to will myself into the
pocket racket and then on my next turn.
Now I don't know if Franklin is holding the pocket racket, but I
want to will myself into the pocket rocket and then well,
myself out of the pocket rocket. But I don't know what the like
semantics are on like what abilities I need to have to do
so. So I don't know if being stunned
would eliminate one of those. We'll just say just to kind of
streamline it, line it for you there too.
You go to try that route. You put your hand as you're
falteringly basically becoming paralyzed by the SAP into your
pocket to touch the charm that would let you into the pocket
rocket. And nothing happens, even with
your intent trying to get you into it currently.
So that was all that it would be.
Yeah, I think that's that's it. All righty.
What you doing, Franklin? Shit.
Well, seeing as she has not appeared, Franklin is going to
cast a phantasmal force on this plant monster.
I think I see that. You sent that?
Let me. Yeah.
Oh, that's a lot. All right.
Crap. An illusion that takes root in
mind of a creature you see within range makes an
intelligent saving throw. All right, I'll go over there
and do that. Not great.
So it believes that it is in the middle of a raging inferno, and
that the thing it has in its mouth is the hottest thing it
has ever had. And it's burning it as well as
the fire around it. So it'll take one D6 psychic.
Psychic damage and I'm hoping that it is fooled and spits the
Myra out. Two points of psychic.
OK, I think it waits until its turn to decide that
particularity, because I think it gets another chance at a
Intelligence saving throw, because it says the target can
use its action to examine the phantasm with an Intelligence
investigation check against the spell safety.
See if this check succeeds, the target realizes the phantasm is
illusion. The spell ends.
Yep. All right.
And then I will cast Let me go through all my spells.
See. Yup.
Spiritual Weapon? No, I just want to do the text.
All right, so spiritual weapon. Love it.
Form does your weapon take? I guess we'll take the first
roll of a 15 to hit and a 11 damage if it hits. 15 does not
hit. Dang you just hear it warm.
Whatever form it takes. My spiritual weapon would be a
set of bloody chains that just whip the the plant, but this
obviously or in as the case may be not hard to hit this thing so
it you hit the side of it and it just doesn't seem to affect it.
Dang, dude. I turned to cow and shrug, still
grappled, hoping that'll change in a second, sort of shrugging
right back. And then I think that's my turn.
All right, That this thing is surrounded by fire, and it's got
fire on the insides. The oh, I'll get a click on this
and there we go. Two dandelions farthest continue
to try and shoot you. Cal.
It seems like with a 15 and a 16 to hit, which I think misses.
Right. Still sorry.
Sorry, sorry. Yeah, they both missed.
Sorry. No worries.
These ones get a little bit closer, though.
They seem to be narrowing their line of sight in due, and they
just zip past both of your ears, landing just behind you, and
then it would be your turn cow. All right, so how many
dandelions are on top of this thing?
That's like, you can you're you're pretty sure there's four
at this point. You've been eyeballing them.
Now. I don't know if you can tell me
this or not. Are they individual creatures or
are they part of one? Some.
They seem to be acting of their own volition, but are growing on
top of this mass that is the rest of the creature.
OK, I want to fire crossbow at the same one I targeted
initially, the one was closest to me.
OK, I want to shoot the same one again, 21.
Oh, Dang. Yeah, that'll hit five points
Piercing. Yep.
And you said fire though. Two what?
Sorry. You said fire bolt.
No, sorry. I want to fire.
Fire a bolt. Yes.
I don't got any. I don't got any fire bolts right
now, bud. Fresh off the boat, I didn't
know if somehow you were thinking to use like a bonus
action to, like, quickly light one on fire or something.
That's why I was like, all right, I'll roll with it, all
right, so that this is this the same one that you tried to shoot
before, I'm guessing yes, it's the same one I first initially
targeted. So that one hits right next to
the other bolt and you see it start to wilt a little bit, but
it hasn't gone down. It looks like it's definitely
worse for wear. But in the SAP that it was clear
SAP that was coming out of, it's increased its flow.
All right, I yelled back to those little farmer dudes.
I'm like, do you guys even have do you ever had any weapons or
anything I could have? No.
This is this creature plagues us constantly.
We we may not. We may not do anything else.
Doesn't work. And sleep and eat and fuck.
Use them. Fucking pussies.
All right, I will. I'm going to move a little bit.
Nothing crazy. Keep my distance.
Just a couple squares over and movement.
Does it count like you do it? One square down and three
squares over? Does that count as 20 feet of
movement? OK, I'll I guess end my turn
there. OK, All right, then it would be
the creature's turn, which again shakes its head like nothing had
happened before and tries to who you in to swallow you.
Is this the one that. Oh, right, he needs to make an
intelligent saving throw. Yeah, if he wants to.
And that's his action too. A nine?
Nope. And it believes that it's on
fire. And Vimoira herself is like a
burning cool pit. And it truly believes it.
It does. It does.
You do see it start to kind of hack, but it does one of those,
like dry heaves where it goes and holds, holds it down because
it's like just out of reflex more than anything else.
It does appear to start like molting, almost like a like a,
you know, like when people start to believe that they're actually
pregnant and they start getting some of the symptoms of it kind
of thing so that it looks almost like it had been on fire because
some of the plants start to get a little bit more dried out and
crispy. Does it?
I can continue to take damage from that too.
And how long on my turn I can do another one D6 damage.
Ah. Thank you.
OK. So it's yeah that's that would
be its. No is it?
You said that was its action too.
To for the intelligence save. Yeah.
Uses its action. OK.
Yeah. So it doesn't really, it
wouldn't. I got it now.
Then it would be the martyr's turn, which you're very limited,
but still your turn. Franklin on deck.
All right, my turn. So this stunned, is this like
for a certain amount of turns, it's like, am I still stunned?
You're still stunned. Saving thing.
I can oh, is there a saving thing I can roll against being
stunned? I was just rereading through it.
It it does. It does not have a continual
saving throw. It was just until you became
stunned like this that you had to roll it again at that time
because you weren't stunned First off, but now that you are,
it's kind of like a paralytic that's keeping you encased in
this pod that's inside of itself currently.
OK. I just wasn't sure if there was
anything I could actually do or try or I just have to like, wait
it out. No, you've got that one level of
exhaustion currently it and it would increase for every hour.
That's another thing that's going to happen while you're
inside of there. Yeah, pretty much until someone
tries to get to every. That's what I'm trying.
So for every hour I'm inside, I gain a level of exhaustion.
You won't survive an hour if you're well.
The thing is, is I'm paralyzed and stunned, but I haven't
really taken damage. No, it's the exhaustion
eventually that would kill you, is what he's saying.
Because eventually at I think it's like the 10th level of
exhaustion. So it would take like 10 hours,
but you would by, by that point be dead.
I did not realize exhaustion worked that way.
Yeah, it takes a while. We got a we got.
I never. Yeah, full 8 hour break before
she dies. Got it?
Yeah. I never really got familiar with
the exhaustion levels past like two or three.
Yeah, it doesn't usually occur. Because by that point, people
are just like, I don't care if I'm fighting a dragon.
I'm going to sleep. Well, that's my turn then.
Just, you know, chilling. Getting my beauty rest.
All right, Franklin. Franklin will do his one D6
damage for psychic. OK, which would be another 20.
His spiritual weapon will attempt to attack 15 misses,
right? Correct.
Just another thwump, all right? And then he will cast Spirit
guardians at Level 3 around him. Display in BTCI just got this
spell. I call for spirits to protect
me. They float around me and a
distance 15 feet for the duration if you're good in
neutrals. But no, they take the form of a
giant swarm of insects. When you cast the spell, you
designate any number of creatures you see, be unaffected
by it my allies. Any creature that starts its
turn, or any with the affected creatures halved by the area
whenever it has an affected creature's speed, is halved in
the area. And when the creature enters the
area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, I
think now it must make a Wisdom save and on a failed save, take
3D eight radiant damage on the start of 3D8 necrotic on the
start of its next turn. Like it?
When its turn is up, it will, and it's inside of that area is
what it's saying. So yeah, more more than likely
just at the beginning of its next turn it'll take a Wisdom
and an Intelligence saving throw.
Yes. OK yeah.
And it would be, I would assume, necrotic, not radiant.
The damage is radiant if you're good aligned or neutral necrotic
if you're evil necrotic. Necrotic.
Alrighty, that's my turn. I'm just trying to beat the hell
out of this thing to get you out.
I scream into it at the Myra. You do hear him and and you can
try to respond, but it comes out all stuttered broken.
The Dandelions. Good thing I made talking a free
action, right? The Dandelions shoot their shot
again. I'm just gonna start moaning
during everyone's turn. Shit the oh, it looks like one
of them finally made contact with a 23 at you that will hit.
Yes, Cal. Let me see.
Did the damage come through there too?
33 damage? Yep.
Which means I take half, it gets reduced by half 'cause he's got
resistance, and then I take half of it.
You guys are just each take 1. Sweet ow, one damage each.
Yeah, that comes from temp first, obviously.
Yep. Yep.
All right, cool. My thumbs up.
Then it would be your turn, Cal. All right, so I'm gonna turn to
these little fuck heads one more time and I'm gonna tell them get
over here and help us or I'll kill you myself.
Intimidation. God damn it.
Oh, see? Yeah.
No, they're pissing themselves. They don't even respond.
Well worth a try. I will.
I'm going to move move a couple squares a little closer because
I have an idea next turn, but I do want to shoot another
crossbow bolt at the same dandelion.
The one that was withering and seeping whatever earlier. 55 to
hit. Nah, things over the top of it,
OK, I don't have much else. And I'll have my turn, I guess.
All right. And we'll do the intelligence
first, I guess. See whether or not it thinks
it's still burning. I'm guessing 8 thinks it's still
on fire so it doesn't make any actions 'cause it believes it's
also I'm I've yeah got the hottest thing in the world in
its mouth. A 12.
You from your perspective see it as it gags.
This time a creature just passed, or rather a a lump just
in the back of its throat as it and you can kind of see maybe is
that the top of a milder's head? Maybe she's giving birth.
It's a it's a born again. You're born again for Myra.
And then a Wisdom saving throw too.
Yeah. Oh yeah, that's bad.
A a three. Which 3D Eight.
Yeah. Let's see.
I've got this. 3D8 Kradik 14 forking damage, right?
Yeah, necrotic. You.
You see, not only are the plants visibly withering for as if they
had been charred or something now, but they start to, some of
them start to look sickly with that and that does that take the
form of just like trying to picture it, it's it's a giant
whirlwind of of swarming insects that are like eating this
creature alive. Oh, OK, Leaving like decayed,
like everything they touch kind of decays like where they land.
I got you. OK, so that's 15 feet SoCal.
You are inside this giant like just vortex of of insects.
Like a swarm of locusts. Unfortunate I do.
I take 15. You are fine.
I have designated you as an ally.
OK, gotcha. They like land on you and one
like nuzzles up against you, Chen.
They're very personable if you get to know them.
I think if you click on my character here, I can you can
create like a the auras, if that's what you're gonna go for.
Yeah, that that's a little bit more clear, I think.
OK, so now we've got that was your turn, the creature's turn,
Vomira still being locked in there.
You're gonna try and mumble some more words.
You can tell Franklin as it's your turn that you're pretty
sure that that that lumps got to be even matter, because that's
where the sound is coming from. Currently.
It kind of sounds like her voice.
Can I instruct my swarm to emerge from my set shell and try
to pull her out? Yes.
I'm just debating. Is that for your swarm?
Does it have any when you give it a command bonus action?
It's a bonus action. Yeah?
So because of my invocation, the pack to the chain I have, I can
use a bonus action to have it use its its action.
OK, so it is a bonus action to do so.
You could roll me a shrink or an FI assume.
Well no, be it I think because I I have another invocation that
uses my stuff for it. If I'm right, investment of the
chain. Oh, when I'm familiar for a
change saving throw, it uses your save.
OK. When it casts a spell.
Yeah. Like it's against my save, not
others. OK, so strength for it is a -,
3. So let's go.
Come on. Big numbers 13, -, 310.
They get her pulled out. Just a smidge more of the pod,
but not not out yet. All right.
So inside of the in between space of its kind of throat and
mouth. OK so then I will do my 1D6
damage to it from the illusion 6 nice full damage and for my
action it starts to screech from somewhere inside of it.
For my action, I will use, I'll use the order order Channel
Divinity orders demand as I present my holy symbol, which I
will withhold. I will hold out of the book, the
Monster Manual book that I have. And I will, yeah, order it to
release or drop Vamira Wisdom. Save they the power of Christ.
Capel. You.
I turn to kill. Wink.
I don't really believe in Jesus. It'll succeed, so that'll be my
turn. OK, with the 17, it just it
doesn't do anything. Then we'll go back to the
dandelions real quick. Which two of them spat off seeds
again in your general direction? Cal.
A Tony two. And that'll hit a 7.
So another one zings past you and the other one hits.
These are just small seeds that are kind of like dinging off
your armor. So another single one damage for
each human Franklin looks like, Wow, that tickles.
All right, all right, it's my turn.
I want to try something. Yep.
So wait, I am. I'm good in your spirit
guardians? Correct, Franklin.
Like, I that's all good. I I want to move up to the mouth
of this motherfucker and I want to try to like shove my sword,
like force it open with my foot on the bottom jaw and then like
shove the sword in there and then grab Amira and rip her out.
Yeah. Can I do that in one turn or is
that gonna take like 2 actions or whatever?
I think you could manage that in one turn.
What you'll want to roll is an improvision or to improvise,
which we don't use a lot. Let me just going back to it
now, it's under actions, actions in combat.
It's called improvise and basically you can do whatever
you you can tell me what you want to do and if it doesn't
fall inside of like the other normal categories of things, I
can tell you the kind of roll and I'll tell you what what that
what, what happens basically it's kind of you're giving it,
you're giving it your all and you're using all the things
around you. So just go ahead and roll me AD
20 and add your proficiency bonus, which is because yes,
yeah, because you're you're proficient I would say in
combat. And that's where I'm getting
that ideal anyways. You're you're taking the
initiative at this point and seeing what needs to get done
and going out and doing it. OK, so D20 plus initial 12,
you're able to get the sword in place and you kind of grab a
hold of Vumira, but she's way slipperier than you thought you
she she was, and your hands slide off, not being able to
grab full purchase with your upper body inside of the
creature's mouth, but it's propped open with your sword
adequately. It seems like right now it's
holding anyways, all right? And I always just assume that's
my my movement in action right there.
I don't really have any bonus actions, so I guess I will will
end it there. OK.
The creature then needs to make a bunch of saves.
It doesn't need to make that Wisdom save again, does it
'cause that was one turn thing for the Guardians.
Or is that a continual thing? You said that's a continual
thing too. Stacking baby.
I see it. 16 for the intelligence.
Does that bust the illusion? Finally, the illusion.
OK, so it finally shakes it off, just barely, realizing that
Vomara is not a burning lump of coal and that it's not on fire.
With the Wisdom save of 20, that will succeed, but it will still
take half damage for the spirit guardians.
So I will cast that necronic roll 1477, and your little
buddies are still gnawing away at its back, eating through its
bits. It looks like they've managed to
eat the one whole bottom of a of one of the dandelions that have
been shooting at you, Cal. So it's down to three up there,
one of which is looking extremely worse for wear with
the 2 bolts that you already struck in it to.
And I think it took its action to get out of the illusion so it
it would be vomitre's turn which still just like come on, get out
of there, wiggle, wiggle. Come on girl.
Is it possible to do? Is it possible to do like a it's
sort of like a full body like dolphin kick kind of movement to
like squeeze out. I love.
I love, I love the thought. So you For that, though, you're
going to have disadvantage on a acrobatics check.
Believe. Oh, I I lied.
Sorry. You automatically fail Strength
and Dexterity saving throws. I forgot again.
I believed. Sorry.
I went back to to stunned. I thought it was just
disadvantage. You you see vomitra flopping
around in the back of this creature's throat and making
noise but not making any progress.
You're right in there. Yeah.
Franklin. What you doing with the cattle
on deck and the Dandelions default?
All right, my how does this thing look?
It's looking about 1/3 of the way healthy.
That gives you some perspective. He will then continue to beat on
it way, using his spiritual weapons attack as it still
floats there. 17 to hit. Oh yeah, nine points of force
damage. Oh nice.
Let her out. You'll be big.
It just kind of tries to growl but realizes it's got something
chucked out cotton heads or what kind of just got something.
I still have my action. I have a + 0 to my strength, so
I don't know that'll be good to get her out.
Oh yeah, -3. So let's see, am I stunned and
restrained or just stunned? Stunned and restrained?
Currently, I'm not grappled and only one level of exhaustion.
Yep, see that you found the conditions a day.
Finally, can I use my action to give the Moira not or advantage
on her attempt to escape? How would you do so?
I see her trying to dolphin out in the last six, six seconds, so
I reach into the creature's maw and I be ready to help, like,
guide wiggle her out. You know how you like put your
hands on each side and you help kind of like side back and forth
to the person out. It's kind of letting her letting
her lead the the the attempt to escape.
But I'm just adding my own strength and sure footedness
from the outside giving her some purchase so to say.
I mean, you can do that. You'd stick your now all all of
you are inside of the creature's mouth.
Currently, that's fine, and I wouldn't say that it's giving
her advantage, but it might kind of negate or give her the
possibility to to. Well, no, that's that's right.
He automatically fails then. Oh, never mind if she's
automatically failing, it will not do that.
If she automatically fails, then what I will do is where is it?
Sorry, I'm ticket so long. All right.
You've got a lot of actions that you can.
I really have a lot. Yeah.
That's what happens. Is the high level spell user.
Yep, I will. I mean, I will just cast
Eldridge Blast at it. OK, that's going to mess.
And you have a couple beams at this point. 2 beams at level 5,
three at 11. OK, yeah, 13 still misses.
Dang, dude. Into the wall behind it.
I turned to Kel on shrug. That's my turn.
All right. The dandelion closest to you.
Both your sanctuaries ended, it seems like to.
I think it said it was one minute right?
In a round. Yeah.
So. Plus it would have disappeared
in the second I started casting against the thing.
Yep. Yep.
Dandelion's closest to just two of them.
Again, there's there's three left, but the one on the right
goes first to try and attack you.
Cal. For an 11 and a 17 for Franklin,
just they're swinging around on top trying to OK, so they come
out just around. I think the 11 misses you too,
Cal, if I remember correctly. So you.
Yes. You guys just feel it whiffing
behind you as you're at guys. Heads are inside of the
creature. You don't quite see it trying to
attack you. And then it would be your turn,
Cal. All right, I'm gonna attempt,
because my sword's still in the the mouth of the beasts holding
it open. I'm gonna attempt to get her,
get a hold of her again, and pull her out.
All right. Strength or what?
Athletics. Both.
Strength. Related so it would I I would
say either or Athletics then 20. Nice you are successful do you
want to tell me how you succeed. So she's like wrapped up in set
up a pod you said right. Yeah, there's like a it's like
the SAP is kind of hardened on the outer, outer portions.
That is still kind of not quite fully hardened, but it's kind of
creating like a pod around her. There are some veins and such
too that I've started to form. OK, so I have my dagger in my
off and I kind of want to like slice that pod a little bit, at
least get like a hand hold underneath of it.
And then just using my other hand to kind of like lift her
over the bottom teeth of that thing so she can get tore up on
it and just yank her out and just like toss her ass with the
status. She's not been nice to me so
long. So I did say I'm saving her now,
though. Flops around there like a fish
out of water. Can I can I can I move over to
her five feet or whatever and like, continue the cut that I
did to kind of cut her out of the pod?
I'd I'd say so. You you got her.
I would I would guess you would get like under her arm is where
you were able to get some purchase and have pulled her
out. But the pod kind of did stick
into her lower half and she is still stunned at this moment.
It looks like the stuff that's on her is is isn't isn't
pleasant. You probably wouldn't want to
have too much of it on your on yourself as it is to or let
alone inhale it as it looks like she's been doing.
OK well I'll let her continue with her little nap then but
then she's out of its mouth. OK.
I also I'm gonna yell to Franklin.
It's like do you have anything to help with this Maybe.
And I can unless I can pull my sword out of that mouth or rip
it through the try to tip it through the top of it.
I'm assuming that would that would be an action.
So I don't wanna. Yeah, OK, so I'll leave the
sword in the mouth for now and and my turn for the moment.
All right then. The creature, just out of sheer
fear it seems like, now lashes out with its three or two of its
remaining 3 vines there, 1 towards Yukal for 12 and one
towards Vomayra on. As restrained as you are to, I
think attack rolls have an advantage on you, so I'll roll
that well. Does the 18 hit the 18?
It's May, but I don't know which one.
Just for me. The 12 was for you.
Yes, I thought so. And the 18 was from 18 wall hit.
OK, so I don't need to roll again because one of the vines
grapple you currently. Again.
I mean, playing devil's advocate.
You should roll again in case it's a crit.
OK, good point. Thank you.
I'd rather you. I'd rather you not.
But you know, no, no crit. One one point higher though as a
19, you did take 12 points of slashing damage from the the
hokey things on it on the vines. The Reign is doing the Fart
Jaggers. What else?
Whatever other words you guys use for him.
Oh, like the thorns. Thorns.
Yeah, there we go. Yep.
Yeah. This is the thorns stickers
Jaggers. Well, isn't there another one.
It begins with AJ or something Jiggers.
It's like the thorn stickers and like there's like another term
people use. I've heard several.
It's it's late enough that my brain doesn't want didn't want
to function through it. But yeah, so you're you're no
longer completely stunned. I would say that you're you're
starting to get subconsciousness as it's flowing out of your
nose. But Franklin, you're going to to
with Sanctuary not active and the other thing's not happening.
Oh wait, didn't need to roll a Wisdom save again there.
Yep, I forgot that part of it got so many other things rolling
that for this one creature the 22 was to swallow you and the
seven was it's Wisdom save. 7 is Wisdom save.
Wisdom will fail and take necrotic damage.
Devour B creature. Can he can the official devour
with my sword in his mouth. It doesn't seem to be trying to
close its mouth, just or it. It does seem to be trying to do
that but it just keeps pulling him.
Franklin that is into the back of its throat to to swallow.
What's that damage? 16 necrotic.
Thank you. 16 damage. It just gets you to the back of
its throat and it starts to swallow you.
I think with that 22 to hit right does hit.
So you're calling to take 25 acid damage as as as you're
going down its its throat slowly it it's dousing you with the
same SAP that you'd seen vomita be covered in when it does that.
Can I use hellish rebuke as my reaction by being damaged by a
creature within 60 feet of me? Yes.
And you can make a constitution saving throw for me.
Sure. Khan save 1st 11 you are
stunned. Ow you cannot move and speak
only falteringly and you automatically fail Spring saving
throws Dictionary saving throws. OK, all right.
Would I be able to have gotten the the hellish rebuke off or
no. I would say as it's coding you.
Yeah. Can't move.
Can't. Oh, incapacitated.
What does that mean? All right, well, let me do this
first. I wish Revuke I get deck save,
but I'm also inside it, so I don't know how you wanna play
that because I don't know how it avoids mental dexterity.
I don't know mental dexterity. It is not very dexterity.
Disadvantage if you want or it's it's not very very dexterous.
I'll I'll say yeah, I got a two, it's got a -, 1.
So it's good. It's one.
All right. So it will take, let's see 4D10
of fire damage. 15 points of fire damage from the inside as
it for it to swallow me as it was successfully swallowing you.
You feel the the outside of it, the outside around you basically
burn away as you're falling, stunned like, and it's a
reaction burst and it and it basically, just from your guys's
standpoint, rises up real quick and just falls flat with its
legs like out sprawled out and a puff of smoke comes out of its
throat After swallowing Franklin, that's what you
fucking get. Venusaur and the dandelions on
top stop. They're kind of wriggling too,
and just will. Couple seconds later, since
Franklin's still inside, the corpse does start to move and
kind of bubble again as suddenly like a like a bot, like a overly
ripe body full of like insects or maggots.
It explodes out with all of my swarm as they were devouring it
from the inside after it was dead.
And then Franklin kind of stands up covered in gore and brushes
his arms off. Wow, that was a lot.
High fives. High fives all around.
Bye. Bye.
Are you OK? It's been nice of you to join
us. Take a take a little nap.
You went to go hide it up or just like daggers shooting from
my eyes? Yeah, kinda pat around the side.
All right, turn to the others. Am I still encased in the pod?
No. There's some of it that's kind
of residual around your like, waist down, but you could easily
get out of it. It seems like OK and I'm no
longer stumped. No, you're you're target's no
longer restrained and can't escape from the pod.
Yep, I'm gonna go over and take this fucking pizza 'cause I
fucking deserve it. Oh, that's what it looked like.
OK, you walk up to it and it is now a pizza after your thoughts
there. And it it, you start hungrily
devouring it while the others that were cowering in the other
side of the room continue to do so.
Franklin marches over to that group.
I was about to say we'll deal with you in a second good
session. He has Mark.
We need more. We need more material matter for
the skeleton monster. Hey, you, come over here.
Do you think Icarus or do you think he's going to be mad if we
he Franklin pulls out his little Monster Manual book and points
it at the people. Do they technically count as
monsters? Could he get experience here?
It doesn't flip to any particular page when you pointed
at him, so you're guessing they're not you.
And like I said, when you're looking at them, they basically
do look like half human, half elf group humanoids.
Are they are they like full height?
I for some reason I imagine there's Zimbalimbus.
They're full height. Yeah, OK.
Probably for generations. Franklin, they're like, they're
like me half elf. Leave them here.
Let them live their quiet lives.
I mean, if you if you want to smack one and see what happens.
But they didn't do anything during that fight.
So I'm not don't think they're a big threat.
I look over. It's not about being a threat.
It's about sending a message. But.
But Franklin will step forward. But I'll acquiesce this time.
Can I look around the room and see if I notice anything that
might be worth picking up? You can definitely look around
the room. You don't see anything
particular of value. They're a bunch of plants that
are mostly look like edible plants.
You know for food purposes but nothing of medicinal value even
or anything like that. There are some tools and such
that they used for working with the plants and preparing the
food. Like they said, is this
considered a dagger or is like a paring knife?
You think the I I don't think we there is like a paring knife in
regular thing there. I I if you were to rule damage
or attack with it I would consider it a dagger.
Yes. OK can I pick it up and add it
to my inventory? Absolutely you can add it.
All right. Oh yeah.
So how do I do that do I from your side of things if you're in
the inventory Yep. Tab you go to manage inventory
off to the right there then dagger.
Yep exactly. And it it would just basically
it'd be the basic dagger there. So the vicious dagger of
sacrifice? No, not quite.
Just the just the regular. Just kidding.
All right, cool.
Good session. Hope we can decide.
We we can. We have to decide how we want to
end this. I walk up to the others.
We got two choices. We can do our walk down stairs
and immediately let ourselves die, hoping to get like more of
a ward ward for being one floor down.
Or I look at the knife. We take our own lives or we just
go to bed. Well, we, we don't get rewarded
until we're, we like die, right? Essentially.
Yeah, I don't think so. So if other people are going to
be here next time he looks off 1000 miles there, Ishmael does
chime in at this, chime in at this point.
Actually you can hear it almost as a resignation throughout the
tower of the room that you're in.
And he goes, loved the initiative.
That was a great show. Something that may not have been
explained is if you do decide to sleep on a floor, essentially
your questing. Considering this is infinite,
and I understand time is limited, you have you can
essentially pause your journey in the infinite tower and come
back oh another time. But what if correct come back
with more people? They just join.
They they could. They would if they would.
That is an excellent question. They would have to go through
the registration process and after after that could make a
request with me to be transferred to your floor.
Cool. OK, I guess we won't kill
ourselves then. You guys decide to rest up.
Yeah, I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go take a little nappy
nap right on this grass right here.
All right, You guys would go to sleep and next session, wake up
back in the pocket, rocket, spend some time each night
reading, reading my book. So the one shot would be next
session, right? No.
Next. The next week is the 30th.
Yes. Right.
So that's the good campaign. And then the following week,
would evil campaign. One shot.
Yeah. The 6th will be the start of my
one shot. OK, so.
So this is like the last. This is the last session of the
evil campaign. At least till the one shot's
over. Yeah.
What'd you say? What'd you say, Franklin?
I'm going to be running a short side thing.
You're welcome. Play if you would like.
It is basically going to be the month of February on Tuesdays
and you are playing. If you want to play yourself as
AD and D character. I'm definitely down for that.
Thank you for the invitation. Sure.
All right. Well, I guess I gotta get
working on that, that character sheet.
I'll probably give you a couple extra levels cause normally you
come in at whatever level character you are, but it sounds
like you're probably level one. I would say, let me see quickly
over here too, just to do some math.
You guys just laid down to sleep to give you some insight on that
matter too. Because the thing you're gonna
notice is you're gonna level up a lot quicker playing with
higher level characters like this too.
I buy 3 so you just got basically like 1500 XP which
just going over to an XP sheet. I'll have to get you on here
still, but I'm going over to the level tracker. 1500 would get
you straight up to Level 3 almost onto level 4.
Would another 1500 give him another another 1500?
Or it's like Franklin offering up his or something.
I think it's gonna if it boosts something enough that would get
him to level 4 for sure not not quite level 5 because those each
level is like exponential. That's the thing with with them
it's like every so from they just keep doubling basically.
So from 1:00 to 2:00 it's only 300.
From 2:00 to 3:00 it's 904 to 5 it's 6500.
Yeah it's just it's yeah. So how does that work on TNT
Beyond's end? When you have Do I do what I do?
What I do is I have an X Excel well, a Google spreadsheet that
I keep track of the XP on from each of your sessions.
Because any action that you take will give you experience.
Even if you're just talking to people, you get experience for
making deals and doing stuff like that.
But then I put it all in there and it adds it all up.
To keep giving you levels as as those as you reach those
barriers and I try I try to let people know when they level up
but I I think people have been catching on and no noticed that
I don't always remember to tell people when they have levels so
you can not crack crack it yourself by looking in there and
I'm always open to hey I did this thing you forgot about this
thing. Can I get experience for that?
Yeah man I'm not I'm not omnipotent.
There's something you would add, I understand.
So let's let's say at the end of the session you you say you
earned this match XP for this session within D&D Beyond.
Do I go in? I keep track of that.
I go in and level myself up within D&D Beyond, right.
That's not, that's not a year. That's not a year end thing.
That's a my end thing. Correct.
Probably fine. That's cool.
I just wanted to make sure I had the expectation correct.
Yep. Yep.
Yeah. Because you you'll have options
when you level up to take feats and do other things when you,
when you gain those levels to add new skills and such too to
your character. Gotcha.
So do I have 1500 XP or do I have more Franklin, More
Franklin, Franklin? Do I I just have to know.
I just have to know what I'm gonna do right now.
You know what I mean? Like, I don't care about
Franklin. You're going to, you're going to
have the XP needed to get to level 4.
Is that is that fair? That is.
That's more than fair. I was expecting zero.
I just met you, man. Franklin's very hospitable, I
can tell that. Moira.
Not so much. But Myra, you know what?
You never actually told me your lane.
Besides, once I've said 2 words to you, so I don't know.
Get used to it, buddy. I'm not Josh, can you tell me
what the XP from that I need to get to Ford is then so I can
accurately track that? Yeah, you're it.
Should it 2700? Yeah.
I don't know where it says if it does on D&D Beyond actually, but
yeah I was looking at that it's 2700 is what level 4 is, but you
should have or from three to four.
Is 2700 total XP. That's from 00 to 4:00 your
total XP that you would have earned if you're taking
Franklin's like I was saying it's it would actually be like
3125 approximately because that's what when you're jumping
off the table. No.
The the 120 that that was with the experience that you're
sharing with him. The.
Yeah, but that'll give him just to pass level 4.
OK, right. Yeah.
The escaping the table got you some.
The introduction to people got you some and the other stuff.
So it was some minor stuff. But that's where that, that
number came from. OK.
So you said 3125. Yep.
And. And that was final number.
OK, cool. Well, Franklin, I appreciate you
looking out, looking out for the little guy out here, you know,
of course. And he walks up and reaches out
to as if to give a hug. Put her there, Fred.
How he hugs you and he stares off another distance, mostly
staring at the humans. Yet his eyes narrowed.
We saved the sulky one over there.
Yeah, it's like they don't even want to be alive.
I wish I were alive. All right.
Is that is that the session, my friends?
Yeah. Session.
Hey, thank you very much. Thank you very much for having
me. I appreciate it.
Absolutely Look forward to having you some more.
I just had to the level up kind of get some more options.
I'm just like crossbow, crossbow, crossbow.
Like I got nothing else to do right now, dude.
I don't want you close to that thing.
Last time we had a new party member, they died like basically
instantly. Pretty much.
Oh yeah, they they died instantly in Ishimel's tower.
Like they they died. And then I looted her body.
Yeah, pretty much. I was like, let me just load you
up as much as I can. Yeah, I mean, I took two points
of damage and I think keeping distance was a huge factor of
that. Also, you guys were close.
Do I so successful of a session? So, so since we're sleeping
right now, do I lose? I lose the temp HP.
Should I put that down to 0? Yeah.
I mean, I'm going to be doing this every day.
And the warding group and the warding bond thing and the
warding bond Gotcha. It's kind of like, yeah, OK,
gotcha. They both fizzle out.
Max HP modifier goes to 0. Back to the zero before I level
up so I don't get all whacked through with my HP.
Yeah. All right.
Yeah. Yes.
A secret meeting room to cross the world.
Yes. So is it.
Did I eat the did I eat the whole pizza?
Or is it still sitting there from when I come back 'cause
cold pizza's good pizza, I'm not gonna lie.
Oh, no. That's up to you.
I'm pretty sure I devoured the whole thing.
Let's just let's leave it at that, OK?
See you guys. All righty night.
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