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Allelopolis. Oh, damn it, Craig.
Fucking. Craig, Soft Lane, Craig.
The Hand of Fate tosses. The dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that becomes
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the infinite sea,
fading to myth until myths are forgotten and the campaign that
gave it birth comes again and again.
The hand of fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns hitherto we
left the rum rollers on the Isle of Shondar, Meime, Kat Hamilton
and the Rawlsons Beach de Dune, right next to a horde of Cobalts
owned by Shondar. They then frolicked in the sand
while some while catching some crabs and managed 12 of them
with for a tribute to Shondar Rarlson.
Rarl also made a deal with Gulliver, captain of the Red
Cobalt ship, to deliver Shondar's goats.
Gulliver also warned Rarl of the feuding goblins inside of
Gondar's Volcano, while Adune whipped up some Balkan tentacle
sushi for another offering to Shondar.
The Rum rollers headed north to the Isle Island Head and toward.
Yeah. Along the island's head and
towards the island's body, a fully active volcano.
On the way, they stopped to admire and then devour enormous
coconuts to Meme's Glee. Coconut milk barely dry on their
faces, the rum rollers March forward to the Obsidian cliffs
of the at the base of the volcano.
On the edge of the cliffs of these Obsidian cliffs, an old
red Kolbert finished greeting them with a after while he was
fishing, and they warned them again of the goblin infestation
inside of the volcano. So they started to cross the
lava bridges into said volcano. Let's find out what happens this
time, yeah? So nobody's here, right?
This place is empty. It's fine.
Where you're at currently. The giant mountain that we keep
getting warned about goblins. I'm sure it's fine.
Oh, I haven't seen any goblins yet.
There can't be goblins, right? I haven't seen any, plus I'm
fully rested and I have a hundred hit points.
It's fine. What could go wrong?
I'm sure it'll be fine. Yeah.
I wonder if the goblins will be interested in nude pictures of
the Queen. We do have bargaining chips.
But yeah, find yourself on one of the land bridges that kind of
cross the chasm of this channel in the ocean that separates the
head from the body that you were admiring last time too in the
waters there thinking about taking a dip.
Me may I just recalling that right the 2nd but and there's
lava kind of dripping down the sides of the mountain off to
either side or this. But this one path seems to be
kept clear to a mouth of a cave on the other side of the land
bridge. Must be pretty warm here.
There should be some like steam rising up, so it's probably
great for my complexion. There's there's steam rising up
for where the lava's touching the water.
Very hot all. Right, crew.
So I know not everybody's here. We're looking a little slim.
Or do we want to go? This might be better, actually.
Circumstances or approaching Shondar, right?
So long as it's friendly. Awesome.
And we can still get the goats up here, right?
It's all that, really. Matters.
I don't wanna I. Don't wanna deal with a hungry
dragon? Yawn at that point too, and go,
oh, I can check, Why don't we spin up the plate?
I still have my plate. Or is my plate the one we left
on the? You still have one plate and
then there is one plate on Dune All.
Right. So I'll reach into my bag and
pull out that plate and I guess I will just attempt to spill it.
Performance. 10. You you wanted to you, you
succeed, but just barely if you want to describe it.
I I would say I'd probably try to just like balance it on the
knuckle of one of my feet and then spin it with my wings while
balancing on one leg. That's impressive.
So you're able to get it moving and but it doesn't quite spin on
its own until you like pick up speed with your beak and it it.
Then it starts to kind of just with the like, almost immense
reluctant reluctance, start to spin and and float in the air
and create the portal. That's right, you make that
portal. That was a slow one.
That was fun. Never seen it like could chug,
could chug into being. The little play deck code like I
I've just chanted. I think I can the whole.
Time Look around. Why were we getting the plate
out? Hamilton was going to go check
and make sure we could check on the goats and then make sure we
can pull them through. Nobody wants a hungry dragon.
No, we want a well fed dragon that's easy to talk to.
And Hamilton shrugs and walks through the portal and then
sticks his head back out the other side and says Yep, I'm on
a dune do. You see the goats?
No. They're around the edge of the
tip, aren't they? Should I get them?
I feel like tied to. The edge.
Mm hmm. I thought Roro left him with the
kobolds. No, I left him with my siblings
who were watching them. Oh yeah, that's right.
Well, I'm inside the cabin. I'll go, I'll go check on them.
At least you could just. They're crucial.
Keeps going back through the portal, but then he turns back
around, his head out again. It says.
Might take a while and folks said to find the back in.
I don't think we're nearly there yet.
So we can continue forward without like.
Are we going to close the the plate?
Yeah, let's grab the plate he can open.
Yeah, he's got one on hit, yeah. OK, we're going to grab the
plate and close the portal. Keep walking on our merry way.
What do you think is the best way to approach these goblins?
Because like, do you see a goblin?
No, but friendly. Like, yeah.
Most people were acting like they exist here.
Well, what do goblins like on a Rolla?
What is that history. Knowledge.
What do I know about goblins? Shit.
Is that a good shit or a bad shit On another screen here
looks. Like I rolled a 17 but it says I
got a 12. OK, I got a 12.
You said it was a history check. Yeah, to see what Mimi knows
about goblins. I will also think about goblins.
I got a 12. O2 twelves this is.
A + 9. I'll roll A3.
You guys both know that goblins are are very varying if per the
region and neither of you are quite familiar with any of the
goblins from this region especially considering that the
neither of you have been here specifically especially to this
island which seems to be might be a pretty unique area.
But yeah you know in general though that they they they
aren't very intelligent. So go far go as far to say that
they. Are.
Dumb, But they can be strong. Physically, though, that's
that's at least the common trait among all of the different ones.
Besides that, it it's it's it's hard to say what you might be
going into. Maybe it's going.
To turn around and look at Raro and be like Raro, what do you
know about goblins? Oh, I don't know.
Let me see. Let me think about that.
I'm pulling up my character shape view.
Hopefully I know many thing, I know almost nothing.
You know well. We're doing you're.
You're aware that the times you've come across them, they
stink. Yeah, they're very smelly.
So like, keep a nose out. Maybe we should offer them soap.
Maybe they're ornery because they never take baths.
How's your guys's ability to sneak?
MIME is actually pretty sneaky. I'm.
Gonna say I think I am too. 'Cause I think like, best chance
as we sneak through this thing. Yeah, I was wondering that too,
if we should. Just if we have to kill a bunch
of goblins, that's great, 'cause we have to feed our good friend.
We need to name can we name him Squidward?
The dragon. No, the guy in the in the
bottle, we have to feed him. So, like, if we have to kill
anything, let's just like, you know, be courteous neighbors and
leave no trace. Clean it up real nice like.
Sure. Why?
All right, so shall we stealthily enter this cave?
Yeah. 21. That chicken can sneak.
Just. So what are we rolling?
For this 28th. Damn.
Steal. I'll just keep on.
Snakes, Snakes, snakes, snakes. 22 Oh yeah, I.
Was. Like, watch me be the one that
fucked us up. That's usually what happens, but
damn, guys. It'd be the I could, I would
fulfill my my role as the halfling, you know, making noise
and fucking shit up. But now we're doing good.
We're all I'd. Say we get the Pink Panther
theme song going, yeah. Well, I'll paste you in here.
You guys creep on through that that down the stairs into The
Cave entrance, which is a rough stone that's got cracks in it
that you can see lava underneath of it and it's all very, very
warm and steamy in there and almost it's close to the sauna
levels. As you're as you're descending
down into it and the path though continues into that, into this
heavy stone area, you can see blatantly where goods and people
have travelled along the floor. Even though it's stone, it's
it's well worn into it, a path, but the very first thing you see
immediately as you walk into the gloom and your eyes start to
adjust into the darkness, Yes. Does anyone have dark vision
other than Rawelson? I think I do.
Let me check. It's the back.
See anxiety. You're trying to be sneaky.
Well, I have. No, I do.
I have. Devil's Sight I can see through.
I was saying besides you is what I'd what I'd said because I
remembered. I thought you'd said before too.
Yeah. What was the distance on that,
on this particular one of yours too, for the night vision?
I'm 120 feet. Nice.
I'll go first, you guys hold on to my belt.
Even though, even though still I was, I was, I was mainly asking
so I get the tokens shown shown up right?
And you guys can see the appropriate stuff.
Yeah, yeah, 'cause it shows up almost.
Let me, I can't. Oh wait.
I know what I can do. I can do this real quick too.
I can put like a dim light source, light from behind you
guys from where that where you guys entered, because you know,
there's still light trickling down that tunnel, obviously.
So there's still some some light in the tunnel that you guys are
in currently, but? So I'm just going to flutter up
and kind of just like perch myself on Ralston's shoulder and
just like hunker down really tightly, be like, all right.
I need you. What is it?
He nuzzles into you. You're soft.
Well, that's nice. Yes, good screeches.
We'll have to look for traps too.
Be real careful. So I'm just gonna hold on and
try not to hinder anything. I'm gonna I'm, I don't think I
have anything to detect. Traps I have.
Magic. I I am a rogue so I can magic.
Does anyone have any ability to like, guide or anything like
that? I mean.
I have guiding bolt. I can just like send a lightning
streak down the path. No, that would tell everybody
we're here. Yeah, I mean, all right, Can.
Magic. Doing.
I don't know if anyone rolled well enough to know if goblins
use magic. No, we just know that they are
dumb and strong. You know, I'm gonna detect magic
anyway, just to. Just in case.
Just. 'Cause that's the only thing I I
would say that both Meme's and Kat's role would have gotten
them the fact that they they use magic.
But again, it's just varying amongst the different regions
what types, because it's very dependent upon like who they
worship and all that stuff. They're very fractious.
There's no like Goblin Overlord anywhere on.
Target is this is Mime the the Goliath or the Cleric?
Mime's the Cleric. So you're a little small.
I was. Because I was going to say so.
MIME. You should also get on my.
Back. Oh yeah, Say Mimi's trying to,
like, hold on to Rural's shoulder.
But I'm pretty sure I'm not tall enough.
And so I just, like, have a hand on your back.
I I like stop and I'd be like, you should get on my back,
'cause I can do a thing where I can run really fast, like move
really Fast forward. I mean, I weigh 48 lbs.
I don't know if I. Can I?
Can't. I just don't know if that's too
heavy. What is?
Only three feet tall. Carry Capacity, Carry Weight 5E
Strength multiplied by 15 so 8 * 15 I should be able to carry you
and Kat. Oh awesome.
OK, because I only weigh like 5-6 pounds five or 6 lbs.
Awesome. Yeah.
So then I'm gonna do that thing that kids do where I put my arms
around your neck and my legs around your waist and I'll like.
Hold on like a backpack, I'll I'll pull some rope out and then
do like a basic like not to like help secure her make like a
little harness if I can. Yes, I can.
Like in one of those baby Bjorns.
Right here if you want to roll for that or not.
Yeah, you got a crafting field, so why not?
I do. That's not great 11.
You were able to get the rope on there and tighten.
It's just a simple knot. All right, it should help a
little bit, and then RARL is going to proceed forward by
looking for traps and using. Might detect magic find.
It Oh, yeah, on. The dead goblin or where do you?
Yeah, because it's general. So that's just 30 within 30 feet
of. Me you're able to sense for 10.
There's like a a oddly shaped boulder in this particular spot
that there's magic coming from the other side of, like back in
this general direction. It's not directly behind the
boulder. There's also OK.
So the boulder itself is not. Magic.
There's also kind of a I have to go back to this real, real quick
because I referenced. This in a while checking.
Have not referenced. Can never know.
You never know. OK A yeah, I it's it's actually
a a bluish hue from the other side back there.
Now that I know where the pinned God damn things are, I can see
what that actually means. And then how far does this
extend? 30 feet?
Yeah, that's that's the only thing that's really catching
your tension currently. And it's and it's a faint light
off of the distance behind that boulder, almost like a pinprick.
What? What color is the stuff?
Oh, blue, I thought I'd said. Everything's blue, OK?
I knew those stuff. Behind the oh, the other stuff
you mean outweigh in the distance that yeah, the the
little bit harder to define because it's kind of shifting
and changing, it seems like besides besides.
OK, so it's like a star where it's like.
Yeah, and it weird. It's too far away.
It's just there's there's lights that kind of moving and they're
way off in the distance and you know you're able to kind of tune
out the light that's coming from your own particular party for
instance, currently that has for.
Those following along? OK, For those following along at
home, blue means transmutation. Something is not as it appears
behind this boulder and some other room or behind a wall.
Interesting. OK, all right, cool.
Thank you. All right, it looks like we're
good for now. Onward.
Sir Raulson OK, just for your reference, usually I don't count
like airy weight, but in this particular case, with all the
shit that you're also carrying besides the your companions, I
would say that you were encumbered just for your
reference, which means that you're you're.
I had to look that up because I had forgotten.
Actually too, I never really use it, but that your speed drops to
10, yeah. All right.
Well, no, I think of, yeah. Out of, out of combat.
Really. It's just.
Because, yeah, go ahead. I I'm just saying thematically
it won't affect anything. It's just if you get into a
sticky situation is all I was going to say, like a like
combat. Got it.
You may have to jump off real fast, which is cool because I
think you want me, man, to drop off real.
Fast. Yeah.
We'll have to dismount. Yeah, situation.
Once they're mounted up, Rural will walk over to the wall and
be like goblins walk on their feet.
So they probably would have trapped the floor first.
So then he climbs onto the side of the wall.
So instead, we're going to climb on the sides of the wall the
entire time. All right.
And he begins climbing and checking for traps, using feline
agility, his action and bonus action to Dash to get some extra
speed. So, well, you're not both of
those. You can.
You can just move freely currently.
OK as it. As it were.
It's it's like I said only really effects you whenever it
gets into combat. It it would slow you down if and
when it it really comes to matter.
Got it. So I'll investigate for traps as
I go. I don't know how often you want
me to check. Maybe just like from what I see,
so like I see down to here. So if I move up to there, I got
to check again or what? Oh.
So no, you're not doing even passive at this point to you,
because. You're passive, Investigation is
14. OK, but if I'm looking to.
Yep. And I'll tell the others, look
for traps of that and then I'll like, slap my forehead.
You can't see. There isn't anything that's
catching your attention currently other than, you know,
the dead goblin on the floor. Yeah, I look at them.
Did we check this guy? And we're.
Not checked, Yes Sir. We're not going to loot this
goblin for. I'll quickly loot the goblin or
like, lean down so that somebody else, like, can loot the goblin.
Are you on my back or my front? I'm just.
I was gonna say I'm just perched on your shoulder.
So I'll hop off and like, right onto the goblin's body and then
just start rummaging through whatever pockets I can find,
yeah? That's quick.
So you guys are all three loot in the body at the same time?
Is that what I understood? Oh yeah, she can loot it.
I'll just be sitting there on the wall waiting.
What do you want me to call an investigation?
Yeah. O23.
Nice. Besides the obvious things that
are left on the body it seems like there is a spider shaped
like what do you what do you call that thing?
Dang it it's it's escaping me now the thing you like throw to
climb up stuff yeah it's it's but it's spider shaped a
grappling hook that's that's attached to its belt and and the
the grappling hook itself is kind of like spider shaped and
then the there's a like a little sword the the creature is only
like about Mime's size so there's that it's so it's a
short sword which would be a long sword to them but they they
have some ragged looking clothes and when you're digging through
a pocket you find a cracked porcelain doll in fine clothes
missing both of its eyes. Interesting.
I'm going to take the porcelain doll and shove it into my bag of
holding, and then I'm going to grab the spider grappling hook
and I'm going to hand it up to Rarlson.
This is nice. This will probably be helpful.
Eventually. He looks directly at the camera.
That doll's definitely not going to bite this in the ass and then
looks away. I know.
I was like, oh, creepy doll, I've got to take this.
Touchdown and everything. Yup.
Bury the office, Jim looking at this Uncomfortable.
All right, once you hop back on, Raro will continue his.
His Moving on. Looking for traps.
How long does your detect magic stay up?
10 minutes. All right, let's see how much
ground we can cover. You look for magic things.
Let me know, chicken cat if you want to.
Just like listen, I guess. Yeah, I guess I'll just keep my
senses open for any arcana that strikes me.
As you do, you sense a faint as you're going around the corner
on on one of the tunnels corners.
You send some faint magics coming from and it seems almost
like it's been inactivated or something like that from from a
pile of rubble. It looks like to you, Raulson.
Yeah, I say that like there seems to be some inactive magic
over here in this very dark direction.
Karl will describe what he sees. It's a pile of rubble.
Do you want me to, like, look through it?
It's a deactivated thing, so maybe it's like a like a old
trap. Or should we just move on?
I see. Move on.
Well, so yeah, see, our main objective here is to make it to
Shondar. So we should probably move.
I will know the location in my head, what it kind of looks
like, and then move on. What kind of magic was it?
Was I able to tell what kind of magic it?
Was. Oh, yes.
Sorry, Wait. You said there was a color,
right? Or did you?
This time I did not. I believe this time I, if I'm
remembering correctly, it was a I'm not going to, I'm not going
to change my mind. I'm going to, I'm going to get
to it and it's going to tell me yellow gold.
Abduration detection magic. Oh yeah, we don't want to fuck
with. That yeah, let's not be
detected. Let's pass it by.
I continue onward. Let me know whenever you want
more rolls. I would like a stealth with
disadvantage from yourself for Allison.
Should we have, like, bubbled up that goblin back there to give
in a snack for our tentacle monster?
Fresh. I don't think goblins taste.
Too late? No.
Tentacle monster. Yeah, they're stinky.
They probably taste bad, although I suppose you would
wash it before you fed it to them.
I'm going to spartically inspire myself by being like rural.
You're so cool. You're so cool.
Everyone wants to be your friend.
I throwed 212 So 21. Whoa, very.
Girl, you're so cool. Look at the ceiling, rural.
Make sure there's nothing up there.
I do have one assistant spell, and it's a level 5 spell, and I
only have one level 5 slot, but it is skill empowerment.
Your magic deepens a creature's understanding of its own talent.
You touch one willing creature and give it expertise in one
skill of your choice until the until it ends.
The creature double S its proficiency bonus for ability
checks it makes that use that chosen skill.
Do you have Expertise in Stealth already?
I don't know if it's stacks, but if it does, that would be
excellent. And it lasts up to one hour.
So I was like if we need it. Think we're OK right now.
I've still got Bardic Inspiration.
I have a high. I have a + 9, so at a minimum
it'll be a + 9 plus like whatever your plus like 3 or 4.
It says it double S your proficiency bonus.
Mm hmm. Well, I mean for for like what?
I or if I were to need a Bardic Inspiration.
So like right now I have a + 9. So that plus a Bardic
inspiration. I think it might be better to
hold on to the fifth level spell, but you decide whatever
you want to do. I just wanted to bring it up
because I was like I have it but I only have the one slot so I
can only use it once. Do you have other?
What else? Do you have your fifth levels?
Agonizing, scorcher, not agonizing and gazar scorcher,
Chromatic orb, earth, tremor, flaming sphere, fly, shatter,
telekinesis, and Thunder step. So if you need me to be really
noisy and noticeable, I can. Why don't you can wait?
How long does fly last your? Step.
Fly, which I can also use as a lower level spell.
It's concentration for up to 10 minutes.
And so you could. Go ahead.
You could you could cast Fly On me and we could just zip down
these holes instead of 10 feet at a time, looking for traps for
the next 10 minutes while we also have Detect magic.
Oh, OK, yeah, hold on. When did I get fly?
Because I can cast it as a third level spell.
Yeah, we've used that before. That's how we got across the
lava. At the spot where you are
currently at two, you're realizing that you're standing
in a pool of viscera and blood. It took a minute only because
the coloration of it was similar to that of the reddish dew of
the stone that you're walking in, but you notice it now as you
kind of try to move your feet around more.
Awesome. If I'm still on the wall.
Oh, it. Sorry.
Yeah. There would still be some on the
wall. Yeah.
This is gross. And directly ahead of you, off
in the distance. You now to realize after you
stop to while you guys were talking and kind of crawling
along the wall, a cobalt corpse off in the distance at the end
of the next bend. Yeah, that makes sense.
OK, so I'm gonna, like, lean down and whisper to you.
I'm like, hey, you can fly now. I can fly, I can fly.
I can fly and I. Just gonna hand you a feather
from my wing. Oh, he ties it into his hair.
And if everyone could rule me a perception, yes. 25.
Oh, nice. Nice.
I don't know why I did this to myself.
I started Googling porcelain dolls without eyes.
Yeah. Why would you do that?
If your search history or your algorithm is gonna be
interesting for the next couple days.
Oh God, that specifically. Can hear some tinging, some
boots on the on the on the stone and what sounds like a bit of
yelling back and forth but it's very far off in the distance.
Everyone else, you're you're, you're more drawn onto the I
core. That's either on yourself, rarl
or that's dripping on, potentially dripping on you.
You're you're hoping it's water though me may?
I'm gonna whisper to Rarlson as low as I can, but so they can
hear that I'm like there's some arguing or yelling going on in
the distance. I You saw that could fly now.
Yeah. He lets go of the wall and
floats, starts licking his paws. That's so gross, just in midair.
Clean. You have a speed of 60 feet for
10 minutes. Oh, that's excellent, 'cause I
also have the feline agility, so I could do 120 just like every
other second. Oh my goodness.
Is it? Where's Newman wings that are
made with that spell? I was just trying to remember
what what's going on now? With it, it just says the
creature gains, the target gains a flying speed of 60 feet for
the duration. When the spell end, the target
falls unless it can, unless it's already on the ground.
OK, I would leave that up to you in your ticket because you cast
it on a willing creature. Before, it's just been like
levitation, like they haven't really noticed any new
appendages or anything, and it just requires the wing feather
from a bird. And that's why I use it so much,
'cause I'm like, I'm a bird, just ripping out my wing
feathers. So graphically, for as rural
flies, that not that you guys could see, but his tail actually
starts doing the helicoptering and that's how he's flying
around. Yeah.
So if he's flying, he turns to the others and he'll say, I have
the ability to cast like a darkness around me so that
people can't see us even if they also have dark vision.
Should I cast that on myself? It's also 10 minutes.
We could like just like stack for 10 minutes and then just
like Go. Just be a black cloud and really
fast light. I think we should.
OK, I'll do that. I'll cast Darkness and I can
still see through it because I'm special and made a deal with the
devil. Darkness.
I'll just be a demon in the sky. And then abandoning the search
for traps. Outside of looking for trip
wires ahead of him, he will float and fly 120 feet.
Uses action and bonus action to get movement speed as well, so
that's 612180. Then doubled for Feline Agility
SO2320 every 12 seconds because he'll stop, he'll zoom forward,
stop and then listen and then zoom forward again.
OK, you wanna? I'm very fast.
Just holding on for dear life now.
My little claw's digging into his fur on his shoulders.
Yeah, Mimei's really glad for this rope.
Nah. I.
Didn't know if. I'll just stagnate.
Yourself, 'cause you got some decisions up here, you get up to
the next bend where the cobalt's corpses, and there's at least
three directions to choose from immediately.
Use whichever one feels right. Don't they normally always say
keep to the left? And you do see which where does
the the yeah. That's a good point.
Or where the where the sound. Is coming from you.
You see, I can answer that first.
Or I can say simply to the the the warning path that you see at
the bottom of the floor goes direct more or less straight
from your location, although the sounds.
So this this path that you're seeing there, Raul is kind of
like worn into the stone. But you do hear distinctly now
too that you've come to this intersection almost directly
north from your location. I don't know if you could see
that ping. I don't know if you were zoomed
out far enough for the farther ping, but is a raucous sounding
clattering of armor and yells and goblin.
It sounds like distinctly now from from your.
I'll pause, pause for a second in the air.
Take the path. Yeah, the path will travel.
To see this one right? That's also the cat.
You're seeing a distinct silver white aura in this direction.
You said also the direction of the people.
More or less in the same direction of the people, but not
quite, is what cat can see 'cause it's more.
Silver's enchantment White is Divination enchantment.
Is that in the direction of the well Worn pass?
Not quite. Yeah, you're right.
Right. We can't see these.
Past No, I can't see either. I can't.
I will then point out in what general direction I see the
magic aura from and be like there is some kind of
enchantment over in this direction.
I don't know what's over here, if you can see anything.
Pause and look purposely down each of these side openings 120
feet and or until they stop and listen closely to the sounds of
like the fighting to attempt to discern like looking at the
cobalt. Does it?
Do I hear also hear the sounds of Cobalts or does it sound more
like a blacksmithing shop? Or like is there screams of
pain? I don't know how to look down
these things. Yeah.
Is it a language that Yeah. That's the best.
It looks like it can. I moved.
You could probably get to like, right?
No, that doesn't help. Look right here.
Yeah, there we go. It kind of shows you there's
some more corpses popping up as you're getting to this, looking
down each of these hallways. Nope, that doesn't work either.
The the one to the to the left and the right are harder to look
down because they start to move off in completely opposite
directions from the from the main one to which also seems to
start curving again back up almost in the same direction as
the north passage. And although the northern
passage is smaller, and so is the southern one, both narrower,
when I say smaller, that's what I mean.
And the the sounds you're hearing are angry and yelling,
and there are some pained sounds for sure, along with the
clattering. Sound do you?
Can I just try to distinctly hear if there's like the the
Scream or hissing of cobalt versus goblins?
That one would definitely. I'll see what your perception
role would be. OK, it is it.
Is perception or investigation? Investigation is fine too. 16
you're you're quite sure you hear a modeling of both,
although the cobalt seem to be farther off in the distance than
the Got it? I'll turn to the others.
It sounds like the there's cobalts and goblins fighting
back there. I think we should just move on
and like, avoid the situation. Yeah, it sounds like they have
it handled. Yeah, if we happen to run across
whatever this, like, divination thing is, we can stop then.
But yeah, we'll. I'll continue zooming forward.
Oh, we definitely want the well worn path to.
Before we before I continue I I turn to one of you guys can one
of you guys like bubble this guy real quick as we go we'll just
clean up bubble he's probably hungry Let's OK let's.
And then we'll feed him. And then?
Worry about feeding the squid will be fine, yeah?
Really like flying? This is really fun.
Like I'm a bird. I kind of like perk up while
still holding on, like, Yep, it's pretty great.
I like it. Let me know when I encounter
something I need to roll. Yeah, you're you're continuing
on around the curve and it's almost wrapping back up north on
the main path now. You can kind of sense because
that sound that you were starting to go away from, you
started to come back towards and cat.
You notice the aura almost directly to your guys's right
now instead of as it were to your more like northwestern
direction. Now it's more to your southwest
eastern direction. I'm going to say this.
I'm going to say this to Raros, then like, hey, it's on that.
Aura's on the other side of us now.
What's happening? Oh, we went around like a big
bend in like the wall. Did I see any openings or doors
or anything that might suggest like a way in?
Not from the direction you took. Nope.
OK. Was this a little side passage
down here? Down here?
Yeah. Yep, yeah, you did notice 2 cat.
Another aura, very similar to the first in the direction
direct South of you, but as you'd kind of made it up back
around the bend, they kind of merged into one again as that
you went off farther in the distance.
Also, there are two auras, but they are close together.
Here, let's Let's float over to this one and then listen again
and see if we can hear anything in here before we start to very
slowly sneak forward. Or should we just keep going?
Massively just pets you. You can tell there is almost
utmost silence from this direction other than anything.
Some bubbling lava maybe? Oh, OK, What do you guys want to
do? Should we just, like zoom
through this whole place like we had said, or stop to investigate
some of these safer areas? Safety is, yeah.
I mean, I guess, keep zooming, keep buying.
Let's keep zooming. Zoom, zoom.
Let me see if. As you got to the next
intersection back here, although you could see those guys off in
the distance as you got to it, it's just waiting.
Thematically here You you made it to another intersection.
You see the goblins in front of you formed up, and they aren't
moving off in the distance from you and they have not noticed
you by any means yet with your bubble of darkness.
They're standing there ready to fight.
Almost looks like a rear guard. Maybe because they're they're
holding, holding, holding it together without, you know,
fighting anything. Or maybe just, you know, another
flank of the whatever contingent because you hear battle.
But you these people are obviously not battling.
They are ready to fight, and you hear off in the direction where
they're standing. More fighting that's starting,
especially with a horn of battle.
It's it seems like, and in the direction this, the narrower
direction to your left. You you hear thundering on the
stones, various forms of feet. Largely I have.
Is is Shondar's like? Is Shondar being set upon by
goblins and his cobalt are like defending his island here inside
this cave? I feel like the.
I don't believe that Shondar, like goblins, hold a candle to
Shondar, right? Like I think of Shondar.
And goblins don't know that goblins have like, that small
dog energy where they're just like, going to fight everyone.
Yeah, but wouldn't he have? Just like, probably.
Probably. I mean, unless they're too hard
to catch. If this whole mountain is just
riddled with these tiny little holes and Shondar is a big
dragon, the only thing he can do is send his cobalt, then be.
Sure. So wait, so do we have a clear?
Power, I turn to that. I'll whisper to them.
No, there's there's like a group of armed goblins straight ahead.
They haven't noticed us. To our left is a small side
path. Kind of gauge this space.
How tall are these ceilings? Not very.
You're talking maybe 10 feet high at AT, but it's very it's,
it's. Very fly.
Fly over. Them it's very varying, those
that's at the Max point, there's like stalactites and such over.
Maybe we should go down the side path or down?
Where we got lava? Coming from.
Where is the. North towards the goblins.
The options are I either fly over them at 320 feet and
hopefully nobody notices that their vision just goes dark for
a second, or we take this side path and hope that it reconnects
back up now. The thought path makes me
unhappy. I also have Guardian of Faith we
could use to destroy. Zoom over them and then see if
we need to use Guardian of Faith or if you need to throw that out
there. Yeah, if we have to.
Right. And then we just keep zooming.
They won't see us, They'll just like, notice something.
'S working I'll I'll zoom over them then as quickly as possible
I'll just go the the main path far as I can for 320 feet and I
will let you know if I if it seems like we get noticed.
Obviously they'll start making noise, but.
So. Right.
Ready, 123. I don't know how long 320 feet
is. Hold on.
We were here. How do I do this?
It's like AQ. Oh, Q Whoa.
Whoa, wow. This is a winding pass, isn't
it? Jesus.
So that's 235. Yeah, I think you're good, but
as. Or I'll stop.
I'll stop like here. As soon as like I I get towards
the end of my rope and I don't see anybody, then I'll be like
and then like pause midair and be like wait 6 seconds so I can
do it again. As you're zooming, you pass.
Let me just do this real quick here.
Yeah. This would have been a big
fight, a big swag. We'll see if it still isn't.
Come on, do the thing. I mean, the real pro strata is
you guys get into the plate and one person zooms forward.
I was just thinking of that. I was like, if there had been
other people, we could have just been like, OK, everybody go
through the plate and then it could have just been like.
Oh shit, you wait on the shift, OK?
It was like I didn't mean to quite roll that many, but it
worked out because I did mean to roll that many, but I just wish
I would have counted better at first.
Uh oh, just go fast. The answer to life.
Just run away from your problems.
As fast as you can. Mama said run, so I ran.
Just keep running. This is such a good combo.
All we really need now is pass without trace.
Yes. What are you guys doing?
We're the stealth combo. We just fly in turtle darkness.
We're a shadow in the night. I'm the Batman.
Just a. Cat and a chicken and a trench
coat. A cat, a halfling and a chicken.
I'll fly through a cave. In a trench coat, one on top of
the other. It would that.
'D be a great, like, Halloween costume.
They definitely what? I don't like the sound of that.
Doesn't work with this you you'll see it's it's not bad.
It's so dark. I don't think I will.
Everything's black. Everything is dark now.
Everything is cool when you're part of a team.
Yeah. Come on.
We should have taken that that eel skin out or the the tentacle
skin outs to well, I don't know if it neutralize our magic.
Send him mine. Leave it in the bag.
All right, I think I figured it out now.
Proud of you? I guess we could.
I wanted to make some handcuffs made out of it.
Oh, that would be good. I'm guessing yeah, a 12 does not
hit but anyone. But does a A 22 hit anyone?
Yes. Yeah.
As you're flying over top and
out of startle, being startled more than anything there.
Are oh pause. Did they roll at disadvantage
because of darkness? Yeah, that's.
Damn. Oh.
And. Then.
Darkness. It matters.
There was I'll I'll describe better after the fact.
It's going to be a trace encounter as, as opposed to what
it could have been. I just wanted to compute and
it's taking a bit here. That's OK.
Take your time. I imagine you thought this whole
thing would be a a dungeon slog. I literally don't see anything
anymore before I go. Into a.
Session. Yep, Yep.
I just put stuff in the way and let's and see what happens I.
Think. Are they going to talk?
Are they not going to find this? Yep, exactly.
So as you're flying over top, you notice a good, maybe 20
goblins that you fly over top of and them out of being startled.
More than anything there are two magic a couple magic users
hidden behind the lines that fire off a few fire bolts in
your guys directions. That's where I was saying that
you guys could see what was happening there Mimi.
And as as Raul's flying over top of them you you see from behind
you a light coming to the sky because you you specifically
probably Mimi more than Raul even because of the light coming
from behind you and he's paying attention to in front of him And
you go oh crap and it just splat one of a couple of them splash
into the walls before 1 finally just sizzles right into both of
kind of like right across your back where else and so kind of
hitting everyone for three. Oh damn.
And you just clear the cobalt line, it looks like who's
holding, holding the goblins back and you make it around the
corner and land where you're landed, not making the full
distance either that you're kind of like expecting with the
splash of fire. But you see that the Cobalts
didn't quite react to your passing, but the the IT was you.
You're wondering maybe if you were just caught in the cross
line of fire more than they'd actually noticed you.
Yeah, shit. Put my foot out.
Shit.
Is he ablaze right now? Are we ablaze right now?
I mean, I assume we're ruling for damage.
I don't think Fireballt normally starts things on fire in or.
It like says that in the spell specifically if it does, but.
Well, if we are ablaze, I don't know, I'll have a can trip that.
I'll cast control flame and extinguish any flames that are
around us. Or that's.
Never mind. I was on fire.
Yeah. I feel like me is going to try
really hard to like pat it out. Yeah, it's probably.
On fire pretty well singed. Yeah, smoldering.
Sizzling. No, I don't want to be wet
water. And put it out if you want.
We have so many ways to deal with this.
We are ready. We are ready to be set on fire
for some reason. All right, I'll sit there for
six seconds. While you're doing that, around
the bend comes another cobalt team almost looks like
reinforcements and the cobalt teams has a Drake and a Drake
rider that pressed the turn first and stop and stare in your
direction and make. Some dark ass.
Yeah, and make some angry calls back to the troops behind them
and it before it starts doing anything you hear the cobalt on
in common. On top of it, respond Fender
full. Uh oh.
Friend of Who's the Dragon? Jondar.
Chandar, friend of Chandar. We have business arrangements.
Oh yeah, weird. We're salesman from the Queen.
Dad. Not sure what that means
exactly. But you know, that's fine.
Ambassadors from the Queen. Ambassadors, That's a better.
Yeah, I like that more. That's a good one.
Rural and as the lights kind of dimming from the fire around the
rest of you guys, it's going back in the darkness and you're
standing in magical darkness. So I guess the the the flames
wouldn't even actually have illuminated you guys for very
long. Anyhow, they're standing.
The Drake that you see rural with the cobalt on top of it, he
just goes, yeah you're in the middle of combat and I hope you
know just around the corner on the other way there is yeah
there's a fight arriving battle we're.
We're yeah, we flew over it. The Yeah, you just keep going
along this. Path.
How do we get? To the bracket.
Not too far now. Cool.
Sweet. Would you mind moving out the
way so I can bring the troops through or?
Yeah, I mean, we can just go right over you.
I just had to pause here for like 6 seconds.
So that gets zip forward again really fast.
So like. Scratching his head and and his
head's almost touching the ceiling on top of the Drake.
Oh, here. We promise we will not.
We will not hurt you if you do not hurt us.
But we're going to just you just hold very still and I will zip
right past. He can't.
He can't see you. He can see just the darkness
that's engulfing that portion of the hallway and the bagoc now
that he heard and he's still just scratching his head.
And if you could roll a persuasion for me, I guess.
I have +3. Let's go 22.
Goes how about we just back up a second tier and?
That's fine too. Yeah.
Like, whatever. Whatever makes sense for you.
Just a little bit around the corner and you can you can, you
can go past us after we back it up here.
I got a real quick question, just like really quick question.
It's got this whole. I gotta.
I gotta.
Yeah, it's about your whole pipe, your whole, your whole
thing. Is that like you guys are
fighting the goblins for Shondar?
Was that the whole question? Yeah.
That was one of them, yeah. Number one.
OK, #2 Do you think Shondar would like like it if we just,
like, killed them all? Oh, he would love that.
These goblins have been festered in this hold for a while and he
kind of had to come and kick them out more or less, but
they're they're burrowed deep well.
Maybe we should help out then. And earn.
Strandar's good grace. #3 do you have grenades or like bombs or
like we have these jars that kind of hold the Dragon's
breath. So like if if we could like
really quickly get some of that we could like fly in and like
drop them on their like holds and like really just burn them
out. Because we, I don't.
You can't see us right now anyway.
We're floating in midair. We can fly and this is darkness.
And so we could just fly in and like these on people and just
like 'cause mass chaos. What do you think?
What do you guys? Think 'cause mass chaos.
That's kind of our thing, yeah. Last time we got charged 10,000
gold, but this time hopefully it will be better because it will
do it on purpose. I don't get paid enough to think
here, I'm just going to back up. OK.
We'll go talk to Shondar and make that deal with him.
As part of the deal, I look to the others and nod, right?
I mean, we could kill these guys before we talk to Shondar and
then just like, show up at his door and be like, yeah, we
totally helped you, but now you have.
To I'm I'm just thinking if we use the.
I mean, cause Kat has 'cause you don't have, yeah, we could use
them. Or like Cat has Fireball and I
have things I can I have like guiding Bolt that I can cast
with the 6th level now. I'm just thinking if we could
get one of those, like one of these magical jars filled up
with like the Dragon's breath and drop like fly as fast as
possible to their den and drop it there, do a lot more damage.
Oh yeah, if we go talk to Shandar, I feel like, hey, give
us some of your. Breath.
That's like a like a trade negotiation, I think, right?
A good way to. Get Dragon's Breath in the jars.
I like that. OK, Yeah.
What do you think? Yeah.
All right. You back up will go through,
talk to Shandar, and then hopefully we'll just kill them
all for you. Back up.
We do want their corpses though. They've already backed up.
OK. Well, I just zip forward out of
320 feet. Hold on.
Following the main path, you see they backed up into very small,
narrow to the point where you can barely see around them,
except for when there there's a couple of them only standing in
the opening of of the second one, a chamber that is
glistening with gold. Oh, the goblins are close.
They're close to the horde. Oh, wow.
That. Yeah, that's a good piece of
knowledge to know. That's a really shiny room, I
continue. And as you get to the end, how?
Is it not all milk? Oh yeah, tons.
Is there any all varying shades? Did I detect any magic with that
gold? Wow.
Yeah, Nope. Our 2% will get us more gold
than we can take away it from here in our arms.
Yes, this is true. Where did they go?
We've got so much stuff. We've got food for Shondar.
We got murdering his enemies for Shondar.
We got nudies for Shondar. We've.
Got. Gold got a lot of gold, though.
Nude pictures. You get around the bend and the
glistening chamber and to the end end of your flight ability,
and you drop to the ground in darkness in front of two guards
that are standing in in front of a very reinforced door.
It looks like and as your sight flickers out at the same time
cat, you see the same silvery whitish glow from a small tiny.
You're guessing from that entrance of a almost looks like
a crawl space to anyone of normal height, but it could
easily be traversed by cat or me May probably back in that
direction to the right, but there the door is more to the
left and straight. With the the gate.
You're still standing, Yeah. You're still standing in
darkness because of the magical darkness of Raul and.
That lasts 10 minutes, so if if you're saying flight also ends,
then that would end about the same time thematically for beer
use. Perfect.
We just walked forward. We just dropped out of the.
Sky all of a sudden we're visible on.
The ground unexpected I know, but.
And there's a couple torches off to the other side of the door so
both Kat and me, they can see now as the darkness ends around
them and you're just still heading out into rural and
dropped to the ground. Oh yeah.
Is he just approaching and mommy's just on his back or me
May's on his back and I'm just clinging to his shoulder.
Yep, and they both. Look, do you want to get down?
Together. Yeah, that's totally cool.
Yeah. I mean, I've got tons of fur, so
it's probably very. Comfortable.
I just perk up and kind of like fluff up them over your shoulder
but still remain on your shoulder.
I bow both of the. Guards having been looking at
each other after you are there and they're brandishing their
weapons and they're like in in common, the one says.
At least kind of broken. You're not Goblin.
No. We are friends.
I look at myself. Oh my God, it's true.
I changed the miracle tonic. Worked.
No. We have been sent by the Queen
of Socrates to treat with the dragon.
I looked at them. What's his name again?
Chandar. Chandar, we have business
arrangements with him. We have gifts.
Many gifts we have. Wait, hold on.
We should probably get the goats at some point.
Let's talk to these guys first. We have many gifts for him.
We just want to announce ourselves, let him know we're
here. And yeah, do we have like a
letter or something of introduction from the Queen,
Right? Oh wait, yeah.
Did she give us one of those? I would hope so.
If, like she's writing this whole contract and business
arrangement, we probably got some sort of paperwork here.
I give them a thing of paperwork if we have it.
Mimei, you you know that the Queen has given you said
documents for for the trade agreements, yeah?
Yes, I remember paperwork. Thank you.
You're doing great. I'm.
Going to pull it out of my backpack and hand it.
To right hand the introduction letter over, Don't want to hold,
give them like the terms of the contracts and stuff, just the
introduction. They just look at each other
again and go. We can't read but.
No, that's for Shondar. Could you give that to him?
You could. Probably give it to him
yourself, but. Like, oh, I thought.
The Big gate Ferraro. What's yours?
We're just silent. Like, we don't have names.
Like, fuck, we didn't think we were going to get this question.
I nudge the others we got to make a good impression.
I just begok. I don't say my name or anything
like that. I just begok.
I'm not playing. It's cool.
Yo. I mean that's just.
Gonna be easy to say when I just.
Come in there and. Say rumble is this 1-2 syllables
I can't count. This is next.
This is this is next. I I'm next.
I will. I'll I'll open the door and let
the let the let the attendant know on the other side who's
who's come. Maybe they know something about
it. Anyways, he just like opens the
door crack and kind of whispers through and closes the door
again and it kind of seals with a not a not just the chunk of
the door and the the latching mechanism, but you can see
almost visibly a force over top of the the the thing and he goes
it might take a second before there's some some movement on
the other side. Sure, we have goats to get
anywhere, so no worries. Give us like 1520 thirty
minutes. We'll be ready shortly because
we have to get some things to for Shandaar.
The gifts it's going to, No. Meimei's going to tap, Yeah,
Meimei's going to tap. He's going to be thrilled, Yeah.
Do you guys? Take tips Chandar hasn't eaten.
Any. I mean, there's a ton of gold in
the hall but there. But I don't know like do you
want a tip? We could tip these guys.
Both of their eyes grow very large at the mention of gold.
Don't know what tips are, says Vex.
But I guess I take it. It's basically just us giving
you money so that you like us. I I like this idea.
Why have we not started this? Yes.
It's also called the bribe. I have not heard that word
either, but OK. Off we go.
What do you guys want? Is like 5 gold a lot to you guys
10 gold? Ross just has no.
Concept of money, but would you like?
It I like. That that's not a lot.
You want five of these? I can't eat it.
It's useless to me. This whole bag, you know, it's
really heavy. I like.
That we look between each other, trying to keep a cool, calm
face. I'm tired.
Of carrying it do you want? To what's a good number?
And Vex chimes and he seems to have taken the lead from next
and says what do you say to 100? 100 gold, that's.
Oh. NO33 gold Oh no.
My mirror is. Going to be like, oh, I mean I
have 5 fingers on my hand, three seems like a small number.
Some things only have three fingers on their hand, really.
What creatures of this? Wait, you don't have hands?
Oh my God. I just hold up my little foot.
Oh, do you have three toes? That makes sense.
I give each of them 10 gold. They they both hold out their
hands like because they're then gold in their hands looks almost
like a pile and they're just staring at each other, grinning
and hurriedly shove it wherever they can on their person.
And you remember who gave that to you?
And go. You can go in whenever you like,
but it might take a second for the the on the other side.
Yep, you're good. We have to go get goats anyway.
So, like, hold tight, turn to the others.
Think your guns. All right, let's spin up the
plate. I have a + 6 performance.
Do you want me to do it? Yes.
Roll natural, Punchy. Oh yeah.
I do it on the end of my tail. That hands you the plate.
You you do that move where you take it to the tip of your
fingers, up to the other side of your hand and then back to
across your shoulders and then down your tail, and it starts
spinning. This is fun.
Are the guards impressed? And they just start clapping
like real impressed. Like they just they were.
They were already very, very happy after having gotten paid,
which they don't usually get you, you remember, at least
specifically to from Gulver. Yeah, say watch.
They're gonna get beat up now, 'cause they're gonna brag about
it. Tell anyone about that.
What? Why?
I mean, if you found out that another guy that you didn't like
had gotten all of this gold, what would you do?
I'd take it. Do you think that that might
happen to you? Oh, you got a point there.
Hindsight, it's 2020. I don't.
No, you only gave us 10. Do you want to give us 10 more?
20 total. Where did I hear that phrase
from? Maybe maybe for next time.
Maybe next time, yeah, go through the plate and start
bringing in the goats. Yes we can, standing there with
the goats ready to go. Yeah, we'll see, Yeah.
I will wait on the outside of the gate.
You hear a dune chime softly through it in your mind.
Still. Of course.
Is everything going all right, sweetie?
It's a little bit chaotic up here, but so far everything's
fine. Don't worry, I'll come back to
you soon. Oh, that is 1 fat looking goat.
We're just gonna fill this hallway with goats.
We do that. Maybe you put like a fence up at
the back so they don't get out that way.
Yeah, that's I. Don't know, goats are pretty
uncontrollable. I.
Guess me, May is going to go stand back towards the back so
that the goats don't get out. All right, So I'm going to stand
at the end of the hallway here so that from here forward, goats
cannot. String of rural sins?
Just begin pulling goats out of the portal.
This would be great for getting groceries.
Everybody gets a goat. Guys, this strategy works so
well you get a. Goat.
Chandler's going to want these plates.
Yeah, absolutely. We put them away after we get
them. No, Shondar can't know that we
have these plates. Yeah, Shondar can't.
Yeah, start filling out the goats.
And as the rest of the birds come through, we'll just say
these because I do not have all the rest of the evening to
populate goats on a map. I if they were real, that would
be a whole nother story, 'cause I really want some goats.
I was looking into some free goats.
Are you sure? I haven't found any yet.
You have to go to an auction. I can.
Are they? Yeah, be careful with goats.
I love goats and I want goats. Yeah, but goats are terrorists.
They're very, they're very wily. Yeah, that's, that's the thing.
Yeah, they're the horses which. Yeah.
Cheap or very tame? Yeah, I guess that's a good
point. But yes, the the the sad thing
about. Like sheep.
The sad thing about sheep is, though, that they'll get caught
in like, Bramble right goats. Or just die a toddler.
Oh. It's the circle of line.
One of those like types of herd animals that like, like when
they're when they're getting eaten as a sheep.
They're one of those herd animals that I I believe
anyways, that usually don't make that much noise because they
know that they're like keeping the rest of the herd safe by
dying. Oh, that's.
Bad Yeah ring is kamikaze sheep. Oh, sacrificial lambs.
Wow all. Right, so we have all the goats
up here. Now that we've heard that sad
story, let's go feed them to a dragon.
Just walk in and introduce each individual goat to.
Found our this is. Fred, this is Daphne.
This is Velma. We can.
Get. Personal Oh, for you.
We also have the gold, so we should have some people carrying
the chest of gold too. Oh yeah.
And the sushi, I mean the Royal Olsons, the the brothers can
start bringing stuff. They can hold some platters and
we trust with that test we're. Strapping stuff to goats.
Yeah, yeah. We're Oh, yeah.
The goats just bearing their weight in gold.
We brought you gold and on it food or it on food, I don't
know, edibles. Serving gold.
All right, we. Hold.
Should we wait a second until the other guy comes back?
We should be like, proper, properly announced as the Rum
Rollers, right? On the other side, hurrying up,
I think Sean is not even in here it.
Doesn't look like. Yo, it's Sean.
Has to make a grand entrance. Looks like a small, more
lavishly dressed cobalt, if he will.
It may be more like also too, like theatrically.
And he runs up to you through the goats.
He's kind of like pokes his head up through the the herd of them
and he goes, oh, and he like squeezes through them and gets
up to you guys and goes Rob rollers, right?
And he goes, oh, me, me, me, me. And out through the chamber you
hear a couple echoing sounds, a couple echoing sounds of this,
of the of the of of the same. And they start singing, singing
like a song dedicated to the idea of room rulers and that
they're here. And it's echoing through the
chamber. And there there are
descriptions. Somehow they've managed to get
like details somehow from you got your guys's passage through
Tara and and sore Kurtis and such, and you you recognize some
of the deeds you've done in the past, sung throughout the
chamber. I have a gawking question.
That's weird. Oh, let's find out.
Shit. Dark and terrible.
Have we been good boys? Beautiful and pretty.
Like, do we enjoy listening to it or is it, like, dissonant?
Yeah, I mean, like, with all the good intentions, just like,
really. More delivery, right?
Like they tried their band this. They were just real shit.
At. At the musical arts.
Yeah, you catch a lot of like they could.
They didn't account for how much of an echo the chamber has, or
singing on top of each other on several occasions and saying the
same thing over and over again. And yeah, it's very poorly
planned. And not, not, not a good
situation at all. Not been planned.
At all. But it's good.
Don't offend anyone, just smile and nod.
Harmonious. All right.
Can't, Like taps his feet unhappily.
That was really bad. It's fine.
It's fine, You know? It's fine.
You know, it's fine. Yeah, they seem like they're
happy to see us. All right, let's trudge in with
our goats. We're we're doing good guys.
And he goes, just proceed down, down across this hardened river
of lava and to the entry chamber down down below.
And yes, Oh no, Shonda will be with you.
Post haste. Just wait right there.
Any points? So this isn't a trap.
Just to the left oven and the echoes are still dying down as
you guys form up there. Awesome.
Thanks. At the edge of the what looks
like a or rather just across it a a river of water and a river
of lava that combines to make a bridge, and then they separate
again and make almost a Moat around an island that sits in
the situated in the center of this chamber.
It has style. This place must be expensive, I
mean. We are in a volcano.
Burleson takes out a sandwich and eats it tuna tuna salad.
There's there's quite a lot of bats echoing as the song dies
down, so. Is this is this Chamber just
like, flooded with goats right now?
Yeah. So with all the bats.
Like the the. That's pretty.
Loud. Bats seem to have it as somebody
comes brushing a plume off the top of their that they they're
carrying in their hands. It's a hat that there's a plume
on top of, and then they put it on their head as they're just
coming around the corner and they spread their arms wide and
say welcome, welcome. I assume the rum rollers which
have just been announced and he looks around at all the goats.
Are you the goats or the people? He says with his hand to his
chin. Wait, Hi, Hi.
Like, we're here, right here. Andar.
Indeed, welcome. He's going to give some fingers
and he's like very flamboyantly dressed.
From rollers present. I looked at the others.
John. Does he look like a dragon?
No, it looks very much like a human in front of you.
Wait Chandar with pale skin Chandar.
Blazing red eyes though, and just otherwise normal looking
though brown hair only like 5 foot six.
And he's. Really like the look?
Mimi with like child like abandonment is just gonna like.
This person, I keep those away for times when they're needed,
you know, you gotta keep the crowds waiting and the people
guessing. I assume that you're here,
though, for the for the talent show, he says.
He puts his hands on his hips and he thrusts his chips out.
Very. Very good point.
Yes, yes, of course. That's why people are showing
up. Well, I guess.
Or people aren't showing up. I was waiting for someone.
He starts to think. I guess it may.
Maybe the goblins are more trouble than they than I
thought. Maybe I should go do something
about those. Oh, well, the Cobalts have it
handled right. Right.
Theatres. And you hear?
Yes, Sir. From off on the distance.
Well, you didn't see anyone on our way in besides the horde of
goblins attacking. Huh.
How odd. Yeah, heard a swore, I said on
the third moon of Igtras. That would be tomorrow night.
I assumed you might be just, you know, an early arrival and the
rest were going to be, you know, fashionably late.
No, I like to the other. It's a little unsure now.
Should we? Yeah.
Are you hungry? And he over definitely overheard
I'm gladly. Made sushi, I'm going to say
very quietly. I'll be like I'm glad.
You brought food. Oh, what wonderful guests you
are it. It'll go great for the show, I
think. Yeah, look.
Can I tell if he's being honest? Yeah, that's a show without.
Like the Is there really a talent show going on?
Or is this like, is this guy loopy?
Is this Shondar? There's some rando who's just
like, yeah, talent show, I'm in a Dragon's cave, totally
everything's fine. You're pretty sure he's he's,
he's, he's being truthful. He seems earnest and and such,
although very, you might say, off kilter only because he's not
what you expected. I mean, yes.
Luck to you, You're questioning there.
I'm gonna ask more about the talent show.
So. So there's supposed to be a
talent show and you send out invitations?
Oh, there it is. And he goes, Yes, Sir, you send
out those invitations. That might be the other problem
then. Cobalts aren't very the best
laggies, but I think I at least got one response.
I think it was Pop Tart. He said he was going to make an
appearance at some point and he starts to rub his chin, look up
at the ceiling, although that I I do remember him from when we
were in the spiralling woods together as a neighbor, and he
was quite quite a wily then too. Pop Break.
Pop Tarts. We actually were sent here by
the Queen of Socrates, but we might be interested in your
talent show. He freezes and you wonder if
that's even a person anymore that you're looking at for a
second, because he hasn't. He doesn't even breathe after
you mentioned the Queen of Socrates.
And then he just turns his head slowly towards you.
Have a look. Some good movies to the race.
Yeah, Yeah, we have a letter for you.
Yeah. For pull that out, we have a
letter of introduction. We don't.
We. Have paperwork, does he look?
And then depending on how that goes, we can go further.
Are you reviewing? We we have food.
We yes. And gold.
We have gold. A gift for you of our great
respect, 'cause we like you. We we heard the great things.
Don't. Forget there's.
Goats, Yeah, Yeah, Goats. Good.
And he's he's still standing there UN unmoving, and his eyes
start to almost bulge out of his head and he extends his hand and
he just says one word, almost like chokedly.
What was the word what? Was that the I I didn't hear oh
letter Oh yes sure. Here here you go.
Can I insight Chuck that Is that is that a choke of anger or a
choke of anger or a choke of like was like longing.
They're like, I don't know if you guys have better insight,
but I only have a + 0. OK.
So N or like, yeah, surprise. Rural's not insightful.
Oh my. God, you're so much.
Better. 16 Yeah, I'm going to roll some insight.
I guess I'll roll just to see. Plus 10.
God damn. It 13.
I rolled A4. All of you are so put off from
his reactions to things currently that you couldn't tell
with 100%. Certainly each one of you almost
have your own suspicion of what he means by.
What are we thinking? I don't know.
What are you thinking? You can tell me that much.
I don't have to tell you what you're thinking.
I I, I I think he's like morbidly excited.
I think he's terrified right now.
He's like, oh fuck the Queen, Like, not in like a bad way, but
in like a oh, this is the girl I like and the girl I like talking
to me like fuck, what do I do? She noticed me.
Oh God. I think he's afraid of the
Queen. She spanked him one too hard one
night. Yeah, stole his first born or
something. So you put the letter in his
head there, rural, that Mimi had given you, I guess.
Or actually, I didn't. I didn't.
OK, Yeah, I didn't. Know whoever's got it?
Yeah. I think she pulled the documents
out and gave me like the set of documents she had, right?
Yeah. Yes.
And you set it in his because he's got his hand flat out,
almost as if he was just being super awkward.
And you set it straight down, flat on his hand and he stares
at it for a second before you lean back.
You see him swallow deeply and breathe in and then he takes
the, takes it in both hands and kind of turns his back and
starts reading he. Doesn't want us to watch this
intimate moment. As he turns his back, I pull the
nudie out and like, show it to the others and like, shrug.
Should we hold on this one? I mean, it's going to whisper
like like wait, wait for the wait for the right moment.
It might be a little too much, right?
Now, yeah, overwhelm him just a little bit.
Yeah, especially because we don't know if he's mad or like
happy or upset, right? Because he's pissed.
That nudie is not going to help. But if he's like, oh fuck, she's
talking to me like the nudie will be well received.
And he he kind of, as your guys are watching him, guessing
intently with the other. Otherwise, there's not much
other noise in the chamber besides meh meh meh.
Just silence and then go back. This is why I love goats.
And then you see him, his his tense posture, kind of relax a
second and then exhales and then turns back around and he goes,
ah, so you're not here for the talent show.
It seems like you're here to make a deal.
Right, you are. But I never turned down a good
talent show. And he, I mean we are here
right? And he takes, takes the the
papers and puts them under his arms and claps and says
excellent, well we can deal with that after the talent show then.
I mean I am glad that she's talking to me again.
I was quite concerned after our last exchange did.
The Queen? No, I'm sure none of us read it.
I don't know. Do we even know what the letter
is? That's been.
In my backpack. So Yep, no, I'm just assumed
like I assume the. Queen knew what she.
Was I was? Gonna say I don't remember
reading it and I'm like, was it sealed?
Were we supposed to read it too late now?
Well, I'm I'm sure if that's the case then I'm guessing the goats
are part of your ACT or? No, Yes, we're gonna.
Stack them. I just magawk the goats.
Yeah, trapeze goats. Oh, sounds excellent.
Maybe he's just going to like, not.
Going to look panically over it your.
Thumbs up like, yeah. We can do this.
We're going. Ralston, you're a cat.
You're like the best at balance. We got this so we could totally
stack out if you. Yeah, I You can do it.
I've seen you. You're so good at keeping things
up. Yeah, that's, yeah, he nods.
Yeah, sure. Yes, completely.
Maybe that'll be. The Yeah, definitely won't be or
attempted to knock over the stack of goats.
It's fine. Knocking over stacked goats.
And then he pulls out a pad from his back pocket and he goes
rollers. So is that going to be the only
act or are you 3 separate acts or?
All right. We work together.
All right, Rum rollers, goats. Not sure what that's going to be
like, but we'll find out. And he folds the thing back over
and puts it in his back pocket. And he goes.
In the meantime, I'm going to be preparing myself for my ACT as
well. It's a surprise.
Cannot, cannot tell you that, unfortunately.
And yeah, besides the Cobalts, the there's going to be some
guest judges that should make an appearance by tomorrow.
If you want to make yourselves ready for the performance, you
can head that just around backstage, there on the other
side of the wall. Oh, I look at the others.
Didn't, didn't, didn't, Didn't he just say that he doesn't know
that he invited that he? And look at the others.
I'm pretty sure that guy said he forgot to send out the
invitation. Yeah, I think, he said.
That if you say. Imagine like one his choice.
No worries, I have some. By now, like maybe maybe.
We should I can. I can contact the.
At least one goat who's been lost to lava at this point,
right? Like I.
Can get the goat right. To the lava, right?
Like. So lead them to safety.
Oh, that's right. So yeah, we're gonna go behind
the wall to where he indicated. Where was it going?
They're going down either way. I mean, should we put them back
on the Aduna until we're ready? We don't want to use the plate
in front of Shondar, so that's. Right, and while you're doing
that, he goes, oh dropped goat and he he sprouts some wings and
flies over to the lava and starts sitting in it and eating
the goat. Just freshly cooked, freshly
cooked. Hey.
Beside the question, how are your allies, like the people for
the talent show, supposed to get here through the giant swarm of
fighting goblins and cobalt? Because that was going to be
part of our offer to you. Wonderful point, he says.
Well, he rips a piece off of the goat and wow and he goes, I'll
tell them to use the and he points direct directly up up
entrance. Oh my God.
Look up way high and you see some of the light that's
filtering in from maybe 1000 feet close to anyways feet above
you. Why didn't the Co-op tell us
about that entrance? That, yeah.
If you ask the Cobalts, it's because they can't use that one.
They just die. Oh, because they fall and die,
yeah. That would deter me from using
that entrance. Yeah, we could fly though, so
that's good for us in the future, I guess.
Excellent. I I would hope so.
At least if you got like 20 goats.
Well, 19 goats. Yeah, yeah, that's how we got
them. Yeah, we had to bearing all the
goats. We did it.
We did. It was hard work, but we did it.
And I just start trying to, like, chivvy them behind the
wall as much as they'll listen to a chicken.
One of them kicks you. I jump up on its head and just
like land on his horns and start flapping just to try to get it
to move forward. Sounds right.
Oh, there is a goat stat block. Here we go.
They only have a ram. Oh, that'll be close enough.
Thanks. Yeah, it's a natural fucking 20.
From him kicking me or trying to get me off of his horns.
We'll say he missed the kick and got you with his horns just
because that was the It's going to be the easiest year, too,
because, oh Jesus, See, that's eight damage.
He like gores you across the side with its horns.
I begawk in anger. We're gonna spin the plate.
Try to. Get some of the goats, those are
some feisty goats you got there, he says.
Well, you're herding them behind the wall and the rips off the
leg. Well, I mean, how are we gonna
explain? That the goats.
Disappeared. That's fair.
So what you guys doing behind the wall?
Hide. That's.
Fair. That's that's accurate too.
Yep, send this cobalt away. He doesn't need to see the plate
either. Does cat say that out loud to
the cobalt or? Magic all.
Right. We could just.
Just keeping them in a safe place until our entertainment
begins. Ourselves goes, even though he
seems like a pretty friendly guy.
Yeah. I was not expecting the.
We have an internal adult house go hindsight, so we're waiting
on business until after the show.
Correct call. Yeah, yeah, he's feeling pretty
happy to get that letter. Wish we knew what it said.
Stop it in. Our handouts.
No. But I don't think.
It was a private message, she. Gave us the.
It was. It was definitely one of those
things that was just filed away and never looked at again and so
I've never felt the need to make a handout.
Like, Yep, we have this and then as far as we went with.
It We're supposed guys and good guys don't spy on those private
mess. I mean, maybe.
Just. I don't know.
But she did tell us to bring something back, right?
We do like, have jars to bring back the the dragon breath we're
ringing back like benefits her. It was a business plan, wasn't
it? I mean, like, what if what if
Queen Shondar just sold us out? What if where's it?
Goats. Transaction, yeah.
Maybe. Like, she just sent us away to,
like, get back into Shondar's good graces and we're just a
snack, 'cause she doesn't care about us.
It should, She said. It would too late to roll an
inside check. An inside check.
On we have a sign. The.
Queen. Yeah, a little bit.
I mean, you do guys. You.
Guys, far away have you? Guys would probably have like
some documentation on the contract of your own too, like
of it with you. And that would probably still be
with MIME as well, because and it's.
A little late for that. Mime was doing the negotiating,
but yeah, if you want to read through the contract, it's very
contract language and has a lot to do with the.
I just want to make sure we're not being sold as snacks to
Shondarth. I think we just have to, like,
put our faith in the Queens. That's all I'm worried about.
So you want to insight check the contract.
Papers that it is in the. Purple exchange?
It is signed. Is this the copy of the one that
is currently with the Queen? I mean, like doesn't seem on the
up and up like how she explained it.
It doesn't seem like there's any underhandedness going on.
Does the contract make sense to me?
Face value? No.
Things we should have contract, I've read.
Yeah, I think he would. Have had this value actually
like. Very magic lawyer, but very.
I think we're gonna be OK. I think we just need to figure
out what the fuck we're doing in this.
She chill. Yeah, she did.
Yep, Pretty chill. Yes, I have to stack goats.
You know, these things change the last minute we've.
Shot ourselves like a Dragon's teen or snack.
Because if we have, I guess we. Have a talent, A secret hidden
talent that we are not aware of yet.
Don't. We have a Bard.
Can't we, like, do a song and a dance?
Can we enchant the goats to dance the royal sins?
Play a song. Stacking goats.
A stacking goats. Do we have anything?
Do we have a sticky substance that would let us stick goats to
each other? Perfect.
I'm sorry. Oh.
I'm a rose, not a bird. Unless you're tired one of our
but I do have a plus performance.
No, that's true. I but I could have never because
I'm not a Bard so I couldn't have done the start with, but I
rolled, so nothing changed. Yeah, I was going to say it's a
good thing you didn't need that. Wow.
Oops. You were He was a Bard at one
point, so you're not hallucinating.
And then we also had NEP. +7 in Acrobatics it.
Was also a bust. And insight.
Wait, but I was going to say, didn't NEP leave to go on like
some drug expedition? He was the last time you guys
did see him. He was high as balls at the pink
plush pig. You have no idea where he went
after that, but. He's just never come back.
Magic if. Cat wants to use magic on me and
Raulson then because I'm like, I'm also not very strong, right?
So acrobatics is. High I have a + 9 in acrobatics.
Is something I can use just? But my strength is -4 so I don't
it depends on which. Of these stats.
We need. I only have a + 2 I.
Mean we were a team so we could do it together.
You have the bell that gives you an advantage for these, right?
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
And maybe we should make, like, a pyramid, like cheerleaders do.
Yeah, yeah, again. And I feel like we can also
change our talent. But I feel like the talent show
should be next session. I might throw that suggestion,
yeah. The animal handling, which we're
like, you're like holding, like keeping the goats be like, hey,
it's going to be OK that you're going to get.
Everything's going to be fine. You're going to enjoy yourself.
It's going to be a good time up here.
Mid of goats, mid of let's say I have far step.
I wonder if I could just teleport the goats into place.
Yes, that's what I was going to say too.
So we. Don't.
Need. Yeah.
So all who can be here should be be like, hey, we need to perform
a talent, everybody get together, what are we doing?
Yeah, and that that way too it it there is opportunity not only
for other people, but multiple opportunities for the room
rollers potentially too. I don't know.
That was more of my thought was when I was asking to ask my OK.
I'm gonna like, shove the plate back in because we never rolled
the plate right. Never opened it to to sum up to
I guess very well he comes he comes out of the lava dripping
and walks over over around the wall just like peaks it actually
he doesn't even peak. He just kind of like sticks his
mouth around the edge and you were kind of wondering how he
does just his mouth. But he he he's like, I don't
want to see the ACT before the before the stage of course.
But I did want to inquire if you needed anything while you were
here. It's going to be at least until
tomorrow that we, we we perform. I
Is there a place for us to rest? I could provide beds.
Would Do you mind, you know, All right.
Being presentable for me to walk around the wall.
All right. Is everything OK?
It's the point put away that we're good to go, right?
MMA is definitely gonna take one of the bottom beds.
And yeah, go over and I don't. Do we want food?
I guess we're probably still pretty full on coconut.
I don't know. I don't know how long ago that
was. He's like OK and he comes around
and out from the this the the stone, he goes, he he he starts
engraving some things it looks like into the stone actually and
just just past where you were all standing up by a stalagmite
and goes, I hope it's OK if they're bunk beds and he just
inscribes a square and then some runes inside of it and out from
the stone comes these plush. Double Decker beds that are
sitting next to the stalagmite over here.
Blush double Decker. Bed like a top.
I'll just sleep on a whatever corner of the bed that Mimi
sleeps on. Humanoid.
I'm gonna pull a cookie out of my bag and just start nibbling
on it and then ask if anybody else wants a cookie.
Do we still have like what, 20 of them?
Gondar wipes some of the goat off of his face and goes.
I could potentially see what we could wrestle up for you if
you're that famished and you guys have had been a few hours,
at least four, maybe, maybe more.
Honestly going through the chambers.
Yes, all righty good shit. And then?
OK, well I will see what I can rustle up and he goes back
around and he pets a couple of the goats on it.
A. Couple of the.
Goats on the head as he passes I.
Have a dog not freak out? No more than if any other human.
No, I did. Well, that made.
It we meant to drag, we're doing it.
They can't tell that's funny, I'll.
See. It it's good to get know that
goats have no magical sense, so. I'm real proud of us.
These these goats. Are there enchanted goats in
this world? I mean, there's an enchanted
chicken, so. This is true.
And squirrel. Yeah.
Oh yeah. And Squirrel, we got this.
Yeah, not expecting that. Yeah, I was gonna say so.
We're gonna eat whatever snacks the Dragon just keeps in his
pantry, and then we're gonna take a long rest.
Yeah, I'll let you know what they are next session.
I feel like it's a good lead in. Yeah.
Bitter patter. Yeah, yeah.
Yes. So we're doing it.
Get past the whole old dungeon. Yep.
We'll just get right to the end, Right to the end.
We did good this time, guys. Yeah, No, I hope you guys
combine and we skip over this shit.
And until you get to a dragon that wants you to do a talent
show. Like, damn.
OK, you got this. Yeah, I hope you like the twist.
Yeah. So how does one roll for a
talent show? All right, good night.
Have. A good one.
Yep. Good night.
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