Hello and welcome to episode two of Side Quests here on the
weekly scroll. My name is Ryan.
And I'm a mouse with nothing to lose.
And with us we have Nick, also known as Goblin Archives and
Matt, also known as Manna Dawn, Manna Ramp at Manna ramp.
Matt Manna, everything. Matt.
Matt Morris. How you doing today, everybody?
How? How we doing?
Doing good. Doing good.
Thanks for having me on that song.
Yeah, that's awesome. A fun thing for me, which is
great, everyone. But Hunter, who doesn't matter,
is West Coast. So it's really nice that we can
actually start at a reasonable time and then at a reasonable
time and everyone's not going to bed at midnight.
But yeah, well, again, you don't count side quests.
This is our second episode of a new show that we're going to do.
We're going to try to do like twice a month.
And basically what it is is a we're going to pick games that
we've reviewed and play them here on the show, either by the
creator or by a third party writer or by Josh.
D'mancy is going to be a really someone you'll see on here a lot
running games because he's an incredible GM and writer and
person in general, so he's going to be running a lot of stuff.
I'll occasionally do it, but basically the premise is that if
you watch your review and then you watch our one shot here,
which is going to be leaning into kind of teaching a little
bit, you'll have a really good understanding of the game and
hopefully you'll be able to play it.
So today I'm not even gonna say what we're doing.
Obviously we're doing Mouse Rider, but Matt, like what?
What? What is Mouse Rider and what are
we doing today? Yeah, absolutely.
So we are gonna be running Mouse Rider, which is beautiful game
by Isaac Williams. It is a hack of into the odd,
but then built on all sorts of fun stuff.
With that, some best practices to keep in mind when running
Mouse Rider and playing Mouse Rider first and foremost.
Ask a lot of questions, make notes, draw maps.
Work together. Devise schemes.
Recruit allies. Dice are dangerous.
You're going to find that out in this.
So when you have a clever plan, you don't need to roll the dice.
But if you're reckless and brave, you may have to roll the
dice. Play to win, but delight in
losing? That's that's a key thing.
And then fight dirty. Run, die and roll a new mouse.
Not be like. Prepared.
Or maybe you're going to roll a new mouse.
You probably will so be be ready there then.
Pretty simple system. There's going to be saves.
It's a D20 roll under and you got your decks, your strength
and your will. Advantages and disadvantages to
D 20s. Take the high take.
The low magic is a fun little system, so.
There's probably going to be magic that comes up tonight.
If you have a spell, you can choose to roll either 1-2 or 3D
sixes, and then depending on what the spell says, those dice
will determine it. But if you roll sixes, that's a
miscast and it deals massive damage back to yourself.
So be careful, Combat's going to be super easy.
There's no to hit roll, you're just going to roll straight
damage. And then there's resting
mechanics that we really don't need to get into because we're
just going to grind who Who needs rest?
But no, take your short rest so you can replenish your hip
protection. But yeah, so that's just kind of
a brief overview of of that rules reference sheet.
And yeah, we're going to jump into a wonderful adventure
tonight written by Brian Stauffer called Shattered Rain
and. Why don't you all introduce us
to our our brave and daring mice, adventurers, our meses?
All right, I am. My character is Fennel White.
I am a hedge witch, born under the star sign, which I think you
hear quite often. I am brave and reckless.
I have white fur. I am still figuring out my
weapon because I just woke up recently and the coffee is not
kicked in yet. But we'll get there and that is
me. And we can also Why don't we
kick next to my brother? So I am Wormwood white.
I am the brother of fennel. I also am born under the star
sign, and so I am brave and reckless.
I'm a beekeeper. I have a Gray fur and patched
clothing, and I wield a small spear made of the Stinger of one
of my bees. Oh yeah.
I'm brother's seed fall call back.
I am a mouse born under the star sign, which I'm sure you've
never heard before, so I'm brave and reckless.
I have tan fur that I've died with a like marbley black and
gold pattern because I'm just so angsty from escaping.
Being a test subject, I wheeled a kind of like scalpel with a
broken handle. So it's small enough for me to
wield that I stole during my escape, yeah?
Savage. Well, because you are all so
brave and reckless that wrote the back story for how this
adventure started the three of you have gotten into.
Some questionable activities for mice You've branched out from
your colony and you've began working for a spider, a large
tarantula, which by the name of Olyxia and Olyxia is.
She's looking for some pretty impressive magic items, and she
is willing to pay. You each 1500 pips, which in
Mouse Rider pips is the currency.
Depending on who you ask, it's just a gold plated seed or it's
an actual coin. I'll let you determine what it
looks like to you, but she's willing to pay you each 1500
pips to discover what is the cause of the ever storm.
The ever storm is as long as any mouse can remember.
The ever storm has been raging. Torrential downpours, stiff
winds, and the crackle of lightning and Thunder engulfed
the area around 1/2 buried abandoned power transformer.
Those few mice that have entered the storm have returned raving
about the living dead. A haunting specter made entirely
of lightning is rumored to be there, and the mad lightning
wizard who is behind it all. But lately the dead have grown
more bold and they have been attacking and dragging travelers
deep within the Transformer. Were they also?
Born under the star sign. Yeah, some of them were.
Others were born under the the sign of mother, which meant
they're nurturing. So I don't know what they were
doing over there, but they're not being too nurturing now.
All I'm saying is it sounds like star signs are September babies
because all these mouse mommies and daddies really get it all
during Christmas apparently. So got a whole batch, apparently
a generation and don't know what adventure happened prior, but
yeah. I love it so.
We'll pick right up. You guys are you guys are
trudging through. It was about a day's journey
from your colony to this to this beat down neighborhood, human
houses dilapidated. And there is one of those just
green transformer boxes, half buried in mud.
You can see it in the distance, but the clouds are just swarming
around. The rain is just crushing down,
lightning strikes everywhere and the ground is covered in mud.
How did y'all prepare to make this journey into the wet,
muddy, lightning filled? Oh, I found like a like a piece
of like, like a garbage bag or something and just like ripped
it off. And I have like essentially like
a poncho on, you know, I've wrapped my feet in other parts
of the same trash bag, you know, and it's got like tapery or
string around my feet. Yeah, makeshift hazmat style.
Just. We're just all scurrying
through. Stay dry.
Question. So I'm a hedge witch and you
said that in this adventure we had there's a spider witch that
we're that we're dealing with. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So. So she's really the one who sent
you out on this mission being a tarantula?
Just kind of zoom it out real quick.
Mice can't necessarily speak to to spiders because in Mouse
Ritter the the language and communication system is you can
speak to species of the same like genus, so all rodents can
talk to each other. Mice have no problem like a
hamster and a mouse. There'd be some difficulty with
dialect, but you could do it. And then you have to make a will
save for mammals. So to see if you could talk to a
cat, you have to pass a will save.
But if it's outside of your, like, genus of of of the animal
Kingdom, you can't speak. But this is a spider witch.
She knows how to talk because she's got some magical spells to
make it happen. And so, yeah, you tell me how
you're connected to her. Well, so I'm a hedge witch.
And if there's a spider witch, can I say that she's like my
kind of mentory kind of a little bit?
It's perfect. I love it.
Does. She talk through other mice.
She doesn't, but her cousin does, and it's kind of a mouse
puppeteer. It's kind of creepy, yeah.
So weapon wise question, could I have like a spider Fang or
something like that or? Beautiful.
Yeah, Yeah. You can have a spider Fang.
It's gonna take one item slot because mouse reader uses a slot
based inventory system and we'll say a spider Fang it.
It'll be a light weapon, so it deals D6, but maybe there's a
little spider venom left in it and so.
We'll say you know how to push that venom out if you need it,
and it'll be a D6 plus one, one or two times tonight.
Yeah, yeah, I'll take that. And then so I imagine it as
almost like why it was in my brain and it broke, you know
those daggers you can have that has has like that curved blade
off the front like a chi bar or something, you know what I mean?
Like that where it can like spin around and do that.
I imagine like, yes. So I've imagined I've kind of
like drilled a hole in the back and I can actually like spin it
so it's like go forward or I can have it like spiked out the back
like that. Almost vanish, perfect all.
Right. Yeah.
That's sick. I love it.
All right, So do you guys.
Do you guys have anything else you want to to see as you're
making your way to the power transformer?
Or you guys should make it a beeline.
So it's like a muddy, almost like a muddy field leading up to
it. It's sort of buried in the
distance. There's the house, the
dilapidated houses around. I feel like we don't want to be
out in the rain too much. I think they're like.
Sticking to like the like against like broken down fences
and like moving under hedges and stuff, you know?
Awesome, awesome. So as you guys are making your
way, the closer you get your vision is becoming more and more
obscured as the rain is like so thick and palpable.
It's like obstructing your vision and the clouds just seem
to be getting thicker and thicker.
Would one of you roll a D6 for me?
I can 3. Three Okay.
We were checking to see if you encountered anything on your
approach mouse rider. You'll be running encounters
every couple turns. You roll a D6.
On A1, there's an encounter, on A2 there's an omen of a
potential encounter, but on a three through 6, you're safe.
So you guys dodged a bullet. You guys make your way up to
this, to this transformer, like creeping your way around near
some plants, some bushes staying out of the line of sight.
Off in the distance you can see what look to be mice working and
and like walking around, but they're moving.
They're moving. Very unnatural.
And it's clear they're a little slower, they're just droning
about. But they they're not alive.
Is is what you'd be able to surmise from this.
At the front at the front of this big power transformer, you
see a small hole. Down at the entrance of it.
And so I think we've got a map we could throw up.
There is a small entrance in the front of this thing and it
doesn't seem to be guarded. There's just a couple lamps that
flash and as they flash the Thunder rolls.
So what do y'all do? The Thunder rolls in the
lightning and I think the brave and reckless one should make a
decision. Yeah, when we all brave and
recklessly move forward, you know.
Awesome, awesome. So as you guys make your way to
this this entrance, as you peer in you can you can hear this
just droning electrical hum. It's not loud, it's just there.
It's constantly there and and it's a little off putting and
unnerving. But you can hear outside the
howl of the storm. But as you make your way in to
the storm is still there, but it's now beginning to be drowned
out by this little, just electrical hum that's in the
background. Directly in front of you is the
statue of a mouse with his arms spread wide, and he has a metal
chest suspended from chains. One in either hand, he's holding
these chains, and there's a metal chest.
That is hanging there in between the I want that.
Well, let me tell you just a little bit more the the pause of
this of this statue, they emit an ominous buzzing.
It's becoming as you get closer to this, it's becoming more and
more aware that the buzzing sound that you're hearing is
originating from the hands that are holding the chains.
Hey, when you guys go up there and touch it and see what
happens? Apps.
Does anyone have like a ranged item that you could use to get
down? I think I.
Have I have a? Net.
And thematically, I think it's going to be attached to some
spider webbing instead of like a rope.
Yeah, so I think it's made of the spider weapon.
So I'm like, good to go up and look, sorry, I approach.
I'm pretty, I'm like, right, Like not under it, but like a
step back. How loud is this buzzing?
Yeah, it's getting, it's getting ever louder the closer you get
to it. And and if you're standing right
in front of it, it's, it's. So off putting, you'd want to
cover your ears. It's just this jostling.
And remind me, in the world of mouse order, how much, how much
encountering with electricity would I have as a pretty
standard beekeeper mouse? Yeah, if if you grew up in like
the country, in the wild, make like, maybe not that much.
But we'll say you guys grew up in the city and so humans are
around. You've probably found a
flashlight. You know what a battery is.
Maybe your cousin licked the 9 Volt battery and was laid up for
three months as a result. Okay.
So I'd have some, but I know it's dangerous, but I wouldn't
know exactly. I wouldn't understand the
concept of transference of electricity.
Yeah, I was trying to throw this net to get this thing down, or
just trying to, like climb up. Awesome, awesome.
So you throw the spider web netting onto this and.
The netting itself, because it's made out of organic matter, it
slowly begins to sizzle. You can smell like like burning
spider web and it actually begins to like spark and catch
fire. Yeah.
I step back. I'm like I look to the hedge
witch, my brother. Yeah, I look at Butter and I'm
like, that was a good call. We should feel like we should.
We should go run up and grab that, huh?
Yeah, my brother is thinking back to his time as a test
subject of humans and the feeling of electricity and like,
yeah, I don't think I'm, I don't think I'm, I'm doing that.
I'm very familiar with with this.
And yeah, I'm good, honestly. So, you know, do I think?
I guess it'd be hard to tell because I'm not sure how much
the chest weighs, but do I feel like if I if I severed 1 chain
that that would be enough to drop for it to drop?
Yeah, I would say, I would say you would know from being a test
subject you've seen like some electrical wiring and and you
would know that if if you break the current of one of those,
chances are it's not going to be as as shocking of an experience.
And so butter. Butter is like, also, I love
that it's butter, not butters. There's no S, so just butter.
Butter's like fine and he, like, flares his trash bag poncho and
reaches into his bag and pulls out like a stone tablet of Magic
Missile. Because he's a test subject, so.
And yeah, I'm going to go ahead and cast Magic Missile on one of
those fine chains. Oh I love that.
So so just a reminder on the magic you can choose to put 1/2
or 3D sixes into that and magic missile will deal some so the
total of however of what the dice result is plus the amount
of dice damaged so. I feel like how many Pips do I
or how many things do I? It only has three uses.
I feel like I'm just going to use one.
Fair enough. Give me a D6.
And I where is my character sheet and I rolled an 8.
I have a will of 10 and I'll roll one die and I did 2 so plus
one is 3. OK yeah yeah.
As as this like jolt of of magic just burst forth from the
subsidian spell tablet, the spirit that was that that
resides within the stone shoots this like arcane bolt at the
chain right where it's attached to the to the the chest and it
snaps and that that the chest swings and there's enough weight
from the swing that it detaches from the other chain falls
upside down on the ground. The humming stops and you can
see that the the chest kind of sparks a little bit on the
ground, but now it is dead silent.
Nice. OK.
Now why don't you go touch it just in case.
So it's no longer buzzing at all.
That is correct all. Right.
I clap my brother on the shoulder.
It's time we both take our feet up to kick the chest up.
I love it. I love it as as you kick the
chest open, why don't Fennel, why don't you roll a D20 for me
to see? What is in here?
That's the other thing with Mouse Rider, it's it's built on
random tables, so we're going to find this out together.
It's just as exciting for the game Master.
I love me some random table games, you know.
What's gonna happen? Either, man, 1919, Okay.
Very cool. So roll a D6 then for me as
well. Love that. 2A2 Okay.
Within this chest is a bottle, and within this bottle is this
microscopic lightning storm. What you now have is lightning
in a bottle, and if you uncap this, you will release the storm
within. If you don't uncap it and you
take it back to Alexia the spider witch, she'd probably pay
you for it in addition to what she's paying you for on this
mission. Lightning in a bottle is quite
rare, yeah. Nice.
So so I'll I'll hold I'll hold up the bottle and I'll say that
to to butter and and my brother here that I if we if we if we
have to use it. I feel like, but I feel like
she'll be a big fan of me, us, but you know, like maybe she'll
learn that, like I can learn a new spell or something, or what
I'm saying. Yeah, I mean you did get that
down. You did do all the work to get
that down, so. As long as you eat your proper
reward. You definitely deserve all the
accolades. My win is our win.
You know what I mean? Like, it's all of us.
We all get the W Listen. I'm just saying like when you
have a manager who makes like twice as much to you is like,
listen, hey, the when the team wins, we all win.
You know, I'm not saying. I want it exclusively for me.
I'm just saying. Since she's my teacher and it is
a spell, we'll all reap the rewards.
And I'm not saying I have to be the one to give it to her, but
if we as a group give it to her and she happens to reward me
magically. I'm like, I'm like packing my
tablet or the tablet back into my pack and I'm like, so OK.
So question so for the for our spell tablets that does that
need to be carried or is that in our pack so so the spell tablet
to actually cast it it needs to be in your paws but you can
throw it back in your backpack and and it could be in the pack
slots yeah so pretty much anything if you're gonna want to
use it it needs to be in your hands and it in combat it takes
a turn to switch out items so keep that in mind for for for
for how you have it all laid out and.
Then you and then. So lightning in a bottle isn't
is an item, it's not a spell, right?
Does it have uses or is it just like a one time you open it up
and yeah, so it has it. Well, it has uses, and so
there's some way that you're gonna be able to.
Maybe it's like a genie. You can open it, let the storm
out and call it back in, but after.
Me and the bottle, baby, I'm gonna.
Touch me, the Robin Old school. I love it so.
Also, real quick, I the character sheet you sent me, you
know how there was like this weird image thing that I
couldn't figure out? Well, on the mouse or side,
there's the item Card Studio, yeah.
I've been exporting that and it's been working great.
So I love it. I love it.
Yeah. And so you'll be able to use
that. And after you use it, you roll a
D6 for usage and if it's a 3, two or one, there's no usage 4
through 6, you you'll just mark one of the three usage dots.
And so we'll keep that in mind as we're going through.
But what you guys see on the other side of the statue is an
archway leading deeper into this, this power transformer.
You can smell ozone and and there's a steady clinking of
pickaxes on the stones. Oh.
OK, I I'm like, I put the tab away and we hear, I stand up, we
hear that I'm like, you know what?
And I pull it back out and I hold it in one paw and and the
other one I draw my scalpel blade.
Awesome. I definitely got my spear
thinking of the weirdly moving mouses from outside and the
tales of dead mouse risen. Yeah, the spider Fang is out.
You know, are we armored at all? Do we have anything besides our
like trash bag, hazmat suits on? Did we decide that at all?
Did any of you have armor as a starting item?
Yeah, I have a lead coat. Oh, nice, nice.
So that's going to do 1 defense. So you'll just, let's say
someone dealt 4 damage to you. It's actually 3, right?
Cool, nice. No, I just have my trash bag
hazmat suit. Love it.
Same great dope, awesome good time.
So as you guys make your way through this archway it, it
opens up quite a bit to quite a large.
It looks like a quarry or a mine of some kind.
It's dimly lit by like these blue flickering lights, and what
you see is you see three of of those mice that you had seen
outside much of the same their patchwork rodents that just seem
to be mindlessly, faithfully serving whoever brought them
back to life. But they are mining the the rock
that's under here for some Fulgarite, Which fulgarite is,
is fossilized lightning. And so they're just with their
pickaxes slowly chipping away at the rock.
What's also in this room are two automatas, which are these small
crablike automatons that seem to be powered by a crystal of some
kind within them, and they they are being recharged by some
lightning that is coming in from from outside.
But they are assisting the miners as much as they can and
there's tunnels that break off in in every which direction.
They seem to notice us roll a D6 for me. 33 No, they are so
probably two of them. They've they've seen a really
thick vein of this, of this petrified lightning, and so
they're just going to town on it.
They they are close to that, to the, to that staircase that's
leading up on the far side of the room directly in front of
you. There is a staircase leading up
and out, and then to your left there's a couple tunnels, but
also a staircase that seems to be leading down and out of this
room. I like quietly I'm, I'm nudging
and I'm like. Point of the staircases, you
know. Yeah, go.
Surely the way I'm right behind you, buddy.
Cool. Then I guess I'm gonna put
against the wall and then going to the staircase down.
OK, so as as you start making your way one of the automatas
kinda like it's doing a little sidestep and then it like turns
its mechanical head, it sees you, but it was brief enough cuz
you're against the wall that it it, it's registering that as a
shadow and you guys are able to make your way.
Before there's that staircase, there is a small tunnel that
leads down in the same direction as the staircase, and it's about
wide enough for one mice to to to fit down.
Oh, I go in it. OK, so so screws.
Right in so butter. Reckless flutters making his way
and and Wormwood dips right behind him down into this little
tunnel. Down in the little tunnel you
find 1 chunk of unrefined fulgurights, and this one chunk
of fulguright would go for about 25 pips.
So we're so we're we're in that little tunnel or stairs right
before Area 7, right? See it on the map?
The map will be up. I did put a little icon with
like a little mouse with a circle, so that's for those
hopping and that's where the that's where we'll be on the
map. I definitely, as I like sneak
back around to the steps I'm going to want to like drop some.
I have a jar of honey and I feel like the the deadite mice and
the automaton crabs won't enjoy the honey in it.
So I'm going to like. Plop a few globs on the
staircases like behind me. Very nice, very nice.
Good call. As you guys make your way down
the staircase you begin to to see, feel and hear rain water
dripping steadily from the ceiling and and the room itself
is a completely flooded room. You can see off to the right
hand side there is a doorway and a ledge out into the water with
a doorway leading out and then directly in front of you across
this chasm of water there is another door, but it's not an
archway that's open. There is a very legitimate
wooden door across this water and and you can see the sparkle
of something underwater, like the glint of of some object.
I like tie my backpack extra tight, you know, and I could
really make sure my sword's attached and I just jump in.
OK, OK, You jump in the water and you you very quickly realize
that it is a little bit deeper than just a small puddle.
You're about 6 inches tall. We'll say it's just over a foot
deep of water. With your lead like armor that
you're wearing. You you start like sinking and
and and and you're you're flapping your your hands, your
ears above the water, but you find yourself you're sinking
fast. Can you give me a deck save
which for For those who aren't familiar, a deck save or any
save, you're going to roll a D20 at or under your attribute to
succeed? Yeah, I failed that.
So OK, you you are beginning to drowns.
What do your companions do upon seeing this?
Laugh loud. I'm going to shoot out my small
beer, trying to like snag his coat, so trying to definitely
not stab him, not stab my friend, but.
Get that? You hand the butt end out to me,
you know? No, I definitely did this.
At the point we'll we'll say that that the failed deck save
you, you see it punched through the water and you're reaching
for it, but you're having a hard time grabbing it.
I need you to take one point of damage which is actually going
to be negated by the armor. I rolled the D6 and it was one
so you're able to hold your breath, but the armor is hurting
you here as you begin to sink a little bit more Wormwood.
If you wanna do a deck save to like really, like stick out the
spear a little bit, yeah. I'm gonna reach out hyperextend.
I'm used to doing all kinds of stretching for tending to my
bees. Can I grab on to something and
grab on to warm wood as well to do that?
Kind of like taking off the edge of thing kind of situation yeah
yeah so so so with that assistance we we won't even need
to roll. You're able to get it out there
and and Butter is able to just like with with his last just
just grasp of both breath and strength.
You grab it and and the two of you are able to pull him to the
water and right as he like flops onto the shore.
Fennel, you and Wormwood see what looks like a serpent's tail
just kind of like splash out of the water and electricity shoots
from it, reverberating off the walls as it makes a big splash.
And then as you turn you see this like shadowy shape
Serpentine like slither off into the water.
So you can't swim while wearing lead?
Yeah, You. You okay there, buddy, you.
Yeah, I didn't know it was going to be, you know, as deep as it
was. Yeah, I think we should lead
more towards brave and less towards reckless, you know?
Just just throwing it out there. I know, I know.
We're All Star sides, which is really important.
The stars in which you're bored really describe your entire
personality and everything about you.
We don't have our crystals, though, so yeah, that's a.
Good one. So did we?
Did we so snake snake once all the snake situation?
Should we not be here for that? No.
Yeah. I don't like snakes.
Snakes are bad news bears. And this I.
Feel like wait, there's a snake? Yeah, so.
So did you say it was like not in the water, It like was on the
ceiling or something went into the water?
No, it looks as though it had come up from the depths of the
water, slapped its tail hump back whale style, and then swam
down and. It was the thing that, OK, it's
the thing that was seen down below.
It had a different glint to it. There is something down there.
I start thinking you. Know what?
I feel like we we could get it on the way out.
I feel like there's other. Other places we could go, you
know. I already got to deal with
spiders all the time because of my boss.
I'm not a fan of snakes too. Hey, you got that storm in the
bottle there. Lightning in water, you know.
Right. It's literally a lightning snake
in the water already, so I feel like.
That I'll supercharge it bad. That's a bad plan.
Electricity out. You're right.
You're right.
OK. OK, maybe let's try try this
door. We like skirt around to the door
yeah so so I would say if you're going to look to like skirt
around the left hand side it the puddle kind of extends beyond
this room and it's there's no way to get across on on the left
hand side. If if you are able to make a
deck save there is the like the slightest of ledge and and if
you like stick your stick in it does get a little bit shallower
around the right hand side. So you would be able to to
potentially skirt the ledge and if you did get in the water it
would only be maybe waist deep for you.
OK, that's a deck safe. Nice.
Knowing you, we're just going for it.
All right, bro. I got a four.
I have a deck of seven. OK, OK.
So we'll say you lead the way and you're able to to kind of
mark out a good path with your pop.
Rinse that. My tail.
You can hold on to my tail so
you guys would be able to skirt along.
As you do. You look out and you can see
that now the glint from this vantage point, it's just off in
the water. It's probably 8 inches under the
water and it's 10 inches away from you.
You don't see any shadows, you don't hear any splashing, and so
you see that. And then just directly in front
of you is the ledge that has the archway leading out.
There does not appear to be a ledge from the archway around
the corner to the wooden doors. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, I'm not going to listen. I've learned my lesson.
Lead sinks. Yeah.
Listen, buddy, bro. My friend, my family, my literal
family. I know what you're thinking.
You do you, man. I got you.
It's. Fine.
You said it's 8 inches. How and worry about 6 inches and
it's about 10 inches out so so you could do.
You could do it nicely I. Tie my sizzled.
Sizzled spider web. It's no longer net.
It's sort of just a BLOB, you know, a long BLOB.
I tie that around. I'm like, I got you.
I got this all right. This can't be any worse than the
bees. So can we actually get to like
the staircase a little bit? Is there like a landing at the
bottom? And if I if if I sneak around
and kind of look up and do I see anything at the top.
So it's actually a very steep staircase.
It's, it's much steeper than the one that you guys had come down
originally. But what you are able to pick up
is, is bursts of lightning and you can hear just like loud
cracks. So it's not that you're
necessarily seeing the lightning, you're just seeing
like the the the silhouette of the room being lifted up.
Okay. So then could I could, and if
butter wants to come as well, could we like brace ourselves
in? Because what I think you're
thinking is you tied an end around yourself, you're jumping
in and I'm holding on to the other end of it, right.
Yeah. Can we brace ourselves kind of
in that landing a little bit And I'll just kind of I'll tied
around my waist as well. I love it.
And and and you know. I'll hold on to it where it's
tied around his waist, you know? Yeah.
All right. And I'll trace myself in and.
I love it. I love it.
Goblin Archives. Can you give me a Dexterity
save? Yeah.
This you're going to. Successfully be able to do this
How? Athletically and loudly in the
water you're going to be able to do this?
That's. This is the potential
consequence of being in the water.
Where there's this electrical serpent, you know nothing.
Oh yeah. I rolled A5 and I have a decks
of seven. All right, let's go.
So, so, so you just do this beautiful mouse dive.
You're down in the water and and you reach out and you your hand
catches what was glinting. Can you roll D6 for me?
Let's see exactly what it is. 3. Three, what you grab is actually
a gem. And as your friends are pulling
out your spider web and you get back to the bank, you take a
look at this gem and it's what's known as a lightning gem.
And like the lightning that's up the staircase behind you.
There's like little trickles of it that like dust their way down
over your heads to that stone and actually you can see now
glowing at the bottom of this puddle.
What you thought was a snake is actually an electric eel and and
it seems to be surging with electricity underwater and
little bits of electricity are just like popping out of the
water towards this stone. It's it's clear the stone is
attracting electricity. Does it react to the unrefined
fulgright? Ooh, that's a good a good
question as as you put them together, roll for me a will, a
will save. My will is 11, it's my highest
and I got another 5. OK.
Yeah. So, so we're going to say that
this being petrified and unrefined.
They they almost like magnetically link to one another
and you're actually beginning to feel a hum in your hands.
I don't know how you can feel a hum but that's what we're saying
and and it's it's just reverberating within your paw
and we'll like static electricity.
Your your fur is starting to rise.
Oh, I tie this to my spear. OK.
Not like at the top of the spear, but like at the base of
the the the needle part. OK, cool, cool, cool, cool.
While this is happening, the electricity that you're seeing
in the water as you're tying it, fennel and butter, they're
beginning to see. The glow is getting closer to
the surface and the water is beginning to.
Bubble as this electrical current is boiling the water
closer to the surface shards of like lightning or shooting up
towards that spear. Hey, yeah, you're still he's
still. I'm not.
He's still in the water, right. He's just like, playing with his
spear and stuff. All the water's boiling around
him. Oh.
No, no, no, I. I think I got pulled back.
Up, Yeah. But I am looking at that.
I'm like doing this as you guys are watching, like I'm facing
you all tying this as you're like watching me with the
bubbling behind. Yeah.
Hey, why don't we let's, let's, why don't we move on, bud?
What? Oh, like, look up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nothing.
Yeah. Yeah.
As I'm like stroking my spear. As as you guys start making your
way up the stairs. One of you just like turns
around at the last second to look and and you just see the
head of this eel pop out just a little bit large fangs and it
just as it like kind of makes a snarling grasp with its mouth.
You can see electricity arcing from one thing to the other, but
you guys are just right out of its, out of its grasp and as you
make your way up the stairs. You enter into a room and now
you can see what was causing the the flashes.
There is a large metal sphere that's hanging from chains down
from the ceiling. There are 4 lightning bugs
flying all around the room. There there is.
One of those automatas there and it's like directly under the orb
and it is just like ingesting lightning.
The the the crystal on the back of it is like glowing and
pulsating. It's clearly being charged up
and I need, let's see, butter. You have a scalpel and and lead
armor. OK Fennel, what are you rocking?
You have a spider Fang right? Yeah, I have the spider Fang K
bar that might have a little poison in it.
Do you have any metal on you? I don't think so.
Unless the lightning. No.
The lightning bottle is all glass, right?
It's good. I don't think.
I don't think so. And Wormwood?
You don't have anything metal on you either, do you?
No, unless the jar of honey has a metal top.
No, we'll say it was a cork, but what?
But what you do have is you do have unrefined fogarite now,
like magnetically attracted to this to to this lightning gem.
Yeah, as as as Wormwood and butter.
As you walk into this room, lightning surges at you.
It it, it is, it is attracted to the gem and it's attracted to
the to the metallic items of of butter.
Both of you are going to take the charged condition.
So what conditions are in mouseritter is they are?
Not always negative, but most of the time negative side effects
that occupy slots in your item in your item sheet and what the
charge condition is, is when when it is cleared, you will
take and deal D6 electrical damage to your decks and anyone
else who you're dealing this damage to.
And the way to clear it is to conduct to touch conductive
materials. So so you now have an electrical
charge to you that is storing up energy that will hurt you, but
potentially hurt an enemy as well.
Great. If we throw the thing that's
charged. You yourself are charged.
OK. Yeah, yeah.
Your Your fur is standing on end, but as you walk into this
room, we'll say since Fennel, you're the only one who hasn't
been charged. Ryan, would you roll a D6 for me
to see if any of these things notice you?
I rolled A1. OK, the four lightning bugs that
we're flying around. Upon seeing the three of you
enter, they take notes and they take formation as these little
fireflies supercharged by the lightning form up and buzz right
at you. And that's going to take us to
our first combat of the night. There is initiative role and the
initiative role is just a deck save if you succeed.
You're gonna go before the enemies.
If you fail, you go after them. But do we each make a save or
does it just one for? Yeah, yeah.
Each. Each one of you.
I failed. Oh, I failed hardcore.
By. The.
The stats are so tiny. It's like I rolled a 13 and
like, yeah, well, yeah. I rolled A-15 on A7.
Yeah, my decks is actually 12 and I still failed.
Oh, oh, OK, OK, well, they're. Going to get dive bombed.
They're going to get the jump on you as as these fireflies, they
they just buzz in and the first of these fireflies to make their
attack is going to swing in and it's going to make an attack at
Fennel. Fennel, you are going to take
two damage. To your HP, your hip protection,
so damage is going to hit hip protection.
When hip protection drops to 0, you'll start taking strength
damage, and if you take strength damage you will have to make a
strength save trying to beat your new number.
At which point if you fail that you take critical damage and are
unconscious, so to damage as it as it shocks you.
OK, I am, that's my Max. Is my current all right?
I'm down to 3HP. OK, the next one swinging in
makes an attack at Wormwood and he hits you for three damage as
as the shocking just. That brings me down to three.
I had 6HP so I'm like. Shit.
All right, the next one. Swings in and he goes right for
the the statically charged butter and makes an attack as he
hits you for two. And I have one armor so.
Yep, and the the last of these bugs swings in for his
opportunity, and he comes right behind the one that just
attacked Butter, and he makes a shocking attack at Butter as
well. That one was a powerhouse he'd
he'd been. Like rubbing his wings together,
building up as much static electricity as he shocks you for
five damage. OK, so five, so.
So I'm at 0HP and I took strength damage, so I'm gonna
make a strength save to beat 9. Where's my dice?
There it is. Uh huh.
Very good.
I rolled the 20. Oh.
So. Everything's going really great.
So So what you guys catch out of the corner of your eye much like
those electric flyswatters butter just like arcs in this
this this blue shock and he his like body just goes limp as as
he falls falls to the ground. But Wormwood, you are up.
How far are we from the automaton?
It is about probably 222 feet away from you, so for.
You can move about 12 inches in one time and how close would I
be able to hit one of the bugs? Yeah, yeah, the I mean, the bugs
are now swarming you. OK, I am just going to you know
I prefer bees over fireflies that just shove the spear right
at the. Pull this electrical part of the
one that just hit butter. And I'm gonna say you can do
that with advantage because you're a beekeeper.
You're used to buzzing bugs and wrangling them.
So whatever your damage is with that, I think it's a D10.
Give me two D 10s and take the higher.
Let me do that. Roll those two.
It's gonna be 5 damage. OK, you you you stab into this,
into this bulbous abdomen of of this lightning bug.
As you do the the gem that is attached to your spear, it arcs
off the lightning bug and arcs back off of you as well.
Roll a D6 for me. You want to roll high, but you
also don't want to roll high because this is coming back at
you as well. OK, the three. 30 K That's
enough to to to kill the lightning bug that was attacking
you that you attacked as as this electrical current courses
through it, it splats with this just blue goo and you take this
arc as your as your fur lays flat again, you no longer have
the charge condition that takes us to fennel.
So I took three though, so I'm at HP0.
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
You're gonna take a Fallout for that.
No, no. Wrong game.
Wrong. Game.
All right, Fennel, what do you got?
All right, so sorry. I was playing with music, so
these things are buzzing in the air.
Do I have reach at all to be able to hit these things?
Yeah, we'll say. We'll say because of of where
they are and and how combat is happening all at once, you're
going to be reacting right as it made a shocking buzz at you.
You could do whatever you want to do back at it, Yeah, I'll try
to, as it's like coming in towards me.
I'll try to like slide to the side and do that kind of thing.
You know, where like that creature shoots by you and you
just kind of stick your blade in and then slice along it.
Yeah, with my my spider Fang situation.
But I won't try to like, I won't try to, like, push any poison
out of it or anything like that. Cool, cool, cool, cool.
Give me a D6. All right, D6.
I'm gonna move my dice roll over here.
Too many windows, D6. So I had a four.
Okay you. You hit this thing and you just
cut this like severing like chasm in its side as as it goes
by electricity, just like marks off the goop that begins to drip
from this thing. It's not down, but it turns it,
it, it turns back around. And that's going to take us to
that very lightning bug. It is going to swing back and
make a shocking attack at you. But it deals one damage and then
Lightning bug #3 is going to swing in and make an attack at
Wormwood. It hits you for two.
Drama. That's right to Strength,
because I had no HP, and so now I'll make a strength safe to see
if I take critical damage. He's going to pass.
Watch. Oh no, I did not pass, so I am
also down. All right, so as as you fall to
the ground, what you don't feel because you're unconscious is
your fur. Stand back up as you take the
the critical condition. Charged again.
Lightning bug #3, the only remaining Lightning bug.
Wheels around, Sees sees two of its quarries down and makes a
buzz, a beeline right back at Fennel and deals one damage.
You're getting all the good rolls tonight.
I have one, I have one left. One protection left.
And that's going to take us. That's going to take us to
butter. You can make a Strength save,
and if you succeed, your strength save you.
You. You come too.
But that will be your turn. Nope.
Still still down on the ground. Wormwood.
You can make a strength save as well.
See if I have the power of Gray Skull will save me.
No, very much a 12 on an eighth. So I just I see there first,
still sticking out just like. Yeah, so, so, Fennel, the sight
that you see is your two companions just kind of like
pulsating. One of these bugs just
splattered. One of them is dripping.
It's it's guts. But then the other ones, they're
making their way at you. What do you and your spider fame
cramp it do? What?
How many are left in this room? There are three and one of them
is is severely injured. I run and leave my brother to
die. So if I have the lightning in a
bottle, if I feel like if I use that, it's not going to kill the
lightning bug. I feel like these are all.
I don't know. I I did electrical damage to the
one. Do we?
Feel like this is when I feel like we're all dying if I don't,
so I feel like I have multiple uses on the Lightning in the
bottle, right? You said.
Yes, yes, you you will have at least a minimum of three, OK.
So and they're all buzzing around is there.
So what I would like to do, what I ideally would like to do is
kind of like run in another direction so that they're all
kind of like chasing me. So maybe they line up a little
bit, yeah, yeah, I want to start running towards the wall.
And as I do, I'm going to like roll, pull the lightning out.
And when I get up, I'm kind of like crouched down and I just
like like open the open the bottle like kind of in their
direction. Oh yes, the classic chain
lightning. As you do this, they they begin
buzzing and they're chasing you. You're running and you see now.
As you're getting ready to make this, like, epic Turn and
lightning blast, you do notice that the automata is making note
of what's happening, and it has moved out from underneath the
orb. You turn down, you open the
bottle. This rush of like dark cloud
pops out and you can't see it because the cloud now is
blocking this, but the bugs are terrified.
And an arc of lightning shoots through this into one of the
bugs. Chains to the next bug.
And you just hear this.
And as you as you put the cork back on the bottle bringing the
the the storm back in, you now see the the just carapaces of
three dead lightning bugs only to hear this mechanical grinding
as you turn your head and there is a a crab like mech making its
way towards you. It is still probably a turn or
two out. This crab, like Mack, came out
from the orb in the middle because we're in room 3.
Where in relation to these like stairs down to area 2?
Is are are we? And how many turns would it take
to throw both my companions down the stairs?
You guys, you guys are like your companions are passed out at the
top of the staircase because these bugs hit you right as you
came in. So we're we're we're back in
like towards down towards seven. That staircase, Yeah, yeah, you
you are probably over by staircase 3, but you could get
there in a turn and and do what you need to do.
Is healing a touch spell, so the spell heal.
You will need to have your tablet in your hand, but you are
able to heal some strength, so so the total of whatever your
dice you roll, you're able to heal that much strength damage.
It won't necessarily restore HP, because HP will restore D 6 + 1
every short rest, which is just taking a swig of water, but for
any of your companions who took strength damage, you can
replenish that with with Heal. Is there a way to aid to help
out of unconscious? Yeah, so, so also you guys are
out of combat for a turn and so both of you would come to.
So we have a brief moment of not respite.
We don't get our HP back but like we're up.
But it's about to re encounter, yeah yeah, if if you stay in
this room you you are going to re encounter here in just a
second. We throw this thing down the
stairs. How heavy is it?
I was going to throw your ass down the stairs.
I don't know what you're talking about.
I'm just getting out of here. The, the.
The automaton it it is, it's not fast it it is somewhat clunky as
it's moving. This one does have a very
brightly blue glowing crystal on the back of it, seemingly fully
charged. OK, I'm going to Chuck.
Jar of honey. It's joints as we run away, OK?
Which way are we running? Do we decide?
I think we run, I think. I'm up.
I'm going to run. So did we shit, where's the
rules go away map. So are we running towards 5 or
running down into like 2 like the open area I was?
Thinking up towards 4. Or or five.
Oh. I'll follow my brother, whoever
runs whichever. Works before.
Seems closer but I Chuck my I Chuck my jar of honey trying to
get it in the goopy de goop and then yeah so so it kind of like
slips a little bit as as it's as the gear mechanisms they they
just they trip a little bit. You are able to gain some
distance as you're running up the stairs.
It is making its way following you.
But this, the staircase you're able to get up to to to the top
of it. And what you see in this room as
as you enter, there are metal beds on a rug that is made of
fiberglass. And all of this sits beneath the
spread wings of what looks like a a very large crow.
There are 8 metal beds that have the corpses of these patchwork
rodents atop them, one of which has a very clearly visible
sapphire earring. I'm.
Very quickly going to move and push all these rodents off of
these beds. Okay okay as you are pushing all
of them off the beds, would one of you roll?
The dead right there, they're like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Would one of you roll a D6 for me?
Yeah, sure. I rolled A4, OK.
Yeah. So you guys are able to push
them off the beds without any problems.
What you noticed that you missed in the in the haste to push
these off the beds is that attached to each of the beds,
these these metal sheets that they're laying on is a copper
wire, each one of the copper wires making their way up to the
wings of this, of this metal crow sculpture.
And you see within the beak of this sculpture there is a spell
tablet that that very recognizable Obsidian tablet
with carvings on it. And these carvings are unlike
carvings you have seen before. This is a new spell, and as as
you're looking and as you're seeing that the spell goes off
and it shoots the electricity through the sculpture, through
the copper wires and all of these metal beds just like shake
and reverberate with electrical charge.
And then, just as quickly as it came, the electrical charge is
gone. You stopped them from
Frankensteining. Good job.
I eat, I eat some ration I need, I want to regain my HP.
Me too. I'm the same.
Do we have to eat? Do we have to eat ration for
that or is it just a moment of respite?
Yeah, it's just a moment of respite.
You can take a swing of water. But what I do need to do is, is
any items that were used in that last round of combat, we're
going to check to see if they take a usage dot.
So I need you to roll a D6 and on a 4-5 or a six, you're going
to need to mark one of the usage off of those off those.
So one for my spear, one for my jar.
I threw my jar, honey, So that's used up.
Yeah, I would say your jar honey's gone at this point.
All right, so I'll just one for my spear.
I roll the six. OK, so so put one usage on your
spear. Once you hit all three, that
item is broken. I just went down instantly, so
no worries here. That's true.
So I rolled A2 for my spider
Fang, and I rolled A4 for my lightning in a bottle.
Okay, so you're lightning in a bottle.
It had one use, so a little bit of that, yeah.
A little bit of that storm floated away.
So it's gone now My lightning bottle is gone.
No, no, it had three. It it had three uses.
So it had. One use.
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. OK, yeah.
Still got some. All right.
Yep. We got.
We're good, cool, cool. What you see in this room, in
addition to the metal sculpture with the crow with the spell
tablet in his mouth, is there are clearly 2 doorways, 1 to the
left and one to the right. Leading out of this room.
Both was still the. Worst it's roughly the size of a
real crow, so we'll say 10 inches.
You could scurry up there. I would like to scurry up there.
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
So you scurry up this metal crow, the closer you get to the
top of it you can actually just like hear the ever so slight hum
as it still has some static to it.
But yeah, it it doesn't seem to be doing anything as of yet.
I'd pull the tablet out of its mouse.
OK, give me a strength save. Yeah, 3 three and I have a
currently have a nine. So okay yeah awesome.
So, so without any trouble at all you are able to break this
this tablet out from its metal beaks and you and you now are
the proud owner of the spell reviving bolt.
It can deal some damage. If a target has zero strength,
it will reanimate said target for D6 turns, and they will obey
you for all of those turns. The way to recharge this spell
so when spells use all of their usage dots, they come with a
recharge property and this one's recharged is you have to hold it
towards the stormy sky for an entire watch.
So six hours while standing on a headstone.
I love of all the things in Mousefetter because it's a great
game for those listening, especially for newer players.
It's a sick game. The recharging of the fucking
spells is like, the coolest thing.
Feels very arcane, you know. But I will say, if we know what
that spell is, butter, we should 100% sell that to the spider,
which I guarantee she will give us a bajillion pips for that.
Maybe just just throw out there. Not.
Even for me, I'm not even. Trying to get something for her.
I'm just saying for. Let's be honest, seeing how
things. Are in your wheelhouse.
Yeah, we might need to be using it on each other, but.
It's a spell slab though. We can reach, we can use the
shit out of it and then give it to her on charge and I guarantee
she's going to be down for some lightning.
Undead, I mean. Sounds like Spider Witch.
That's not that venturing business.
We use the spells, we sell the broken ones back.
Retired to yourself? Gently used spells, You know
but. I can tell you right now if.
You go down. I'm taking that and reviving you
and using your undead body each of you, for venturing purposes
specifically. Also to know, remembering I'm
supercharged so I can't touch anything until it's time to do
damage. There you go.
That's right. That's right.
But yeah, you guys definitely have my consent to revive my
undead body and use me in. Battle.
It does some damage, right? Does damage and then you can
reanimate someone who had zero strength for D6 turns and they
will obey you for dice amount of those turns.
Okay. So I could, like, revive
somebody for six turns and they could obey me for one.
Technically. Technically, yeah.
Okay. Cool.
Barry, listen. Yeah.
I beg you the whole time. All right, just throwing it out.
There, Pinky promise. That's awesome.
Yeah, yeah, there are. There are two doors that lie.
I lost my mouse in me marker. Where'd you go, buddy?
I picked last time. Someone else picked this time.
It's. Just two doors because we don't
know what's I mean, meta. I see what's beyond the doors,
but unmeta. That's wrong.
So. What happened to the automaton?
Is it just not going up the stairs?
Is it like a cow? Like you just can't go upstair
or no, Yeah, no, no, I'm glad. I'm glad you asked.
It did not come up the stairs. It it has seemed to have gone
off in a different direction. I'm going to peek my head back
down, throw up. How many fingers do mice have?
And is there a middle one? We'll we'll do the the Mouse
Guard three. Yeah.
Like the Yeah. So I give them one of these.
Yeah, there you go. There you go.
Healing. If we're taking a breather.
We got lightning necromancy here.
I got HP. We can take a breather.
That's how this works here, right?
Yep. And how does the breather work
again? Yeah, so.
So you can each roll AD 6 + 1 up to your Max HP.
They have 5 fingers, by the way. Just doing it out there.
I'm looking at mice. Pause right now.
I got a little. I got little fibers.
All right, dope. All right.
So we're down here. Short, long and full rest.
Yeah, it turns. Towards D 6 + 1.
All right. And a long rest is going to take
a whole watch, which I don't think is.
Feasible. I rolled a 4 + 1 so I get five
of my 6HP back. Yep.
Perfect. Ooh, I rolled A6.
Nice. And what was your Max?
55 Yeah, so you're back up to five, Back to your Max.
And then how? How much Strength damage did
Wormwood or Butter take? I took two strength damage, OK.
OK, so heal heal the strength repair, not HP repair.
HP repair is is kind of just like the it's hit protection.
Should have used a different. All right.
Chris McDonald. He He set us on that path and.
It's yeah. If there's one thing I can
change about into the odd, just pick a different call it AP
armor protection or something anyway.
I like so. He'll can do strength repair.
Can I? I'm gonna let's.
I'm gonna hit my brother 1st to see what happens here, OK?
Awesome. So then when I.
Click on Does he have to? Well, do you have to touch me?
No, it is not a touch. He's holding the the tablet and
the tablet. Go for it.
I stop and be like, don't touch me, bro.
OK. Wait, we're good.
I don't want to electrocute you. Well, I appreciate that,
brother. So okay, casting a spell to cast
a spell, your mouth takes the pause.
I say the thing up loud, I say boom and I roll the D6 equal to
the power the spell is cast with and for each die, which is at
least 4-5 or six, I mark the usage.
The spell is effect which varies so I want to heal.
I can choose how much how many die I roll to heal right?
So if I choose one, I heal him for up to potential D6 exactly.
So I'm gonna do. I'll use one on Wormwood.
I roll the five okay so it works, and you heal him for five
strength so he's back up to his Max of 12.
But you do need to mark a usage on that dice or on that spell
tablet. Okay.
So the more effective the spell is, the more likely it is to be
like spent as a usage. Yep.
It's. Looking clever.
This whole spell system is taken from another game, right?
Yeah, I think it's. I think it's the Glog Goblin
loss of gaming, if I remember correctly.
So good. And then I'm going to can I just
swivel the the tablet towards butter and throw another heel
that way? Absolutely.
Butter me out maybe? Low roll Tear.
Let's do it. 1. Great.
Well, does that take you? Yeah.
And does that take you back up to 10 strength?
It does, yeah. I mean that's above average, so
that's good. 10 out of 11. And only used one usage and
we're good. Great.
We're great. All right.
Well, I'm going to tuck that back into my pack and.
And we, I mean before we run out like copper, while copper wire
is worth something, right? Can we wind some of these up and
like have some like rope even? Yeah, that's a great question.
So there are 8 beds. So there are eight runs of
copper wire. And the shorter ones, I would
say you could coil those up and you could probably get two of
the short ones would make one item slot, but the longer ones,
it's just going to be 1 full bundle will take up a item slot.
So there's the potential of what is that one to six item slots
worth of copper wire. Yes, the ones that are closest
to it are probably like 6 inches of copper wire.
And the and the other ones, depending on how far away the
bed is, anywhere from from 12 to 18 inches.
Shit. Yeah, I'll take one of the long
ones. And is, is a wire like rope
thick or would we be able to, like, could we do a quick braid
on it to have like a thicker rope or is it would it hold our
weight basically, like, yeah, yeah, so it would definitely
hold your weight. The way I'm thinking it is
they're probably like a D string on a guitar for for any of the
musicians. But for mice, yeah, Yeah.
So, so it it it, it's going to be a pretty heavy gauge cord for
you guys. So braiding them is probably out
of the picture. But yeah, it will definitely
hold your weight and it will probably hold form.
I'll just, I mean, I guess I'll if it's going to be one item for
a long one or one item for 2 short ones, I'll take 2 short
ones and just throw that in. Awesome, awesome.
Yeah. Keep track of your guys's item
slots because if you fill up all of your item slots one you're
not able to to pick up anything else.
If you take a condition it will cover one of your item slots and
the and the way I do that is I roll a D6 and whatever the
number in your inventory backpack is, it randomly will
cover it up, which can be unfortunate sometimes, but yeah.
Where as. I as I coil these two wires up
and stick on my pack, I Chuck some incense sticks and I just
leave them. All right, all right.
Nice. What flavor were they?
Or or sets? I guess you don't eat incense
sticks. You could.
I'm not. I mean, yeah, what's a normal
incense flavor? Can it be anything?
Yeah, but truly. Yeah, there you go.
No. No, no.
Or it's dragon blood. See cedar for sure.
We got some cedar wood sticks. Let a little sappiness get on
it. Man, I I debate for a second and
then I and then I do take the copper wire though.
OK, yeah, that's awesome. Sandals and sticks are sandal
woods good too. While you guys are doing this,
would one of you roll a D6 for me?
Sure, Yeah, A1. So as you are doing this, we're
going to roll another D6 to see exactly what enters into this
room. There is one of these minions,
these patchwork rodents, these zombies.
It is walking in and it is followed by a very familiar
automaton. But this automaton isn't in an
attack mode. It seems to be carrying three
large fulgright crystals. They enter into the room.
The minion sees all of his brothers and sisters laying on
the floor. He then looks up at you.
He turns back to the automata. It drops the crystals, and they
came up from #3 and so they're there.
They see you. What is your initial reaction?
Bail. We're not doing this twice.
We're out. We're out.
Yeah, hard bail towards the doors, I said.
Let's go towards 9, Let's just bail that way.
So you guys, you guys just dip out of the room and and these
double doors, they swing as your body weight just just hits them
and they swing close behind you and you find yourself in a
laboratory of sorts, tangled cables there, there's just this
buzz of electricity and frantic, frantic, frantic muttering.
There is a old mouse, kind of just disheveled he he he seems
apprehensive upon seeing you. He's in a tattered white robe,
and on his head, strapped to his head by some metal contraption,
is one of these crystals. This is the mad scientist Yort
and he's mumbling vaguely. Just commands.
Like don't forget to mine the vein down in tunnel #4.
Hey, make sure numbers one and three are are are turned on.
Are the automata? Are they all charged?
And then he, he sees you and then he looks down and what you
see behind him is a a slab, a stone slab that has one of these
mice on it. But it doesn't seem to be very
patchwork. It seems to be like a freshly
dead mouse. And it it it's sitting there and
there's complex wiring making its way down to this thing.
There there are like car battery cables clipped to some of the
the the the metal pipes coming down from the top, the upper
levels. And this machine, as you're
piercing this together, this is going to give life to a recently
dead creature. Your sees you and he stumbles
back and he's like. What?
What are you doing here?
What? Who say you?
And and he always freezes. Calm down.
It's OK. We're just here.
Looking around trying to figure out why there's a a a big, never
ending lightning storm outside. We don't need any harm.
We're just we're just passing through that's that's good news
I think do do you think I'm. I'm a mighty mighty sorcerer a
great mage. What have you heard?
And and he's he's like looking around, just very like
apprehensive. Yes, to all those things he
goes, oh, I was. I was afraid of that.
Beware of me.
I will shock you. OK.
And and as as he says that he's like, can you help me?
I I was sent maybe on like a similar mission to yours.
I I'm a wizard's apprentice. I I like barely halfway through
freshman year I'm kind of captured here.
I have this thing I can control these guys.
I have no clue what I'm doing. They worship me.
They think I'm the greatest wizard that's ever lived.
I'm not even the greatest Wizard of my family.
I I. If they don't want to be here,
you can't just leave. No, I'm well.
There's the the storm brain the there's there's something
keeping me here. It's I think it's a crow.
I've. I've seen it.
It it like takes the form of a bird and it's full of lightning
and and it will not let me leave.
I think step one is taking that hat off, he says.
I I've tried. It's got a very weird like screw
head and as you like look at it, it's like very clearly like a
torques screw bit. And he's just like, I only ever
had a Phillips head, so. Yeah.
I said we take this off. This says that good thing we
have some copper wire that we can.
Yeah. So as as you guys as you guys
begin to do this he he's now like warming up to you and he
says I don't necessarily like want to leave.
I I like the authority I possess.
But I'm not in charge. If I'm like a slave or or or a
prisoner here by all means set me free.
But if they don't know I'm not mighty what they know.
Like what they don't know doesn't hurt them.
I can promise we won't capture any more travelers.
I'll be good with those who are here.
We'll just do our thing. I'll continue to study but and
and and and as he's talking you're able to get the copper
wire just right. You're able to like break the
screw and and you're able to take his hat off and and he
just, he stops this whole dialogue and he says Oh my
goodness, thank you. I should mention none of them
are going to listen to me now and they're going to wander
around mindlessly. I forgot to tell you that this
is what controls telepathic link.
Put the Hewlett back on immediately, he goes.
Screw it back down he goes, OK, OK, so OK.
All right, listen, So from one magic you.
So I am kind of a witch. They're on the out there.
I do work with a pretty powerful spider, which she's cool.
I don't remember her name right now.
Alexa Alexia. Alexa, Alexia.
Yeah. Yeah I do cuz she's my boss.
So two things real quick. Two things.
One, got more magic lighter out. You got any cool magic stuff?
Well, like, not. There are a few things scattered
about that I've seen, but I'm a little bit afraid to leave this
room because the specter that the flight was like flies
around. But what I did, I accidentally
used this contraption here on a mouse that I thought was dead,
but it wasn't like completely dead and it gave it like new
glands. Like I later learned this, when
I was dissecting it, it grew new organs.
I've named them the the Voltic Glands, and they didn't take
damage from lightning. Yeah, and they actually gave
damage to me. So yeah, it's kind of magic.
I'm interesting. Could you do that again to all
of us? He he looks at you and he's just
like that's yes, I awesome I I can.
I push the other the dead mouse off the table and I'm like,
let's keep going. So, so he he now he's very
confused, but he's like, OK, let's do this.
And he like like works the car battery clip.
OK, got it. Goes to the other side, gets it
on and he says you're going to want this.
And he hands you just like a small piece of leather.
He goes stick it between your teeth as you do.
You just feel lightning just course through your body and you
wouldn't know it. But you've grown some new
internal organs and you now take the voltic glands condition
which says this lightning damage against you is impaired.
You can give yourself a charge condition with a round of
effort, and you can discharge it at any range.
Nice. Again, Charge is going to give
you D6 damage to yourself, but yeah, you pretty much become a
Shock Wizard. Would the damage to me be
impaired? Yes, it would.
So then I could do 6, but I could as I rolled, almost rolled
twice against someone else and then myself.
Am I still charged? You are.
Yeah, cool. Yeah.
Love that. Love that for me.
I'm charged up. It's all.
It's great. What could go wrong?
He's done. He sits up and I shove him off.
I'm like Nami nami exact same thing.
Take takes a an inventory slot but you now have the Volta
glance condition. And I should say for anyone who
who doesn't know the into the odd like combat system impaired
is a D4. If something is enhanced, it's a
D12, so. I can bring 6 at range, but I do
a D4 to myself, that is correct. Cool.
Yep. Fair trade, yeah.
Oh yeah. Are we all?
Yeah. Are we all doing this?
Do I need a George? Should I get some new glands?
Can you grow old glands bigger, or is it all just new glands?
He looks at you. He goes I'm.
Good. Don't worry about it.
Lungs of the heart. I might as well.
We might as well be lightning
buddies here. I'm just in the corner like.
You know, awesome, awesome. It works as you just feel this
like he's he's surprised like each time he does it, he goes,
this is going to be the time it doesn't work and I'm just going
to fry one of these guys and it's going to be on me and it
works. It works and he's just, he's
like okay new plan. You don't set me free, but now
that you can do whatever you can do, why don't you kill the thing
that's keeping me here and then we just parlay and do our thing.
Let you be a wizard in the tower.
Let them think that's what I am. OK, so here sounds great.
So here, here, here. Here's the I think.
OK, hold up for a second, my new Lightning Bros We'll be right
back. Lightning Squad Assemble.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I I first of all I'm going to
stick out my finger and then I want to let you guys all stick
our fingers and then I'm can we can we like have a little like
situation now. Oh, for sure, for sure.
You guys do just. Venture.
But yeah, 100% there. There's never going to be a time
in your mouse's life going forward where your fur is not
standing on end. Yeah, you're just full, full
static the entire time. What about bleach My tips when
we get out of here. So good all.
Right, Just the tip. So so my question here guys, is
a couple of things. One, do we just take this dude
tell me control undead shit? Because that sounds like a great
fucking idea to me. That sounds like a plan that you
know. I know your boss is gonna want
that. Big thing.
Yeah, he had. This guy has been killing people
passing by and definitely is gonna just not it's an intern
let gone wild. Bro.
Like he he literally is. Just like if if I'm in charge,
cool. And I promise not to murder more
people. I don't.
Want the responsibility? Well, we don't have to.
We could just, like, take it. But then there's three of us.
Who's going to control the the undid things here?
We could just put them under the rest.
I'm listen, I'm. I know Alexia has only taught me
heal so far and had really likes more darker shit.
It's kind of my vibe I think. Undead lighting Shit.
What could argue healing is a type of necromancy?
Revivifying is absolutely a type of.
Yeah, if you got revivify like we're already.
Got it. I know.
But if I'm pointing at butters. If he dies, I'm taking it
though. Should I Darsidious him right
now? I.
AM. Charged.
I'm here's the thing, like, my only issue.
I'm fine with him, like staying here and controlling all of this
shit, because I don't necessarily want these
automatons to just get out of here and run rampant, right?
But if he already said he didn't really want the helmet, we could
take the helmet at least, right? Is that what we got from that
situation? That's not what I got from that
situation. I mean, I got that he changed
his story a few times. It sounds like he'll adapt,
whatever is saying. That's probably closer to the
truth. He basically wants us to kill
his boss so he can be the boss and he happens to just control
like lightning and a dead shit and but.
He is a very middle management vibe to him, you know.
Right. And here's the thing about
middle management, right? They become the worst managers.
That is so excruciatingly true. Where I am.
We turn around. I Darsidia 7.
Just. I just.
I just wait, wait, wait. Wait.
Oh fuck, I don't. Don't destroy the helmet.
It's not so so as as you do this I I need you to take a D4 damage
to yourself but you are going to be discharging your charge and
then the the the charge that you received from this so deal 2D6
damage. He only has 3HP, but I just want
to see how, How? That's going to be a total of 6
damage to him and two damage to me, as you say, by doing.
With the fates. As you see my as you see my
skeleton like in the thing as you see his skeleton really
doesn't matter. Yeah as as this just arc of
electricity. Just like flashes you can feel
like between your fur there's just like micro arcs all the way
through and as the flash settles and and your eyesight comes back
you see a pile of ashes and burnt bones with this like
copper crown with a a crystal torques screwed right into it
sitting on top of it. You all just killed York the mad
scientist, and acquired his his helmet.
We did that together. That was all of us.
Yep, I agree 100%. I'm with you, brother Butter.
Sure. Yeah.
I mean, let me see if that's going to help you sleep tonight.
That was self-defense. Yep, Yep.
Proactive self-defense this is. Stand your ground.
I stood my. Yep.
Ooh, I just. I'm not going to say that Joe
gone here, but I I go scoop up the the helmet and I stick it on
my head and just kind of turn around and just like come on
screw it in. But as you guys, as you guys
screw this helmet in butter and Wormwood, just tightening it in
on Fennel's head, Fennel, you you feel nothing different?
Not worried about that and and it's beginning to now come to
your mind. This guy had no clue what he was
doing with anything. He doesn't necessarily know if
this crystal was doing anything. But you have a pretty dope hat
on. You know what?
If all I get out of it is a dope hat, I'm okay with a little bit
of murder. I should tell you that the
crystal that sits in there is worth about 150 pips as well.
I'll take. It I'll take it.
The voltic gland situation again, What is?
That yeah, so that is a condition, but it's not a it's
not a negative condition. All lightning damage dealt
against you is impaired and you can give yourself a charged
condition with a rounds worth of effort and you can choose to
discharge it anywhere, anytime at any range.
About this time there was a minion and an automata outside
and the minion pokes his head in and says master.
Hello master, Master. You didn't feel anything but he
sees this upon your head and he says would you would you like us
to to recharge? We're we're starting to fall and
the beds they're not connected any and and the tablet is gone.
I I fear our eternal sleep is right around the corner.
What? What would you like me to do,
master? Yes, I am your master.
That is me the master. I would.
Why don't you just hold on for a second and wait there with the
door closed on the other side, and I'll be with you in just a
minute when me, the master, figures out what I would like to
do. Leave he, he says.
He says. Oh.
Yes, when I was saying I felt eternal sleep was cut.
I don't have much type. And then he like just falls
down, closes the door. But you could feel like you
heard his lifeless body hit the door.
He he was looking for a recharge.
Oh, let's go put those other mice.
Oh no, we already took the the. We can put it back.
The spell. I think this problem sorted
itself out. I just thought, I mean it is a
problem to have an army of undead minions and shit.
Problem for someone. It could be a a help for us
right now though. Especially with the battle of
Crow God. Oh, it can't.
It's probably not a God. I have in my notes it says
Stormbrain crow question mark full of lightning.
So it's probably fine. So here's the thing though the
whole I thought. The whole reason, I thought,
part of the reason we just murder her, about the fuck out
of this guy was. We did it together.
By standard. You let me do it.
That might as well be an encouragement, but I thought the
whole point was so that we could have an undead army to fight the
bad guy at the end. We could just use the automatons
though. Do they listen to me though?
Let's go test it out. I kick open the doors.
As you kick open the door, the automaton just like is making
its way down the stairs back to the recharging orb.
You you notice that there are 8 mice like bodies that you had
pushed off of the tables on their own volition.
One or two mice had made their way into this room and are just
laying now lifeless on two of the tables and coming from the
door to room 6. Another mouse is like slowly
making its way, and as it's about to get to the table, just
kind of like falls down face first into the pile of the
other. As as mice you can actually hear
scurrying. Slowly, mice are making their
way back to this this chamber. OK, all right, two things real
quick. Wait here.
One second. I run into where I can see the
automaton and I say hey buddy and does it respond to me at
all? It does it.
It's slowly like turns itself back around.
Is it all like legs or something?
Yeah, yeah, it looks like a crab.
OK, do this. All right, How about this one?
All right. OK, great.
And I run back to the other guys and I'm like, OK, so here,
listen, here's what's happening. Here's so this.
It works. It fucking works, right?
I promise I'm not going to become an evil wizard.
We're in this together. Do you promise that?
Though really like I do not promise, but I do promise that
you promise. As long as we can be on the
upstream of this MLM. Evil, evil.
Like that's all I care about. This is my brother.
Rising ships, rising TADS kind of thing.
That's what I'm saying. We are all we're.
All trickle down economics. It works for the people at the
top. Yeah, so here's the thing.
This is the plan, right? If if the only way to let's
there's two schools of thought. One, we destroy all this
bullshit and save everything. Two, we control it.
We'll see. Well, let's figure that out when
we get to the end. For right now, though, why don't
butter hear me out? Let's stick that thingy back on
the crow. Let's raise this entire undead
army situation, Let's go kill the lightning brain or whatever
the heck this dude was talking about and then decide what we
want to do. And then when that's all said
and done, you butter can take the lightning ravivify bolt
spell situation out, all yours, and then we decide to to leave
from here. But I do like the idea of
controlling an ended army for like just a little bit.
Yeah. Yeah, you know, whatever.
Sure. So we have a montage of us
putting all the copper wires. Back listen here.
Caesar, as long as you turn. The army's back over at the end.
There will be no, you know, 18th.
So I'm just picturing like, like, what is it, 1984
Transformers movie? You got the touch and it's like
just going and just pull on montage.
You guys get all hooked up, you're putting bodies back on
again. One of you notices that one of
them had a very nice emerald earring on them.
I take it? Yeah, there you go, 300 pips.
And. Do you wear it?
Yes. Do you have your ears pierced?
Yeah, of course you do. Okay, I didn't even have pierced
that. He's a test subject, yeah.
Mouse. Was it a mouse sized emerald
earring or was it a human sized emerald earring?
A human sized 1. Oh, so that's like you ain't
wearing that in your ear. That's like, the size of your
fucking. Well, how was the other mouse
wearing it? It was like a stud, like a
emerald stud. So I mean it It took up almost
the entire ear. I'm putting just right here.
It's on top of my little mouse here.
You gotta stick it on your face. So you guys montage this thing,
You get the spell tablet back in there and lo and behold, it
charges up. First time it's in there.
You now have eight mice. There was about four or five
others. You you take some more time.
It takes actually an entire hour before this tablet charges off
again and you're able to to get another four.
So now you've got a total of of 12 undead mice in this room,
these minions, and yeah, all. Right.
I'm trying myself up. All right, line up.
Single file? Yep.
Not to the left, not to the right.
All right, two times. Now.
Y'all. Let's.
You went with, you went with. Cha Cha Slide instead of
Electric Slide. You know what?
We'll fix it in post. OK, there you go.
There you go. Yeah.
So what does the electric slide
even say? I I don't honestly remember.
Either. I just know that it's important,
isn't it? Just like a.
It's, it's electric. Yeah.
Yeah, something like that. Yeah.
There we go. It's electric.
So I break them up into tenors, Altos and bases.
And so go collect all the automatons, all of you.
Can you speak? Can they speak?
They're like yes, yes, master, we will do that.
Sounds good like and they slowly are like tripping over one
another. But then they they do as as
their life comes back to them fully.
They make their way out and they're gathering automatons.
This room is not going to fit all of them and all the
automatons. We're going to start to file up
in the next room anyways, Yeah, yeah, open the doors.
Like just get like this is I slowly stand on higher and
higher things until I'm like really like like up there as
it's happening. Have.
Have you, have you guys taken the spell tablet back out of the
beak? Because the highest thing in
this room is that crow. No, I'll stand in front of it
and I'll just feel like. OK, cool.
Tell me like, charges off. I'm just like like the light
flashes across. Yeah, yeah.
I'm wondering if this could be 5 these.
Listen, here's the other thing. All right, how many total mice
do I got? That you have sent out together
the automatons 12, right? And then I kind of want to send
some to go check out that other room down in the water area, but
we'll get to that later, All right.
So are we going to say just at some point, all the automatons
are gathered close enough and all the minions are gathered
close enough and I'd literally have an army of undead mice and
and automatons? Yeah, I would.
I would say so there, there's a total of eight of these
automatons and there is why don't you roll 2T20 and add 10
to whatever it is and that's how many?
How many mice? Okay.
Well that sucks. I rolled A2 and a 15, so I have
17, so I have 27 mice. That feels good.
That feels like a good amount. I feel like 50 would have been a
whole lot for this small space. I think 27 is a good amount.
So we have 8 automatons, 27 meses, undead meses and a God
complex forming. So let's.
Yeah, Does anyone, any of them look like they know stuff like
OK, you mouse, What is there that I, the master, had
previously discussed? Some type of like lightning
brain or crow or something? Have you seen these things?
He he looks at you and he says you, you master, you're the
lightning brain, and that's the crow, the giver of life.
And he points to the big metal crow.
Yeah, that makes sense. That's about as far as I think
we're getting with this one. I say out loud in front of that
thing. Yeah, yeah, it's on.
It's fine, I guess. Let's, What do you guys think?
Like 4 is 4 is an automaton and like 4 might me like a good
forward party. Yeah.
OK. So well, I have eight of them,
two of you automatons, I'm going to call you.
You're going to be A, you're going to be B, right, etcetera,
etcetera. A through H automatons and then,
Yep. And then mice one through 27.
All right. SO1234 No.
You know what 27 is divisible by What?
9 It's nine groups of three. Yep.
OK, so U4U3 or a BCD, et cetera. No, wait, no one because there's
too many letters. Fuck.
God damn well no. All eight have a three with them
and then we have three as our our personal entourage.
There you go. I'm just in the corner going.
I'm also going like. This is going on and we're so
we're charged. So then fuck the whole letter
situation, guys. You're all numbers.
All right, so we have for every one, automaton, there are three
mice. All right, so automaton one and
two are in the front. No, we have eight of them, 4IN
front, four and back with all the mice associated with them.
We have three around us, three mice around us and we're going
to make our way forward and up and explore the rest of this
place. So, so as you guys make your
way, you you've assembled, it's going to take some time to,
like, coordinate how everyone's going up.
What you quickly realize is that none of these mice minions have
ever gone beyond the doors into Room 6.
The, the autonomy. The automatons, that is where
they had their birth, so they're fully capable.
And so as you go through this door, you enter into a workshop.
A Smith, as you would say, sweltering heat.
Sparks are flying everywhere and you see sitting at a desk much
larger than any of you a turtle. You know it's a turtle because
all you see is its shell and then you see a big green arm and
hand lift up, swing down a large hammer.
As this hammer strikes, sparks fly and you see stitches all
over his arm as this is a patchwork turtle minion.
And as that last hammer strikes, he stands up and he turns
around. And he looks, he says.
Oh. Master, this is great.
I have something and he walks up to you with a belt and this belt
it's known as the shock belt and it it charges just via ambient
static electricity and once per day you can discharge the shock
that is in the belt for D8 damage that if it.
Goes beyond the HP, it hits the dexterity instead of the
strength, and he goes, this is a great item.
It is yours. You can charge it.
We could charge it with our charged ability, yeah.
So shock belt once and you said once per day.
Yep. Once per day you can.
You you can discharge the the stored electric energy in it for
D8 damage. Yeah, I definitely throw that
on. Thank you.
I do you Smith. Yes, that's just me, is there?
And then he looks. He goes.
Oh, you have. Quite the, he said.
And he looks at you. He goes.
Oh, you look different. Where are your robes?
You know. I just, yeah, wanted a different
look. I'm trying something new, you
know? It's a good look.
Trash trash bags are nice. You know what?
It's definitely it's in right now for sure.
So thank you for that. He says.
Would you like me to? Would you like me to get back
back to work? I've got something fun I've
concocted. I can get back to work at it if
you'd like. Yes, please.
What is it? And also no what is it?
He he, he like grabs and as he reaches you see that there are a
bunch of like containers of of fulgaite crystals, and there's a
good number of them, but what he grabs is a blade.
Imagine just like one of those Exacto knives and he says I
think I've got this and he like, takes a Fulguright crystal and
he just begins to like hammer the Fulguright crystal into the
blade And then and he says if you come back in in about an
hour this will be ready. I call it Lightning Blade.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Get to work. Work hard on that, Sir.
He says. Oh, I will.
Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool.
I mean, do we just want to hang out for an hour?
And and what, what? What's the what do you think?
The lightning. Blades going to work on the
lightning crow or everything lightning he's working on
lightning bugs and everything so far.
Let's just see. We'll have it.
You know what? We'll tell him he needs to make
armies where he needs to make 27 of those lightning blades.
You can do it in a little over a day, they'll be ready for
afterwards. Yeah, he's in his sleep or take
breaks. He's literally gone dead, right?
Oh yeah, there's no OSHA or not in the undead Electro wizard.
So so after after about 8 hours of this he says oh master I'll
be back and he starts making his way up to go towards the room
with the beds. He's clearly going to need to be
recharged. You guys get that, You recharge
it. It's been 27 hours.
Fast forward. You've slept.
You've you've enjoyed a game of poker with an undead mouse.
So if we've taken a long rest. Yeah, Yeah, so, so, so, so you
can replenish those those strength, strength scores.
Now you have an army equipped with Lightning blades.
I don't know where he got 27 Xacto knives, but I I freaking
love it. So we're just going to.
Go, I have a question. Do we just go take over the call
on me instead? Like.
We got to get the guard. Why are we Why are we going to
destroy the Electro brain? Well, let's go.
Just take a look at it. Yeah, let's.
Go see. Let's go say hi, yeah, yeah,
let's go look at it now. Like, did he only make 27?
Because I feel like 30 would be better.
Yeah, yeah, he made. He made 29 so that all.
He has one now too. He made 30.
I see you guys each have lightning.
Blades now butter in Norwood. There is enough if you would
like them. I'll take one.
My my entourage is a meat shield, so he doesn't need one.
So so the Lightning Blade it's. It just does D6 damage.
It takes one item slot. But you can elect to discharge
its electricity by blowing all of its huges dots and it deals
D6 per usage dot. So you could do first strike 3D6
the swords gone, but potential of 18 damage.
Boom. Yeah, I'm good.
I'm gonna just use my minions that have I have I I technically
have like 27 lighting blades. So we we we have 27 lighting.
Yeah. The royally.
The white and white family. Yeah, so yeah, let's just let's
go, let's explore the rest of the thing with our minions of
lightning bladed undead, autontons and and Meese's.
Yeah, let's we can Recon to the In those thirty hours that he
was doing this, you explored room 5 and you found that room 5
was just like the previous recharge room.
You were able to explore all those tiny little tunnels in
room, too. You've got enough crystals now
that that you've got you've got some money.
Did you want to explore the Eel Room at all during those 30
hours? Sure, I feel like.
I feel like an automaton versus the eel would have been a fun
thing to watch, yeah. So, so we'll see you through a
couple of automatons down the water, the first one that when
the water short circuited. Yeah, and then the eel came up
and just took a bite out of it. But while that was happening,
you were able to get to the doorway behind the eel.
As the eel is just fighting the short circuiting automaton in
that door. It was a.
Cramped, dark chamber. It was silent and devoid of all
sound, devoid of all electricity.
It's dark, but there's a stone plinth hewned from a stalagmite
that is in the center of the room, fashioned to look like a
giant thunderhead cumulonimus cloud.
And there is A and there's a marble that's sitting on it.
And it's it's got like a groove and it it it's just it's so
mesmerizing to look at. It almost looks as there's like
wisps of clouds swirling around in it.
We take it. Yeah, you've got it.
It's. It's known as the cloudy marble.
Cool. Cloudy marble.
So that all happened in those in in those thirty hours you guys
get to the door. You go to open it, the door is
locked. Oh.
There it is. Wait, sorry, which door?
The door out from the cloudy marble.
No, no. From.
From the yeah, that goes into, yeah, the door is locked.
There's no keyhole, and there seems to be no doorknob either.
There's just a little like push. But it is.
The door to open. How do you do?
That I like to roll Charisma. This is into the odd, not
electric, bastion land. Yeah.
You said there's like a like a push like a a button.
I can put like. A No, no, it's it's.
It's more just like like a a metal rectangle that looks like.
You should just push there. I think our strong turtle boy
should go to work at this door. Where is the door?
Is it the one that's at the bottom of 6 or?
Yeah, right where the mouse is. OK, yeah.
So like could I we can we can charge ourselves and discharge
it into the door. It's true.
Is that a thing we could try? Do we want to try that?
It's got metal part on this kind.
I was thinking so. Yeah, and as you do.
That was the thing that unlocks the door.
The door unlocks, opens up, and you guys make your way into a
large room. There's big, like, like cooling
chambers and conductors, and there is a copper piece of of
pipe that goes up, curls over, and you can look and you see
about two feet above you there's a small cat walk.
No, no cats on it. A mouse walk that makes its way.
Into the darkness, we send Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3.
So unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, they all make their way up.
It takes a couple minutes, You don't hear anything, and then
all at once you hear it. Thunder claps.
You see lightning shocks. You see bodies flung and thrown,
hitting the wall. One falls down, plops down at
your feet, just this huge discharging crack as lightning,
just like fizzles and sizzles all throughout the room.
And what you see as you're looking up.
And then on the big flash, it cast the silhouette of a very
large Raven. I yelling number. 2.
No, Well, shit. It's going great.
So does my marble react at all? It does not.
I'm gonna climb up this copper piping thing.
Yeah, it's not. Can I do so in a stealthy
manner? Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
I would say between all of the combat that's taking place,
whatever is causing that would be enough distraction that you
would be able to sneak your way up to to to catch a look.
Cool. So here's.
The thing maybe I should have sent 3 units at one time, maybe
one was enough. So that's unfortunate.
You know I can't. I can't reply.
I'm climbing up a bike so I can. Hear you say we have a dude who
can make them. I can get us some new people.
I feel like we need to. Our recruitment strategy after
this? Yeah.
Don't do worry about it. Well.
Are the bodies destroyed? Are they destroyed?
No. You could probably put them back
together, but it would take some time.
We're good. We're good.
Yeah, but we got a turtle. But.
Where are the Ides, man, you know, Look.
We'll practice our fiber arts skills as we sell them back
together. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So I climb up. What do I see?
Yeah, you you see in the room, you look and there seems to be a
storm with inside this transformer.
A storm is just swirling around as it howls.
And then you see there's a glass tube, and within the glass tube
there's a brain, and the brain is suspended by two arcing bolts
of electricity. And it's flashing and and the
brain seems to be pulsating with the electricity.
And you notice at the base of this tube there is the skeletal
remains of some avian creature. Hmm.
OK, OK. So brain pulsing inside glass
tube, yes. Human sized bird sized brain.
How long? What are you going to say?
Human sized brain or bird sized brain?
Bird sized brain. The plot thickens.
Yeah, you know I'm going to stealthily climb back down and
relay what I have seen. Yeah, I think we have two
options. You can just destroy it or try
to put one of our brains in there.
OK. Well, you guys are just going
down the path. I don't know I can follow you
on, you know, here. Here's the thing.
What if it is what's creating the whole Lightning situation?
Well, I'm sure it's creating the storm outside, but at this point
the lightning situation if for the undead is being caused by
that tablet. So we'll need the bigger storm.
No. Yeah.
The bigger storm, the bigger storm keeps people away from
this place. But we sort of want people to
come. You know what?
I'm going to eat that brain, actually.
New plan. We eat the brain.
We build a colony around this and this is this is the God
tower. All I'm saying is I do like this
place. It's got the the layout could be
a little bit more open, but honestly a full open floor plan
is extremely overrated. I wouldn't mind being here for a
while. I'm OK with this storm.
Outside, where are we going with this?
Like what are we thinking here? Like is that is that is it
really hurting anything? So let's put my brain in there
then. That's what I'm saying.
One of our brains needs to be in there.
OK. Is brains in there.
I like. I like.
You're a job king here. I recruit people to come.
We have ourselves a real good thing going.
But butter like you. I mean, do you?
What? I'm not going to.
But I I will, you know, I will rise to like an ethereal
lightning being. Because at this point, if other
mice in the world are like y'all, I don't know.
I want to be here. So.
Oh my God. Like whereas you don't.
Want to just sacrifice yourself to become a?
Yeah, no, I think it's good. I like we're gonna psychopath
this situation here like. That is exactly what we're doing
right now. I want to start this and it's
very rare that we do take this path, so for maybe for this one
time. Just bleed.
All the way in. So here's the thing, Mehta.
At the end, I was pretty much kind of go that direction
anyway. Be like you're with me or you're
against me, us, us. Oh, you.
Were. Oh, for sure.
Yeah, yeah. I was going to follow my brother
to the end, so it was a given. Yeah, and lost the island's
purgatory. So, you know, just other massive
twists around every corner. But here's The thing is, we have
to. We have to like if we destroy
the glass, glass won't be there. So sticking a brain in doesn't
do anything. It's not like glass is a diamond
doesn't for us. We can't just like, go get a new
bell jar, we. Don't get a silly glass in every
fucking corner. There has to be a way that it
got. In.
Yeah. Did I notice an opening?
From your vantage point, all you were able to see was the brain
suspended by the electrical arcs in that glass and then the
carcass. But.
Good. I was going to say with a closer
look you might be able to to find an opening.
I think that we. Have limited time.
If we get up there, we'll get up there and we'll make do with
whatever option we have. But it when it comes down to it,
we can just break the glass and work on repairing it so that I
can ascend to godhood. I think, I think factions 4
through 8 plus our honor guard. We just need to bum rush.
It will focus on killing the minions, which we will replace.
Right. Love it.
Okay, I'll start a cult with a new religion about
reincarnation. It'll be great.
So you guys make your way up there with this, with this
undead horde of electrified mice as you slowly creep into the
room. You begin to see just lightning
start to like curl and arc off of the different corners of the
room as then they coalesce all towards the brain and then
bursting forth this specter. Full of lightning in the shape
of a crow just makes the the most violent caca you have ever
heard as it just begins to pulse lightning out of its body,
sweeping many of the minions to the left.
Many of the minions to the right and it's glowing blue white
arcing eyes see the crystal on the helm and it locks eyes
through the. The party at you and we are in
combat and the way this is going to work because you have a army
chances are you're going to take this thing down so you guys can
have the jump on it. And for for you didn't quite
have a war band, but which in Mouseford are a war band, is 40
mice and but. Yeah, so we'll it with all of us
and all eight automatons. If we hadn't killed the other
ones, we would add 30. Did the automatons count as more
than one mouse though? Yeah, probably, but.
But they wouldn't have been able to get up here anyway.
Yeah, nine of them. Oh, no automatons up here.
Yeah, they're not going to be able to get up here.
What if we had all of the mice like stack up on the copper coil
and you know? OK, let's Yeah, let's just play
the game. Let's not be those players.
All right. I'm just War Z this shit, you
know? Anyway, Yes.
Yeah. Tons were down there.
We had what? How many mice left?
We had the 27 -, 18 mice. Yeah, 18.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to break him to three
groups of 6, and those three groups of six will each have 6HP
and they will independently take hits as well.
And then, yeah, and then it's then it's you guys.
So do you want your minions to go first and then you and then
this guy or do you want to go you guys first spectral beast,
then your minions so you can kind of book at him?
How do you, how do you guys want to do combat?
I'm down for minions 1st and then us.
Minions first. OK.
See I.
Think if we can just kill this in one round before.
Yep, perfect. Continue to wreck on the 30
hours we were here. Was there a big armor in this
place at all, like? No, but what you probably could
do if you wanted to and and and you were using your time this
way, those metal tables, I'm just imagining they're like dog
tags and so you could like take it and then like wrap the copper
coils around you and I'd say you you don't have done that.
Wouldn't have done that. And also, you don't want that
we're fighting a lightning beast.
Yeah, sounds like an awfully I for sure 100% have at least one
or two of these guys literally as like mouse Shields in front
of me all the time though for sure.
Awesome. Awesome.
OK. So say something different
that's probably less gross. So, so combat begins, and the
first group of of undead mice with their lightning blades,
they run up to this thing. Do they know how to use these
lightning blades? Have you as like sentient?
Have you taught them how to do like a full discharge on them?
I can imagine if they had a usage and someone made it for us
that we would have like at least taught them how to use them.
Perfect. They're going to roll 3D6 and
just fully well. They're not Mpc's that I
control. They're Mpc's that you control.
No, we would have. Gone all at once.
Try to overload this thing. OK so it is going to take from
the first wave 3D6 for a total of 11 damage and on that first
hit it is going to need to make a strength save.
I love it and it has a strength of 6.
You still have that? He rolled the five.
But can he survive? Another.
Three more D6. That's eight.
The Spectre fizzles and is gone. OK.
Oh my God. Look.
To the sea. We want to see if this thing we
can get a brain inside. You look around and.
You you can't figure out how the brain got in there.
What you do notice upon closer examination, as you're looking,
you couldn't see it from where your vantage point was at first,
just the way that electricity was arcing on this thing.
But the brain itself is wearing a crown.
Perfect. And the crown has like, this big
lightning bolt on it. Amazing.
Yep. I would listen to Crown.
If I don't get to understand the God hood, I'll wear the crown.
And that would be. I don't know what it does, but I
at least assume it does something.
No, I'll take it as a crown. You're wearing a helmet already?
My. Arm will help me take the crown.
As you are trying to figure out how to get in, you begin to see
lightning arc from all the corners of the room.
And with a thunderous clap. A.
Spectral Lightning Crow reappears and with one foul
swoop it deals 20 damage to one of the the the units in one of
your units is completely fried. You all turn back around to see
this thing, like charging up its body.
That takes us to butter. What do you do?
I smash the glass. OK, you shattered the glass and
as the glass begins to rain, electricity is now arcing in
every direction. The brain is almost like
rotating as there's so much electrical energy coursing
through it. Wormwood.
It is your turn. I'm.
Calling for the crown, Smart. OK, make a deck save.
Five on A7. Okay, you're able to get in
there, and as you reach for it, it arcs electricity right into
your body. But because of your voltic
glands, you only take D4 damage, which I roll the four, you take
4 damage. I'm still at HP2.
Okay, you are able to grab the crown and and as you grab the
crown you can hear the Thunder and the lightning.
Outside this building or this transformer, it's getting
quieter. It's as if like the storm is
dissipating pedal. I hold it to my brother.
Pedal. What do you do?
Well, so we're combat is still happening and shit's going
crazy, right? Yeah, as he's grabbing that
thing, I race forward and I want to like take my caramet and just
like leap towards the brain and just dig into the brain with my
crampet and then pump. If I have poisons, I do a poison
in the spider Fang and everything, right?
I just slam the the spider Fang into the brain and just tear
down and pump it full of as much poison as I can.
As you do, the brain like goes from it's, it's, it's pinkish
color and it like. Slowly begins to shrivel and
turn black as it begins to look like a Raisin electricity arcing
in every direction. You're going to take 3D four.
They're all impaired as it as it shocks you.
It does a total of 10 damage to you as lightning is just boom,
boom boom. I rolled A4, a three, and a
three on on on those 3 impaired attacks, but you're, I'm
assuming, body. What's your strength?
My strength is a nine. Make a strength save real quick.
That's really terrible. I roll an 8.
Somehow you like able to like. And you have this, like
shriveled brain in your hand. You're still up.
You pull your crammed it from it.
You look and and the bird just lets out this this nasty cry of
of despair as it begins to electrocute out.
It's going to deal D12 to both of those units.
Let's see. Boom.
Two damage to 111 damage to the other unit 3.
It's completely wiped out. Unit 1 is is is standing to
their feet still you look and the crown that was in Wormwood's
hand is now beginning to like, glow this this metallic white
kind of glow as the bird is now just like it's no longer
attacking. It's like flailing against the
walls, just like bouncing all over this room, lightning arcing
everywhere. You're able to get and cover the
marble that was in your backpack.
It's beginning to swirl more and more and more.
The lightning ball that's bouncing around this room
disappears. So.
Can I can I put the crown on now or?
Yeah, you can put the crown on. I'm asking Wormwood.
Oh, got you, got you. I like to my brother and I like
to to butter and I like to the crown.
And you put it on. Yeah, no, I feel like we got to
make a debt. I feel like we got to who's
going to grab it. I have it in my hand.
Oh, I grab it and. Put it on.
You're trying to grab it for me to put it on, yeah.
Is there contested? Is there contested saves in?
Oh yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Contexted strength saves. So, so each of you D20 at or
under your strength, and we're going to go whoever rolls the
lowest between you. If you both fail the tug of War
of it, you both fall and it like launches it up cartoon style in
the air and Fennel would be able to grab it.
I rolled exactly my strength. OK. 11 I dropped it on the
floor. I dropped it on the floor.
I rolled 14. Butter is able to snatch the
crown out of Wormwood's hand, and as he puts it on his head,
you hear a voice. OK, no.
I'll stop for a voice. You hear a voice only in your
head. It's not audible to anyone else
and it says So you wish to be the Storm King?
A Well, you're not, but as long as you wear my crown, I will
grant you my powers. And what you are hearing is the
voice emanating from within the marble.
You are now the Storm King. And you know that you can
control weather at any given location as this is all
happened. Yeah.
As the voice subsides. Butterfields A spider Fang enter
his back into his kidney and pump him full of spider poison.
All right, roll AD 6 + 1. Do I get an extra D6 for the
poison? Yeah.
I got A5 and A3OK88. Damage comes coursing through
into your kidneys, but unbeknownst to anyone's eyes,
the electricity that's now coursing through butter's body
is beginning to push the venom back out through the very end,
like the entry room with which it came.
He takes the stab. You are going to take some of
some of the strength damage. I need you to make a strength
save for me. How much the Strength damage am
I taking? What was your HP?
Five. My she's 303, so yeah, so it's
going to be the eight damage, but I'm going to cut it in half,
so it's four. So you took one strength damage,
so I need 9 or less with your strengths if.
As he's trying to push the poison out, it's a whisper in
his voice. It says no one steals from my
brother. I fail, OK?
Like I thought you were a worthy wearer.
But it appears there is another. That's exactly how tyrants are
born. Y'all.
As all of this is happening as all this is.
Beginning to happen, the alighting begins to arc off of
all the corners of the room, and the spectral bird comes.
Back and it begins to bounce wildly and then you all see
it's. This these avian bones laying
amongst the shattered glass and the lightning just keeps trying
to like, jump down through the bones as if it's trying to like,
retake physical form, at which point it sees all of you.
It sees the crown and this spectral lightning crow perches
and looks at you. It's eyes full of pain, full of
despair, but also full of submission.
We. Did it, guys?
I mean, I'm all for unconscious dying, but we we did it guys.
Yeah, at this point. At this point you are in control
of your own destinies. You have the Storm King, Storm
King's crown, and potentially as long as you keep those bird
bones alive, or at least not destroyed, you have a spectral
crow and an army of undead. You can do whatever you want.
I feel like so someone listening needs to have a mouse rider
campaign going against our. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I think there's a few people from my game in the chat.
This is happening. Real time simultaneous.
We're actually 3 hexes over from this, so y'all might have to
like to take down these guys. This is awesome, funny dude.
Yeah, so that's butter's not dead.
Right, I did seem to pass no. No, no.
We'll. We'll.
Repair our friendships. Yeah, well listen, if he.
I was just going to revive his body anyway, he said.
He wanted us to use his brain. I was gonna say, yeah, you could
just put his brain. He's already there for you.
Does that benefit us in any way to stick the brain back into
that situation? I mean if if you.
Put the crown on the brain like it was there.
Would continue to be the ever storm in this location, but if
you keep the crown on you, you can bring the storm wherever you
want. I think we just need to make
mech bodies. I think butter deserves a mech.
Body. I'm going to gather people.
To the to here, so we have an infinite.
Army it's just. So so am I, rocking the crown
and the and the can I fashion them together?
Into like the. Undead create thing and the
Storm King thing, Yeah. Oh yeah.
And we'll just say like you
could take anything like the shell of the turtle and put the
the lightning gem in it and make this like plus five armor that
repul like yeah, you guys are gods at this point.
Cool, sick. I love it, but now how pissed is
butter at me that I stabbed? Him is the question.
Are you still I? Mean at least.
So yeah, I think if he woke up in a body.
That wasn't his. You know.
He'd be more upset, probably. All right, so listen.
Here's the thing. I am the Storm King.
And I control that. Army of undead but.
My generals are well taken care of because I'm not trying to get
Ed to brutate like I had to brutate you.
So you take the chairs, buddy. You know you do.
You and. And this is now our Kingdom.
And I like, I like that I at some point I'd like to.
Or get get the turtle to craft. Some type of maybe like?
Throne underneath the crow in the downstairs room.
Yeah, for sure. Easy.
Yeah. And two other are almost as
equally big. Every.
Every night. As as you go to lay down on
whatever stone slab you're gonna have as a bed in here, you hear
that voice in your head as you're wearing the crown.
Don't forget, you may think you're the king, but again, I
repeat, you only are occupying that seat until I can return.
Yeah, but I have him in a marble.
So you do. You do?
Yeah. So he may never return.
So. Yeah.
So Vicky, you're good dog. Yeah, and I think that's a good.
Place to wrap is that's. A great place to wrap me on the
throne, my brother. With like this marble.
Controlling the Storm King from coming back and my number one
general butter begrudging general you know yeah has.
This perpetual kind of like ache when the Thunder strikes.
Outside in his, In his. Kid in the area.
I love it and that's. Shattered.
Range from mouse. Rider, dude.
I great one. I'm gonna.
Cut the music.
Get rid of this. Brian, Brian By.
The way. Great fucking adventure.
This was super fun. Yeah, yeah.
Brian is known for writing some of the greatest mouse for
adventures I've ever seen, and they're beautiful.
And I think it just came as of today, all of Brian's stuff is
in prints. It's like Rizzo print and you
can purchase physical copies. I think at at Indie Press
Revolution, which is pretty dope.
I saw Indie press just recently dropped the tweet and I.
Went on and saw. That and then when I was finding
all the links to this. Again, I saw Brian had had put
it out with like a slightly different cover and there's like
a bunch of other stuff as well, but like.
I when we reviewed it, I'm. I mean, I know we rated it
pretty highly, but this is such a good fun.
Game What's interesting too? Is like, we've only been going
for like a little bit more than two hours.
It feels like they did a ton. And as soon as we hit the combat
in the room, my brain immediately went to like, I
don't know if we're going to get far enough.
And it's like, no, but like, it's so fast.
It's so brutal. It's so quick like.
It's what makes systems like this lineage work.
Well, it makes it so. You can do a 2/2 and 1/2 hour
tight session, which is my preferred.
Yeah, yeah, two 2, 1/2 hours, that's what you and you fill it.
You fill it as much, if not more than a.
Three hour 4. Hour session, Yeah, we just
screwed around with so much like, Oh yeah, we just so much
not. I mean, almost all of it was
nonsense, you know? Yeah.
And. The other thing that's.
Great too is that. First of all, the non hit roll
is really winning me over. It was nice to just steal the
damage and move on. But second like as far as like
the quote UN quote OSR. As much as what everyone to say
with that. This style of gaming where
combat's not great and dice isn't like the greatest thing to
roll. Not having some type of like
balanced epic 4 hour finale. Fight was.
Awesome. Since we literally did probably
the best thing we could have done as a group and built an
undead fucking army to just win anyway, and it was just as fun
and cool and awesome to like, put yourself in the best
situation possible and then and then win without having to make
it some type of like war of attrition against a sponge for
three hours. Yeah, it's so true.
It's so true. And it lends itself to to like
Isaac in the book. There's there's a one shot
adventure that you can do in like an hour and a half to to
two hours. It's perfect, same thing.
Then he released Honey and the Rafters, which is a great
introduction adventure that you can play.
It lends itself so well to one shots.
But I as I was saying before the stream, I'm in a campaign that
we started back in 2020 and it's still going like so there is
longevity. It's it's a great game.
I love it. Such a good game if you, if you
are watching this or if you're watch this now go.
Check out. I believe it was episode.
We reviewed Mouse Rider on episode 92, so we'll dig deep
into the rule set and and you'll hear our probably terrible takes
on it, myself and Hunter. Definitely check out all of
Matt's stuff. You Matt has written a ton of
stuff for a ton of things, but definitely a lot of mouse
fitter. I have a couple.
I have a couple of the burn pile things right here from Matt.
So Matt, where can everyone find all of your stuff?
Yeah so thanks for that. Shout out itch dot io if you
just search Manadon tabletop games.
I'll pull up the link here and I can post it in the chat of.
This video and I'll have it all in the description as well.
Perfect. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, just Manadonttg. Dot itch dot io all of my mouse
reader stuff's up there which is pushing I think 80 different
supplements at this point. Crazy.
And then and then also Galvin archives here for anyone that
might not know who. Galvin Archives is can you tell
us just a quick bit on how you're famous and awesome and
where they are. So I I wrote a game called
Liminal Horror which has a lot of similar veins of.
Play and different themes but style of play the kind of let
this while it's like I love these kind of lineage because
you get 2 1/2 hour sessions that are great minds modern horror
humans. You know, I joked around doing a
mouse or a liberal horror supplement sometimes.
I will someday, but yeah, so I write games for that which are
and which are super awesome, by the way.
Go get lemon or whore. It's ridiculously awesome.
Yeah, it's. It's absolutely fantastic.
I know the blue just dropped, right?
Yeah, it is gonna be in. Space Penguin within the next
few weeks. Yeah.
And then we'll have a couple other things.
And then we're working on the Deluxe edition.
Matthew had a thing that came. Out where to?
Release those pamphlet adventures we kick started
hopefully in the near future. So just there's a lot of stuff
coming up for it. So if you like modern horror, it
is spooky season. It is, in fact, spooky season I
am. We'll wait to announce that, but
maybe you'll see some limit of horror coming up shortly.
Here, here on the show. We'll see, and this has been
side Quest. This is part of the Weekly
Scroll and the Weekly Scroll podcast.
Again, we will be running adventures in games that we have
reviewed. We're going to have a rotating
cast of GM's and players. A lot of people either as part
of the adventure archive, part of the podcast.
Obviously, Hunter will always be here and.
But a rotating cast of of great people in the in the community
such as Gublin archives here and people like Matt running the
adventures and again Josh Damanski who is another big part
of the Alumno horror will be running a lot of the games
because they're also a fantastic gym.
Matt. So much fun.
Amazing job being our mouse master.
Absolutely great job. Thank you.
It was a lot of fun.
Great adventure from. Brian, definitely go to.
I PR and buy a lot of their stuff.
I. I now I'm going to go buy all of
it of course and and I think that is side quests Episode 2.
I'm not I think I know what side quests Episode 3 is.
We're going to save that for a little bit to announce that.
And as far? As it might be up before then,
if you're going to watch your episode this weekend, we're
actually going to have Christian Sorrell on.
And we are going to be reviewing Dark Grail.
From God on My brain is just break trollish delver games.
I believe it is. It's Scott Malthouse doing.
It's a small Arthurian horror game that's really fun.
And for all of October, the plan right now is to do spooky shit.
So everything in October will be in some way shape or form horror
related, including the side quest as part of it.
So stick around for that. Find us all on all of our stuff
at our link tree, the weekly scroll and I believe that's it.
Did I miss anything, Hunter? No, I was just laughing about
the fact that you literally stabbed me in the back.
Oh, for sure. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah. And I would do.
It again you. Guys all have a wonderful night.
Thank you all for playing. Goodbye everybody.
I love it.