Session 070: Exploding Fire Skeletons Report

The party returns to Dierde and face an exploding skeleton.

General Summary

 
04/13/2024
Wild Cards
 

Redfall 17, 2023 KC, sunrise

  Floating Keep of Tharros Near Outding   Recap
A species of creatures has long been Dead and someone was erasing knowledge of it from all sources.   After dying from a magical trap, the party's consciousness was transported to a conversation between the Deities Bast and Silvanus before being revived in a magical bubble created by Bast herself. She explained that she saved them to enlist their help in repairing the **Orb of Eberron** and their weapons, which were being tracked by Ursa. Bast said their assistance was crucial to a ritual that would help save her people. To do this, they were taken to an **Arcane Forge**, a magical forge of the Spellweavers, where they underwent a test to receive the **Mark of the Adventurer**, a rare magical boon. After passing the test, each party member received a unique mark and a new ability.   The party then used their marks to power a machine with a **Silver Flame**, which allowed the **warforged** **Amalgam** to repair the **Orb of Eberron**. As he worked on the orb, a **Warforged Titan** fell from a stalactite and attacked them. They defeated the titan, and Amalgam, with the newly restored orb, reforged their weapons, imbuing each with a unique magical property. Finally, Amalgam used a Gem and a different orb to transport the party back to their home realm. They returned to find the tunnels to the basement blocked, and they were joined by the Warforged and their companions, who would accompany them to Thornwinds.  
 
 
   

Summary

The party began their session by selecting new magical abilities, with Bastion choosing investigation proficiency, Shadow selecting the Druid cantrip Thornwick, and Calliope considering sleight of hand expertise. They discussed the mechanics of various spells, particularly Eldritch Blast and its scaling properties.   Upon returning to their ship, they learned from a tired Drow crew member about a disturbing incident that had occurred while they were away. A mysterious figure with a wooden face had attacked one of their passengers, severing her arm with what appeared to be a lightsaber-like weapon before leaping overboard into the clouds below. The stolen arm contained a contraption that was believed to be connected to the Hand of Vecna, a powerful artifact that could potentially Awaken the dark lord himself.   In the ship's quarters, they witnessed the awakening of a Warforged named Gearlock, who had been revived when his companion Amalgam inserted a magical orb into his chest. The reunion was emotional, with the two Warforged embracing after years of separation. Gearlock and Amalgam explained their mission to study prophecies across different realms, particularly the similarities between their world's prophecies and those of the party's realm. They planned to visit a secret library hidden within the planet to research these connections further.   Iggy, the Dragonborn, shared crucial information from Tharizdun's journal with the party. The journal revealed that Tharizdun had been experimenting with capturing creatures to steal their powers, including a Doppelganger whose shape-changing abilities he coveted. The research also detailed his failed attempts to harness the regenerative properties of six-armed creatures and his interest in using orbs to transport dragons to other realms. Most concerning was his study of the Orb of Arktos, which he believed could be used to trap and transport the sleeping Dragon mentioned in prophecy.   The party decided to continue exploring Thoros's mysterious house, starting with retrieving a Portable Hole that was magically attached to a wall. Bastion successfully dispelled the magical runes holding it in place, allowing them to collect the device, which compressed into a small, putty-like ball that could be thrown to create a large hole for storage.   On the second floor of the house, they discovered a black Obsidian music box playing a haunting melody. Shadow recognized the tune as being associated with a dangerous bardic song that supposedly brought divine retribution to those who sang it. They also found magical hot water stones that could be carefully collected in ceramic containers, along with various rooms including a bathroom and storage areas.   Their exploration led them to the upper floors of an attached tower, where they encountered experimental equipment including large vats of colored liquids that mixed and flowed through pipes. The setup was reminiscent of the alien autopsy experiment they had discovered in the basement earlier. Unfortunately, their investigation was interrupted when Calliope began drawing a mustache on a large Skeleton displayed in the room.   The Skeleton suddenly burst into flames and came to life, attacking the party with fiery assaults. The battle was intense, with the creature's flames causing significant damage to anyone who came too close. Shadow peppered it with arrows from a safe distance while Bastion engaged in melee combat despite the burning damage. Calliope protected herself with magical wards, and Sas attempted to use her spore abilities against the undead creature. The Skeleton eventually exploded in a shower of burning Bone fragments, injuring most of the party before finally being destroyed.   After healing their wounds, the party continued to the very top of the tower, where they discovered a sophisticated telescope pointed at the night sky. Bastion peered through it and observed a dark orb floating in space, which appeared to be one of the Sargosas - mysterious black holes that surrounded their Sun. Nearby notes revealed that Thoros had been studying these cosmic phenomena and their potential use in trapping entities.   The most disturbing discovery came when a Message began writing itself in blood on a mirror in the room. The crimson letters spelled out "We found him. See you soon." Bastion recognized this method of communication from their previous encounter with an Imp named Lickik, whom they had freed from a magical prison. When Bastion attempted to respond by writing his own Message in blood, the mirror replied with "Can't talk more now," confirming that someone was indeed trying to communicate with them through magical means.   Before departing the floating island, the party spoke with the Gnome brothers who had decided to remain behind to study the island's unique composition. The brothers had discovered that the entire landmass was shot through with unusual metallic structures - straight, angular beams of Metal with an oily, rainbow-like Sheen similar to black abalone. Unlike typical Metal veins found in Earth, these formations appeared to be randomly scattered throughout the island like a pile of jumbled sticks, suggesting the island might have artificial origins.   The party prepared to leave the island, with Yiggy receiving a new mechanical gauntlet to replace her severed arm. The Gnome brothers assured them they could contact the party through their magical communication stones when their commissioned Armor was complete. The Ship's Captain received the remaining payment of one thousand Gold pieces for the successful journey.   As Dawn broke, the ship lifted off using magical blue stones for propulsion and began its journey toward Thornwinds. They flew through the night and touched down on the ocean's surface as they approached their destination, wanting to avoid drawing attention by flying directly into a civilized port. The careful navigation through the harbor revealed the remnants of what had once been a massive statue - only the legs and a fragment of torso remained standing, with debris scattered throughout the water including the head of a stone Dragon emerging from the waves like a sea serpent. The port itself showed a stark contrast between wealthy and impoverished areas, with no clear division between the two extremes.  

Scenes

Character Cantrip Selection

The party discusses which cantrips they will select for their characters
  • Bastion considers taking Investigation proficiency
  • Shadow chooses Thornwick, a Druid cantrip
  • Calliope considers taking Sleight of Hand proficiency
  • Discussion about expertise and proficiency bonuses

    • Warforged Reunion

    A Warforged awakens after being inserted into a device, reuniting with his companions and discussing their quest for knowledge about prophecies.
  • Warforged inserts an orb into a chest
  • Warforged's eyes open and he takes a deep breath
  • Warforged reunites with his companions
  • Gearlock and Amalgam discuss searching for information about prophecies

    • Exploring Tharizdun's Journal

    The party reviews a journal from Tharizdun, learning about his experiments with capturing creatures and their powers
  • Iggy shares details from Tharizdun's journal about capturing a Doppelganger
  • Discussion of Tharizdun's research on six-armed creatures with regenerative abilities
  • Exploration of Tharizdun's interest in orbs and transporting dragons

    • Preparing to Explore the Tower

    The party discusses their next steps and prepares to investigate the tower further
  • Characters discuss getting supplies
  • Decision to continue exploring the house
  • Retrieving the Portable Hole from the wall

    • Exploring Thoros's House - Second Floor

    The party explores the second floor of Thoros's house, discovering a music box, hot water stones, and various rooms.
  • Discovered a black Obsidian music box playing a mysterious melody
  • Found hot water stones that could be collected in ceramic jugs
  • Explored a bathroom area with food and water facilities
  • Investigated various rooms and potential storage areas

    • Skeleton Battle in the Tower

    The party encounters an animated Skeleton that bursts into flames and attacks them during their exploration of a tower.
  • Calliope draws a half-mustache on the Skeleton
  • The Skeleton comes to life and starts attacking party members
  • Shadow shoots arrows at the Skeleton
  • Bastion attacks with blade song, Haste and True Strike
  • Calliope uses Blade Ward for protection
  • Sas attempts to use spores against the Skeleton
  • The Skeleton hurls a Fireball at Calliope
  • The Skeleton eventually explodes, causing fire and bludgeoning damage to the party
  • The Skeleton is ultimately destroyed

    • Exploring Thoros's Tower Top Floor

    The party investigates the top floor of Thoros's tower, discovering a telescope, mysterious notes, and a magical mirror with a cryptic blood Message.
  • Bastion looks through a telescope observing a black orb in space
  • Shadow and Barlo find a trapped chest with various treasures
  • A mysterious blood Message appears on a mirror saying 'We found him. See you soon'
  • Bastion attempts to communicate with the mirror by writing a Message in blood
  • The mirror responds with 'Can't talk more now'

    • Discussing Metal Composition of the Floating Island

    The party discusses the unique metallic composition of the floating island with the Gnome brothers before departing.
  • Gnome brothers examine unusual Metal with angular, straight beam-like structures
  • Metal appears to be throughout the entire island
  • Metal described as having an oily, rainbow-like Sheen similar to black abalone
  • Compared to crystalline metals like bismuth

    • Preparing to Depart the Floating Island

    The party prepares to leave the floating island with the Gnome brothers and Yiggy
  • Yiggy helps fit a new gauntlet arm
  • Gnome brothers decide to stay and study the island's metals
  • Party discusses payment and future contact methods
  • Ship prepares to depart using magical blue stones for propulsion

    • Arrival at Thornwinds Port

    The party arrives at Thornwinds port, sailing in carefully through a rocky area with broken statues and debris.
  • Sailed into port in the early morning
  • Navigated through rocky waters with broken statues
  • Received remaining payment of 1000 Gold
  • Observed a mix of rich and poor areas in the port
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    Session Conclusion

      ...   Experience & Leveling
    genesysdice:triumph] Milestone Experience | 2000 ea Total: 102000 (Next Goal: 120,000 ) t   t Group Levels up to Level 12 t     Current Location ...
     

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    2023

    10 (Redfall)

     
  • Redfall 17, 2023 KC
    • The Wild Cards return to Dierde and finish exploring the Floaitng keep
     
    — Timeline of The Mighty Menagerie
       

    Locations

     

    Items of Note

     

    Factions

     

    Misc

     

    Related Reports

    Npcs

    Thoros

    A mysterious researcher whose tower and belongings the party is exploring, with notes about cosmic phenomena and Dragon trapping  

    Yiggy

    A character helping the Gnome brothers fit a new gauntlet arm, appears to be working closely with them  

    Drow Crew Member

    A tired crew member who informs the party about an incident involving a wooden-faced gentleman stealing an arm  

    Gearlock

    A warforge who was recently awakened, interested in learning about prophecies across different realms  

    Amalgam

    Another warforge companion who helps explain their quest for knowledge about prophecies  

    Iggy

    A Dragonborn who shares Tharizdun's journal with the party and provides insights into his research  

    Lickik

    An Imp previously trapped in a statue, seeking the Wizard who cursed him, potentially the sender of the mysterious mirror Message  

    Locations

    Ship's Quarters

    Interior room where the warforge awakens and discusses their mission  

    Tharizdun's House

    A mysterious location with multiple floors and hidden secrets, currently being explored by the party  

    Ship Deck

    The location where the party discusses their character abilities, learns about incidents, and prepares for departure  

    Thornwind Port

    A port city with a mix of wealthy and poor areas, featuring broken statues of legs and a Dragon head emerging from the water  

    Floating Island

    A mysterious island with unique metallic composition, featuring unusual angular Metal structures throughout its terrain  

    Thoros's Tower Top Floor

    A mysterious floor with a telescope, notes about cosmic phenomena, and a magical mirror that communicates through blood writing  

    Tower Upper Floor

    A room with a large Skeleton, vats of colored liquids, potions, and experimental equipment  

    Thoros's House - Second Floor

    A mysterious house with multiple rooms, including a bathroom, storage areas, and a room with a music box  

    Spells

    Haste

    Bastion casts Haste to increase his speed and attack capabilities  

    Blade Ward

    Calliope casts this spell to gain Resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage  

    Investigation

    A skill check used to examine the magical runes on the Portable Hole's frame  

    Thornwick

    A Druid cantrip chosen by Shadow, with a range of 30 feet and damage that scales with level  

    Eldritch Blast

    A ranged spell discussed by the party, which scales with character level and can target multiple enemies  

    Ship Propulsion

    Magical blue stones used to power and lift the ship, activated by spell levels  

    Blood Writing Communication

    An unusual magical method of communication using blood on a mirror, revealing cryptic messages from an unknown sender  

    Healing Spirit

    A healing spell cast to restore some hit points to party members after the Skeleton battle  

    True Strike

    Bastion uses this cantrip to improve his attack accuracy against the Skeleton  

    Items

    Portable Hole

    A magical item attached to a wall with magical runes, capable of expanding into a large hole when deployed  

    Hot Water Stones

    Magical stones that generate hot water, which can be carefully collected in ceramic jugs to prevent explosive pressure  

    Colored Liquid Vats

    Two large vats with red and yellow liquids mixing, creating a glittery substance that flows through pipes  

    Skeleton

    A large animated Skeleton that bursts into flames and attacks the party after being partially drawn on  

    Telescope

    A large astronomical instrument pointing at a black orb in space, with associated notes about cosmic observations  

    Chest

    Contains coins, art objects, an embroidered Silk handkerchief, a Gold locket, a mirror, and a bracelet  

    Magical Mirror

    A four-foot tall mirror with a Gold and wooden frame that can communicate messages through blood writing  

    Gauntlet Arm

    A mechanical arm being fitted by Yiggy for one of the characters, seemingly a custom prosthetic  

    Black Card

    A card that allows access to a merchant network for converting money and selling goods at various ports  

    Hand of Vecna

    A mysterious magical artifact mentioned by the Drow, apparently stolen by a wooden-faced gentleman  

    Mysterious Orb

    An orb inserted into a chest that seems to be part of the warforge's awakening process  

    Tharizdun's Journal

    A journal containing details about Tharizdun's experiments with capturing creatures and their powers, including research on orbs and dragons  

    Black Obsidian Music Box

    A small black Obsidian box playing a mysterious melody associated with a potentially dangerous song that might bring divine retribution to bards

    Notes

    Original Notes

    The players choose their Mark of the Adventurer bonuses.   They realize it is early morning and they've been awake for almost 24 hours. They head to the ship, WIP: Amalgam needs to see WIP: Gearlock.   They see an "outhouse" to the side of the road, and board the ship and the Drow Night Captain, NTO She notifies the party that Garm Pavond attacked Yggdra in her Sleep, cutting of her hand and then leaping overboard.   fall damage table talk
      fall damage homebrew  
     
      This is the hand of an apprentice to Venca from this realm who had some safeguard to bring him back should he die.   Discussion of plans. The gnomes have set up a little building on the island, and still plan to stay here. They learn his weapon was a rapier of "light" that cautarized the cut as it cut off her hand. There was some damage on the ship as the Dragonborn breathed fire on him.   Bastion suggests they go after him. No one knows where he is or where to start. They know they have a deliver to do and if the two adventurers plan to learn more about garm at Thornwinds.   a bit of tabletalk about Relia & Garm Pavond. When Relia apologized, She had said she doesn't trust him and should not get the Spelljamming Helm. Ashla hunting down Bogan.   Bastion wanted to send a Message to Remington. But that seemed to be overlooked...     Barlo takes Amalgam to Gearlock. Barlo clears his stuff off the "mannequin". The orb is insterted, then twisted a few clicks clockwise and locks in place. Vibrations inside that quickly go slient. His eyes open and he awakes, as he is about to pull for a weapon he sees Amalgam. They say it has been some time, he is made aware he is in a different realm. Then the dog comes in. pets it. The flying creature comes in and has a whisper conversation with Gearlock, then flies off.   Barlo asks where they are going and suggests having a discussion in hall where others are. Amalgam says that they want to understand why both these realms have Dragon Prophecies. They seek a secret library at the north pole according to Bast. A network of librarians collect copies of all Books they can and have many authors who create Books for this library. They have a pass if they can get there.   They have a glyphstone and Wish that the automotans to let them know what they find as well as if they know about the hand or Vecna. They say what they know of Vecna is that he has been in both realms and is very evil. Shadow tells them that this hand can possibly bring him back... they say they will look more into it. Shadow suggest they talk to Yggdra and Nissa Silverfrond.   long rest.... wake up near evening.   eat.   Warforged in captain quarters with the other adventurers.   Shadow wonders if gnomes can make arrows, goes downstairs in supply room and grabs some. Calliope grabs some bolts as well.   They then go back to the tower for more exploration.     As they get on the deck they see Yggdra is missing a hand. They are all in a discussion, the passengers and Eberron guests. Yggdra comes over and hands back the Journal of Tharros to Shadow saying she read it.   She tells them how the book has helped her understand that Tharros had found a ritual to take powers from other creatures. One such creature he sought to do this to was a Doppelganger he had captured. He wanted to take her ability to Shapechange and this was one of the last things mentioned in the book, so it was likely the last thing he was working on at the time. While they were waiting for the party they checked into some sources. Seems no one has seen Tharros the Wanderer in over 3 years, he had seemingly had some issues with the Arcane Order. There have been occasional "sightings" which are hard to collaborate since then.   Shadow asked about Jacoby. There were Notes on Spell Weaver Experiment about another experiment, a six-armed creature he sought to take powers from -- it failed in some way. He used an Orb of Mystara to take the regenerative properties and long life from this creature... It might be since the creature had already done 6 splits.   He was studying the Dragon Prophecies, including ideas to use the orbs for... one he felt might hold promise was to find an "empty" orb, one where the orb still held together but the realm had gone pass it's point of singularity somehow... the WIP: Orb of Athas. He would Teleport the Dragon into that world.   Yggdra doesn't understand much of this. She wants to get to Thornwinds to see if she can find Garm Pavond's trail.   table talk: the regeneration/split of a Spellweaver uses a Metal cylindar... If they try a 7th split those will all start anew with no memories.   The party returns to the Keep.  

      The basement is blocked with rubble.   They go to Work on getting the Portable Hole. They open the secret passage. They examine the frame. Bastion Investigates (18) sees slight runes in the Metal Work, it looks to be attached to the wall as if glued... These are runes of power. Bastion is concerned of using Dispel Magic, but if the Portable Hole is an actual magic item and not an item with a spell attached it could Work if the frame is just a spell Enchantment.   He casts Dispel Magic and it makes the frame fall to the ground. They have a unique WIP: Portable Hole  

      As they go up to the second floor they see the magic music box that had been making the music. Calliope picks up the black slab of obsidion. She reckognizes it is the melody to the "Blasphemy Song" (a rhyming song where every verse is an insult to a god. It is usual sung at a speedy pace. Worshipers say any Bard who sings the song will face divine retribution, but for most bards, this wasn’t their last song.)  

      Shadow looks at the food, notices it is not so fresh on the table, but maybe some magic keeps the food fresher where it is stored. She takes some of the stones used in the sink. In some ceramic jugs. 3 of each. After having the first one popping off, she gets another jug to keep them separate. There is a stairwell going up...  

      They find some large vats of liquids with pipes, Potion stuff and a lot of other things...   shadow and Bastion start searching... They find a vial that looks Familiar -- the same as the ones in the box they found on the Dead Dwarf that was for Durnan. Notes of Tharro on Life Longevity about how he had worked on a Potion to give life longevity.   Barlo goes to look at the liquids, the red has the same viscosity and simlar to what was in the basement... bits of "glitter" in the liquid.   The experiment below (probably connect to this) was to take the power from the spellweavers.. it failed.   As everyone searches Calliope starts to draw on the large Skeleton, a moustache... and as she does this flames begin to Light up behind and on it...    
     

      
    

    
Flaming Skeleton
     

    The Battle:

     

    R.1

      Shadow sees the flames coming from the Bone and moving towards Calliope. She screams, jumps on the table, Hunter's Mark and then arrows Fly.   Arktos stays.   Bastion sees the arrows splinter into the bones and then burn off. He Casts Haste, Bladesinger song, and then attacks with his new sword and then casts the cantrip Wizard's True Strike (which adds damage) He takes some fire damage as the flames lick at his arms.   Calliope casts Blade Ward.   Sas runs in and casts Shillelagh, she hits and takes fire damage... uses her spores to attack as well, they are destroyed by the fire.   It creates a flame ball and shoots it at Calliope.   Barlo takes his swipes at it. he also takes fire damage.   It spurts out fire and flames around at all around him.  

    R.2

      Shadow shoots a few arrows. hits. Kills it. Arrow in the Eye Socket   The death of the Skeleton causes it to explode hurting those around it. (Calliope's spell helped her a bit)   
    

☠️ Shadow
      
    

    
t Combat Experience: 84000 (1680 ea) | Total: 101680 (Next Goal: 120,000) t
      Shadow casts Healing Spirit, Calliope also drinks a Potion.   They look for Books and at the potions. MOst of the potions are empty or ruined. They find one that looks almost like old tea, I think they took it.   Sas also casts Cure Wounds for her and Calliope.  

      They go up to the next floor.   As they check the Gate, Barlo checks for traps.   Doesn't see traps. Picks the lock.   Bastion checks out the telescope. It is all black. As he is messing with it, he realizes they were looking at some very dark spot in space, looks like it might be one of the Sargassos.   they also go to check out the treasure chest, Barlo sees a trap. Shadow checks out desk. Barlo cuts the trap. Then picks it.     Coins: 1178 cp, 9975 sp, 1437 gp, 58 pp Art: 6 art objects worth 25 gp each (1 Embroidered Silk handkerchief, 1 Gold locket with a painted portrait inside, 1 Small mirror set in a painted wooden frame, 1 Silver ewer, 1 Cloth-of-gold vestments, 1 Small Gold bracelet)   Shadow looks at the Notes of Tharros on Sargassos. It seems he was studying the Sargassos and there are Notes of Tharros on Bogan about the Ashla & Bogan as the Bogan are working with the Arcane Order to hunt down various magic artifacts. Through them he has learned how the Sargassos has no time and people get stuck there for an eternity. He had plans to put the Dragon into the "empty" orb (WIP: Orb of Athas) and then shoot that into the Sargassos, as he does not want his reality and realm destroyed.   Shadow wonders if this is good or bad, if it will help or not....   she then tells Barlo to put the whole chest into the Portable Hole.   Calliope and Shadow sees a mark appearing on the mirror near Calliope. It looks as if it is blood and says: "We found him! See you soon..."   They watch it as it is written. After a few moments, the droopy bits stay in the mirror and slowly fades.   Shadow asks if Captain Meklan or Grognard would have done something like this... not that Barlo or Bastion are aware of.   The idea of blood and mirrors sparks a memory, somehow. Bastion finally remembers Likkec using blood on mirrors for his teleportation at Jacoby's Eushia Home houpetor skatuch'.     Calliope wonders how they know where they are -- if it is Likkec.     They don't know if it is him, but they think it might be. Must be the Wizard he was looking for.   Barlo cuts his finger and uses his bloody finger to write:   "change of plans. new location?"   after a few moments it disapears and is replaced with:   "Can't talk more now... Will see you soon.."   4' x 3' oval mirror, Wood frame with Bronze and paint flecks of Gold. They put that in the hole. and take the notes from the table. WIP:     They return to the ship.   The brothers are in front of the "outhouse" with some chairs and a table, with a small fire.   They are putting a new gauntlet hand onto Yggdra's stump. they seem as if they are still staying to study the Metal and will get Jeets to help them leave. Barlo informs them of what they found in the keep. They are a little concerned of danger, but trust the party.   Yggdra checks the hand, it works.   The Metal isn't like "veins", it is like long beams of Metal, all through the island. some bits have irregular shapes. Too haphazard to have been created to be the "frame" for this, like a pile of sticks thrown about. The Metal is similar ot Hematite.   It's about 3 hours past sunset. So they are told to not worry about the pay, as they will contact those who secured the passage... although they won't care as much as you would think.   They remind shadow of the stone if they are ready for Armor.   Yggdra reminds Shadow that she should talk to Nissa Silverfrond at some point as she can possibly teach her to talk to her Owlbear friend, Arktos.   they go on the ship.   Bastion does the ritual to get The Audacity airborne again, using a 5th level to fuel it.   They go down, and no real issues. they sail in, so not to cause concern with a Flying Ship. Night flying, dragons, and the spectacle might be too much.   They get into port. The captain secures the payment and gives them the payment of 1000.   a surprise as only Barlo knew the real cost.   a reminder of the black card network on the ports.     also they see Weird mix of rich/poor. no real big divisions.  

      As well as the large statue they see as they sail in with the legs and the Dragon head. WIP:  
      Transcripts  
    That's interesting. What's up? The Gift of the metallic Dragon. Oh!
    First of all, I guess before we get into anything, have you guys figured out which bonus you guys are going with? Your marks? Yeah. I'm taking, proficiency. After all that I did.
    No, because you fix something. You're taking what now? Passion. proficiency for in what? investigation. You got it. That's a good one for, Not sure I'm taking up. That was a good one. Fast. Fishing's pretty.
    Sick about taking the train. Taking what? Mage Hand. Oh, yeah.
    It's caught between those two cars and trips. Mage Hand or a range attack like Eldritch Blast. Eldritch Blast. I'm going to go ahead and take them off. Maybe. You're looking at Eldritch Blast right now. This. Well, I mean, it'd be nice if I could find something to make me move a little faster so I can actually get into action a little quicker.
    But in lieu of that, another ranged spell would be nice. Yeah. I think it feels two, doesn't it? Your level of skill based on, character? I'm not specific. So right now on level one, anything at all levels, you get three, you get three, three bolts. Three. Play. So which with that, with Eldritch Blast, could you decide to do all the beams at one target with the has to be split up?
    Nope. You can choose the same target. Discard three different roles. To separate rolled and scream. Right, right. Or you can target multiple and. Yeah, like. Yeah, it's great if you're actually a warlock because then you can have the invocation. The the shoving one pushing back ten feet. You Knock three people away ten feet or Knock one guy with 30ft, they can never reach you.
    It's like back in 2030. That's when.
    And then you quickening through it again. Push them back.
    My other character left on Sunday, The Sorcerer, and he's taking Eldritch Blast a little, and it took him to a beat to so, like, pushing people off to listen in the halls and the tent is what you can do. Shadow. Yeah. What are you doing, shadow? I'm taking Thorn Whip. It's a Druid cantrip. A good one has a range of 30ft.
    And the damage scales with level two. She, she did a first one in the chat.
    It's kind of actually works with you. Like whip.
    Hey, how about you clapping. That's looking good for you. I think I'm going to take a proficiency check and I'm thinking sleight of hand.
    It'd be fun. Okay. From.
    You. I just click that on my sheet. what you can do is, go on the back side. You have to do a quick hair.
    Page. If you don't have proficiency and it just click, you know, and proficiency.
    In the blue checkmark. Oh, yeah. The checkmark does it. Yeah I think in the expertise. That's what I'm thinking of. Yeah. You can just put a checkmark in there. The expert. If you need expertise you have to go to the back side. Got it. Okay. So it changes it from a four to a six. Yeah. Because,
    Okay. Because what it's, what it's doing is it's doubling your proficiency bonus in there. And then so you get your, sleight of hand. So it's Dex. Yeah. So, you know.
    It's a big text. Plus for. Today, for.
    When we went up to the Matt Robinette.
    What's your, dexterity mod? Two 0 or 2? Yes. That would be plus section. Oh. That's right. Yeah. Proficiency is just. That's a. Oh, no no no. Yeah. Because it's adding two in now. Should have been because I shouldn't be adding four.
    It should be six total for expertise.
    Yeah. Standard proficiency right now for your skill is for us. Whatever. Your stat bonuses. Yeah. And then expertise. You get bonus again. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
    Oh wait wait wait wait. No, man. Wait. Your Bard. Don't you have jack of all trades? no. Oh, that's you too. Is that based on subclass? Maybe? No. At level two, she gets level two. A level two. You can add half your proficiency bonus. Round her down to 000. That's. That's why. Yeah, that's why it only went up by all of her skills.
    All of her skills have two points to, Yeah. Your skills are actually multiple. That's what I mean. Yeah, look at it. You have no intelligence, and yet you have a plus two already in your. Yeah. Okay. That's that makes sense. Thank you, Barlow, for the win. All right. I have zero intelligence, but what I meant was that.
    And then when they end here, like, if you look at your arcana, you have a two already in arcana where it should be zero, but you're getting half your proficiency bonus already in that. Okay, so that makes sense. so. So I just need stats and. I think I'm going to go with Eldridge blast. You got.
    Sorry, Barlow. I'm stealing that room. That's fine. what?
    I'm just going to. I'll take you back to expel, I could use that for my lockpicking. I hope every single time you get close to killing every single creature in your off by three.
    I'm just going to point it out. He had three hit points. I'm just kidding. Come on. Remember that level? All righty. so let's see here.
    You guys have just got back to the air. you guys have spent some time and ember on, after you guys died. But Bassett created the loophole and pulling you to Ember on in a deal that she had made with a Halfling. to help some of the issues they are having there. after helping the first issue, which was, fighting the Lord of Blades, they took you to, get to see if you guys were recipients of a specific mark.
    in Ember on. There's these marks that people are born with that as they get older, they they tend to form on them and give them some type of little special powers. And, it has helped, for example, a family with, a long family line used the mark of the Kenneth. And that's how they would use these forges to Crafting Warforged and other, great things of power.
    You guys had also found one of these, long abandoned, outlawed forges. And that is where you guys, first of all, got the mark of the adventure. And, all of you guys had, as you guys had touched that mark, you guys had gotten some type of special power. then the Warforged that you were with was able to repair the orb of Ember on, and after fixing that and giving that to sass to put back into the.
    Orb holding the orb of, the container that's also holding the Orb of Toril. He then also went to. If you guys wanted to redo your weapons to get rid of the tracking, the, tracking spell that was attached to it Earth side long ago. Put on them. And each one of you guys were then able to re craft your weapons using a Metal, a strange purplish Metal from Oberon called Morn Load, and also some of the, Dragon crystals from their planet was kind of forged into there.
    Now, the thing is that that took hours as you guys were there. So as you guys come out, the Halfling had brought you guys back to your plane because, that's what she does. She can go in between different planes and realms. she brings you guys, and she also has the half, sorry. There's a Halfling.
    You have a Warforged with you? he also has another. He he has another orb that he's supposed to help. the Warforged. That's with you guys. I completely forgot the name for him. And, there is the little robot doggy and a little flying creature that's with you guys and the rocket Crystal guy. Is that gear locked?
    That sounds right.
    So they wanted that. They've been looking long for gear lock to help, revive him. with these, the. Silver Flame that you guys had taken in your hands to help you guys forge these things. I was able to kind of fix some Crystal thing that he had worked on. That's going to help revive him. as you guys come out of this portal, you guys are back in the house.
    You can see that it is night outside. you guys also noticed that, it looks like the Sun is coming up.
    I'm not even going to have you guys roll for it. you guys notice that the way it looks like where the Sun is starting to pick up, it looks like it's a sunrise coming. So it is. you guys have not slept in almost 24 hours, and, so you guys are exhausted. You guys aren't. If you guys go to Sleep, you guys are.
    You guys won't have to deal with any points of Exhaustion.
    That's about it. There's. Let me do this. we'll put you guys into the house so you guys can figure out what you guys want to do.
    You guys, for the first floor.
    You guys come out. well, I guess you guys. You guys are coming out of a portal. but it would be closer to, like, inside of the building here.
    Probably rest. Yeah. Probably have to go back and ship for that. Yeah, we could.
    I think that'd be best. Yeah, I think so. Because, the crew can keep watching. We can all get to Sleep. Exactly. the Halfling, actually would be the Warforged. And you guys have our friend gear lock with you. As I understand it, where would we find him? He's not sure where he is. As he looks around.
    Well, he's he's on our side. oh. Follow me. I've got him. So, as you guys leave the building, you guys head back across the bridge. The Crystal still hasn't been activated. It seems, you. As you guys get closer towards your ship, you can see there's a, a little. It looks almost like an outhouse off to the left hand side.
    you can see, where the outhouse is. There's, I guess it would be asleep right now. Still. well, listen, there.
    Yeah. So a wooden, like a, Yeah. Well, what? An outhouse on the left hand side. The ship is still where you guys. Actually, it's landed. because they don't have the, the ability to. Oh, I guess they wouldn't have the gems right now so they could reload it for you guys. you can see, the ship.
    I guess it would be at least one person on deck, just in case. So you would see the, the draw as she's like, you can see that she's getting pretty tired. She was probably about to head down when she sees you guys and starts waving. We'll say that.
    So what do you guys do? I guess just I'm aboard. A strange, bunk girl. as you guys climb on board, the draw. Well, what? She's actually, to be fair, she doesn't even look like a draw, to be honest, because that's her anomaly. but she is. She's a type of draw that tends to look more like a normal, Elf.
    She.
    There she is. Camila. Camila sees you guys coming back on board and says, Wow, you guys missed an evening. I'm glad that you guys are back, though. We go. We got a little worried about you guys. What do you mean? We missed an evil? Well, the, The gentleman with the wooden face, he attacked one of the other, passengers, and he absconded overboard with one of their arms.
    one of your arms. The, the Dragonborn. she had some contraption, I guess, on her hand. And while she was. Oh, no. He had cut that, arm off. They had tried to go after him, and, she kind of looks over the edge and says, yeah, he ended up jumping overboard. Which reminds me. Side note I'm sorry.
    I had meant to introduce one other thing. It hasn't been a big deal for you guys, but it is something that I wanted to change.
    One thing I wanted to change was the fall damage. I talked about it before. I don't like the fact that it, like, has the Weird Max out. So if you guys were to Jump off of this, flying castle, somehow, you would still survive it. Because you are high level. So I did want to kind of throw this in there real quick.
    I don't think it really changes too much of your past. think Barlow's the only one that's ever had any fall damage situations. Besides everyone in the first episode. Oh, yeah, there was that. so pretty much what it does. fall damage. Still 26 per ten feet, a maximum of 20 d6. The difference is, if the damage that you take exceeds your constitutes an score, that's.
    You could hit, zero, hit points and become Unconscious and dying. I'm going to make. The only caveat is that this not only applies if it's, if it's maxed out at 20 d6, so. It is, I think, a 20 inch terminal velocity. I think if you Jump from a 20ft foot building, there's needs to be more than a oh, that I'm good.
    So it adds a little bit more. That's a little slight chance that you could either die or go Unconscious. If it's great damage. So if there's any issues with that, just let me know. We can talk about it. if it comes up. I did want to throw that out there. Oh no. Goldfish cliff jumping. Oh, you can still try it.
    It just. Oh, yeah. Actually, that would definitely be that last part. Yeah, I guess you're right. That wouldn't Work. So I think it just puts a little bit more realistic. Falls as far as height. Anyways, so as the, Daryl was saying that. Yeah, he went overboard. I don't know what his arm, we know his arm.
    Yeah, we know it was the hand of Vecna, right? not Vecna, but Vecna is, one of his, like, most, like, trust where the, what you guys had heard was it was like, apprentice of Vecna. an apprentice that was part of this realm. But it is believed that, that that apprentice had some safeguards to help bring back Vecna.
    If anything ever happened. And that was the arm that she had the her contraption that she had put, like a little Metal, molten Metal kind of thing over it to kind of stop it from really doing anything.
    she looks at you all, and, I mean, I'm not sure what you guys his plans are. I know the we were you guys. One of the kind of check things out here. what I was told was that the, the Dragonborn and the Elf were going to hang out. Actually, actually, no, they're not everyone.
    Yeah, they're still going with you guys. yeah, they're they're still planning on going the third ones with you guys. and I believe that the, the gnomes, they had sent up, a little, I guess, a building, a little room that they are staying, and that's that little, I guess it looks like an outhouse from here, but I guess it's, kind of bigger on the inside.
    This, And they bring it on the board? Well, they were, as I understood it, they wanted to stay on this island to investigate more about the strange, metals and whatnot that's on here.
    Okay. I'm just a second captain, so I'm the night captain. it's not like I know everything that's going on.
    With that, I'm in the go ahead and actually, wake up, the next guard and, is there anything I can help you guys with before I go down to get some Sleep? Did that did he say anything about where he was going before she hit the fan? Not that I know. He snuck in there, and he was pretty good about it because she didn't wake up until her arm was cut off.
    He had a, the the weapon he had used, I guess, instantly cauterized the wound with, some magic or something as it, he had, like, this long, kind of, like, lit up, like rapier and, the rapier of Light that just cut across. Took the arm. she, went to, well, blast him with a bolt of fire, which we need to still finish fixing.
    he ran out of the room. his her friend ran after him to. But before they could get to him, he was already leaping over the edge of the ship. Was. I guess he went right into the clouds.
    of course she gave him a Sun sword. it's not a fun sword. Lightsaber.
    it's a plasma torch.
    Well, I guess we need to go after this guy. Okay. we did, well, where he went. Give me one second here. I don't know where he went. And I feel like we have the rest of this. No, we haven't. We just got back to the ship. Oh, I would assume that, like, during all the stuff over the other room, we would have rested.
    Well, as I was saying, that I think the ladies, do plan on trying to hunt him down, but they didn't have any way of for themselves to leap from the ship. I think they have plans on trying to see if they can figure out more about him when they get the thorn ones, at least. But it is your ship, so know we are here at your disposal.
    Not to go to thorn when we've got a delivery. And if they think that that's where they can find information about him, maybe we should do the same. Yeah. Sounds good. Yeah. So what do we know about, the relationship between Garm and Juliet? Were they on the outs or they. As far as we know, there was still Work in the,
    I don't know if everybody knows. At least Calliope had some insight, but I can't remember if that was public knowledge. P.S. while this is all going on, I'm, Sending a little Message to our, metallic Dragon friend to see if he knows anything about the, hand.
    Something in discord. I can't remember, because, really, talked. His mom had talked to her about about stuff going on. I can't remember when that was or how it was. Yeah, and I'm not sure if Calliope had told the group or not. I don't think I have written down. Really? Is that a group called the Azula hunting down Bogan?
    Are you gonna say clappy? I think I did. I think I relayed everything, so if that's the case, so pretty much really had come back and kind of apologized and kind of said, you know, hey, you know, I'm kind of realizing some things, blah, blah, blah. but also, I don't want you guys to give up the, the Helm I don't trust, Garm, you guys shouldn't trust him.
    And, just don't it just make sure he doesn't get the, the Helm, which is the chair that you guys had promised her. She kind of also seemed like she wanted to stay here and try to kind of see what she could do to kind of build that bridge with Calliope and not so many terms. That's what she was trying to say.
    no. Did not know that Calliope was not very, receptive to the apology and everything at the time. So it is very possible she didn't pick up on what, really was saying. But the big things she said, as far as Garm was, is not to trust him. And don't let him get the chair. that's why she wasn't with any more.
    Air, for crying about that.
    oh. Well, after thorn, when? I suppose so. Just to remind you guys, there's still stuff that you guys haven't explored in the house. There was also, you guys never took the Portable Hole off the wall. You guys do have a bunch of stuff, though, that you guys haven't gone through. so let me just take the portable hall.
    No, you guys have to. I said it was attached to the Metal thing on the wall. And then at the time was when bastion started bastion and Barlow were working on the safe, and then Barlow got teleported to the basement. So bastion grabbed everything out of the, the safe. And then you guys had Artie break down the Gate and you guys went down there and then.
    Yeah, after going down there finding the, the alien autopsy that was taking place and, also finding out that that alien autopsy seemed to be attached to some experiment that Thanos had going on and that it looked like it kind of backfired on him. And that blew up a little piece in there. From there, you guys had, gone back up the stairwell.
    That's when you guys had your dying incident, and then everyone. So you guys have plenty of options, right? Maybe we should take a long rest and then reconvene in the morning and figure out what we need to do. We can't do anything while we're here. Yeah. Finish exploring the people at Work and then move the, The Elf says, as he's going down, I'll just let the next release know that you guys are probably going to be in sleeping for a bit, so we'll we're here under your guys's beck and call right now, and she goes down.
    All right. I'll wait for the guard, the next guard to come up, and then I'll go Sleep.
    On the support. The other guy down to my quarters. Oh, yeah. And show him the Warforged. And then, they would have been standing on top of me. Awkwardly. They follow you? Barlow, as they go down there. you see the Warforged that's with you? He pulls out of his pouch. He pulls out the, the orb.
    That one of the orb that he had been working on in that, Forge that you guys were in the insert into the hole that's in the center of the chest as he kind of puts it up. Oh, yeah. Hold on, hold on. You can open them really quick. I'm sorry. What the pull? I, I'm using him as a mannequin right now in the corner of my.
    So let me pull all my stuff off of him. Oh don't worry, I was just using that conceal and hide him. So, yeah, he's kind of looking awkwardly as he kind of, kind of clears the way. And then he kind of inserts it in there. He, you see, I'm kind of, trying to find the way that it fits in the right.
    And then he kind of holding on to it with both hands. He kind of clicks it a bit, like a just a few degrees to the right, clockwise. And you hear a clicking sound as it, like, locks in the place, you hear, like, slight vibrations and clicking sounds that are coming from inside of him. and then they kind of quiet down a bit.
    And at that point you see his eyes kind of open and his mouth then opens and takes in kind of a deep, a bit of air and no more force.
    at the very least, this time he does nothing. He wouldn't even the breath. Anyways, this is his first kind of being awake in a long time. and then he looks around. He's about to, like, pull out a weapon, but then he notices who's in front of him, and they kind of give each other a Bear hug, and you hear them.
    Oh, it's been so long since, I've seen you. And the one that just woke up, he's like, how long has it been? It's like many years it's been, in fact, we are, looks around. We're in a different realm. We are not in that barren. Oh, I see, it seems that there's still much Work to do.
    He looks around. He's like, the first guy that you guys came with. He looks at you once again. I want to thank you guys for helping reunite us. as I understand it, we're going to go ahead and use the Halfling to kind of get ourselves to another place right now. But I think you guys have been well compensated for everything.
    And at that point, the dog comes in and you kind of see the, the Warforged that had just woken up kind of stretches his arms back a bit, and then he kind of reaches down and kind of gets down a little bit and starts kind of rubbing the pet, the, the robot dog as if it was a real dog.
    It seems they have that same kind of relationship, you see. And the flying creature then kind of flies in and kind of settles on his, left shoulder and he starts whispering inside of the, Warforged ear that just woke up. And, he turns to the it turns to look at it, and he kind of whispers some, some language that you guys are uncertain about, and the thing flies out of the room and flies away.
    And with that, they say, okay, is there, if you guys don't need anything else from us, we're gonna go ahead and head out. Where are you? What's not in the room? What's this guy's name? who's your lover? You, the the new guy. That's, my name is Gerloff. Oh. You had. Yeah. The one you guys had tortured.
    What was the name of the other one with a.
    Goofy Amalgam. Yeah. Oh. yeah. My name was Amalgam.
    Where? Oh, dang it, I'm not in the room.
    On that. Where are they going?
    Yeah, yeah. Where are you guys going? Well, let's go, let's go back up. I wonder if, they might have questions. Yeah, sure. I guess we can answer some things and they look at each other. the Amalgam tells Gear Lock. It's all right. we have to kind of Work with, a deity that seems to trust these people.
    So I think would be all right. as they come out, you can see, b the the shared room of the little part of the ship where I guess you could see the other rooms and stuff.
    After that, there's a open area so you can see everybody's rooms. so I guess now, if I don't want to partake or anybody else want to partake in asking questions, there would be an opportunity. Yeah, we're. Where are you going? we're trying to find out more about how both of our realms seem to have, and this is Amalgam talking, both of your realm and our realm.
    Both have a, a Draconic prophecy. It seems, there nothing seems to be the same on both of them, for the most part. But the fact that both realms have a prophecy of sorts of deals with dragons, and there are some parts that we have started to learn were very similar. it just kind of got us thinking that we want to learn more about what we can find out about your prophecy.
    My friend here, Gary Locke, is, pretty much an expert. For as much as one can be an expert on the prophecies. it's one of those kind of things that it seems that the more you know, the the less you actually understand of it. Where are you going to get this information? Where do you think it would be?
    that's that's the first part is to figure out more about this room and where you guys do, keep some of your knowledge to, the goddess Bast was very kind to let us know that there is a very secret library hidden in the, I guess the north and pole of this planet.
    The very secret library that, we might be able to get ourselves into. And try to see what they have there. Oh.
    So there's something. Oh. What kind of stuff is in this library? well, Amalgam goes on, as I understand it is pretty much any book that has been written by the people of this realm has got a copy in there. They, it seems that there is a network of librarians and whatnot that tend to, I guess, copy down in some through various means, whether it's magical or otherwise, any copies of Books that they're able to get Ahold of.
    And then they also have others who help author, many such Books about the history of this world and what's, what is believed to be the future. And so, as far as I understand it, there's all types of knowledge that's hidden in there. we, with, that goddess, we were able to get ourselves a, a short pass that would allow us to enter the premises for a very short time and find some specific bits.
    Is there a way that you'd be able to let us know? I mean, we have a lift stone now. Do you have one? yeah. Actually, like your luck has one. but yeah, I guess, if we find out anything that's, interesting of note. we can probably like, kind of let you guys know.
    Do you think they would have any information about this hand that you lost? Sorry. What? Oh, the. They were talking about upstairs. I'm not certain. I know about what hand you're talking about. can you tell us more about this hand? Have you heard of Vecna? yeah, as I understand it is, Vecna is a, very evil god who is known in many realms.
    so. Well, a little bit, there are times that his name does come up through, through both, prophecies, the the version of your realm and the for hours. Really? well, this apparently he stole something that could Awaken Vecna. Oh. That's right, he died again. Oh, that would be real bad. That would be very bad.
    This would be, I think, like, the third times he would come back. And as far as I know, there might be more and maybe less. You can never really tell with these kind of gods. Yeah. When you're dealing with multiple realms, Jacoby. Jacoby. I don't know. And it doesn't sound Familiar. Jacoby. he keeps dying and coming back.
    Gotcha. yeah. Well, yeah. So if we, if we learn more, especially how it pertains to this Vecna character, we'll definitely let you guys know. maybe while we're up there, we'll try to see if we can find out anything we can about Vecna. And you said there's, like, a hand. Yeah. a the Dragonborn that's with us.
    Or. And her friend can probably tell you more information about what it does. They kind of look at each other. Well, I guess we can maybe stick around for. They have to do it and, maybe we can meet this, Dragonborn and see what we can learn from them.
    They would probably know more than I do.
    Yeah. Okay. Well.
    I'm going to head to bed now. All right. Well, I guess, we'll just hang out up on the deck and, we'll wait there. And let you know that you want to ask some questions, or she can feel you all.
    I don't goes to bed. so, yeah, you guys can go ahead and,
    Here. Let's just do, sass, for, Calliope, roll a d20. Okay.
    The, the night is uneventful. guys are able to get a full, long rest or whatever that entails. As far as spell slots and whatever's, as the. Actually, you guys would have been going to bed at sunrise, so it's like that, late night party, kind of Sleep. you guys wake up, and it's is now, it's probably about an hour or two before sunset as you guys wake up.
    the last, those last bits of rays coming up from the horizon up to this, high peak area goes around. And, what do you guys do?
    Have some, breakfast to say we get to eat and some food or. Yeah. Why am.
    The two Warforged still there? Yeah. as you wake up, if you go up on deck, you would see them up there. in fact, it could time. They would actually be inside of the, the captain's quarters area with, Iggy and Nissa. Okay.
    Are you going up to where they're at or. No, it's just you that they're there and they're talking. That's that's good enough for me.
    Those, No gnomes. You think they'd be able to make arrows, bows or something on here on the ship. That could help you. Or did I stock any. Stock. Anyone. Arrows. Are you out of arrows. No, but I'm at half. Well, I will say that you probably have a stock of, some extra arrows because I never actually figured out everything that was, in the supplies downstairs.
    So I'm willing to say that, you probably have a healthy store of arrows down there. I'm fine with that. If you need to order normal arrows or crossbow bolts, I'd say that there's plenty of them down in there for the most part, as long as they don't get too silly with it. So we could go stock up.
    Yeah, if you need to get some arrows or bolts, it's okay as long as you're not saying, oh, I grab a thousand or something, but I mean, they're probably maybe a couple hundred of both arrows and, bolts down below. I think Connor. I'm going to take, like ten. Is that okay? I'll definitely. Okay. I'm only taking 20.
    And quiver holds 40.
    So you guys are able to go down there? grab, What's that? Dude?
    You're on mute. You're muted I want my Muted probably just didn't pick up your voice right away.
    Like literally changed nothing. What are you talking about. You.
    She's eating. She gets the food. That's what I said that you apparently didn't hear even though I wasn't muted at what's best in doing. Sam, you guys have a nice, breakfast, technically. Dinner time? yeah. you still like, there's still some great, like, the the meats that you guys have found. The dragons and wizards and stuff like that.
    So you guys are even able, you can see that they've also set up some, just they wouldn't really have it in their. To set up a room. But they could have done smoking. But, yeah. All right. So we're going to head out tonight, guys.
    Well, we want to finish exploring this tower, see if there's anything else here. Yeah, that's what I mean. Head out and tower. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I actually thought he meant the head back to head up to the Tradewinds.
    Well, so as you guys do, come up on the, on top of deck, though, you do see that Iggy? and these, are having a conversation with the, the the travelers you guys have now, brought from Eber on, you can see that Iggy's got well on her left hand is now she's got, like, some type of, like, bandage, at the wrist.
    As they do. See you. Iggy does actually come out and, heads up towards, shadow and, hands you a book. It's the journal that from Thoreau said you had let her borrow, And, she tells you so. I had a chance to go through that. and the first of all, I guess, you guys had heard about the incident, but, going through that book there, it turns out that this, Thoreau's character, he had found ways of taking powers from various creatures.
    it seems that, one of the things that he wanted to take, power from was, a Doppelganger he had captured. And, he had planned on taking, some power, her ability to change her face and appearance and all that. that's kind of where the book ended, because it seemed like that's what he was working on.
    we did kind of find out, though, through some other channels while we were kind of looking into some stuff is that, he disappeared around three years ago, and some of the rumors are hearing has to do with, the Arcane Order. yes. He, had some issues with them about three years ago, and. Nobody's ever seen them since, really.
    There's occasional, I guess, things about him that come up from time to time. I've, somebody was saying that they thought that they might have seen him, but it might have been an Illusion of some sort. There was no mention of, like, Jacoby in that journal or anything, right? When we read it. I don't recall in that one.
    so I'm going to see this through. That Arcane Order connection is all the Arcane Order, it seems as a kind of, might have their tendrils in a lot of different places. And you guys are learning, It also went on about, I guess there was, another creature that it had planned on taking its powers from at some point years ago.
    And, I guess it it failed. there was a, the failure and, he was trying to understand why that failed. He, I guess he had these orbs. I had one from, called the Orb of Mystery.
    The, I guess that was the orb that he was using to power the spell. Because he was trying to take power from some creature, some six armed creature that I guess it has a regenerative property that he was hoping to. Well, both regenerative and a very long lifespan. Begin with it through each each entity. he.
    According to the journal, though, it turns out that they only do this about six times, and in rare circumstances they might be able to get a seventh off. But when they do that seventh, each version is like a new person, whereas there's six other regenerative times. They all hold the same memories. It's almost like the same person splitting off six times, but if they're able to pull off a seventh one, they become like new people.
    And he thinks that that might have had something to do with how this, his ritual went awry. I'm not sure what all that means, but maybe it'll helps you guys with master. as far as the, the connection with the the prophecies, it seems that he was concerned about the Dragon waking and that he was studying how and how to use these orbs to, do something of any kind.
    And it seemed that the one that he thought would have the, the best opportunity was, he had heard of an empty orb. The. And this empty orb would, if he could find a way of pretty much transporting that large Dragon into that realm all by himself. And he thinks he might have found a way of doing it.
    But then I kind of got distracted with other things in that notebook.
    The Dragon that sleeps. That's what he's talking about. Yeah.
    there was, a rolled an orb of athis. He had said the, empty one as as empty the, the role that I guess what it what I can understand and it was that these orbs are like worlds on their death throes that their final days and the orb, I guess this this, athis world was already so Dead as it was that it was able to die and not destroy the orb holding that orb in place, but allows an empty enough space that I guess, would satisfy what he believes might allow for that Dragon to be transported there.
    It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. That's not really what we're looking into. However. Actually, right now we need to try to see if we can help. hunt down that A-hole who cut off my arm. And, yeah.
    Do you think Thorn Wind is the place to go for that? At least to get information? I'm hoping the the thieves guild that there has, they have their ways of knowing what's going on in some of the more shady deals. So maybe through them we can find out something. It's the same thieves guild that kind of helped us get on with this.
    onto your ship. So we already had to talk to them as it is.
    Like.
    Are you guys, planning on going back to that that building there or what? What's going on? Yeah, I think so.
    Some things that we want to check out. then we'll leave from there, Yeah. Right. Well, there's a couple. There's two hours. Sounds good. yeah. I mean, we're not. I mean, we do need to figure out what's going on, but there's still that stuff we can figure out talking to these guys here, maybe we can figure out some some other stuff.
    So it's kind of interesting.
    That.
    So you guys can go ahead and go back towards the, the key.
    Let's do it like this.
    So that whole splitting stuff up and stuff in time to make it still something different, that's the same mythology we heard about the other, Not the mythologies.
    The aliens. Right. Yeah. Yeah. You guys had, Well, you guys had seen it with, I believe it would have been with Calliope glove. I think it's where you guys have learned about how that they do split up, so they split off, what happens is, as they get older and they live already, like, hundreds of years or stuff like that, but as they get older, they will go into a stasis chamber, like this Metal tube.
    And they will as they go in there, they will able to kind of, make themselves younger. And then, when they do so, they will also split off into six, six cells of themselves, if you will. And that's kind of how they more or less generally reproduce. But each one kind of has the memories of the, of this has the same memories.
    And so then they kind of form their own new memories, but then from there they will split off and so it's kind of also how they're able to kind of keep their knowledge going from generation to generation. But what do you guys are finding out here is that some of them will even try a seventh one. And when they do that, the new ones that are born, they they split off, have no longer have the knowledge of the predecessors.
    And doesn't say what they do for knowledge. Yeah, that's one.
    We need to get any supplies or anything before we go. Ready? I'm good, I'm good. Let's do it. Once again, you guys are able to cross over the, and go through the forest. The areas come through. Come across the bridge, guys. Get back into the, the first floor of the house. as you guys do come in here, though.
    You guys have seen that. It's been cleaned up a bit. The, the stairwell is still full of rocks, so it looks like you're going down to the basement. Through the doorway is not going to be a thing right now. but the secret chamber to the, behind the bookshelf has been closed up again. the door to the, the, the desk on the left has been closed, and you can see the safe has been closed.
    I think the house automatically does it. Something like that. At least not. Well, if we ever make it to the second floor. Nope. For a second, you guys have only explored the first floor and the basement.
    When we tried, I ran up to the second landing. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You gone up to the landing and got some stuff. That's a good point. We tried to get the portable hall off the wall. Yeah, I think we should. Yeah. So as you, I can't remember if it was a book or something, but you're able to find the thing that opens up the, the bookshelves again.
    And you can see on the wall there is the, portable hall. on the wall with a, a Metal thing that goes around it kind of like, like a framing of it. That seems to be what attaches it to the wall.
    The frame was carefully. You. how are you trying to get, the framework?
    Was the frame is a frame bolted to the wall anyway, give me an investigation check with your brand new investigation proficiency. as you investigate the, the frame that's around it, you're seeing, like, very slight magical runes that are kind of, almost like only when you kind of get the Light, the hits, the Metal Work on the right edge.
    You see little runes. Otherwise it's like it's seems to be like, almost like glued. It seems to the wall. Do I know what the rune say? It's not really like a language. Runes. There. It seems to be runes of power of some sort, so more like so. Some runes obviously are used as a language, and then there's some runes that actually help, just like funnel the magic in some ways.
    Okay. Is it is this on a frame or. Yeah. So just think it's hard for me like trying to describe it this way. But so you're looking at front of you and there's this big black hole and that's framed by this, like, thin band of Metal. And then as you got really loved to close to the Metal and kind of like, let the Light hit it at an angle, you see that there's like these slight little runes, shapes that are on there.
    but yeah, it goes around the whole, frame, if you will.
    Of what I know of the runes, if we damage this frame with, portal stonework. what I will say is that you.
    You would at least probably know that this is probably the a like the the the Portable Hole is an object. I can't remember how you guys knew it was a portable hall. Came over. You did, Identify on it, but very least it's it's an it's a magical, it's an object that, if you if you can somehow get the frame off of it, you would be able to turn it into what it is normally is actually like a, a hat, like a little black ball that would fit in your palm.
    Like, and, it's almost like a, like a, well, I guess Play-Doh, like Clay, I guess you could say. And then when you throw it down is when it kind of like splats, and then it kind of turns into the circle shape, and then that's when it becomes the, the whole.
    So all you'd have to do is just grab it from the center right now and pull it out. Except for the fact that the frame won't allow you to do that. That would involve.
    What? I, I tossed the, crowbar to Barlow. Is mostly you just magic or something? Yeah, but I don't know if it will Dispel Magic on the item itself. Usually Dispel Magic doesn't take away magic properties of an item. and I guess, let me rephrase that. It can probably in some circumstances when an item has a spell on it.
    But that's what it is. That spells magic is more about the spelling of spell then it it's kind of poorly written. It should actually just say the spell spell. And I think I did it somewhere where they actually did the spell a, an item. But it's not really supposed to do that unless the, the, the Enchantment on the item.
    In other words, if you cast flying an item, it can disenchant that. But if you go through the the proper way of enchanting an item with the Fly property like say, a flying broom, it wouldn't stop a flying broom. That's the best way to explain. Okay, so then maybe it would just only do the, So it depends on the Enchantment of the frame.
    If the if the frame is enchanted in a way that it's actually built into it, it might not Work if it's just been cast in some way that there's a spell that's like it's a conduit for the spell, it might Work that. So there's a chance of my. If he's a smart that he would know that.
    All right. well, I guess I'll try to spell magic on the frame. Only. And then what are you doing? That it. I'll do that, for crying. So. oh. Please. So, as you cast the spell, you do see that the, It doesn't seem like this is like, the the biggest secret. You already had it hidden behind the, secret panel, and it's really just a very nice wine cellar for the most part.
    the dispel does kind of, like, you see. The runes start to fade, so you actually do see them for a second as they Light up and then they fade. And at that point, the, the Metal just falls to the floor and ding ding ding. And there's just this black hole now in the wall with no frame.
    It just don't put it in the Bag of Holding gravity. The just hold it up. So this one, you don't have to fold up as you grab the edges and you start pulling it off like, oh as you kind of grab the edge, it actually starts kind of like getting a little thicker as you start pulling it off.
    And it kind of then it just kind of retracts into itself and becomes a ball in your hand. So it's not it's not like the portable holes that you might have heard before that make it hard for this one.
    Second. So like, I could squeeze it like it's stressful. It's kind of like that. Yeah, yeah. The idea being that then like, you can just splat on the floor, splatted against the wall, and as you splat it, it kind of like spreads out and it becomes the whole more. Well, so think of it like, yeah, it's like a little stress ball of venom.
    Venom. Yeah. From Spiderman. I know. oh. Here. It's a black putty ball. It's from a holder. And then currently there's a wooden, wooden, wooden wine rack. So that kind of circle, the walls inside of there, there was 12 bottles of wine that chateau had taken. Yeah. That's right. I don't think I made a card for it.
    So, yeah, you can just put on Portable Hole, but it's not modified right? Okay.
    Do you want to do anything with it right now? Put stuff in it. Take wine racks out. Come on. Technically, we can use this thing to just loot the whole house, right? Yeah, well, and I have the second Bag of Holding that we have from the other guys. Yeah, if you want me to make a okay.
    Probably. Just do this.
    All right, well, let's call that.
    Yeah. Also longer. This one, the whole. The whole. Oh, yeah. I should make that one for the whole two. But ball three, three ball. And then we'll take the other Bag of Holding. Since you guys have any pockets and fanny packs. No, not. Don't forget my Armor. there. You consider an already Zombie or something? Like you don't have your own?
    I already saddlebags aren't. Oh, yeah. Expandable. Yeah they are. Oh, they're not, but yeah, they are. Saddle bags of holding. They were just regular ones. No. Oh, you had them captured by the Gnome. That's why we went and fought the Beholder. Yeah, I was going to. Yeah. Okay. That right. So let's go ahead and delete those.
    Just Bear with me and.
    Realize I should have seen, copy and all you have done the.
    Sorry. What? I forgot about that. Some of that stuff.
    Shut up!
    Is when I copy it.
    And then there's. Who's got that bag of cool? That flappy hanging? You don't think I have it now? Clippy has the, handy haversack. Oh, that's right.
    Oh, I think I had the Bag of Holding canisters. I don't mean to have all the bag here at bastion. Then you take this. Bastion can take the other, Bag of Holding. best.
    Or little.
    Hole.
    How big was it on his life? The ten foot diameter. Actually, let me find different.
    I think it's ten foot deep. I think I have to say, the size of what it normally is. Okay.
    Oh, okay. Oh. Also, under the time of opening in, there, still.
    Welcome.
    The same thing with the.
    All right. so, yeah, you guys have a new, the the store things in with lots of space. you have, stairwell that goes up and you can see there's a stairwell that goes up from that little mezzanine as well.
    What do you guys do? Any upstairs? Right. No I'm not. Yeah. I didn't wanna put you guys. Yep. This way. as you guys come up in on the second floor, you guys are coming up from this little area here on the right. and you can see that there is a, little desk area here.
    There's a passage that goes off to the left of where that's the stairwell that goes up further. So the only thing really on this floor, and you can see where the offices are and that little hallway that you can see that all from here still. So it's kind of like this floor is just this little area here on the side.
    This will keep going up. Then.
    Down.
    Any interesting paintings on the wall in this area? we have on here. Oh, here. You guys actually hear the music? Did you guys, had heard when you guys came in here? There's a little box, that you can see that it seems to be the where the music is coming out of a little like,
    It's six us, six by six by six inches. What did I. Oh, no. six inches. By three inches by five. by a half inch. black Obsidian.
    IP have you seen this before? I don't know, can I touch it? Certainly. You touch it. It is a, a little, you pick it up. Like I said, it's a little black slab of Obsidian. and it just seems to be, playing, Kind of this time. By this time, it's kind of like an orchestral music that's kind of coming out of it.
    It sounds like. Do I recognize the song? go ahead and listen here. Give me a history tour. History check.
    would you roll?
    go ahead and give me a hundred. E 100.
    Oh. That's interesting.
    You start to notice that this song, Seems to be the melody for what they call the blasphemy song. Oh, it is a rhyming song where it seems that every verse is an insult to a different god. it's used, usually sung at a speedy pace. worshipers say that any Bard who sings the song will face divine retribution, but for most words, this wasn't their last song.
    As this is a dirty song. But it's just the melody to it right now, it seems it doesn't actually have any of the blasphemy in it.
    okay. Yeah, I'll relate it, but I won't. I won't sing it.
    are you going to keep the, the thing? Yeah. What? The music box. Yeah. Do we need to.
    I thought we were just, like, exploring. We are like, whatever you want. Want wanted to. I don't think. I don't think I want it if it's supposed to be bad because I'm trying to be good. She's trying to learn to be a good Bard, not a Bard.
    Okay, so you sit down and still just keep playing. That's music.
    Keep trudging up the stairs. Then. Okay, let's go up the stairs.
    This way.
    Some telepaths aren't there.
    as you guys come out, you guys are not gonna be able to see anything right now. So of drag out here. Oh, took.
    So, as you guys come out, you guys are in a little room where there's a little bit of a doorway right here. why don't I just put you guys on the same spot? Right. Trigger the, teleporter that's inside of the stairwell. but you see a little doorway off to your right, to the east.
    You,
    Want to talk? Whispers. Can you not. Can you guys see anything or. Yes. No. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I could see some. So how the Light kind of splits off. You're seeing that as you look off into the room. You're seeing that there's, a little bit of, a little landing in the center of that room. And then off to the left, past the doorway is, the windows that kind of look outside.
    yeah, in the center. All right. We'll go in and explore. So as you explore this area here, you're seeing, of the part of you're out right now, actually would be the, it looks like there's a little bit of a kitchen area to the south. there's a little doorway that now you're seeing on to your right there, Barlow, or your kitchen is right.
    You come out, there's a doorway there, and it looks like. I think if you look through there, you can see it looks like a little porta potty. A little boy lit hole, and then, and then shadow as you start coming around the corner there, you're seeing, like, the path as you go past the kitchen area, there's like a little wash sink where it's got some more of those stones.
    you can see that he uses the stones, both for water in the sink as well as, using some of the hot ones with it. If you need hot water.
    does any of the. Is there food in here? yeah. There's, Yeah, there's, Oh, yeah. how fresh does it look?
    So it's a good point. It probably would not look good right now. That's bad. So, what I'll say is the food that's against the wall looks like it's okay, but the food that's out on the table, that looks like it's gone bad. maybe he's got some type of magic that kind of keeps the other food fresh, but it definitely did not carry over to the food that's on the table.
    So there's no way to tell roughly when it was put out, like how long it's been since he's been here. Definitely for a very long time.
    Yeah.
    I take some with the can I take those stones? Yeah, you can take some of the stones. as you go. As you learned before, if they're not in an enclosed space, they will keep producing the heat or the water and then the heat ones. You might want to make sure they're in something that's not going to get too hot and destroyed by the heat that produces.
    What are they currently in right now? well, it looks like the they're inside of the sink, but there's like a little, hole that's in the sink. So as they're producing it just the excess keeps it running down and off to the side outside the side of the building. there was you saw some or some drain pipes on the side of the building as well.
    So it's probably goes through one of those drainpipes down into the, the water that's below. are there any, like, ceramic jugs that I could put them in? I'd say that you'd probably be able to find something there. Would that be sufficient enough to keep it from exploding with water? Yeah, because it doesn't it doesn't produce a lot of pressure.
    And once it kind of fills that space, it stops. It seems to stop producing the water. Okay. How many stones are there? Let's say there is, three of the the water and two of the heat stones. And I find, a jug that'll fit all of them. sure. The lid. Okay. Yeah. Well, the only problem you're going to have then is, as you do, put the lid on there.
    the lid does come back off. Only because it was starting to produce steam in there. So it's going to constantly produce steam. You said that it could hold it can hold the water, not the pressure from the stones and the water stones is if I put the stones in its own container, I can do that. That's not what.
    Okay, okay, okay, okay, I'll do that. There's nothing wrong. That's just what your character did. And that's what happens. I'll find another job for the heat stones.
    it looks like there's nothing. You don't see anything of any real interest here outside of his bed? a little kitchen area. Toilet. It seems to be like the Living floor.
    Are there any other doors? well, the stairwell continue to go up.
    And.
    Back upstairs and let's go. Here. I've seen this with the little good searching guys. The funny thing. Good. Now, just some more of those stones for water and heat.
    So some rice for.
    I think these split the party feature.
    Can everybody see? Yep. Oh, nope. Oh.
    Yep. This little sliver of it. I don't see anything missing.
    So, as you come on to this floor, you can see a large kind of contraption. looks like, Off to the left. As you come up, you see this very large Skeleton right here? It was shopping it Home Depot. Yeah. Going home. Price. Skeleton. Second giant size. Yep. It's pretty large. Celsius potions. see a large hourglass on a stand?
    on the tables. You've seen some more of the powdered Crystal stuff that you'd seen down in the basement. there seems to be like these two large vats of, like, colored liquids that kind of go into each other, and then they go into this large, kind of cylinder over here on the right. Kind of reminiscent of what you guys think.
    The mustard. It looks like, it seems like a similar experiment to what there was going on the basement, but just some slight changes to it. just.
    And I look at the desk for any journals or Books or anything. Give me an investigation. Check.
    Yeah, I'll be looking for that to. 1518. one of the things you notice is that there is a, a, a vial that looks very Familiar. it looks like a vial. You had what you and Barlow had once seen in a box, and you guys snuck a peek at. Oh, remember that box that we found with the Dead Dwarf Skeleton?
    I delivered it. Oh, yeah.
    Yeah, we did a little bit more opacity. Yeah. And we never.
    Turn it. Turning the bartender at The Yawning Portal or ten. Oh, that was right. It's not skull avail. That was the awning portal.
    Oh, yeah. Did you find another one? Did we ever find out what that liquid was? No.
    Because we didn't want it to be obvious that we opened the box. So as you're looking. Well, we can find out. Yeah. School was about 15. So, you do find, some notes about it where it seems to be that he have worked on some type of Potion that was to help give longevity of life. Oh.
    Just.
    Guess it gives life longevity.
    There's all sorts besides all the stuff with the crystals and whatnot. there's also a, a stairwell that goes up a bit further on the, other side of the wall from the stairwell. You just came up.
    I'll go check out these parts of stuff. So it looks like the kind of liquids you guys are seeing down in the basement. the the red color, though, definitely is reminiscent of the red liquid you had seen in that vial. same kind of viscosity and everything.
    and it's pouring from the red one into the yellow one. And then along this pipe, it looks like yellow greenish. Yeah. And then that goes into the Bat where it's kind of, there's like a well, as it kind of mixes in there, it's,
    Little bits of, like, like glittery kind of Light, kind of shine. They kind of like float, kind of moving about in there a bit, almost like, So what I'm looking for, what is that that. You don't want. You can never have because you can't get it out of the house. glitter. Yeah, yeah. Wow. sometimes, like, you have too many words, and then you can't find the ones you're looking for.
    It's like trying to find that one hook in the library. That'll do. We. Decimal system. so. Yeah, like little pieces of specks of, like, glitter. Kind of like kind of floating and almost circularly, just kind of going in a, in a circle, almost like the whole thing is just kind of, being stirred up. Is the liquid flowing anywhere else from the big that.
    So as it looks like, as it comes in from those two other vats comes into here, you do see that there are some pipes off the sides, and it looks like some of the if it is going down, it's probably kind of going through the walls and down to the basement to the experiment that was going on down there.
    Did we ever figure out what that experiment was? Yeah. You guys, Calliope had seen the vision. the experiment downstairs is how he had. He was trying to take the power from the spell weavers, and it exploded on him.
    Something went wrong.
    What he was doing. Anything else we want to follow? The the, the pipes or the pipes, though, aside from downstairs.
    I don't think we can tell that goes into the wall.
    We need to check out the potions.
    yeah. Go ahead and give me a investigation. Check. Let's see if some of the other potions that are up on the wall. I'm going to draw a mustache on the Skeleton. Okay.
    Sass, why don't you come up here and take a look at these? Since you're an alchemist.
    The second.
    I mean, I'm an herbalist that does that.
    But how come you can see the whole room all at one?
    I can't, yeah, I see a little bit.
    If we move further up the staircase, I'm literally standing next to a. I mean, any. Oh, yeah. Any other. Oh, yeah. Any.
    Any is right there as as she starts drawing on the Skeleton, the you start seeing that this Skeleton, from the back side of it, you see this flame start kind of coming off of it.
    The Skeleton. Yeah. It doesn't seem to be very happy with what you just did to it. so we're going to go ahead and roll initiative. No. And you had to touch it. I hate I'm sorry.
    yeah. Look, with our eyeballs, not with our hands. I was so proud of you pushing those button. That's fine. Let's. Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to hit it twice. Looks like the first one. Oh, I put another one there. So you don't see that. Like, we just dropped our crayon and our hands are pocket real quick and just looks at everything, but it's like I didn't touch it.
    I just I just see, like, whistling. Like you're trying to pretend that you didn't do it. But the Homer Simpson tucks back into the grass.
    Something go,
    All right. Into the music. Oh, I should put the, in this stuff thing out, Yeah. Probably cleared it off last time. Hold on. Give me a second. Like dirt out.
    All right. It's good. listen to me. It does.
    Now, you guys going to break in your new weapons?
    Okay, I rolled my first roll again.
    I changed mine to what I rolled the last time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fine. I don't mind doing a it's a Zombie.
    What?
    Imagine that Calliope only got halfway through the mustache. Oh, yeah. So the. The Skeleton only has one side. Just trying to find one thing about him is that there? Is that.
    What color crayon did you use? Black. It was like charcoal. Like a charcoal green.
    You know that scene in winter? In the pool or pool? Get stuck in the rabbit hole, and so rabbit draws a face on it, but. Yep. And he wiggles. Social. Half of it is super wonky. Like it's not even a good half of a mustache at all.
    Not my best Work.
    That seems.
    Did you have to stand on the table to reach its face? I jumped real high. Oh, my leap! Yeah. I don't.
    I should put myself on that thing. Know first.
    It's an excellent skill. Yes.
    Like, we go. So shadow you're going to be the first one as you see happening. But I just need to fix one thing here.
    Why it was I have it in there.
    okay. Okay. Can.
    I figure it out from,
    Come on. Sorry. It's something just trying to figure out with this and just lagging. And I'm running. That was a vamping.
    It's different. Okay, that'll be fun. So, shadow, as you see. Calliope, go up to this guy and, think it was all fine. And she starts getting that half mustache kind of drawn in there. You see that the flames are kind of coming out of its Bone, and it starts to to move towards, Calliope, what do you do?
    I will let out a scream and Jump on the table and shoot it. All right. se Hunter's market.
    Take that spell down. And I'm going to shoot it. You got. Oh, that was almost unnatural. 20. And it bounced back. 2828. that's going to hit. Okay, there's Mark, bow swarm, all the stuff.
    Okay.
    15 plus. 926.
    Kind of help that repeats as much. 26. No, sorry. 27 with seven damage. Yes.
    Hit him again. that is a 23. that's going to hit.
    All right. Oh eight.
    22 plus nine is 3131 damage. Yeah, but our damage on that one.
    And that's it. And then he's just going to be there if it comes near.
    As I can't move him.
    I'm going to stay on the table.
    So, bastion, you are up as those arrows kind of hit and I should say, you see, they kind of, like, sort of piercing into the Bone Work. they start splintering into it, but the flames start to kind of like, burn up the, the, the arrows as they are there. But it does take some damage.
    oh. I'm going to cast Haste.
    and then I'm going to pop, My plates on. Okay. So Haste. And just played some. Then I'm going to attack once you go up.
    You'll be the oh, God be fun.
    But then, I will cast a cantrip.
    Cast. That sucker.
    And I. How do we say this Work again? With what? Oh, God.
    The new true strength. Yes. That's.
    Unusual.
    but the truth is, I would ask about. Yeah. Okay. you make one attack with the weapon used in this book. Well, okay, so the.
    you might as well have that output as an attack instead of the spell card. Yeah. This attack with your spellcasting modifier. Now that I, of create a new, created one for just, True Strike with your sword. I'll do that by next game, but, so let's see here, it's going to use your spellcasting ability for the attack.
    And then what would be the same? Technically, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what I thought. So the only thing that it's going to add is if the attack deals damage, it can be radiant damage or the weapons normal damage type of your choice. Whether you choose to, it fills an extra, radiant damage though, based on your levels. So it's going to add, two d6.
    So for your attack, 19 hits. So go ahead and add a, 2D six, radiant damage buff and the oh, because that was a cantrip. You can also do that cantrip again. No, I can why I use my bonus action to pop. oh. Because it's burnt. Oh, there's, the the gantlets takes your bonus action.
    yeah. Says okay, could thank you for this. So. So, yeah, I'll make a card for that and then add to that all in there. so right now though, you're going to have another 15. 27, nine.
    So you cast a Haste, you start going into your dance moves as you attack and then cast True Strike on him. and you get through his defenses and you injure him. Anything else? So. All right, nice lie. If he, as you see them starting to help protect you.
    Oh, wait. Hold on. I didn't see that part because that was a melee attack.
    I'm sorry. There was one thing I forgot here as you attacked it. bastion, your swords starts going into it. you end up taking. 15 points of fire damage on those attacks as you're so close to it with the melee attacks that it, hits, hurts you back. The flames start looking at your hands and your arms as your sword gets in close.
    and that's just for that. So still goes. All right. yeah. So then, Clive, you okay? So I'm right on here, right? So if I move. If I move, he's going to take a swing. It's possible. So I'm going to cast blade word. and so that until the end of my next turn, I have Resistance against bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing.
    Nice. Oh.
    Oh, I can attack on my next turn and still have that. Like protection. Right? Or, Resistance in the Sierra. Or a different, You extend your hand as you trace a sigil of warding in the air until the end of your next turn. Yep. Until the end of your next turn, you will have Resistance. Okay. Anything with your bonus action or anything?
    No, I still don't really have a bonus action. All right. Says you're up above. getting it right. The action and club it with some Shillelagh. And then, on your sheet, I added. Let's see here. See what I did there? Because I forgot.
    Because I know you almost always use Shillelagh, but there's. Oh, because it does take a bonus action. There might be a time that you end up using your bonus action for something else. I want to make sure you have both of them in there. Okay. yeah. So the one on the top is the Shillelagh, and that's it's been modified with the, the 5.5 rules.
    So if you, Cassidy, you get the one d12 damage and it's using your wisdom, whereas the bottom one is using strength and you're only getting the one one D4 damage. So. So the top one. So that's the you want to hit the one. Yeah. Yeah yeah. But that's the one at the bottom so that I can use the club and then use the bonus action as well.
    I don't want to. Okay I don't understand a minute. One once you've calculated you have a minute of Shillelagh. So as long as you're under ten rounds are fine. Okay. All right. 25 to hit. You know. And then it has poison and a higher crit range. So as you do strike down on him. You also take six points, though, of fire damage, as you say.
    as the flames look on you. Course. Your beloved, anything else? burning Skeleton time.
    sports. You. Yeah. So that's, can save, right? Yes. Against my DC.
    And. And.
    You. My DC is 17.
    You got 17, Oh. So as your sports, you kind of channel your spores towards him. Each one that gets a little too close to him starts kind of trying to get to the exposed Bone parts, but each one starts kind of igniting in little puffs of flame. or so you don't cause them any damage or spores?
    you're just trying to do their job. you see him kind of, pull up a large, flame ball into his hand, and he hurls it right at Calliope. Since she was the one. yeah. Because you're the one that sort of drawn him. That's the one he was going to. Well, yeah, I'm trying to think like what he go up to.
    The people have heard him already, though, or the one that he was already going after. But I'm going to go with what? Okay, let's do this. the one who insulted him, you know. Yeah. He's going to go after you. Oh, God. Who is you? You you okay? Does a 28 hit? Yes. But I would have Resistance, right?
    Unfortunately, it's fire. of course it is. Pretty good. Try this. I actually. Okay. What was that? I'm down. Dice. 11.8 damage. Oh.
    19 points of damage. Ouch. You guys just took off, like, over a hundred.
    Oh, he can hit it hard. but that's his what? Attack you get. So, is, he didn't have that, though, so it doesn't matter. Okay, so that's going to be his turn. Actually.
    So I didn't give him enough attacks, but it's right. Okay. Is this a big wall or a hit between being it. What is that? Yeah, it's. Well, it's kind of like a railing so you could see down to the bottom. Oh, yeah. You you can actually see all the way down to the first floor through there. Okay. And I can also see how I put windows up there.
    Okay. You can see through it but not go through it. That's got to.
    I think I got surrounded mean I guess I'll go sit over here for a little bit. that's all I can do. You want to try to get a crossbow? New Jump up on the table. Oh, I don't like using crossbow. The more I mean, you can shoot over that part. I'm going to run. Well. No, I'm just going to run.
    I'm gonna Jump. I'm gonna Jump up here. I'll use my burst of speed. Jump up there, and then you will. Yeah, I guess I'd better raise just in case. You know, he's not punching yet. it's.
    Just. You know, y'all be cool and let's swing away with my clothes. Regulus, you got. One. 20 one's going to hit, not so much in no. 17 spot. Event seven. Sponsored. Oh, did I not put red? Should I not set that thing up with rage claws? Yeah. No, I did it myself. Because you should have more down.
    Oh, okay. So would you put the acid there? What is it that has to do? Acid. Right. What was the other feature with up the go? plus you don't have one. Do you do acid crit on nice and oh it just higher crit range. That's what I was. That's all. And why don't you hit, 20. We'll hit well and the bonus White Claw 19.
    19 will hit. That's right there on the right. Oh. What?
    17. So that's it makes a difference. And that's my turn.
    That's actually not going to Work. you guys, I don't think anybody's a C is less than 18. Is it? That's next to him? Nope. Calliope. What's your. So I just.
    Fired. EMS. My c 17 o yours is 17. What's yours? AC.
    You mute yourself, Annie. You did? Yep, I did. You're muted. She's got no one in the room to yell at her.
    What's your AC 16. All right, so both of you got, both you and sass give me AC, give me a Dex check.
    Your me,
    Your. Out, unfortunately, is both. But it's only, You guys both take 15 points of fire damage as he kind of like, spurts out with his little, like, flames.
    kind of thing of the word I'm looking for right now. But it's his little attack that he gets to do in between. So, oh. I love a reaction. Yeah. What, did I take any fire damage from fighting in melee? Oh. You're right. Sorry. You are right. how many times did you have, three attempts.
    Three attacks? Three times. Three oh. Hits. One. So only two of them hit right? Or is it three? The hit? All three hit. Okay.
    19 was the lowest. You said 19 points. Oh, I see, I see. Oh. Because, 21 in the 15. Gotcha. Because you would never I see what happened in. Yeah.
    20 points total from the three attacks. Oh, the fire damage. Oh! shout out you are up.
    if I was to stand over Calliope, give her cover.
    Since he's a size larger. Well, the problem is, though, she he he wouldn't be able to really give her give cover because he's be he would be behind her. She's already kind of up right up in front of him. And he couldn't move. So she's in between his front feet. not I wouldn't say that. Not in that Weird corner there.
    It's all kind of. It's already a little congested as it is. It's not like he's got a lot of free room. I have a hard time. I was right up on him, too. Yeah. okay. Your future. Would that Work? I'd have to think about it a little bit more. Okay. Just curious. So, he'll stay where he's at, so I will shoot him twice.
    Yeah. Shoot. Already? Twice? Yeah.
    30. that barely gets through. I expected as much.
    I.
    But, Oh, yeah.
    My 23 plus nine is 3230. Before, as the arrow kind of breaks into him, you can see, like, it's kind of fracturing through the bones a bit. He's he's pretty weak at this point. You could even see, like, some of the flames kind of sputter out a little bit in some places, various places on him rinse and repeat.
    even higher to hit 30. it could just foam for, I don't know, I, I thought I heard something, I'll do this and then go check. And 15 or 20, 22 plus nine is 31. That's going to kill him. Go ahead and check the kids real quick and then I'll tell you what happens. Well, I'll let you do a how do you do this.
    Oh.
    You're sleeping. So.
    actually. Oh, well, I'll just go ahead. And just as the heard last arrow goes into the skull, you see, the flames kind of look up on it. All the flames in the in the Skeleton. Kind of, like, kind of pull into the Skeleton, into the Bone itself. And then the whole thing explodes and shards out. I need calliope sass, Bastian and Barlow to give me a Dex saving throw.
    Is it still fire? It's what I'm going to say is it's fire and bludgeoning, so I'll let you already take half. Okay, that'll be nice. That's kind of stuff that you cast. That spell did nothing. So I know,
    So. And then bastion, can I take a acrobatics roll? No, it's a Dex. Save.
    You don't. You get advantage, though when you're in, blitz on. Yeah, but it says you had advantage on dexterity. But then in parentheses, it says acrobatics. Oh, no. You get advantage on your Dex. Save on it. That's. Yeah.
    Nice. so you're the only one that actually, came unscathed? Oh, no. You can take have them. Sorry, but the rest of yourself is about to say,
    So it's gonna be 24 points of fire. Well, it's gonna be 12 points in 12 points. but. So, Calliope, you only have to take, you take 12 points and, bastion, you take 12 points. So I need to take it from you. You're how you want to do this, but, Sass and Barlow, you take 24 points of fire and bludgeoning damage as bits of Bone and fire hit against you guys, and then thing falls to the ground and it is defeated.
    Oh 24 fire 24 bludgeoning no. 12 of each. Oh, okay. Sorry. Well, so. I Wish I would have taken a picture. He was completely cocooned in his blanket, laying on the beanbag chair on the floor, and he still had his eye Mask on his little avocado Mask would have dropped his foot. He fell off the bed so his foot as well.
    We have, you know, those bags, like, they look like beanbag chairs, but you fill them with stuffed animals. Yeah, we have that. Well, yeah, we have that pushed up next to his bed because occasionally he'll roll off. How likely? It was just his foot, but he was still sound asleep, like, completely wrapped up in his blanket. Yeah, you can hear it once they're asleep.
    They're Dead to the world. And real hard to wake him up. And yet to wake up, like, so early in the morning, though to. Maybe that's why. Because they Sleep so well. By the time 5:00 rolls around, they're rested. I. Oh, yeah. All right. They're up at five every morning. So slowly, shortly after the pieces of kind of like there's little bits of burning Bone a little bit, but they don't really have much, energy to really sustain this, like, magical fire essence.
    So they start to kind of smolder.
    Anything else? You good stuff like that. Flames. All right. Like you think it's going to come back? Oh, right. you have no. Well, I mean at least are the flames cool? They didn't blow up. Oh. Oh, okay. Yeah. Sorry. yeah. We also went into I had it go into the skull, and then the flames kind of pulled into the Bone, and then the thing shattered and broke out.
    and they took bludgeoning and fire damage, but, that way Calliope only had to take half. I imagine that it was, arrow to the eye socket, like Pirates of the Caribbean when he gets a fork in his Wood. Nine, he's looking around with the fork in his eye. We can go with that. I was going with the forehead, but that's fine.
    I know in the eyeballs I was going, let's do a how do you do this anyway? So I stole that from you, so that's fine. I'll let you have that. Well, I feel a little bit upset. The rest of the skull isn't there for her to draw the rest of you do see one little piece of the skull where the mark is that you had drawn on it?
    Cast. Healing Spirit. Thank you. So we take one. One the six.
    number of times equal to one plus my spellcasting modifier, which is wisdom. Four times.
    So if I do one, each of them. Yeah. One plus years ago, 612. Twice I think to one d6. Right. Yeah. So one d6. It's not much, but it's something for the four of you. Or increases by one d6 for each, slot level in. Right. Yeah. So are we rolling it? yeah. We are. Okay. We are.
    Really? Yeah. Roll your own on this. So I ain't rolling your hill. Well, if I rolled it, it would be one point. Rolled it.
    Okay. So two I'm going to take. So 2.0 okay I'm going to take one of my potions healing because I'm way down.
    I almost killed what are you hmhm. So you down half. He's been trying to drink the glass. If you find 70. He always complains that he doesn't hit us very hard by the end of the match. Feel like he's. just walking through it.
    But then I'm always. There's been times where, like, oops, that was a little bit too much. Oh, it's hard to find that balance. Yeah. Oh, I point zero on him. Or d4? Oh, there's nothing left of the Skeleton. just like bits of Bone and like, Bone dust. I guess. I mean, it's pretty well pulverized. And there's shards of Bone.
    I guess you can say there's pieces, but nothing substantial. Is there any any other Books in here? you already did an investigation on that? Yeah. Yeah. There was just what you had seen it on the vial. Okay.
    Well, you didn't say what? potions. There were. Oh, yeah. What was your, sorry you were doing that? I think it was 13.
    And we got interrupted by half a mustache. Yeah, 13.
    as you're kind of going through it, like, a lot of them seem like they kind of like, some of them have been, like, evaporated a bit, so, like, maybe the stoppers weren't really in there. Very well. but we'll say that you were able to find one Potion of, It's almost like watery. Yeah.
    Like it's it looks like there's very like, like old tea. I guess you could say you're not sure exactly what it is, though. But you have one Potion.
    All right. I think this is the top of the stairs. Right. so there's one more. There's a stairwell that's right here that goes up. So are we out of. Are we out of combat? Yeah. Okay. That out Calliope still hurt. And who's who's hurting pretty bad. I'm about half now.
    I can cast Cure Wounds.
    I'll cast that on Calliope, and I'll cast it on myself.
    three. Okay, so it says she can take 12. Is that what that is? Okay. And then I'm going to. So Calliope you can take 12 and then I'm going to cast it on myself as well. Thank you so much. Six expensive mustache.
    Well yes. It wasn't a dick. It's.
    So would you guys like to do. Up the stairs? Yeah. Upstairs. And check out the stairs. So as you go up the stairs.
    What stairs? So there's that we're talking about. Why not? See? I can't see the whole room. Not one. That's right. There you go. Like. I'm just dropping you guys on it. So that would. There we go to the next screen.
    I want to check out that, thing outside. There's the balcony right. So as you guys get here. Oops. What I we go,
    You guys are a little like, you guys come out onto a little room. another little workstation.
    And then there's, yeah, a closed Gate door. The center there. We're on the other side of it. You can see the telescope.
    you know, up the way there, big guy. push past already. little spritz. Melanie, as I go by.
    She. A balcony there a way out there? Yeah, there's a Gate. And there's, like, in front of you or close Gate, I should say. Oh, get out of the way for Barlow. You picket the Gate. Another Gate right here. Yeah, right. Yeah, I'll pick it. Shall we look for traps first? Okay, fine. I'll look for some traps. That's.
    Help me look around the door to. Oh, look at the lock is look around the door. Okay. What are we gonna.
    It's looking for traps. Okay. all upper traps. Was it investigation? yeah. It's gonna be an investigation check. I'm trying to find my notes.
    So, excuse you,
    The team eight. No, I was just using you guys for advantage, that's all. Oh, sorry. You don't have the roll, then? My. Yeah, my.
    Shit. Hold on. Here. What I do is my notes on what's on the floors.
    The notes for what's on the floors. when you guys go on these floor, I need to know what's there. And. Oh, but I lost the page because I was looking for the Skeleton. And. here we go. Okay. does.
    That. And what was your investigation? 15. you don't see any traps on this? but you do see that the. All right, I'll try and pick it.
    20. as you you put the lockpicks in there, you're able. It's a it's a pretty hard one, but you were able to kind of fit everything into place after about a moment or two, and then you hear the click and it is now open.
    So that's a big 19 seconds accidentally. Sorry. 19 was a number. So you're fine. Okay. All right. Here, check it out. give me one second and opening.
    And,
    With the last house I can know. Have a beer.
    So as you come out into this landing here, this is the top of the building, and there's this very large, contraption unlike anything you've probably seen before. If, as you've probably not been a big telescope guy, it's not like. Telescopes are everywhere in this world. it's just select places. Bastion would probably be about the only one that's seen anything like this, actually, shadow probably would have heard talk of them.
    I guess it's kind of an elitist kind of thing, but, But that's the only thing that you really see that's up here. That's, at least on the outside of the, landing.
    Look through question. Do you see what? That's what it's looking at. let's see. look through the telescope. Yeah. I can't it's still locked here. Yeah. There you go.
    it's it's been a huge. It's just this. There. Okay. Fixed. Okay. I spent some time to examined where exactly I should be looking through. What? As you look through, It's it's all black inside of there. give me an investigation. Check.
    Point. So I'm gonna put explaining as you're messing with it. you start kind of pulling it back, and there was. It was black because that's what he was looking at was black. He's looking at these, like, dark kind of spot. And as you pull back, you can see that he's looking way off in the space. at some point that it's starting now, to see a bit of the sunlight kind of coming in on the edge of the, the vision of the of the site.
    And you can see now that he was looking at this black orb floating in space, and you guys recall when you guys were given the lecture about the, about the cosmos of your realm, is that there are these what they call saratoga's, these dark, like, black holes that surround the Sun? Had it look like he. He was looking at one of those.
    Are there any, like, papers or notes? you did see that there, was a notebook on the table. Also next to the table, there was a, Was it next to the table? Oh, no, it's down here, actually, there was a chest. Oh. Well, yeah. So I was looking for my notes for the.
    Oh. Oh, open the chest. Yes. Funny treasure trap. I don't know about that. traps. Traps. so, what's going on? I don't know what it is. It's the treasures down here. And what are you gonna look? Yeah, I'm gonna go straight. Yeah, I was looking at the notes. Oh. It's, shadow starts kind of ruffling through the notes.
    Give me an investigation from both of you guys. Actually respectful. Okay, 13.
    All right, so 15 and a 20. with you, shadow. you start. Well, actually, yours is going to take longer, so, Barlow, you do see that there is a trap. Oh.
    All right, I'll simply disarm and I'll let you guys know. I think I found something. I'll try and disarm.
    go ahead and do a, sleight of hand or, Yeah, that's what it is, right behind the.
    so. Well done. you kind of get your thieves tools in through the, the bits, and, and you're able to kind of cut what you believe should be the parts of the trap. And so it should effectively stop the trap from going. But it is still locked a time and. Okay. I see.
    you, get that last bit out and inside, you see.
    you see some coins and, a couple, art objects in here. It looks like I will put them in chat.
    embroidered Silk handkerchief, Gold locket, a small mirror, wooden frame. a little bracelet and a bunch of coins and, foreshadowing, going through the notes and, You can see that he was, he was studying the sagas and trying to understand how they are and how they Work. it looks like he's got notes that he, he had been talking to, individuals that claim to, be a part of an organization from, from another.
    Actually, it looks like they live out in space. It does seem that it brings up, the Bogan who, we're working with the Arcane Order for to hunt down various, kinds of, artifacts. through them, he had found out that these are ghosts. They can. A place that the the people in space tend to to avoid.
    Since it's almost like once you get into that area, time just almost like stops for you. And you people get stuck in there and and almost nobody ever comes back from it. And he looks like he was trying to find a way of, doing something. Maybe if he could, going off piggybacking off the notes that he had written about in another journal, he was thinking about possibly trapping the Dragon inside of an orb such as you had learned from his other journal, and that he wanted to then get that orb sent and, into one of these sagas, says.
    It seems that for all the bad things that he might have been a part of, he has always also been trying to find ways of stopping the Dragon. And we know that if he was able to send the Dragon somewhere else, that that would stop any of that prophecy, that that actually is a good thing. it's hard to say based on what you can tell here.
    who knows? and whether or not that stops the Draconic prophecies, you have not seen anything to tell you one way or another.
    I keep saying that you talk to somebody outside. But yeah, I would say that's pretty much the main things that you'd find in those notes.
    And you'd put that whole chest in the whole.
    if you'd like. Yeah. Do that. Oh.
    Yeah. When you step out here and all, don't drop the. test it out the first time throughout the whole. Damn it! Come here. You hit Calliope. Just boom. Yeah. Give me a, perception check.
    Is that the acid perception? Well, passive perception is kind of on always kind of going around. actually, since you're right, but passive is pretty high for shadow and where she's at, you can give both of you guys give me a perception check. Mine is normally with advantage. Do I still use that or. No. There's a normal if that's supposed to normally be with the manager.
    2323 you guys see on the wall near you guys right here, you guys see, kind of like, almost as it's happening, you start seeing this, like, red marks on it, and then you start seeing that it looks to be spelling a words on it. and, and something that looks like it's almost being written in blood, if you will, and starts to kind of on this mirror, you see a Message.
    The mirror open and you see the Message. Say, we found him. See you soon. Chamber has been opened. Enemies of the air. Beware. Yep. Harry Potter. Yes, exactly.
    Was that him? When the movies. The third one. That was like. What can the book. Well, it's not interesting. If it wasn't in the movies, I was going to say I. Oh, how would I know that? Because I never read the Books. It it was mostly. That was so long ago. Yeah. Okay. It was about this little thing called the Chamber of Secret.
    I thought of what the book is titled and the movie, I mean, I yeah, yeah, I saw them like, let's say it was a I say it was in there. I just it's been a long time since I've seen anyone.
    Yeah. So it's being written as we're watching. Yeah. And so when it's done it, the whole Message says we found him. See you soon. Is it start to fade or is and stay. I will say that it's still there for a while, and it's just kind of like, you see that they kind of like it's got like, the little droopy bits.
    It's kind of like, kind of goes down to, Do we know anybody that can do this? Like, maybe there's something that MacLean might have been able to do. Go ahead. If you want, you can give me, let's say, a history or an intelligence check. Both of those are crap, though. I can do it for her. I'll ask Bastian.
    Hey, you. But he would know MacLean. I never met MacLean, but Bastian did up. So I will ask so that both of you guys give me a intelligence or history check. It's something he can do. 13, 16.
    So definitely not with you, shadow. But what I will say is that with Bastian, you don't recall MacLean doing anything like this? Nothing. Nothing morbid like this. the idea of blood and mirrors. no, that's doesn't seem like something that was, like, in his wheelhouse, but you do recall something? Somebody. There was something about blood and mirrors.
    Red rum? Oh, yeah. No, that was, Tell you what. Go ahead and roll it one more time. Give me one more history. Check.
    There you go. Is it is it real blood? And then I'd ask Barlow if he. If he remembers anything from his past. Well, what I would say, Barlow, is what you're noticing now is that the blood is your sort of nose now. It's almost like an effect on the mirror, but it almost looks like it's on the other side of the mirror.
    And for. Oh, so I can't touch it. If you try to touch it, you do notice that it. You're not touching it in the blood. And the Illusion of it is. It's like it's almost like somebody riding on the other side of the mirror. And for you back now, with that 25, as you're trying to think like, where, where did I see blood on mirrors, you start thinking about Jacoby's house and the deal that you guys made with the little Imp, and he had put blood on the mirror, and that's how he was able to transport himself through the mirror.
    Oh, he found Jacoby. No, no, we didn't send him after Jacoby. Shit. Who do we send him? If he sent him after the person who. Who trapped him? Yeah. Yeah. I am proud of you, Sam. Yeah.
    I didn't even say that.
    It's that hill, see? Is that what I said? I'll see you soon. Or. So how did he know where we were found? It is. I think this was even before Calliope joined, right? No. Calliope was. No. She there? Okay. Under there. It's because it's when you guys went to his hideout. Yeah, that would have been where we found Tessa's dad.
    Yeah. After we know. Yeah. So, yeah, I was, in love. You went to the keep, you went to the keep. And then from the keep, you went through the portal underneath the bed to his house? Yeah. Oh, is that what you guys think? There's my things. I feel a little empty. I should know that. You don't know for certain that.
    But that's what you guys believe. It could be. I should say. Oh. Should we, See that soon? What can we do with this? And I was kind of hoping you get low roll so that we have some foreboding Message.
    Oh, yes. He never told us who the Wizard was that trapped him at the time. He didn't say he knew. Yeah. He just knew he was looking for him.
    Last name? I'm gonna go check.
    No, he wasn't in,
    He wasn't in Jacoby's house? Yeah. He wasn't. Where? No, no no no, no, he was trapped in something that we had. Oh, that's right, the found the item, and, the the hidden it. Yeah. Thanos's first hide. You guys found. That's the. Yeah, yeah, that's the statue that we put in the bag. And when I pulled it out, it came to life.
    And then you guys made a deal with him. And that's also where, because he had the book. lick lick lick. That's his name. Yeah. Morton Keenan's book that fell apart. It was falling apart because it was. You guys put it inside your bag. And that thing was also attached to a, dimension. Yeah. So we gave him the remains of the book, and he's going to find the Wizard that cursed him and let us know.
    One thing and verify that that's him Sending this. Or you think it was someone trying to communicate with. I mean, how did he send it to us last here?
    Oh, how long? Do magnetic know? I'm just curious. Because if how did explain again how we recognize the blood in the mirror. I'm just saying that you like being a, a intelligence 20. and getting the roles that he got, he was able to to deduce that the only time that he's seen anything like that would be that.
    That's all I'm saying. It could be something completely different. But based on what you guys have experienced, he. The only time you guys have seen anything with blood on mirrors would have been that.
    Yes, it could be the damn toy screwing with you. You don't know until you find out more. Oh, no.
    Oh, well, want try something? go for it. You can certainly try.
    oh. I don't know if this is going to Work. well, I'll cut my finger so it bleeds, and then I'll write on the mirror with my bloody finger. She's. That going to do anything? What do you write? will write. obviously. like, cut a whole vein, open. Yeah. No, I'm just going to write.
    change of plans. New location, question mark. so they get that kind of blood? I'm going to say that you take, six points of damage. now, what was the word you said? Change your plans, do location, question mark.
    I'm just doing that with the intent that if it is already a previous Message that, Pharaohs has in communication with somebody, it. While he's had a study that I could change it up. And if it is lithic, maybe he'll tell me where we can.
    we'll say that, you see another Message, as you get the last kind of letters in and you see it kind of sitting there for a while and drifting, we'll say that there's like another moment or two, and then you see it kind of slowly kind of disappear.
    And then you see a new Message. well, course. That's it. Work.
    Can't talk more now. We'll see you soon.
    Okay. It would have been really fun. Oh, it's still Heather. That's not how you talk to me, dummy. Let's. I mean, that's still a lot of, confirmation the way, but at least I know there's some way to communicate. Now. somehow he knew how I know where we were to get that mirror to open. Well, that mirror is coming with us, so.
    I mean, he's demon name. Grab that mirror.
    Okay.
    Oh, yeah. You're like bathroom size mirror or, like, floor to ceiling? No, we're going to see. It's like one of those kind of like, big round kind of mirrors that you see, so I don't know, they were painted on the walls. so probably what about, like, we'll say four foot tall, maybe, 3.5ft wide with a, a Gold and like, a wooden kind of frame, but with, like, bits of, like, painted Gold and Bronze on it.
    so it's not actual Metal, but it's just paint flecks.
    It doesn't even seem like it's that, like, important or anything. It just seems to be a mirror.
    All right. Putting that in the hole with the chest. You got it.
    So when I take this hole, I just. I tossed it on the ground, like, five feet away. Something. Yeah. And then it's like, it's like a little ball. It's like a hand, full size ball. And as you flick it down on the ground, like, like a throwing a piece of venom from the movies, and you see it, like, as it splats on the wall, it gets splats on the floor, and then it spreads out, like, really quickly and turns into that big ol hole.
    Which is then.
    Oh.
    Brian, we got chest. We got the mirror. And he notes, there was up here. There was just that one book of notes went into the saratoga's. Anything else I want to do up here of the hole? Open up. Tap the hole. Open up quickly, or just spread Slow. It's pretty quickly. So it's like. Like once it like, makes contact with whatever surface it's supposed to, to kind of expand on.
    Once it hits it, then it just kind of. And it kind of spreads out like, almost like the speed of like, you know, when you put the, the thing the, the little visors up in your windows, the unfold. Yeah. That's what I was thinking. Yeah. That's kind of like that. I think.
    Okay.
    But otherwise there's so much else up here. That's nice. We can go. Yeah. Yeah. You're not seeing any where else to go outside of back down.
    I think we explored everything here. Yeah, it certainly seems like it. Should we head back to the ship? The ship? Yeah. I think we should. Jim. Ship spot now.
    So you guys head back down the stairs. Go down each floor. Nothing more really seems to come alive or try to attack you. And, you guys are able to make your way back towards the ship. it would be at this time, though, you would see that, this is nightfall, though, because you guys went back up there at nighttime, so our whole Sleep schedules are.
    Yeah. As you guys head back to the ship, you would see the. We'll say that's early enough. Still in the evening that, you see the brothers out in front of their little outhouse. they've got a look. You didn't notice it when you guys came by the other night, but it looks like they have a little spot with, like, two little chairs, little table in between there.
    and, a little campfire roaring. you can also see that, Gigi is with them, and it looks like they're putting together a, a little gantlet arm, and they're kind of adjusting it and putting it on to her stump.
    That's nice. Oh.
    now, their their plan was to stay behind on this fortress right? Are you asking them that or you just. Yeah. both. I'll just say that you're able to recall, that they had talked about how they wanted to to look more into those metals. they're they seemed very interested in it. And so that they decided that they wanted to stay here.
    And what they said was they would contact gates when they needed a way off the Rock. and because Bastian wanted them to set up shop and or keep. But they were saying that they were already planning on setting a shop up with, jeeps in the, Adventurers Guild that he was building a competition. So more wasn't.
    Okay. Well, gonna stay here then we'll fill them in on, kind of. Well, you know, we explored the castle. we encountered some dangers. We think we took care of them all. But you thought you didn't want to go in there when. So this is, Just be careful. Yeah. So one of the one of the brothers, probably the squirrely one.
    So you don't think there's any, any real more dangers up there, right? I mean, sure, I mean, we can call jeeps to get here as soon as possible, but you pretty sure, we look through. Well, we don't. We didn't encounter anything on the way out, but we did on the way up, so we were pretty careful with everything.
    Yep. We overturned everything, looked in every drawer. So. Well, you never know. All right, well, And then he looks at his brother, who's still kind of just putting the last touches on the hand. You see, Gigi, like, she takes a step back and starts clenching her fist and sort of get it to Work and yeah, I think that'll Work.
    and so the one talking to you is like, yeah, hopefully this will Work out okay. It's more his idea than mine that stay on the Rock, but he thinks that these metals could be used for some interesting purposes.
    The metals, kind of like the Adamantine ingots we found. Well. Oh. No. No. because you're just. You're not with. You weren't really asking him that because he doesn't know what the Adamantine was that you found? yeah. I'm just. I'm wondering what metals I didn't want to mention is it's a type of Iron. It's usually found in comments that, like, that's kind of what it is.
    what? The metals that are here that they're studying is this Weird kind of, it almost looks like it has like, that oil Sheen on it. So it's it's it's kind of Weird in that sense, like an Obsidian. but it's a Metal, like how Obsidian is shiny kind of. The way, like, I, I kind of picture this, is that, that this.
    It's like.
    It almost looks like if you were to get that, that oily kind of like where you see, like that rainbow kind of color of oil, but it's like a natural property of this, Metal. Does that make sense? Right. Like a black abalone? Yeah. There you go. But it's a Metal, so it's not. It's not stone. It's.
    It's not a gemstone, but it is actual Metal.
    That.
    Form. But, actually, on that note, I will have one of them say, The Weird thing we're noticing with this Metal is it's. It's very, angular. It's like. It's almost like there's beams of Metal inside of this a Rock. And it's not like veins, like most metals that we find in the Earth are usually found in veins, like, they kind of spread in these, like, fractal kind of patterns.
    But a lot of this Metal here, it almost. It's like long beams of Metal.
    Where are you finding this from? Like the bottom of the. It's all throughout this whole island. This whole floating island is full of this Metal.
    And it's it's very, like, straight like there's there's not a there's few bits that we're finding that has, like, irregular shapes about it, but a lot of it is very straight, like just long Steel beams kind of thing. As in like it's the support structure for the island, but there's no real pattern about it in that sense.
    It's it's all haphazard. It's. It would be like, you take like a pile of sticks and they just got all jumbled up. That's what we're seeing. Oh, the I mean, this is me saying that the characters, it's kind of like what sounds like a Human type, but with like, a northern Sheen to it. Yeah. That's interesting.
    Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, actually, that that's a pretty good, example of what I'm thinking of, actually.
    I mean, it is true. And I guess one of them would say it is true that, like, you get some, some types of Metal that as they kind of crystallize, like the fool's Gold kind of sometimes or bismuth kind of how they kind of structure into, like, little very rigid shapes. There's a little bit of, of, a feeling of that, I guess you could say.
    I don't know if you guys know what I'm talking about. When I have you ever to like. Okay.
    Yeah, well, I'm glad they're excited about some new mineral that's looking at so high. And it's so far, like we can tell. Is it? It really likes magic. So we think that there can be some interesting things we can do with it. Or.
    Well be careful. you guys have luck tonight or. I mean, it is going to be pulling away. Yeah. At this point here, we're like, maybe about an hour or two past sunset, I would say, well, let's go three hours after sunset with everything.
    Yeah, yeah. I mean, we don't necessarily have a reason to delay anymore, right? Yeah. He looks at his brother and he's like, yeah, I mean, I got the hand working for her. So, It's it's been an interesting journey with you guys. we do hope we see you guys again. don't worry about your pay. that we paid for a full trip and even though we're the ones that decided they kind of get a half way off, we'll make sure everything gets cleared and you guys don't get screwed at the end.
    you know, like. Oh, yeah. Do we need to tell anybody where you are? well, I mean, the the the guild that you guys that we kind of secured a passage with, there at the end of the day, they're not going to they're not going to get upset if you. I'm not going to lie, if you were to kill us all, they wouldn't have cared that they'll still pay you the passage.
    It's not like, they're concerned about our safety. They were concerned about our coins. how do we get in touch with you when our Armor is finished? well, in that case, yeah. we're still working on that for you. And you're still working on the other half. The cost. well, you can try through gates for one.
    well, I mean, you guys have a stone. You guys, I still. No. Get us. Get Ahold of us. Because, you guys, we gave you the catalog and that stone with, and contact us a couple times throughout the day. So, yeah, that'll Work. Well.
    All right, all right, well, best of luck. You, you and they kind of get back to Work. I guess at that point, you give me, like, So we're going to head off, then.
    Why not? All right, well, by the way, shadow, that's your name, right? Yes. Yeah. Sometime on this trip, you might want to talk to, on this, because everybody keeps saying that, because she can possibly teach you how to talk to your friend over there, and she points over at, Artie. Oh.
    Well, see, she just said that to start with. Well, you should have asked what you were trying to find out. And she heads up, kind of runs off, and you see her kind of punching the air, trying to get used to her new hand.
    Climb aboard, and you guys are able to get back on the ship at this point. Bastian, you are going to, the captain will be the night captain. so I see you guys are back. if we're going to go ahead and take off, I gonna have to, go ahead and put some fuel into the ship.
    All right, so what level of, spell are you going to throw in there? well, opera a level five. and then go ahead and burn. the general one up, one level four, one level five, and burn a Gem.
    As you cast the well, use two level because you have to use two spells last four. But the fifth level is the one that goes into it. The other one is cast in the, dwemer spell. you feel the ship kind of lurch up the blue stones underneath it kind of, start to glow a bit, and you are able to take flight again.
    we will, go ahead and start flying back towards trade winds. And just for the sake of what's going on now, let's go ahead and do our first roles for the flight. Oh, yeah. pretty much everybody just roll a d20 and we'll take it from there. I'll take. Oh, my stupid. I don't do 100. Excellent.
    Hey, look at that, Calliope. Morale is doing pretty good now. I.
    Five. The weather and shadow. All right, so as you guys started kind of flying back down, a shadow, your roll, helps make sure that you guys are going the right way. And so, in conjunction with helping the navigator, who is woken up. So that way they can just make sure everything's on the right track at first, looks like it's pretty good.
    the weather is doing pretty well. As for Onyx and, sorry, a sass kind of reaches out and, with her Druidic powers to kind of just feel what's going on around. Everything feels like it's going the right way. And everything seems fine with the ship. We'll see what happens with that. Five at some point here.
    As you guys do, kind of Fly down towards, the water, The captain does at a certain point say my concern is if we kind of Fly into to town. So we're going to go ahead and, we're going to go ahead and just sailing from the water point, when we think we're still far enough out so nobody will see us.
    we're still kind of concern of how people can react with flying ships since it's not the norm. It's fair. People ship. what? We will sail in like a normal ship, right? Yeah. We're going to touch down on the water when we're far enough away from, Thorne winds to make sure that, nothing untoward happens.
    besides, especially flying at night around civilized parts, we. I think we need to be careful of so many things where our flying Dragon starts throwing large spears in the sky. so there is a point that, you guys do kind of touch down on the water because you guys were less than a day away from Thorne winds.
    At this point. So we'll say is that,
    Falling. So we'll say it's pretty early morning. when you guys, sometime in the middle of in the night, you guys do land, and, you guys do get to Port. And when you guys get to port, there is somebody in arms. Or is that somebody else on discord? Okay. It's just all. This is what I hate about this.
    It's like it just keeps beeping at me like something's. I need to do something. You guys sell into the port? the captain kind of, is able to, get out and start making the deals. Now, I have to remember how much it was that he had offered to pay for the passengers.
    It's probably a good to leave it if you want. If you need time to look up the information. Well, what I will say is, as he does, the captain does say the amount. You guys do notice it was much more than Barlow. It said you guys were getting paid for the passengers. it was 500.
    So what? I said. You said a lower number than it was.
    No, it was a thousand total. And I got the thousand, or they give me a thousand up front. I think you talk to them. And then I went back to everybody and he said, was I talking with 2000? They gave me half of it upfront a thousand. And then you said it's 500 for myself. I told everybody else.
    Yeah. So I got 500 myself. Let's put 500 with everyone else. As far as they know, it's thousand dollars. So yeah. So they I guess he's like, hey, here's the other thousand. Cool. what? You do and,
    Yeah, we'll just leave it there as you guys get the ship as a port and you guys are getting paid for it. And we'll figure out what happens next. And and that's a thousand Platinum, right? No, 6000 Gold. I heard Platinum. Come on.
    Well, we got some, art objects of some sort of value because we get those looked at. And on the trip, I would have had Bastian look and see if they're in that or. Magical. You guys, don't forget, you guys have the little black card with, like, lousy guys. talk to the people at the ports. If you guys need to kind of, like, pretty much what it is.
    It's more or less, if you need to buy. The idea was that if you need to convert money, get gemstones, or sell like, like a fence network at most ports there tends to be some type of fence. So yeah. That's kind of what card does it gives you access to the fence network that allows you to, if you need to get some gemstones real quick for, transporting, you know, the idea being that it's set up not so much that, hey, you need to buy gems for magic.
    It's more that actually people need to to transport wealth easily across the ocean. So then there's that network that, you can transport, turn your coins into gemstones, and that way to get it to another port.
    That makes sense. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Okay, let's find out. Oh, the shady little underbelly. Kind of. Yeah. My first thing, it's going to be fine. Which, what I should say is that as you guys get into this port town, you can see that it's a Weird mix of rich and poor all mixed together. you can see how there's areas that, just from their vantage point of coming into the docks, that even right away there's like parts of the docks that just looks shady.
    And there's other parts that looks kind of very ritzy, and it's very much buttressed against each other. there's almost no, like, real division in between where those kind of things mix.
    Oh, and actually, now I think about it, there was that one other aspect that you should have seen also. I forgot about that. as you guys did sell in, you know how, like in Game of Thrones, they had that big old, like, and they've seen it in, The Hobbit, where the whole thing with, like, a whole statue of a person above.
    it's kind of like that, but it's just the legs. So you see these two legs coming up, but then where the torso is, there's just like a sliver of it going up one side of the the torso, and the rest is just gone. And then does it look like it was unfinished or broken? It looks broken. It looks like at some point there was some large kind of statue of a person here.
    And I totally forgot. I can't believe I forgot. I totally forgot about this. So yeah, it's all gone except for these legs that come up. And then just like this part of the chest that comes up on the side of it, and then off to the sides, you can see large pieces of stone out in the waters. And there's one point where you do see this large kind of Dragon's head coming off to the right hand.
    On the right hand side of your ship, you see this large statue of a dragons head coming out of the water like a sea serpent and off to the left in the right, so you can see all types of like, debris of rocks and stuff. And you can tell that the. As they sailed in through that part, the captain had to be very careful of avoiding all these like little parts of Rock that there.
    Everyone's aware of that. There's a specific way of navigating through here. Oh, sorry. That's a very important part. Knife toy. I almost forgot about it.
    So. Well, we can leave it there as you guys get into this, port town. And we'll figure out what you guys do next. Sounds good. You guys have, totally ransacked one another one of the arrows homes, making Friends everywhere we go. Yep. Destroyed all of his defenses there. Left a couple of, gnomes to mine his island and then messages and blood on mirrors.
    So.
    I timed me, but. All right, guys.
    Variety. Thanks, guys. Thank you. Foreign. Yeah. Good night. Thank you. I'm going so much. Phone. Okay.
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    Shadow in the Snow
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    13 Apr 2024
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