011 Unlocking Secrets and Surviving Perils: Dungeon Delve Continues

Okay, so the only thing I had, well, for last episode, basically the trio find a bulkhead door that leads down into the dungeon, and then I have C character notes for dungeon, and then the last thing we had done, you guys had reached a room.

It's room four on our map where the smell of smoke permeates and you see, a pierced chest piece in the corner and five exhausted goblin warriors in the opposite corner. So if you want to fill in anything else that you guys had done in the dungeon up to this point, you are welcome to. So I have the abyssal chicken we found on the road that Cora's adopted. Yep. What was its name again? It was Popcorn and... Oh gosh, yeah. For some reason I didn't write that down. Corndon.

Oh yeah, Corndon. I was going to say it's in my sheet. It's now in my note. And that we met Wiggins Pingun? Deep gnome down here? Wiggins... Sorry, my thing has slid across two pages here. Yeah, Pingun. Wiggins Pingun. The other things I have... What about things we bought and then the treasure we have? Oh, I have a couple things from before we left. Okay.

There was a notice on the community board that in a few days there's going to be a town hall meeting to discuss expanding the businesses in town to, I guess, make it, like, more attractive for people, more things to do and whatnot. I started keeping a stitch sampler in my bag of holdings so that I can work on stuff.

The map for the dungeon was delivered to us but it wasn't the mayor that gave it to us it was the secretary i believe and she didn't say anything she just like dropped the map and peaced out kezareh kezareh thank you i usually remember her name i left a note on the board, that I am advertising for unskilled helpers basically to come help me and I would pay them in eggs just for the days when I'm not sure I'll be home in time from these adventures that my friends keep dragging me on.

I also need to make more cupcakes and I packed snacks for everybody and then we went to the the dungeon. The one thing with corndog is corndog's eggs are black instead of white and they're like smooth like obsidian and they work just like the chicken eggs for magic eggs. And they smell of sulfur. Did not write that down, but it makes sense. We found the smashed mirror that Wiggins smashed, and then we traded him some gold for all the copper coins, since we could fit the copper coins into our

bags. We killed a giant centipede. Well, we knocked out a giant centipede, and then Wiggins started dismembering it, so it's probably dead now. I would hope so. And that's all the rest of my notes. Well, he can use magic to unassemble it. Also, you took parts of the centipede to feed the corn dog. I did. Yep.

And we put a ghoul to sleep. We don't know how long it'll be to sleep in the room after the centipede room. Is that where the... That's the room where then we took the secret tunnel, I believe. Yeah, there was a... That's not where the little guys were, right? Goblins. That's the room you entered into. But there's a portcullis between you and the ghoul. So which room are the goblins in? four, which is ours are not numbered. I know. It's below the Pentagon.

Okay, so after you went through that. That's where we just came in. That was the tunnel there, the secret tunnel, right? Yep. To the left of that? Yeah, so that's room four on my map, which you guys entered at the middle bottom of that room. Okay, so not that hallway, actually.

No, no, no, no. In the middle of the room. Middle bottom. Got it. Okay, so you guys enter the room. Smells of smoke. Same as the rest of this place, it's very well worked stone. Not worked, it's smooth. It's very well crafted stone. To the point where if you had to climb the walls for some reason, it would be difficult. Because it's that well. They'll fit that well together. Precision. Yep. Precision. In the far right corner is a... Did I say chest piece or armor?

Breastplate so they're from what you can see from where you're at it's a breastplate that has been pierced and smoky in this room right yeah and there's five exhausted warrior goblins to your left in that corner in this room yeah, hey guys looks like there's some craziness going on in here could you use a hand They kind of, they look at you, scream a little bit, and back towards the corner. I look at Meriwether and Flora like, this is unexpected. Now what?

You notice as they're backing towards the corner, they're also kind of like breathing heavily. And they look a little bloodied. Maybe, maybe you don't breathe in so much in this smoke. Slower breaths, calmer. One of them tries it and then coughs a little bit. I mean, that's the idea. Just, just nice and slow, slow it down, calm. We're not here to hurt you. They do it again and they cough again. Maybe, maybe not quite so deep since there's so much smoke here.

Just, just not so fast. Look, I'm injured too. And I hold up my bleeding body. They don't know what to make of you Make a charisma Check Persuasion maybe, Thirteen They seem to Not back away Anymore as you Move around, Sorry They're not moving any Further away from you But not coming closer So they're not trying to pass through the wall but they're also not coming towards you. Is that breastplate a creature that's been bothering you? They nod their head, yeah.

We've had to deal with some creatures ourselves in here. Does it keep coming back to life? Oh, they nod their head again. Look at the others. Well, I wonder what we should do. Can we destroy the breastplate? We could try. I'm going to cast a firebolt at it. Okay, you can cast firebolt at it. Probably not good enough. That'd be a nine. Yeah, that's not going to do it. And even my fire's tired. I mean, I don't want to use my magic against it because magic doesn't kill anything.

And I'm not sure this is alive in the first place, but we're trying to get it to not wake up. I'm going to try and stab it with a dagger. Okay. I am approaching it to do so. Okay. Make a perception check. 21. It seems to twitch slightly. I pause when it twitches. It starts to rise up. Great.

I have three magic eggs left. One white and two obsidian. how far away is it so how far where you guys are let me see i think it has these squares it's four, squares but i'm gonna count them as more five so this room's like 25 by 35 and so you guys are in the middle so so i'm within 30 feet yeah just barely 30 feet as the crow flies, If I see her trying to pull out the egg, can I actually try to rush forward, pull out the juggler ball, and touch it? Yeah.

Is that an attack roll, or does it just work? I gotta double check. It has like a plus one to hit, so I just wasn't sure, but that's as a melee weapon? That's more if you throw it. Gotcha. Let me just double check. I'm just checking immunities. Yep, no worries. Okay. Yeah, it falls back to the ground. I don't know how long that'll keep it, but maybe we bought a little bit of time?

Should we just try to get out of this room? lock it in here you guys can come with us we can get out of here i like that plan well it might be safer what do you think so we came in at the bottom of the room should we get that door that's over there or the one up here can we see through these doors at all or are they door doors can you see through them let me double check i mean the one was a portcullis so we should be able to see through that one, I think.

I think that one, though, has the other symbol on the map. So, one of them is something, and the other one is locked. So the one down, you would have to check it, but down on the left is locked. The one in front of you, you would have to make a roll to see what's, if anything's up with it. So we can tell that one's locked, like we can see a lock on the door. Yeah. I vote we go for the one that's not locked. I don't know how quickly we could get past it. Yeah, let's give it a shot.

Do we hear anything beyond that door? I think that's where I would start is trying to see if there's any noises coming through. Give me a perception check. 23. Okay. You realize that this door is trapped by a well-camouflaged Pit Trap.

Oh, boy. There's a trap here. Pit shop you said? Yeah, it's just like that five foot square under the door. Okay, can I tap it with my quarterstaff to kind of like make it collapse in just so it's visible? Yeah. Yeah, so it does not automatically reset itself and it just hangs open. Okay, can we reach around to get to the door then and open it?

Well, like this would be kind of under the door, so you would have noticed this as you were listening for things on the other side okay and so you didn't hear anything on the other side yet at least but there's a 10 foot deep hole now believe beneath where the door is it's like the door hangs across yeah to the door easily got it the door hangs across the hole so the hole cuts underneath it and kind of like goes up on the other side yeah. Like a dog who digs a hole under a fence, kind of.

Is it a dirt hole? Oh, that makes more sense to me. I was not understanding what you were saying. No, it's not a dirt hole. It's more stone. And at the bottom are like, I don't think there's spikes. No, there's no spikes. It's just a 10-foot fall.

Okay. Does it look like we could climb the stone? Like, is there maybe enough spots for hand grips because it's stone? No. Like I said before, with the stone, it's so well cut. Oh, right. Yeah. You could climb it, but it'd probably be like a DC 20 athletics, which would be a natural 20 for most of you and impossible for some of you. Unless you have a natural 20. Yeah, I have a plus zero. So climbing is probably not possible.

I mean, I know we have rope. I just don't know how we would tie it off and then get up to the other side. So this would be a five foot square. So the door is really only two and a half feet away from the ledge. How big would corn dog get if I grew corn dog? That's an interesting question. I'm sure it has nothing to do with what you're about to do. I didn't bring popcorn in, only corn dog. Right.

He is tiny. I think I said two sizes. Is that? It sounds right because I thought it was up to medium. Up to medium, yeah. Can you read your thing? I feel like I would have put it on there. Oh, not the chicken. Sorry, it was opening the chicken. No, it was the feather. Okay.

Gonna hate this this feather has spawned from the head of a chicken that has had contact with the fey wild the feather has mysterious magic attached to it end of entry but yeah but there should be notes somewhere there's no notes oh my oh my the only notes that exist are the ones that i've taken a touch chicken one tap groans or shrinks beast okay that helps me not yeah i told, I think medium would be... Medium sounds like what it had been. It sounds like what a chicken typically is.

An abyssal chicken. A regular chicken. An abyssal chicken is tiny. Small. Popcorn is small. Okay, so this would only make it small. So it grows one size. Yeah. That doesn't help me. I didn't realize abyssal chickens were so small. I did not even. Never mind. I wasn't going to grow it and use it as a bridge. I mean, I guess if it's two and a half feet, like I'm looking at my arm, my arm is two and a half feet.

And if I lean forward, say someone holds me from behind, could probably get the door open. I mean, now we have a pit there still of five feet, but perhaps that's not too big to jump across. Anna, I'm a gnome. Someone can throw you across and we'll catch you. Okay, I guess. Also, once someone gets across, they could probably hold the other end of the rope.

And you could, yeah, use that to kind of help you get across, too. Scooch? Just scooch across? Mm-hmm. And then we could worry about climbing out of the pit if one of us misses the jump and falls in. You know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, it's only 10 feet. As long as not all of us are down there, we can throw a rope. What about these goblins, though? Someone's going to have to throw them, too, I think. Because they're also, like, gnome-ish sized, aren't they?

Although they might be better athletic. They'd be small. They are goblin warriors. So let me see if they have anything different. No, I'd probably give them goblin stat, which they would have. Nothing special for jumping. They could jump eight feet long. Wait, so they could probably make it across. They would need a running jump. But yeah. Okay. But I could run and jump too. All you guys are talking, you hear a crash. From what direction? The hole. Inside the hole? Yeah.

Carefully look down into the hole. The armor's down there. What? I look back where the armor was. The goblins have seemingly pushed it into the hole. Okay, I mean, I guess that makes sense. So do we just leave it there, then? Give me a... What would we say? Let's say Arcana check. All of it? Anybody who wants to. 23. Four. You said perception? Arcana. Arcana. Arcana, sorry. My brain blanked out a minute on me. Sixteen. Okay. Merriweather, it's dead.

Oh, yay! The fall day, which likely killed it. I turn to the goblins and I go, I guess you don't have to worry about him anymore. They give you a thumbs up. They might understand common. They don't. Speak it. At least they're not.

Proficient. well they're not necessarily like letting on that they speak it other than understanding it, so they may speak it they may not is what i'm saying you can't tell so they just liked my tip yeah no no like they might you simply can't tell i was just joking yeah you can tell that they understand you just can't tell if they speak it that's like how you know a deaf person can understand you they just if you don't speak asl you you're not going to understand that,

yeah okay okay you picking up what i'm putting down i mean yeah okay cool okay so what are you guys doing i mean so i'm going to lean forward open that door and then i'm going to take a running jump and try to jump across wait what's on the other side of the door do you think, Vauna takes a second to figure that out I don't No, definitely not. Okay, so what's your strength Score Do we have to do strength? So what's the Big number in your strength score Is it an 8? Is it a 10?

Yeah, I have a minus 1 I'm an 8 So that means with a 10 foot Start, you can jump Oh, you're trying to figure out how far I can jump, gotcha Yeah, I think you can jump 8 feet So I should be able to make it. Yeah. I do want Flora to yell as she goes to jump. Wait, what's on the other side of that door?

Oh yeah, that definitely happened. And Laura lands on the other side as you finish your statement. So what's on the other side of the door? I have to take a quick look around. Okay. Let me just see here. You guys are entering You're in the hallway before room One is how it's labeled on my thing. One. There's an archway ahead of you that leads to the next room.

Okay. There's not really anything wandering in this hallway because, let's be honest, there's not enough room for anything to really wander. Okay. Can I look up to the archway and just take a peek into the room? Okay. Go ahead and give me a stealth check. Oh, good. That's five. Okay. Let me roll for what's definitely not in there. Something has noticed you. It is coming your way. Does it make a scraping sound? Does it make a scraping sound? No. Does it make a sound you've heard before?

Yes. In this dungeon? Yes. Is it hundreds of sounds? Or, as Becca said, I think 30 segment sounds? Well, now I know what it is. boy that's just great so do I notice it? Oh you notice it yeah there's another centipede over here I can use some help guys, sure tell the one with little legs to just come on over and I take a running start okay and I try to leap the pit what's your strength?

Oh surprisingly only plus zero so it's ten you can jump ten feet You actually jump where two feet further than where Fauna landed. And that's how it's done. And I pull out my slingshot. Meriwether with your knack for competition, you notice this miniature competition possibly forming that you can also be a part of. I guess I'm going to jump over too. She's not exactly happy about it. What's your Strength? Yeah, strength. Score?

10. Okay. Same as Selena. So as long as you take a running start, you can jump 10 feet. If you only... I'm not going to take a running start. Okay, if you don't take a running start, it's half of that. So you would have made it, but I would have made you make a dex check to see if you fall in the pit. If you didn't take a running start. But because you did take a running start, you are now across the pit and you have landed next to Flora. Kind of brushed off my shoulders.

And now's not the time to be showing off, guys. And roll initiative. Nineteen. Fourteen. Okay, so Flora, you're going first.

See the centipede yet or just hear it hear it which direction is it coming from uh ahead and to the left i believe is how the door is set up i'm going to move toward it carefully and if i can like peek my head around to see if i can see it let's see the distance yeah you could well, yeah okay yeah you could probably peek around and see it's coming but give me a perception check to see if you know where it's coming from. Eight. You know it's in this room.

You can't seem to see it for some reason. Okay. I am going to prepare an action. I'm going to stick one of the regular magic eggs into the slingshot. And if I see the centipede, I'm going to launch it. Okay. Okay. At the centipede, to be clear. Yep. Fauna, you're up next.

So can i move to where i can definitely see it now because i could hear it right you could move to the doorway the doorway is about one and a half blocks wide so you could technically kind of fit, right about where floor is at okay like it's and then i want to try to hit it with a firebolt okay give me a perception check to see if you can see where it's at all right 12 yeah uh it's on the ceiling, and it's coming towards the doorway. Oh, cool. It's up time. Look up, guys.

Do I look up or do I have the next action? You can see it if you look up. I look up. Okay, you see it. I launch an egg. So I'm gonna say I got super, uh, distracted is not the word. Maybe discombobulated by seeing it on the ceiling where I didn't accept it, because I rolled a four from my fireball. Okay, yeah, that misses. And the egg? Twelve. Twelve? Also misses. The egg goes up and then doesn't quite make it and does an arc back down and splats on the ground. I have two eggs left.

Merriweather, you're up. I'm sorry. I am going to cast Chaos Bolt at it. You're probably going to have to move up to get near it, because it hasn't come through the doorway yet.

Yeah, I'll move up. Okay. So you can probably see over Flora's head, because she's short. You're going to cast Chaos Bolt, okay? Yeah, that's a funny treat. Yeah, that hits. Sorry, wrong dice. I think you also have to roll up something to determine what the chaos bolt is. Yeah. That is the point now. Because it's 2d8 plus 1d6. For chaos bolt? Yeah. It says auto hit the target takes 2d8 plus 1d6 damage. But chaos bolt also has a... It changes randomly.

Like type of damage? yeah yeah so you gotta roll something to be able to know that yeah that's a 21 psychic, okay so you did roll the yeah you roll the d8 and then pick one of the the dice and then use that to determine the damage type right so when you roll the d8 it tells you so you roll the seven on a d8 to get psychic and then you roll the damage and that's the psychic damage. Okay. Let me double check just to make sure centipedes aren't somehow immune to psychic. They are not.

It is unconscious as it comes flying over Flora and Fauna's head. Brother, give me just an easy dex check to see if you can dodge it as it comes at you. 20? Yeah, you're able to kind of duck down as the centipede collides with the wall behind you and falls to the ground. Dead? What do you think? Did you use magic? I did use magic. Then it's not dead. Not dead, but like unconscious, right? So how long do we have? You have probably about two hours.

Do we want to finish it off? Well, we left the other one alive until the other thing started eating it. Yeah, I think we're okay. They'll just let it go for now. Did the goblins follow us? No, no, they stayed over there. Okay, so they're not dismembering this one yet.

Yeah, the problem in that room is gone. They're happy to stay where they are. Kind of, yeah, for right now. Okay. I also don't want to play five goblins. What if they're in a trench coat? Then it's just like one goblin. That's true. Or they could be like three goblins in one trench coat and two goblins in another and walk around like their father and son or something. Oh, my goodness. But no, they're probably going to stay in the room that they're in.

Okay. So now that we're not fighting, but we're in this new room, what do we see in this room? In this room? Give me a perception check or an investigation check. Thirteen. You see a big pentagonal room. Pentagonal room. Any doors? Yeah. Yeah, there's doors. Oh, we see a door? At the top of the pentagon is another door. It is. It's just a regular wooden door. Okay. So all I see is the door. I'm going to start heading that way.

If nothing happens, I'm going to check out the door and make sure there's not another trap here. There is no trap here. Is it locked? No. I want to loosen up the door. Okay. Go ahead and give me a listen. Is that a perception? Yep. Eighteen. Just a sec. You hear scurrying on the other side.

Guys, I don't know what's over there, but I hear scurrying. I don't like that. Hmm. Did I recognize the type of scurrying? Uh, yeah. Give me a nature check with advantage for being a druid of the nature world. Okay. Probably rodent. I think it just might be some sort of, like, rats or something. How does Flora feel about rats? You wouldn't have to tell me. Mary Mother doesn't like them. Flora doesn't like them because they tend to get in and eat all the feed.

I mean, they're just animals doing what animals do. I guess I'm going to open the door carefully. Slowly and look as I'm opening it to make sure nothing's going to run through at us. Okay. Nothing runs through. The scurrying gets louder now that the door is open. Can I see them? Whatever it is? So, notice that you would have to go forward five feet, and there's a hallway to the right.

I'm going to stay over my shoulder, watch my back, and I'm going to carefully, quietly approach that corner and keep around. Okay. Roll stealth. 23. 23. Okay. Yeah, you're able to stealth. They don't seem to notice you. And you look around the corner. It's a bunch of rats. In a tractor coat. No, not in a tractor coat. Oh. Would you say it's a swarm? No. They're quite large rats. Like a dire rat. In relation to popcorn, how large are these rats?

No. A dire rat is not listed. So I will have to go with something else that is similar. There's a disease? Johnny and a rat. Oh, there's a Johnny and a rat. We'll go with Johnny and a rat. How big are they? They are small. So they're popcorn-sized. Yeah. I'm going to back up slowly to the other members of my party and say, There's a bunch of rats up there. They are popcorn-sized, and then I'm going to...

Corn dog on the head three times and get three more eggs and put them into my little egg pouch in my apron okay and by pouch i mean pocket my pocket so i am up to five eggs again only one of them is a chicken okay let's what are you doing a rolling initiative are you are you engaging or are you we don't what do you guys want to do i don't know that we can get around without them seeing us i guess it's possible they leave us alone oh that's a good idea you go first,

i will pull out the juggler's ball okay and i guess i'll kind of try to sneak up to it and tap it before it knows what happened. So based on what you know of this, if you are in the tip of the Pentagon room, you're now like five feet out towards where it turns right. And this is a long hallway. So it's like, uh, what? It's a long haul. Uh, 50. Oh yeah. Somewhere around maybe 75 feet, maybe less.

I'm not going to necessarily count it out right now. And these rats are just kind of running up and down the hall.

You would not be able to sneak because it is just a standard hallway. That makes sense. There's nowhere to hide. Well, can I play, like, run and dodge and hit them with the jubbler balls that go through, like, tag almost? Possibly. The one thing I'll warn you about is your hit points, I believe. Yeah, let free. I only say that... I have a health potion in my pocket. I only say that because I've watched a character take on four regular rats and get killed at level one.

Yeah, this is true. If I get too much damage, I'm dead, dead. I will accompany and guard her if this is what she wants to do. So I'll just, like, have her back so she doesn't get attacked too much while she's putting them to sleep. So what are you doing? I'm going to take out my sickle.

I'm gonna try and protect her as she's running toward the rats so if any of the rats come at her and she's not able to put it to sleep i'll attack the rat okay is that doable was that too complicated it's possible we will enter initiative after you make a i'll make i'll have you make, we'll just call it a straight up luck check to see if they notice you.

It's not really a stealth both of you because you're running so it can't be a stealth check because stealth has done it well more so like do they have time to react to us type of a thing right right to see if you get a surprise round basically okay so, what's luck straight roll yeah you want to stroll that now yeah Becca are you good with this plan, yep let's give it a shot you're a dumb nut I have like yes i'm a gnome a gnome oh good my bad roll of dice continues well i got a dime i got a 17.

Okay what's the average of those two 26 13 they don't seem to notice you wow coming i'll never see us coming so you guys get one shot at this so far there's like one rat ahead of you maybe 20 feet. The rest of the rats are like down the hall. They're like not quite running in a line, but kind of in a line. It wouldn't be possible for me to hit this first one and then like roll the rest, right? Like bowling? You could try. Does that seem like a better plan than me just running past them all?

No, I mean, it's possibly safer, but once you let go of that ball, you're not getting it back until you do run to get it. Oh, I know. I mean, at worst, we start firing them then, right? I mean, I have eggs. You know how long my firebolt's been working? I've done a ton of damage in here. I mean, if you're comfortable with that. I'm pretty sure I've missed every single time. I think you've probably missed it. Most times. Most times, if not all.

Yeah, I haven't been able to make it well. Merriweather, what do you think? I really don't want to have to interact with the rats, but if she's so gung-ho about her plan, I don't know. Okay, well. We're bowling for rats? I guess we're bowling for rats. Alright, so I'm going to try to tap the one that's closest to us, and then I'm going to roll it down the hall and try to hit the rest of them.

Okay, like I said, you can get up to the one that's next to you, like in front of you It goes down and then it like shrinks to a normal size rat What? Oh, interesting Does that wake you back up when it shrinks or is it still asleep? No, it's still asleep, it's just kind of off to the side now Okay And then you're gonna bowl Yep Okay, I guess since nothing else Yeah, nothing else seemed to notice this happen because it wasn't very noisy. It was just like a little beanbag pushed into a rat.

Give me an attack roll as if you're throwing it, but we'll say you're bowling it. Okay.

Come on, roll well for once. Eleven. With an 11, it rolls down and kind of, it rolls up one of the rat's, the rat in the back's tail, and kind of, it kind of ramps over the rat, the rat kind of also, like. Nice with Evo? Kinda, kinda, yeah. And then this rat, like, I don't want to say something too disturbing.

This rat like turns into shadow and disappears whoa and well that that changes what my next plan was gonna be then we're gonna roll initiative as the other two rats become alerted i'm still gonna try is my juggler's ball sitting on the floor down there then just make sure it didn't disappear with the rat yep it's about where that other door is you can see another door right, yes so where that other door is it's close to that but probably 10 feet back

from that that's okay so it's almost like it's more than halfway down okay but not all the way, okay so we're rolling initiative okay and what'd you roll for eight. 19. Now I get a good roll. Yeah, Fauna, you have... You go first. Alright, well, I'm gonna try Firebolt, the first rat that I see. Okay. 11. That does not quite hit it. Yep, didn't think so. I don't know what my dice problem tonight is. It just looks at you and does a rat hiss. I don't know if rats hiss, but this one does.

Yeah, like the R-O-U-S is in Princess Bride. And it starts to run towards you. So it was probably beyond that doorway. And it... 10, 15, 20, 25... How far down the line were you? I think... So it was wherever that first rat was because I touched it. And I don't think I moved from there. I essentially touched it and it got ready and bowled right from that spot.

I think you guys ran in about 20 feet. Yeah, I think you did say the first one was about 20 in Yeah, so It looks like it's gonna reach you I'm gonna roll I'm gonna roll a dex check For it real quick, You'll understand why Because it might trip on the juggler's ball That it can't see But it's not going to, Darn As it's coming and you're like Yeah, hit the ball, hit the ball It kind of scampers over the ball because the firebolt

gave it enough light to see light to see and also like determination to fight you, okay so it does get up to you and the first one's going to attack, and it rolled does a 10 hit no. Okay then it misses and the second one is coming running towards you and we're gonna do the X check for that one and that one hits the ball and like topples over, starts to slide and like becomes a stinky cloud interesting interesting.

This and she's gonna go wow i'm glad i didn't turn into a stinky cloud yeah this is weird it only ever put you to sleep should we pick it up and touch you with it then no i say as i'm literally fending off this rat in my face i'm good i'm good so that was pauna went the rats went flora. I have an idea and it's based solely on what happened to that first rat. So it's probably not going to work, but I want to do it anyway. Instead of the sickle, I want to pull out the feather.

Can I do that since the sickle is one handed? Yeah. If I don't draw.

Okay. How close is the closest rat? so the closest rat would at best be five feet in front of fauna and fauna is, 20 feet in yeah so i didn't count the corner square so aligned with that hallway that below the hallway you're on that's not touching it does that make sense the hallway below so on the map there's the hallway you're in big long hallway and then below that, next to the pentagon room is like a three square hallway this?

No it's not connected next to the pentagon room I know you could do this this? Yes above that the square above that you understand what I'm saying here yes, that is the square that fauna is in. And the stinky cloud is right in front of her and the rat that would have been running towards her is no way. That is the rat. The right in front of her is the rat that's still there. The stinking cloud was further down the hallway. It's right in front of the doorway partway down the hall.

Cause that's where we said the other one disappeared. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to move up next to Fauna, reach forward with the feather, and try and tap the rat once, which is the grow shrink option. Because I saw that first rat shrink when it hit the ball. So I'm like, did something grow these? Okay, so you shrink it? I'm trying.

High or low? High. That is low. It grows three times its size. oh whoops wrong way I think that was my action yep am I I can't leave can I no probably close to opportunity now huh oh okay I'm gonna, say oh crap hold the feather back and hold up the sickle and just prepare for my next turn okay Meriwether it's your turn. Going to cast Mind Sliver, so I'm gonna need an intelligence save. I'm just trying to remember what that one does.

I'm just going off Legacy. It's a cantrip, 60 feet. Okay, yes, you can cast it. You want an intelligence save? Yes, please.

That is likely a failure. yeah that's a zero yay so that's my kick damage and then you subtract one d4 from the next saving throw it makes before the end of my next turn so you rolled a d6 and you got a six yep okay it looks terrible and you said subtract one d4 from next saving throw before the end of your next turn okay okay so next is fauna there is a rat that is the size of three cats, directly in front of me so probably like a large pig directly in front of you my bad,

so i think i'm going to pull out my dagger and stab at it okay that's a nat 20 Okay, you hit it. And that's going to be six, what is it, piercing? The dagger? Yeah. Six piercing. Okay. Tell me what kind of weird way does this one disappear? You mean like kind of what you've done for the others? Anything you could think of that's weird that makes it obsolete in some way. It melts into a pile of slime on the ground. Okay. Gross. Gross. Can I clean it up?

Yeah. With prestigitation. Yeah, you can clean it up with prestigitation. Thank you. These were... What do you call them? Rats? Worse. Worse. Dire rats with wielding bizarre outrage powers. That's fun, I guess. And so when they died, weird things happened. I'm going to turn to Fauna and I'm going to say, what weird place did you get us into? Obviously. I'm going to walk down the hall to pick up my juggler ball. Okay. Yeah, you're able to get it. No problem. Did the cloud dissipate?

Or is it still just sitting there? It's dissipating so it's not a threat but it does stink a little bit. You should watch your step there Fauna. I've smelled worse. I mean you all work on farms so you've probably all felt worse. True. That's my point. Yeah. This doorway way that you're next to you give me a perception check just her or all of her she's the only one down there right now oh my goodness these dice are all over the place that's a nine.

Okay looks like a locked iron door we got another locked door here can any of you pick locks i guess we haven't ever thought about that no but i can go ahead and give it a try i feel like i'm pretty I'm pretty good with my hands. None of us probably have a lockpick kit, right? No, probably not. I wonder if it's something we could at least pick up at the general store. We don't really have any proficiency with it.

I feel like we'll get some weird looks if we ask for a lockpicking kit. Not if I ask for it. I still think we've got weird looks. So you guys are walking down towards the door? Yeah. Give me perception checks? Or investigation, whichever. Six. Kayla? Sorry, I'm seeing which one I liked better. 21. Okay, with the 21, you notice towards the top of the ceiling there is a crack that as you look even closer you notice the glint of a blade and it seems to be a pendulum trap.

Fauna already go past this? No, she's at the door. She hasn't messed with the door yet. She called for you guys to mess with the door. Well, I don't see it, so... I'll point it out to everybody. No, you see it. Oh, Fauna, be careful. Oh, boy, I stepped back. Do we have anything that we could put in front to trigger it? Can we try to disarm it? Or do we need tools for that?

If you can come up with how you would disarm it, i will let you give me a roll i think we could maybe try how wait i need more details about this pendulum so the iron door in front of you yes at the top of the door there's a gap a couple inches wide that you could see when you're like right up against the door but a little bit back from the door you wouldn't necessarily see unless you rolled real well like weather. And you can see up there that there is a pendulum, like a long stick with an

axe on the end of it that would likely swing down. So it comes down and chops? It comes down and swings. From the ceiling or from above the door? The ceiling is above the door. Well, when you said above the door, I thought you meant like the wall above the door. There's not really much space there? Yeah. Okay. So right now it's like recessed into the ceiling? Yeah. Nope, I don't know.

I was thinking maybe we could do a classic clothesline and have a rope across the bottom, trigger the trap, and then pull the rope tot so that it catches it on the backswing.

But we'd have to be careful no one gets hit. It might just be safer to try to get through the door without triggering it. He's probably going to trigger if you go through the door, In that case, you guys up for trying to clothesline a pendulum? Well, or do we have something we could just throw in front of the door to make it trigger? I mean, what triggers it? Is it us opening the door or is there like a pressure plate? Did you notice?

I was actually just going to say, can we look around for a pressure plate? You can look around. Give me our investigation perception. Fourteen? Sixteen. It looks like there's multiple pressure plates, like crossing the threshold or pushing on the door. Like something's probably, if the door opens, it would swing. Or like I said, the threshold under the door has a pressure plate and there's pressure plates like along the door. Everywhere. Pretty much.

So who's carrying the 30 000 copper pieces i think they were in my bag of holding 3 000 3 000 who's carrying the third at 3 000 he'll set it again maybe just start throwing copper pieces at it you also have an unconscious rat down the hall or use the rat okay mary weather's out doing it okay i just come up with the ideas okay so certainly not afraid to pick it up, so you're going what are you doing with the rat i'm gonna toss it onto the pressure plate in front of the door first

and see if that triggers it okay it does trigger it the axe comes swinging down and just barely like shave some of the hair off the back of the rat Mm-hmm. Sets itself oh no i told you we're gonna have to clothesline it we gotta catch this pendulum, do you do you want to just cut our rope it's on a stick if we can so it did swing it swung three times one two three and then reset do we have can we time it to see if we could get to where we need to be in between the swings?

You could certainly try. Like, at best, you would have to make athletics or acrobatics check if the door were even open. Can we try to catch the pendulum by the stick? You can try. I want to try. Okay. Fauna, trigger that pendulum again. So, I'm gonna try to carefully reach over. I'll use my quarter step, actually. I'll pull the rat off the pressure plate back to me. Mm-hmm. And then I will toss it to trigger it again. Okay. It starts swinging. I'm gonna try to catch it by the stick.

You're gonna, like, jump over the axe part. I'm trying. How tall's the axe part? I'm just gonna reach. I don't know that you would... It's swinging. Fauna, stick out your quarterstaff. I do so.

Above the blade. I do so to try to stop it so that I don't cut my quarterstaff Give me a strength save Oh gosh, strength save, Thirteen It doesn't quite knock it out of your hands but it knocks it out of its way as it finishes its passes and goes back up into the ceiling I'm gonna try timing it Okay, Fauna, trigger the plate again So I'll do the same thing of using my quarterstaff to pull it back and then toss it back onto the plate, the rat. Okay.

So, Barry Weather, give me an acrobatics check. See if you can get on this thing. 22. Okay, you get on it. It's swinging. And every time it swings, you're kind of hitting the ceiling a little bit. You're not sure what's going to happen when it goes to reset. You know, like when you get on something and it's moving at a speed that you're like, oh, no, this is dangerous. This was a mistake. Possibly. Well, I commit it. Oh, no.

Okay. So it starts to reset and you're like wedged in the crack at the top. So it is showing. Oh. Six points of crushing damage oh no oh i have one hit point.

What do you what do you mean where you need to go you are in the ceiling not in the ceiling but you are like in the ceiling part of the ceiling wait wait wait wait can we back up i wasn't trying to jump on the thing i was timing it to go across you can't go across the door to get behind it is what she was trying to do there's no room behind it it's swinging directly in front of the door, so the only thing you would have been able to do is run into the door and get

chopped by the axe if you didn't jump on it oh then i don't want to do that like i said i wanted to time it i didn't want to jump on or over it. I thought she was just going to count how long each swing was.

I thought she was jumping on it. No, no, I wasn't jumping on it. She wanted to see if there'd be enough time for us to, between swings, get behind it. Yes, yes, yes. Gotcha. It's like just over two seconds for all three swings. You can do the math on that one. So fast. Yeah. So we didn't have enough time to, like, go over, open a door, run back, then go over and go through? The door is locked.

I probably have to pick the lock. Okay. What if we went back and got that piece of armor that's dead now and jammed it into the ceiling so it couldn't reset? Can we reach the ceiling? We could throw the armor at the pendulum and hope that it it's an interesting thought. Want to try and break the stick with my sickle. There's a, an alarm to look from the DM.

You're probably not tall enough to reach the stick with your sickle because the ax is like your height without risking being killed by the ax. And your sickle is also probably not strong enough. It's a pretty weak weapon. Wow. Brutal. What is it? B4 or D6?

I thought it was a d so either way it's not very strong it's a d4 it's a d4 yeah it's one of the weakest weapons in the game also i believe it might be a martial weapon or is it a simple weapon so it's melee weapon simple okay simple i don't have that many options in my arsenal here guys, and i might have illusion it to stops with you hold on hold on.

So wait i have thorn whip wait i have blade ward so you extend your hand and trace the sigil of warding that there until the end of your next turn you have resistance against bludgeoning piercing and slashing damage dealt by weapon attacks yeah the resistance you're still going to take damage yeah okay go ahead uh i have one more okay um i have spiny shield that's going to damage anything that tries to hit you but that i mean but could it damage the axe.

It would likely kill you before it damaged the axe. This is because of the way it's set up. It's not set up as a plus 15 to attack because it's in a straight line. And the likelihood it's going to hit you is high. And it would probably kill you. So your spiny shield probably is not, unless it rolls a natural one, which it's swinging three times, so that's not likely, you would end up dead. Okay, well, these are the two things I have. Unless we just want to, like I said, attack it.

We can always just go to the end of the hall and skip this room, but it's locked and trapped, which seems intriguing.

That sounds like that. So I have to keep the horn with. now the thing is i don't know because it's just an instantaneous quick like whip thing we could actually do anything with it but essentially it's made to like attack something but then pull it 10 feet closer to you so what i don't know is it doesn't give like an amount of time that it stays well just as duration is instantaneous but i don't think it stays so i was trying to think could we

use it in some way that if i lashed out at the thing as it's swinging could kind of pull it back and keep it from going back up you could see what happens i mean it doesn't hurt anything i guess it's the rest of us can help pull back not really it's not a real pull her yeah that's more. Like, hang on to her to support her. Because I'm sure it's going to try and pull this whip from her. It can't really pull the whip from her. Well, I can let go. It's just a spell.

So it's not like it's a physical whip. Well, Flora doesn't know magic, so she's going to try and stabilize her friend. And then I guess that means Meriwether's going to have to use the rat and trigger the trap. I'm shocked at that. Mike, this is a melee spell attack for how it's supposed to work. Yeah. I just imagine Meriwether's like, You know, when the person who's wearing like a fancy dress and heels in probably like sewer environment is like, like.

With their foot, like just gently nudges it with disgust. That's what I imagine Meriwether is doing. Okay. So the trap is now triggered. You have about two seconds to figure out what you want to do. So I'm rolling that 20 to try to thorn with it. And what I'm trying to do is like, as it's swinging kind of on the swing towards me, I'm on the side from it, like far away that it wouldn't hit me reaching this out. It has a 30 foot range.

I'm trying to wrap it around the pole above it so I can kind of hold it back from swinging back up. Yeah. So I'll tell you what probably happens based on because it's moving. You did a nat 20. we're going to make it a little cool.

What's your thorn whip usually do for damage usually does 1d6 piercing because it has thorns on it okay so it, grabs hold of the stick that is swinging this axe and as the axe tries to go back so it makes a full one swing towards you as it's swinging away you get a nat 20 on it and it like the movement of the mechanism snaps the axe off where your whip is attached. And so the whip is now attached to the stick or to the axe head. And I think what I want to do here.

I think I'm going to give you on your thorn whip because it was a cool nat 20. I'm going to, permanent plus two to that spell nice whoa plus two to damage or hit damage so eat damage bonus jenner's dm okay i have now added the plus two to it so thank you refresh your page it should say you know plus five two hits and then one d6 plus two damn it. Yep. It's Sean. That's wild. That's fantastic. Oh god, I didn't benevolent DM.

And so now your thorn whip also kind of has the... Like an axe hanging off it a little bit? It's a great axe, but it's on the end of a whip. Right, it's a great axe on the end of a great axe head on the end of your whip. It's a magical thing, so it's not like real, real, but you see it. But it's almost like, what's the a morning star. It's almost like a morning star, but much larger. Yeah, it's like a very scary flail. Yeah, there we go.

I was thinking of those, like, long chains with the spike on the end. I can't remember what they're called. The flail? That's the morning star. No, morning star. No, no, no. It's a martial arts weapon. Oh, I know what you're talking about. It's the weapon of one of the guys in bleach.

Steve had made a practice one years back and we played with it are you talking about a meteor was it meteor something meteor never yeah maybe that's where it's like a pointed it's like a heavy ball with like a knife kind of thing in it that you throw out that stuff and break stuff with something.

There's also something just called a rope dart It's a metal dart attached to the end of a rope I think that's pretty close To a meteor hammer There's a guy on TikTok who used a meteor hammer Yeah, Steve's was just A tennis ball on the end of a rope That we're playing with, This is a much more Oh, I don't know This is comically big So like anime big, But because it's made of magic It's not heavy or anything Right, right. No, it's so awesome. That is great, Mike. Thank you.

So the thorn whip has just absorbed the... This guy's got a spiked ball on the end of a chain. The thorn whip has just absorbed the head of this pendulum. It's now magic. It's like mimicked the head of the pendulum. So where is the actual head of the pendulum? On the ground? Or is it just part of the weapon now? Well, bad news. Coming at us. Yeah. Yeah, I had a feeling. Because it pulls it, it automatically pulls it 10 feet towards you.

Yeah, I'm not terribly surprised. So I'm only going to ask for acrobatics or athletics check to see if you can dodge it. As long as you don't roll a natural one, you could probably do it because this was somewhat expected. Athletics or acrobatics? Yeah. And that's from both of us, I assume. Yeah. because meriwether was keeping a wrap 23 yeah you're good six yep you're good all right fauna gets a cool thorn whip upgrade so i think that, 20 when it counted. Yeah. Yeah, that's pretty cool.

Yeah, I think because the mechanism of that spell specifically says, pulls this thing 10 feet towards you, and because you likely would have caught it on its swing either up or back, right? Yep. The function of the mechanism itself working against itself with a spell that automatically pulls 10 feet. Snap it. Yeah. Now, this isn't going to necessarily work on a door, right? Right. No, but I was thinking because of the momentum and everything else that it made sense. Yeah. Yeah, I think it works.

That was real cool, Becca. Nice. Thanks. Last minute thought of what could I possibly do? I'm glad we thought of something because I am an explorer, even if Flora is not. And I want to know what's in every corner. We have solved your pendulum puzzle. That's true. So did you say this door was also locked? Yeah. I have a decent sleight of hand. Maybe I can try to unlock it. Okay. That's a 14. Yeah. It didn't roll as high that time. Yeah, it's, um... What'd you try and do to

unlock it? Use a sleight of hand. Oh, okay. I don't know that that would do much of anything. But it's also not high enough. I have weaver's tools. Anyone want to try and use a needle? I could give a shot at that. I'm a little dexterous and might be able to manipulate. I hand her a needle from my weaver's tools. Okay. So you said this is a slight of hand check. Yeah. Yeah. Nope. Hmm. That was a two for a total of four. Okay. If it was a nat one, you would have broken the Weaver's tool.

That's why I made sure to let you know it was not the nat one. Yeah. That's good. And your needle doesn't seem to be good enough. Sorry. Oh, sure. It's the needle. Can I try again with the needle this time? You can try.

16. No. it's real high isn't it yeah it's an iron door that's just a lock yeah on an iron door, so i removed most of the traps some of the traps because they're decently difficult, i mean we can always keep going and see if we find a key we spent so much time trying to get through this track though, but i do wonder if maybe somewhere there's a key and just just because why not I'm gonna start looking around the hallway for like loose stones or glints of metal that could be keys,

Okay, give me a roll Hmm nine. No, I'm gonna, Can I make sure? Because I was thinking the same thing, that there's got to therefore be a key somewhere. It might not be near here, though. No, I mean, I'm going to assume we probably didn't see something in the rats. But I'm going to think maybe it's in, like, as we enter into the upcoming rooms, I'm going to kind of keep my eyes open for there to be a key somewhere here. Yeah, I think that's what I would do, too. But, yeah, definitely still look

around the room or the hall. The hallway. We also didn't check the armor. That's true. It's in a pit. That's true. Should we check the armor? Do you think that's where a key might be? Or should we think that it's going to be ahead and go back if we don't find it? I mean, we're not that far from the armor now, as long as someone can go down 10 feet and then get back up, which I think is just a rope. I mean, yeah, if someone falls down, we could haul them out. I like that idea.

All right, I guess we're going to backtrack to the pit. and just see if there happens to be a key with the armor. Okay, so as you guys are all going through the pentagram, pentagon room, give me a roll perception. 18. 21. 22. Oh, whoops, that wasn't room one. That was something else. Can I mix two things? No. That's room 10. Did I mix that up? That might have. I'm.

22 21 22 21 and last number 18 okay at the 22 you probably notice an unlocked iron chest, i already looked in this room and i'm gonna stomp over to the chest yeah you rolled like crap yeah well that's what fauna or flora is saying yep she's like i already checked this room where'd that come from do does she have the adhd blindness she might, i'm gonna walk over and check for traps and assuming i don't find traps i'm gonna open a chest yeah there's no trap i'm opening that chest okay let me roll

you're opening the chest, inside the chest you find a decanter of endless water but i have a decanter of endless tea.

To canter of endless water does a little bit more than that i'm still gonna roll my eyes and just pass it back to fauna okay i'll accept it and a rope of climbing oh i mean that's gonna be handy for getting to the uh armor at the bottom of that pit right yeah what's the rope of climbing do it's a normal mask i can look it up in the system and once you identify it you'll know oh what's this dumb rope doing in here well we could always use another rope in case we need to tie extra things up or

together i guess you want me to hold on to it or merriweather do you want it i mean you are always girl maybe make some stuff more rope it's a silk rope are you into that you're pretty classy yeah i can go ahead and take it do you have to attune no it's just gear and it's just called rope of cotton uh-huh it's a 60 foot length of silk rope that weighs three pounds and can hold up to 3 000 pounds you hold one i like it you hold one end and use an action to speak the command word and

the rope animates as a bonus action you command the other end to move toward a destination you choose that end moves 10 feet on your turn when you first Command it in 10 feet on each of your turns until it reaches its destination, up to its maximum length away, or until you tell it to stop. You can also tell the rope to fasten itself securely to an object or to unfasten itself, to knot or unknot itself, or to coil itself for carrying.

If you tell the rope to knot, large knots appear at 1 foot intervals along the rope. While knotted, the rope shortens to a 50 foot length and grants advantage on checks made to climb it. It has an AC of 20 and 20 hit points, regains one hit point every five minutes, as long as it has at least one hit point. If it drops to zero, it's destroyed. So we don't know that yet, but you have a pretty silk rope that's 60 feet long.

And I think I just have a whole thing of water, but I have a heads up when we can figure this one out as well. I can tell with a command word that it either has fresh or salt water. Water starts pouring out or stops pouring out between turns to essentially get one turn's worth of an action here. A stream gives one gallon, fountain gives five gallons, a geyser produces 30 gallons. that gushes forward 30 feet long and one foot wide.

As a bonus action while holding it, you can aim it at a creature within 30 feet, must succeed in a DC 13 strength saving throw, or take 1d4 bludgeoning damage if fall prone, or target an object that isn't being worn or carried, weighs no more than 200 pounds, and it's either knocked over or pushed 15 feet away. Okay, that's a little more powerful than my canteen of tea. I love. Yours is for a nice picnic.

I love my canteen of tea, okay? This, I feel like, sounds like the type of craziness that Fauna could certainly do. That does sound like the craziness. Flora is trying to have a respectable picnic, and Fauna's just going to flood the place. Great water everywhere. Okay, so you guys found that. You were going towards the pit? Yep. Okay. You arrive at the pit. The goblins are on the other side, just kind of chilling out. Snapping, having a short rest. The armor's still on the bottom.

Uh yep all right i'm short can someone else maybe climb down wait how much time has passed, 10 to 30 minutes first of all i would say we only have two go ahead probably 30 minutes because it took you a while on the trap it's dead though you were able to tell it died when it hit the bottom of the pit okay i right it wasn't magical okay i know we had a time limit on something and i think that's the centipede yeah okay i'm going to use my new fancy fancy rope okay.

What it does, yeah, I'm gonna ask for somebody to hold it, and then I can go down into the pit. Okay. I mean, we could probably hold it together for very weather. Fauna, wanna give me a hand? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, well, brace the rope. Okay, yeah. Yeah, until you take the time to learn the command word, which would likely be through, like, either someone else knowing or identification. It's just a rope to you. But you might be able to tell it's magical.

So you guys take the rope. Mary Weather, give me a climb check. So that would be probably athletics or acrobatics. I like acrobatics. Acrobatics, please. Okay. Fourteen. Yeah, you're able to get down. these walls would probably be impossible to climb with that skill, but because it's a rope, you can pretty much slide down the walls. Use the walls as like a what do you call it when people repel? Repel. Yeah. Use the walls to help repel down the rope. Sounds good to me.

So then I'm going to search the armor. For the key mostly, but if I find anything cool i'm gonna take the cool stuff too okay give me a perception or investigation check.

18 18 okay you do find a key you will also find, what huh what are you nice saying what am i wrong, or didn't she did find a key she also found i'm gonna post the name in the facebook chat, because i can't pronounce it you find one of these which is about three inches in it's a jar three inches in diameter it contains let's see two doses of a thick mixture that It smells faintly of aloe, and its contents weigh half a pound. And then when you guys put that in, you'll figure out what it does.

And then you also find, we roll, a potion of healing. Oh, that's good. We always seem to be needing those. Okay. So I'm just going to put all of that. Did somebody market all this stuff down? Because I'm terrible at taking notes. It was a key to ointment and a healing potion. I wrote it in the notes, but put it in your inventory on D&D Beyond if you can. I'm going to put it in a bag, and then I'm going to climb back up. Do I see anything else interesting down here while I'm down here?

It's armor. But nothing else? Yeah. Okay. Then I'm going to climb back up. Okay. Thank you. Be saying just keep climbing climbing climbing okay give me an athletics or acrobatics roll what not performance 13.

Yeah it takes you a little bit but you're able to get up there, yay now is it a certain command word that i have to try to figure out or can i just start like saying a word consistently and then it will work then no it's a command word i think it It would be funny if Meriwether just started yelling random things at it, though. It might be in a language she doesn't speak. It would still be funny. Yeah. Maybe we could get something on interlibrary loan that has information about

the rope of climbing. Or a rope that looks like this. Or maybe old Dave has seen something like this come through the general store. Yep. Okay, I come up and I show them the key. Oh, excellent. Excellent. I mean, oh, I guess we have to go through that door now. Really glad we got back up here. See, you're starting to get the book for adventuring here, too. Isn't this exciting? I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm going to keep walking back toward the door. Okay.

So you guys head back towards the door? Mm-hmm. Yeah, you're able to get back there pretty easy. Who's going to do the honors? Meriwether, I think you still have the key. Yes, I guess I didn't do it. Give me a history check real quick. I have to roll for that. Oh, 15. Yeah, it wasn't a very long, big check because it wasn't that long ago. You're the tallest member, and there's still a broken stick that swings down every time it's triggered.

So maybe not me. It could be you. You just gotta crawl, not crawl, but maybe duck or stand back a little bit, but with your hand towards and reach out towards the door. Okay. That's what I'll do. I'll duck. Okay. Yeah. Door opens. And what do I see on the other side? Roll initiative. Great. It's your favorite friend. Is it a centipede? It's another centipede. Is this place just a centipede burrow? I don't know that it's a centipede burrow, but there do seem to be a lot of centipedes.

One, maybe because I accidentally picked the same room multiple times without realizing it. And put a centipede where a duergar was supposed to be. But it is what it is. And then this is also a giant centipede. See. And an issue is that, 16. Dirty twine. 19. Okay. So first would be Flora, with a dirty twine. Flora's gonna sigh and pull out the last regular chicken egg. Okay. And by regular, I mean regular magic chicken egg. Yeah. And sling it from the slingshot. Okay.

Now 20. Okay. So 26. That definitely hits. I wasn't prepared to hit anything. That's six piercing for some reason. Uh, it's cause we put her on a crossbow. So it's just six magic damage. Okay. Six magic. Okay. It is unconscious. Getting real tired of these things. And it looks like it might be unconscious for quite a while. I'm going to proceed in the room. What do I see? What do you see? Give me a perception or investigation check.

17. Okay, and you see two doors to the right from where you're entering. I sit down at this point. What's with this place and doors? Are we maybe in a labyrinth? Did I... Oh my goodness, what's the mayor's name? The mayor? You've made me forget. Hold on. Respira. There we go. Does Respira send us to the labyrinth? Yeah, you don't notice anything, Meriwether, other than the two doors to the side.

Yeah, I already sat down. I used press digitization, cleaned myself a little spot, and then sat my little butt down. I would also like to look around the room, though. Mm-hmm. I mean, a chest did just appear in that other room. Investigation. Or perception. I'm not that picky. 23. Okay. You see another hidden chest. Well, these chests just appear out of nowhere, and I'm going to walk over, check it for traps. I guess that's just magic for you? Give me a check for traps.

19. No trap, but it is locked. I'm going to pull out my weaving needle. Okay. And I'm going to try to open the lock. Okay. Sixteen. No. I'm going to take out my dagger and I'm going to start chopping at it, like point first, stabbing at it, I guess. Are you capable of doing ten damage in one attack with that dagger? Nope. We all do it at the same time. No matter how hard you hit it, it doesn't seem to be. If you all do it at the same time, each one counts individually. It does not accumulate.

Fana, where's that axe you suddenly have? Oh, you want me to smash? That likely wouldn't be able to smash because it only does eight damage with axe. Or maybe someone else can try to open this? I can give a shot here at trying to open. A hand with a needle.

Okay. Slide a hand again. yep oh gosh i broke your needle oh man you owe me a new meal a new one when we get back to town, okay roll everyone roll intelligence did you say someone and everyone about risking it with this group 30 20 okay 13 21 huh fauna and not fauna flora and merriweather you do have a key could it work in two locks i even thought about grabbing that key and i was like no that makes no sense i was gonna be what i was gonna do

next after the needle or fauna tried the needle i guess we go get the key from the door and try to open the chest. Okay. It opens. Fauna breaks my needle trying to open the chest and then we remember to try the key again. And the chest opens. Yep. What's in the chest? You find about 150 gold and a potion of hill giant strength. Who's got the highest strength? I have a plus zero. I have a plus zero. So that's either me or you. We have the same. We all have the same.

I don't minus one, so. A potion of hell giant strength changes your score to 21 for an hour. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter what you have. Does anyone particularly want to hang on to this? Otherwise, I can just put it in my inventory. Yeah, you can hold on to it for now. Okay, and then everyone add 50 gold. I'll just split that right now. Okay, manage inventory. Okay, I have the potion of hell giant strength in my inventory now.

Okay, that's all that's in this room other than those two other doors, but we can stop here for tonight. Okay, that's probably best before we try and disarm another pendulum trap.