015 Preparing to Dungeon

What I have written so far is basically from the last time, just at the ending part was you guys headed to Merriweather's farm and laid down the law with Winston and his manipulative behaviors.

I have more than that. Yeah. Give me a brief version of the more than that. Brief? Yeah, not like four minutes. Okay. We picked up a few rumors around town, including the Goblin Town. That is what I'm setting up. There's something digging around the town that Raspira told us sounds like a bullet. There are things that have been going missing. We wrote our story about the dragon Kern instead of Kron, our children's book.

Got it to old Dave, gave him the donation, and he switched the library cards, and we realized we might have helped in a crime. I am getting a helper i talked to marigold so i'm going to train her in this upcoming time.

I saw rain she came up to me for the first time didn't let me pet her but she came up to me, we returned to respira's wand and she said that we could go to the halls of the goblin king next if we wanted something a little more challenging so we are planning to go to the goblin hall first first thing in the morning after i trained marigold and there's also a town hall meeting coming up is that less than four minutes yeah awesome anything to add becca yes iggy had been dead

but i waited until respira came into the inn but we were there eating dinner and suddenly iggy was back alive and is still alive to this point so i'm convinced something it has something to do with respira since she knows so much about magic but i don't have any evidence other than when i looked after we were near her and he was back alive yeah i think we had a couple variables we couldn't rule out respira and the kicking the kicking was kicking oh getting kicked yeah Cool.

So I think we stopped at evening and we're all at Meriwether's house. Mm-hmm. I think that sounds right. Yep. And all I wrote down for that was having some dramatics with Winston and carrots and apples. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So you guys still have to do the town hall, the training your trainee. Mm-hmm. And what else? Goblin King. Goblin King. The Hall of the Goblin King, which is tomorrow after the Town Hall. Gotcha. The training with Marigold is this evening and in the morning. Mm-hmm.

So I guess once we're done hanging out at Meriwether's, cause we were just there to prepare for the Goblin King. I'm going to head home so that I am there for Marigold when she arrives. And when she does arrive, I'll run her through the evening routine, make sure she understands, and then pay her and send her on her way. Because you always pay people when they're training. Always. Yeah. Yeah. It counts. It counts as work. Yeah, certainly. Take that, corporate America. Yeah.

So you guys are going where? I'm going home. Okay. I don't know what Fauna's doing. We were all at Meriwether's. Meriwether is home. Yeah, I'm assuming we were all heading back home. We wanted to check in on Winston, so I think we were all going to our own homes for the evening. Okay. Yeah, you guys were still going to go to the town hall? Yeah, but I have to train Marigold before the town hall. Oh, okay, gotcha. Before it gets bigger. And she's yum. I don't want to keep her out too late.

Gotcha. Okay. So I guess we'll follow you unless someone else has something they want to do. Okay. I'm good. I'm good. Do we need to run through Marigold's training or? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Taylor. Okay.

Out of character. I don't actually know how to take care of chickens, so I'm making it up. Well, then I guess we'll just skip over the training. Did you learn it from the Sims? I mean, in the Sims, I feed them in the morning and I clean their coop. And then ignore them for the rest of the day. And gather their eggs? That's morning. Yeah. I'm giving her the evening training, and in the morning I give her the morning training. Oh, okay.

Oh, gotcha. Gotcha. Because I also need to train her to get the eggs to Helene. So evening training, I guess that's when we'll do the coop cleaning, putting down new straw. So roll a d20. Just tell me what it is. 13. Okay, and you're teaching her how to do what? I'm teaching her how to maintain the coop. So putting down fresh straw, cleaning up any messes. So she's throwing fresh straw on the outside of the coop right now. Oh, no, no, no. Inside, inside. Oh, okay.

Okay. We just want it for them to, like, be in their home, be comfortable. Make sure they stay clean so we want to clean up any messes they have in there. Sure, sure. She starts throwing the rest of the hay that's in her hand into the kuba. Perfect. And then what else do you teach her? Refilling the water and the general feeder. Okay. Give me a roll. Just see how long you're teaching. 15. She's not great with this.

She sees the water, and she's about to, like, put some of the food into the water. Oh, no, no. This other container here for the food. And the water here, we're going to use the pump. Not like cereal. Not like cereal. Okay. I mean, it would be okay, but they probably wouldn't eat it. Gotcha. And chicken front, it's hard. You'll get it. It'll become second nature before you know it. I hope so. So the evening food that I'm showing her is like... I hope so.

It's like weeds and fresh greens and stuff like that, like snacky, produce-y kinds of things. In the morning, they'll get like seed. You pick this for yourself? A little bit. A little bit. Do I have to? Nope. Okay. What's next? That's pretty much it for the evening. Just check on the chickens, make sure they look okay.

Okay. what are they supposed to look like you see them now yeah see how they look clean they look happy they're moving around they're clucking if any of them looks a little sick like its head is down its eyes are kind of foggy its feathers look kind of messed up all you need to do is go next door and talk to my mom and let her know that the chicken doesn't look good and she'll help you, Okay. Okay. And who's that cupcake for? That cupcake is for Rain. Rain is our friend.

There's a cat for all of them. Yeah, there is. Roscoe. Roscoe, lay down. We're just going to pause for a moment. Okay? Back to training. So, we're going to see how well she learned. Probably do okay. Nothing should be harmed. Okay. I let her know if she has any questions or forgets anything, and I'm not here, that she can go next door and talk to my parents. Okay. Sure. Sure. Okay. And I am paying one silver for every day she helps.

So today was a half day, so she'll get five. I thought it was one silver for every...

I think it was up to two silver. so it was like one silver per day she helps two silver if she also does the delivery oh that's what it was yeah so like tomorrow since i'm training her to do the delivery she'll get two silver for the day today was a half day so it's five coppers right because it's ten to one silver yeah all right so i'm gonna take that money out of my inventory really quick marigold gets five power.

Think that's that's it for the evening training okay super good job thanks you'll pick it up don't worry at all i think we're gonna work good just fine cool see you tomorrow see you tomorrow, light and early around sunrise okay you can come a little after sunrise i don't want you walking around in the dark by yourself. Okay. You got it. Okay. You good to go home? Yeah. I don't think it's dark yet, right? Even if it is, it's not that far. It's not that dark. Okay.

Now be careful walking home, okay? Yeah, sure. See you in the morning. See you. Marigold is adorable. She's not the bright... She rolled a nat one on the first thing, and a five on the second, and a seven for it overall. She's just learning. She's a kid. She's not an adventurer, I'll tell you that much. She doesn't need to be. Doesn't need to be. She rolls like crap. Okay, so what are you guys doing now? Do you guys need to do anything before the town hall? I don't think so.

I mean, I suppose I'll just check to make sure my parents don't need any help with anything before it gets dark around the farm.

I think usually they're used to taking care of the night because i'm out and about but you know i give him a hand with any last just checking to make sure, everything's closed up put away watered well yeah they may even make their way towards the town hall you know like when you go home late at night and you see your parents putting their coats on and you're like what what you you people don't leave and you know they'll let you know they just want to go see what's you know what's going

to get said what's going to happen but that you don't have to hang around with them you can you can stay with your friends yeah i mean we can walk over together i mean i don't have to walk with them so i can meet up with them when we're over there, okay yeah let's walk over. Meriwether, what, Meriwether? Yeah, Meriwether. What are you doing? Probably just would have stayed home. Mm-hmm. Read, played some music,

you know, just wasted a little bit of time before I had to go to the town hall meeting. Yeah. The more you talk, the more I just see your door probably has a keep-out sign on it, like your bedroom door. Yeah. You have like headphones or the old school equivalent of headphones for listening to music. I mean, I don't really think I would need to keep outside considering I'm by myself all the time.

Gotcha. Okay. So around the time to probably head to the town hall, you probably head out to the town hall, maybe meet up along with or you may or may not see, Fauna on the way there since you two live on the same side heading towards town. One of you or both of you may pass a marigold. Is that her name? Yeah, a marigold. On her way back to the house. Her house. She lives probably closer to you guys right now. And then everyone's going to meet up at town, huh? Yeah, I think it's probably

going to make the most sense for us to meet there. Okay. So when I get there, I'll look for them, and we'll find seats together. Yeah, I'll keep my eye out whether I get there first or not. I don't know timing-wise since we were closing stuff up on the farm for the evening, but, you know, look for my friends, or else if I was first there, I'll have saved a couple seats.

Okay. So you save some seats, and then your friends kind of wander their way in and see you and spot you, and walk over towards you, sit down.

The, it's like, I don't know what your classic town hall. It's like a room that's, you know, like a rec type room. It's used for things sometimes like with tables and chairs and on the side of the wall, you know, like a church rec room or a rec hall or whatever you want to call it. I was thinking of like a school room or an auditorium.

More like, more think of like, you know, any of the videos you've seen lately of town halls out in more rural areas where it's just a bunch of like metal chairs set up and then like folding tables in the front to make up the dais kind of area and up front are Respira and, Kesme Kesere. Who's Kesme? I don't know. Anyways Kesere and you spot in the crowd How do you see people like Helene and Old Dave? You may or may not remember some people like Peaster Beeman and Fargus Copper Kettle.

Water for a growl. I recall those names. Yeah. Casbin Thornbelly. I don't know that you guys ever knew who that was. It's just a random villager is what I have listed for. Gazir's hanging around in the room since this is more of a formal town thing. You may also see, like, Aura of Clay, which is the blacksmith. The, the, she's a, what are the cat people? Tabaxi. Yeah, she's a tabaxi. Kind of the only one in town.

And then you just see a bunch of random other people from the town that you've seen before. Most of the town seems to be present? Yep. A lot of it. Like, anybody who's interested in business or where money might go or, like, you know, expanding the town, giving their opinion. So, Respear calls the meeting to order, lets everybody know, you know, we have a good amount of tax money that comes in. That was the whole reason Big Town wanted to take over and, you know, take our money.

But we were able to spend it on ourselves, do some good in the community, maybe expand some businesses. So we called together this meeting tonight to just, you know, get ideas for what could, what we could spend that money on and how would, if, if we could benefit those who would help the town benefit more. And at that time, Respear is, what's his name? Respear is running, can't, running, what's the word? Opponent? Yeah, opponent. the water for a growl stands up and goes we need to build a wall.

We'll build that wall and we'll keep out all the bads and then we can keep all the money for ourselves, we're already keeping the money for ourselves yeah but we don't want nobody to come in and take it he doesn't really understand how economies work so probably not the person to listen to, you see Kezare starting to write that down and like Prospera leans back and like touches her hand you don't have to write that one down, Aura of Clay raises her

hand and asks you know for some finer metal to be stocked at Old Dave's possibly giving Old Dave some kind of money to spot for bringing better metal into the town so that Aura of Clay has better material to work with. Hear dingus ding dingus dingbo spotty gold and peaster beeman they're like and we want a cow and old dave gets up and says no there's only one cow in this town.

Oh my let's and and he kind of brushes himself off old dave does and gets his composure again and says, I think we don't need to be starting competition among ourselves in this town right now. Let's enhance the town, not bring parts of us down. We don't have many businesses in town, though. There's the tavern. Is there a bakery? No, there's no bakery. This has come up multiple times. A bakery should be started. Yeah, that's why I'm bringing it up.

Yeah, we don't have a bakery. But wouldn't we need someone to run that bakery? I think we would, so I'm also not hearing volunteers So if no one wants a bakery, then I guess I give some side-eye to, uh, Laura I'm already running a chicken farm I can't do a bakery, too Especially when you keep dragging me out on adventures, Oh, right, don't get so testy about it So that's a no to the bakery idea? We want a bakery, but who's going to run it? I don't know.

Could we advertise for someone to come to town? Maybe. Maybe we could bring someone into town. They would want to start a bakery. Maybe we'll send flyers out to Tinyville and the surrounding villages. I mean, that sounds like a solution.

Could be. Could be. It's not going to be a quick bakery It's not going to be a quick bake Well I mean we'd have to build Something no matter what I don't know that anything was going to be quick with it, We'll see about that What are What are other ideas for the town.

Expand the library expand the library yeah okay that's not a bad idea there's a question for the dm yeah do we have a place to like celebrate say solstices and stuff somewhere in town if you're talking about like a party area you're kind of sitting in it but it's not that great If you're talking about more of an outdoor nature-y solstice celebration area, one does not exist at this time. Okay. What about a place where we could celebrate changes of seasons and other big events?

Maybe we could fix this place up, but we could also put some place outside to really enjoy our beautiful surroundings here. Okay. Yeah. What are you thinking? What kind of party? What kind of setup? Maybe some nice area. It doesn't have to be obviously the center of town. We could set up a nice clearing place with a huge pit for bonfires.

We could have places where we could have food being sold from vendors, bringing in people into the town to sell their wares, which would bring more income to the town, too. Maybe they pay a permit to sell their wares at these stands and a place for, you know, dancing and just enjoying being outside. That's a good idea. Can you draw something up and maybe bring it to me tomorrow?

I could put some ideas down on paper for tomorrow, but, I mean, you know our plans for tomorrow, so I may not be able to get to it until we, you know, are done with that. Okay. Then I guess we'll put it on the back burner until you're ready. Any other ideas out there? Waterfur growl just looks upset that there's no wall. It's this big bush. What about like a farmer's market? We could, we could make something like that. Maybe, I don't know. We want it in town or on the edge of town.

I mean, we have like the square in the middle, right? Uh-huh. Trail. We could set up in the middle of town, do it maybe once or twice a month. Okay. Yeah. Ooh! Or combine that with a place to do celebrations, we could put both together in the same area and double it up.

I feel like you just want flora to design the plan that i asked you to design, no no no no no i'll help her we always help each other okay then with two of you can you, know get more bang out of our buck per se true can can you draw that up by tomorrow then now that there's two of you i look at how late is it i don't know probably like five early. That was more telling us than I thought. Yeah, it's early.

We could meet after the town hall. Yeah, town halls are done early in the evening because old people gotta go to bed at like 7. Yeah, then we can probably handle that after the meeting. Yeah, I think we could do that, Raspira. Okay. We can drop the plans off in the morning when I drop off my egg delivery. Okay. Your egg delivery. With Tahleene? To Helene. Yeah, I come into town every morning with the eggs for Helene, so I can drop it off at the same time. Oh, okay, sure.

Yeah, I'll have the map for you then, too. Sounds good. Trying to think of some other fun small town kind of things. Do we have a park? I mean, there's fields, open fields. Maybe we can designate a space for a little park where people can have picnics or... Kids can play, maybe a pond for swimming. Okay. Good idea. No one really has to run that. We just, I mean, we could all chip in and make sure it's kept clean and whatnot. Yeah. Okay. Sure.

I think we have some good ideas for some plans. I believe it was expansion of the library. I wrote them all down. A pond area with picnic stuff. Picnic park pond area. Mm-hmm. Farmer's market. Was that farmer's market combined with the... The party event space? Party event space. It sounds like it. What I'm thinking Fata meant is...

You're aware of this but not talking about in-game the there was a building in our hometown that was designated for the farmer's market every weekend and it was just a building and the people would come set up every weekend for it so it was permanent structure that was only open a few days a week so it could be something similar to that where we designate like a permanent structure when it's the farmer's market it's filled with the vendors for the farmer's market when it's

the event space it can be filled for events but barefoot girl wants it to be outside in the open i'm i'm kind of tittering like a thing like you know where you put like a maypole type of a thing and i mean i'm thinking like you know the the stands for a farmer's market could easily be like say around the enter of like around the edges of like the center or maybe you know dancing and other stuff would occur yeah the seasons i was assuming something like you guys your town's center central

park with the amphitheater maybe turned towards the park instead of away from the park could easily be part of like that swimming park and everything that i proposed it could all just be one bay right that's what i'm thinking is we could probably combine a bunch of these into one nice space. Multi-use means you get more out of what you're spending on it, too. The town's not in dire need of pension pens. Yeah, but you also need to have a steady source of income. I'm thinking more centralized.

Pharmaceuticals could also be able to bring in people to sell goods, too, and pay a slight fee to rent a booth to sell at. You know it could yeah you guys you guys are putting more this is more like the town makes more than enough money to like if. You guys don't even have to worry about like utility kind of stuff. Like the town pays for new wells to be dug and that kind of stuff like that. That doesn't have to be that doesn't come out of your pocket.

That's how rich the town is. There's no need for the town makes a consistent amount of money every month from just taxes on a larger company that came from big town. So like this is more beneficial.

It doesn't have to make more money. it doesn't have to be like condensed in in so respira's idea is more elaborate yeah the things that i was thinking about not combining but like placing next to each other a little more for having like centralized community spaces and the farmer's market isn't about making money it's about giving the farmers an opportunity to share their wares maybe bring in some like some goods that yeah we wouldn't always get here like

aunt b could bring her honey down or like wax or things like that maybe there's someone that makes jams in another town or something like just give us the chance to have some extra like commerce i guess more options for things we could buy yeah that makes sense and like the community spaces they're just community spaces like the the town would be responsible for the upkeep ultimately but you don't really have many of those

except like the tavern right yeah yeah okay that's what i had in mind was just having community spaces yeah.

Yeah great great plans so we'll drop that off in the morning yeah okay any other ideas any other suggestions okay then this meeting is adjourned, i mean hold on mike i have one suggestion but maybe it would have to wait until like either more people come or we have the time but maybe like a place to put on like shows and stuff, yeah okay we'll add that to the the party or the park the park like an amphitheater yeah like they call it a band shell in our hometown but it's an amphitheater

would be the same thing yeah okay yeah sure i wrote that down if you need it at some point. Everything we discussed to unify in the town yeah everything we discussed for the plans is what I assume Flora and Fonda will write out. Yeah, I think so. And then we'll drop it off tomorrow morning. So we'll spend the evening working on that after the meeting. And I guess, did we already eat dinner? Probably not. Oh, we could do it over dinner. Work on it over dinner. Yeah.

Okay. To the tavern, I guess, since I still get free dinner. Yeah. Colleen says, I'll see you over there. Sounds great. Cool. What are tonight's options? I feel like this has become like the burger of the day, except it's the tavern specials of the day. Luckily. Uh, let's see what comes up. Some roasted radishes.

Soup onion soup charred wolf wolf onion soup sounds good to me okay that's actually what i was thinking too oh it was i'll take the radishes okay the wolf the wolf was out in the uh it was out in some of the like more border farms causing trouble yeah so it's it's no longer causing in trouble. Was it going after some pigs and straw houses? Not going after anything now. But don't you worry. Your chickens are safe. Glad to hear it. Alright. So we'll eat dinner, put together the plans.

I'm gonna go take down my ad. Mm-hmm. Since Marigold is working out right now. Mm-hmm. Marigold. Helene sees this and shouts over to you. You fine? You hire the girl? Trial basis, so far. Okay. I'll put this back up if for some reason it doesn't work out, but, you know, I'm hoping it does. I'd love to help out one of the neighborhood kids. You know how it is. Yeah. I do know how it is, and she winks at you. Yeah. I assume that I was one of those neighborhood kids that Helene helped out. Yes.

Even if you're at deliveries or something. I'm very close to Helene. Helene is a nice lady. She's very understanding. Yeah. understanding but stern she's like the aunt that i never had you have an aunt i know. She's like another aunt who's not actually an aunt you know those family members they're actually friends of the family that like you call them aunt and uncle she's basically aunt helene hello okay so what do you guys do.

Well, yeah, because we have an early morning, maybe, with needing to get started on our new adventure, we probably shouldn't spend too long in town tonight. Probably not. I gotta get her up early to train Marigold again before we head out. So I guess we're just gonna head home. Okay. To our own homes. Yeah. So you head to your homes? Marigold is waiting for you? We already... No, it's tomorrow. Never mind.

You head home and you see a little girl run off i hope she wasn't having problems, she might have forgotten that she was supposed to come back tomorrow morning and not tonight it wasn't that long ago, who knows anyways you guys go to bed we can level you up to three i think now right three yeah it would be three whoa Woo-hoo! Yeah, I'm going to give some XP for RP. So that we're prepared for the goblin king? I think you're probably prepared. I don't think I made it that difficult.

He doesn't think so. Do you hear that? Yeah, I didn't like that. I'm trying to remember. He's expecting me to make decisions right off the bat. Not off the bat, but in the moment, sure. I'll help you. I'll help you, Merriweather. Going to edit. We're going to go to level 3. There's level. Oh, you already leveled yourself up to level 3? What meta magic? Yeah, I just need to pick two meta magic keys. Yeah.

So careful spell, when you cast, let's say you cast an AoE, you can make someone automatically save the saving throw. Or you can- So careful, I can have like, Fauna or Flora automatically save something? Yeah, you can make them automatically save. Distance spell increase, it doubles, I think it increases the range of your spell by 30 feet. So like if you use Distant Spell and something's 150 feet away from you and your spell range is only 120 feet, you can get that 150 feet with it.

Empowered Spell is basically when you roll damage for your spell. You can use a sorcery point to re-roll a number of damage die up to your charisma modifier, and you have to use the new rolls so like let's say you're gonna, roll for firebolt right and you could use a sorcery point to re-roll that E10 basically extended spell. Oh I hit empowered spell I don't know what extended spell is. I think I made that up. Heightened spell.

You can double the duration of spells that last for a specific duration. Quicken spell is the one that you can use three sorcery points to give one target. So basically a spell, it keeps going to the one below. So Quicken's spell is you can spend, so a spell that has like an action, right? Like Firebolt, you can use two sorcery points to cast it as a bonus action. Does that make sense?

That that's quicken spell oh i know why it keeps changing it's because you're probably messing with it while i'm messing with it yeah because i don't see quicken spell on i had it selected if you oh okay yeah because i have heightened to the spell yeah you must have had that so then i went because i noticed you were doing the first one so i was like well let me read the second one Yeah, yeah. So I was very confused there.

Most people take twin spell and quicken spell. Okay, I'll get out of here so I stop messing with you. And then I don't think there's anything for background, species, there's nothing you have to choose. Abilities, you're good. Equipment, you're good.

So then you just have to choose whatever spells you get to choose for the level yeah, which for third level you get, I think you can do you can learn more a second level at least one at least one second level spell and you can switch out a spell at this level if you want to one of you is going to do that I think perfect, I get my ranger archetype, who said Swarm Keeper Ranger.

We could take a healing spell i have healing spells so i have healing word and cure wounds this is what i was about to say i know we had talked before about if i had spell slots left before like going to bed that i would cast goodberry and keep them for the next 24 hours we assume i did that last night yeah do you need help with your spells on i don't know what pick, I have two healing, so you probably don't need to worry quite so much about that.

I have Hail of Thorns and Zephyr Strike right now, and I can get one more spell. I got Fairy Fire and Mage Hand from my Ranger Archetype level up. Nice. The Mage Hand takes the appearance of my swarm. Obviously, my swarm is chickens. Yeah. But they're like bonded fey creatures, according to the thing. So they're not like my chickens. They're fey chickens. Yeah. What kind of spell would you want? I mean, Hunter's Mark is a classic.

It is a classic. And I don't have it yet. Yeah. So I think I might want Hunter's Mark. Okay. Now there's the Legacy and there's the Updated. And I don't know what the difference is right now. The Updated is the versions we have never used before. I have them both open and trying to compare. The cure wounds also changed in the new version of the rules. Instead of 1d8 plus spellcasting, it's 2d8, and it now affects undead and constructs as well. Oh, weird.

But that's really the only change. And then instead of increasing by 1d8 for higher levels, it increases by 2d8. Oh, weird. So it looks like the new Hunter's Mark specifies it's an extra force damage. Didn't say force damage previously.

Advantage on perception and survival to make it like to find it you can still use a bonus action to pick a new creature it doesn't look like it really changed i think it's they kind of reword a lot of stuff but i'll tell you most of the ones i've been looking at it's reworded but when you look at the effect it's pretty much the same thing yeah it looks about the same well i think it's more about the duration and higher

levels look like the difference on that one and the force damage specifically force damage, but I feel like if you needed force damage you would have gone the other type of ranger.

It's still the same like it says if the duration it's the same it's just phrased differently but the actual like practicality same level same number of hours so, the only difference is that they specify its force damage yeah would you prefer me to do the legacy or the new do you care the legacy okay just until we better understand the new bells okay because the when they change the wording it means the rules slightly change them we just don't know because we're not

as familiar with the rules because most of the rules have to do with like the way you read things. Those early initial rule sets are how you read something and you know, like if, or then and whatever, and we don't know those yet well enough. So it mainly just caused problems right now. I'm up to 28 hit points. Mm-hmm .

I have a question yeah do you sorcery points work like key points kind of yeah i just need to know how many i i have a lot like because key points it's whatever level you are so just sorcery points is that the same way you should list how many you have i think under your action.

It is it is however many levels you have okay is she off competing okay yeah it's it matches the level okay i was just double checking yeah it typically matches levels and i think basically key points and sorcery points at the same level 20 ability where if you start a round without either of them without any of them you get a certain number which it's it they're the two lamest level 20 abilities okay our cats are being weird tonight i almost wonder

if she's got a touch of a cold maybe she was sneezing so much yesterday that and we've got all the scents going on today yeah she's fine okay she's just stretching like normal yeah okay so you guys are going to bed you wake up level three is the cupcake there in the morning oh yeah it's still there in the morning okay i don't know how often you guys use magic or whatever but you may notice that or you guys go to Helene's in the morning. Yeah, after I get the egg delivery.

So when you go to Helene, you overhear some people talking about how the town looks a little. That used to be kept up seem a little unkempt, unkempt, unkept. I don't know what word I'm trying to use. It's Dingo, Dingbo, Spottygold, and Peasterbeam are in the tavern just kind of complaining. And you hear them complaining about, you know, the town's not as well-kept as it used to be. You see things get knocked down, and they're still laying in the street the next day.

You see even the simple magics are starting to, like sputter not always work I'm not going to the tavern until Marigold's chaining, anyways you go to the tavern just remember I said all that I wrote it down, because Marigold needs to come with me for the delivery of the training that's right you're right so Marigold is at your house, morning Marigold morning ready to learn ready for some chickens all right let's get to it and.

She's barely better than yesterday okay so i reiterate our discussion from yesterday about checking to keep things clean spreading new straw if they need it checking on the health of the chickens making sure they'll look okay and then i show her the morning routine which is scattering like the seed kind of feed. Yeah. Give me a roll to see how well you train. Ten. She picks it up pretty good. Cool. And then we go through collecting the eggs.

I'm trying to decide if I trust her with observing my magic feather or not.

I don't know her well enough yet. So while she's scattering feed, refilling water, I'm going to use the feather to get up to the amount of eggs I need for the day okay, cool then we'll gather the eggs I'll grab the notes from us doing the planning that we need to drop off at Respiras and then I will go to Helene's with Marigold okay, tavern you bring the eggs to helene with marigold and yeah normal exchange helene is sees mario marigold and recognizes her and you know gives her

a nice warm greeting and i introduce her as my uh trainee and helene again just makes a note about the timing of the eggs this was good today make sure when you're covering you get here by this time got it miracle.

Yeah i think so she may she may not i'm gonna say it again remember you gotta get him here this time, yeah i think i got it insight yeah she probably got it she okay i don't have to roll for that no okay and it's at this time while they're talking while they're doing this and you that i overhear you overhear that like things are not being as well maintained and it's not like it's not like things are dilapidated or falling

apart it's like you know a rake leaning against a building was leaning against a building yesterday and today it's on the ground and just nobody's picking it up and putting it back against the building it. So random things like that around town or like a wheelbarrow was normal and maybe had a couple of buckets or something in it. And at some point it fell over and nobody's picked it back up. And then also a rumor about magic starting to be less reliable.

So Fauna and Meriwether, were you guys coming along or was I just training and then meeting you later? I have a feeling knowing that you were doing training, you would have told us that and we would have said, hey, well, maybe we'll just meet you at the tavern, even though we don't usually meet up there. So we can head over to Raspira of any last minute crowd. Okay.

So then once the eggs are delivered, I'm going to let Marigold know I might not be at the farm tonight, but she still needs to be there to do the evening chores. Any questions, she can go to my parents. And I'm going to give her the two silver for the day because she came with me on the delivery. Okay. Yeah, perfect. And then I can, she can, like, she's done. Yeah. For the morning. Yeah. Okay. I have taken the silver out of my inventory.

I'm going to keep just taking it out just so I keep a good track of the money that I actually have. Hopefully we get more at the... I have plenty. I have like 150 gold, so... Yeah, you have plenty of money. It'll be there for a while. Yeah. Okay. So then I'll just kind of hang out, maybe ask for coffee. Do we have coffee? I don't know. Tea? Yeah, you probably have tea. I'll ask Colleen for a tea for the morning. Yeah, sure. What kind? Just a normal black tea, maybe. Okay.

Maybe some honey, a little bit of milk. You're asking a lot here, but yeah, okay. I guess you're going to ask for it to be spiced with a little bit of liquor. No, it's too early for that. What do I owe you? For the tea? Yeah. There you go. Okay. Thanks. I'm going to sit down and wait for my friends. Okay. They can show up anytime they want. They're not coming. I've secretly kidnapped them. Apparently. I did my usual chores, but I tried to get them done a little earlier.

As soon as the sun was up, I was up trying to get stuff done so that we could get as early a start as we could for today. Okay. So you guys can end up at the tavern. You find your friend Flora, Sam's child, but with tea. Ooh, that tea looks great. Helene, can I get one of these too? Another one? Okay. I should have just got a pot. She serves you up a cup of tea. Thank you. You're welcome.

Why is salim so disgruntled isn't this her job it was uh the tea was fine okay a little milk and honey it's like this is not a barista coffee shop this is it would just be like adding a spoonful of stuff yeah this is more like well coffee well tea or like at this point she's ready to put the you know the pump thing out on the counter and let people see oh well if i'd known that i would have waited for the thing to be out on the counter there's nothing i'm saying that's where her mood probably

is this is the morning she's doing work yeah so is i this is the work yeah your work is only really your work with her is done she doesn't she's got other work to do now, well sorry for the business yeah you better be no yeah i didn't say that yeah yeah okay.

Before merriweather gets here yep wait what before merriweather gets here do we have all our notes together for giving to respira on our plans i know we'd rather put some stuff in but while we have time before we head over there i just figured double check and nothing else came to overnight that you were thinking? I don't think so. I'll pull the notes out and, like, hand them over to her so that she can take a look. I do a quick scan, make sure we're not missing anything I thought of.

I'm just waiting for Merriweather. Okay. Merriweather? I am going to wake up, do chores, and then go meet up with them. Okay. So sometime while you guys are sitting at the table, Merriweather walks in. Are you going to come sit with us or are we going to go right away? I'll go over and sit with you guys. I think we have everything we need. Did you need anything this morning, Meriwether, before we head over to Raspira and get a start on our day? I don't think so.

Then I guess maybe we should talk to it. Burning Dirty Light. Burning what now? I heard Dirty Light. Daylight? All right. So I'll take the mugs up to the counter. And then we'll head to Raspira's, I guess. Okay. Becca, you want to take the lead at Raspira's again, since you're best buds? sure.

Okay so you guys arrive at town hall hey hey, hey girl morning i'm good how are you doing, good good we're excited to get started on a new adventure today yeah you got those plans, yes we do should we give them right to rick's spear or should we hand them to you i'll take them i'll get them approved and then we'll take care of them All right, I'll hand them over to her. Okay. Oh, can I leave a note maybe for Raspira to you? You can talk to her. I'm just going to get this taken care of. Oh, oh.

Okay. And then Kethery goes in. You see Raspira. You take like a stamp and stamp the map or the plans you've given her. And Kethery grabs the plans and kind of walks out of the office. Did she even look at them? I don't know. Make a perception check. Ten. You assumed she looked down. Why wouldn't she? It seemed really fast. All right. Okay. So, Kezareh leaves the office, heads outside, and Raspira welcomes you in to her office.

Got the plans done, just like you asked. Okay. And here's some plans for you. When she hands you a map to goblin cave thing that I made up last time. Let me find where I put it. In the meantime, can I just talk to her? Sure.

Rysthira, I don't know if you've heard any of this around town, but I overheard some people talking in the tavern this morning, and they were complaining that like the town's not as well kept as it used to be like people aren't picking stuff up when it falls down kind of thing but also that like little magics are like not being reliable have you heard anything about this no i haven't heard anything do you know what might be causing something like that.

I hope it's nothing. I'd prefer it not be anything. I would also prefer that. If you need, I mean, maybe check in with old Dave about something to help you with your magic if there's risk of it not working. That's a good call. What might he have? I don't know.

I'm sure he has, at a bare minimum, he probably has spell components.

All right just in case it it has to do more with the arcane focus or your druidic focuses, focus i oh sigh yeah i guess it would be foci all right i guess i will do that okay so go go ahead, oh did you have any more questions i mean i didn't but i don't know about my friends okay, No, I don't have any questions Perfect Then I guess You're headed to old Dave's Or you're headed to the dungeon I mean, based on that, I want to stop at old Dave first Okay,

So I'm gonna head to We should get going, Dave's Yeah. Thanks, Raspira Yeah, no problem So you guys step outside a town hall And like, Off to one side There is an expansion off the back of old Dave's general store. Okay. And there's into the side of town hall. There's a giant, like, I wouldn't say giant. There's a small to medium lake pond and like picnic tables around it. And we just give her the plants. Yeah. Like seconds ago. Yeah. Wow, they work fast in Town Hall.

As you're saying this, Kesari is walking back past you and says, thanks. But also kind of like trips and she was carrying a case and it kind of falls to the ground and like a couple of wands pop out. Clawing the back and like, oh, don't worry about those. I eye it up a little bit, but don't say anything. Give me an arcana check. It's a weird reaction. That won't do anything. Are we all arcana checking? Sure. That also looks like it won't do anything. Nine. Mm-hmm. 21.

21. You know, there's a wizard spell called Fabricate, and there's a druid spell called transmute earth that normally they take a longer time and you're not typically going to find them in wands but maybe respira got her hands on some wands with these more powerful spells in them but i will message that to my friends you also get the sense that like nobody's supposed to know about these because well it'd probably be sought after or wanted I want to leave that in my message,

huh interesting well I assume it's moved on already yeah I'm going to file that information away, because it seemed important. Alright All right, we'll make sure we don't say anything for now, at least, but we definitely should, remember that I pull it out of my pocket real quick. Just out of curiosity. Oh, you know, he's good and just making emotive motions as he is one to just rocking out back in my pocket. Rocking out. Yeah, he's just rocking out until he's put back into a pocket.

You guys headed to Old Dave's? Yeah. Okay. I'll walk inside. Yeah. What can I do for you? Hey, we're about to head out on a mission. Wondering if you have any kind of like magical backup kind of stuff in case for some reason our magic doesn't work. I don't know. I don't have it. I mean, magic items are hard to come by these days. It feels like everybody's buying them up. What were you thinking? You need like a new focus or you need some spell components or I got this pouch here too.

What's the pouch? You don't have to worry so much about spell components. You just, you put the gold in and the gold disappears and your component appears. But you can only use it like once a day. So you may also want, you know, typical components don't disappear. So if you just buy the components you need to cast the spells you need and just keep them on you, you should be good.

But the ones that require or consume the ones that, you know, the spells, the spell books tell you they consume the components, those those components disappear. Who does it tell you what the components are for those? goes. When you click on a spell, underneath like your range tells you components. And if it's material, there's a parentheses with what the material is. So if it just says like V. That's verbal. If it has an M, if it's V is verbal, S is somatic, M is material.

Materials are the ones that have spell components typically. So like, um, mine here what i might need is i have minor illusion and the component is a piece of fleece it's an illusion it's pulling the wool over someone's eyes yeah all the spell components are puns oh my goodness do you know what it takes to cast a spell alarm, No. A bell and silver wire. Silver wire? So. Like, putting it on the wire?

Oh, my God. I think to cast Message, you need a piece of copper wire, because that's how, like, phone signals and stuff are transmitted. Well, it looks like all I need is a little bit of fleece. Nothing for hunters, Mark? It's verbal. Oh, okay. Yeah i need a couple of things to have on hand here too yeah do you happen to have any bruce twigs mistletoe and uh. I figure some of these I might be able to collect, too, but for now. Plants with thorns, so I guess pieces of rose stem?

Yeah, sounds like we've got a druid in the party. Yeah, that seems to be where I excel. Okay. So, here you go. That'll be about five gold. Each? Or for her? For her. A couple gold for you.

Did I get enough to do these a couple times? does it consume does it say consume or just say it'll say it consumes it so like on arcane lock it says 25 gold worth of so if it has an amount yeah well no no even if it has an amount because like identify as a uses a pearl worth 100 gold that it doesn't consume right it doesn't say that it consumes it whereas arcane lock specifically says gold dust worth 25 plus gold pieces which the spell consumes okay yeah

none of these say consume on them so i guess i just need a piece in each yeah probably same all right yeah i think one of the major ones that druids get is the one that creates like the druid grove i forget what it's called that requires like a golden sickle that i think you might need to that i think it consumes each time okay and i'm gonna assume sleep does technically have material but since i'm using an item to cast it i imagine that that doesn't yeah you don't need okay that's

what i assumed just wanted to make sure that i didn't skip over that one yeah sleep requires a pinch of fine sand rose petals or a cricket. What's that i also need a strip of white cloth please if you you have a piece sitting around Oh, yeah. White cloth's not a problem. Then he pulls out just a white piece of, like a napkin. Don't even worry about that Oh, thank you Alright, I think that was all over And what about Merryweather? I don't know what I would need How do I find that, Mike?

On your spells We'll go to your spells, So Under the notes section of your spells See where, like, under Bladeward It says V slash S you only need the ones where it says an M so under message it says M right and when you click on the spell message it says components VSM and then in parenthesis it says a short piece of copper wire that's what you would need for that perfect and then so for your other spells witch bolt uses something it needs a twig from a tree that has been struck by lightning.

Darkness bat fur and a drop of pitch or piece of coal and i haven't picked the level up still yet because i there's a lot of new ones so i wanted to read through them all so i will do my homework on that so for right now i'll just take stuff for those spells all day basically says to you you know since you don't know what you need for that other spell that you're probably gonna pick up. They help throw in the pouch for like 15 gold. The component pouch that you

can just put the gold in later and get the thing you need out of it. Okay. For that other spell, yeah. So basically, you found a way to sell you guys this pouch and it works out. Okay. So, what are you guys doing next? I mean, that's all I had to do in town. How far? Hall of the Goblin King? It's really not that far outside the town. There seems to be a lot of kind of sketchy things near town. Yep. Old, uh, paved over, ignored, dungeons, cavern, cave.

Yeah, this town must have been a hopping place at one time. Pretty crazy. Yep. I mean, I guess we could... You know what happened? They're headed there. I don't know. Maybe adventuring wasn't as needed as it once was. So you guys head towards the dungeon. It's just like an old well. The entrance looks like an old well.

This is an interesting way to get into a goblin city. Is there, like, is it just like a hole in the ground? Is there a ladder, a bucket? No, just a well. No, the top is dilapidated and, like, not really there. It's just the stone part of the well. It is not covered. So it's a danger to everybody. Pretty much. How deep is it? It's about 20, 30 feet down. Probably 20. 20 feet down. Is there a ladder or anything going down the inside of the well? No.

So we're going to need to use our rope. Is there... Oh. We have that rope of... Climbing. Climbing now. We do.

And i believe that the word is yeah that is the word that's what i've got written down, is there anything for it to like fasten to the rope upon i don't think has to fasten anything no yeah it doesn't have to fasten to anything oh well that's really useful yeah yeah i think it only moves a few feet a turn so it could take a minute but yeah i mean a turn is six seconds so a few feet in six seconds yeah that's not bad we're gonna probably be climbing slower than that.

Enough to get here that we didn't really need to like ride did we walk yeah okay if that's the case, i brought corn dog but not the other chickens okay popcorn is more of a riding chicken yeah i don't want to put her in danger corn dogs a little bit hardier.

Okay before any of us climb down i just want to like look listen make sure there's nothing waiting for us at the bottom to surprise us if i can tell from here so like do i hear anything give me a perception roll 14 uh let me don't check that for you.

You'll hear some mumbling in the bottom what kind of mumbling like a couple creatures talking, indistinguishable what languages you speak sylvan and gnomish i speak fleshy'll common druidic dwarvish elvish and sylvan yeah i'm a fizzle common elvish and giant, none of those languages it it doesn't sound like much to you is it goblin does it sound like my goblin friends a little bit a little bit we're gonna have to learn ourselves some goblins

soon yeah i'm i'm guessing they're goblins down there let's be careful in case they're not friendly i mean it is the hall of the goblin king so maybe they're just here to see their ancestors, Well, just still be careful. We don't know. We don't know these people. That's my purse! I don't know you! Oh my goodness. What are your hit points up to? 24. 17. So not Kayla. I have 28, so I should probably go first. Oh, hold on. Do you know what I can do before we go down? What's that?

I can cast Pass Without a Trace. Is it a spell slot or a cantrip? It's a spell slot. It's a second level. So that's the thing, but it would give us a plus 10 to stealth. I think let's not worry about it until we know what we're dealing with. Sounds good. All right. Yep, I can go down first then. I have more hit points, so I could go first. She can also wild shape. Oh, she can wild shape now. Mm-hmm. Yeah. All right, go ahead. So technically, she has the most hit points.

I am going to secure Corndog in my apron. Uh-huh. And follow. He's a little greasy. Your apron's a little greasy. Why is he greasy? Well, he's a corndog, but he is from the Abyssal Plane, so he's like fried chicken. Was he always greasy? Yeah, a little bit, yeah. Oh, that changes things. Okay, Afana, go ahead down. I'm just going to have to deal with it. Can he fly? Start heading down as carefully and quietly as I can. Okay. Give me a stealth roll. Oh my goodness. This die. Four!

Okay. You kind of come in hot. You come in like Miley Cyrus, like a wrecking ball. And as you hit the bottom, you see like a little campfire in the middle of the room. And behind it, you see three guys, creatures, but they're much taller, much uglier, much meaner looking, and they smell, and their shadows cast on the wall. Give me a constitution save. Oh, fine. See if you're scared. Eleven. Okay. You're not terrified, but you're a little uneasy, and we're going to roll.

What? Where is coming in at on the map? Which corner? There's a hole in the ceiling. You sent us a map? Yeah. Is it the one bottom right then where that cutout square is? It's the bottom middle, I think, is the hole that I imagined it was a hole because there's no other one in the rest of the map. I think maybe it was supposed to be a wall, but I'm going to say it's a hole from the ceiling. On the bottom right of the map, there's a hole. That square that's darker?

Okay, got it. Okay, so it is that spot. Okay, that's the spot where I thought. Then you said bottom middle, and I got confused. Oh, yeah, yeah, no, I meant bottom middle of that room. I thought, I don't know why my brain goes, oh, it's obvious, you know this room. They clearly must know it, too. That's not how it works. Yeah, so you drop in, and we're going to roll initiative. Now watch, I'll roll hide. 15. Okay. Net one, so five.

We're off to a great start, guys. Hopefully this just gets my nat 1 out of the way. You were nat 1, and Mary, well, there was 6, and... Okay. I have a plus 4 to initiative, though, so it's a 5. Gotcha. So first is going to be Fauna. Give me a nature check. Oh, my goodness. None of my die are going to work tonight. This one was a 6. These aren't goblins, but they might have goblin in the name.

I'm going to say to them in common, because I assume they heard me since I didn't come in quietly and are looking at me. Hey, how's this dungeon turning out for you so far? Tasty. And they start walking towards you. Tasty? Is it centipedes again? We found those in the last one. It's an elf or human. What are you? I'm a half-elf. It's half-elf, tasty. Oh, I don't taste good, trust me. I'm full of all sorts of nature and dirt. I pick up one of my feet and show it to them.

Whatever, we'll burn off the dirt. Dirt doesn't burn. So what are you doing with your turn? They're clearly aggressive. I'm gonna yell out. We've got that company down here and then I suppose, how far are they from me? They are in the room. They, so the, let's see, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 ahead of you is where the fire was. And they were around the fire to the sides and behind it. So, so 30 at the farthest. Yeah.

So the one probably couldn't reach you on their turn, but the two others will reach you. Okay. One of the ones that could reach me, I will cast a firebolt at. Okay. 14? It's not going to do it. Alright. And then can I back up that extra five feet from the hole here to the back? Is that possible? Yeah, yeah, I'll let that. I'll let that happen. Okay. Then they're going to come down to you because it's their turn next.

5, 10, 15, 20, 25. 30 so yeah one of them is not going to be able to get near you the other two maxing out their range is going to be able to get right up to you just barely they're in you know i thought about pulling up like bark skin and stuff and i opted not to yeah it happens so the the two that are next to you are going to attempt to attack you with their swords. Okay. It's a 19 to hit. I'm sure that hits. And that's 12 to hit.

12 on it. Okay. So one hits, and that's going to do five damage. And then it is Meriwether's turn. Um, I'm going to chill touch. Your problem. So the But because the well is deeper and they're not directly under it, they're to the sides of it right now, you would probably have to at least go down a little bit. But that's fine. Then you'd be blocking the well. So then. Well. Past you, not in a well. So you'd either have to go all the way down, or you'd have to block the well.

Could I curl something down there, like a chaos hold instead? You can't. I think you have to see your target to be able to do that. Okay. I don't like to be up close and personal. And I can't see any of them, right? No. Not from where, actually, yeah, no, they're literally just outside of your line of sight because the, you know, we're talking 15 feet down the well and the well is probably like five, I think I said, what was it, 15 feet or 20, 20 feet.

And so like, there's at least five feet straight down of well and then some dirt and then it drops into a room. You're not getting an angle on these from up here. I don't like any of that, but I have no choice, so I'm going down. Okay. So you drop down. There are now three creatures surrounding you. So you're not in the greatest positioning right now, but that makes change. Sorry, I was just seeing if I had something that I could like hit multiple things with and I do not. Magic missile.

No, I have a question with that, so I can use it seven times because it has seven charges? Yeah. Okay. And one charge does one, oh, for, 1d4, because typically with magic missile, a magic missile does like 3d4 plus 3 per spellcasting, but because this is in the wand, you would have to cast you have to use however many charges to fire out. Okay, I have to keep that in mind for being able to hit multiple things whenever I want to redo my spells anyway, I would use magic missile.

Let me double check the wand. While holding it, you can use an action to expend one charge or more of its charges to cast the magic missile spell from it. For one charge, you cast the first level version of the spell. You can increase the spell slot level by one for each additional charge you expend. So I think for the first one you would actually get three darts for one charge of the wand and then one additional dart per extra charge on the same casting.

That sounds like the way we played that before. Yeah, it's always written here, three darts for one charge. Yeah, that's it. But it's only three darts for one charge on each turn. And each additional charge on each turn is only one dart.

Okay. so like if you cast if you want four darts you can you have to use two charges but that's only four darts if you want you want to get maximum effect out of the one you cast. Once per turn six times right or yeah seven times if you want max damage per round you may and it's only you know some rounds are only two rounds you may only you may want and I use more than one charge like you did on Acta Man. Yeah, no, I'll just do one charge.

Okay, so you can choose one or all three. It's up to you if you want to spread the darts out. Can I use all three this turn? All three on one of the creatures? Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, like give one each. Yeah, one dart each. Yeah. Okay, so. Okay, what might hit you? Then roll you're going to roll 1d4 and add 1 to each dart do I just automatically hit is my question unless they cast the spell shield yeah you auto hit ok.

So the 1 takes do you want me to just roll 3 dice and then you can split them up however do you want me to do it individually only it depends i usually roll the dice separately because it sucks if you get a one but most people roll the d4 once and use that for all the darts i'll let you choose i'll roll each one so one takes four another one takes five and then the last one takes It's five again. Okay. Okay. There's Scylla. It is now Flora's turn.

Flora, you look down the well and you see your friend has pulled out that wand that you saw her kill someone with once and is attacking. I'm going to get down the rest of the way. Okay. Yeah. Since you're small, I would allow you to use the rope to stand on your friend's shoulders. But because you're in melee range, well, you're technically out of melee range because you're above them. Right. So I'm not going to give you disadvantage with the spell.

But you if you try to move outside of their range, they will get an attack opportunity. Okay, then I forgot to prepare any magic eggs. So in this case, I'm going to try to use Starry Wisp, which is a cantrip. What does that do? Probably nothing with this roll. You launch a mote of light at one creature or object within range. It's a ranged spell attack against the target. On a hit, target takes 1d8 radiant, and until the end of the next turn, on the end of my next turn.

It emits dim light in a 10-foot radius. So it just single target, then we'll fire. Kind of. But it takes radiant damage, so. I rolled an 8. Yeah, that's not it. So we're back to Fauna. Fauna, your friends are here with you now. But. But. What? Is creating eggs an action or a bonus action? We said it was the spell. Magic stone? Yeah. Then it's a bonus action. Okay. So in that case, I'm going to tap Corndog, who I assume will lay the eggs in my pocket because he's in my pocket. Seems that way.

She. Gotta be a sheen cast because she's laying eggs. As far as I know. Yeah, you don't know how abyssal chickens work. It's true. All right. So I cast Magic Eggs. And now I'm done. Okay. Three black, sticky, maybe slightly greasy eggs. Stinky? Stinky? The stink and the grease is new, this game. I'm an artist. I add every time I touch. Fauna, you're up. Alright. There's the one that sliced me with the sword, and another one that's kind of right up near me too, but almost there, right? Yeah.

Two of them, they're basically in front of you as your friends, and adjacent on either side of your friends is two of them, and then ones behind your friend that you can't quite see right now. Okay. Well, I think the one that's right in front of me in melee with me and hit me... Yeah. I'm in a juttler bowl. Okay. I've learned from the last dungeon to be a little more cautious. Yeah. Yeah, that was pretty good. So that would, I don't think, I don't have anything that's necessarily a bonus action.

Hold on. That thing is a bonus action. Why won't that yet? I can only do it once per short rest. I'm going to hold on. The one thing I can do is bonus action for now. Okay. The other one that's in melee range with you looks at you and in calm and says, What'd you do to my friend? He's just taking a nap. I'll put you down for a nap. And he's gonna swing he's napping he's gonna swing his sword at you that's probably not gonna hit that was lower than the 12.

That one yeah that one misses and then the other guy who's standing in front of Meriwether and. Flora Meriwether's one Flora's two he's gonna attack Flora Okay. And he rolled a cock. Seven. That's nothing. Okay, that misses. So, then it is Meriwether's turn. Meriwether, there's one asleep to your left. There's one next to your right who just swung at your friend behind you. There's one in front of you who swung at the person on top of your shoulders. Which everyone's closest.

They're literally the samest. Huh? They're the same distance. Whichever one I'm looking at. Like, I jump down on whichever one's literally right in front of you. Okay, the one right in front of you. What are you doing? Uh, we're going to... We'll chill touch, possibly, with a 16. You have to... That's going to be a disadvantage, because they're within melee rangering. It's still a 16. Okay, that's not quite high enough. So that's your turn, then it's Fauna's turn. Flora's turn. Flora's.

Now that I have eggs, I'm gonna magic slingshot the one who swiped at me. Okay. Okay. Dirty 20. Okay, that hits. Seven. Okay. He falls to the ground, unconscious. Because it's magic and it doesn't kill. Yes. Fauna, your turn. Okay. There's one still up, one asleep. Okay. And the one still up, is it in melee with me still? Yes. Because the one that swung at Flora that she attacked was the one you couldn't reach. Okay. I am going to... I have a ton of melee stuff.

I do carry a quarterstaff, and I'm just going to whack it with the quarterstaff. Okay. And miss it. Yeah. He's too close, and I just don't really use this. I just don't know what I'm doing. Yeah. So then he's going to try and attack you. That's also going to miss. Man, I'm rolling like crap today. So that misses, and it's Meriwether's turn again.

I'm going to try this same thing again okay it's a disadvantage because he's within five feet yep no problem wait yeah because everything i have is range so yep that'll just have to do unless he used the dagger but that's poorly i'll just roll disadvantage Hey, Taylor. Just barely hits. I will take barely. And that is five damage. Okay. Not looking good. Not looking good at all. Flora. Magic egg number two. Okay.

Oh. Reflection made it look like a five, but it's actually a 16. So it's actually a 22. Okay, 22 hits. Okay. Only going to be five yeah you have one airplane oh he's unconscious all right you have knocked two of them unconscious and one is asleep i'm gonna hop down to the ground i assume we're out of initiative yep you're out of initiative should we tie these guys up or something.

Do you think we'll need any of our other ropes in the meantime i mean we got this fancy new one We could at least use one of the ropes for tying up. That's true. I mean, we could also put them to sleep as we leave their back or wait by that point. So fight them again? Yeah, I mean, I could always, like, do a nice running tap, tap, tap, and just knock them out just so we can climb back out, too. I don't think they're smart enough to follow us through here.

I mean, if you feel confident in that decision. How do you guys feel about it? I mean, I got magic eggs, so I'll do what needs to be done. Mary brother, just in case we need some extra rope, you just never know. Yeah, it doesn't matter to me. They're wearing chain mail, old shields, a longbow, and a longsword too. Take their weapons. That's a good call. I will grab the weapons. Okay. Put them in your bag of holding. You pick up three long swords and three

long bows. Put them in your bag of holding. I shove them in the bag of holding. Okay. Write down that you put them in the bag of holding. Good call. Three long swords and three long bows into my bag of holding. Anybody know what these are? They're not quite goblins. We've fought them before, haven't we? No. Oh. Would we recognize them? Give me a nature check. 17? These are hobgoblin. Oh yeah, these are hobgoblins. Oh, have I heard of them?

Your memory seems to be jogged. Hobgoblins are large goblinoids with dark orange or red-orange skin. Hobgoblin measures virtue by physical strength and martial prowess, carrying about nothing except skill and cunning in battle. And apparently eating half-alb.

Is there anything else in this room give me a investigation check six, nothing you see I just kind of like stand where I am put my hands on my hips and like spin in a circle, well it's like everything useful in this room I take a quick peek around too give me a perception or investigation, oh yeah great that's a seven yeah I think you're right yeah nothing nothing to notice, can i look to my sure oh my god where is the thingy 16 yeah going through the

pockets of the hobgoblins you find about nine gold 16 silver 16 copper boy what do you guys mean you almost Dismissed all this stuff. What? Where did you find that? That's definitely coming from your pocket. I definitely just found it right here. Do you guys want me to record how much we're finding money-wise again and split it up at the end? That's what I was going to suggest, you know? Okay. Remind me how much this just was then? Nine gold, 16 silver, 16 copper.

Nine gold, 16 silver, 16 copper. Okay. Okay. That's where we'll leave off for the night.