Panatheon 27: Fire Escape

You're 1006 or 9. Welcome back to PAD of Theod, everybody. Yay. You didn't say welcome to. Is that a six or nine? Welcome back to PAD of Theod, everybody. Yay. It's the six or nine a day. The podcast made by fucking idiots. What are you doing? Stop exchanging hairs. It's weird. That was a lacklustre reaction to what you're. Expecting, yeah, no, it's fine. Whatever, we're moving on. It's like the sixth time we've done this. It's a new year. It's a newish campaign ish. In the it's the old campaign.

How are you doing? Good. Yes. Well, yeah. I'm here. Yeah, Maria. Nicholson, I'm. Playing it correctly. Go on, Nicholson. Bell has returned. Average something awful. Angry something? Yeah. Bravely Default. Rib isn't happy to be here, but that's fine. I saw a muscle in her cheek twitch. That's weird, I didn't know people had muscles there. You call them average. Fuck you calling average.

How are we all doing? Did you introduce yourself? No, they know who. I am. I was going to make a Dick joke but then I stopped myself. To introduce me. Good. We welcomed a new niece, I guess, into the world today, Did we? I went to see her at the hospital. Oh, yeah, right. I've got to give her a cuddle. I think the main thing we have to talk about here is that Night Light is back. Yes. I forgot about night light. Hello, our Lord and Saviour. You're welcome. Night light I. Think that was his voice.

He's only ever spoken once. He speaks to me. Yeah. I think there's going to be some derision here. Some of us are team matchsticks, some of us are team night light. Night light team both. Night Light's the original. Yeah, Night light's. The O2 Animal Buddy. Fuck the dragon and. Well, I've done so much to make sure Night Light stays alive. Like fight. Bees like never bring him up so that I can't possibly kill him if I don't know he's there to be first. Thing on my mind, most of the fan correspondence we've had for this particular podcast is has night light been fed?

Because you're like whip night light out, but you never get any cattle. It's emaciated flying cattle. It's. Not a good looking dragon. It's AHM slave. It's not my fault Night Lights decided to have it die. It's. Solely something that I can't get in the woods. Quick night light, use flash. OK, that's your job done. Glorified torch. Absolutely fine, right? The end. Yeah, sure. When? You were in the car and you were talking positively about yourself and you were like, I'm not like this, am I? Guys?

We just said nothing. And she was like, no, seriously though, I'm not, am I? I mean, I'm pretty. Normal. I was, I was saying that I'm a pretty normal person and I think that's true, right? Everybody speak at once, yes. Normal. OK. And then, yeah, like she just did the same thing with night. Like Night Lights. Great man, right. And then nobody said anything. Getting pretty sick of having conversations with myself guys. The wall appreciates you. Anyway, should we do a quick recap? Oh gorgeous. Yeah, please.

I think I'm going to record like a little previously on, you know, like you get between series of Stranger Things or whatever. That's a series. Recoil, the highlights. Oh my God.

She's. Just really no amount of leaning away. I'm going to cover that up.

Let her disgrace herself. That's brilliant. I'm so sorry, Sir. Coke makes me really like. I don't. That was very. Rude. No, you're pretty. You're pretty normal. Pounding coke all day. Basically, they've listened. Sorry, I've been drinking since 3:00 PM. Have you been in charge of your child? I think he means coke. YouTube has been in charge. YouTube has been. Cats on Lego Woo. Yeah. So if they've listened to that recap, they can skip this bit. No, because I'm still going to do a recap for the last episode.

Yeah, yeah. But if they listen to the previously recorded recap, they don't need to listen to this. One. Well, they do, because we're only recapping the previous episode. The recap is for the entire series as it was. Yes. Oh, yes, OK, understood. Sorry, last time, yes, I feel you were going to. Crack on. But you didn't. That pause was for the inside wasn't. Really. Sure everyone understood the concept of the thing we do at the start of every fucking episode. You're. Boring me. Last time in Panatheon.

That's good. You guys had just had the best days of your fucking life. Hey? Grassley had met a #1 super fan. Belcephalos had owned in the arena and Riff had won a horse race, Lifelong dream that she already ever mentioned. In the moment, having had the best day of your life, you went to the local brothels to celebrate. What the fuck is that all doing

as local heroes? Everyone was super pleased to see you all buying the drinks for everyone in town until the bouncer of the brothel lent over the shoulder and pointed out that one of the ladies that worked there had seen with Damatos tattoo on one of the patrons in the bar today and pointed out Hyman Toma ex #1 fan. You can try to plan to get him drunk, get him back home, and then probably torture him. I think it worked well. Yeah, we'll see. Let's finish the recap, shall we? You freaked him out while you were discussing political shit during your celebration at the bar.

You then decided to head back to his house with cigars and whiskey. On the way there, Riv got distracted, talked to a crazy man who was telling everyone that the gods, specifically in this case Poseidon, had abandoned your abandoned the mortal plane, and the gods weren't accepting their sacrifices. She then had a home court with Mummy Hecatter. Yeah. God of Night Magic, who had a fairly frosty reception for the say, but it was. A difficult relationship. Yeah, it's a difficult relationship. She yelled at Riv for running away from home, then yelled at Riv for letting Shiv run away from home.

Hekater did, however, offer some possibly useful information, warning Riv that the shares and cult that you've been hearing bits about is real, that shares could potentially be a danger, and that you should all stay away. You then caught up with the rest of the party, Riv and you headed back to Hyman Toler's mansion where he took you to the Ickrassley wing and brought you to the library slash smoking room. He left the room to go and find some whiskey and you all tried to work out what your next plan of action was going to be Ickrassley for.

7 1/2. A giant tried to hide on top of a bookcase, which didn't work.

He came back with whiskey in tow and Belle really, really enjoyed the whiskey. Riv however, offered him a home brew drink that she had was in fact the beer that Hyman Toda had bought for the Prince. It was a Grassley whiskey wasn't. It it was a Grassley branded whiskey. There are posters. There are posters of you in the London Underground reclining in a chair that people are graffitiing the shit out of right now. And there it the shot is right up your kilt. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's my favourite. That's my actual goal in life.

But I'll take it back because that isn't. Right up the. Kilt, that's not my goal in life. Full on up the quilt. Quilt. That's a different kind of shot. Yep. Go home, Alex, you're drunk. But Hyman Taylor drank the drink and collapsed. Yeah, he called. Me a bitch? Yeah, I know exactly what he said, but he definitely swore at you. Polishing off the rest of the vile bells, looking at him like fuck. How? Continue to drink the drink. You know his poison. Unbelievable. I know what this is, I don't. Care.

Yeah. Riff slapping out of his hand fry in the slur and factory divers so I. Spent the entire time poisoning and looking at Bell going. Stop, stop you. Don't know that a whiskey was poisoned and so far it doesn't seem to have had an effect. Our constitution is maximum. I don't. I don't know from. The amount of constitution so she had to do, there's something wrong with it. He was just pounding the shit anyway, that's where we are now. So he's collapsed to the floor, having drunk the drink that he had brought for the Prince.

Jesus Bell, you. Have to stop drinking this stuff. We don't know what's in it. Why so? Good. Look at him. He's Has anyone checked his pulse? Bells, I'm going to perform a medicine. Check. You do a medicine Check. No. I'm pretty sure I didn't give him that much. I love him. Fuck knows. He doesn't seem to be breathing. He didn't seem to have a pulse, but he's done. He's fine. OK, this is. You definitely hit people in the face with like sex or something and they've had the same reaction so they seemed OK.

He's not cold, you know. He's fine. This this. However, this is flat.

Your whiskey is flat. This is supposed to be whiskey. He puts the vial back down. Whiskey isn't fizzy. No, but I was good. Stuff is. I was drinking the poison, the poison which is now flat. Yeah. Poison climbing tide. I wasn't going to drink it if anyone, if no one else was so. We should do a medicine check on you. I'm fine, I passed on my constitution cheques last last session. Oh. Eight months ago, whatever it was. So situation check. The Lord of the Manor is on the floor. What do we do now? I don't.

Know what was? The actual plan so. We needed, we needed answers. Oh shit. Sorry, do you want me? To cut and lose. Think it might be too late for that? He was gone for a really long time before. Can I do a medicine check to like, wait, we should tie him up and then investigate his house and then investigate the house, but also try and wake him up, right? Once we've investigated the house, once we've investigated that, yeah. But waking up is the last thing on our list. Tie up, investigate, come back again.

Can I tie him up? Did we not pass guards? I there's. No guards in this house. There's guards outside. They're not inside though, and he invited. Haven't. Seen any guards inside? Tie them up, tie them up. I've already done it and then it's right. So let's go exploring. All over it. I'm gonna check the IT Grassley wing. You really you want to do that? Skipping through the IT Grassley wing, spitting in circles like a character out of a Disney Yes. Just it goes to the IT Grassley Wing. He knows where it is.

There's a giant golden door with lights all over it, like magical orbs of light floating around it. And he throws the doors open. Aragon entering Helm's Deep style. Music starts blaring out. There's glass cases with kilts or sunglasses or bag pipes. They all have a little thing, Ickrashley recorded speech. So you walk past the set of sunglasses and there's a recording of Ickrashley's voice saying. I wore these sunglasses at my 68 comeback special. And then you walk past the kilt that seems to have a big hole burnt in the back of it and it says.

I wore this kilt the day I sat on Donald Trump's lap. Fuck you cow, that was when you were a child star, right? Anyway, no. OK, I regret this already. Yes Grassley Wing. There's all these glass cases of stuff with it. Grassley voice overs coming out of them. I. Lean over to Bell. Do you want to just leave him here in his memories? Yeah, I turn up the IT Grassley soundtrack.

Stop cheques to see if we leave unnoticed, yeah. 21. Yeah, 14. Yeah, yeah, you get out about big noticing he's standing there, just arms right, spinning round in circles. I'm doing like a fast bin to get my kilt up and little kids have a dress and they like spin round. Like a well. Done. Yeah. Doing that to get my kilt floating is I want to look through some doors. I want to see if there's like an office, like a main place where he's doing his work. Yeah, you get to, so you get to the end of the IT crashly wing and there is there isn't office there.

It it's never. Be an end to the IT crashly wing. It's it's a long way. You take 3 levels. Of exhaustion games, the length of that EV garage, just the garage. Have you been in the garage on the right back by yours When you go in, you go in the door and the tails all the way over here. And it's a really long walk. And after we babysat Sam the other day, I had to get fuel. It's just me and the guy back in the gamer. And it was such a long walk that I actually like jogged to the counter and I was I just looked at him and went fucking hell, that door's really far away.

He just laughed at me and I was like, anyway, have a good evening jog this isn't. Meant to have like a full supermarket. It's a really good shot, but it was, it's just a really. You know, the people of the town are fucking obsessed with it. I didn't like it. The classic. Small town posh people thing where everyone was super angry about it being there and it was it. They're like it has a. Starbucks and they come. Up on it. I'm so excited. It's really good. It's been. That happened to Sykes Munden when they put a Tesco in I. Remember when the Tesco came in?

Oh my God, there was a fucking controversy for that. Anyway, when you were born, you find an office. Thank. God. So you I close the door behind you. When you turn around to close the door, you see me copying the poses and the posters. Yeah, you. Get I take a sneaky pic take. A picture of such a. Quickly sketch. Taking while you're taking, you see. People doing the loo where they're doing the pose in front of the statue or whatever. Yeah, yeah. You get to the end of the the museum essentially. And like, on one side there is a door, which is there's a room like a cellar that's full of like bottles and stuff, which is presumably where the whiskey came from.

But directly ahead of you is what looks like an actual office. And there is, as you go inside, there is a desk on the fire wall. There's papers scattered all over the place. There's, there's like a bookcase thing filled with scrolls. And then there are some stuff on the desk as well. I'm going to go rummage in the desk. Yeah, make an investigation check. I'll head to the scrolls. Cool. I'm still in the fucking museum. You set this out for a minute, you have your best. I'm having a great time 19.

5. With A5 these scrolls, they just seem to be random, like names and dates. The main name you recognise is Dematzel. Even with A5 you can see that's kind of his movements and then just the scrolls you look at, it seems to go back a couple of months. What did you roll with 19? OK, so with a 19, again, there's lots of stuff on the desk and you find more of these notes and there's like a series of names and dates and movements it looks like where people did. But you also find right in the middle freshly scrolled down and it's very roughly scrolled.

You can tell it's written by someone who's had a bit to drink. A note that says I am noting this down now as I am in no fit state to make my report. But the festivities continue. PC is in my home and I suspect they may be on to me. The bodyguard's loyalty still seems solid. There is Fostimity's PC risks damaging resolve. The Bard is indeed part of the group that he seems unaware of his role. The T fling may be dangerous. Her mother's alignment seems to have no bearing. The set back at Amethyst may not be problematic as first assumed.

Our pick may yet replace the boy, however it appears Archimedes loyalty may be in question. I plan to push further into his involvement, but I recommend he be watched. I will activate the contingent of true believers in the cellar if PC and his followers have indeed figured my designs and I may need help. I can't believe that he didn't gush more about me.

I'm going to fold up the, you know, like dear diary. Do we, Do we know what there is today in Panathal, in universe the. 2nd of January 2019. It's a fucking Friday, mate. It's, it's got to be Friday. Everyone was at the races, everyone went to the gladiators, everyone was at the party. This is it's, yeah. So that's why it's been like nearly a week since we started on the road. That's crazy, but yeah, probably feels. Longer. Yeah. I'm going to re roll my investigation but I'm narrowing down my search for this an actual date.

I'm looking for the day that we crashed. There we go, 15. OK, yeah, so you rummage through a bunch of these scrolls and you find a few that are dated to the day that you crash, so about 10 days ago roughly. Who the fuck knows? Trying to think the amount of times that we've camped. Yeah. So it's not actually been that. Long genuinely hasn't been that long, but there's some tightly wimy shit in the middle we. Were in that shit barn. For a while. If you're in a place where the a number of days that have passed is that strictly held to you and that important, you're a better DM than I am.

You're welcome. Yeah, I looked into that. So yeah, 10 days previous. Yes, you find a list of again names. Most of them don't really mean anything to you, but there is. You can see Dam Damsel's name and you can see that he has been delivered a note saying that the King has been killed, assassinated at a hunting lodge, and the Prince is missing and presumed dead. Pancreatitis is planning to hold a council in Annan's to discuss the next steps. I've got to wait until X like back in the story. So if you want to be involved, you could say something.

It's just I asked ChatGPT. I was like, my character is this Rockstar bardic bagpipe playing it crassly and he needs like a chart topping song. That's like everyone knows this song. Do you know what he gave me so far? I thought that was a full on plane. Never gonna give thee up. Never gonna let thee down. Never gonna run around and dimension Dorothy. Never gonna make thee cry. Never gonna say goodbye. Never gonna tell a lie. And vicious mockery thee. Oh my. God, Can you imagine it crushly ever actually using Vicious Mockery rather than failing to hit someone with a knife?

It then says this is where it stands on top of the Tavern bar, his kilt fluttering in a magical gust of wind. He plays a solo so intense it requires the Constitution saving Curry from everyone in the front row. He also does a kilt drop stunt. Oh, that means? Not what I was like. I have Elementalism so I can create that gust. Of wind, yeah, you can. You can Ripple cloth. Wait, next time I need to perform to get us out of a situation, you help a. Bit essentially you're watching a video on a scroll of that, yeah.

Just back to that letter, yeah, talked about something in a basement. Yep, right. Yep. We're going to the basement. No, Why? Why would you want to go to a basement? Because basement. Is where the fun happens. It says. Bell, come on, are we little? Bell, are we are we in any position to fight off anything that could be done there? Speak for your fucking self first of all. It's been so long. It's been so long since we did this. I'm just going to say you have all of your stuff. Like Bell probably had about four hit points left after fighting in the arena.

It hadn't spent anything anyway. It's. From panicking about this guy being unconscious for a really long time. Now you went to the bar and had loads of drinks and stuff like I'm going to say that you've, you've rested, it's fine. There's something in the fucking basement. I definitely think we should check it out. One of you should come back and get IC before you go. We're. Going to have to go back to the IC museum. There's not a basement door here. Do. You know what I mean? We're knocking. Don't go to the basement without me, but I've no idea what's going on because I'm that self involved.

I go, I go running into the IC museum and I go IC. You will never guess what's in the basement. What a life-size statue of you. I'm coming in gold. Oh my God. We don't know that. Let's. Go. He's going to be so disappointed. That's not true. Me and it run. You already knew you're famous. Can we? Yeah. Can I look for a basement door? Yes. So you wander around the house? Yeah, the ground floor specifically because you were looking for a basement And eventually, sorry, eventually you do find like in a backroom.

Like it seems quite out of the way. It almost seems like the cellar door has been like improvised. Like it wasn't. There wasn't originally a seller in this house. Someone's put that there. Sick. You should probably ask Night Light to keep an eye on the owner, Hyman Toiler, because if he wakes up and we're not there. He's tied up. I get night light off my shoulder and I go night light. There's so many candles in that cigar room. Go. But tell us if there's anything that happens that's bad.

He salutes flight flights away. Good boy. Night light. Cool, you're going to go in the sun. Yeah, I'm going to go. I know, right. Is there is there like a door to the basement and. Yes there is. There is a trapdoor. That's like an impromptu. OK, I'm going to very slowly and quietly open it. You're going to roll a slight hand on that. On that you can. Roll a slight hand if you want. Then fuck it if you're if I'm getting that one. Because you made such a big fucking deal about being stealthy and quietly.

Oh, you didn't do it quietly, didn't you? You'd fucking roll for it. Slight handle, stealth, whichever you have better in. Well, it's not we either way, 5678, yes, you're on. A scroll to five you it's way. Lighter than I think. Yeah, yeah. You, you give it like a light like tug and it doesn't move. So then you, you put your sort of back into it. It opens way easier than you were. Expecting I want to impress Bell and I do it like. One, but nothing happens. There's no trap or anything. There's no mechanism, nothing seems to.

Happen. Is it just a ladder? Yeah, you just see like wooden steps going down into the ground, but it's it's lit. You can see this torch light down there. I. Want to go down? Yeah, me too. Cool. Cool. I'll go fast. OK. No, I can go fast. Why? Because you're a spongy little wizard and I'm a tanker fighter. I think you need. To watch. Yeah, she's a sorcerer, Wizards and. Nerds, she's. Arithmetic. Yes, have you seen the shit? Have you seen me do Witch Bolt kill you? I can't wait. I honestly, I think I could tank it and I think I could kill you too.

Oh, Pile. Of shit I'd play that against. Her whatever, if you I mean one more time I did a. Time I turned into a potty blah for the majority of a fight, I'd kill you. To be fair. Make like a tree in her. Ear voice, You come back to me, Yeah. Make like a tree in the leaf anyway. Fine. What a relief. I He's back, ladies and gentlemen. I go. No, no, no. That's fine. Bell, you go. I stole that joke from the Big West show. Great though. You make it like a tree. Get out. Of here I'm. Going to cast elementalism on the ladder and make it really slippery.

I'm joking. I'm not going to do. That you're going, you're going down into the centre. OK, pull out, pull out Cerberus frying and pull out the grits. In the cellar of Hyman Tolas mansion is mysterious Laboratory slash Mausoleum. 4 bodies lay on slab tables in the centre of the ring. Their skin is grey and cold time decay are evident on all four of their corpses. It crashes towards them to give them mouth to mouth. I was literally about to say don't do anything weird. Too late a sheet. Covers most of each of the bodies with an arm or foot exposed, but the faces are all covered by a bronze mask with a pink purple stone set into the forehead.

There is a desk against the firewall and it contains. Well, you don't.

Guys, that's a mask for all of us, and one for the Prince who is where, by the way. We're all just coming with you. That's a mask for all of us. Hey can I, I really I have prostitutes and I will roll persuasion. Please do not put the mask on in persuasion to get everyone to the master. You can't persuade people that way. It's like if another player doesn't want to do a thing, you guys just roll like that. Watch me. You can't. I won't allow it. If you want to put a mask on, you can just put a mask.

I'm going to put a mask on, can I grapple? Yeah, yeah, you. Can can you not? Can you not sense magic? Can I? Do you want to finish your detect magic? Do you want to finish your description that? Was fine. You explore the room. I don't, I'm not. I'm putting a mask. On do you have just like curiosity? Do you have detect magic? I grapple. I can grapple you. Oh, you grapple with me while you sleep? Do you? Do you not? Do you not have detect magic? No, of course not. But I also have grapple. Whilst. Whilst you all have grapple, which is a thing you can do.

Oh, we're just grappling with each other now whilst you're. There at it as well, because you're. Bell Grappler No, you're grappling me. You can't change the rules now, Sunshine. You I honestly believe we can take him if he turns Vogue, but if he wants to play with the mask, you can play with the mask. See, we could learn something from putting a mask on. Yeah, by doing an investigation check. No, because I only have. I only have plus one on investigation. I'm I, I too have, I have nothing in investigation.

All good at the investigation, so I'm going to put the mask on there. No brains. I am going to investigate the table. Yeah, the the desk. I wait till their backs are turned and then slap a mask on. 14 on investigation on the desk. There is a desk against the firewall and it contains shipment details detailing the delivery and receipt of these bodies, and the papers are marked with a Thanatos dagger who mention they're devouts of Shuress. So the same dagger that you saw in the tattoo on the assassin guy is on the bottom of these essentially shipment receipts.

I'm assume my assumption is these masks have something to do with Shuress though. Can I go and have a look at the bodies? Yeah, you can investigate the bodies, yeah. Yeah. Your investigation on them? Can you give me a help? Action valve or X? Well, it's got a mask and a space, but I'm waiting to find out what that means because I don't actually know if I can help you yet. Yeah, I'll give you help. Perfect. That was an 8 and an 18, so thank you 18. Cool. Yeah, you go over. Dead bodies, yeah. And examine some of these bodies and like I said, they're they've got these masks on.

Otherwise they're pretty much covered by these like clothes with the occasional armour legs sticking out but you pull back blanket on one and one has the same tattoo and the same placement on their chest, another one has it on their upper arm and another one has it on their on their wrist lower down. So. They're all part of the cult. Yeah, you have to take a mask off of one of them. Ick. Yeah, and stick it on my face. OK, you pick up the mask, nothing happens. You put it on your face.

Make a wisdom save Odin. Pal, pal, it's doing something again. It's OK. Unnatural 20. He's fine, thank. God, you put this mask on and you hear? Make a history check. I'll say acid bond. 7. You hear like this, screaming, groaning, like like a pit full of just dying people in incredible intense pain. All of them. Just like thousands of voices. Just they've. Got strapped eyes for Christmas, have you seen them? Six points of psychic damage. Oh bollocks, I'm in the mask like.

Can I make a strength check to wrench the mask off your face? Yep. All right, I'm all the 10. Yeah, as long as Ick isn't putting up any. It what's? On Yeah. It's my choices. What did I tell you about putting weird shit on your face? Way change the habit of a lifetime though that's. Exactly what I was about to say. What did you see? The Prince has got a mask on.

I didn't see anything but I could hear something. Here, let me show you puts mask on Prince.

Mel, Mel, dive sword. Reach us out. No. Can I do? I will. My God, no, no. Just let no one lets me speak. I could tell you what I heard, but no one will let me. Why is everyone want to take turns putting the creepy? I basically heard like lots of screams, moans and groans. Yeah, yes, you've got a Nosebleed now as well. I'm sure that wasn't there before. Would it be crazy to fail the check? Do you not want to? I'm going. To Arcana, check it first. You could do an Arcana check, Yeah. How's. Your religion?

Did you not want to try and uncount your mother on this? I don't, I have to shit religion, that's probably. What she Yeah, never mind. Yeah. So 6. Or 9. It's 9/9 it was. Just nine. It was just a nine, OK. As I said. What was that Arcana? Yeah, OK, yeah, there's definitely some weird creepy magic going on here. Do you think? It definitely seemed to hurt IK. I would fucking be better when. I'm. Not oh, oh shit, hold on. I dive into my rucksack and I pull out the the the little orb that was given to me at the party in in damn near yeah.

In. Amnus in Amnus yes, and I test I I see if the orb reacts to the little gem at the top of the mask. Yes. So you guys I don't think know this. No. But he was given a small orb by a SATA at the nightclub in Amnus. When you went clubbing, you were busy talking to your sister. Slash Oh my God. Neck in. You were. You were. You were. You were flying with Zeus. And no, you were flying with Zeus. You were flying with Laga Throx. No, the one that I ended up sleeping with, yeah. You saved her from ick she.

Was a fan of me. Yeah, but she seemed to get on better with rib. Didn't you call me Sipper RIP for nothing Again why she ended up in my bed? Yeah, do you know? Nobody told me you were supposed to watch it. Oh. God I love that cheese. Number one rule. Ick, but I've learned that now I just cast fire breath. On I'm. Joking. You could clean it up for me. That'd be great. You want to know how I got that whole lot of We're trying to stop and get syphilis.

Yes, it's. Beginning to look.

Bell has an orb and he got from a sainter in a nightclub. It is the same pinky purple sphere, of course. Kind of like it's balls. It's weird. It's not as hairy. But. Smurfs. Alex.

This orb sponsored by Landscaped.

Yes, Bow has one of these orbs. It's very it's it's the same thing that is set into the front of these masks. And as you hold it close, it sort of glows lightly. It doesn't have a huge reaction, but it seems to sort of, it does seem to sort of glow and react to the one as you hold it to the mask that it took off. They seem to react to each other. I have a theory. I pass Rev the orb and then I position my blade over the neck of one of the bodies that are lying on the table. Just hold the orb to this mask.

If it moves, I'll cut the head off, it's fine. No, I'm joking. I hold it to one of the guys in the masks. You hold it near the mask and again, sort of a light glowing, but nothing. The body doesn't move the. Body doesn't move. Can I do we have still have that skin with the tattoo? On it. Yeah, God. What? Is that 1? Is that the one with the? Is that the same? That has the tattoo on here. Yep. Can I like? Together skin doesn't really do anything. This has become a point and click adventure game. I was gonna I'm.

Not gonna I'm guy versus 3 points. I was gonna like just hold the skin and then wear a mask because then like maybe it'd be like. Oh, like Dwight Shrite. Filled with good mate flashbacks, I was. Like Dwight straight when he cuts the fucking face off that light light knife I put the. Dry skin over my face and then I put a mask on. She's getting a Regina.

Yeah, Buffalo Bill, calm down. Self doesn't do anything. Are you putting the mask on you? Don't want to put that skin anywhere near your face? It has been cured been. Cured. It's still human skin. OK, no, I just hold the skin. You doing it from the side that she just randomly slit their throat? Yeah, she's carrying it around That sort of serial killer. You are the. Belt is carrying it around. I'm so serial killer. If you're trying to wear it, you're way more eggy than. Is there paperwork on the table?

Yeah, OK, I'm gonna look at the paperwork. Put the skin down. Rib. For those that can't see, she just licked it and lick it and then slap it on the wall. Bell peels it off, holds it up. I rehydrate it. OK, no, I'm. Going to go and read the ship. I feel so bad for the person that skin belong to I think. He killed a village for the people. He's not a good guy. Yeah. Then I killed him. Yeah. You go back to the desk, roll an investigation check. I have bardic inspo which I do AD 6 please. I'll take it.

That's 23. 23 OK, So yeah, you again, there's a load of receipts on this desk. They seem to represent these bodies being delivered. There's one for each of them, OK, There isn't a name. It's just like a number basically. Body one, Body 2. They don't seem to be in any particular. Order Test subject 174. Test subject 273. There is also. It's a purchase order basically. Yeah, yeah, there's also a, a what looks like essentially a scroll has been posted recently as well. It like a case scrolls next to it.

It's still kind of curled up and that has it seems to be or was it 23? Yeah. So that that has a load of coordinates on it. And as far as you can tell, that seems to be point to point from Amnest to that's a. And you think looking at that, that was like you guys, that was like you've been tracked to this place and the recipient of this letter has basically had advanced warning. It doesn't have you. It like the last point is just outside passe. So this was sent before you guys arrived, but it's pretty clear and it says on the note that like the expectation is that you're arrive in Dasse and then to prepare.

Would we? Would I come to the conclusion that it wasn't necessarily us, but the Prince?

You're all travelling together. Yeah, well, tracking the Prince, I was being honest, Yeah. It's more who there's tracking. Yeah. And there's no like little like initials or anything. It says PC, right? Which you've seen a couple of Times Now tracking. Dodges. Oh, Prince Colonoscenais.

Thank you. There was a lot of pointing at it, crassly deciphering a clue. People weren't expecting it.

They're tracking the Prince. Yes, it's the freaky uncle. Me and River been saying this from the start. They're also going to have to listen to us. Now is there is there a chair in here? Yeah, there's a chair at the desk. Yeah. We tie the Prince. To it and start whipping him to find out who will be following him. I I take I take a mask and I go sit in the chair. Cool, are you taking a mask off of another body or are you taking? OK, cool. You take a mask off an upper body and you sit in the chair.

Just weighing up the chair. I'm just weighing up the mask and the orb because there was a slight reaction. Yeah, the mask is pretty heavy. For what it's worth. It's made of bronze wood and it's the the mask for just for reference. An insight is more when you think someone's lying perception. What are you trying to do? Just put two and two together? Really. Can I roll just to see if I know exactly what's happening here? Yeah, like that, like it's perception to see if you notice anything that happens between the two.

But that's again. So just for reference, the mask, these these big bronze masks, they are kind of they're like a triangular, but like quite a long pointy triangle. And then there's points at the top, so kind of like a devil devil horn mask, but the horns are pointing out. They're like, they're horizontal, essentially. Yeah. So they point out at 90° to the rest of the mask, and the crystal gem is set into the forehead. And then there's just a thin slit where the mouth would be and two thin slits where the eyes would be.

Yes, that horrific picture you've drawn pretty much sums it up. It's about as horrific as the one in the book. Yeah, I. Regret putting that on my face. Yeah, they're quite, they're quite heavy. OK, in. My mind it was more accurate.

I get comfortable in the chair, I put the mask on and then I place the orb in front of the gem. Would now be a good time to raw perception?

Yeah, raw perception as you see what happens. Oh, make a wisdom save. Not 20 + 323. 18 on a savings. OK. Yeah, very good. You take two points of psychic damage. Not bad, not. Bad you. It's not quite so bad for you. You just you again, you hear this, the screaming sound. It's like the voice of thousands of screaming, tortured voices. But then it goes away. You have a bit of a headache, you're shaking, but it doesn't seem to affect you at least as much as it affected Ick. Which is great because I'm used to screaming crowds so I don't know why it would bother me.

Can I go? Tortured in pain voices. Can I go to one of the other masks that are on the people and put it on? Does the gem look like it could be removed? I roll 23 on perception. Does the gem look like it can be removed? So you're watching. Belle. Yeah, with your 20 what Nat 20, whatever it. Was Nat 20. Yeah, with your Nat 20 as he, you see the gems being near each other don't really seem to do anything until he puts the mask on. And he puts the mask on. You can see him like tense up as he he's experiencing this horrendous thing.

But I experienced it worse. It only lasts for a moment. It seems like Bell somehow just manages to shut himself off from it. He's dead inside. Built different.

But you see. He's on that grind set. You see, you see a brief with your neck, 20A pink spark jump between the two crystals, and when Bell takes the mask back down, you can see he looks slightly like with it for a moment, like his skin. His skin is pallid, his eyes look like like pale just for a split second as he lowers the mask and then he goes back to his normal colour. Hey guys, there was a pink spark between the the things when it was on his face. I don't know what that means. Can I? Further investigation.

Yeah, you can do an investigation, check to see if the gems look like they can come out. Fuck no. I can give you some more body. Fucking God I can give you more body. They seem pretty well stuck in there, yeah. I can I do you know what? I want to join the crew. Can I put a mask? On do you put? A mask on? Yeah. Are you putting on one that they've already taken? Are you going to? Bell I'm going to let it happen. If it goes bad, take it off me. Do you have a safe word? I'm going to scream. I mean, I, I, I moaned and clearly.

Did you have a safe word,

Pickles? Looks are thrown around the room between Rib, the Prince and Ick. Did. You just say Pickles. I'm. Pretty sure Pickles the pet master was always the safe word. Yes, I. Was almost certain that Belle was celibate so this is really throwing me off. Nice Sir. He went to a brothel for a few weeks. Exactly not what I meant about a Safeway. Oh, Riff got the wrong end. Of the OK Riff's going to put a mask on. You're using Bell's mask? Yeah, yeah. OK. Cool. Yeah, you put a mask on. Read that it's a wisdom safe.

I move a body off of the table. Does the table have straps? Nope. So these these are very much they're just big stone slabs. They hold to the touch. I'll put a mask on you if they dress up. Hold his feet. Who's? Mine roofs. Oh ha ha. Whatever, I grabbed the Prince. Oh no, don't. Be one free, one free. When you got the safe word thing wrong, it just reminded me of what you did at Christmas. Yeah, Yeah. We don't need to talk about that. OK. I penned ribs. I penned ribs. I was talking about birds and I accidentally said spit roast.

Are you look if look, if you're at Christmas dinner, if you're embarrassed by it, it's your fault. If you're embarrassed by it, you've probably done it. You just need to try it. My point anyway. My hand I. Like to say fun. Spit roast. That's my knowledge. Thank you anyway. I'm going to pin your shoulders down. It's going to pin your feet down and the Prince is going to be in control of the up, OK? Prince, look at me in the eye. Do not fuck this up. We are friends. I trust you. Oh shit, you always ever said that to me before.

You're a good kid. Any of those things. You're like definitely not fucking this up there. You always said that to me all the time. Are you lying? You're lying down on the table make a huge amount of difference. Well, I want to be make a wisdom save. I'm gonna fail it. You're gonna you're willingly failing. I'm. Willingly failing. OK, so you take five points of psychic damage as again you hear the screams of tortured souls. They. All take the piss out, but they've all done exactly what I. Did, yeah.

It's amazing, isn't? It, yeah, but. The difference was we investigated before we put the mask. On you just kind of leapt into it. Without just throwing yourself in. Make a. Fucking decision. Karna check or religion check or just an insight check? I have +3 to insight, does that help anyone? Is making the check. Do you want some bardic inspo? She really, really fails. I don't know. The roles have been dog shit. Yeah, I would love some inspo. It is just standing right at your head going. Come on with, find something, think of the same.

14 You experienced this screaming, torturous, boiling light, just cacophony of voices, and it's vaguely reminiscent of the sticks of the Elysian, or not the Elysian Fields, but parts of Hades, bits that you didn't necessarily go to, the bit that you lived in, the bit where heroes tended to go. It was a bit nicer, but there's there's bits that lead to like Tartarus, which is just like condemned souls and this is reminiscent of that to you. Does it, I mean does anything? Can I then get my pap? Does it God?

Can I take it off? Does it do things? Yeah, OK. I'm gonna, yeah. It's not making you wear. It no, I know. I didn't know if. You're. All choosing to do this. If you failed it, it would like bomb to you or something. So I was like, don't do that. I I.

For you sign the squirms or bell lets up on your shoulders. Yeah, I, I take it off. That is pretty bad. And I say I, I explained that those screams and those moans and all that noise sounds a lot like hell. Basically it sounds like where it's it's reminiscent of where I'm from. Do you want to get your mother on the phone? Oh, but she's so. Difficult ring, ring. Ring ring. OK, look, but you guys got to be here with me, OK? I can't do it. Where are we fucking going? No worm, just. Call my mum. Why do you need to be?

We're already here. Yeah, I know, but. She's. She's a bit funny about new people. It's such a drama. Look, I've got mummy issues, all right? OK, It's really fucking hot. Didn't you mention that hell was being closed? Closed. Yeah.

Remember that when when you have your conversation with mother. If I didn't. Ask her about me off Can I OK, can I can I try and communicate with her? I mean, she want to pick up. She's really, you know, we're not in a good place. Yeah, you can try make a religion shake as you pray God. Religion sucks. This is why I don't want to talk to her. She's trying to push her religion on me. Her religion of being I'm your mother. She legit just wants to love you get. Out of my room. Mummy, a hug. Fuck you, not in this.

Lifetime, bitch.

OK, there's a 13. Yeah, you don't get anything from her. You got the impression last time, but she was kind of annoyed. You don't get anything. There's nowhere I can get hold of Shiv. Where's Shiv? I miss her. Where is Shiv? I kind of forgot where we left. She's still at the college, no? She was at the. She was at the bar. Yeah, we're not there anymore, are we? No, no. You need to read something interesting in the note upstairs though. Do you remember that? Something about T fling. I thought she was talking about me.

So. The T fling may be dangerous. Her mother's alignment seems to have no bearing, is what you read about. Yeah, I remember that. The set back at Amnesty may not be as problematic as first assumed it. Was about. Our pick may yet replace the boy. Oh my. God paid attention to the Oh my God, no, I did. No, I did because I heard that and I was like, I was like, I will remember it. And then I claimed me fucking didn't but. Yes. The pick. The pick will might still replace the boy because we got fucking bitch troll trad.

Yeah, my buddy. The Jedvis is not. This is not the time. OK, sorry, it was a very. Rude gesture. So sorry, you're saying that your sister can't be trusted? What if if she's if she's fucking working with them and then she's going to be the pick. Do we want to go and see if Hyman Toler is alive? Yeah, I need to talk to him. Take a mask. Put all the masks in my bag. Yeah. It's so heavy. You know, I mean, they're they're like holding one in one hand is difficult, but yeah, you're going to take one mask.

Yeah. OK, so you take the third mask. I don't like how. You said OK, Sure. OK, Yeah. You take the third mask, the one closest to the entrance. As you take the third mask off, the third one, the last one, the one by the entrance, haven't touched yet. You go over to go and remove its mask and his hand snaps up and grabs your hand, slaps you away. Dislike. Bow. Corpse like hand, the body rises, flexes its joints. So we're in the corner having a thumb. We're not paying. Attention to the body like setting.

Up As if awakening from a deep sleep, it looks around the room. It rises from the table, butt naked. Got. A booty. It raises the hand to the mask and you see the gem blinks and dies and it removes the mask. Can I throw a dagger at it? Swing my great sword.

Yep, you can throw a dagger and you can swing a great sword at it as you see it. Remove the mask and you see hymen Tolas face. Who's Hymen? Tolar, shut up a bitch. Wait, I haven't told her. Is the guy who's housing? Your fan, your super fan that we have tied up upstairs. I throw a fucking dagger. Yeah. Yeah, it's unnatural, whatever it is, 192124. I guess. I got. 13. He's naked, so that would hit you. Were where?

I mean, if you want to be precise, it's like a -, 5 year score. So 11 on slashing, 11 slashing. Yeah, you, you slash across his chest. And then action ACTION search. I'm going to roll a strength check to pin him back down on the table. I have a potion of mind reading, would this be take a good time to use it so we can figure out what he's actually thinking? Let's pin him down, OK, so we can then ask him questions. And then I attacked out of fear because the corpse moves. Yeah. So, yeah, so the first, the first attack is like the slash, but I don't follow through.

When the blade goes into the chest, that's when I over overreach. Yeah, make a both strength check

hang. On Son of A. Rhythm athletics, if it matters, I got a 13. So if you've got proficiency. 14 on, let's say +2 of the presidency. Just. No, +2. I roll it 11 + 2, so 13, yeah. So yeah, you slash down into him and then like kind of body check him onto the table that he's just risen up from and he kind of looks up at you. You're upstairs. What's going on? I believe who killed me.

Oh my God, are these all your bodies in case you get killed? These aren't all mine. No, no, no, no they're not. I believe it or not, I wasn't actually hoping to manifest one of these. These were meant to be people to help me. What's my sister got to do with this? You want to you want to drink that potion? I'm drinking the potion now, am I? Yeah, I drink my potion of mind reading. Cool. So Bell froze him onto the desk, says you're upstairs. And he says I wasn't planning to occupy this body. Actually, you drink the potion.

And on the surface he's essentially thinking on the lines of oh shit, I've been discovered. They know. They probably know what's going on now. Fuck. Fuck. This isn't what was supposed to happen. Fuck. Pro. Deeper how are you doing this? He smirks. This is the power of Shuress. What the fuck is my sister got to do with this? I don't know who you are you. Said. You were talking. About. What? But what is? What is he thinking? Yeah, you're going to grow. Deeper, deeper. Well, on the surface, he's thinking, I hope she buys that you would grow deeper.

You're a liar you've been writing about. Us. Yeah. You are able to discern that that is a lie. Yeah. That he's worried about revealing Teresa's plan. But at the same time he there seems to be a flicker of hope that maybe you haven't quite worked out as much as he thought you had. Because he's a super fan, we're all persuasion to try and get him to like, you know, talk to me like, like you know, it's me, your buddy Ick, like you've got yourself and some shit here, let me help you kind of thing. Yeah, you can try and roll a persuasion to try 5.

+6. Chill him out a bit. 16. I'll roll a wisdom save as an 8. He is still like Oh my God, this is a crassly. This is so exciting. Oh fuck, I'm in trouble. Oh God. OK, OK. It smiles sweetly and it's like, you know, like open body like he froze a look at you 2 to be like shut the fuck up and wait and then has like open body language in this very, you know, like. Bell's still leaning over him with his great sword still in his fucking. Chest no, I'm like guys, because you know I've drunk the potion you know he's a super fan, so I'm like guys just lower your weapons just for a minute it's.

In his chest. I'm like, take it out with his chest. I can't lower my weapons. It's a night, you know what I mean? Guys, come on. I'm not back up a bit. Give him some breathing room. I stand next to the Prince. Yeah, that's fine. Just yeah, yeah. Got the Prince that's. Just that's fine. Like as far as he's aware, you guys are a bit more out of his shop, right? So that he'll talk to me like. Slowly drag the blade out of. His have a little faith in it because usually in these situations I know about Trump's there's.

No blood.

Like he doesn't bleed like normally when you do that there's like a but nothing happens. Feel like we've all clocked that, but yeah, so like, what's going on, Dude? I thought we were friends. Mr Ashley, I just, I, I am such a fan of your work and honestly, everything you've done so far has been incredible, OK? Honestly, this association that you've made here, especially with the Prince, is confusing, but I'm assuming. It's the accident. All part of the plan it. Was an accident. It was an accident.

Yeah. Interesting. I just sort of found myself with them. I didn't set out with them originally. Interesting. You get to a certain age, the groupies aren't as you know, they're ignore them, talk to me, not even I'm not paying attention to them. The plan is going ahead as you were. She is doing everything in her power and he is making members on display. I don't.

Know I don't know what I feel like I do know the plan but like remind me. Make a deception check. I have quite good deception. 21 He trusts me, man. These fucking roles I. Told you in these in these situations, it never lets you down. Just trust me. Shuress is making her move in Hades, as you're aware, he is making his moves here in Panafail. He is the uncle of the Prince, right? Yes. Yeah, yeah, cool. Yeah, me and me and him like this. Pancreatitis. Sorry, what's yours making moves? Hades, Yes.

Keeping the Prince under surveillance? Is it cunning move? I know, right? Yes, he's totally full. I've gotten drunk so many times he falls for a man. Good, good. He's he's important, however. How's the uncle going to do it? Which requires the Prince to be out of the way, Yes, which is unfortunate. Yeah, but once we get the Prince out of the way. It's unfortunate. Yeah, but once we get the Prince out of the way. Because you're going to die as well. Yeah, no, that's fine. So whatever. But I've lived my life but like once the.

Prince that's happy because I know I hope your friends they're. Not my friends. I don't care about them. Like in a minute, in a minute. Like I understand my role in all of this. Like I have to die. The Prince has to die so that so that the rightful ruler can. Rule. It's unfortunate, I was hoping to live longer and maybe see the the new reign, but obviously I've already sent the signal for my followers to burn my house down so. We wait, wait, but back to the prince's uncle and he just wants to take over, right?

That's so why do you need to burn your house down for him, just for him to be able to to reign? Make a persuasion, Jack. It's. Such a small part in all of this, my friend. That's six or A9. Loom. Persuasion plus it at 12. He kind of side eyes bell. I have. I had probe deeper. I can hear his thoughts right. You haven't probed deeper. He failed. Oh. Yeah, he's, he's been talking to you because. No, that's fine. He can he. Can on the one hand, he trusts you. It Grassley, he's hero. I have charm person, can that help me in this while we're having this conversation?

Yes. Can you ask about Shave Justin? What's? Going. On yeah makes a wisdom saving for yeah, he's charmed so he's so I think charisma cheques you make advantage. OK. And. Just while this conversation is happening, can I go to the table and? Collect some of the take whatever you want of the desk. Quietly, yeah. Yeah, yeah, go for it. OK. And do you want me to roll make a slight of hand check? I throw you I like some of you stretch because I just rolled it out once so well, I mean, I have his attention, but I quickly like.

He looks over it at Riff, who's rifling through his desk. So while he looks at Riff, I look at you and I like not towards the Prince, so that you know, to go and like just the Prince. Take a position in front of them. Yeah, yeah. Just be around. Rev stop. Hold my hands up. I'm sorry about that. She can't help it. Her sister is Shiv. Have you met Shiv?

I haven't met her myself, no do. You know much about her. I. Know she is a daughter of Hekita, Yeah. And I know that she is a target, an ally. I can't talk. Right now he looks over a rib and rolling that one on a sleight of hand. Fuck, do you want it's. Unbelievable that they're related, right?

Honestly, if I had to pick it wouldn't be rib. The Prince has to tie. I know. So Lord Colonoscenaides can rule. Can rule. Yeah. We're trying to avoid a war. With hell. With anyone who might be. With anyone that would oppose his reign. With anyone who might side with the Prince. That's why he's about to die. So he's just like. Make so he's wait so he's make a perception check now get. The Prince out 15 + 6 is 21. Yeah, you notice smoke starting to come down the flight of stairs. I have message. Can I very calmly, like, telepathically tell Belle, Right.

So telepathically tell you that they're trying to kill the Prince. The house is going to burn down. But you very calmly, the three of you need to leave so I can carry on interrogating. I'll be fine. But you need to get the Prince out now. And if I die, I die. But you need to get the Prince out now, but calmly so that we don't spook him, because I'm getting a lot of information.

I'm. Looking really emphatically at you. Like waiting for more.

I, I slap the prince's back really hard so that he starts like coughing and wheezing. And then I look, I look what? I look towards Rim. Oh, no, the Prince, he's having some sort of asthma attack to get this guy some more whiskey or something. So I'm taking him to get some fresh air. Yeah, there's smoke starting to come down from don't. Look above don't look at the smoke guys, just very calmly leave the room to get a drink. Can I can we get you a whiskey while you're here and we're having this chat a water down one if you're.

Feeling a bit rough? Desert you and he's like, we're all about to die. I know, but then we must talk about on a good note. They're going to go get us a drink while we finish our chat because no one wants to die alone. He stares around. He's like, I, I will return, You will return. All of the followers of Sheres will return. Yeah. But the Prince fucking won't, so let him have a drink that's. Kind of the point, yes. I know so let him go and get a drink before he dies and just ask him do. You if he goes to get a drink, he might potentially survive I don't want him to survive.

He needs to die, I. Promise now. My followers are setting lights to the house as we speak. So can I like, roll charisma or something to convince you that I'm on your side and that? Yeah, I'm going to make I'm. Going to convince you that the Prince is going to die OK

1415161718192021. Nice smirks and nice shrugs. Fine, it's. Already too late. OK, cool, so tell me more. So Belle left the Prince up onto his shoulders, kicks open the door and sprints upstairs. He rolled a Nat 20 on a strength check. Yo, you picked the Prince up? Is anyone going with Bell? You need to go with Bell. I will tell you everything I know about. Yeah. No, it's not that. I don't think we should leave the masks. Take a mask. With you, you already said all the masks, you already said your pocket is still.

Holding one. I want it. OK, I'll get it. I'll get the last one. OK? And I'll meet you outside before the house burns down to the ground. I got. I got this. I'm still pro franchiotitis. He doesn't know that. I mean, he, he doesn't know that I'm on the Princess. He doesn't think. He shouldn't think that I'm on the Princess side. He thinks. You're on the uncle's side. I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll share that. Thanks for that telepathic message.

Bell. So you've. Storm up the stairs. You've got 3 masks, I've got one left. You kicked the door open already. The hallway is dying to catch. There's flames looking up the walls, There's smoke billowing around the ceiling above you. Riff. You're going with him. Yeah. Cool, you're staying in the cellar. Yeah, for a minute. Right. Smoke is as soon as Bell kicks the door open, smoke is pouring down into the cellar. Flames are starting to come downstairs. What's? Going to happen once the press starts.

What's his plan? What's his first move once the Prince dies? Once the Prince dies, there's no one to stand in his way. We were we were perfectly poised when he was drowned at sea by pirates. But who's following him? The Prince. The Prince is the rifle air. No, I know, but someone's been tracking him. I'm not stupid. I picked these things. Up. We have been tracking him. He was supposed to be dead. His bodyguard kept him alive. But someone specifically has to be tracking him. It's not just tracking being like randomly tracked.

What's tracking him? Is it a spell? Is it a person? Pancreatitis is tracking. Him do with what do you know it's the. Fucking sword.

It's the fucking sword that I spent ages. Casting shit on? Is it the sword? Yes, he's tracking him through Belsephous. Belsephous fucking. Sword Belsephous is on the uncle's side, you know that? Belsephous is like neither of us. He's just a pawn. He loves the uncle, like worships him. Which makes him an excellent pawn. What did I say? Well, this has been lovely. Can I shoot in the point blank range of my crossbow? Can yes we done with him. A point blank range of a crossbow is a disappointed too.

That's. Fine, we're done with him. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to shoot him with my crossbow. Take the Moss public. Can I just stab him with a tiger? Yeah. I I I Right. And that'll be next turn. For now, it's turn one of the escape from the house. So the house is on fire. OK, here is how this is going to work. Your role initiative. At the beginning of each round, you will all make a con save. If you fail, you'll have disadvantage on whatever cheques you have to make during this round because you're choking on smoke and being burnt by fire or whatever.

Right. Let's put that we want roll initiative. OK cuz I'm not dirty. 20, not 20. Ick here at the bottom of the cellar, you'd stab him and you literally you just like, fuck this. Just stab him in the side of the head like 20. Yeah, that's your initiative. OK. Do I have to roll to stab? Him you have you can roll to attack him. First of all, roll a constitution, say. 6. Can you fail so you start immediately choking on smoke billows down the stairs so any check you make attacks as Joey's going to be.

A disadvantage? So you can attack him a disadvisory of a down there. I rolled 11 twice. That was still here, yeah. He's not wearing any other so you just stab him in the side of the throat and smirks as he dies. OK, I grab the mask, cool and run. Run up the stairs. Yeah, you get to the top of the stairs. Yeah. Good, Right, Belt. You're in a hallway making Constitution safe. Wow. Well, OK, the whole house is ablaze. Flames lick up the walls and smoke billows throughout the halls. Beams and bricks fall from the walls.

The front door is dirty fish away but it's blocked by debris. The only way out is to go up the stairs or down the hall through the kitchen, which you have figured out a rough floor plan when you were looking for the setup. The stairs are 30 foot from the door, the kitchen is 60 foot. So you get to decide which way you're going to go. Ah, stairs. Cool. So you head to the stairs, so that's 30 foot. The stairs are closer, so it's 30 foot, 30 foot. You get to the stairs, roll a default 2, make your deck stair at your side.

9. Cool. You take two damage as flaming like floorboards or whatever fall from above you and sort of like catch you in the back. You get hit by flaming debris and you take some damage, but you get to the bottom of the stairs. Riff, make the Constitution safe 17. OK, you pass, you're good. So you kind of like cough, but cover your face and you're able to sort of keep your wits about you. The front door is blocked by like debris completely. There's no getting through that. Bell heads up towards the flight of stairs.

The downstairs door is further away and there isn't as much smoke and stuff, whereas upstairs there is more smoke. You can see flames starting to rise but it's closer. The stairs are closer. Which way would you like to go? Is there? Is there a window I can see? It's not a window. I can't see outside at all. No, you're in essentially like a hallway. You're in the middle of the house. You can see essentially like to the down the hall, you can see they go through the kitchen. You can see like a door that leads outside.

It's just further away. OK, so I'm going to move to the stairs. Yep. Cool. Yeah, 30 foot to the stairs roll AD 4/4 no issues. Thanks. Fucker what? What does it look like upstairs? Flamy Yeah, flames are starting to to go up the stairs. You can see flames catching the hallway at the top. What's the? What's the plan upstairs? Is there a way out like a balcony or something? Figure that out when we get up the stairs. Find a window. Jump out the window, I'll drive him into the. Falling through the window someone.

You're right. Yep. Constitution Save. 14. OK, you're OK. So you're in the same place that they were just now. Yes, You get. You get to the top of the cellar and you look one way. You can see basically down a hallway to a door that leads outside, which doesn't look quite as fiery, but it is further away and you can see Bell and Riv standing at the bottom of the flight stairs. I'm going the other way, the way that's not as fiery. It's further, but it's not on fire yet. So you go 30 foot, make AD roller default 3 and make a constitution save.

13. OK, you're all right. As you start to go down there, there's like a cloud of smoke explodes in front of you, but you're able to like, shield your eyes and you're OK Bell, you're at the bottom of the stairs. Make your Constitution safe. 14. OK, you're good. The stairs are starting to burn and some steps are cracking and collapsing on the foot, but it takes a turn to get to the top of them. Essentially roll AD 4. Yeah, OK. So it just wants me to suffer. As you start climbing the stairs, one of the steps collapses on the foot.

Make a Dexterity saving throw. 15. A step collapses on the foot as you're going up, but you're able to do it, like hop up to the next one and just about scramble up to the top. You get to the top of the landing. Can I spend a combat superiority die and we'll try to lunge further down the hallway? What's the wording of lunge? Do you? Presumably you have to make it. Sound like you're just bullshitting. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 superior light and take the Dash action. Yeah, you don't need to attack.

Yeah, you can absolutely do that. Right. Cool. And that's. Cool. Yeah, you Sprint. Down the landing then and make another D4. 1. No issue. You Sprint down the landing, riff, you're up. You're at the bottom of the stairs. You just see bell hop from collapsing step to collapsing step and then dash down the corridor. Nailed it. OK, I've. Got a bonus actually. Misty step. OK, to the top stairs. Fucking smart. Good, right? Fucking. What excellent. See. Ya. I'm out top of the stairs. Make your constitution safe though.

That's. Rude. So it's trying to dodge my thing that's sweating. OK, you're good. Yeah. Turning into mist helps with smoke. You are one with the smoke. You appear at the top of the stairs, Yeah, and it's the bell as he sprints away. OK, I'm gonna also move 30 feet. Yep. Beg a default check. 51. One is no problem, 4 would have been. Suddenly we like it on the floor. Yeah, whatever. Right. So 30 foot, you're halfway down the corridor. Yeah, right. What is in front of me? Basically you've got lines of doors outside and you can see straight ahead of you.

A bit like downstairs there is a bedroom and office, a study, something, but there is a window at the. Far end beautiful right? And then as my action, I'm gonna cast a. Magic Missile. Right at the window. Nice, sweet. Yeah, hope to smash. It. Yeah, yeah. No, no, no. You smashed the window, Dick. You're up, right? I go, hey. Make a constitution, say. 16. OK, you're good. I'm. Gonna move that. 60 foot, so essentially a full action and a dash action to get to the end of this hallway, if that's what you want to do, yeah, you're gonna do that.

Or AD 4 there is a lot of explosion of fire goes up and make a constitution save. 21. Nice. OK, you take 3 burning damage, you get cinched as you run down this corridor and you get a bonus. Actually run again. Yeah, yeah, so full action run again. Yeah, cool. They can have a default or roll another default.

It's a cool trick. As. You look rather than putting your. Face down the corridor. I thought deaf motherfucker appears again. You are just as you reach the kitchen, as you cross the doorway, a figure with a bronze mask. I just stick my fucking fist. Out in front of you. Just close like. Here's your action to get there. OK, Bell, you get to the top of the. Stairs. I know what I'm going. To do you make your way halfway down, and as you're halfway down rib, you see these magic darts explode the window ahead of you and you have your your heading.

Thank you. It's. A #30 foot away, make a constitution save. 2020. Cool, you're fine. So you make your way down the hallway, roll AD 42, flames hot, make a make a constitution safe 18. OK, you're fine. Flames lick up at you, but you manage to dodge out of the way. You are basically at the doorway to this bedroom. Go on, lunge again. Yep, you can lunge across the room towards the window. Make another D4 check to see what happens as you cross the room. Four, make a strength check. 20. You go into the room and as you as you enter the room you get that like full fire blah like backdrafting but you pass to say you for as you walk in with the print still on your shoulders you feel air rushed towards you.

But you managed to like keep your ground as you cross and you get to the window. But that's a bonus action is the lunge. So you're now at the window. You still have an action. I do a quick check out. Quick. Yeah, quick perception. Check out the window, see what's immediately beneath it. That's 11. You think I'd have written what was outside the window? I'm sure I did. Apparently I stopped writing here. Can I use tactile mind that gives me a + 1 D 10 on on a bed at your check? OK. 13. As you look out the window, there is like a sort of like fairly shallow looking sort of like pool or pond or something like below.

It's quite a distance away. There's shrubs, kind of like lining it. There's a couple of like relatively tall trees. You could probably jump to one of them. You could probably jump to the pool, but it looks pretty shallow. You could land in a hedge. All of these things probably seem better than dying in a fire. Because they're like trellises or anything outside the houses. It's not my question, sorry take. A. Quick I take a look at the window, take a quick glass behind me. I while the Prince is on my shoulders.

I jump out of the window and as we're falling I swing him down for my shoulder into like a cradling position and I try and make sure that we land on my back so I take the full block. Into into the pool or. What I'm aiming for the pool. Make a Make an athletics check. God, I wish I had for the full. Man 18. Yeah, you're alright. Yeah, +7. As you duck out of the window, as you pull the prints around 1 foot on the frame and just launch yourself cradling the print and you splash into this pool rib, you're up.

You've just seen Bell launch himself through the window. I'm going to book it to the window. And make a constitution safe. To the windows to the Door, 1819. 2020. 120. 20 because you're. Fucking out. You are all passing the initial constitution today. Just so annoying. Yeah, you get to the door, so make a default. Yeah, make a stroke safe. I just got the prints out. Don't make me come back in. Oh no. And 11. Yeah. So as you get to the room, you're kind of like standing there with Bell as there's this backdraft and you get knocked to the ground and you take 6 points of blossoming damage.

OK all. Right, it's. Not too. Bad. You're prone. That's the. Returns return. Wait.

You're prone. Oh wow, so you're going to attack Ick with a Scimitar 17 That is 10 damage. OK. That's one, Michael. Yep, that's your turn. OK, I'm gonna use a command. OK, gonna use. No, no, he's already naked. He's exactly where I want him to be. Yeah, I use command and I say freeze and I take the mark off mask off his face and I. Book it. OK, cool. Yeah. You take the mask off its face, Yeah, and it crumples into like dust. Like they. Take fucking mask. Yeah, right it. Runs to the door. I've got wrong constitution.

Yep. 15. Yeah, you're OK, Just you just make it, you get to the door and it isn't locked. OK, it's no problem. It's no problem. Run the fuck through. Do you have thieves tools?

I have a forgery kit. I have a chance. You can breakthrough the door. Yeah, I'm going. To on your turn belt, you're up, you are in the pool, you were safe. Make a perception check. You took damage. Right, he landed in a pool of water. It's shut. Yeah, I know. You know you're superhero. It's action movie rules. OK. 17. You can see the kitchen door, and you can sit clearly make out through the panes of glass the hulking Finger Grassley right in the doorknob. How far away is the kitchen door? You can make it to the door.

OK, I pull out my great sword and I swing at the door. Go. I miss. It's a really tricky door. It's on fire. It's scary. Fuck you, Grace. It didn't know it just takes 5 damage. Oh. OK, the door is fucked up. It's still there. It's still, it's still standing, but it's hurt. It winces.

Oh, you wound me, Sir. So I spent half my room to get out. How far away is the window? That's. Annoying. I'm going to be 50 feet and then what can I see outside? Yeah, you make a perception check. You're going to misty step outside the window and just fall down into a tree just. Misty step into a tree. Yeah, you can see like some tall trees outside the window. Perfect. Just a nice. I'm going to are. They tall trees I'm not going to have trouble getting down. No, I. Mean you watch bell Stefanos like torpedo through the.

Windows there's probably. Something fine down there. I'm gonna chug my potion of climbing nice, so I have. Yes. OK, good. I'm. Gonna misty step to a tree. Yep. And then I'm gonna climb the fuck down. Awesome. Aggressively. The door is fucked up. I'm just. Gonna bust my way out I think. Cool weapon or just strength? Shoulder barge the door. Shoulder barge. I'll let you do it at advantage because the bell hit it in. 10. OK, yeah, he's door is hot back you're up. I swing again at the door. Mix beats 15.

15 yes damage this door otherwise. I'm going. Seven point slash. Yes, he smashed his door open. Air rushes in. You were able to escape? Yeah. You guys stand in the garden, turn around, and face the burning mansion of Hyper Turn. Boy do I have some shit to tell you guys. And that is where we'll end the episode. God damn. Oh, quite a long one for the return, but I thought it was worth it. He pulled his weight. Yeah, fucking persuasion cheques and stuff when he's being mind controlled and maybe he's trying to fuck with you.

Maybe we'll see all. Right, that was. There's a lot of information you divulged though. That was generally. Such a good session. Yeah, I, I. What a way to kick. Off and you're excited to bring it back so. On edge, right? We had some genuine aha moments as well. Like yeah, I can. Do it. Well, you actually don't know that because I haven't told you yet. No, we don't figure it out. It was exciting. It was exciting in the time, in the moment, it was great. It's really exciting. OK, thank you all for listening.

Like, great subscribe if you're one of the people who have recently seen us on Reddit from the hundreds of pages I've posted us to Hi, welcome and. Thank you. And thank you. Cheers. Absolutely a labour of love wearing. That on my happy. New year, Yeah, I have fun. I hope everyone else had fun. Great time, yes. See. e-mail us at 609-d&[email protected]. Hit us up at Instagram 609 D&D. We don't really don't really have any. What? So when you're typing it, you really have to put the OR in. It's not 69, it is definitely.

No, the 69 D&D thing I run is very different. It's got a lot more content on it, yeah. And it's also got a paywall. So it don't. It's very heavily paywalled. I make a lot more money. Off. Of selling pictures of Bell Selfless. Not fucking deviant. If we had a was it roll 34 or something 64, yeah, if. We 34, we have a roll. 34 page rebel Cephalus. I think we've made it. Yeah, you. Could call it roll 34. Roll 34 right, it's not somebody get on that I'm. Not doing that. You can have all of the money, I just want to know exists.

So sort that out and we will meet you here next time. Goodbye. Bye, bye, happy New Year. Because Carl has that, I think. It's numeracy. When you write nines on the charts at work. I've been told. They look like little sideways tadpoles. Oh, cute. Yeah, it's cute. You're a nine right now. I'm curious. Fucking don't. That's a nine. That's clearly a nine. If you wrote that on a board full of numbers, I'd identify that as a nine.

I wouldn't. How do you actually write it? It's clearly, clearly musical notation. Shit like how he's written 49 tadpole and look, as someone who doesn't do sentence structures, I can't talk, OK? As someone who can barely read, I can tell you that That said 49. I think it's adorable and it's not. It wasn't my comment. Yeah, I missed out the bit where you were singing the Rainbow song, but started early enough that we heard and Alex admit that she didn't know what blue was. I know Blue, there's just so many of them.

Welcome. I didn't even need to interrupt. It's. Really annoying what people they trust you when you're doing an intro, isn't it? I know it's. Annoying. Have you missed this? I've brought this on myself. It's annoying. OK, it's all right. I'm so annoying. Eventually I'll start it properly and then I'll cut it all out. There's nothing more annoying than. Right. You can stop that or I'm going to leave the bit where you say racist things about the Filipinos at the end. That's bad on all of us. I'm going to No, no, no.

We all say what you're talking about. And she says. No, what we're going to do is not have any of this bit. We can start. OK, I'll do the countdown. Why start five? You don't need to start 5. Stop interrupting, you can do. I thought we were doing something else.

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