(The Secret World): MSL-North: Tha Boyz - Episode 14: Anima Search Part 1

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[00:00:08] Time to learn the truth boys and girls, in the 30s prime minister King kickstarted a hedge fund for investigating and hunting various paranormal phenomena.

[00:00:18] Now fast forward along the line of mysteries blood and maple syrup money throughout the 20th century

[00:00:25] and you find numerous groups across the country, unified under a loose collective,

[00:00:31] hunting strange creatures and tackling paranormal threats for profit.

[00:00:36] Don't believe the lies by the so-called news networks.

[00:00:40] The secret world is real.

[00:00:42] Here there be monsters.

[00:00:43] And the Monster Slayers League, north of the American border, is out there.

[00:00:49] Even out in Newfoundland, there's word of a new team known only as the Byes.

[00:00:53] And don't even get me started on the...

[00:01:00] Hi, welcome to One Less Die, a secret world actual play podcast.

[00:01:04] We are continuing our secret world campaign, The Boys, the Monster Slayers League, north Newfoundland edition.

[00:01:13] Hold on.

[00:01:15] Another thing about feather toe.

[00:01:17] I was walking deep across this table, Sarah.

[00:01:20] Also, I've been looking at magical items and I saw the quorms thing.

[00:01:25] I hate you.

[00:01:26] Chris, you're making this worse.

[00:01:28] I could have just laughed and said I hate you.

[00:01:29] I know.

[00:01:30] Don't actually try to.

[00:01:31] Yeah, no, I'm done.

[00:01:32] That's all I do.

[00:01:34] Well, then I'm curious.

[00:01:35] No.

[00:01:35] I hate you, honestly.

[00:01:38] I'm not.

[00:01:39] I don't care.

[00:01:40] Yeah, I know you don't.

[00:01:41] I was hoping that the reverse psychology would have worked and he told us.

[00:01:45] Yeah.

[00:01:46] All right, so when last we left off, actually, I guess, before we get too far ahead of ourselves,

[00:01:54] let's introduce characters.

[00:01:56] Starting on the left.

[00:01:58] Aaron.

[00:01:58] Or I guess ahead of me, Aaron.

[00:02:02] Hi, I'm Jacob Blackstone.

[00:02:05] I am a Magus.

[00:02:09] You can call yourself a wizard.

[00:02:12] I'm from the Innsmouth Academy.

[00:02:15] And I'm a Templar.

[00:02:17] And secretly undead.

[00:02:19] But the guys don't know that yet.

[00:02:20] I'm sorry.

[00:02:24] And I wear a yellow raincoat.

[00:02:26] And apparently I have a big beard.

[00:02:29] Because in the original session, he basically described himself as Merit.

[00:02:37] With like a big beard with some little fiddly bits like braiding and stuff like that.

[00:02:42] It's just food.

[00:02:45] You're saving it for later.

[00:02:49] And I have a familiar.

[00:02:52] It is a canary.

[00:02:55] That is the form that it seems to take the most often.

[00:02:58] Yep.

[00:02:59] Yep.

[00:03:01] And a little clay golem thing.

[00:03:05] We haven't seen that in a while.

[00:03:07] It's been a while.

[00:03:08] It's always around.

[00:03:09] I just don't use it for much.

[00:03:10] It walks around with you all the time?

[00:03:12] Yeah.

[00:03:13] Usually I have it in a bag.

[00:03:15] Okay.

[00:03:16] It's not like evidence bag.

[00:03:18] No, I have it in one of those cat carrier backpacks.

[00:03:21] Oh, I was going to say.

[00:03:22] Yeah, it could be a backpack while you run.

[00:03:24] Yeah.

[00:03:24] Yeah.

[00:03:25] His name is Yoda.

[00:03:26] I'm also realizing it's probably like one of those little shems that you can get as a pet

[00:03:30] that like follows you around in the actual MMO.

[00:03:33] Well, the canary's name is Quill and the golem's name is Clayton.

[00:03:40] Right.

[00:03:41] I thought you were going to go with Peter.

[00:03:42] It was Peter Quill.

[00:03:44] No.

[00:03:45] No.

[00:03:45] It was because I actually had him first and he was made of clay.

[00:03:49] I named him before I named Quill.

[00:03:51] Gotcha.

[00:03:52] Yeah.

[00:03:53] Rip, Peter.

[00:03:58] What else do you want to know?

[00:03:59] That's it.

[00:04:00] Okay.

[00:04:01] Like description like of your, what do you look like?

[00:04:04] I guess like we got like your beard.

[00:04:06] I wear a raincoat.

[00:04:07] Carry a Tokarev.

[00:04:11] Okay.

[00:04:11] Fair enough.

[00:04:12] What is your magical immolent?

[00:04:14] Sorry, my what?

[00:04:15] Your magical immolent.

[00:04:16] Do you have one?

[00:04:19] When I'm an elementalist, I do.

[00:04:22] So you don't is what you're saying.

[00:04:25] Yeah.

[00:04:26] Don't.

[00:04:27] Oh, my, my collapsible double-ended cane works as an implement for some of my spells.

[00:04:37] Okay.

[00:04:38] Okay.

[00:04:38] Because this entire time, I've just been seeing you do Hadoukens.

[00:04:41] Just with your bare hands.

[00:04:43] Yes.

[00:04:43] Because I've done that twice.

[00:04:46] That's true.

[00:04:46] Most of the time you're just polymorph.

[00:04:48] Never mind.

[00:04:50] Yeah.

[00:04:50] Never mind.

[00:04:52] All right.

[00:04:53] And next up, we have Dave.

[00:04:54] That's me.

[00:04:55] I'm John Deere.

[00:04:55] No relation.

[00:04:56] I am an ex-con who may or may not have ripped off multiple banks and may or may not be guilty

[00:05:03] or not.

[00:05:04] Went to prison, got shanked, woke up in the incinerator, burned to death, then decided to

[00:05:11] not take the quick exit route from being dead and just waited my time out to respawn in the

[00:05:18] Gartha.

[00:05:19] Yeah.

[00:05:19] And, um, yeah.

[00:05:21] And then discovered that crazy world.

[00:05:24] Crazy secret world.

[00:05:27] Visually, buzz cut, goatee, plaid shirt.

[00:05:33] So, so you?

[00:05:34] Basically me.

[00:05:35] Yeah.

[00:05:35] For simplicity's sake, yeah.

[00:05:36] Yeah.

[00:05:37] And now the audience knows what you look like in real life.

[00:05:39] Oh, no.

[00:05:42] I've never made a character that looks like me.

[00:05:44] Never.

[00:05:44] No.

[00:05:44] No.

[00:05:44] Certainly not made a character that's basically your name just reversed.

[00:05:47] No, never.

[00:05:48] Never.

[00:05:48] Yeah, my first name's Deer.

[00:05:50] Yeah.

[00:05:53] All right.

[00:05:53] Yeah.

[00:05:54] I have a G11 and I have a, uh...

[00:05:56] A retractable bayonet or laser thing?

[00:05:58] Yeah, the retractable bayonet on it.

[00:05:59] And I also have a AR-57 with a grenade launcher on it that I haven't used in a while because

[00:06:04] I have the G11 now.

[00:06:06] And now that's the G11 wing.

[00:06:08] Nothing else matters.

[00:06:09] I mean, yeah.

[00:06:10] The 5-7 with the brass catcher is the mags pretty cool, though.

[00:06:12] Mm-hmm.

[00:06:13] It was very, it was handy when you guys are dealing with, like, when you have to, like,

[00:06:16] when you're having to collect your brass.

[00:06:19] Yeah, I got tired of doing that.

[00:06:19] Oh, that's the one that uses the P90 mags?

[00:06:21] Yes.

[00:06:21] Yeah, okay.

[00:06:22] Mm-hmm.

[00:06:24] Okay.

[00:06:25] And last but not least, we have Merit.

[00:06:27] I'm playing, uh, Marcel Landry, uh, ex-Marine MP.

[00:06:34] Um, watch the secret world under unfortunate circumstances.

[00:06:38] Um, 6'5", 300 pounds, square-jawed, flat-topped, you know, a Marine.

[00:06:45] I am a real American!

[00:06:49] And that's all I can sing in that song, because it's not right.

[00:06:53] You're basically going to start a pit.

[00:06:55] Yes, pretty much.

[00:06:56] Yeah.

[00:06:57] But French.

[00:06:58] Oh, ho, ho, ho.

[00:06:59] Yeah, yeah, well, you're French-Americans.

[00:07:01] Yeah, Louisiana.

[00:07:02] Yeah.

[00:07:02] Right?

[00:07:03] Yeah.

[00:07:03] That's why they sent me up here, because I got all the languages necessary for Canada.

[00:07:06] Yeah.

[00:07:07] English, English for most, French for some, Arabic for Toronto.

[00:07:12] Yeah.

[00:07:13] Yeah, not much.

[00:07:16] All right.

[00:07:17] Um, and yeah, last we left off, you guys were finishing up your totally normal moose hunt,

[00:07:25] getting back to, uh, back to base, and planning out this, uh, this little side thing that came

[00:07:31] out of, like, that you guys, that came out of, uh, the moose hunt, uh, where you have

[00:07:34] to help properly, uh, you have to find a powerful enough, uh, source of, of anima to

[00:07:41] cleanse a corrupted, um, dimensional pocket.

[00:07:46] Uh, we've got to get enough of an anima to blow the filth out of that hole.

[00:07:52] Yeah.

[00:07:53] Yeah.

[00:07:53] He's not wrong, unfortunately.

[00:07:56] Um, and you guys all, from your various backgrounds, had, like, different ideas, and I think you

[00:08:02] guys all decided to travel down to Solomon Island and, uh, either seek out, um, seek out

[00:08:11] information from Innsmouth Academy itself.

[00:08:13] Talk, see if you can track down and talk to the Sasquatches of Solomon Island, because

[00:08:18] you know, uh, because, um, because you know there's a clan down there.

[00:08:21] And, or talk to the fortune teller in Kingsmouth, the local fishing town in, on Solomon Island,

[00:08:29] that might be able to help you find, um, uh, this person, anima, who, ten years prior,

[00:08:36] cleansed an entire region of Tokyo of filth.

[00:08:41] If all that goes sour, we're going to Egypt to talk to some mummies.

[00:08:43] Yeah.

[00:08:45] As an absolute backup plan.

[00:08:46] If that doesn't work, then the Templar's just going to nukate it.

[00:08:49] Yeah, if it doesn't work, then you're basically, yeah, then it's all down to handing it over

[00:08:54] to the Templar, getting a paycheck, but then ultimately the world is a little bit darker.

[00:08:59] Pretty much.

[00:09:00] If we just keep rolling ones today.

[00:09:01] It's weird.

[00:09:02] He doesn't look Egyptian, but his mummy's there.

[00:09:04] He does walk like Egyptian.

[00:09:08] Like, all the time?

[00:09:10] Yeah.

[00:09:12] That is his one dance move.

[00:09:14] Yeah.

[00:09:15] Mm-hmm.

[00:09:15] Um, so how are you getting down to Solomon Island?

[00:09:19] You taking the Agartha route, or are you taking the, uh, uh, you taking the, um, what's

[00:09:24] the, what's your, what's your, um, the hind?

[00:09:27] Yeah, what's the hind?

[00:09:28] Oh, no, the behind.

[00:09:29] Right, yeah.

[00:09:29] The behind.

[00:09:30] The behind.

[00:09:30] Did we call it the behind?

[00:09:32] Yeah, I think we did.

[00:09:33] I don't recall this.

[00:09:34] It might have been unofficial.

[00:09:37] That's just what I'm calling it now.

[00:09:39] Chris's head cannon, and it just stuck.

[00:09:41] Yeah.

[00:09:42] Okay.

[00:09:43] All right, sure.

[00:09:43] The behind.

[00:09:45] I mean, you're a bunch of bees, and you own the hind.

[00:09:48] How far is it?

[00:09:49] Uh, I was about to say the behind.

[00:09:52] Um, Solomon Island is a basic, is basically Bar Harbor in Maine.

[00:09:57] Not for you.

[00:09:57] So, give me a second.

[00:09:58] I can ask them along, Phil.

[00:10:00] St. John's.

[00:10:03] I actually should have looked this up, because I have a refill in New Brunswick somewhere.

[00:10:07] Or we just use the free teleportation of Agartha.

[00:10:09] I mean, you still, you have to, you have to pay the, uh, the Banshee and, like, get a bottle

[00:10:14] of whiskey and a bottle of, uh.

[00:10:15] That might be cheaper than gas for the hind.

[00:10:19] I mean, definitely.

[00:10:20] But then once we get there, we'll still have a hind.

[00:10:23] Yeah, fair.

[00:10:23] As opposed to being on foot.

[00:10:24] Yeah, that is true.

[00:10:33] And since motorcycles fit on the hind, we'll have bikes in.

[00:10:38] Yeah.

[00:10:39] Oh, that's true, yeah.

[00:10:40] At Innsmouth.

[00:10:43] Um, yeah, it's pretty far away.

[00:10:46] I'd say it's probably like, it's gonna probably be like five, six hours.

[00:10:52] Just one of those little smart four twos.

[00:10:59] But I won't fit in it.

[00:11:00] True.

[00:11:01] As a dog.

[00:11:01] I also won't fit in it as a human.

[00:11:05] So five, six hours in the hind?

[00:11:07] Yeah, about five or six hours.

[00:11:08] All right.

[00:11:08] Uh, if you guys take the hind.

[00:11:09] Because it's about basically half a day of travel.

[00:11:12] Are you calculating that by how long it takes to drive?

[00:11:14] No, I, I'm also, like, I was going to try and find the ruler, uh, tool in Google Maps.

[00:11:18] But I just decided, fuck it.

[00:11:19] I'm just gonna give you guys a rough estimate.

[00:11:20] Okay, fair.

[00:11:22] We don't have to, we don't have to go super in-depth on, like, how long it takes you guys to travel.

[00:11:27] Um, so yeah, we'll take you guys about half a day through, uh, via behind or...

[00:11:33] How pressing is this?

[00:11:34] Is the filth gonna break out at any moment?

[00:11:36] No, like, um, the, the moose squatches, they've set up wards and stuff around, like, to contain the, the phantom ravine.

[00:11:43] Um, you guys probably have, like, a, at least, um, about a week at most.

[00:11:49] Yeah, we'll just fly.

[00:11:51] Yeah.

[00:11:51] Before they, before their defenses go down and then you guys have to...

[00:11:55] But if you talk to the, maybe the sasquatches down south have, like, some stronger resources.

[00:12:01] But, um, okay, so, um, are you guys, so you guys meet, heading back across Newfoundland,

[00:12:07] drop off your, uh, your, uh, your girlfriends and whatnot.

[00:12:11] And, uh, and your, uh, your, your trophies, like the, the moose and the, the, the panther

[00:12:16] and the, uh, the, the moose antlers from, uh, from the BBEG.

[00:12:22] Yeah.

[00:12:22] Yeah.

[00:12:23] Oh, I guess also you could use the horns of the, uh, of the dart one.

[00:12:26] Yes.

[00:12:27] Yeah.

[00:12:28] We will at some point met those online.

[00:12:30] Yeah.

[00:12:30] We were either gonna put them on the front or make them, like, corax inside.

[00:12:35] Yeah.

[00:12:35] For maximum amount of...

[00:12:37] Insulting.

[00:12:38] Insulting, yeah.

[00:12:40] Disrespect.

[00:12:41] Are you guys telling, like, Jack, um, uh, like, back at headquarters, like, what you

[00:12:46] guys are doing?

[00:12:47] It's like, he's like, I thought you guys would be back.

[00:12:49] Like, it's only Saturday when you guys get back.

[00:12:52] We banged a moose for our tags.

[00:12:54] Oh.

[00:12:54] We banged a moose, a cougar, and a, uh...

[00:12:57] Where?

[00:12:58] Cougars?

[00:12:59] There's no, there's no, there's no, there's no big cats in Newfoundland.

[00:13:04] Except for the, except for the old ladies.

[00:13:08] Well, I'm gonna be walking in carrying that thing over my shoulder.

[00:13:10] Yeah.

[00:13:11] I was gonna say, we either have a picture or we have the...

[00:13:13] As you just, as you walk in, it's like, holy shit.

[00:13:16] And we got a black bear.

[00:13:19] Wow.

[00:13:19] We got no tags left.

[00:13:21] All right.

[00:13:22] Um.

[00:13:22] I may have pissed off a cat god.

[00:13:26] Right.

[00:13:27] The Halloween incident.

[00:13:28] Felix.

[00:13:29] Yeah.

[00:13:30] Eruse.

[00:13:32] Felix the cat.

[00:13:32] I expect this will continue to happen.

[00:13:34] I'm sure it's the last time you get.

[00:13:38] Could be lucrative, though.

[00:13:40] We'll see.

[00:13:42] Yeah, man.

[00:13:42] Could also be, uh, another, uh, hundred and a life lost.

[00:13:48] But, uh, yeah, so, so, uh, I guess, uh, you guys, uh, just, like, came back and just

[00:13:54] calling it a day.

[00:13:54] You wanna go down to George Street or something like that?

[00:13:57] Uh, no, we're gonna make a trip down to my alma mater.

[00:14:01] Okay.

[00:14:02] Um, are you taking the hind or are you taking the Agartha ways?

[00:14:08] Uh, no to Agartha.

[00:14:11] We're gonna, you know, ride my behind.

[00:14:16] We're gonna rough it out like mundane's.

[00:14:19] In our hind.

[00:14:21] Yeah.

[00:14:22] Really rough it out.

[00:14:24] Yeah, really are.

[00:14:25] In our invisible helicopter.

[00:14:27] It doesn't have the argument.

[00:14:32] Okay, well, uh, all right, um, are we actually gonna tell him what happened?

[00:14:38] No.

[00:14:38] Okay.

[00:14:39] Yeah.

[00:14:39] All right, well, you guys still got the week or so until, until something, uh, something

[00:14:43] comes up, so, uh, enjoy your vacation.

[00:14:47] Yeah.

[00:14:48] Have fun.

[00:14:49] Okay.

[00:14:50] Sure, let me know when the vacation starts.

[00:14:52] Yeah.

[00:14:53] We had a night of vacation, I suppose, yes.

[00:14:57] You should, look how you killed.

[00:14:59] You killed the black bear, right?

[00:15:00] Yeah.

[00:15:01] Yeah.

[00:15:01] You killed a black bear.

[00:15:02] Yeah.

[00:15:03] And then you used your mole on it.

[00:15:06] Yeah.

[00:15:07] Okay.

[00:15:08] I didn't even share.

[00:15:08] I just strangled him.

[00:15:09] Um, I guess your, uh, your, uh, blood genie waifu is, uh, going to go back to Transylvania?

[00:15:15] Yeah, I think she's taking the, uh, taking the cat with her.

[00:15:19] Oh, okay.

[00:15:19] Yeah, she, okay, yeah, sure.

[00:15:21] Can you get that doll cleaned up for me?

[00:15:23] Yeah.

[00:15:23] Yeah.

[00:15:24] Don't worry, huh.

[00:15:25] Can I get some cat jerky?

[00:15:27] Yeah.

[00:15:28] Um, and then, uh, Jack, like, it was like, Phil will drive her out, or will take her out

[00:15:32] to the, um, the Agartha portal and stuff like that.

[00:15:35] Um, thanks, Phil.

[00:15:37] No, no problem.

[00:15:38] Oh, Phil.

[00:15:39] And then, uh, uh, I guess Sharon Seda, um, she's like, so, uh, should I get checked out?

[00:15:47] Because, uh, like, cause, like, like, she's like, she knows that you guys aren't saying

[00:15:50] anything in the jackets.

[00:15:51] Should I get checked out about the, like, like, I'm all, I'm not tainted or anything like that

[00:15:55] from the Phil stuff, right?

[00:15:56] Are we sure?

[00:15:58] Yeah, you, uh, you, oh, check.

[00:16:00] You roll Arcana or a medicine?

[00:16:03] Ugh.

[00:16:04] Let's examine her filthy taint.

[00:16:07] Don't.

[00:16:07] I'm going to go in the other room.

[00:16:11] You're also not wrong in that wording.

[00:16:14] I blame this secret world for naming it the Phil.

[00:16:16] I mean, it's an appropriate name.

[00:16:20] Yeah.

[00:16:22] Oh.

[00:16:23] We're just immature.

[00:16:24] Be fair.

[00:16:25] And it's, uh, 23.

[00:16:30] 23?

[00:16:31] Yeah, you're, you're pretty sure you don't sense any, um, you don't, you're not able to,

[00:16:36] like, find any trace of, of, uh, Phil left on her.

[00:16:39] She's, she's been cleansed.

[00:16:41] Okay.

[00:16:42] Um, from the previous, uh, from various magics and stuff that you guys used back out in the,

[00:16:46] uh, at the Phantom Ravine.

[00:16:48] So, uh, from hitting her over and over again.

[00:16:51] What's that, Cantrip?

[00:16:52] Secret Flame.

[00:16:53] Yeah.

[00:16:54] Secret Flame.

[00:16:54] Okay.

[00:16:55] And also good berries and healing.

[00:16:57] Yeah.

[00:16:58] To counteract the damage of Secret Flame.

[00:17:00] Mm-hmm.

[00:17:01] Uh, I'm just picturing your fucking Skyrim character with that, like, burning hands and healing and just,

[00:17:07] like, pretty much.

[00:17:08] Yeah.

[00:17:09] Just healing and hurting at the same time.

[00:17:11] Yeah.

[00:17:11] Because you heal for, like, uh, I could channel both of those spells simultaneously for eight hours.

[00:17:27] Jesus.

[00:17:28] Jesus.

[00:17:28] I left the house and went on a five-hour walk with Nathan.

[00:17:33] Wow.

[00:17:34] And came back, and I was still only, like, I had a third of my mana left.

[00:17:39] Wow.

[00:17:39] God damn.

[00:17:41] Remember, though, if it lasts any more than eight hours, you should consult your, uh,

[00:17:44] physician.

[00:17:44] Or, you're wizard, probably.

[00:17:46] Yeah.

[00:17:46] You're master.

[00:17:47] Yeah.

[00:17:47] You're artificer.

[00:17:48] Yeah.

[00:17:50] All right.

[00:17:51] Or, I guess, an enchanter.

[00:17:52] Whatever.

[00:17:52] Um, and my destruction and restoration had both gone up by, like, 15.

[00:17:57] Nice.

[00:17:57] Which is pretty good.

[00:17:58] It's from you just going, like, this for days.

[00:18:01] Yep.

[00:18:02] Um, are you going to inform somebody at Innsmouth that you're coming in hot with a hind?

[00:18:07] No, we're just going to land on the roof.

[00:18:09] I mean, they might be used to that.

[00:18:11] They won't see us coming.

[00:18:12] That's true.

[00:18:13] Uh, actually, we'll get there.

[00:18:16] Realistically, though.

[00:18:16] They'll see me coming because I want them to.

[00:18:19] God damn it.

[00:18:20] Are you just going to, like, leave that as a surprise?

[00:18:23] Like, a surprise?

[00:18:23] Yeah, we'll leave it as a surprise.

[00:18:25] Get close.

[00:18:26] So you see the A-A guns come out of the lawn.

[00:18:29] Like, runes start, like, sparkling over there.

[00:18:31] It's like...

[00:18:33] Oh, shit.

[00:18:34] Magic missile.

[00:18:36] Yeah, literally.

[00:18:37] Magic missiles.

[00:18:38] Triple A, you had a magic missile?

[00:18:40] Yeah.

[00:18:41] Anti-air magic missiles.

[00:18:43] I'm sorry, your hind doesn't know the shield spell?

[00:18:45] Oh, no.

[00:18:46] You get hit automatically.

[00:18:49] But, yeah, no.

[00:18:49] So you guys are traveling.

[00:18:53] Or Yuri and Yuri are on the helicopter, I think, still.

[00:18:57] Um, and they're, uh, they're taking the hind for you down to, uh, down across the, down

[00:19:01] the coast and such.

[00:19:03] Uh, and eventually you come to this large island just off the coast of Maine.

[00:19:08] Um, there's, uh, large hill, like, large, uh, large rolling hills near the center, like, kind of near the far end and center.

[00:19:16] Um, dense forests, uh, kind of just dotting it.

[00:19:20] This small town, um, very picturesque, uh, sea town, uh, on one side with a, near, uh, actually near an airstrip.

[00:19:29] And then, uh, there's the, uh, lighthouse and, uh, uh, strangely abandoned amusement park.

[00:19:38] And then, what looks like a, like, Harvard-style university, uh, like, grounds.

[00:19:43] Uh, yes.

[00:19:45] This is a question.

[00:19:45] Yes.

[00:19:46] What time does this take place in regards to the actual game?

[00:19:50] So...

[00:19:50] Is it around the same time?

[00:19:51] The Secret World, um, the, the, the tabletop RPG, and we're, we're running in.

[00:19:55] It's 10 years after the events of, um, of the, the MMO.

[00:20:01] Okay.

[00:20:01] Which take place in 2012.

[00:20:02] Okay.

[00:20:03] So, and as, uh, as of the, as of the 10 years prior, uh, now that the 10 years have gone by,

[00:20:09] um...

[00:20:09] So no one's picked up that amusement park?

[00:20:11] No, it's, it's a historical landmark at this point.

[00:20:14] Oh, I guess, yeah.

[00:20:14] The, the, the Island Heritage Society has deemed it a heritage site.

[00:20:20] Um, the, uh, there's a, there's now actually, like, a double-decker hotel, or, like, a double,

[00:20:27] a multiple, a multi-floored hotel, um, sitting where, where an old motel used to be.

[00:20:31] The Overlook is now a proper hotel rather than a motel.

[00:20:35] Is that where the demon...

[00:20:36] Yes, that's where the demon in the curriculum was.

[00:20:38] Yeah.

[00:20:38] Um, there's all, and right next to that is, like, this super dense, really abnormally tall,

[00:20:43] like, almost redwood-sized tree forest.

[00:20:46] Um, like, just kind of in, like, a glen, uh, near the, uh, like, kind of mixed in with,

[00:20:51] like, that and some small neighborhoods and stuff.

[00:20:54] Does not Harry Dresden still work there?

[00:20:57] Not Harry Dresden?

[00:20:59] Yeah.

[00:20:59] Oh, you know, yeah, he, he, uh, well, you don't know that endgame, but, yeah, he, he works

[00:21:03] at the hotel.

[00:21:04] I mean, I might have heard that he said that once.

[00:21:06] It's literally a quote from him.

[00:21:07] That's true, yeah.

[00:21:08] And he is Illuminati.

[00:21:09] Oh, no.

[00:21:10] Yeah, he is Illuminati, right?

[00:21:11] Yeah, yeah.

[00:21:12] So he, he probably has come by the school once or twice.

[00:21:15] So, yeah.

[00:21:16] Um, but yeah, so you, you would know, uh, uh, Jacob, that, uh, like, all this has happened,

[00:21:22] like, in the last 10 years.

[00:21:23] Like, the, the, the amusement park still sits abandoned even since the 80s.

[00:21:27] Um, there's a new hotel that's popped up from this derelict motel that was there, uh,

[00:21:32] called the Overlook Hotel.

[00:21:34] Um, uh, Kingsmouth has become, like, a little bit larger or a little bit more developed as a

[00:21:40] tourist, uh, with, with tourism and such.

[00:21:44] And, uh, the, the Academy still sits vigilant, teaching the next generation of wizards and

[00:21:49] for the Illuminati and the other two factions that pay.

[00:21:54] Um, yeah.

[00:21:56] Okay.

[00:21:57] Um, oh, just out of curiosity, is the, is the treehouse a historical site?

[00:22:03] It's, yeah, it's, it's somewhere in those, uh, it's somewhere in the, the, uh, the,

[00:22:08] uh, the Black Goat Woods, I think is what it's called.

[00:22:12] The, uh, where those trees are.

[00:22:14] Yeah.

[00:22:14] It's the same woods as the Sasquatch, right?

[00:22:16] No, that's where the, uh, there's, um, like, giant beetle, like, Lovecraftian beetle

[00:22:20] monsters.

[00:22:21] Oh, okay.

[00:22:22] Um.

[00:22:23] I've only been to see the Sasquatch once.

[00:22:25] Yeah, they're in the, they're in the, um, the Blue Mountains, which is, like, the, there's

[00:22:28] three regions.

[00:22:29] There's Kingsmouth, there's the Savage Coast, which is where all, like, the 80s horror movie

[00:22:33] tropes are.

[00:22:34] And then Blue Mountain State.

[00:22:35] Yeah, and then there's the Blue Mountains, uh, which have, like, the, the indigenous reserve,

[00:22:40] reservation, the casino, the, uh, mining operations, and the Sasquatch in the, in the mountains.

[00:22:47] Of course there's a casino.

[00:22:49] Yeah.

[00:22:50] The Wigwam.

[00:22:52] I'm not joking.

[00:22:53] That's, that's in the, that's in the setting.

[00:22:56] Okay.

[00:22:56] Okay.

[00:22:57] I think it's called the Golden Wigwam.

[00:22:58] Uh, yeah.

[00:23:00] But, um, yeah, so you, uh, you're traveling, are you just, like, are you just, like, are you're

[00:23:05] parking at the, Kings Park in the, uh.

[00:23:08] Kingsmouth Airport?

[00:23:08] Or are you parking, like, up on the helipad on top of the school?

[00:23:12] Is there a helipad on top of the school?

[00:23:13] Yeah.

[00:23:14] Wait, there was a boss fight up there, wasn't there?

[00:23:15] I mean.

[00:23:16] I remember.

[00:23:16] They probably, there's probably, there's, it's a little bit of fun, like, hospital,

[00:23:20] like, academy.

[00:23:21] There's gotta be a helicopter.

[00:23:23] Yeah.

[00:23:23] I'd say we just land in the quad.

[00:23:25] I do.

[00:23:26] Let's rappel out of the helicopter directly into the sorority.

[00:23:30] Oh, damn it.

[00:23:31] Just ropes show up out of nowhere.

[00:23:33] Or would the ropes be invisible, too?

[00:23:34] Well, as you guys are approaching, if you guys are approaching the school, um, you guys

[00:23:38] get within, within about, like, 500 meters of its airspace when suddenly your cloaking

[00:23:45] decloaks.

[00:23:48] Yeah.

[00:23:49] Can we tell that from inside?

[00:23:52] Yuri was like, uh, guys, the cloak isn't working anymore.

[00:23:57] I'm genuinely curious.

[00:23:59] How does the cloaking work?

[00:23:59] Does it just do the outside, but we can see inside fine?

[00:24:03] Or is it, we see nothing?

[00:24:04] So, you can't see.

[00:24:05] I don't think we're doing Wonder Woman Invisible Jet.

[00:24:08] Yeah, no.

[00:24:08] It might be.

[00:24:08] I don't know.

[00:24:09] It's magic.

[00:24:10] Inside, you're fine.

[00:24:11] You can see everything.

[00:24:12] Okay.

[00:24:13] But if you look at the windows, you can't see, like, the front of the helicopter or anything

[00:24:16] outside.

[00:24:17] Yeah, okay.

[00:24:17] And you, you're pretty, like, you've tested it.

[00:24:20] You're pretty sure that, like, no one can actually see you even if you have the doors

[00:24:23] open until you exit the, exit the helicopter.

[00:24:27] Okay.

[00:24:27] So it's like Star Trek cloaking device.

[00:24:30] Yeah.

[00:24:31] Okay.

[00:24:31] Okay.

[00:24:32] It's magic.

[00:24:35] But yeah, it immediately decloaks as you, uh, as you approach their airspace.

[00:24:40] Um, weird.

[00:24:41] It's almost like they don't want surprise incursions from the air.

[00:24:45] Mm-hmm.

[00:24:48] No one likes surprise house guests.

[00:24:50] No.

[00:24:50] Um, but are you just part, are you, like, having Yuri drop you guys down into the quad

[00:24:54] or?

[00:24:56] Uh, I guess we should land on the actual helipad.

[00:24:59] How do we get the bikes off the track with it's on top of the screen?

[00:25:01] It's, I don't think it would be.

[00:25:03] How high is the school?

[00:25:04] It's a drive-off.

[00:25:05] It's a resource.

[00:25:06] At least for all tokens, right?

[00:25:08] We have those.

[00:25:08] No, you don't.

[00:25:09] No.

[00:25:10] We should get to those.

[00:25:13] Yes.

[00:25:14] I mean, if I ever had enough downtime between sessions, I could probably make them.

[00:25:20] To be fair, I have been giving you guys months, like a month between games.

[00:25:23] And I never think of actually making magic items in this game because the magic items that

[00:25:30] are presented in the book are very finite.

[00:25:33] Well, they're very finite, but they're very, uh, game specific.

[00:25:38] But I keep forgetting that I can also just straight make magic items from the rest of

[00:25:43] the game.

[00:25:44] Yeah.

[00:25:44] Because the game also says, like, this is just a finite list.

[00:25:48] Talk to your GM.

[00:25:49] Yeah.

[00:25:49] About adding other things.

[00:25:51] So, yeah.

[00:25:53] Um, yeah.

[00:25:54] But yeah, so I just keep forgetting that that's actually an option.

[00:25:56] But it's fine.

[00:25:57] Okay.

[00:25:58] We've been doing enough other stuff.

[00:25:59] Yeah.

[00:26:00] Uh, but yeah, so you guys land on the helipad.

[00:26:03] Also.

[00:26:04] Who needs magic when you have bullets?

[00:26:08] Ugh.

[00:26:09] Ugh.

[00:26:10] Okay.

[00:26:10] Sorry.

[00:26:11] I have a hard time saying that.

[00:26:13] Okay.

[00:26:14] Um, but yeah.

[00:26:15] And as you guys are loading out, or like, unloading off the, uh, the helicopter, um,

[00:26:21] um, the, the door to the, uh, to the, uh, the, the roof opens up.

[00:26:27] And, um, uh, there's a, a gentleman there, um, not, uh, not, not Headmaster, uh, Montag.

[00:26:34] Um, it looks to be like, um, uh, just like another, an agent that's, uh, that works for

[00:26:40] the school.

[00:26:40] Like another, like one of the security agents or something like that.

[00:26:43] And I was like, uh, excuse me, um, we didn't have, uh, a scheduled, uh, arrival.

[00:26:50] Can you, can you identify yourself?

[00:26:51] He's clearly got like his hand ready to go for a weapon.

[00:26:55] I will, uh, put my hands up and open my coat.

[00:27:01] As a wizard, you don't put your hands up.

[00:27:04] Open my coat.

[00:27:06] Yeah.

[00:27:06] Which clearly shows off my gun.

[00:27:10] Though I'm reaching into the inner pocket and I'm going to pull out my library card.

[00:27:16] Oh.

[00:27:17] You're.

[00:27:18] Oh.

[00:27:19] And he like looks at his like, Blackstone?

[00:27:23] You kind of recognize this guy.

[00:27:26] He's, uh.

[00:27:26] Oh, hey, you're, uh, oh, fuck.

[00:27:30] Buddy guy.

[00:27:31] Shit.

[00:27:32] His name's Tim.

[00:27:32] His name's Tim.

[00:27:33] It's on his card.

[00:27:34] It's on his, uh, Ted.

[00:27:36] Ted?

[00:27:37] No.

[00:27:38] Tim.

[00:27:39] Tim.

[00:27:40] Yeah.

[00:27:41] How's it going, Tim?

[00:27:42] Not bad.

[00:27:43] Not bad.

[00:27:44] Cool.

[00:27:44] Cool.

[00:27:44] How you been keeping?

[00:27:46] Good.

[00:27:46] Yeah.

[00:27:46] How's the wife?

[00:27:47] Not married.

[00:27:48] Well, we're divorced now, so.

[00:27:50] Yeah.

[00:27:50] Kids?

[00:27:51] Uh, she took the kids.

[00:27:53] It's just been me on.

[00:27:54] To space?

[00:27:56] Hmm?

[00:27:57] Agartha?

[00:27:58] Seattle.

[00:28:00] Oh.

[00:28:01] Ugh.

[00:28:01] I'm sorry.

[00:28:03] It is what it is.

[00:28:05] So, um.

[00:28:06] What brings you?

[00:28:07] Well, at least it's not Shadowrun.

[00:28:10] So what brings you to, uh, to the school?

[00:28:15] Uh, well.

[00:28:16] Can you turn that off?

[00:28:17] It's like the word, so he's like shouting.

[00:28:19] You gotta wait for it to wind down.

[00:28:21] It's a thing, man.

[00:28:23] Yeah.

[00:28:24] It doesn't just flick off and immediately go quiet.

[00:28:27] Yeah.

[00:28:27] Put the brakes on that.

[00:28:28] Can you not cast silence on it?

[00:28:32] Do I know silence?

[00:28:35] No.

[00:28:36] I thought I would use silence.

[00:28:38] I'm a wizard who doesn't know fireball.

[00:28:41] You do.

[00:28:42] You choose not to know it.

[00:28:45] Yes, exactly.

[00:28:46] Thank you, Dave.

[00:28:49] Well, then what would he complain about?

[00:28:51] Yeah, that's right.

[00:28:52] All right.

[00:28:52] Play their fall tokens.

[00:28:53] Yeah, there you go.

[00:28:54] Go, Pete.

[00:28:58] Uh.

[00:29:00] I mean, you kicked out of this game.

[00:29:04] Yeah, no, I can't.

[00:29:05] I can't do anything about that.

[00:29:06] You don't need to use your hands.

[00:29:07] It doesn't wind down eventually.

[00:29:09] Okay.

[00:29:10] Uh, we're here for a couple of things.

[00:29:12] We need to find a person.

[00:29:14] And, uh, I was also thinking about going to visit the, uh, the Sasquatch for a paper

[00:29:18] that I'm working on.

[00:29:20] Oh, okay.

[00:29:21] Uh, well, you probably want to talk to...

[00:29:23] To Montag or...

[00:29:24] Always.

[00:29:25] I always want to talk to Jeffrey Combs.

[00:29:27] I mean Montag.

[00:29:29] If you look, what's he just read to?

[00:29:30] Well, he's currently in his office, I think, talking with, uh, Miss Usher.

[00:29:34] So, uh, you know Miss Usher is the, uh, the librarian, like, head archivist.

[00:29:39] Yeah, I was just trying to come up with, uh, with, uh, an Usher song lyrics that I could

[00:29:46] throw out there, but, uh, I don't actually know any of that artist's body of work.

[00:29:54] Fair.

[00:29:55] It's not worth it.

[00:29:56] Because, you know, it kind of sucks.

[00:29:58] All right.

[00:29:58] Shots fired.

[00:29:59] Shots fired.

[00:30:00] Everybody get the deck.

[00:30:01] Unless...

[00:30:02] We'll be attacked.

[00:30:02] Unless he wants to sponsor us.

[00:30:05] God.

[00:30:06] In which case, I love all of his music.

[00:30:10] God.

[00:30:11] And, like, shameless terrible.

[00:30:16] And he's on brand brushes while he is.

[00:30:20] Probably.

[00:30:21] But yeah, so, um, all right, well, yeah, he'll lead you down to the, uh, the headmaster's,

[00:30:26] uh, office.

[00:30:27] Okay.

[00:30:27] Um, and, uh, yeah, you're walking through your old, uh, a la mater, um, while the, the

[00:30:33] school halls are still, like, tons of students, uh, and the sounds of, of experiments going

[00:30:39] off and people screaming and, uh, it's like, oh God, it's escaped again!

[00:30:46] And that's in one lab.

[00:30:47] That's normal.

[00:30:49] Are me and, uh, Marcel, um, allowed through there as well?

[00:30:53] Or do we have to stay up top?

[00:30:55] Yeah, well, yeah, he does ask about your, your, your guests.

[00:30:57] And I assume you, they're guests.

[00:31:00] Do we get a visitor's pass?

[00:31:01] Yeah.

[00:31:02] Well, he's, he's basically, like, accompanying you guys.

[00:31:04] That's why he's accompanying you guys.

[00:31:05] Do we get a cool lanyard?

[00:31:07] No.

[00:31:08] No.

[00:31:08] Not until you get done to the office.

[00:31:09] No.

[00:31:09] If you're staying longer.

[00:31:10] Mm-hmm.

[00:31:12] Um, but yeah, and you, you guys are, like, looking on the, there's, like, signs on the,

[00:31:16] on the halls.

[00:31:17] It's like, remember to, to keep, keep tabs on your homunculi.

[00:31:21] Or, like, don't let the, no, no, no hellhounds allowed in the, in the girls' washroom.

[00:31:27] You remember what happened last time.

[00:31:30] Yeah.

[00:31:33] Um, and, uh, there's also, uh, there's also an awful lot of sign, uh, uh, uh, of, uh, signage

[00:31:39] for, um, uh, no, strictly no death curses allowed.

[00:31:44] I repeat, no death curses allowed.

[00:31:49] Headmaster Montag.

[00:31:52] Um.

[00:31:53] Isn't he, like, undead now?

[00:31:55] You don't know that.

[00:31:57] No.

[00:31:59] I.

[00:32:00] I know.

[00:32:01] Out of game.

[00:32:02] Um.

[00:32:02] He's not undead, but he's flea infected.

[00:32:06] Is he?

[00:32:06] Yeah.

[00:32:07] You, you, I'll, I'll, I'll, I'll, it's, it's not spreading.

[00:32:11] Yeah.

[00:32:12] But it's, uh, like, they, they've managed to stop it from spreading.

[00:32:15] And he's still himself insane-ish.

[00:32:19] Um.

[00:32:21] But, yeah.

[00:32:22] Yeah.

[00:32:23] There's, there's something wrong with it.

[00:32:25] Yeah.

[00:32:25] But, uh, yeah.

[00:32:27] Tim gets you guys over down to the, the ground level where the, uh, the offices are.

[00:32:32] Uh, and, uh, you guys can roll me, uh, perception tests.

[00:32:36] Okay.

[00:32:38] Oh.

[00:32:51] I do perception with advantage, and I rolled a six.

[00:32:57] Six and four is ten.

[00:32:59] So I get a total of ten.

[00:33:02] Total of ten?

[00:33:02] Okay.

[00:33:03] Twenty-two.

[00:33:03] Twenty-two.

[00:33:04] Wow.

[00:33:04] Twenty-six.

[00:33:05] Wow, okay.

[00:33:06] Uh, so yeah, as you guys are walking into the offices, you hear.

[00:33:09] Power heads on this level.

[00:33:11] Mm-hmm.

[00:33:11] Yeah, you hear, uh, Headmaster Montag and, uh, uh, uh.

[00:33:15] Miss Usher, um, in a, in a heated argument.

[00:33:19] Um, Miss Usher is, uh, trying to get, uh, to bring to Montag's attention, um, this, uh,

[00:33:27] apparently the matter of a missing student.

[00:33:30] Uh, it's like, I'm telling you, like, um, Desmond is gone.

[00:33:34] Like, he, like, he should have been back by now from his, uh, from his, uh, from his project.

[00:33:39] Uh, it's like, oh, I'm sure he's fine.

[00:33:41] Like, like, not, although we don't have the manpower, really, to go up and, and look after

[00:33:45] every student that leaves our, our, uh, grounds.

[00:33:48] Hey guys, look, it's a side quest.

[00:33:50] Yeah, basically.

[00:33:51] Um, and I was like, oh!

[00:33:54] Um, yeah, it's like, Tim's just like, um, uh, ma'am, uh, Headmaster, uh, we have, uh,

[00:34:01] uh, we have a, uh, uh, a guest, uh, one of your old students.

[00:34:06] And, um, uh, Montag looks to you and is like, ah, Jacob Blackstone, my boy.

[00:34:12] Monty!

[00:34:13] Good to see you again.

[00:34:15] We're still working, we're still, uh, researching those, uh, those, uh, Cressy samples you provided

[00:34:20] us sometimes.

[00:34:21] Oh, right, I forgot about that.

[00:34:23] Well, I'm glad, glad to hear that they're...

[00:34:25] Didn't anyone else get any of the Dragon Corps?

[00:34:28] Uh, I think you gave that to the Templars.

[00:34:30] I think we gave that to the Templars.

[00:34:32] Also, I, uh, I think you have a Canadian accent.

[00:34:36] Yeah.

[00:34:37] Oh, fuck, yeah, bud!

[00:34:39] Thanks, buddy.

[00:34:40] Yeah.

[00:34:42] Yeah.

[00:34:44] Fucking Monty, bud!

[00:34:45] How's it going?

[00:34:47] Ah, your northern accent never cease to delight.

[00:34:52] Uh...

[00:34:53] What, what, what can, what can this prestigious, uh, school do for one of our, uh, for our illustrious,

[00:35:01] less illuminated, uh, students?

[00:35:04] Yeah.

[00:35:05] We're kind of on a job.

[00:35:07] We're looking for a missing person, well, sort of missing person.

[00:35:11] I don't know if she's actually fucking missing, or if she just chose to, like, just go off the

[00:35:16] radar, or what the deal is.

[00:35:18] But we're looking for a person.

[00:35:20] Apparently her name is, like, Anima.

[00:35:23] Oh.

[00:35:25] Actually, uh, Usher's like, Anima.

[00:35:27] You're looking for Anima?

[00:35:29] Well, yeah.

[00:35:31] Now what I just said...

[00:35:31] The Anima.

[00:35:33] Yeah.

[00:35:35] Um, she looks...

[00:35:36] Same name as the source of my weird-ass fucking powers and shit?

[00:35:40] Yeah, yeah.

[00:35:41] Well, she's the living embodiment of magic.

[00:35:45] Of Anima.

[00:35:46] Yeah.

[00:35:48] That's pretty neat.

[00:35:48] That's who I'm looking for.

[00:35:50] Well, no one's seen her for nigh on...

[00:35:54] Just under a decade, at least.

[00:35:57] Not since the Tokyo incident.

[00:36:00] I know.

[00:36:02] That's...

[00:36:02] Why we came here.

[00:36:04] We figured that, uh, you guys might have some tips on where I could start looking.

[00:36:11] Might...

[00:36:12] I might, uh, this is Usher still talking.

[00:36:14] It's like, uh, I might be able to look, see if we can find...

[00:36:18] See if anybody's, uh, like, saying that anybody has anything, uh, in our records.

[00:36:22] So, like, notice anything that would fit her bill.

[00:36:25] Um, you may also...

[00:36:28] It's a long shot.

[00:36:30] You may want to try, um...

[00:36:33] Desmond.

[00:36:36] There's a fortune teller in, uh, in, uh, in Kingsmith that sometimes...

[00:36:41] Like, she's most of the time a charlatan, but...

[00:36:44] Occasionally, she...

[00:36:45] She strikes true.

[00:36:47] Like, something takes over.

[00:36:48] And she tells some pretty interesting visions.

[00:36:51] I figured.

[00:36:52] I was gonna give her a shot anyway, but I thought I'd actually come to you guys first.

[00:36:56] Well, what's all this about?

[00:36:58] Like, why do you need, uh...

[00:36:59] Why do you need her?

[00:37:00] Look, cause I've been doing some work lately, and like, some places, like, uh, I wound up

[00:37:07] in the back rooms at one point.

[00:37:09] That place is fucking covered in filth and shit.

[00:37:12] And I'm looking...

[00:37:13] You actually...

[00:37:14] It was so fucking cool.

[00:37:17] We got those, uh, we got those, uh, those, uh, files from you.

[00:37:20] Okay.

[00:37:21] Very extraordinary.

[00:37:21] So, you, you saw through the videos and shit how, how fucking filthy that place is.

[00:37:30] And I'm just trying to...

[00:37:32] I feel like there must be a better...

[00:37:34] I know that there's a better way to, like, cleanse the filth and shit.

[00:37:38] So, that's one of the reasons why we're looking for Anima.

[00:37:41] Cause she fucking done that shit good in Tokyo.

[00:37:45] So I figured maybe there's some way to work out some kind of fucking ritual to actually

[00:37:50] break down the filth or actually clear it out of a place.

[00:37:54] Without having to nuke the whole fucking area from orbit, you know.

[00:37:58] Uh, do you guys all want to roll the insight?

[00:38:07] Thirteen.

[00:38:08] Fifteen.

[00:38:09] Ten.

[00:38:10] Ten.

[00:38:14] Seven and twelve.

[00:38:16] Well, so ninety.

[00:38:17] Okay.

[00:38:18] Um, Jacob and Marcel, you get the impression...

[00:38:22] Like, they, uh, Montag and Usher both kind of give each other a quick glance.

[00:38:26] Like, they know something.

[00:38:29] But then, like, they are...

[00:38:31] Then they, like, kind of, like, shrug...

[00:38:33] They kind of, like, immediately try and, like, uh, save face.

[00:38:37] Monty, buddy.

[00:38:39] Your poker face ain't that fucking good.

[00:38:43] My face is...

[00:38:43] He, like, he, like, checked...

[00:38:44] He, like, literally, like, looks at, like, checks his, like...

[00:38:47] Like, checks his hands.

[00:38:48] Like...

[00:38:49] And Usher's like, you're good, Montag.

[00:38:51] You're good.

[00:38:52] It's fine.

[00:38:53] He's like, oh, okay.

[00:38:54] Yes.

[00:38:57] Um...

[00:38:57] Uh, Tim, Tim, would you, uh...

[00:38:59] Excuse me.

[00:38:59] Could you leave?

[00:39:01] Could you get the fuck out, Tim?

[00:39:03] And close the door, please?

[00:39:03] God damn it, Tim!

[00:39:05] Get out!

[00:39:06] Oh, Jesus.

[00:39:06] Why are you still here?

[00:39:09] Yeah.

[00:39:10] No, you just...

[00:39:10] Like that.

[00:39:11] Unless you're actually doing that.

[00:39:12] And he's like, whoa, whoa!

[00:39:13] It makes, like, your wife and leave.

[00:39:16] Wow.

[00:39:17] Wow!

[00:39:20] Jesus!

[00:39:20] Can you actually say that?

[00:39:22] No.

[00:39:23] Character.

[00:39:23] Good.

[00:39:23] It's so good, though.

[00:39:25] God damn it.

[00:39:26] You haven't said a word to this man.

[00:39:28] And this is the first thing you say to him.

[00:39:30] Oh.

[00:39:31] God damn it.

[00:39:32] He is so good to go.

[00:39:33] Yeah.

[00:39:34] God damn it.

[00:39:36] But yeah, Tim, Tim leaves and closes the door.

[00:39:40] Um...

[00:39:41] Well, we...

[00:39:42] If you're trying to seal a...

[00:39:45] Uh, this is Montag.

[00:39:47] Forget talking.

[00:39:47] It's like, well, if you, uh...

[00:39:50] If you're looking to seal a, uh...

[00:39:53] Or cleanse an area of filth...

[00:39:56] There may be something we can do, but...

[00:40:00] We, uh...

[00:40:01] It would require a bit of a pro bono.

[00:40:04] Um...

[00:40:04] He, like, looks over to Usher.

[00:40:05] It's like...

[00:40:06] I believe we may have some...

[00:40:08] Some gentlemen here that would be able to help us, uh...

[00:40:12] Recover our missing student.

[00:40:14] Uh, that we were just talking about.

[00:40:16] And in return, um...

[00:40:19] We would be willing to give you a hand with this, uh...

[00:40:23] This whole nasty business of...

[00:40:24] Of cleansing a large-scale filth outbreak.

[00:40:27] Well, I'm not talking about actually having a site that we need to fucking work on.

[00:40:33] I'm just saying that there needs to be a better way.

[00:40:36] And I figure maybe we can come up with some kind of a ritual or something.

[00:40:39] And that's why I wanted Anima.

[00:40:41] Because she probably knows this kind of shit.

[00:40:44] But, like, we got lots of groups with boots on the ground.

[00:40:47] And they don't always have time to have...

[00:40:49] To call in reinforcements and shit.

[00:40:53] So it might be better to have, like, a small-scale operation that you can fucking cleanse the site.

[00:41:01] Yes.

[00:41:02] But...

[00:41:04] I'm not saying I got a place to clean right now.

[00:41:07] Fuck.

[00:41:07] It's at my apartment.

[00:41:08] If you want to send some people over there, they'll be a little filthy.

[00:41:13] Oh.

[00:41:13] Oh.

[00:41:13] So...

[00:41:15] So you...

[00:41:17] So this is sort of a recreational...

[00:41:19] Like, a theory?

[00:41:21] It's an academic study.

[00:41:22] There's a place of academics.

[00:41:26] Oh.

[00:41:27] He suddenly, like, kind of blushes a bit.

[00:41:29] He's like, oh, shit.

[00:41:30] I almost let the cat out of the bag or something.

[00:41:32] Kind of, like, that kind of, like, expression on his face.

[00:41:35] And Usher's like, well, since you're here, would you mind helping us out with this thing?

[00:41:41] And then, in return, we'd do whatever we can to get your information for what you require.

[00:41:46] How long do you think it's going to take?

[00:41:48] Oh, I don't know.

[00:41:49] He's...

[00:41:49] One session at least.

[00:41:52] Maybe a few...

[00:41:53] Maybe an hour or so at most.

[00:41:56] Oh, okay.

[00:41:56] Because we're on vacation.

[00:41:58] We just don't have that long to devote to it.

[00:42:01] So, if it's only going to take a few hours, then fuck.

[00:42:05] But, like...

[00:42:06] You down with it?

[00:42:08] Depending on what you're sending us into.

[00:42:11] Well, what kind of fire we're being thrown into here.

[00:42:14] Well, it's just...

[00:42:15] We've recently...

[00:42:17] The 47s.

[00:42:18] The odd 50 cal.

[00:42:19] Yeah.

[00:42:20] That's loot, though.

[00:42:21] One of our students...

[00:42:24] Learning...

[00:42:24] One of our students, Hank Desmond.

[00:42:27] And he...

[00:42:29] He's gone missing after...

[00:42:31] Or he hasn't reported in after he went out...

[00:42:34] Went to do a bit of field research down in Kingsmouth.

[00:42:37] By himself?

[00:42:38] Well, yeah.

[00:42:39] He was just going into the town.

[00:42:41] Okay.

[00:42:41] To do some research.

[00:42:44] We didn't think...

[00:42:45] He wasn't going...

[00:42:45] It's not like he's going into the Black Goat Woods or to...

[00:42:48] Or, heaven forbid, to, like...

[00:42:50] To the amusement park.

[00:42:51] To the Atlantic Island Park.

[00:42:52] You, like, have been there before.

[00:42:55] You did.

[00:42:56] You remember, like...

[00:42:57] Yeah, that's where he stopped playing Secret World Legends.

[00:43:00] Remember?

[00:43:01] It was, like, when you were here.

[00:43:02] I remember there was a...

[00:43:03] There was a...

[00:43:05] One of those after-school...

[00:43:07] Like, extracurricular things that students do...

[00:43:10] Where they sneak into the amusement park...

[00:43:13] And some people went missing.

[00:43:14] So what's so bad about being there...

[00:43:16] If all kinds of students do it?

[00:43:19] Usher's like...

[00:43:20] Did you not just hear that he said...

[00:43:22] Disappearances?

[00:43:24] Yeah, but...

[00:43:25] I mean, like...

[00:43:26] Make it sound like it's...

[00:43:28] It's, like...

[00:43:29] Every time.

[00:43:32] Not every time, but I mean...

[00:43:34] 60% of the time.

[00:43:35] People go missing every time.

[00:43:37] Yeah.

[00:43:38] Yeah.

[00:43:39] Regardless.

[00:43:40] It's also unrelated to what we're talking about here.

[00:43:43] Yes.

[00:43:43] Indeed.

[00:43:44] But yeah, if you would be willing to help us with this...

[00:43:46] We could help you out, perhaps, with...

[00:43:48] Some of our information that we can gather about...

[00:43:51] But where this anima is.

[00:43:54] Do you not have any friends in town that you can just call?

[00:43:57] Like...

[00:43:58] Where is he going to do his research?

[00:44:00] Where was he going to do his research?

[00:44:01] He was...

[00:44:04] Well...

[00:44:05] Usher's just like...

[00:44:06] Alright, well...

[00:44:07] He was researching for a thesis about new urban legends.

[00:44:11] And there's this new urban legend that's popped up recently in the last year or so...

[00:44:16] In Kingsmith about alligators in the sewers.

[00:44:19] I'm not joking.

[00:44:22] And...

[00:44:23] The locals have started talking about strange sounds and missing pets and stuff like that.

[00:44:28] Uh-huh.

[00:44:30] And so he...

[00:44:31] I think he was going down...

[00:44:33] I think he was going to Kingsmith to see if he could get access to the sewer systems.

[00:44:37] To do some proper...

[00:44:39] Get some proper field of research.

[00:44:41] There's no Statue of Liberty here, Chris.

[00:44:43] No.

[00:44:45] It's fine.

[00:44:46] Is he referencing a creepypasta?

[00:44:48] No.

[00:44:49] Or is it a Secret World Legends episode?

[00:44:51] Or...

[00:44:52] Okay.

[00:44:53] Or is it just Cocktails and the Seagullers?

[00:44:54] Yeah.

[00:44:55] Sure.

[00:44:57] One of those options was true.

[00:45:00] Anyways, um...

[00:45:01] Okay.

[00:45:04] So...

[00:45:05] Yeah.

[00:45:05] Also, you guys happen to ask them, like, oh, do you...

[00:45:07] By the way, do you guys have any idea about, like, the Sasquatches or anything like that?

[00:45:11] Just...

[00:45:11] Well, I think I've been to visit them before.

[00:45:14] Yeah, but they're hard...

[00:45:15] Like, they're kind of...

[00:45:16] It's hard...

[00:45:16] You don't...

[00:45:17] You don't just go to their place.

[00:45:18] You can't just land the hind in there?

[00:45:20] No, you can't.

[00:45:23] Be led there.

[00:45:24] Like, they...

[00:45:25] They'll...

[00:45:25] You can't find it.

[00:45:26] They'll find you kind of thing.

[00:45:27] Okay.

[00:45:28] Just go to an area and look at it.

[00:45:29] Alright.

[00:45:30] I guess we'll do this, but you gotta sweeten the fucking pot, bud.

[00:45:33] Does...

[00:45:33] Does the school not have somebody, like, embedded with them most of the time?

[00:45:37] Uh...

[00:45:38] Do you want to roll an easy?

[00:45:39] Um...

[00:45:39] An...

[00:45:40] I was gonna say...

[00:45:40] An academic roll?

[00:45:41] An arcana roll, I guess?

[00:45:43] Absolutely.

[00:45:47] Expertise and advantage.

[00:45:48] I have some...

[00:45:49] Penny Featherbottom, who's, like...

[00:45:51] I'm getting my hair.

[00:45:52] It's okay.

[00:45:55] Uh...

[00:45:55] Arcana.

[00:46:00] 23.

[00:46:02] Spunky red.

[00:46:03] Nice tits.

[00:46:04] A little psychotic.

[00:46:05] No.

[00:46:07] No, he's actually a middle-aged guy with glasses.

[00:46:10] The botanist teacher, Ernie Rodoy, is the...

[00:46:14] Is the...

[00:46:15] Innsmouth Academy's in with the Sasquatches, because he collects herbs and various, like,

[00:46:21] medicinal plants and stuff like that from the local wildlife, and...

[00:46:24] I mean, the Sasquatches are masters of herbology and natural medicines and such, so...

[00:46:31] I'm also gonna need to talk to old Ernie.

[00:46:34] Uh, alright.

[00:46:37] Um...

[00:46:37] Regarding the...

[00:46:38] Yeah, I assume you brought up the Sasquatch stuff?

[00:46:42] Uh...

[00:46:42] I don't know.

[00:46:43] Do I...

[00:46:44] Do I bring it up?

[00:46:44] You didn't bring it up.

[00:46:45] You just...

[00:46:45] You want to talk to the one guy whose thing is the Sasquatches, so I'm sure they can kind

[00:46:50] of correlate.

[00:46:51] Yeah, I'm sure that they will know what it's about.

[00:46:54] It's like, do you need plants, or do you need to talk to the Sasquatch?

[00:46:59] I'd kind of like to talk to the Sasquatch.

[00:47:01] I think I found some hints that there might be, like, a different species of Sasquatch living

[00:47:08] up in Buckingham, Newfoundland.

[00:47:09] So I just want to talk to them about it and see what they know.

[00:47:13] Alright.

[00:47:14] Um...

[00:47:15] God, I'm lying to them through my teeth, and I really don't have any reason to.

[00:47:18] And you're not even having to roll for any of them.

[00:47:20] I know, right?

[00:47:21] Mm-hmm.

[00:47:22] We don't really want them to know that there's, like, a filth outbreak that they might go and

[00:47:27] claw.

[00:47:28] Yeah.

[00:47:28] Yeah.

[00:47:29] Yeah.

[00:47:30] That's fair, but...

[00:47:31] You do know that Usher is a Templar?

[00:47:34] Although...

[00:47:35] I do like your instinctive desire to lie with authority figures.

[00:47:38] That's a good sign.

[00:47:40] Yeah.

[00:47:41] Usher is actually a Templar staff member working...

[00:47:44] within this Illuminati Academy.

[00:47:48] Um...

[00:47:49] But...

[00:47:49] Um...

[00:47:50] Well, uh...

[00:47:51] Yeah, we'd be willing to...

[00:47:52] Like, Radoi is...

[00:47:53] Mr. Radoi is pretty, uh...

[00:47:54] busy right now, but, like...

[00:47:56] Uh...

[00:47:56] We'd be able to, um...

[00:47:58] Get an appointment.

[00:47:59] Arrange a meeting once we find the kid.

[00:48:01] Yes.

[00:48:02] Alright.

[00:48:03] Alright.

[00:48:03] Well, okay.

[00:48:04] So we gotta go down to King Smith and take a look for this, uh...

[00:48:08] Missing...

[00:48:08] Missing person.

[00:48:10] Do you have a picture?

[00:48:11] Uh...

[00:48:11] Yeah.

[00:48:11] I can...

[00:48:12] You can pull up, uh...

[00:48:13] His file.

[00:48:14] Mm-hmm.

[00:48:14] And, yeah, she does so, and she...

[00:48:15] Also, like, uh...

[00:48:17] Get some, uh...

[00:48:17] It's like, we also, like, uh...

[00:48:20] Pulled some...

[00:48:21] Some of his notes and stuff from his, uh...

[00:48:23] From his room, uh...

[00:48:25] When he...

[00:48:26] Didn't come back.

[00:48:27] Mm-hmm.

[00:48:27] Uh...

[00:48:27] To see what he was actually looking into and such.

[00:48:30] Um...

[00:48:31] So we have, uh...

[00:48:32] Some of his papers as well.

[00:48:33] It's all fucking drugs, isn't it?

[00:48:35] No, no.

[00:48:36] Some of it is.

[00:48:37] I mean...

[00:48:37] Just looking for a bunch of Molly and shit.

[00:48:39] Mm-hmm.

[00:48:40] Fuck.

[00:48:41] Uh, yeah.

[00:48:41] He had...

[00:48:42] They had you a photo of, uh...

[00:48:44] Of, uh...

[00:48:45] Mr. Desmond.

[00:48:47] Um...

[00:48:47] Like a scruffy-looking...

[00:48:49] 20-something kid.

[00:48:51] Uh...

[00:48:51] And, uh...

[00:48:52] He's got, like, a bunch of...

[00:48:53] Like, a bunch of notes and stuff.

[00:48:54] Like, kind of almost like crazed conspiracy theory style notes of, uh...

[00:48:57] Of, uh...

[00:48:58] Urban legends and, like, newer urban legends.

[00:49:00] Not just, like, the old stuff.

[00:49:03] Um...

[00:49:03] And even, like, some information about this, uh...

[00:49:07] This...

[00:49:08] Alligator...

[00:49:08] This Kingsmith alligator in the sewer.

[00:49:10] Uh...

[00:49:11] You guys can roll an investigation to, like, how to go through it.

[00:49:13] The files.

[00:49:14] Information.

[00:49:15] I'm good at that.

[00:49:16] When you say he's kind of scruffy-looking.

[00:49:18] I immediately imagine Shaggy.

[00:49:19] Yeah, he's got, like, Shaggy.

[00:49:21] Oh, quick.

[00:49:22] I just immediately imagine...

[00:49:24] Fuckin' Han Solo, eh?

[00:49:25] Oh, yeah.

[00:49:26] I've heard of it.

[00:49:27] Ooh, scruffy-looking.

[00:49:29] Is that a nat 20?

[00:49:30] It's a nat 20.

[00:49:31] Okay.

[00:49:32] Yeah, no, you just, like...

[00:49:33] Bam.

[00:49:33] Um...

[00:49:34] This is my bag.

[00:49:35] I'm searching...

[00:49:36] He opens it to the right page.

[00:49:38] Yeah.

[00:49:38] Yeah, so there's, like, a bunch of...

[00:49:40] He's...

[00:49:40] You're able to decipher his, like, his horrible, deplorable, like, shorthand and handwriting and

[00:49:45] some of that.

[00:49:46] It looks exactly like mine.

[00:49:47] Yeah.

[00:49:48] Yeah.

[00:49:48] So, um...

[00:49:49] Yeah, the description of this new urban legend claims that there's an aligator in the sewers

[00:49:53] beneath Kingsmouth.

[00:49:55] Uh...

[00:49:55] The sewers beneath Kingsmouth have...

[00:49:57] They've been long...

[00:49:58] They're not, like, small...

[00:50:00] Like, they're...

[00:50:01] They're man...

[00:50:01] They're navigatable tunnels.

[00:50:03] So, like, practically dungeons.

[00:50:04] Um...

[00:50:05] Because they were used by bootleggers, uh...

[00:50:07] Former...

[00:50:08] Like, original, like, founder...

[00:50:11] Founding fathers, Illuminati, uh...

[00:50:13] To store, like, vials and store, like, arcane, like, knowledge from the Templars and such.

[00:50:18] Because this is one of the first beachheads of the Illuminati in the New World.

[00:50:21] Oh, crap.

[00:50:22] Um...

[00:50:23] Despite these, uh, wild proclamations of, uh, these stories and stuff that the local townsfolk

[00:50:27] have been talking about, um...

[00:50:29] No one's actually seen this thing.

[00:50:32] Um...

[00:50:32] It's just...

[00:50:32] They've just been...

[00:50:33] There's just been mainly, like, odd noises heard from, like, sewer grates and manholes.

[00:50:38] Mm.

[00:50:38] And the occasional missing pet.

[00:50:42] Um...

[00:50:42] So...

[00:50:43] That's...

[00:50:43] That's...

[00:50:43] Anyways.

[00:50:44] It could be...

[00:50:45] It might be an alligator.

[00:50:47] It might be any number of other creatures in the local area.

[00:50:52] Um...

[00:50:53] Uh...

[00:50:53] You actually, Jacob, with this...

[00:50:55] As he's giving you this...

[00:50:56] As, uh...

[00:50:56] Marcel's giving you this information, like, through...

[00:50:58] Like, reading this out.

[00:50:59] Uh...

[00:51:00] You could roll another arcana, if you'd like.

[00:51:01] To see if you can get an idea of what you guys might be walking into.

[00:51:18] 26.

[00:51:19] Damn.

[00:51:20] Okay.

[00:51:22] Um...

[00:51:22] So, uh...

[00:51:24] It could be any number of things.

[00:51:26] Uh...

[00:51:26] It could be, uh...

[00:51:27] The description...

[00:51:28] If it is an alligator in the sewer kind of thing, if it's actually an alligator in the sewer,

[00:51:31] it might be a deep one.

[00:51:33] Um...

[00:51:34] Which are reptilian...

[00:51:35] And...

[00:51:35] Uh...

[00:51:36] Reptilian fish hybrid humanoid things.

[00:51:38] I'm familiar with them.

[00:51:39] I've played your games before.

[00:51:40] Yeah.

[00:51:41] Um...

[00:51:41] But, I mean, there are also a bunch of other creatures in...

[00:51:44] That you're aware of in the local area.

[00:51:46] Like, there could be a wendigo.

[00:51:48] It could be a cob.

[00:51:49] It could be...

[00:51:50] What's a cob?

[00:51:50] Uh...

[00:51:51] Uh...

[00:51:51] They're the...

[00:51:52] Those are spider things, isn't it?

[00:51:53] Yeah.

[00:51:53] Giant spider beetle monsters that live in the black goat woods.

[00:51:57] Um...

[00:51:57] They've mostly been cleared out.

[00:51:59] But, I mean, there...

[00:52:00] There...

[00:52:00] Uh...

[00:52:01] There's been, uh...

[00:52:02] Some...

[00:52:02] You...

[00:52:02] When you were in school, um...

[00:52:05] There was a geological survey done, uh...

[00:52:07] With the...

[00:52:07] Like, with school students and so on.

[00:52:09] And you guys found that there are just a honeycomb of tunnels beneath the island.

[00:52:14] That those fuckers could stay...

[00:52:16] Could have, like, gone deeper into and such.

[00:52:18] Uh...

[00:52:19] So there's no guarantee that, like, the original...

[00:52:21] When...

[00:52:21] When they were originally exterminated from the surface, that you got them all.

[00:52:27] Little as we know, we're actually traveling to the front lines.

[00:52:30] World War I between the, uh...

[00:52:32] Cobb and the Deep Ones.

[00:52:35] Yeah.

[00:52:35] Really.

[00:52:36] Trench warfare.

[00:52:38] It's the Darkness War II.

[00:52:39] With Esper Blades and, uh...

[00:52:42] And fangs and shit.

[00:52:44] But we hate everyone involved.

[00:52:49] Um...

[00:52:49] But yeah, uh...

[00:52:50] That is...

[00:52:52] What you get from that.

[00:52:53] It could be, like...

[00:52:54] There...

[00:52:54] You're kind of going...

[00:52:56] Solomon Island is...

[00:52:58] Literally has a plethora of supernatural beasties that still lurk in its deep...

[00:53:02] In its dark, deep recesses.

[00:53:03] So...

[00:53:04] It could be any number of monsters down there.

[00:53:06] If it is indeed a monster.

[00:53:08] If it is World War I between monsters down there,

[00:53:11] I have the Geneva checklist ready.

[00:53:13] Excellent.

[00:53:15] All right.

[00:53:16] Um...

[00:53:17] So, uh...

[00:53:18] Uh...

[00:53:18] Montag is like...

[00:53:18] So you agreed to this?

[00:53:19] You'll...

[00:53:20] You'll help find our student and in return we'll...

[00:53:22] Make an appointment.

[00:53:23] We'll make you...

[00:53:24] Give you a, uh...

[00:53:25] A talk with, uh...

[00:53:26] With Mr.

[00:53:28] Uh...

[00:53:29] Uh...

[00:53:29] This is...

[00:53:30] This is me fumbling, not him.

[00:53:32] Um...

[00:53:33] With Mr. Rudoy and, uh...

[00:53:36] Um...

[00:53:36] And such?

[00:53:38] Yeah.

[00:53:39] Yeah.

[00:53:40] Monty.

[00:53:41] I think you got a fucking deal, bud.

[00:53:44] Slim.

[00:53:45] Oh.

[00:53:46] You've been pretty helpful to us so far, so...

[00:53:49] Yes, uh...

[00:53:50] We...

[00:53:50] We can scratch your back this time, I guess.

[00:53:53] As long as it doesn't take us too long.

[00:53:55] Oh, it shouldn't take more than a few hours.

[00:53:57] I feel like we already scratched their back lots.

[00:54:00] Between the Nessie carcasses...

[00:54:02] And the video...

[00:54:04] We keep sending these folks stuff and...

[00:54:07] Now we gotta do more for them?

[00:54:09] Um...

[00:54:09] They paid us really well to do those...

[00:54:12] To give them those things.

[00:54:13] Yeah, wrong.

[00:54:14] Did they specifically?

[00:54:15] Or was it the generalists?

[00:54:16] Yeah, the school paid for those things.

[00:54:17] The school paid for those things.

[00:54:19] The schools are notoriously well-funded.

[00:54:22] So...

[00:54:22] That makes sense.

[00:54:23] I mean...

[00:54:23] I'm usually going to doubt and make Harvard look forward.

[00:54:25] Illuminati...

[00:54:26] Illuminati-funded school, yes.

[00:54:28] Okay, yeah.

[00:54:29] Aren't they all?

[00:54:32] But...

[00:54:33] Hey-hey!

[00:54:35] Alright, so...

[00:54:37] Yeah, after Tim helps you guys get your bikes down off the roof...

[00:54:43] You guys can bike down...

[00:54:44] Is there an elevator?

[00:54:46] Yeah, there's actually a...

[00:54:48] Of course there'd be an elevator.

[00:54:50] It might be.

[00:54:51] Because there's a helicopter...

[00:54:52] Helicopter pad.

[00:54:54] Probably some kind of service elevator.

[00:54:56] Yeah, I think so.

[00:54:56] Alternatively, as long as there's a jump on the roof, we're fine.

[00:54:59] It's five feet...

[00:55:01] It's only five feet?

[00:55:02] That's great.

[00:55:03] It's five floors.

[00:55:04] I misspoke.

[00:55:04] Stunt jump failed.

[00:55:06] Yeah.

[00:55:06] I'm wasting.

[00:55:07] Yeah.

[00:55:08] It's okay, I'll just respawn if you are.

[00:55:11] Oh, God.

[00:55:12] Would you like to try...

[00:55:14] Retry.

[00:55:15] Oh, man.

[00:55:19] Okay, so we cut away until you guys are driving down the roads away from Innsmouth Academy.

[00:55:26] You cut through some small neighborhoods.

[00:55:30] Some small neighborhoods.

[00:55:32] Densely forested roadways.

[00:55:35] And you pass...

[00:55:37] You have to go through a tunnel to get to the next region, which is where Kingsmouth is.

[00:55:44] You can pass that nice sparkling new hotel, The Overlook, on your way to that tunnel.

[00:55:51] Riding through that tunnel for a long time, everything goes completely dark.

[00:55:55] There's little things circling in the bottom right-hand corner.

[00:55:57] Suddenly your vision is shown as a scenic photo of the next location.

[00:56:04] In black and white.

[00:56:05] In black and white, and it slowly fades into color.

[00:56:07] Yes, yeah.

[00:56:09] There's like a hint at the bottom of the screen.

[00:56:11] Yeah.

[00:56:12] At the bottom of your vision, rather.

[00:56:13] Why don't you guys just go ahead and roll Will?

[00:56:15] Yeah.

[00:56:15] Roll Will, what's it say?

[00:56:17] No.

[00:56:18] You exit out of that tunnel.

[00:56:23] And in pretty short order, you make your way through the woods into the wooded back roads to Kingsmouth proper.

[00:56:31] This small, sleepy fishing town.

[00:56:34] Although it seems to be booming nowadays.

[00:56:37] Like, it's got a few...

[00:56:38] There's a few more developments on it.

[00:56:40] And there's clear signs of tourism in effect.

[00:56:46] Like, lots of people...

[00:56:47] Like, lots of out-of-towners walking around.

[00:56:50] The worst monsters of all.

[00:56:51] Yes.

[00:56:52] Tourists.

[00:56:52] Yeah.

[00:56:53] Look.

[00:56:54] And, yeah, as you're driving through, you get to about the...

[00:56:59] You get to a fork in the road where there's a church and it overlooks a couple of shops and such.

[00:57:09] And, actually, the road is currently blocked off.

[00:57:17] There is a sewage maintenance truck parked nearby, like, inside the area of police tape.

[00:57:28] And it looks like one of the manholes has been removed and some proper fencing has been placed there for workers to work.

[00:57:39] And you see there is a cop in his patrol car just outside the police tape.

[00:57:50] Just kind of smiling there, standing vigilant of the area.

[00:57:53] And as you guys approach it, he kind of goes to stop.

[00:57:55] He, like, pulls his hand out.

[00:57:57] Is there no one inside the police tape area?

[00:57:59] No.

[00:58:01] Okay.

[00:58:01] Yeah, he, like, just smiles to you guys.

[00:58:03] He's like, I'm sorry.

[00:58:04] You have to move along.

[00:58:06] Go to, uh, take another deep-tick-do tour.

[00:58:09] This road's closed for the time being.

[00:58:13] He's oddly happy.

[00:58:15] No, no, he, no, that's, like, he's smiling.

[00:58:16] Like, he's just, like, constantly smiling.

[00:58:19] Oh, fuck.

[00:58:19] What's got everything all shut down?

[00:58:21] Uh, there's just some, uh...

[00:58:23] We just got a, uh, some, uh...

[00:58:26] The maintenance guys down there, there was a bit of an accident.

[00:58:28] That's all there is.

[00:58:29] Uh, the, uh...

[00:58:31] Nobody's, uh, nobody's been hurt or any of that.

[00:58:34] Uh, want to roll the insight?

[00:58:36] Is that?

[00:58:38] Everybody?

[00:58:39] Yeah.

[00:58:42] Fourteen.

[00:58:44] Fourteen.

[00:58:47] Uh, inside.

[00:58:50] Fifteen.

[00:58:51] Fifteen?

[00:58:51] Okay.

[00:58:53] Uh, twenty-four.

[00:58:55] Okay, well, yeah.

[00:58:56] All of you guys, and you especially, Jacob, um, can tell that this guy was a little too quick

[00:59:01] to, like, nobody's gonna hurt or any of that.

[00:59:03] But, like, almost, like, too quick as if that was probably a lie.

[00:59:06] Okay.

[00:59:07] So, what police is he with?

[00:59:09] Uh, he's with the, uh, local, like, he's basically, like, local sheriff's department.

[00:59:12] And they're all in the know, yeah?

[00:59:14] Um, no.

[00:59:16] This goes into the academy, or not?

[00:59:17] Yeah, no, they, they, Kingsmithers are, like, they're, they're kind of in the know.

[00:59:22] Like, they know their town's weird, and they know the island's weird, but they don't know

[00:59:25] everything in the secret world.

[00:59:28] Yeah, we're-

[00:59:28] There's some, there's some of them in, in the sheriff's office that probably know what's

[00:59:31] up, like, they're, they're captain and so that's probably on the up and up.

[00:59:34] But, like, this guy's, like, a little, just, like, a regular deputy.

[00:59:37] Hmm.

[00:59:38] Did we have the magic badges that are whatever we want them to be?

[00:59:41] Is that a thing we got?

[00:59:42] No.

[00:59:43] I don't think so.

[00:59:44] He's only just, you give me time, I'll make badges.

[00:59:47] I think is what happened the first time.

[00:59:49] We don't, we gotta get to work on that.

[00:59:51] Uh-huh.

[00:59:52] I hang out here for about two hours, I'll be right back.

[00:59:59] Uh, well, well, fuck, bud.

[01:00:01] Can you tell me what kind of accident it was?

[01:00:04] Oh, just like a, a, probably just a gas leak down in the sewers.

[01:00:09] It's always a gas leak.

[01:00:10] It's always a gas leak.

[01:00:11] Always a gas leak.

[01:00:13] Is it, is it flooded down there?

[01:00:15] Is it also a water level?

[01:00:17] Uh, I mean, it's a sewers, sir.

[01:00:20] It's a sewer level.

[01:00:21] There's probably, it's probably water down there.

[01:00:22] There's always a sewer level.

[01:00:22] He's smiling.

[01:00:23] There's poop.

[01:00:26] Pretty filthy down there, then, I guess, huh?

[01:00:28] I suppose.

[01:00:29] Yeah.

[01:00:32] Okay.

[01:00:33] Um.

[01:00:33] Is it only the one cop?

[01:00:35] Yeah, just the one cop.

[01:00:35] We can take him.

[01:00:36] Just a, just a, wow.

[01:00:40] Uh, I'm gonna try, I'm like, hey man, like, what's, what's really going on?

[01:00:44] No, you're just fucking, bang.

[01:00:46] Yeah.

[01:00:48] Yeah, I got a stun gun.

[01:00:49] That works pretty good.

[01:00:50] Did it?

[01:00:51] Remember last time?

[01:00:52] No, it didn't.

[01:00:53] You almost died.

[01:00:54] I got, I mean, I could probably, um, sleep.

[01:00:57] Um, well, I wasn't even gonna go that route.

[01:01:00] I was gonna use my, uh, gaslighting.

[01:01:03] Uh, my gaslighting.

[01:01:05] Mm-hmm.

[01:01:06] We also could just ask him about the missing kid.

[01:01:10] He's a cop.

[01:01:10] Uh, so, if the kid's actually missing, they might already be looking for him.

[01:01:15] I don't know if the school has mentioned it or not.

[01:01:20] I don't know if there's any downside to us mentioning that there's a kid's attention to this.

[01:01:25] Actually, you know what?

[01:01:26] I think I can work with that.

[01:01:28] Okay.

[01:01:28] Alright.

[01:01:29] Fuck, bud.

[01:01:29] Let me level with that.

[01:01:31] Fucking pull out my library card.

[01:01:32] Well, actually with the school.

[01:01:34] Oh, uh, Innsmouth.

[01:01:36] Yeah.

[01:01:36] Body of mine was, was out doing some, uh, some investigation.

[01:01:40] He said, he's a little, a little weird.

[01:01:43] He was gonna check out the sewers and shit.

[01:01:46] He said that, uh, that he thinks that there's something living down there.

[01:01:49] Uh, he starts smiling.

[01:01:50] He's still smiling.

[01:01:51] He never breaks smiling.

[01:01:52] But he starts sweating.

[01:01:53] But he starts sweating.

[01:01:54] Yeah, no, legitimately.

[01:01:55] He starts sweating a little bit.

[01:01:56] I was like, oh, okay.

[01:01:57] Yeah.

[01:01:58] Mm-hmm.

[01:01:59] The school sent me to go fucking find him.

[01:02:01] Told me not to come back without him.

[01:02:03] So I'm not really going anywhere.

[01:02:05] Which is why I brought my two friends.

[01:02:07] Because, like, well, one of them's a spelunking expert.

[01:02:11] And the other one's, uh, uh, uh, a mining expert.

[01:02:16] So they're really good in, like, confined spaces and shit.

[01:02:19] And both have, uh, engineering degrees.

[01:02:22] So figure between the three of us, we can probably make our way through the sewers

[01:02:26] and manage to find this kid without too much difficulty.

[01:02:30] Well, sir, I'm really not allowed to let anybody pass this point.

[01:02:35] Um, you'd have to have to talk to the sheriff about it.

[01:02:39] Oh, that's fine.

[01:02:40] I don't mind.

[01:02:40] Do I know the sheriff's name from my time at school?

[01:02:43] Roll me...

[01:02:44] How many times have you been in trouble?

[01:02:47] Roll me history.

[01:02:48] Yeah, roll me history.

[01:02:49] And do you have a history of being in trouble all the time?

[01:02:52] Well, you might be on a first-name basis with this man.

[01:02:55] I'm sure you get to add five to 16.

[01:02:58] 21.

[01:03:01] I gotta pull up the people of interest.

[01:03:05] Also, can you have the Lucio?

[01:03:06] Or, uh, Lucio and the, uh...

[01:03:08] I got it.

[01:03:08] Okay, never mind.

[01:03:09] I don't got it.

[01:03:10] I'm a bastard.

[01:03:26] There we go.

[01:03:27] Um, wait, uh, you know that, um, uh, I guess at this point, uh, you, you're familiar that,

[01:03:37] um, I think it's, it's Sheriff Gardner?

[01:03:42] Um, he's the, uh, he, he, uh...

[01:03:45] So how many years has it been since you've been to school?

[01:03:47] Ten.

[01:03:48] Oh, it was ten years ago.

[01:03:49] Oh, no, sorry.

[01:03:50] Probably like ten years ago was the event.

[01:03:52] Yeah.

[01:03:53] Right?

[01:03:53] It was the 2012 event.

[01:03:55] So, yeah, like...

[01:03:56] So maybe three years?

[01:03:57] Okay, so yeah.

[01:03:58] You know that, like, while you were at school and some of that, um, uh, the old sheriff,

[01:04:02] uh, Bannerman, um, actually stepped down and became the manager of the town.

[01:04:07] Basically like the mayor.

[01:04:08] Um, and, and his, and her, uh, her second-in-command, uh, Andy Gardner, became the new sheriff.

[01:04:14] Is that fucking Andy Gardner?

[01:04:17] Uh, yeah, that, that's our, that's our, uh, yeah.

[01:04:20] Fuck, Andy and I go way back.

[01:04:22] Hired me for a bunch of jobs.

[01:04:24] Like, fuck, yeah, I can probably talk him into letting me in.

[01:04:27] No problem.

[01:04:28] Oh, okay.

[01:04:29] Um, well, you know, if you know him, you know us.

[01:04:32] Just down the road there with the sheriff's offices.

[01:04:35] Great.

[01:04:35] That'd be fantastic, but...

[01:04:37] Great.

[01:04:38] Okay, thank you.

[01:04:39] He's not up at the site where, you know, the business is?

[01:04:43] He looks over, but I'm, I'm, this is where, this is where the, the thing is.

[01:04:51] This is where I was told to...

[01:04:52] I thought he was stopping us down the road a week.

[01:04:53] No, no, no, it's like...

[01:04:54] No, we're right inside.

[01:04:55] There's like a couple of, like, like, there's like about like five, ten feet away from the,

[01:04:58] from the manhole and like where the, uh, the truck is and stuff.

[01:05:01] Shit, I thought I was getting us closer.

[01:05:03] No, you're as close as you can get without crossing a, uh, a, uh, the tape.

[01:05:09] In that case, stun guy.

[01:05:10] Yeah.

[01:05:14] I do love taser and cops.

[01:05:16] Um, Dave, okay.

[01:05:17] No, I got this.

[01:05:18] Okay, while you guys are doing this, hang on.

[01:05:20] While you guys are, while he's talking to, uh, Marcel, please roll me a perception test.

[01:05:25] Perception?

[01:05:26] Yeah.

[01:05:28] Oh, I rolled terribly.

[01:05:29] Six.

[01:05:29] Six?

[01:05:30] Okay, you don't know what I'm saying.

[01:05:32] John, you can roll me a perception test.

[01:05:34] Uh, total of 20.

[01:05:40] Um, behind Marcel, you're like, you kind of like catch it, like, just like hear like,

[01:05:45] like almost like old like metal grate, kind of like, kind of like sound like, sound like

[01:05:49] metal kind of grating a little bit.

[01:05:51] Uh, and you look over and there's like a little like red wagon, like metal wagon, like an old

[01:05:57] school, like red wagon.

[01:05:58] Um, just kind of slowly creeps around the corner and there's some kittens there and they're

[01:06:03] giving Marcel a death glare before it slowly, like rolls it back down the past, or like

[01:06:11] rolls, rolls back out of sight.

[01:06:13] So the kittens are sitting in the little red wagon?

[01:06:16] Yeah.

[01:06:16] And they roll the, like, little box, in like a little box with a bed, with some bag, like

[01:06:20] plastic bag kind of like, um, or uh, maybe even like some like, like bat, uh, bag or

[01:06:26] cloth kind of like, oh, like overhanging it.

[01:06:27] And they're just like, look, peeking up over the box on this wagon as it like slowly like

[01:06:32] screeches.

[01:06:32] And nothing's pulling.

[01:06:34] Nothing.

[01:06:34] Well, none of that.

[01:06:35] You can see, you don't, you don't see the handle side.

[01:06:36] It's not the handle side.

[01:06:37] Oh, okay.

[01:06:38] It like slowly comes to the view and you just see these kittens.

[01:06:40] They are giving him the meanest death glare of his, of your, of that you've ever seen

[01:06:47] an animal give somebody.

[01:06:48] That's adorable.

[01:06:49] And it slowly squeals back out of view from down the road, down that road, like across that

[01:06:56] block.

[01:06:57] I have my hand on my forehead and be like, that's fucking adorable.

[01:07:00] Like, I sort of say that as I'm looking behind.

[01:07:03] Yeah.

[01:07:04] What?

[01:07:05] Uh, okay.

[01:07:07] You may have some kittens show up in your future.

[01:07:10] That's all I'm saying.

[01:07:12] They're watching you.

[01:07:14] That's all right.

[01:07:14] There's lots of water around.

[01:07:16] Yep.

[01:07:17] It's dark.

[01:07:19] Well, I thought you were just going to like load up a little spitzer bottle or something.

[01:07:22] No, no, I don't.

[01:07:24] Also kind of appropriate for this area.

[01:07:26] Um, you need to repent.

[01:07:28] Yeah, sorry.

[01:07:29] Aaron, as that's what, as they're doing with that.

[01:07:30] Yeah.

[01:07:30] So you're, yeah.

[01:07:31] So yeah, he's like, all right, yeah, just go down.

[01:07:33] Like Sheriff's Office is just down the road there.

[01:07:38] Have we stalled long enough?

[01:07:40] Yep.

[01:07:42] Okay.

[01:07:43] Uh, so I'm going to cast, um, Major Image.

[01:07:47] Okay.

[01:07:48] Which is both, um, visual and audio.

[01:07:53] And I've spoken to, uh, Gardner before, right?

[01:07:56] Yeah.

[01:07:57] Sure.

[01:07:58] Okay.

[01:07:58] So I know the voice.

[01:07:59] Yeah.

[01:08:00] Okay.

[01:08:01] It's very, like, basically Brooklyn accent, but, um, like, it's the guy from, from the,

[01:08:06] uh, name Moe.

[01:08:07] It's like the, uh, the deputy that was, uh, that was with the sheriff.

[01:08:10] Okay.

[01:08:11] What's this deputy's name?

[01:08:12] This one?

[01:08:12] Oh, this guy?

[01:08:13] Um, his name is, uh, Deputy Croft.

[01:08:18] Okay.

[01:08:19] Okay.

[01:08:19] Now I've got to figure out a Brooklyn accent.

[01:08:23] I think I know his sister, Laura.

[01:08:25] Mm-hmm.

[01:08:27] Uh, I don't actually know her Brooklyn accent, so I can't do it.

[01:08:32] Okay, fair enough.

[01:08:33] Um.

[01:08:33] We just, you're, you're imitating the voice of, or you're, you're imitating the voice of

[01:08:38] the, uh, of the, uh, the sheriff.

[01:08:47] Mm-hmm.

[01:08:48] Walking is close enough.

[01:08:49] Uh.

[01:08:51] Yes, Aaron.

[01:08:52] Do a walking line.

[01:08:54] I can't.

[01:08:55] I suck at the walking.

[01:08:57] Um.

[01:08:59] Okay.

[01:08:59] Sorry.

[01:08:59] What was this deputy's name again?

[01:09:01] No, this is Deputy Croft.

[01:09:03] Okay.

[01:09:05] Croft, this is Gardner.

[01:09:06] Uh, is it like, he just appears?

[01:09:08] No.

[01:09:09] Radio.

[01:09:10] Oh, okay.

[01:09:10] Over the radio.

[01:09:11] Okay.

[01:09:11] He's just, there's, there's a little bit of static.

[01:09:13] His radio lights up.

[01:09:15] Yeah.

[01:09:15] Croft, this is Gardner.

[01:09:16] Oh.

[01:09:17] Oh.

[01:09:18] It pulls up his phone, is it?

[01:09:20] Uh, yeah, this, uh, yes, yes, uh, Sheriff, Gardner?

[01:09:24] Yeah, the, uh, the school just gave a call.

[01:09:27] Yo, let's go into Boston.

[01:09:29] That's fine.

[01:09:29] Let's, that's, that's, it's perfectly, like, appropriate for this.

[01:09:33] School just gave us a call.

[01:09:34] They sent in a guy down.

[01:09:36] With a couple of friends.

[01:09:38] They're to be given full access.

[01:09:41] No questions asked.

[01:09:43] Oh, okay.

[01:09:44] I'm gonna, I guess I have to have him roll an insight.

[01:09:47] To figure, to like, uh, against your spell, or spell DC.

[01:09:50] Spell DC?

[01:09:51] Yeah.

[01:09:58] Okay.

[01:09:59] 15.

[01:10:00] He's like, oh, um, again, still smiling, just like very nervously at this point.

[01:10:05] He's like, oh, uh, yeah.

[01:10:07] All right, um, no problem, sir.

[01:10:09] Um, they will be given full access.

[01:10:11] They're actually here right now.

[01:10:13] Um, all right, um, yeah.

[01:10:15] Over and out.

[01:10:16] Fantastic.

[01:10:17] You have a good shift there.

[01:10:19] Thanks, boss.

[01:10:21] Just like that.

[01:10:22] Fantastic.

[01:10:24] Love you too.

[01:10:25] Hugs and kisses.

[01:10:38] Casting.

[01:10:38] Oh, God.

[01:10:46] All right, so, yeah, uh, that, that works.

[01:10:49] He's like, oh, all right, um, yeah, I'll, uh, now I've got the, blah, blah.

[01:10:54] I'm like starting to do that, that inflection.

[01:10:56] Mm-hmm.

[01:10:57] For, uh, for Detective, uh, for, uh, for Deputy Croft.

[01:11:01] Uh, yeah, so, uh, well, I guess, uh, I guess your credentials came in.

[01:11:05] Uh, sorry about that, sir.

[01:11:06] Um, yeah, you're, you're, if you, you're free to, to look into it.

[01:11:11] Um, yeah, as, as best we can tell, uh, there, there was a kid with the, uh, the, the sewage

[01:11:18] maintenance guys down there, and, uh, uh, well, two of them plus the kid went down, and one

[01:11:25] of them came out with some really nasty gashes and, uh, and some injuries, and he's, uh,

[01:11:30] he's over at the local clinic right now, uh, screaming something foul.

[01:11:33] So, uh, something down there.

[01:11:36] Well, fuck.

[01:11:37] You gonna be all right there, bud?

[01:11:38] Hmm?

[01:11:39] You gonna be all right there, bud?

[01:11:40] I don't, I don't know.

[01:11:41] Um, I, the gashes were pretty deep on his legs.

[01:11:45] Fuck, guy.

[01:11:46] That's rough.

[01:11:47] That's fucking rough.

[01:11:49] All right, well, we'll make sure to be careful down there.

[01:11:52] Actually, you know what?

[01:11:53] Before we go down, I'm just gonna do this, and I'll go over to the, uh, uh, uh, no, I

[01:11:59] guess I don't actually own any body armor.

[01:12:03] Okay, well, I'm not gonna put body armor on.

[01:12:05] Yeah, you were gonna, you were gonna go get, uh, like a vest or something like that, or like

[01:12:08] a...

[01:12:08] Yeah, it turns out I don't actually own any body armor, so I'm not gonna go put body armor

[01:12:13] on.

[01:12:14] You can conjure some body armor.

[01:12:15] Yep, that's what I'm gonna do instead.

[01:12:17] I'm gonna cast Mage Armor.

[01:12:18] Probably not in front of this man.

[01:12:19] No, no, I'm gonna go over to my bike and, and just make it look like I'm rummaging through

[01:12:23] the saddle, saddlebags, and cast Mage Armor.

[01:12:29] And, uh, I guess I'll pick up and load up my DP-27.

[01:12:33] Okay.

[01:12:35] Because, you know, going into a sewer with an LMG in front of a cop is a great idea.

[01:12:39] I was gonna say, like...

[01:12:42] Are you actually?

[01:12:44] No!

[01:12:44] God, no!

[01:12:47] So how do you fit that in the saddlebags?

[01:12:49] It hangs like three quarters.

[01:12:51] Oh, sidecar.

[01:12:52] It's actually mounted on the sidecar.

[01:12:54] Oh, okay.

[01:12:55] All the time.

[01:12:56] That's not conspicuous at all.

[01:12:58] It's not conspicuous whatsoever.

[01:13:00] You just have, uh, Blood Genie here, just in the saddlebag.

[01:13:05] It's got like...

[01:13:06] That's a little Easter time.

[01:13:07] I've seen that guy shoot.

[01:13:08] No, you saw...

[01:13:09] I've seen us shoot with those...

[01:13:10] That was Russian...

[01:13:11] That was Russian Yuri, not Blood Genie.

[01:13:16] Uh, I will make sure that I've got the rest of my kit and my, um, my, my, uh, my book bag

[01:13:22] and all that stuff.

[01:13:23] Okay.

[01:13:24] And, uh, yeah.

[01:13:25] Yeah, I'll meet up with the other guys and we'll, I guess we'll, we'll climb down into

[01:13:29] the sewer.

[01:13:29] Okay, so you are at the sewer level.

[01:13:32] Yep, get the gas mask out.

[01:13:34] Yep.

[01:13:35] Yep.

[01:13:36] NVGs.

[01:13:38] Yep.

[01:13:39] My big enemy.

[01:13:39] Little body armor.

[01:13:40] Yeah, you, uh, the backpack drone that fires lasers.

[01:13:44] Never has to recharge.

[01:13:47] Only what overheats.

[01:13:48] That's not a thing.

[01:13:49] For democracy.

[01:13:52] We're not playing all that, are we?

[01:13:54] If there's bugs down here, we are.

[01:13:57] Yeah.

[01:13:58] I just, yeah, maybe.

[01:13:59] We'll see.

[01:14:02] Um, so you, you guys, uh, walk, you guys have climbed down, um, again, uh, the, uh, uh,

[01:14:09] deputy, uh, croc watching you the whole way, smiling, just confidently, like, looking

[01:14:13] around, saying, mm-hmm.

[01:14:16] Doing good work.

[01:14:17] Thanks.

[01:14:19] That is fucking creepy.

[01:14:21] Yeah.

[01:14:21] Uh, actually, just want to roll a insight as you were, uh, uh, as you're, as you're

[01:14:24] talking about that.

[01:14:25] Is that just how the town is?

[01:14:27] I haven't been here before.

[01:14:28] Is that how the town is?

[01:14:30] I don't know.

[01:14:31] Quick fail.

[01:14:31] Their polygonal faces.

[01:14:33] Really.

[01:14:34] I didn't.

[01:14:35] Uh, sorry, this was insight?

[01:14:37] Yeah.

[01:14:40] 17.

[01:14:41] Yeah, the towns, like, the townsfolk specifically, like, like, not, not the tourists that are outsiders,

[01:14:46] but the townsfolk specifically are always in such a chipper mood.

[01:14:50] Like, and have always been since you, since you've been here.

[01:14:53] I've just been eviscerated.

[01:14:56] Yeah.

[01:14:57] They're just, they're like, they're all like, and like, sometimes it, like, even the, like,

[01:15:02] the, uh, the students, like, when you were going to school and some of that would comment

[01:15:05] and, like, and, like, tell stories about, like, how the Kingsmothers were, like, they

[01:15:09] got the Kingsmith smile.

[01:15:11] Like, the Kingsmith look.

[01:15:13] Because they're always forcing, even, even when they're, like, angry or, like, they're

[01:15:17] arguing at the diners and some of that, they're always putting on a smile.

[01:15:21] Wow.

[01:15:22] And, and usually those, those arguments are, are, are quelled very quickly.

[01:15:25] Like, with hushed, uh, tones and such.

[01:15:28] The whole town's, like, kind of got this, like, Pleasantville or, like, uh, kind of, uh,

[01:15:33] Stepford Wife kind of, kind of creepiness to it.

[01:15:36] Mm-hmm.

[01:15:37] I wonder if there's something in the water.

[01:15:39] I don't know, but we're going in it almost.

[01:15:41] Yeah.

[01:15:41] So as you guys descend down, uh, do you guys have flashlights?

[01:15:43] Yep.

[01:15:45] Yup.

[01:15:45] I have NVGs.

[01:15:46] Fair.

[01:15:46] And flashlights.

[01:15:48] I have a flashlight.

[01:15:50] Is it a cantrip?

[01:15:52] Yes.

[01:15:52] Light.

[01:15:53] Light.

[01:15:53] I could also just change my hander.

[01:15:56] Oh, yeah.

[01:15:57] Isn't it ever burning?

[01:15:58] Oh, yeah.

[01:15:58] I have dancing lights as well.

[01:16:00] Yeah.

[01:16:00] Cantrip.

[01:16:01] Four torches around us at all times.

[01:16:03] I don't know if they're...

[01:16:04] Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

[01:16:06] They're four torch-sized things.

[01:16:08] Torch-sized lights.

[01:16:10] Okay.

[01:16:10] Not actual torches.

[01:16:11] In third ed, the benefit to light was it produced light like a torch.

[01:16:19] Dancing lights produced four lights about the size of a candle.

[01:16:25] I can double-check it, but I wrote down it makes four torch-sized lights.

[01:16:29] It's a bonus action to move the lights.

[01:16:31] I got the book right here.

[01:16:33] Let's see who's faster.

[01:16:36] So I just wanted to check to see where Lucy was because I don't put her on the lead anymore.

[01:16:41] Because...

[01:16:42] Well, she's not going to run away today.

[01:16:43] Exactly.

[01:16:43] It's a light.

[01:16:44] And I look down and she's like...

[01:16:46] She's in the heart.

[01:16:46] You create up to four torch-sized lights within range, making them appear as torches, lanterns,

[01:16:51] or glowing orbs that hover in the air for the duration.

[01:16:53] And also combine the four lights into one glowing, vaguely humanoid form, medium size.

[01:17:00] Whichever form you choose, each light sheds dim light in a ten-foot radius.

[01:17:05] Yes.

[01:17:07] Okay.

[01:17:10] Okay.

[01:17:11] And then light, I believe, is thirty-foot radius.

[01:17:19] But light is also centered on an object.

[01:17:22] Yeah.

[01:17:27] But yeah, so you guys have light.

[01:17:29] Twenty-foot radius.

[01:17:30] Yes.

[01:17:30] We have different forms of light.

[01:17:32] Okay.

[01:17:33] So as you're trekking down, I guess this would be either survival to track or perception,

[01:17:39] if you'd like.

[01:17:39] Oh, that's one of my jams.

[01:17:43] I get advantage on tracking.

[01:17:47] Is that when you're a dog?

[01:17:51] Well, by the time...

[01:17:52] Because I went down the ladder first.

[01:17:54] So by the time you guys get to the bottom of the ladder, there's a dog there.

[01:17:59] Oh, okay.

[01:18:00] You have a half-sawed dog down there.

[01:18:05] Because it is at least up to your ankles.

[01:18:09] And that's just the shallow part.

[01:18:11] Yeah.

[01:18:15] But yeah, you see...

[01:18:18] You guys get down the rung of ladder...

[01:18:22] Or the ladder rungs down there.

[01:18:24] And you find basically...

[01:18:28] Like...

[01:18:28] It's almost like catacombs.

[01:18:30] Like...

[01:18:31] It's brickwork.

[01:18:32] And it's brickwork tunnels down here.

[01:18:35] Should we get the dice out?

[01:18:37] So we know which way goes where?

[01:18:39] To figure out our way through?

[01:18:40] No, it's like...

[01:18:42] You said it's like catacombs.

[01:18:44] I imagined it was going to like...

[01:18:45] No, I'm not doing...

[01:18:46] No, I'm not doing...

[01:18:47] I know.

[01:18:47] This one's not a...

[01:18:48] It's like 22 on my tracking.

[01:18:50] On tracking?

[01:18:51] 21?

[01:18:51] Okay.

[01:18:52] 22.

[01:18:52] 22.

[01:18:53] Yeah.

[01:18:53] So you guys are traveling.

[01:18:55] It's only like one way or the other.

[01:18:56] And you're going...

[01:18:57] There's a few like meandering spots, but it's not like too bad.

[01:19:01] And...

[01:19:03] Yeah, with your tracking, you find a leg floating in the water.

[01:19:09] Is it a human leg?

[01:19:10] Yeah, human leg.

[01:19:11] How fresh?

[01:19:12] Pretty fresh looking.

[01:19:14] Based on the blood that's kind of pooling around the water with it.

[01:19:18] It seems to be the pant leg that's still attached in the boot.

[01:19:24] Seemed to be that of a maintenance worker.

[01:19:28] Okay.

[01:19:30] And there's some pretty jagged like...

[01:19:34] Gashes near the wound end of it.

[01:19:39] Does it look like a bite?

[01:19:41] Looks more like a gash.

[01:19:43] Like slashing.

[01:19:44] All the way through?

[01:19:45] Yeah.

[01:19:45] Okay.

[01:19:46] That's concerning.

[01:19:47] That means concerning.

[01:19:47] We're going to slash.

[01:19:49] Yeah.

[01:19:50] Okay.

[01:19:51] So I guess we go upstream from here?

[01:19:54] Yeah.

[01:19:55] Check it out.

[01:19:56] That's when all of you guys hear this sort of like guttural, sloshing growl.

[01:20:04] Like kind of echoing, not like directly ahead of you, but down the same way, like downstream.

[01:20:11] And it's just like, or like in front of you guys.

[01:20:14] And it's like echoing off the tunnels.

[01:20:17] It vaguely sounds, you could like, it's like, that could maybe be that thrum that gators do,

[01:20:23] but it's, there's something off about it.

[01:20:26] You guys want to roll nature?

[01:20:30] Or, let's say nature for the camera to try and guess what.

[01:20:37] By the way, I can send the torches ahead of us as a distraction.

[01:20:41] If it's just a creature, it might like, we'll either see it, it might attack the torches or something.

[01:20:49] Uh, 11.

[01:20:51] 11?

[01:20:51] Okay.

[01:20:53] So what's, I might be Druid-ish, but it's just ish.

[01:20:57] Uh, 17.

[01:20:58] 17, okay.

[01:21:00] Um, I mean, you've, you've heard like gator sounds.

[01:21:04] You can kind of, it kind of sounds like that.

[01:21:07] You probably, that's probably why people were here, like how people are hearing it,

[01:21:11] because it's like echoing off the walls of this place and like coming off,

[01:21:13] like going through the very slots of the, um, like above.

[01:21:18] But there's something else to it. It's like, there's like a slot, the sloshing is like,

[01:21:24] almost like, like a wet mop, like sloshing, like back, like, like been dumped in the water

[01:21:31] and like sloshed about. And like a chittering, almost like much like larger cricket mixed in with it.

[01:21:40] I don't like those combinations of sounds.

[01:21:42] Yeah. Like that's, you see that like, that's underlying the, the, the guttural like thrum that you hear,

[01:21:47] that you're hearing.

[01:21:48] Okay. So I'm pretty sure it's not just a mundane alligator.

[01:21:53] It's definitely not an alligator.

[01:21:54] Okay.

[01:21:55] That, that, I mean, um, yeah, it's definitely not an alligator.

[01:21:59] Okay.

[01:21:59] Do I hear a ticking?

[01:22:01] A ticking?

[01:22:03] Yeah. Cause maybe it's not an alligator. Maybe it's a croc.

[01:22:06] No.

[01:22:07] You do not hear tick-tock the croc.

[01:22:12] It's always worth asking.

[01:22:13] It is for sure.

[01:22:14] It happened in one of Chris's games.

[01:22:17] Um, yeah, whatever the hell that is, that's, that's no alligator.

[01:22:22] Yeah.

[01:22:23] But it is.

[01:22:23] Get your magic right.

[01:22:24] Yeah.

[01:22:25] Yeah. And it is basically, you can't pinpoint how far away it was because, because of how

[01:22:31] echoey it is in here, but it's definitely ahead of you from where that, that limb, that

[01:22:36] leg was like floating down from.

[01:22:40] Okay.

[01:22:40] Okay.

[01:22:43] Uh, so do you guys proceed forward?

[01:22:45] I proceed forward first.

[01:22:47] All right.

[01:22:48] If you want, I can send my torches ahead of us.

[01:22:51] Just as things that can't really be destroyed.

[01:22:55] It's just a light.

[01:22:57] Okay.

[01:22:57] Send the torches ahead and I'll follow them and...

[01:22:59] Because they're all...

[01:23:00] What do you torches look like?

[01:23:03] Torches.

[01:23:04] I don't know.

[01:23:05] I didn't actually think about that.

[01:23:06] They just look like fairy fire, like, uh, like yellow wisps floating in the air.

[01:23:09] Or they can look like literal torches floating through the air or lanterns.

[01:23:13] Or you can combine them into a humanoid shape.

[01:23:16] Yeah.

[01:23:17] It could be like light over.

[01:23:17] They can look like whatever the hell you want.

[01:23:20] Yeah.

[01:23:21] They can be ghastlies.

[01:23:22] Or the, or that lantern ghost Pokemon.

[01:23:25] But please don't.

[01:23:27] But I could now.

[01:23:28] You could.

[01:23:29] Um.

[01:23:31] It's like, why did I bring that up?

[01:23:33] Yeah, I know.

[01:23:38] It could literally look like Slimer from the Ghostbusters.

[01:23:42] Mm-hmm.

[01:23:44] Or the new estate buff marshmallow man.

[01:23:47] He's the 2016 version that glows.

[01:23:49] Does he?

[01:23:50] Yeah.

[01:23:50] Really?

[01:23:51] Yeah.

[01:23:51] Why?

[01:23:52] Because all the ghosts in that movie glowed.

[01:23:54] Oh.

[01:23:56] Like cartoonishly.

[01:23:57] The new one's really good.

[01:23:58] I do like the new one.

[01:23:59] I actually watched it.

[01:24:01] But anyway.

[01:24:01] For the time being, they look like torches.

[01:24:03] Oh.

[01:24:04] They were floating torches.

[01:24:05] Yeah.

[01:24:05] You're having them go farther down?

[01:24:07] Yep.

[01:24:08] Okay.

[01:24:08] What about you guys' perception?

[01:24:10] As you're walking through this, trudging through this ankle and then sometimes knee-deep water.

[01:24:16] Ooh, I did really good on that one.

[01:24:19] What was that, perception?

[01:24:21] 26.

[01:24:21] 26?

[01:24:22] All right.

[01:24:23] Now hold on.

[01:24:23] Shit.

[01:24:24] I'm going to re-roll that.

[01:24:28] I rolled a one.

[01:24:29] Oh, okay.

[01:24:30] Yeah.

[01:24:31] Into the gray water.

[01:24:34] Oh, I'm just overwhelmed by the smells.

[01:24:36] That's fair, yeah.

[01:24:37] Because I'm a canine core.

[01:24:38] Well, you go pretty deep.

[01:24:39] Like, you suddenly, like, dip down.

[01:24:41] I'm like, oh!

[01:24:41] Oh, it's so close.

[01:24:44] It's like onions.

[01:24:45] It's like onions.

[01:24:46] It's in my mouth.

[01:24:47] The taste.

[01:24:48] The taste is in my mouth.

[01:24:51] Sorry, what?

[01:24:52] 28.

[01:24:53] 28?

[01:24:53] Oh, shit.

[01:24:53] You too, Marcel and John, you see something bobbing up and down ahead.

[01:25:00] Is it a head?

[01:25:02] It does look like somebody's hair that's bobbing up on the surface of the gray water.

[01:25:10] Like, just underneath one of your torches.

[01:25:12] Yeah.

[01:25:13] I shall go forth and retrieve it.

[01:25:15] Okay, carefully.

[01:25:16] You go over and you...

[01:25:19] Yeah, at this point, it's pretty close to...

[01:25:21] It looks like farther down there's a couple of alcoves and such.

[01:25:25] And places where something could be ambushing and some of that.

[01:25:27] But as you're approaching this head that's bobbing, it, like, bobs and rotates around.

[01:25:34] And you see the man's face.

[01:25:37] It looks like he's clean-shaven, balding hair.

[01:25:40] Or, like, balding head.

[01:25:43] And one of his eyes, his eye sockets specifically, has been, like, punctured through.

[01:25:48] And there's just this horrible pussy, like, purple, like, bloating around the face.

[01:25:55] Nice.

[01:25:56] As if something punctured his eye.

[01:26:00] Well, into the evidence bag it goes.

[01:26:02] That's the head, the neck, and the part of the clavicle.

[01:26:07] And, like, one part of the shoulder.

[01:26:09] How about you just take a picture?

[01:26:10] He was sliced...

[01:26:13] Like that.

[01:26:14] Yeah.

[01:26:15] So, like, Mortal Kombat Fatality style.

[01:26:17] Yeah, like...

[01:26:18] You're guessing probably the puncture killed him or something like that.

[01:26:21] And then something just eviscerated him.

[01:26:24] Okay.

[01:26:24] Hold up.

[01:26:25] Take a picture.

[01:26:26] Put him off the side.

[01:26:27] Yeah.

[01:26:27] We'll just continue on.

[01:26:28] Mm-hmm.

[01:26:30] Also, is Mr. Dog having a hard time walking through the...

[01:26:33] Oh, yeah.

[01:26:33] You're here, you're here, dogs.

[01:26:34] That's why you...

[01:26:35] Oh, Paul.

[01:26:36] I was like...

[01:26:37] Oh, my God.

[01:26:38] That's it.

[01:26:38] Yeah.

[01:26:39] See, at one point you had to actually doggy paddle across some water.

[01:26:43] Okay.

[01:26:44] And it was not a fun...

[01:26:45] I know water walk.

[01:26:46] I know water walk.

[01:26:46] How about I just cast that?

[01:26:48] Okay.

[01:26:49] I'll accept that.

[01:26:50] Okay, cool.

[01:26:51] Then I'll cast water walk.

[01:26:52] Mm-hmm.

[01:26:55] But yeah, you...

[01:26:58] You cast water walk.

[01:26:59] Suddenly he's like...

[01:27:00] Boop!

[01:27:00] Actually, all three of us.

[01:27:02] Okay, so you got to go...

[01:27:02] It lasts for ten minutes.

[01:27:03] We could just walk on water.

[01:27:05] So, like, for the first, like, ten minutes...

[01:27:07] Ten, fifteen minutes of you guys, like, trudging through...

[01:27:09] Like, you guys, like, trudging through this water.

[01:27:10] And they're like...

[01:27:11] And you look over to, like, the doggo who's, like, struggling.

[01:27:13] It's like, why don't I just cast this?

[01:27:15] It's like, you could have done that the whole time?

[01:27:17] Yes, I could have.

[01:27:17] I don't know what I'm running into.

[01:27:18] I'm saving my magic.

[01:27:20] He would understand.

[01:27:21] Yeah.

[01:27:22] But yeah, you guys also up ahead see another...

[01:27:26] Like, a source of glow that's not your torches.

[01:27:29] As you continue forward.

[01:27:31] It seems to be coming from one of the alcoves.

[01:27:34] Ah, we're walking on water.

[01:27:36] So, on the way, he's the truth.

[01:27:38] No, you're the truth, and he's the light.

[01:27:40] Yep.

[01:27:42] But yeah, so...

[01:27:43] There seems to be a glow ahead of you guys.

[01:27:45] And I'm just going to investigate.

[01:27:47] Okay.

[01:27:48] As you guys are approaching, you start hearing...

[01:27:51] I'm going to pull the lights back behind us as we go out of them.

[01:27:54] Okay.

[01:27:54] So you're, like, not being...

[01:27:55] So you're being a little stutter.

[01:27:56] Oh, I don't have any light.

[01:27:59] Because I'm in dog form.

[01:28:00] Yes.

[01:28:01] That's part of the reason why I had the lights going.

[01:28:03] Yeah.

[01:28:04] So you can kind of see.

[01:28:07] Um...

[01:28:07] Yeah, you hear, um...

[01:28:09] It sounds like heavy panting.

[01:28:11] Like, exhaustion.

[01:28:12] Sort of like panting and, like, retching.

[01:28:14] From that alcove.

[01:28:16] Human sounding?

[01:28:17] Sounds like it.

[01:28:20] Okay.

[01:28:22] Um...

[01:28:23] Yeah.

[01:28:24] How are you guys just going to, like...

[01:28:26] I'm going to go check it out.

[01:28:27] You're just going to walk over there?

[01:28:28] Yeah.

[01:28:29] Okay.

[01:28:29] I'm a wolf dog thingy right now.

[01:28:33] Okay.

[01:28:34] Stay on the down low.

[01:28:35] Stay quiet.

[01:28:36] Do our radio still work with you in dog mode?

[01:28:39] Because the radio turns into dog as well.

[01:28:42] I don't think I can hear over the radio in dog mode.

[01:28:45] It's just in your dog ear.

[01:28:47] Okay.

[01:28:48] But I can't talk.

[01:28:49] Yeah.

[01:28:49] No.

[01:28:50] That's what I mean.

[01:28:51] Is it at least one way communication to you?

[01:28:53] Or does all this stuff not work?

[01:28:55] I'll love it.

[01:28:56] Okay.

[01:28:56] You just can't respond back.

[01:28:58] Okay.

[01:28:59] Take the wolves.

[01:29:00] Yeah.

[01:29:01] Yeah, so are you being stealthy at all?

[01:29:03] Or are you just kind of like...

[01:29:05] I mean, I guess I am.

[01:29:07] You know, don't have to worry about my armor clanking or anything.

[01:29:11] No, but you're still doing the adorable thing where, like, you're hunkered right down and you're like...

[01:29:15] You're crawling as a puppy.

[01:29:17] Like, little splishy splashes on the water, too.

[01:29:19] Yeah.

[01:29:20] Yeah.

[01:29:21] All right.

[01:29:21] Roll stealth test.

[01:29:32] Roll to 16.

[01:29:35] And what do wolves get?

[01:29:40] That's an elk.

[01:29:41] Well, fear of them.

[01:29:45] Stealth plus 4.

[01:29:49] So 16 and 4 is 20.

[01:29:51] Dirty 20.

[01:29:52] All right.

[01:29:53] So the person doesn't notice you as you kind of, like, creep over to see what's behind the...

[01:29:58] What's causing that glow in the halko and such.

[01:30:01] Um, and yeah, there's a guy, uh, like a 20-something.

[01:30:05] It's Hank.

[01:30:07] Hank Desmond.

[01:30:08] Um, and, uh, based off of this photo that you saw.

[01:30:11] And, uh, he's about knee-deep in the water.

[01:30:14] Retching.

[01:30:15] Looks like he's thrown up a couple of times.

[01:30:17] And he's got his hands up and holding a barrier ward on the alcove.

[01:30:23] Uh, he doesn't look very good.

[01:30:24] Uh, he looks pretty sickly.

[01:30:26] Looks like there's a nasty gash that he's tried to, like, wrap up on his, one of his arms.

[01:30:30] Does he smell like the filth?

[01:30:31] No.

[01:30:32] Okay.

[01:30:33] He does not smell like the filth.

[01:30:34] Uh, but, and he has not noticed you as you're, as he's just trying to concentrate on keeping this ward up.

[01:30:39] And you're looking at the ward.

[01:30:41] He must have been keeping concentration for a while.

[01:30:44] Because that thing is slow, like, it's, it's staying firm, but it's, like, it's not gonna last very much longer.

[01:30:50] But he is keeping it up.

[01:30:52] Like, trying to strengthen it with whatever.

[01:30:56] Really?

[01:30:57] It's not gonna last very long.

[01:30:58] It's kind of getting weak, but he's keeping it up.

[01:31:01] Like, the wording you used.

[01:31:03] I was gonna let it pass the first couple of times, but you just kept going.

[01:31:07] I didn't even notice.

[01:31:08] I know, I know.

[01:31:09] I'm sorry.

[01:31:10] Like, like I told Brownie, we are all immature and horrible.

[01:31:16] Um, but yeah, he's, you know, he's just, like, keeping the, the energy, like, like, keeping his ward stabilized.

[01:31:23] He's keeping that ward erect.

[01:31:24] He's keeping the ward stabilized as best he can, but he can't keep at it, because he's running out of energy.

[01:31:30] Okay.

[01:31:31] Um, running out of anima or magic or what have you, uh, to it.

[01:31:34] So, um, yeah, uh, but, yeah, he doesn't notice you.

[01:31:39] So, okay.

[01:31:40] I'll, uh, poke my head back around the corner, look at these guys, give them a big doggy grin, wag my tail a couple of times, turn back around, go back towards, uh, Desmond.

[01:31:48] Yeah.

[01:31:49] Okay.

[01:31:50] And then just kind of sit at his feet.

[01:31:52] No, you can't get through to the alcove.

[01:31:54] Oh, he's on the other side.

[01:31:56] Yeah, he's on the other side.

[01:31:56] Like, he's in the alcove, keeping something out of the alcove.

[01:32:00] We're in the bad side.

[01:32:01] We're in the bad side.

[01:32:02] Yeah.

[01:32:02] Okay.

[01:32:03] Yeah.

[01:32:03] Okay.

[01:32:04] I'm just going to sit down at the barrier, look at him.

[01:32:08] Oh.

[01:32:09] Dog on.

[01:32:10] Jesus dog?

[01:32:11] Um.

[01:32:13] Um.

[01:32:14] He's, like, he's trying to, like, he's, like, trying to concentrate and, like, not stifle a lap, because it might interrupt his concentration.

[01:32:21] Get out of here, puppy.

[01:32:22] Come on, get out.

[01:32:23] They're going to get you.

[01:32:24] They're going to slice you up.

[01:32:26] Come on, go.

[01:32:26] Go.

[01:32:27] Get out.

[01:32:27] Get lost.

[01:32:28] I'll just walk up behind the dog.

[01:32:30] Have no fear of my son.

[01:32:31] I'm here.

[01:32:33] What?

[01:32:35] We are here.

[01:32:37] At that point, like, he can't, like, he maybe drops the board.

[01:32:41] It's like, shit.

[01:32:42] Fuck.

[01:32:43] He's trying to do it again.

[01:32:44] It doesn't work.

[01:32:44] And it's like, shit.

[01:32:45] I just walk up, put a hand on him.

[01:32:47] Restore.

[01:32:48] 1D health.

[01:32:49] Okay.

[01:32:50] Have a lay on hands.

[01:32:51] Yeah.

[01:32:53] Take, uh, five hit points.

[01:32:55] Okay.

[01:32:58] Thank you.

[01:32:59] Did the school break send you?

[01:33:01] They sent him.

[01:33:02] As I pointed to the dog.

[01:33:03] They sent a dog?

[01:33:04] Oh.

[01:33:05] A polymorph.

[01:33:06] Yes.

[01:33:07] Um, we, we gotta get out of here.

[01:33:10] You guys got guns?

[01:33:11] Big guns?

[01:33:12] I got a big hammer.

[01:33:13] Okay.

[01:33:14] Sure.

[01:33:14] That's not my fingers.

[01:33:15] Shit.

[01:33:15] I don't know if that'll be enough.

[01:33:17] There's a cob down here.

[01:33:18] There's a, they broke through the, they broke through the wall.

[01:33:20] They, they, they burrowed up into the sewers.

[01:33:22] We gotta get the fuck out of here.

[01:33:23] We gotta tell, we gotta tell, uh, uh, Montag.

[01:33:26] They got, we gotta clear this.

[01:33:27] We gotta, like, get somebody, some people down here to clear this.

[01:33:31] All right.

[01:33:31] Well, we're gonna take you back to the, the, uh, the ladder right here.

[01:33:35] And then we're gonna go clear it.

[01:33:37] Okay.

[01:33:37] Okay.

[01:33:37] Broke roll, Raggy.

[01:33:38] Where are they?

[01:33:39] Um, I think the, the tunnel's down there, but like, a couple of them chased, uh, one of

[01:33:45] the, chased one of the, the sewer maintenance guys, uh, down toward the, the ladder.

[01:33:50] Yeah.

[01:33:50] And is that, at that point, you guys can roll perception tests.

[01:33:56] Wait, he, he's saying at which point?

[01:34:00] He chased someone down somewhere?

[01:34:02] Like, at some point, um, a couple of them ran past his alcove and chased one of the, the

[01:34:08] maintenance workers.

[01:34:10] Toward?

[01:34:10] Toward the ladder.

[01:34:12] Yeah, towards where he came from.

[01:34:13] Yeah.

[01:34:13] Yeah.

[01:34:13] Yeah.

[01:34:13] Is that perception test?

[01:34:14] Yep.

[01:34:16] 11.

[01:34:17] 11?

[01:34:18] 11?

[01:34:20] 19.

[01:34:21] 19?

[01:34:22] Uh, 17.

[01:34:24] At that point, um, uh, John.

[01:34:28] John, you look, you hear something like far, like, like, down, down the tunnel you guys came

[01:34:34] from, and you look over and there are two dark forms silhouetted in the, uh, in the low light

[01:34:40] from, like, just, like, beyond, beyond your, your, um.

[01:34:44] The torches.

[01:34:44] Your torches, like, light, uh, field.

[01:34:46] Okay.

[01:34:47] Uh, you, you see basically multiple, like, sets of glowing eyes, like, at least, like,

[01:34:51] six or seven sets of glowing eyes from two large, uh, from two, from two sources.

[01:34:57] Do you know what cobs are?

[01:34:58] Uh, a cobs?

[01:35:00] Um, the, uh, you, you might, actually, honestly, you might all know.

[01:35:06] So, all of you guys can roll, uh, uh, arcana.

[01:35:09] Do I have to roll?

[01:35:11] I'll, I'll give it to you.

[01:35:13] Uh, 17.

[01:35:14] 17?

[01:35:19] Yeah, it's a roll advantage.

[01:35:20] Eight.

[01:35:21] Eight?

[01:35:21] Okay.

[01:35:22] So.

[01:35:22] Well, it's, it's an arcana, so.

[01:35:24] Yeah.

[01:35:25] I do roll with advantage.

[01:35:30] Uh, 28 on a natural 20.

[01:35:32] That, that makes it 100%.

[01:35:33] Like, like, John might not know them because, like, you're pretty new to the secret world

[01:35:36] stuff.

[01:35:37] Marcel, you fought a lot of things down, down Louisiana and such.

[01:35:41] And you literally went to school here, John, uh, Jacob.

[01:35:44] So, you know what a cobs are.

[01:35:46] A cobs are basically a combination of moth and cockroach.

[01:35:52] Um, but, like, you know the movie Mimic?

[01:35:55] The, uh, the, the, the Guillermo del Toro movie, uh, with, like, the giant insects in the sewers

[01:35:59] that ate homeless people?

[01:36:01] Okay, what's a giant, basically, it's a mix between a cicada and a moth and a cockroach

[01:36:06] that had a baby with Cthulhu.

[01:36:09] That's basically what these things are.

[01:36:10] Okay.

[01:36:11] They're tentacled, uh, they're about the size of a, of a person, um, sometimes larger.

[01:36:16] The humanoid?

[01:36:17] Uh, no, they're not humanoid.

[01:36:19] They're strictly, like, an insectoid, like, an album.

[01:36:22] Um, they, um, according to the history books, uh, that are at Innsmouth Academy, uh, Jacob

[01:36:29] knows that, uh, they're, they're, they're said to have originated from, uh, from a cult

[01:36:33] that came down, from a blood cult that came down from South America, or came up from South

[01:36:37] America during the Darkness Wars in, like, the secret history of, of Solomon Island.

[01:36:41] Um, and ever since then, they've kind of infested the underground, around, uh, of Solomon Island.

[01:36:46] Um, they are horrible, hive-minded insect monsters.

[01:36:51] Basically, the arachnids from Starship Troopers, or the terminids from, uh, from, uh, Hell letters.

[01:36:58] Okay.

[01:36:59] Um, yeah, they're, they're basically giant bug monsters.

[01:37:03] Uh, with tentacles, uh, and human-like teeth in their, in their jaws.

[01:37:07] God, we're underground, we can't call any stratagems.

[01:37:09] Let's just land on the street upstairs.

[01:37:11] We're just bombing these aliens?

[01:37:13] Yeah, basically.

[01:37:14] God damn it.

[01:37:15] It would be better, you guys could have been hearing, like, red staff, like, see red glows

[01:37:18] in the dark, and just, like, uh, what is it, uh, what is it?

[01:37:21] Iron Heart.

[01:37:23] Oh, yeah, the...

[01:37:24] Like, the, the, the marching protocol of the automatons.

[01:37:27] Mm.

[01:37:29] Uh, but yeah, no, you see these, and you hear them shittering, and, like, that guttural,

[01:37:32] like, sound that they're saying, or as, that they call out, as they're slowly approaching

[01:37:36] you from the way you just came.

[01:37:39] Okay, we're not going that way.

[01:37:40] So I hold up my finger, I pull out my phone, I go to Spotify, I start playing La Cucaracha,

[01:37:48] and charge.

[01:37:49] Oh, you did charge them?

[01:37:50] Okay.

[01:37:50] Fuck them.

[01:37:51] All right, so he's running that way.

[01:37:53] Um, so, uh, Dazma, what's your first name?

[01:37:55] Hank.

[01:37:56] Uh, Hank.

[01:37:57] Did you come from that way?

[01:37:58] Yeah, yeah, that's where we came, oh, fuck.

[01:38:00] No, the, the other way, did you come from...

[01:38:01] No, no, that's, that's where the burrow is, that's where we found the, the, the opening,

[01:38:05] and where they started attacking us from.

[01:38:08] And then you look down that way, and you can see a couple of eyes off in the distance

[01:38:11] that way, too.

[01:38:12] Okay.

[01:38:12] So you're basically, they're converging.

[01:38:14] Cool, I was basically seeing if there was a way he knew to get out that way.

[01:38:19] Yeah, no.

[01:38:19] Okay, cool.

[01:38:20] This is great.

[01:38:21] This is fun.

[01:38:21] I mean, it's a fairly narrow space, so they can't get by.

[01:38:24] Yeah, it's like, um, basically, like, it's like a ten foot circular tunnel.

[01:38:29] Yeah.

[01:38:30] It's a big sewer.

[01:38:30] Yeah, well, again, it was a, it wasn't a, it was a, it was both used for, it's used

[01:38:35] for sewers now.

[01:38:36] It was originally used for bootleggers and other people and stuff like that, so.

[01:38:39] Well, I still probably hold, uh, hold the, with the tunnel.

[01:38:42] Mm-hmm.

[01:38:43] All right.

[01:38:44] So, um, but yeah, so there are two on one side of you guys, and then there are three

[01:38:51] on the other side.

[01:38:52] Okay.

[01:38:54] Um, and I guess we'll roll an issue.

[01:39:00] La Cucara, la Cucara, la Cucara, 15.

[01:39:05] 15.

[01:39:06] 15?

[01:39:07] Oh, good, you're the same one you had last week.

[01:39:11] I roll consistent.

[01:39:13] 14.

[01:39:15] That's scary, because you also had 14 last week.

[01:39:18] You better do yours, Aaron.

[01:39:19] What'd you get, Jacob?

[01:39:21] 21.

[01:39:22] 20.

[01:39:23] So close.

[01:39:24] That was really close, though.

[01:39:25] Yeah, you guys all got, like, basically the same, like, uh, because I didn't delete them

[01:39:30] from last week, so.

[01:39:30] Uh, let's see what the, uh, let's see what the, uh, Cob got.

[01:39:35] Cob 1, Cob 2.

[01:39:38] Those are the ones that are gonna be, so Cob 1 and Cob 2 are the ones that are coming in

[01:39:42] from the way you guys came from, and then a Cob 3 and 4 and 5 are the ones that are coming

[01:39:47] in from the other side of the tunnel, the other end of the tunnel.

[01:40:06] Does using an anima feature use an action or a bonus action or a reaction, or do they just

[01:40:12] work?

[01:40:12] The anima features themselves tell you what kind of action they utilize.

[01:40:17] I don't remember ever seeing that.

[01:40:19] Because, uh, my, some of my anima features use a, uh, a bonus action.

[01:40:26] Like, um.

[01:40:27] Mine often get added to attack actions.

[01:40:31] Yeah, or mine get added to attack actions as well.

[01:40:38] Alright, so, Jacob, you are up on the roster.

[01:40:44] Okay.

[01:40:45] I'm going after the, uh, the two.

[01:40:47] So you're following, um, Marcel.

[01:40:52] Because there are two, he was going after the two that were blocking you guys way back

[01:40:56] to the escape, or back to the ladder.

[01:40:57] Okay.

[01:40:58] And then there are three on the other side.

[01:40:59] Then if he's gone that way, then I will go after the three.

[01:41:02] Okay.

[01:41:03] I will have a one-man army.

[01:41:05] I honestly figured they were going after the three.

[01:41:08] I didn't know there were three on the team.

[01:41:10] Yeah, he started running, and then you guys were like, alright, well, like, you're just

[01:41:13] like, Hank, was there an escape way that way?

[01:41:15] He's like, no, that's where the burrow is.

[01:41:18] Ah, shit.

[01:41:19] And then that's where they showed up.

[01:41:20] So wait, he was on the side of the burrow, putting a ward with their spawn point behind

[01:41:27] him.

[01:41:27] No.

[01:41:28] He, he, he was being, they, they found the burrow, him and the maintenance guys found

[01:41:32] the burrow.

[01:41:33] Yeah.

[01:41:33] They ambushed them at the burrow.

[01:41:35] They started running.

[01:41:36] One of the men, one of the guys got, got eviscerated.

[01:41:38] Um, Hank didn't think he was going to make it.

[01:41:41] So he hit, he slid into a, into an alcove, like just like a, like a small, like room,

[01:41:46] like a small little, uh, well, like basically like a closet size room or like off to the

[01:41:50] side of the, of like the.

[01:41:51] I see.

[01:41:51] And he set up a, he built a, he built a barrier.

[01:41:54] Yeah.

[01:41:55] Sorry.

[01:41:55] I misunderstood.

[01:41:55] I thought there was an entire place behind, like an entire.

[01:41:58] No, no, no, no.

[01:41:59] It's pretty.

[01:42:00] Like a hallway behind him.

[01:42:00] Yeah.

[01:42:00] No, it's pretty, like there's just a little like a dead end place there.

[01:42:03] Okay.

[01:42:04] Yeah.

[01:42:04] I understand that.

[01:42:05] Sorry.

[01:42:05] Yeah.

[01:42:05] No worries.

[01:42:06] So you're going after the, uh, the three though, Jacob?

[01:42:08] Yep.

[01:42:09] Okay.

[01:42:10] Yep.

[01:42:10] And they are, uh, medium sized monstrosities.

[01:42:13] Uh, they're, they're just three.

[01:42:16] Okay.

[01:42:16] Well then I'm going to, uh, uh, uh, how far away are they?

[01:42:20] Uh, they're probably about 50 feet away.

[01:42:29] Let me check what my movement is.

[01:42:31] Wait, did anyone get a terrible initiative roll?

[01:42:34] No.

[01:42:35] No.

[01:42:35] Cool.

[01:42:36] Actually, the only one that got a shot.

[01:42:38] I don't mean the, I don't mean the bots.

[01:42:39] I heard, uh, no, I was going to say the one that got in the shooting initiative was actually

[01:42:42] the last cog.

[01:42:43] Yeah.

[01:42:44] That I rolled for.

[01:42:45] Man, my movement speed is 40 feet.

[01:42:52] Sorry.

[01:42:54] You know what?

[01:42:54] Fuck it.

[01:42:55] They're 40 feet away.

[01:42:56] You could charge.

[01:42:59] Yes, but if I charged then that, uh, actually, I think it still leaves my bonus action open.

[01:43:09] Okay.

[01:43:10] Okay.

[01:43:10] In any event, uh, I, I'm going to, I'm going to run in.

[01:43:14] And I'm going to bite.

[01:43:15] Because that's, uh, that's my shtick.

[01:43:17] That's what I got.

[01:43:18] So that's what I'm going to do.

[01:43:24] That is ridiculous.

[01:43:26] What, going in and biting him?

[01:43:28] No, no, no.

[01:43:28] I'm like, this isn't like a combat thing.

[01:43:30] Despite their exoskeleton, cops can compress their bodies to move through any opening at

[01:43:35] least one inch wide without squeezing.

[01:43:39] They are a medium-sized creature.

[01:43:42] I mean, cockroaches.

[01:43:44] I guess that's what they're going with.

[01:43:46] Yeah.

[01:43:47] 16 to hit.

[01:43:48] I'll see what one looks like.

[01:43:49] That's what you're fighting.

[01:43:51] Ew.

[01:43:52] Yeah.

[01:43:52] Fighting creepy bonus.

[01:43:55] What, sorry, what was that?

[01:43:56] 16 to hit.

[01:43:57] 16 to hit.

[01:43:59] Uh, that will not hit.

[01:44:07] Sorry.

[01:44:08] Well, fine then.

[01:44:10] I'll just go home.

[01:44:13] Screw you guys and jam your hand.

[01:44:16] Then I'm going to, uh, mangle this bitch.

[01:44:19] Okay.

[01:44:22] Once more.

[01:44:22] With feeling.

[01:44:24] Twice more.

[01:44:27] Okay, well, I rolled a 16, so that's a 20 and that's a 19.

[01:44:31] Okay.

[01:44:32] That will, yeah.

[01:44:33] Those hit?

[01:44:33] Yep.

[01:44:34] Okay.

[01:44:36] Alright.

[01:44:37] And these are counter-arm attacks, which I get a die six for.

[01:44:46] So that's, uh, well, six and six.

[01:44:51] So 12 total.

[01:44:52] 12 total.

[01:44:54] Okay.

[01:45:03] Give me a second.

[01:45:04] I'll just, uh, write down some things for these guys.

[01:45:07] Do we walk around with Earpro, Ian?

[01:45:11] I imagine that we have basically the equivalent of my, um.

[01:45:18] Noise negating.

[01:45:20] My noise negating, hearing enhancing, Bluetooth connected, um, Earpro.

[01:45:26] Yeah.

[01:45:27] Yeah.

[01:45:27] Okay.

[01:45:27] We are basically mercs.

[01:45:30] We have the top of the line shit.

[01:45:33] Yeah.

[01:45:33] Okay.

[01:45:33] Standard operating procedure.

[01:45:35] Um, okay, so that's all you can do though?

[01:45:38] Uh, yeah, that's it for me.

[01:45:40] Okay.

[01:45:40] Do those transfer to dog?

[01:45:43] Probably.

[01:45:44] Probably.

[01:45:45] Okay.

[01:45:46] Uh, next up is gonna be, uh, Marcel.

[01:45:50] All right.

[01:45:50] So I already said declared I was charging.

[01:45:52] Yep.

[01:45:52] Okay.

[01:45:53] So I am heading in to attack the first bug.

[01:45:56] Mm-hmm.

[01:45:58] I have advantage.

[01:45:59] Yep.

[01:45:59] I don't know.

[01:46:00] My second die would be a D8.

[01:46:01] That would not work.

[01:46:03] So that's, uh, 19 to hit.

[01:46:06] That's it.

[01:46:07] And I'm gonna hit it with a, uh, what do you call that thing?

[01:46:12] A hammer?

[01:46:13] Well, the hammer obviously would also be heavenly strike.

[01:46:16] Okay.

[01:46:19] So that's gonna be 11, uh, plus 5, 16 radiant damage and he has to make a con save where he's

[01:46:26] blinded.

[01:46:27] Okay.

[01:46:28] Uh, yeah.

[01:46:31] Give me a second.

[01:46:32] I'm just gonna...

[01:46:33] Sorry, how much radiant damage was that?

[01:46:35] 16.

[01:46:35] 16.

[01:46:37] Okay.

[01:46:37] And I got us, uh, I got us 8.

[01:46:42] No.

[01:46:43] Okay, so he's, that one, one of them is blinded.

[01:46:45] Yep.

[01:46:46] Perfect.

[01:46:46] But I am also at...

[01:46:48] Actually, is, sorry, does that blinding affect, like, would it affect the one that was adjacent

[01:46:51] to it as well?

[01:46:52] It doesn't say it does.

[01:46:54] Okay.

[01:46:55] It is only the target I hit, unfortunately.

[01:46:58] Okay.

[01:46:58] So the one, one is blinded and he dealt 16 damage.

[01:47:03] And he can make a, uh, a saving throw race at the end of his next turn.

[01:47:07] Okay.

[01:47:09] So next up is gonna be John.

[01:47:11] Because you guys basically rolled, like, 1, 2, 3, and then they all basically got 1,

[01:47:16] 2, 3, 4.

[01:47:17] Yeah, of course.

[01:47:17] Yeah.

[01:47:18] Okay, so there's 5 of them?

[01:47:20] Uh, there are 5 of them, yeah.

[01:47:21] Okay.

[01:47:21] There are 2 in front of you and 3 behind you.

[01:47:23] Marcel is in melee and, um...

[01:47:26] The dog is too.

[01:47:27] And, uh, doggo as well.

[01:47:28] Okay.

[01:47:28] Two separate groups, basically.

[01:47:29] Okay.

[01:47:31] Um...

[01:47:33] And, uh, Hank is just, like, cowering in that alcove because he is exhausted.

[01:47:38] Even though you healed him, like, he doesn't have any juice left.

[01:47:41] He's out of spell slots.

[01:47:42] Yeah.

[01:47:43] Yeah.

[01:47:43] That's fine.

[01:47:44] Okay.

[01:47:46] Um...

[01:47:46] I do have a Leon extended vest.

[01:47:49] Yeah.

[01:47:50] Mm-hmm.

[01:47:51] It's okay.

[01:47:51] Uh, I can hand him a gun.

[01:47:53] I can try.

[01:47:54] I can give him a handgun just as, like, a backup.

[01:47:56] That's a bad idea.

[01:47:57] You think so?

[01:47:57] He's gonna shoot us.

[01:48:00] Not on purpose.

[01:48:01] Not on purpose.

[01:48:03] Oh, God.

[01:48:03] It's gonna be...

[01:48:04] It's Donnie.

[01:48:05] Dave.

[01:48:06] Yeah.

[01:48:06] It's just Donnie again.

[01:48:07] You missed a lot, though.

[01:48:08] There actually is a spell for, uh, granting a rest.

[01:48:12] Oh, okay.

[01:48:12] I don't have it.

[01:48:13] It's called Catnap.

[01:48:16] Um, and...

[01:48:17] The person casting the spell does not get the benefit from it, but I think it's up to three

[01:48:22] allies gain the benefits of a short rest.

[01:48:26] See, I probably can't use it, because it's cat magic.

[01:48:29] That's true.

[01:48:29] That's very true.

[01:48:31] Yeah.

[01:48:31] It won't dismanage every time.

[01:48:33] Yeah, don't give the guy the gun, because there's just gonna be Cyril Figgis all over

[01:48:36] the game.

[01:48:39] Suppressing fire!

[01:48:41] Fine.

[01:48:42] Okay.

[01:48:43] Um, but regardless, I will shove him in the alcove.

[01:48:45] Uh, just to make sure he's out of the way.

[01:48:48] I'll, um, cast Hunter's Mark on the other one that, um, Marcel is not attacking.

[01:48:55] Okay.

[01:48:56] The unblinded one.

[01:48:57] Yes.

[01:48:58] And, um, they're bugs, right?

[01:49:03] Yeah.

[01:49:04] They are horrible, horrible monster movie bugs with tentacles on their faces and chittering

[01:49:11] teeth.

[01:49:12] Wait.

[01:49:14] We're all waterwalking.

[01:49:17] Except for Marcel, except for Hank.

[01:49:20] Is he in the water?

[01:49:21] Yeah, he's, like, knee-deep in the water.

[01:49:23] Is there anywhere we can stand where he's not in the water?

[01:49:25] No.

[01:49:26] He has to be in the water.

[01:49:29] Unless you give him waterwalking.

[01:49:30] No, I shoved him into the alcove.

[01:49:32] Yeah, the alcove's also, like, flooded.

[01:49:34] Yeah.

[01:49:34] Fuck.

[01:49:35] Yeah, there's no, there's no, um, like, dry spot.

[01:49:38] So we can't just electrocute the water.

[01:49:39] Yeah.

[01:49:40] Actually.

[01:49:40] I was going to shock and grasp the water.

[01:49:42] You know what?

[01:49:42] Actually, hang on.

[01:49:44] I'd say there might be some pipes up on the roof, or on the ceiling.

[01:49:49] Now, the question is whether an academic can do a single chin-up.

[01:49:54] Oh, he's fucked.

[01:49:55] He's fucked.

[01:49:56] Yeah.

[01:49:58] I'm better off using another scuffle slot.

[01:50:00] He's, he's shaggy physique.

[01:50:02] He's got shaggy's physique, so.

[01:50:05] In fact, I should have actually been using that voice for him.

[01:50:07] I was like, like, jeez, we gotta get out of here.

[01:50:10] You can start doing it now.

[01:50:11] There's the cob.

[01:50:12] That means his movement speeds are ridiculous, because that guy can keep him with a great damage.

[01:50:16] Full spray.

[01:50:16] That's true.

[01:50:17] Okay, like, he looks like, it's more like, it's more like the stoner from Cabin in the Woods.

[01:50:24] Okay.

[01:50:24] With a lanky, shaggy lookalike.

[01:50:28] But yeah.

[01:50:30] Damn.

[01:50:31] Okay.

[01:50:40] You know what?

[01:50:41] I have the magic.

[01:50:42] Fuck it.

[01:50:43] I'm gonna cast Water Walk on him as well.

[01:50:46] Use another spell slot.

[01:50:48] I just imagine it's just like when, like, somebody, like, when, like, a scuba diver, like, where somebody deploys, like, a sudden, like, emergency inflatable thing.

[01:50:56] It's like, boom, boom, boom.

[01:50:58] Yeah, pretty much.

[01:50:59] Yeah.

[01:50:59] Like, oh.

[01:51:00] Okay.

[01:51:01] Okay.

[01:51:02] I'm like, okay.

[01:51:05] Jeez, John.

[01:51:07] Wow, John.

[01:51:09] That's real cool.

[01:51:10] Yep.

[01:51:11] Just, it'll help us get out of here quicker, too, because you can run a hell of a lot quicker on the water than in the water.

[01:51:16] That's true.

[01:51:17] Unfortunately, that was my action.

[01:51:19] Okay.

[01:51:19] Well, on to a cop number one, who is blinded.

[01:51:24] So he can't roll this turn.

[01:51:27] He has to wait until another round.

[01:51:28] Okay.

[01:51:29] So I guess he takes a penalty, but you're like, because you are kind of up in his grill, so he just, like, blindly starts slashing.

[01:51:36] It's at disadvantage.

[01:51:37] Yeah.

[01:51:37] Which, he's at advantage to hit me, so he's back to regular.

[01:51:40] Okay.

[01:51:45] He is going to stab you with a stinger.

[01:51:49] Or one of his many stingers, Proboscis.

[01:51:52] He's going to try.

[01:51:53] He's going to try.

[01:51:54] That is going to be a 17 to hit.

[01:51:56] Nope.

[01:51:56] Okay.

[01:51:57] Just, like, basically a horrible, like, creepy, like, Bladed Proboscis.

[01:52:02] Just, like, right into the shield.

[01:52:03] Yeah.

[01:52:04] And that's all he got, because they do not have multi-attack.

[01:52:08] So, next one, though, is up.

[01:52:11] He does get advantage.

[01:52:12] Yep.

[01:52:20] This one's also going to stab at you.

[01:52:23] Romel's heart!

[01:52:25] He definitely didn't stab you, because that was lower than the last time.

[01:52:28] So, yeah, 16 doesn't hit you.

[01:52:30] So, you're just getting, like, stabbed.

[01:52:32] Like, it's almost, it's like a mix between, like, a stink, like a wasp stinger, but it was

[01:52:38] coming out of a, like, the xenomorph, like, mouth, like, tongue thing.

[01:52:44] And just pinning off the riot shield.

[01:52:46] Yeah.

[01:52:47] All right.

[01:52:48] So, next up is going to be the Akab that is attacking.

[01:52:55] Jacob.

[01:52:57] He is also going to stab at these.

[01:52:59] So, there are three of them that are just going to start stabbing at you.

[01:53:03] I don't know.

[01:53:04] Yeah, I don't know.

[01:53:06] So.

[01:53:08] You're still in doggo shield mode.

[01:53:10] 21 to hit?

[01:53:13] Yep.

[01:53:14] I'm sorry, Aaron.

[01:53:15] Apparently my dice don't like you.

[01:53:26] Give me a second.

[01:53:27] You actually need to roll a constitution save.

[01:53:32] Do I?

[01:53:33] Yes.

[01:53:34] Do I get advantage on it because I'm a quadruped?

[01:53:38] No, because it's something that's always done.

[01:53:41] It's not a knockdown thing.

[01:53:42] No, it's a venom.

[01:53:44] Uh, constitution save?

[01:53:46] Yeah, it's a paralytic.

[01:53:50] 17?

[01:53:52] That's enough to, yeah, that's enough on a successful, yeah.

[01:53:57] Um, yeah.

[01:54:03] So, yeah, you don't, uh, the venom doesn't take effect on you, but you do suffer, um, 10 damage from the actual, like, piercing, uh, proboscis.

[01:54:13] Or, uh, from the piercing state.

[01:54:16] Uh, so, and then there's the next one.

[01:54:21] No, no, I'm just like, from the bug's point of view, it's like, having a good time, having a good time.

[01:54:26] Snap, snap, snap, snap, snap.

[01:54:28] I'm wondering if I should have just shot bullets on this thing.

[01:54:31] Oh, no.

[01:54:33] Uh, that's another 21 to hit you.

[01:54:36] Uh-huh.

[01:54:37] Roll another cross, you should have seen.

[01:54:44] As a dog, you did run into three xenomorphs, basically.

[01:54:49] Uh...

[01:54:52] Oh, wait a second.

[01:54:53] Where's my...

[01:54:55] Come on.

[01:54:56] Wake up.

[01:55:00] Wake up.

[01:55:07] Okay, so that's, uh, 14.

[01:55:09] That is not enough.

[01:55:11] So on a failed save, uh, the target is paralyzed and takes an additional three damage.

[01:55:18] Necrotic.

[01:55:19] So, I'm...

[01:55:20] And you took, and you took ten piercing from that attack.

[01:55:23] I took ten from both?

[01:55:24] Yeah.

[01:55:25] So they both take three fire damage.

[01:55:27] Okay.

[01:55:28] Because I can see them.

[01:55:29] Mm-hmm.

[01:55:29] Okay.

[01:55:31] So...

[01:55:31] Feel my wrath.

[01:55:33] Uh, the good news is, the third one, I'm pretty sure missed on an eight.

[01:55:37] Uh, plus, uh...

[01:55:39] Oh, it would have been like eight.

[01:55:41] 13?

[01:55:42] Wouldn't hit you?

[01:55:43] No.

[01:55:43] Okay.

[01:55:44] So the third one missed you.

[01:55:45] If he's paralyzed.

[01:55:46] But you're now paralyzed.

[01:55:46] Oh, shit.

[01:55:47] Yeah.

[01:55:48] So it gets to go at advantage.

[01:55:50] Okay.

[01:55:50] No, actually, it's, uh, it's an automatic hit.

[01:55:53] Is it?

[01:55:53] Hang on.

[01:55:54] Paralyzed.

[01:55:55] Where is that?

[01:55:56] Uh, paralyzed creature is incapacitated.

[01:55:59] Creature automatically fails strength tests.

[01:56:01] Uh, attack rolls against the creature have advantage.

[01:56:03] Oh, it's an automatic strength test and dex days.

[01:56:06] Fucking...

[01:56:06] Aaron, I'm sorry.

[01:56:07] 21 to hit.

[01:56:08] And that 20.

[01:56:12] I've...

[01:56:12] Aaron, do you have the, uh...

[01:56:15] Are you wearing the...

[01:56:15] Bracer of Horus?

[01:56:20] I do.

[01:56:21] You have that doggy bracelet on?

[01:56:23] Yeah.

[01:56:23] I mean, it's a magic item, so yes, it's there.

[01:56:25] It magically appears on...

[01:56:26] So then he didn't hit.

[01:56:27] If you use that.

[01:56:28] Yeah.

[01:56:29] You can't use it again until dawn.

[01:56:31] Fuck yeah, I'll use that.

[01:56:32] You are still paralyzed.

[01:56:34] Uh, and you took 23 damage total.

[01:56:37] Yeah, so I'm not a dog anymore.

[01:56:38] Okay.

[01:56:38] Because I only have 15 hit points as a dog.

[01:56:41] No, you're paralyzed.

[01:56:43] Does the, does the walk on water, like, just mean that he's just, like...

[01:56:46] Yes.

[01:56:46] ...prone, like, just above the water?

[01:56:49] I guess, yeah.

[01:56:50] So you're not drowning.

[01:56:51] No.

[01:56:51] That's good.

[01:56:52] You're inches away from, for gray water.

[01:56:55] Like, sewage water.

[01:56:56] He was swimming through it before.

[01:56:58] This is still better.

[01:56:58] Yeah.

[01:56:59] And you are paralyzed until...

[01:57:04] Target is paralyzed and takes three additional damage of Necrotic on each of its turns until

[01:57:10] it succeeds against the Constitution save.

[01:57:13] So next round you can try and make the Constitution save to not be paralyzed and take Necrotic damage.

[01:57:17] Okay.

[01:57:18] Okay.

[01:57:19] So, um...

[01:57:21] Sorry, Aaron.

[01:57:22] My dice just don't like you.

[01:57:24] Uh-huh.

[01:57:25] Um, but yeah, yeah.

[01:57:26] Yeah, the other...

[01:57:27] So, and then Hank is just gonna be, like, do you want Hank to do something?

[01:57:32] He's...

[01:57:33] No.

[01:57:34] Okay, yeah, he's just gonna...

[01:57:36] Your friend looks, like, in trouble.

[01:57:38] He's transformed back into a human.

[01:57:40] Do you want to go get him?

[01:57:41] No.

[01:57:42] Shut up.

[01:57:43] We're dealing with this.

[01:57:44] Okay.

[01:57:45] Um...

[01:57:46] Top of the round.

[01:57:47] Jacob.

[01:57:48] You want to roll that Constitution?

[01:57:54] You have to be a 50.

[01:57:56] If it works.

[01:58:02] Okay.

[01:58:03] Uh, take three extra Necrotic damage.

[01:58:12] And you are paralyzed.

[01:58:14] Okay.

[01:58:15] Uh, next up is Marcel.

[01:58:18] Give me one second.

[01:58:26] The good news is...

[01:58:28] The paralyzing stink is once a day.

[01:58:31] From that one guy.

[01:58:32] No, no.

[01:58:33] And they've all tried it.

[01:58:35] Like, all of them have tried...

[01:58:37] Like, that's their opening move.

[01:58:38] Is to paralyze you and then eat you.

[01:58:40] Oh.

[01:58:41] So...

[01:58:41] I figured the guys that whiff on it, they could try it again.

[01:58:44] No, no.

[01:58:45] That's...

[01:58:45] That's...

[01:58:45] You guys can't do that with spells, can you?

[01:58:47] Like, you use a spell slot and it fails?

[01:58:50] Like, you can't...

[01:58:50] No, can we, though?

[01:58:52] No.

[01:58:54] Um...

[01:58:54] So, did the radiant damage do any extra?

[01:58:56] No.

[01:59:04] I'm gonna attack the second one, that's not blinded, with a burning strike instead.

[01:59:08] Okay.

[01:59:15] That's, uh...

[01:59:16] 16 to hit?

[01:59:18] 16 to hit.

[01:59:20] Uh, that will miss.

[01:59:22] But I get another shot.

[01:59:23] Okay.

[01:59:25] That's worse.

[01:59:26] Yeah.

[01:59:27] Okay.

[01:59:27] Okay.

[01:59:28] Um, then the blind one, uh, gets to make a roll against your, uh, events being blinded,

[01:59:33] right?

[01:59:33] Constantly save?

[01:59:34] Yep.

[01:59:35] That is going to be...

[01:59:38] Nine.

[01:59:39] No.

[01:59:40] Nine!

[01:59:41] Uh, so he's going to just try and attack you blindly.

[01:59:44] Um...

[01:59:45] Just kind of...

[01:59:45] No longer gets advantage, so he's actually at disadvantage, you know?

[01:59:48] Okay.

[01:59:51] Uh, that is going to be...

[01:59:53] He's trying to slam at you at this point, just kind of like roughhousing, basically, like,

[01:59:56] uh, that kind of thing.

[01:59:58] Uh, and that is going to be...

[02:00:00] 12.

[02:00:01] No.

[02:00:02] Okay.

[02:00:03] Uh, then the next one is going to attack you.

[02:00:05] And he does not have...

[02:00:07] He's not blinded right now.

[02:00:08] So he's just...

[02:00:08] He's got a disadvantage.

[02:00:09] I feel bad for Eric, because I'm invincible.

[02:00:23] Um, I'm going to try and switch out a dice at some point.

[02:00:26] This goes just badly.

[02:00:30] Um...

[02:00:30] Yeah, so he just, like, kind of, like...

[02:00:31] He's also, like...

[02:00:33] He was getting hit by his buddy, and, like, accidentally, like, smashed into the wall a little bit,

[02:00:37] and he's feeling kind of woozy.

[02:00:39] So he doesn't get, uh, uh, uh, ineffectual.

[02:00:42] It's ineffectual against you.

[02:00:44] Uh, next up, though, is, uh...

[02:00:47] Wait, Eric...

[02:00:47] Oh, no.

[02:00:48] Hang on.

[02:00:49] Fuck.

[02:00:50] Do I get to go somewhere?

[02:00:51] I'm sorry, John.

[02:00:51] You were supposed to go after Marcel.

[02:00:53] My bad.

[02:00:53] Okay.

[02:00:54] Yeah.

[02:00:54] Great.

[02:00:55] Yeah.

[02:00:56] Do I get to do things now?

[02:00:57] Yeah.

[02:00:57] Okay.

[02:00:58] Yeah.

[02:00:58] Then, for my main action, I'm going...

[02:01:00] My hand is going to be all electric-y, and I'm going to give them unlimited power as I

[02:01:05] just put my hand in the...

[02:01:07] Or on top of the water.

[02:01:09] Yeah.

[02:01:09] And shock everybody.

[02:01:10] If you will let me do that, I forgot to ask if this is okay.

[02:01:14] Yeah.

[02:01:14] It's fine.

[02:01:14] Okay, cool.

[02:01:16] It makes sense.

[02:01:17] You're in water.

[02:01:17] It's conductive.

[02:01:18] Yeah.

[02:01:18] As long as they're touching the water, they should be fine.

[02:01:20] Yeah.

[02:01:21] Okay.

[02:01:28] As far as I know.

[02:01:30] You walk above the water.

[02:01:32] Do you?

[02:01:33] Or are you walking on the water?

[02:01:35] I believe the meniscus of the water basically becomes solid to us.

[02:01:43] So we're walking on top of the meniscus.

[02:01:46] How's the meniscus?

[02:01:48] Basically the surface tension.

[02:01:50] Oh, okay.

[02:01:51] I'm sorry.

[02:01:54] No, I'm just shocked that you didn't know the word.

[02:01:57] You look so insulted though.

[02:02:00] You know what a graduated cylinder is, right?

[02:02:03] Yeah.

[02:02:04] Okay.

[02:02:04] The cylinder that's gone through college.

[02:02:07] So when you're measuring the water level in a graduated cylinder, you're measuring it

[02:02:13] from the bottom of the meniscus.

[02:02:16] Okay.

[02:02:18] Okay.

[02:02:19] Interesting.

[02:02:19] All right.

[02:02:20] I mean, it's been a while since I've been in a science class, so.

[02:02:23] Fair enough.

[02:02:25] All right.

[02:02:26] So yeah, you're looking to double check as well.

[02:02:29] But no, I'm looking at something else entirely different.

[02:02:32] So you're shocking grass though?

[02:02:34] Yeah.

[02:02:36] Yes.

[02:02:37] I will say this will affect all the people inside the water, which are the akab.

[02:02:42] Because everybody else specifically is using water walking.

[02:02:46] Yep.

[02:02:46] Okay.

[02:02:47] You just gotta don't.

[02:02:48] And one of them is water prone.

[02:02:51] Yep.

[02:02:51] Water proning.

[02:02:52] Or you're water born.

[02:02:53] He's water planking.

[02:02:54] You're water planking.

[02:02:55] Oh god, he's planking.

[02:02:57] The moss is just like, oh, that's cringe.

[02:02:59] I'll walk back to the burrows.

[02:03:01] Good, then.

[02:03:01] He's alive, then.

[02:03:03] Is this arrow just like planking?

[02:03:05] Like, mm, mm, mm.

[02:03:07] Check to see when my cantrips get stronger.

[02:03:10] I don't know if that, if I...

[02:03:11] Fifth level.

[02:03:12] And then I get a tenth.

[02:03:14] Okay, so not yet.

[02:03:19] Yeah, okay, so that's right.

[02:03:20] Okay.

[02:03:21] Double check.

[02:03:22] All right.

[02:03:23] Damage.

[02:03:27] Uh, ten?

[02:03:32] Ten lightning damage.

[02:03:33] Okay.

[02:03:34] To all of them.

[02:03:35] Uh, one of them takes eleven.

[02:03:38] Wait, no, one of them takes...

[02:03:40] The hunter's mark.

[02:03:41] Does hunter's mark work on this?

[02:03:42] Oh, the one that's not blinded is hunter's mark?

[02:03:44] Yeah, I don't know.

[02:03:44] The one that's not blinded is hunter's mark.

[02:03:46] It's an extra D save.

[02:03:47] Another four.

[02:03:48] So fourteen, and everybody else gets ten.

[02:03:51] Yes.

[02:03:52] Okay.

[02:03:52] Um, and then they also lose their reaction on the next turn.

[02:03:56] Okay.

[02:03:58] And then bonus action, I'm going to...

[02:04:02] We haven't killed any of these yet, right?

[02:04:04] Uh, no.

[02:04:06] Okay.

[02:04:08] Then...

[02:04:08] Wait, what was that thing I was going to do?

[02:04:13] Uh, Marcel's been hit?

[02:04:14] Uh, Marcel has definitely been hit and is paralyzed.

[02:04:18] He is not moving.

[02:04:19] Marcel?

[02:04:20] Sorry, Marcel, no, I'm sorry.

[02:04:21] I was just saying they're both paralyzed?

[02:04:22] Oh, come on.

[02:04:24] Sorry, sorry.

[02:04:25] Don't worry about me.

[02:04:25] Yeah, yeah, Marcel's fine.

[02:04:27] He's, yeah, he's been, uh, he is not moving.

[02:04:29] I haven't been hit yet.

[02:04:29] I'm untouchable.

[02:04:31] Okay.

[02:04:31] I'm going to use, um, my bonus action on an anima feature called Rallying Cry, where

[02:04:38] I can choose up to two creatures and give them temporary HP, which is handy for both of

[02:04:43] you, especially Mr. I'm on the ground right now, man.

[02:04:47] So...

[02:04:47] Appreciate that, though I am pretty much at full health.

[02:04:50] Yes, but they're going to hit you.

[02:04:52] So it's at least a little bit of temporary hit points on top.

[02:04:55] I appreciate that.

[02:04:56] So that's a...

[02:04:57] I appreciate you.

[02:04:58] Yeah.

[02:04:59] That's one of these plus my presidency, which is...

[02:05:02] Jeremy?

[02:05:03] Me?

[02:05:04] I appreciate you.

[02:05:08] I'm like my fucking asshole GM.

[02:05:10] So both of you have nine?

[02:05:12] Nine.

[02:05:13] Nine?

[02:05:14] Nine.

[02:05:14] Nine.

[02:05:18] It is, it is.

[02:05:23] And, um, that's the end of my turn.

[02:05:26] Okay.

[02:05:27] Then, uh, you did 50 damage in a turn.

[02:05:30] Yeah.

[02:05:30] You did 54 damage.

[02:05:32] I'm fine with this.

[02:05:33] Uh, then next up are the cub.

[02:05:35] They're all, like, they're all, like, uh, they all took pretty nasty damage.

[02:05:39] They're all, like, shocked.

[02:05:40] But they're not down.

[02:05:42] It's a question.

[02:05:42] Yes.

[02:05:43] I think I've asked this before, but I don't remember the answer.

[02:05:45] Them losing their reaction, what does that mean?

[02:05:48] They can't make attack an opportunity.

[02:05:50] Yeah.

[02:05:50] Is that it?

[02:05:51] Yeah.

[02:05:51] Or if they have other reaction-based powers.

[02:05:53] They can't counterspell.

[02:05:54] They can't, uh, cast a shield.

[02:05:57] They can't...

[02:05:58] There's a lot of reaction-based things.

[02:06:00] Oh, okay.

[02:06:01] But it's all stuff that a bug wouldn't use, basically.

[02:06:04] Not necessarily.

[02:06:05] Okay.

[02:06:06] Um, though if they have sentinel, it also means they can't use their reaction to attack you

[02:06:10] if you're leaving a threatened square.

[02:06:12] Okay.

[02:06:12] Yeah.

[02:06:13] Gotcha.

[02:06:14] So, uh, next up, uh, I guess the three that are next to the...

[02:06:19] Go ahead.

[02:06:21] We're just gonna start...

[02:06:23] Dude, no words.

[02:06:24] Yeah, they're just gonna start bubbling them.

[02:06:26] There's a white bubble shield on him right now.

[02:06:28] He's just getting gang-banged up three bugs.

[02:06:30] Yeah.

[02:06:31] Does a 21 hit?

[02:06:32] Does a 36 hit?

[02:06:33] So, the first one definitely hits because it was a 21.

[02:06:35] It actually was.

[02:06:38] Of course it was.

[02:06:40] Uh...

[02:06:40] You're gonna probably have to do a blackjack.

[02:06:43] Yeah, really.

[02:06:50] 11 damage from the first bug.

[02:06:55] So, two.

[02:07:03] 12 doesn't hit you?

[02:07:06] No.

[02:07:07] Okay.

[02:07:07] So that one misses.

[02:07:08] But are you rolling at advantage?

[02:07:09] Hmm?

[02:07:10] What?

[02:07:10] Are you rolling at advantage?

[02:07:12] Would I be?

[02:07:13] Why are you reminding him?

[02:07:14] I'm gonna get rid of the first bug?

[02:07:16] I'm gonna get rid of the first bug.

[02:07:17] I'm gonna get rid of the first bug.

[02:07:17] That actually was even worse.

[02:07:20] So...

[02:07:20] Uh, yeah.

[02:07:21] Okay.

[02:07:21] So...

[02:07:22] Yeah, but that would've been for the next attack.

[02:07:23] Yeah.

[02:07:24] Which means they're all the best.

[02:07:25] They don't have multi-attack.

[02:07:27] They all only have one attack per bug.

[02:07:29] Yes.

[02:07:30] That would've been the next bug.

[02:07:31] There's one more bug.

[02:07:32] Yeah.

[02:07:32] You burned it.

[02:07:33] Here comes the nat 20.

[02:07:38] Does a 14 hit you?

[02:07:40] No.

[02:07:40] Okay.

[02:07:41] Then somehow...

[02:07:43] Only one.

[02:07:44] I guess because the...

[02:07:45] They're all trying to hit.

[02:07:46] They're also spasming from the electricity.

[02:07:48] And yeah, you're right.

[02:07:48] They're all like...

[02:07:49] They're three medium-sized bug monsters in a 10-foot area.

[02:07:54] Like all kind of cramped together.

[02:07:56] And they're all kind of just trying to pummel you.

[02:07:58] And they're just kind of hitting each other or like ineffectually.

[02:08:01] Yeah.

[02:08:01] Bumping into each other.

[02:08:02] Yeah.

[02:08:02] Yeah.

[02:08:02] So somehow the three of them like try and hit you with slams and do not do anything.

[02:08:11] No, the first one.

[02:08:12] They did.

[02:08:13] Okay.

[02:08:13] So the first one.

[02:08:14] Yeah.

[02:08:14] The one hit you.

[02:08:15] Yeah.

[02:08:15] And then Hank is at the bottom of the roster and he's just like...

[02:08:20] He's not looking too good over there.

[02:08:22] Do you have any magic?

[02:08:24] I'm tapped.

[02:08:25] Okay.

[02:08:26] I used all of my magic to keep myself alive.

[02:08:29] Good job at that.

[02:08:30] What happened to his cantrips?

[02:08:33] I don't know.

[02:08:35] He has true strike.

[02:08:38] Mending.

[02:08:39] Uh...

[02:08:40] Yeah.

[02:08:40] I have...

[02:08:40] And dancing lights.

[02:08:41] I have many dancing lights.

[02:08:44] Do you want me to give you a true strike?

[02:08:45] A true strike?

[02:08:46] It's only for yourself, dude.

[02:08:48] Damn it.

[02:08:49] I didn't learn...

[02:08:50] I didn't focus on that school...

[02:08:52] In that class.

[02:08:53] Yeah.

[02:08:53] I only used it for darts.

[02:08:55] Yeah.

[02:08:55] Exactly.

[02:08:56] Or...

[02:08:58] Or...

[02:08:58] Or...

[02:08:58] Or...

[02:08:58] Or...

[02:08:58] Beer pong.

[02:09:00] Oh no, beer pong.

[02:09:00] Beer pong.

[02:09:04] Everyone...

[02:09:05] Everyone at Elizabeth Academy uses a true strike for beer pong.

[02:09:09] It becomes like super competitive, like animated levels of like...

[02:09:13] It's like...

[02:09:14] That's why I kept losing?

[02:09:19] Everybody cheats?

[02:09:21] That's what you're saying?

[02:09:21] Is your...

[02:09:23] That's what you're thinking?

[02:09:24] You're still understanding it, though.

[02:09:25] You just can't say it.

[02:09:26] Yeah.

[02:09:28] No, that's what he's...

[02:09:29] Like he...

[02:09:30] Like he hears that from down the way.

[02:09:31] And he's like...

[02:09:32] He's...

[02:09:32] In his head is like...

[02:09:33] That's why I always cheat?

[02:09:34] Like everyone's cheating?

[02:09:35] Because it's like...

[02:09:36] It's just like in reality.

[02:09:36] It's just like...

[02:09:39] But top of the round.

[02:09:40] Jacob, would you like to make your constitution safe?

[02:09:44] I would like to make my constitution safe.

[02:09:47] The question is whether or not I will.

[02:09:52] I love you, Aaron.

[02:09:55] Does a 15 do it?

[02:09:56] Meet or meet.

[02:09:59] You are suddenly...

[02:10:00] Suddenly you go...

[02:10:01] Like...

[02:10:01] No longer stiff as a board.

[02:10:02] You're just like...

[02:10:03] Just...

[02:10:05] And meanwhile...

[02:10:06] You look up...

[02:10:07] There's green bugs.

[02:10:09] Typically in the moment,

[02:10:10] they're just like...

[02:10:11] Like trying to get at you

[02:10:13] and somehow missing every time.

[02:10:14] Okay.

[02:10:16] I'm going to spend two anima.

[02:10:20] I'm going to quicken upcast...

[02:10:23] Scorching Ray.

[02:10:25] Okay.

[02:10:25] Into the one that just hit me.

[02:10:27] Okay.

[02:10:29] So...

[02:10:30] This is a bunch of attacks.

[02:10:32] If he's casting the man,

[02:10:33] does that not put the attacks up to you?

[02:10:34] No, because they don't have...

[02:10:35] Because they don't have...

[02:10:37] I don't have the feet that lets them do that anyway.

[02:10:39] Oh, never mind.

[02:10:40] I didn't do a thing.

[02:10:41] Still do the thing.

[02:10:42] Yeah.

[02:10:42] You are currently the MVP.

[02:10:44] 19 hit.

[02:10:45] 19 will hit.

[02:10:47] Uh...

[02:10:47] 17 hit.

[02:10:49] 17 will hit.

[02:10:51] And...

[02:10:51] About 21 will hit.

[02:10:53] Yep.

[02:10:54] Will 21 hit?

[02:10:57] I'll fucking take you.

[02:11:02] I'll fucking take you.

[02:11:04] At 220s.

[02:11:06] Nat 20s?

[02:11:07] Yes.

[02:11:07] Nice.

[02:11:08] Yes.

[02:11:08] Really?

[02:11:09] Yes.

[02:11:10] That's highly improbable.

[02:11:12] Right?

[02:11:12] So is me, like, missing you and owning him.

[02:11:16] Nothing.

[02:11:17] I don't trust you.

[02:11:21] Okay, what the fuck?

[02:11:22] Yeah.

[02:11:23] Nat 20s.

[02:11:24] Okay.

[02:11:25] You know what, Eric?

[02:11:26] It's like Dresden Files.

[02:11:28] Like Stormfront.

[02:11:29] He got beat down a bunch of times.

[02:11:31] And then, like, finally was able to just, like...

[02:11:32] When all was, like, let loose, he's just like, fuck it.

[02:11:36] Just bone.

[02:11:37] Being injured increases your luck.

[02:11:39] It's a noir.

[02:11:40] It's a noir effect.

[02:11:41] Like, you have to be beaten down as a detective to be good, I think, by the end.

[02:11:45] Yeah.

[02:11:46] First, Ray.

[02:11:46] 11 in his face.

[02:11:48] Okay.

[02:11:49] I think he's all the same guy.

[02:11:51] Yeah.

[02:11:52] Well, they don't have to be.

[02:11:53] Well, that's why I'm asking.

[02:11:57] Uh, second Ray is six into his face.

[02:12:00] Okay.

[02:12:01] I'm really waiting to see if it blasts through his face and lets me move on to the next target.

[02:12:07] Okay.

[02:12:08] There.

[02:12:08] Oh, so are these doubled?

[02:12:10] The last two will be doubled.

[02:12:11] Oh, I see.

[02:12:14] Uh, another six to the face.

[02:12:17] Okay.

[02:12:19] And now we're on to the doubles.

[02:12:21] He's just like, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow.

[02:12:27] 10, 13, and 4, 17.

[02:12:31] You kill him.

[02:12:32] He goes right through.

[02:12:33] That one burrows, like, finishes the drop and burrows right through his skull.

[02:12:36] Out the other end, chars the roof of the tunnel.

[02:12:39] Okay.

[02:12:40] We'll lean over to the side and take one shot at the next one.

[02:12:45] It's a reverse key on Ray.

[02:12:46] He's like, ah, shooting up in the sky.

[02:12:49] And then, like, last one shoots.

[02:12:53] Six and six is 12.

[02:12:55] And four is 16.

[02:12:58] And five is 21.

[02:13:00] 21.

[02:13:01] Fire damage.

[02:13:03] That one's close to death, but not quite.

[02:13:05] That's okay.

[02:13:07] I get another shot.

[02:13:09] Yes, he does.

[02:13:10] He does.

[02:13:10] Because I use quick, I quicken cast that.

[02:13:14] So, um, I can still firebolt.

[02:13:18] Also, because we talked about this earlier, are you casting through your hand or through

[02:13:21] your cane?

[02:13:23] Uh, these are not druid spells, so it's not through my cane.

[02:13:26] Oh, okay.

[02:13:27] Um, but that, you, you actually pose a very valid point.

[02:13:31] I don't know what the material components are.

[02:13:34] You should totally have to think about it.

[02:13:35] Mr., what do your torches look like?

[02:13:37] Yeah.

[02:13:38] I usually have my spell cards out, and I don't cast a lot of spells in this game.

[02:13:42] Yeah.

[02:13:44] So, uh...

[02:13:44] So, what was that, Chris?

[02:13:45] I was going to say, really quick, his spell focus is actually brass knucks.

[02:13:48] That's why, like, how he's actually...

[02:13:49] It looks like he's casting with his hand, but it's actually through the brass knuckles.

[02:13:53] Mm-hmm.

[02:13:53] Yep.

[02:13:55] It's actually, like, it's not even the knuckle end.

[02:13:57] It's, like, the part that, like, goes over the palm.

[02:14:00] That's why you have to expose your hand.

[02:14:01] Yeah.

[02:14:01] Yeah.

[02:14:02] Oh, no, it's just verbal and somatic components.

[02:14:04] So, there's, uh...

[02:14:05] So, this is just out my hand.

[02:14:06] Yeah.

[02:14:07] Like, finger guns.

[02:14:08] Nice.

[02:14:09] Uh, okay.

[02:14:10] So, I'm going to, um...

[02:14:13] Roll to attack with firebolt.

[02:14:14] Okay.

[02:14:16] Uh, ooh.

[02:14:17] Uh, 18 and 6, so 24.

[02:14:20] Yeah.

[02:14:22] And this is die 10.

[02:14:25] This is 8 and 9.

[02:14:34] So, 17.

[02:14:35] Okay.

[02:14:36] You kill him.

[02:14:37] Okay.

[02:14:37] Blast that guy away.

[02:14:38] Damn.

[02:14:39] And that just leaves one more down at your end.

[02:14:42] Okay.

[02:14:42] So, I'm going to, uh, use half my movement to stagger to my feet.

[02:14:48] Uh, it's...

[02:14:49] Wait, more.

[02:14:50] Yeah, it's like, I can do this all day.

[02:14:51] I can do this all day.

[02:14:53] As he has his fist up for those at home.

[02:14:55] Yeah.

[02:14:56] Uh...

[02:14:56] Yeah, I think just, like, Chitters, like, screams with its human teeth.

[02:15:00] Mm.

[02:15:00] And tenacles and mandibles.

[02:15:03] Wait, human teeth?

[02:15:04] Yeah, they have, like, human teeth inside, like, their mouth area.

[02:15:07] Next to the mandibles and the tentacles.

[02:15:09] Gross.

[02:15:10] That's all I got.

[02:15:10] Okay.

[02:15:11] Uh, next up is, uh...

[02:15:15] Do you still have that shield I gave you?

[02:15:17] The temporary hit points?

[02:15:18] No.

[02:15:18] God, that's...

[02:15:19] That's a lot.

[02:15:20] Oh, okay.

[02:15:21] That one was a first hit.

[02:15:22] Yeah, I figured as much.

[02:15:23] Marcel.

[02:15:24] Alright, so I'm going to go back...

[02:15:25] Refocus my attention on the blinds one.

[02:15:27] Mm-hmm.

[02:15:28] Because I think I get advantage against him.

[02:15:29] Yep.

[02:15:30] And I'm going to smoke him with my burning strike.

[02:15:33] You're guilty.

[02:15:34] You got it.

[02:15:36] That was a crit.

[02:15:37] Okay.

[02:15:40] I already cleared her as using the burning strike, so I actually have to burn an enema.

[02:15:44] I'm down five hit points.

[02:15:47] I've essentially been shocked.

[02:15:49] You have.

[02:15:52] That's eight, 13, 13 fire damage, and he has to make a constitution save or catch fire.

[02:16:01] Would that work, though?

[02:16:02] Because he's in the water.

[02:16:04] His top half.

[02:16:05] In video game logic, no.

[02:16:07] But realistically, if you're standing hip deep in the water and someone throws a molotov on your face,

[02:16:12] your upper body's still burning.

[02:16:13] Sorry, how much damage did he take?

[02:16:15] 13.

[02:16:15] 13?

[02:16:15] Okay.

[02:16:16] If you jump into the water after the fact and use your action...

[02:16:19] Well, maybe.

[02:16:20] I mean, that's literally the thing you'd probably do.

[02:16:23] Yes.

[02:16:24] Yeah.

[02:16:25] And he got a...

[02:16:26] A five.

[02:16:28] Two constitutions.

[02:16:29] Yeah.

[02:16:30] So he is on fire.

[02:16:31] Does it actually go?

[02:16:32] He is blind and on fire.

[02:16:33] Or is it just fire damage?

[02:16:34] It's fire damage and it sets him on fire.

[02:16:36] Oh.

[02:16:36] So he takes an ongoing damage.

[02:16:38] So he is blind and on fire.

[02:16:40] Yeah.

[02:16:40] Nice.

[02:16:40] And I'm going to take the...

[02:16:41] Another burn...

[02:16:42] No, I'm going to use a heavenly strike.

[02:16:44] I'm going to use his friend.

[02:16:45] Okay.

[02:16:45] Have either of those died yet?

[02:16:47] No.

[02:16:47] Damn.

[02:16:49] I was a quick fail.

[02:16:50] To be fair, Aaron was getting pretty...

[02:16:51] Like getting ganked and then he just unleashed hell upon them.

[02:16:55] I was quick fail to do the second one.

[02:16:57] Okay.

[02:16:59] Yep.

[02:16:59] Am I dancing?

[02:17:00] Splashing.

[02:17:01] No.

[02:17:03] What's that?

[02:17:04] How about you...

[02:17:05] You go to like...

[02:17:06] You're using your hammer and some of that.

[02:17:08] So you go to like swing and you act...

[02:17:10] Because it's like wet and some of that from the sewer and some of that,

[02:17:12] it slips out your hand.

[02:17:14] Ah, crap.

[02:17:15] Disarmed.

[02:17:15] Flies back.

[02:17:16] Hits me in the face.

[02:17:18] Takes away.

[02:17:21] It splatters.

[02:17:22] It hits Aaron.

[02:17:23] And drops him on fire.

[02:17:27] No, it hits him just right in the spine.

[02:17:28] He's paralyzed again.

[02:17:29] Oh, God.

[02:17:32] We're only 21, Chris.

[02:17:33] That's what happens.

[02:17:35] No.

[02:17:36] No, it just...

[02:17:37] It goes like 10 feet behind you into the water.

[02:17:40] Damn.

[02:17:41] And like it's under the water.

[02:17:42] You can't...

[02:17:43] You're going to have to like dig...

[02:17:45] Look for it.

[02:17:47] Man, you are unarmed.

[02:17:48] And it is...

[02:17:49] It is John's turn.

[02:17:51] Who has been hit more?

[02:17:54] Him.

[02:17:54] He is exhausted.