Ep. 3: The Path Below (The Neverthere: Archie and the Android)

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Will (00:00):
Nother Realm is a real play Dungeons and Dragons
podcast wherein Bruce, Tanner,and Will try to make dumb jokes
and a compelling story. Some ofthe content within will not be
for children. But if thatdoesn't bother you, then here's
what happened on the lastepisode of Nother Realm. He's
gonna take off towards like thealleyways try to try to lose

(00:23):
whoever this is.

Tanner (00:24):
And within this area you've come up on, you can see
outward enterprises.

Will (00:30):
He knows he wants to meet with Archie and bathe tomorrow.
So what what six is gonna do istake his rest here,

Tanner (00:39):
the job that they promised you yesterday, they
took the car

Bruce (00:43):
and means what exactly

Tanner (00:46):
that means. You have competition.

Will (00:50):
Yes, take me with you, Mr.
Cromwell. What are you doinghere? I

Tanner (00:55):
don't sleep and they have a rite of passage to get
through wound hold, which is thequickest way to get over to
Leyland ruins. If you wouldstill like to take the contract.

Will (01:08):
Or I know a person knows Dr. Anlin Tissot

Tanner (01:12):
find her go through the caverns make it to the other
side.
Go to the splinterlands beat thefrickin Blackboard collective to
Leyland ruins figured out whatthe hell's going on and come
back as you hear twig snapbehind you we have people in our
forest don't we boy and the dognext to him

Bruce (01:37):
you know different Swing Man You made your old dogs I'm a
fucking wolf

Tanner (01:44):
our site reaches far and we see that the maker has
awakened.

(02:30):
The message continuesyou're still surrounded by this
darkness you really don't haveany other perception other than
sound hearing your ears withyour head

Bruce (02:44):
so it's real fucking died. So

Will (02:46):
basically I am completely full. Now I'm just kidding. Go
ahead.

Tanner (02:50):
Yeah, I mean yeah, it's just you're just kind of in a
you're in a zone and it sayszone zone.

Will (02:56):
Yeah. Have you ever done one of those?
I'm sorry isolation chambersanybody? Have you ever been in
an isolation chamber?

Bruce (03:03):
I want to go I do too.

Will (03:05):
I'd be I'm afraid of how my brain will do

Bruce (03:09):
not isolation You mean a sensory deprivation the

Will (03:11):
same thing Yeah well that's i I called it isolation
chamber cuz I thought that'swhat's different that's actually
a

Bruce (03:17):
different isolation chambers where they put people
who are like problem Oh yeah,nevermind Yeah,

Tanner (03:22):
yeah. Since it should go to an isolation chamber

Will (03:25):
since penetration is what I was trying to go for fucking
dinner.

Tanner (03:29):
Hey so in this in this magical sensory deprivation
chamber? Where the only sensoryperception you have is hearing
you hear? We are watching we seeyour path it leads from
forgotten memories to forgottenmemories. seek truth above all

(03:55):
else

Will (03:57):
should I talk back to these dudes?
You can try I don't hear thisright now you don't hear this
okay cool. Oh, I don'tunderstand your voice resonates
out into this black void and

Tanner (04:21):
it feels like so long before a response

Will (04:25):
comes. We expected this expected my not understanding
yes mybest robot boys by the way
huh brother Ganzel know who areyou? You will learn I seek truth

(05:03):
above all else.

Tanner (05:06):
And then the darkness begins to dissipate. it
subsides. Truth and where can Ifind out?

Will (05:16):
Where's who is he?

Tanner (05:17):
What is your response?
And you want to get in here thelife of the forest and the
breathing of asleeping Archienearby, huh? Okay, so I remember
I'm sorry the snoring of asleeping

Will (05:31):
Oh, I love it is your nose to when you're doing this is
like a big cartoonish bubble.

Bruce (05:37):
Absolutely.

Will (05:39):
He sleeps hard.
Okay, so I've got the fiveAmericans talking to myself at
this point making mental notes.
I gotta find brother Ganzel andnow truth. Maybe they're in the
same spot.

Bruce (05:54):
It's in your ass.

Will (05:56):
I continue my watch. Wow.
Oh, good joke. Good joke. Thatwas in there. So everybody knows
what happens when Bruce has amicrophone.

Tanner (06:04):
It's great. All right.

Bruce (06:09):
I'm sweating all games I play Thank you very much.

Tanner (06:11):
For sure. He's for sure.

Will (06:12):
He's sweating this thing?
If it

Tanner (06:16):
turns out like, how devious would I be if the answer
to everything was what the wholetime was just in your ass? Oh,
good. Look at that. If that wasshut up.

Will (06:32):
That is that is the entire game. We did it. The whole time
thatwas inside you your time in your
s specifically in your buttholeOh my God, what's happening but

Tanner (06:50):
they gotta have some sort of exhaust. Why not? Why
not the but they're made bypeople.

Bruce (06:54):
That's why you're bad oil. They

Will (06:55):
want to make it you've seen as people like as I am real
human Jason So. Alright. Yeah.
Okay, we're good. I don't knowwhat I do with that information.
I think I just continue by watchand ponder where to where truth
could possibly be and if it'swith rosary cancel,

Tanner (07:10):
it's it's cryptic there stuff in that message. Good
foreshadowing.
But chirping birds rouse the twoof you in the early morning. The
rest of the night wasuneventful, and you were both
able to evaluate and digest theexperiences of the last two
days. If you were to quantifythis in some manner, I'd suppose
you could say you've reachedLevel Two Yeah, yeah, was there

(07:34):
any fun I did there is thatlevel do

Bruce (07:38):
i has a advantage on dexterity saves against scene
effects Cinefex scene affectsscene if you made me roll the
deck safe because rocks aretumbling toward me. Oh, I also
have banjo melee attacks duringmy turn or possibly but attacks

(08:02):
versus me haven't managed untilthe next turn if I choose to
reckless

Tanner (08:05):
alright let's talk yeah, it's good stuff.

Will (08:08):
Okay, and oh, I get big stuff at level two
for clear I can now do mychannel divinity if you guys did
not know I am of the life domainso I get a skill called preserve
life which is an action I canheal up to five times my cleric
level and can only heal onething up to half its life

(08:29):
points. So in other words, Idon't know somebody like what do
you

Bruce (08:34):
have? I only take half damage so it's great.

Will (08:38):
It's gonna be great. And then I can also turn on debt I
want I

Bruce (08:42):
just want to just state that he becomes a skeleton robot
for a little while. Yeah, so

Tanner (08:47):
the other way to turn other undeads
if if, if at any pointlistener you think oh hey, they
read that wrong or it's notcorrect like we'll just read the
thing and it didn't soundcorrect we know how to do and if
we don't we'll make it workeither way.

Will (09:05):
Rules is for sure I was gonna show it was released
do things by our own book wewrite maybe it's not true. I
love it. 20 now fuck you

Bruce (09:16):
we d&d rules. Rules is read and rules is written. Yeah,
well, rah rah. We Bruce's

Will (09:24):
are we do? Definitely our war gamer of the thing. He knows
the rules. You just tell me whatI do wrong. I just I just play.
I just do stupid stuff.

Bruce (09:32):
I shouldn't play I play along Yeah, kinda know when
something's probably not quite.
Alright. So you

Tanner (09:38):
guys sign up. You've gotten gotten cool new skills.
You wake up in the morning andyou're continuing

Bruce (09:44):
like Diddy. And I turned my swag on.

Tanner (09:48):
Well, you both kind of went to the same place.

Bruce (09:52):
But that's good. I don't know if that's good or bad.

Tanner (09:54):
At least for Archie. It fits right like turning his swag
on he's got Got a lot ofswagger.

Bruce (10:01):
I would fight swagger swagger with all swagger
swagger, we're gonna ask that.
No, I don't I don't think it isswagger is swagger swagger.
Terrific.

Tanner (10:11):
Swag, swag.
Swag. All right swaggy you guyscontinue on your journey down
the road south following thesecar trails. And at about midday,
you see that the trail veers offthe road and into the woods

Bruce (10:34):
we should follow that yeah, I would think wrong accent

Tanner (10:39):
get that in there

Bruce (10:41):
I wish to follow that broth Listen,

Will (10:46):
I've kind of following your lead here I've I'm looking
for brother cancel and I don'tthink he's here yet so if you
think this is the correct way togo I will follow

Bruce (10:59):
is definitely the correct way to go.

Will (11:01):
Do we see wound? Oh yeah.
Why

Bruce (11:03):
March?

Tanner (11:05):
Do you see what we've been told yet? Or you know,
you're still in you're still inbroadly forced. Okay, so yeah,
you had your about almost a fullday's travel from Moon told
okay. Yeah. To get there.

Bruce (11:21):
I'm glad I got out buddy got me Doctor shows in Yeah,
there you go.

Tanner (11:24):
Gotta have those. I was gonna say plantar fasciitis but
the orthopedics that's whatwe're going for. Say, I

Bruce (11:30):
don't know if I went to what is the first thing you just
plantar fasciitis.
And what is its

Tanner (11:35):
kind of its tendinitis of the foot or ankle or
something like, Oh,

Will (11:40):
I'm not. I don't know if I say this or not. But I'm going
to start now. There's only oneway and it's forward.

Tanner (11:50):
His first really bad not quotable catchphrase. All right.
Yeah.
Okay, you guys are goingto investigate the trail leading
off into the woods. Correct?

Bruce (12:02):
You're correct.

Tanner (12:04):
I'm about 50 paces off into the brush, where things get
a little bit thicker. You find abig old pile of

Will (12:18):
limbs and stuff stacked on top of something.

Bruce (12:24):
Oh, boy. Hey, and especially as you know,

Will (12:27):
like light limbs as in like body parts or limbs as in
tree limbs.

Tanner (12:33):
tree limbs.
Yeah, leaves brush. I kind offigured

Will (12:39):
it was body. That's what I was wondering how freaked out I
shouldn't be wasn't looking atthis thing.

Tanner (12:44):
You know. And back to the future when Marty puts a
bunch of branches on top of,

Bruce (12:49):
I get what you're I get okay. Yes, I understand. I'm
just being difficult. So we'llgo ahead and skip

Tanner (12:55):
the whole investigative part. Have you guys been like,
Oh, should we check this?
It's you move the branches. Andit's the cart. The cart is under
the tree limbs.

Bruce (13:03):
And we'll run a rummage through it.

Tanner (13:05):
Okay, go ahead and roll investigation for me.

Bruce (13:15):
Oh, cool. I got 1516 Minus one.

Tanner (13:18):
Nice. You look into the back of the
cart. And there is a largeblanket that is covering a few
tools you see some wrenches andscrewdrivers. But you also find
a glass jar with metal housing.
And inside the glass portion isthis frothing cambered gel.

Bruce (13:39):
It's just bubbling it's

Tanner (13:41):
just roiling inside.
Like there's there's a nicelayer of foam on the top of it.
You can see it actively bubbly.

Bruce (13:47):
I'm like I look at it and I go oh, I told you that.

Tanner (13:53):
Do I? First campaign?

Will (13:57):
Do we know what this is?
Gonna everyone?

Tanner (13:59):
I you could try and think about it if you'd like but
there's probably going to be aroll associated with it.

Will (14:04):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna think about what that is. I
would like to split the roll.
What's the goal?

Tanner (14:10):
What? What are you assessing? How are you assessing
this thing? Oh,

Will (14:14):
I just want to look at it.
See if I see it. Let's see if Iknow what it is just from
looking at it from the thing.

Tanner (14:19):
What I'm trying to get you to to vocalize is what skill
you're going to try and use tolook at perception. I won't be
perception damage.

Bruce (14:29):
Will you find it?

Will (14:31):
How about my other good skill insight? I want to that's
people it's

Tanner (14:36):
it's straight up lying to you.

Will (14:38):
Okay, I think it's it looks magical. Can I see if it's
got any magical properties? How

Tanner (14:42):
about that can go ahead.

Will (14:46):
That's 13 plus 250. Nice.
Okay. As you look at this thing,you could tell that there are
some properties that arepotentially match Go with it.
With that sort of with a 15without like, trying to get into
it. You can tell that it doeshave an effect. Were you to

(15:08):
drink it, this

Tanner (15:13):
is a it is meant to be consumed and the magical
properties of it would affectthe drinker. With that 15
You could tell that there's somepotentially positive effects,
but there's certain things aboutit that make you question what
the contents could possiblydo for you. The lid,

(15:36):
I mean, it's screw off. It'seasy open,
unless you have trouble withpickle jars. Let me let me,

Will (15:43):
let me try this and I take the lid off, and I'm gonna just
consume a little bit I don'treally need to consume, but I
figured it'd be safer for me totry to do it, rather than give
it to my human friend. Yeah. Youknow, human Ari,

Bruce (15:59):
that seems plausible.
Yeah, you're human. Okay. Yeah,that's,

Tanner (16:02):
that's fine. I think it's it is there's a thing you
do with potentially explosivematerial. What you get from
this, as as you open it, youknow, the point, I'm gonna look
up for that sound effect if Ican't find it in the mouth one's
going to have to do as you openit, you get the scent of ocean
air. But for some reason, thissort of familiar saltiness,

(16:27):
where you to have memories of

Will (16:29):
a beach evoke some anger within you. And as you dip,

Tanner (16:38):
you're putting your finger in and then putting it in
your mouth hole.

Will (16:42):
Would be the idea. Yeah.

Tanner (16:44):
Okay, do you reach a gloved finger inside of this,
dip it down with a little bit onthe tip and put it inside your
mouth?

Will (16:53):
It does taste briny but the thing my honey, my smell
receptors,my nasal cavity receptive
receptacles are good.
are telling me this is it? Itsmells like ocean. And it tastes

(17:16):
kind of like ocean

Tanner (17:20):
it tastes also

Will (17:22):
like angry. You get this very short feeling wash over
you.
Have you ever tasted angry?

Bruce (17:33):
actually brought you have no idea.

Will (17:37):
Kind of makes me want to punch as

Bruce (17:40):
my sacred bruv I'm always angry.

Tanner (17:43):
Oh, it's a good reference. It does kind of make
you want to punch it it buildsup this sort of anger inside you
that subsides very quickly fromthe amount that you had. You do
feel some positive effect fromit. Give me Give me another I
just a straight dice roll to seeif you can kind of ascertain

(18:04):
what this is and you can usethree. Okay, you can't really
tell what the effects of thisare. You can tell that it does
something to to your your bodyyou feel in some shape stronger.
But then after that feelingsubsides. And as you're sort of
feeling it you do feel tired.
And that soon goes away as well.

Will (18:30):
Well, Archie, I don't really know what this is but my
tastes receptacles say spicy.
makes me angry.
I feel pretty good. Maybe weshould keep it

Bruce (18:43):
it's called steroids.
Might

Will (18:47):
you say Do you putting the lid back on this thing and
keeping it? I think we should.
What do you think? I look toArchie as I don't believe it to
be dangerous. Ah, maybe becausethis anger that I felt is real.
I guess my eyes would have growna little bit red when I put that

(19:11):
stuff in my mouth as well. So

Bruce (19:13):
are you telling me you got a jar of angry juice over
there?

Will (19:17):
I believe so. But I also believe it has positive
properties. Not sure too muchwhat it does. We are going to
meet a doctor maybe they canhelp

Bruce (19:28):
seems plausible. Bring it along.

Will (19:30):
Okay, I put it in talking about

Tanner (19:31):
your being a doctor. God damn it my plot and plans.

Will (19:36):
I put it into my chest cavity along with my chest that
no apparently painters to

Tanner (19:42):
know I'm gonna say you do not store shit in your chest
cavity. You

Will (19:47):
get a flip out, chest set.
You don't get to store anythingin your jammies. You have a bar
you have a bag, putit in my bag. It goes in my
normal ass bag the container youactually fired
As normal guy never Yeah, we

Tanner (20:01):
never found one. We never gave you one so you find
one in the back of this cart.
You find a nice leather sack.

Bruce (20:07):
Ooh, it makes him like you know those old cartoons
where they tie the handkerchiefaround the stick. He makes fun
of that with the canvas. Yeah,

Will (20:14):
I opened the bag look it's an endless supply of
storage right here.
You could call this a bag ofholding maybe

Tanner (20:23):
yeah it's it's endless in the same Yeah,

Will (20:25):
hold stuff. What's wrong?

Tanner (20:26):
It's endless in the same way that endless buffets are
endless in our lives the waythat you can have as much as you
want until you're full

Will (20:37):
of stick my whole arm and oh, it doesn't all go all the
way down. Ah, see unlimitedstorage.

Tanner (20:47):
Yeah, well you don't have you don't have a bagel
thing

Will (20:52):
I wanted to say was well,

Tanner (20:55):
good luck. Go fuck yourself. Yeah, he did try. He
gotta try sometimes. All right,attack. No Spyglass. No. You
know what? Yeah, sure.
If you want one. They're justnot very valuable.
Okay, Buck buck, buck, you andyour knowledge economy. Yep,

Will (21:12):
I wrote a jar of magic honey on my items list. Yeah, do

Tanner (21:18):
you want the description against the habit? frothing?

Will (21:21):
Yeah, no, we don't have that jar of magic honey. I don't
remember that from that okay,

Tanner (21:25):
cool.

Bruce (21:27):
Even the damn liquid

Tanner (21:28):
is angry even the liquid is angry you you guys
want to look around for anythingelse you don't you don't really
get anything else here there'snothing nearby that indicate
anyone is here or near it

Bruce (21:46):
I want to look in the drivers area

Will (21:49):
Yeah, you can take a look up there there's nothing of any
interest nothing else on thecart Yeah, we did the

Tanner (22:01):
okay you guys head back towards the road as you're
walking back.

Bruce (22:05):
You said there weren't any like
footprints or anything youdidn't look for any Okay then
I'm not leaving like that's okayonce again all right all right
Android Yeah, just go ahead walkaway all the search over here
Don't Don't worry. I look forfucking backwards. Okay,

Tanner (22:21):
go ahead, go ahead and roll the investigation
or survival

Bruce (22:27):
let me see which one would be better?
I gotta choose. Yeah, you gottachoose 14 They'll do it.

Tanner (22:38):
As you begin walking back towards the road and trying
to circle around the cart tofind any footprints you do find
some faint boot tracks twodifferent sets one larger one
smaller that lead back towardsthe road as you follow them
crunched down in the lake in thecenter of one of the footprints

(23:00):
is a small metal box that hasbeen crushed. You can look down
at it and you can see it doeshave some electrical components
inside

Will (23:14):
pick it up and I say Hey bro, if you recognize this at
all yes, these are essentialparts to my functioning this
probably usefulI assumed that by the way
Tanner?

Tanner (23:33):
Yeah. You You have you looked at this
thing. And it does you know,when I say like electronic
components the circuitry is thissort of amalgamation of our
Canik parts you can notice somecrystals in there some other
metallic components, somethingthat does look like some
rudimentary wiring, but itdoesn't seem to be like

(23:58):
something you could slot intoanything as a matter of fact as
you kind of take a look at thisif you'd like you can you can
roll investigation to learn moreabout

Will (24:07):
or let me see if I know what it is.
That is a the seven

Tanner (24:16):
I'll let you do are all that you I mean our current is
not going to make that anybetter night does have our canon

Will (24:21):
conservative nine which one are what do I can look at
this thing and you can see thatthere's like this dial on the
front. It might be a remote Iput it into the bag.
Let's I think that all of thesethings that we find should be
kept for now. Till we understanda little bit more.

Bruce (24:43):
Is there a button on it?
Just a dial I turn it off turn

Will (24:47):
the dial Yeah, let's turn the dial so what happens?

Tanner (24:49):
It doesn't do anything you can see like maybe a little
sparking of the crystals insidebut it doesn't do anything.

Bruce (24:56):
Seems like trash to me.
Bruv huh?

Will (25:00):
This could be important.
Maybe we need to find a way topower it.
A child of height Well, I triedto give it
power from me. Hocus Pocuspower.

Bruce (25:11):
It's got a virus on it and you die.

Tanner (25:13):
Yeah, I'm sorry man. Did you install Avast.

Will (25:16):
A drink all the Honey,

Bruce (25:17):
do not pick up on identified USB sticks and put
them into your laptop yours justso you know. Yeah. Yeah.

Will (25:24):
Also,

Tanner (25:25):
if you're if you're Warforged don't like we've we've
stated that the twist is in hisbutt. But don't don't stick USB
drives up your butt either.

Will (25:34):
Don't do it.
Don't do it. Just put it in yourbag. Well, I

Bruce (25:37):
mean, if that's what you're into, yeah, I

Tanner (25:39):
suppose it but then you probably have to go to a doctor,
hey, you find this thing and youput it in your bag, after you've
figured out that it is notcurrently operational, then you
head back, following thefootsteps back towards the road.
They do lead and a southerlydirection along this road. So
you follow them for ways untilthey start to kind of disappear.

(26:00):
The ground here is a little bitharder. So it's they don't make
as much of an imprint. But theydo appear to be going following
this road, the road that you areon towards wound

Bruce (26:09):
so they're fainter, but still going the same direction
as painters go in the

Tanner (26:13):
same direction and eventually they become
unsolvable. But you never sawany deviation or anything.

Bruce (26:18):
Okay, so assume it's this road, basically, is what you're
trying to tell me. That's allI'm trying to tell you. Gotcha.
Okay, cool.

Will (26:24):
Yep. All right. All right.

Tanner (26:28):
You guys.
I can read this as written.
That's fine. You both continuefollowing the road south and
eventually make it out ofbroadleaf forest and into the
farmlands. As the late afternoonsun sinks down in the sky to the
west you can see the castle ofwound hold in the distance. It's
fortified walls stand tall,protecting the lands of Victoria

(26:48):
from the unknown danger of theEastern subcontinent. You know a
few things about wound hold.
First, it is the seat of theMarquess of wound March, the
nobleman who oversees

Will (27:02):
I just lost my place.

Tanner (27:03):
I was weird. The novamente also said Mark was
which is the Englishpronunciation pronunciation. I
researched this hard because Iknew someone was gonna fucking
call me on some sort of Frenchbullshit.

Bruce (27:14):
But the word is the French of an origination.

Tanner (27:16):
So it is but but in in England, when they used it to
describe leaders of the March itis Marquess. And since this is
English,

Will (27:29):
what was it Marquess of what? I'll reread it.

Bruce (27:33):
Get wrecked French people get

Tanner (27:34):
wrecked. First of all 20 Oh, look at this bigot

Will (27:39):
Call Saul.

Tanner (27:41):
First, it is the seat of the Marquess have wound March,
the nobleman who oversees themajority of the Victorian lands
along the wound. Second woundhold is known for the vigilance
of its guards and the severityof the punishments they
administer. Third, the gate iscurrently closed to those who do
not have a rite of passage or anadventuring contract with the
crown. As you approach thecastle town is there anything

(28:05):
that you guys want to like tryand see from a distance while
you're out

Will (28:09):
here? Are you just gonna continue on? How many guards are
there? Oh, there's there's a

Tanner (28:14):
fair number like this is a tearaway rally staff. Now this
is like only Heycome This is theonly gate into into the in the
space ofa moradores What are you telling
me? Kind of Yeah, yeah, it's thegate to the east. I mean, okay.
Beth did mention that there is away you know, below it, which is
why he sent you to sod.

Will (28:36):
Right? That's yeah. Thank you. You're welcome.

Tanner (28:39):
As you approach the castle town, you see a gnome
with shoulder length black hair,disassembling some equipment and
stuffing it into packs as aDrow. And chainmail sharpens her
long sword nearby.

Will (28:51):
And here's the voice. Dr.
ambling. Where is it is it's uphere. We're up here.
This is fine.

Tanner (28:57):
And it's going to sink into it because Okay, we're
good. It's not too difficult tocarry on.
The Gnome saysI do this every time Abara Why
can't those egg heads at theAcademy come up with something
less Miss placeable thanglasses. But Erlang glasses look
so hot on you? lecherousassholes.

(29:24):
Good returner. Thanks Tanner's.

Will (29:26):
though. That's a very funny Oh, okay. So this is
presumably alien to

Tanner (29:32):
SAT. Yeah. And if you if you own I'll leave that for a
second. So yeah, you see thisscene? What dost thou do with?
Okay,

Will (29:43):
so at this point, I'll turn to Archie.
Archie, I believe that is Anlin.
The person that we are lookingfor the doctor. How about you
got to figure out what

Bruce (29:59):
We need to figure out and I'll be over here making sure
nobody sneaks up on you.

Will (30:04):
I'm glad to know that you trust me with with interacting
with other human beings. I'll beback.

Bruce (30:11):
This is going to be righteous.

Will (30:14):
So he's just down for the chaos. I love it. All right.
Dr. Anlin facade,

Tanner (30:20):
as you walk up to this woman, the Drow in chainmail,
stopped sharpening her sword andpointed at you doesn't say a
word and decipher it around tolook at you.

Bruce (30:32):
If I understand it's a bit rude pointing swords at
people.

Tanner (30:36):
The drought shrugs

Will (30:37):
It's okay. It's okay Mr.
Cromwell. If I understandcorrectly, you are Ibarra.

Tanner (30:45):
The drought just glares at you and the gnome walks out a
lot. My

Bruce (30:50):
battleaxe and I go mine's bigger love.

Tanner (30:55):
Cheese doesn't acknowledge it. And she she
slowly points or long over atyou.

Bruce (31:00):
I'm just pointing my battleaxe at her. I was lucky.
Man. He's just being an assholeat this point.

Tanner (31:08):
The woman who has a presumably am Anlin

Will (31:11):
walks up all right, all right. Calm down.

Tanner (31:15):
We we don't need to attract any more guard
attention. They're a bit on thewarpath right now. And I don't
need anything interrupting myplans. So if you too could
please.

Will (31:29):
i Yes. I am. Dr. Anlin Tucson.

Bruce (31:35):
Oh boy Come on. I was just make an addict joke. It'd
be right I put my bad ice packup the drought. Oh,

Will (31:42):
no, it's it's fine. I I have no fear here. We were. We
were saved by bait to find youin specific
we're looking for passageunderneath wound hold I say this
kind of loud.

Tanner (31:56):
It doesn't you saying that out loud. Doesn't seem to
bother her so much. She shelooks up at the drought. And the
draft looks down at her and andnods. I think we're fine. Abara
and she'll turn back over to thetwo of you.
It's a pleasure to meet anyfriend of base. I am Dr. Anlin.

(32:18):
Tucson and she offers her hand.
As you two are looking at herYou can also tell her that her
glasses are on top of her head.
Okay,

Will (32:28):
I guess you could call me normal human Jason and I shake
her head. Because I learned howto do that. He taught me how to
shake hands.

Bruce (32:37):
Archie's just standing behind six just shaking his head
just

Tanner (32:42):
she'll she'll take your hand and
it's nice to meet you normalhuman Jason. And you sir.

Bruce (32:52):
My name is Archibald Theodore Cromwell but my friends
call me Archie.

Tanner (32:57):
It is nice to meet you Archibald Theodore Cromwell.
Perfect.

Bruce (33:03):
Also, by the way, your glasses are on top your head.
When she reaches

Tanner (33:07):
up on top of her head, tuck in a and puts them on her
face.
Barbara, she's her sword andgoes back to just standing with
her arms crossed looking at thetwo of you.

Bruce (33:22):
I mimic her exact posture.

Will (33:26):
Go ahead. Are you

Tanner (33:29):
is this a performance?
Are you trying to any sort ofintimidation? Are you just just
doing it?

Will (33:34):
No, I'm just I'm just doing okay.

Bruce (33:36):
All right, she she's having a giggle I'm having a
giggle might she

Tanner (33:40):
squints it you know sign of approval or disdain in her
interface.
I got word yesterday. Yesterday.
Yes, yesterday, yesterday thatyou too might be coming. Bathe
sent crow. And I am so ready forsome help getting through the

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caverns beneath the wound. Ithas been a mess just trying to
get people to come down therewith me. We had a whole
expedition. And then they figureall this is it worth it because
it's just a series of frickintubes. But it's not. It's a
cavernous system. There's,there's plenty of things along
the walls, there's evidence ofan unknown religion. It's I'm
sorry, I get a little excitedabout all this kind of stuff.

(34:24):
But it's huge. It's huge. And ifwe could just have more hands to
get a little bit deeper in I,I've already found the way on
the other I know she kind oflowers your voice for a second.
I know you too, are looking fora way to get onto the other side
because you don't have a rite ofpassage. And I've already found
that. So if you can get methrough to the other tunnel

(34:47):
that's right along the way thatyou need to go. Then I will
point you in the right directionso that you can get through.

Will (34:58):
Well that's That's great news. You just need more hands
because I have to hear that's

Tanner (35:05):
you know what? Wild coinkidink at the exact number
that I need you to have. He hasto his

Will (35:12):
to report to Artie. For more hands

Tanner (35:16):
Praise be to the gods.

Bruce (35:19):
So, my friends who is a bit literal.

Will (35:24):
I like literal. I also like figured if I like it, I
like it or anything.

Tanner (35:29):
Anything is helpful.

Will (35:32):
Do you need fi taught?
Yeah, sure.

Bruce (35:34):
We'll help you. So it's just a cabin just got walk you
through the right way

Tanner (35:36):
with a pass pass.
Second. Did you say do I needfeet?

Will (35:39):
Yes. I have two of those.
Awesome. And I'm so stoked.
How about a head? Okay, I cankeep going. Just named different
body parts.

Tanner (35:51):
I mean, you just you can bury. You can list them all out.
I need the whole thing.

Will (35:57):
You got a torso? Yeah, no,

Bruce (36:01):
I'm actually fresh. I

Will (36:03):
don't have a penis though.

Tanner (36:05):
All right. So yes, we do need help. It's not that it's
dangerous. We just have a fewextra things to carry. And the
way down is a littletreacherous. So we'd rather not
make multiple trips for it.

Will (36:20):
Well, that's fair. All right. Excellent. Well, then,

Tanner (36:25):
we better start this now. Jess, we must be off for
the sunsets because otherwiseit's really hard to scale. A
sheer cliff side in the dark.

Will (36:39):
No,

Bruce (36:40):
Michelle. Oh,

Will (36:41):
we're going to be climbing. Yes, you've got

Bruce (36:45):
to sleep climbers.

Will (36:47):
Sleep climbers.

Bruce (36:51):
Don't know how to sleep climbing. Nope. Can you?
condition I don't appreciate youmaking fun of it. Oh, yeah,
you're sleeping you climb. It'spretty simple.

Tanner (37:00):
It's a totally shit that scientific as fuck. Scientists
document this and send it backto the university. Hey, so
perfect. Yeah,we've got a few things.
Everything's packed up. I've gotmy glasses now. That's awesome.
And you're welcome, by the way.
Thank you. And we can we can goahead and head down.

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She goes over and she collects acouple of sacks. And she hands
one to each of you. They're notvery heavy. But you can feel
that they've got like metallicequipment and stuff inside.

Bruce (37:35):
Okay, someone wears Yeah,

Will (37:39):
it's got straps.

Bruce (37:42):
strapping on cool.

Tanner (37:44):
So as you guys are all packed up with some equipment.
And Lynn and Barbara also putsome packs on. And you all start
heading south. You follow andlinen a bar along the wounds
until you come to an area with afew empty crates slow

Bruce (38:01):
Whoa. Before we go through with this, is it dirty
down there?

Tanner (38:07):
Well, I mean, it's, it's laying down a cliff side, which
is mostly rock and rock makesdirt and then it's going into a
cave. That's a little bit of atight squeeze at the beginning,
but then it opens up but likecaves are pretty dirty too.
Yeah. All right.

Bruce (38:27):
One minute. He takes his coat off folded up very neatly
and puts it in his backpack.
Nice his overcoat. Okay, allright. Now we can get still
Looking

Tanner (38:35):
dapper. Just finger guns. Just finger gunning.

Will (38:37):
What does he have on underneath? Is it just like a
plain white T? No.

Tanner (38:43):
He's got a what is it a magenta vest or something? Yeah,

Bruce (38:47):
I think it's a black what is a black shirt with a magenta
waistcoat? No a crimson Wait.

Will (38:52):
Are you wearing a cover band?
Come on random cummerbund comm.

Bruce (38:58):
He's wearing like a like a simple, simple, black noble
shirt. Yeah. So I say nobleshirt because that is a button
up shirt from Yeah. Does it havesleeves? No. Okay.

Will (39:12):
It's not Prince. Oh, yeah. No,

Bruce (39:16):
he can't. He can't fight with poofy sleeves. Can't do
that. All right.

Tanner (39:21):
You follow Anlin and a bar south along the wound until
you come to an area with a fewempty crates and a canvas tent.
Nearby you see two large coilsof rope tied to metal hooks
stuck into the ground. And ifyou look around, it looks like
there was probably a largercampsite here

Will (39:37):
before as you will enter this area. And Lynn shouts out.

Tanner (39:45):
We've made it and now we descend and heads over

Will (39:49):
to the ropes with me first. Does volunteering

Bruce (39:55):
oh yeah, this seems like a great idea. Right?

Will (39:58):
I'm very heavy though. Do you think these ropes will be
enough? Oh, for sure. Yeah,

Tanner (40:04):
these are exquisite ropes. No, but they're really
good ropes.

Will (40:10):
You'll be fine. Good. All right, investigate. Make
sure I'm not gonna fall. Okay. Iwasted a good roll on the 16th.
They the ropes gonna hold me.

Tanner (40:22):
They're sturdy. They'll seem like the whole Good. Do

Will (40:23):
a little picture.
Yep. All right, so cool.

Tanner (40:27):
They get everything set up. They toss the ropes down
over the side of the cliff. Ifyou take a look down, it is
pretty sheer here. But you cansee that the ropes cascade down
near another kind ofoutcropping. Down below you.
It's probably a good 100 feetdown.

Bruce (40:48):
Oh, well, that's a bit Lacell. If you were to slip

Will (40:53):
up, I would say sometimes six, best not to slip. Best not
to slip.

Tanner (40:59):
As everyone gets tied up and ready to go, you get all the
equipment on your back andeveryone is going down. What's
the order that you want to goin? I guess that

Will (41:08):
six is versus

Tanner (41:10):
the six now they don't really harness it. They've got
kind of a harness setup goingon. But it's very

Will (41:15):
rudimentary.

Bruce (41:17):
It's more like a Swiss seat. It's like someone types.
It is a lot like a Swiss seat.
Yes. Gotcha. Okay, that way aSwiss seat for anybody who
doesn't know that is basically aharness made out of a room

Will (41:27):
six is super excited about the prospect of trying something
new so he wants to go first.
Okay.

Tanner (41:35):
All right. So you get on one rope is Archie going to wait
to the end just want to get kindof a picture of how you guys are
climbing down for when I fuckyou over.

Bruce (41:45):
I look at the to the doctor and her buddy assumed
bodyguard knows it loves upcover up the rear.

Tanner (41:52):
They nod Ibarra gets ready in ties herself in on the
other one. Sothe first two descending are
going to be a borrower. And six,everyone's not going down at the
exact same time because thatwould be dumb as hell. So we're
gonna wait till they get prettymuch all the way down. And then
we're gonna descend ourselves.
So you're on this six and you'remaking your way down. I need you

(42:16):
to give me an athletics check.
Please, sir.

Will (42:18):
How is my athletic Oh, so that is a 10 total. Okay. All
right. Let's do

Tanner (42:28):
to continue to descend.
And thanks to this Swissharness. You are able to stay
pretty steady. Your hands doslip once but you're able to
grasp on rather quickly and youmake your way down to the bottom
to the new outcropping. And infront of you can see a cave
opening a bar also makes it downwithout problem will actually

(42:52):
let's see. Let's see let me dosome rules for a bar. Oh yeah,
sure. She fucking tanks it

Bruce (42:59):
gets a one and just

Tanner (43:02):
There's a bar off. Nope, she makes it down just fine. And
then fucking hilarious.
It would have been funny. Imean, she hasn't said a word
yet. She's

Will (43:10):
cool. Last character. It's great.

Tanner (43:13):
Now we have Hanlon and Archie you to saddle into the
saddles and make your way downgo ahead and give me that
athletic stick.

Bruce (43:25):
Alright, then it's time to make a fool

Will (43:26):
of myself. Go for it. No way there's a barbarian have bad
athletics. Drifting Oh, he's aDex barbarian right now or just
Trumpster Oh, nice. Okay, good.
Okay.

Tanner (43:38):
Yeah, you make your way down pretty easy.

Bruce (43:42):
I'm a wisdom Barbie wizard.

Will (43:44):
But as you get just as a DM as a DM, what were you going
to do if we just both rolled netones here? hurt you?

Bruce (43:54):
Oh, sweatshirts are designed to be easily stoppable.
So

Tanner (43:57):
yeah, it would have been it would have if those didn't
come around, it would have beena little bit more proximate
problematic, but it makes sensefor

Will (44:03):
for you guys to have Okay.
All right. As you guys are goingdown, you hear a bit of a slip

Tanner (44:12):
and then and you can see the Swiss seat on Dr. And
lintas. I don't need to say herfull name that was kind of
weird. It comes loose and shegot her hands slip and she
begins sliding down rapidly.

Will (44:28):
I shoot out my rocket hands are good. Hold on, like
Blitzcrank from League ofLegends.
Yeah. Can I

Bruce (44:40):
do a deck saved to leap off the cliff and let my rope
out like you would if you wererepelling yes,

Tanner (44:47):
you're gonna repel out here and try and use the slack
behind you to to catch

Will (44:53):
her let her grab on to that.

Bruce (44:55):
Or I'm literally I was just going to leap off and try
to stop myself underneath herwhere I could just hold person's
got it. Got

Tanner (45:00):
it. Yeah, go ahead and roll. That's gonna be I think
acro backs, acrobatics orathletics you so you'll probably
choose athletic Yeah,

Bruce (45:08):
it's skill base. That's yeah, it makes sense. Yeah. I
don't know why sit next Saturdaythat would have been if I was
the one falling 18.

Tanner (45:17):
So you push off, you grab your right hand down on the
lower rope your left hand on theupper rope and you push back
with your legs, and loop backaround bringing your right hands
to press Anlin against the walland scoop her up. Luckily, she's
pretty lightweight. So you'reable to hold on to her while you
pull on your rope and preventthe two of you from falling

(45:38):
faster and sliding down

Bruce (45:39):
it carefully. This is a long drop here.

Tanner (45:44):
If I were in the heroic type this would be something but
thank you for saving my life.

Will (45:50):
This is this.

Tanner (45:53):
This is the beginning of how terrifying it is what

Bruce (45:57):
a bit terrifying to be fair,

Tanner (45:59):
I am so scared right now.

Will (46:01):
But it's it's just can you get us down? Yeah, should be
able to

Tanner (46:07):
alright, you make your way down to the bottom and you
can feel her trembling on theway. But you set her down at the
bottom and now you're all infront of this cavern. And Lynn
dust yourself off and kind ofshakes herself, shakes her head
and tries to study herbreathing. And she wasn't

Will (46:28):
great save or she wouldn't you say so a barra. She She
nods?
No expression she just isexpressing points at

Bruce (46:41):
her and goes ah, I got you to do something besides
stare at me.

Tanner (46:48):
She shrugs and walks into the cave. And he's just so
quiet.
And Lynn says Welcome to thecaverns of up.

(47:21):
Hello, dear listener, this isTanner and I just want to thank
you for listening to the thirdepisode of another realm. This
is just the start of ourcampaign. So I'm really excited
for you to be on this journeywith us. If you'd like some
extra content episode 3.5 is anout of character discussion with
me and the players. And it'savailable right now. future
episodes will release everyother week, which means episode

(47:41):
four will be out on MondayAugust 29. If you want to learn
more about our campaign settingor keep up to date with podcast
info, check out anotherrealm.com Thanks again and I
hope you enjoy the rest of theepisode.

Bruce (48:43):
All right, well, let's go see what's in these garantee

Tanner (48:45):
All right, yeah, as you guys look out from this ledge,
you can get a good view of thewound the rushing water below
you. And the walls are justscattered with these layers of
white rocks with purple veinsgoing through them. It is a
gorgeous sight especially inthis sunset. You can see the

(49:06):
light cascading on the otherside of the wall from you. And
Barbara who is now farther offinto the entrance lights a torch
and leads away into the passageand before anyone calls me on it
and goes oh by Drow have darkvision. I know but gnomes don't
do gnomes other

Bruce (49:25):
humans are robots to be fair.

Will (49:28):
I don't know do gnomes have dark vision? Would it be
funny?

Tanner (49:31):
I don't think so.

Bruce (49:32):
I think if certain classes can but I don't think
they do as a racial trait.

Will (49:38):
Dark Vision they do they do have dark vision iron or
whatever.

Bruce (49:43):
Gnomes have dark vision.

Tanner (49:44):
Yeah. Bye.

Bruce (49:45):
Thank you. Bye. I appreciate you liking that torch
for me. Yeah, she did for you

Will (49:48):
guys. I also don't have the result according to them
every

Bruce (49:51):
day. I'm I'll save you.
Thanks. But

Will (49:53):
all right. The walls here are etched

Tanner (49:57):
with depictions of people receiving gifts and
However, the odd thing that youfind in most of these is that
the gift giver in every piece inevery piece is scratched out in
some way.

Will (50:11):
Very cool now. All right.
So pairs like gifts,receiving gifts, receiving
gifts. Okay, sorry,

Bruce (50:18):
the receiver has crashed out of the gift or scratch the
gift or scratch down.

Will (50:22):
Mm hmm. All right, then, well,

Bruce (50:24):
I won't be given you the last as anything while we're
down here. I don't want to getscratched out of a rock.

Will (50:31):
I see nothing of significance.

Tanner (50:35):
I think I think all of this is of significance. There's
a story here that is a puzzle tosolve and a history that we know
nothing about. I mean, how oftendoes that come along? And lands
were were able to explore? Imean, think about it. If if
something like this wasdiscovered in EMA vests, the

(50:55):
elves wouldn't let us touch it.
But since it's here, I mean,it's amazing. It's something new
and unexplored and I am soexcited. Really?

Will (51:05):
I would. I would argue that this is not very new.
You know what? You're right. Itis new to me.

Bruce (51:13):
Once again, very literally did me no offense. No,
I'm

Tanner (51:16):
not. I'm not offended.
Everything is a search.

Will (51:19):
You still have your mask on right? Oh, yeah. Okay.
Everything is a search doubleshis actual name or anything to
this person yet

Tanner (51:28):
and she hasn't asked.
Yeah, she continues.

Bruce (51:34):
The Marquesas shook your metal hand.

Tanner (51:36):
Yeah, well, it's gloved glove. That's big old. You've
got big blacksmith gloves on.
He's dressed weird.

Bruce (51:42):
All right. Yeah, that's yeah, apron. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Tanner (51:46):
At the Microsoft wound March, contacted the College of
this a lot of words for me tosay, the Marquess of wound March
contacted the college Valleyrecently, after a trimmer along
the wound uncovered this cavernentrance. We were a group of 12
at the start of the expeditionfour weeks ago. Now it's just
the two of us. Well, I guessfour of us. But so once again,

(52:09):
thank you, you've doubled ournumbers after they've been

Will (52:11):
six.

Bruce (52:14):
If you don't mind me asking here. Why'd Why did they
all say no, again.

Tanner (52:23):
They thought the stuff here was meaningless. I mean, we
found the, you know, exit on theother side. And they were like,
Well, look, we've documented thewall scribblings and there's a
few other passageways, but wedon't want to put any more
money. It's all about money.
Right? Like, so if if it doesn'tseem worth it, then they're not

(52:43):
going to pay for it. And I amcurrently not getting paid for
this.

Bruce (52:50):
The world does count on it. Good on you for following
your sense of adventure.

Will (52:56):
You hear up ahead, borrow sighs

Bruce (53:04):
apparently your friend doesn't like your sense of
adventure.

Tanner (53:09):
Yes, but she is my friend. And she will see it out
with me which I am superappreciative of.

Will (53:17):
Well, that's a good friend. I Oh, I think actually.
Maybe you can help us. I foundthese and I pull up the jar of
honey and the little device andask her you know, basically what
is it?
What what do you think theseare? She'll take a look at the
jar. John,

Tanner (53:38):
you know, look over to a bar at that keeping the torch
over here. And she comes overand you know, holds a light over
it. She looks at the jar first.

Will (53:48):
Hmm. Can i

Tanner (53:50):
Is it is it dangerous to it? Can I Can I open

Will (53:53):
it tastes like Angry.
Angry ocean ocean.

Tanner (54:00):
Okay, she relisted off and and takes a sniff and puts
the cat back on? Oh, that isthat kind of smells like spring
fire.

Will (54:12):
What is what is spring fire.

Tanner (54:15):
Spring fire is one of the main exports of Exarch which
is just to the south of Vitoriait is a really impressive mix of
stuff. But most of the most ofits naturally occurring. This
however has some sort of tank toit is the best way that I can
think of describing it. The coolthing about spring fire is that

(54:39):
it will be it'll it'll help outin certain situations with feats
of physical strength by this,I'm not sure and I don't know if
you really want to drink itbecause that frothing is

Will (54:54):
volatile.
So you're telling me it's a Pdate?

Tanner (55:00):
Um, yeah, but I don't know if you could actually test
for it in competitions ofstrength. So like, if you're
thinking of it that way, then.
But it would still be an illegalsubstance in most official
rankings.

Bruce (55:11):
Good to know. Thanks for the clarification. No problem.

Will (55:14):
I took a small sample of it with my mouth.
It made me a little angry. Myeyes turned around. I mean, it
made me angry. Yeah, I wouldn'tsuggest. I mean,

Tanner (55:28):
scientifically, if you do ever taste this, or like
consumed the whole thing, pleasedocument it. And let me know.
Like what happens? Because Imean, do you want to keep like,
Oh, I'll look into it if you'dlike. But that's up to you.

Will (55:46):
I think bits of strengths could be useful to us, Archie.
I'm very strong.
I'm also pretty strong. I thinkwe'll hold on to it. You've
given me a lot of inflammation.
And I will document what happenswhen we take it if we take it.

Tanner (56:05):
Alright. And then this other thing. This, this is some
remote control device. I'm notcertain exactly what it's
supposed to control. But it'shas some sort of long range
mechanism. And well, I say longrange. It's a pretty short long
range, but it doesn't have to belike right up on the thing that

(56:25):
is supposed to be controlling.
Do you know what it's supposedto go to?

Bruce (56:29):
No bound it broken into mode? Ah. Okay,

Tanner (56:35):
well, if that's all the information that you have, is
this is this also, do you wantme to look into this more? Or
would you like to all Yeah,yeah. I mean, it's mostly junk.
There's some good parts in hereto use for stuff. But it you
know, just depends on eyes

Will (56:46):
for sure. Oh, all right.
Cool.

Tanner (56:49):
And she stuffs it in her bag. Hey, Rob.

Will (56:56):
Jason. Oh, hold on to that liquid, if

Bruce (57:00):
you don't mind?
Absolutely. I hit it too. And Iput it in my bag. Okay. wrapped
in cloth. So it does break.
Something.

Tanner (57:09):
Makes sense. I mean, it's got it does have like a
metal casing around it. So itshould be pretty cool. Yep. All
right, you guys continue on thecave, the cave starts to open up
a bit. As you move through,you're not really getting dirty.
Like if you touch against thewalls, you would get stuff. But
it was probably a good idea toremove the jacket. I'm being

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extremely careful, extremelycareful.
And limb continues on. We'vecertainly made progress here,
just the two of us. And we madesome progress with the whole
group, which I mean, if theywere all here, it would probably
be exponential for the amount ofstuff that we've discovered. All
these etchings I found, I thinkare from some long forgotten
religion. And, you know, thesepeople in them depicted are are

(57:57):
just being showered in giftsfrom some entity. So I'm
thinking that that's probablythe god or, you know, at least
the person that they worship, itcould have been a cult, just all
worshipping some rich guy, or itcould have been like, a king
from some previous monarchy orsomething here or queen. I mean,
hell, we have a queen here now,so why not?

Bruce (58:22):
present a question? Sure.
How do you know it's only onething if all the images are
scratched out?

Will (58:30):
I don't, that's actually a really good

Tanner (58:32):
point. She reaches into her bag and pulls out a notebook
and makes a note in there, closeit back up and puts it back in
your pocket.

Bruce (58:37):
I told you I was a scientist.

Tanner (58:42):
Anyone that does science is a scientist, anyone that
hypothesis is a hypothesize ornone of these things are
actually equivalent to having adegree. Like they're almost as
good. I think you could be rightand onto something. I mean,
whatever it is, it's all got tomean something. And I'll be

(59:04):
damned if I'm not the one tofigure it out.

Bruce (59:09):
Cool or Salutations to you.

Will (59:13):
Thanks. All right.

Tanner (59:15):
As you continue on, the passage opens into a high
ceiling cavern. You can see afew hand hewn columns standing
about holding up the ceiling,which you can imagine where yes,
they're hidden. They're carved.
Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So they'reactually made they were probably
some form of you know,stalagmites stalactites

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situation that they made intothese sort of ornate columns.
You can see you can kind of seeup towards the top if you have
dark vision, which neither ofyou do. But I'll give it to you
in a bar holds up the torch. Youcan see these sort of etchings
and figures up at the top butyou can't really make out what
they are because they're so highup. As you continue on. You can
see more of these depictions onthe walls. More of these

(59:59):
scratched out figures that maybe one or maybe multiple things.
And you can see these offshootson the walls, where these other
paths kind of go into thedarkness. And and Lynn describes
these as well, I could just saywhat she says.

Will (01:00:18):
These little side

Tanner (01:00:20):
pastures, as far as I can tell, don't really go
anywhere. They were a lot ofcavan's in this section. And I
think after, you know, thatinitial short of trimmer that
unveiled the entrance to thiscavern, a lot of these probably
got closed off, it would take somuch time work money to actually
get down them. So this mainpath, and a couple of offshoots

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are really the only thing thatwe currently have. So, you know,
where are we to have all thefunds and stuff that we wanted,
we could probably delve intosome of these things. And I
can't imagine the the wealth ofknowledge that we can find in
certain chambers, I mean, a lotof these things have to lead to
somewhere, has to lead tosomething.

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But the only thing that actuallyis more impressive than the last
chamber is the next and you walkinto this massive chamber. And
the walls are actually straighthewn unlike the rough cave walls
in the areas that you came from.
The columns here are nearlyperfect in their size and

(01:01:25):
symmetry, the depictions ofpeople are still at the top. And
again, you can't really makethem out from here. But at the
bottom, there's also intricatedesigns of IV wreathing, around
the columns, you can see thetunnel on the other side
continues on in the torchlight.

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But just taking in this, thisparticular area, it almost
reminds you of the sort ofCathedral in the way that it is
shaped and formed.

Will (01:01:57):
So I've got to admit, I'm a bit confused as to what you
need from us.
Because if we find the exit,we're going to continue along
our way. I imagine you need morehelp than that. Well,

Tanner (01:02:12):
I mean, we needed someone to help carry some of
this equipment. And there arethings in here, you know, like,
we found some cave worms andsome bats and some things that
are just like, kind of pains inthe ass. And just having more
people is better. And once weget down to another trail like I
there is an offshoot that I'mthere's not much rubble there.

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So I think we could kind of moveit and get it. You know, so we
can actually get back in there.
And more hands. For extra. Yes,for for extra hands would be
such a huge help. And for extrafeet too. It's a great boon. You
have no idea

Will (01:02:53):
and to torsos, we discussed all this. Yes,

Tanner (01:02:57):
head, shoulders, knees and toes all included. Here we
go.

Will (01:03:00):
By the way, I am taking very good mental notes of the
path we are taking through thisso that if we have to go back
through a drawing it is shoot. Iguess I could do a schematic on
the wall just saying this way.
Oh, that's what I do. I createlittle schematics as we go
through just like littlebreadcrumb markers like go this

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way. While you

Tanner (01:03:28):
when you do that Anlin turns to Archie,

Will (01:03:32):
he,

Tanner (01:03:34):
like here is he leaving breadcrumbs for it? Like this
has been a straight path.
There's only one way

Bruce (01:03:43):
let him do whatever makes him happy. And whatever makes
him feel safe.

Tanner (01:03:47):
Who am I question someone's ideas of safety. Thank
you for giving me perspective.

Bruce (01:03:54):
Nice. All right, love. No problem anytime.

Will (01:03:57):
It definitely makes the robotic noise every time I do
this, by the way.

Tanner (01:04:02):
Yeah, yeah, I'll put in the printer again. All right.

Bruce (01:04:08):
Oh, yeah, sure. We'll help you clear up some rocks.
That's the least we could do foryou given us a pass through
wound node.

Tanner (01:04:17):
It is, I think, a pretty fair and equal trade. I mean,
we're not feeding you. We'rejust getting you down here and
you're helping us with some rockso honestly, I'm getting more
out of this than you get. Wellno, you're getting paid. I
forgot that you are getting paidto so nevermind. Well, we only
get

Bruce (01:04:33):
we also get to kick the shit. But maybe I shouldn't say
that. Actually. Nevermind.
Let's continue. What now? I'mnot certain.

Will (01:04:40):
You know how I said we were say Yo, Archie said we were
scientists earlier. Yeah,scientists have kicking ass. Oh,

Bruce (01:04:48):
we're gonna go run some experiments on some members of a
certain collective that mostpeople don't like black called.
Fucking A Jason

Will (01:04:59):
might To my my dad's in the Blackboard collective
well I hope he's not in thegroup we're looking at for

Tanner (01:05:07):
now I'm just kidding he's not my dad said

Bruce (01:05:11):
Jesus I'm sure love

Tanner (01:05:14):
it it was an experiment runs in the family blew himself
up but he he came up with a curein that experiment

Will (01:05:23):
for standard foot snake foot

Tanner (01:05:29):
just let's like you know when you get like you just it's
an insert in a shoe and he didthat bullet

Will (01:05:34):
a bullet. Do I want to do a history check on

Bruce (01:05:37):
I have used before

Tanner (01:05:39):
thankfully Yeah, the it was a thing discovered by
Stanley Yellin that's

Will (01:05:44):
good. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. All right.

Bruce (01:05:51):
Hold on, hold on, doctor, I'll carry you up a mountain.

Tanner (01:05:54):
Nice. Very good. Very good. Okay. You guys ended up
going into the path. I guess thecat the passage that leads at
the end of this chamber. And asyou leave the chamber the torch
light is consumed by thedarkness moving forward, not in
like a weird magical way. But inlike, Oh, we're going into dark

(01:06:15):
spaces more enclosed kind ofway. So don't be like afraid of
shit. But you should be becauseyou hear movement off in the
distance. Pull that.

Bruce (01:06:28):
Cut that I'm sorry. i What was it sound like?

Will (01:06:33):
What you hear? Sounds like

Tanner (01:06:41):
scraping against stone.
It doesn't really sound like themovement of feet or legs. It
just sounds like somethingsliding across stone.

Bruce (01:06:55):
Doctor if you don't mind me asking here. How big were
these cave worms you weretalking about?

Will (01:07:02):
Um, they're, I mean, they like four feet long.

Tanner (01:07:07):
There are nothing like they're they're a little
troublesome. But

Bruce (01:07:12):
they're not about the bats or the giant bats.

Will (01:07:15):
No, they're regular, irregular bats.

Tanner (01:07:20):
Like regular bats that you'd have to fight off, right?
Like they weren't like littlecave bats. They
were you know, they troublesomebut they were just one pop them
in a bar was able to slicethrough like what a bar like, in
a bar holds up her hand withthree fingers up?

Will (01:07:35):
Yes, three at one time. So like nothing problematic.
Does this thing sound largerthan those things she's just
described? As

Tanner (01:07:45):
you think that question.
Barra draws her sword.

Bruce (01:07:50):
All right, then draw me back or x. I don't know why I
said that. I

Will (01:07:54):
guess I pull out the mace

Tanner (01:07:56):
Ebara turns back to you and she'll pass the torch back.
Or try to. Okay, I guess one ofyou guys can take it if we all
grab it.

Bruce (01:08:09):
I'm gonna hand it to.

Will (01:08:11):
Oh, six resource. Okay, cool. Yep.

Tanner (01:08:14):
So, and she she fully draws her sword and has a point
for it. She starts edging backand makes a hand motion for you
all to move back into the largechamber behind you.

Bruce (01:08:24):
Okay, I follow or? Yeah, fine. I have torches. Okay, I'm
going to light one. All right,and throw it in front of us.

Tanner (01:08:36):
Okay, so as you guys are kind of edging back, you light
up a torch and you toss it infront of you. And as it
illuminates the cave walls andheads down into the darkness.
You can see it glimmer off ofslimy wet skin in the distance.
And what you see that rears backin this light is this thing with

(01:08:58):
this beat ma surrounded by fourtentacles covered in spiny
suction cups. And it lurchesforward towards you. Go ahead
and roll initiative. Yeah,

Will (01:09:11):
bye. Bye. 11 plus zero that's 11

Bruce (01:09:18):
and 20. You said 21.
Actually, non-natural 21Actually, but

Tanner (01:09:25):
okay. So as this thing lurches forward you can see it
illuminated by the torch. Ibarraprepares to brace actually. It
Bara takes an action to grabAnlin and go around the side of
the cable and get her out theway so it is basically just you

(01:09:45):
facing this monster ahead ofyou, Archie, and you are up
first.

Bruce (01:09:52):
All right, I'm gonna start backing up slowly. still
facing it. I'm gonna prepare anaction And that enters my threat
range. Now, first of all, holdon first I rage. Okay, I'm gonna
use my one year usually my ragesto I fear in action that have

(01:10:14):
entered my throat range.
Blackett. Okay and three, Ibegin to backup.

Tanner (01:10:20):
Okay. All right. So you prepare an action.

Bruce (01:10:24):
Boy six. Let's our Jason I mean, so let's Let's back out
of here six oh it's got sixtentacles man.

Tanner (01:10:34):
It's clearly got four.

Bruce (01:10:36):
It's got no six there's two more behind it.

Tanner (01:10:39):
Probably I'll talk and you get in your six seconds
all right. The creature themonstrosity rushes towards you.
You can see its tentacles spreadthe barbs on it. Poised to
connect and this gaping beak.
You can see the saliva drippingoff from it. This thing is

(01:11:00):
hungry and it wants you and itit gets into your throat right?

Bruce (01:11:07):
Give a slack.

Tanner (01:11:08):
Give it a whack maybe

Bruce (01:11:11):
19 on the dice.
battleaxe, yep. 12 toe tail.
Okay, down match. Nice damage.
Seven plus three posted.

Tanner (01:11:21):
Nice. All right. So you slice at this thing with your
axe. You connect with its fleshyside and you can see this dark
blood dripping out of it. Thisthing continues to make its way
towards you. And try it took mecode off. Yeah, it was a good
call. It is going to try andattack with its tentacles. So

(01:11:43):
they lurch towards you. And youcan see the barbs as suckers 18
on the dice, so that'll be

Will (01:11:53):
forming shit. Oh, great.

Tanner (01:11:58):
Take nine damage from its tentacles. As it connects
with its tentacles, you can seeit's bigger than lurching
towards you. Trying to take abite at bite out of that fancy
as it is a 19 seven damage theseare slashing and piercing. Thank

(01:12:19):
you so have that. Alright, thisthing is all up in your
business. And in its turn, whichmeans we go on to a borrower who
is maneuvering Anlin over to theside she puts her behind one
column and pulls her sword outit is clear that her only

(01:12:42):
priority is to protect

Bruce (01:12:45):
you but Irene already assume that

Tanner (01:12:48):
she will end her turn six.

Will (01:12:52):
All right, so what I'm going to do is use a bonus
action to cast a shield of faithon my good buddy. Archie and Rob
so you get plus to a C 460 Waitwait 10 minutes. So yeah, yeah,

(01:13:16):
so the whole let's do it for therest about then I'm going to run
up to this bad boy. And hit itwould tow the dead because I
really want to use it.

Tanner (01:13:27):
What would 10 minutes be? Would that be 100 rounds of
combat? Yes.

Will (01:13:30):
Yes. It would if we have 100 rounds of combat. I hate
you.

Tanner (01:13:34):
I hate for any fight anything. Oh,

Will (01:13:36):
that was the last fight buck.

Tanner (01:13:37):
You told the told that dead there boy.

Will (01:13:40):
All right. He has to roll a DC 13 wisdom saving throw? He
does. It does. It's a smartcookie. Or it's a wise cookie.
He takes nothing. Oh wait. Yeah,wisdom. Yeah. Oh, no, we're
good. Yes. Plus to wisdom. Why?
No, I don't know. All right,nothing happens. Okay. You,

Tanner (01:14:07):
you let out your your hand was told that that
Touchstone

Bruce (01:14:11):
No, it is a site of belief and it makes your right.

Tanner (01:14:17):
Okay. All right. You.
You bring your gloved handforward, and you attempt to snap
your fingers and make this thingfeel the pain but when you snap
your fingers it just fizzles outwith a

Will (01:14:32):
nice doesn't make that noise. What was that, Rob? Well,
I I'm actually not sure. Don'tknow what that chip was. Okay.
That was awesome. Good job.
Well, yes.

Tanner (01:14:45):
You did it back to Archie.

Will (01:14:47):
You did the dialogue.
Well, you did it. Dialogue. It

Bruce (01:14:50):
did it. What's the dialogue?

Will (01:14:53):
Nothing. I ran within five feet of him by the way to make
myself Oh,

Tanner (01:14:57):
you ran up to five feet.
Okay. Yeah,

Will (01:14:59):
that's important to say I want to make myself a target.
Okay?

Bruce (01:15:03):
Wacky wacky is a big tentacle monster.

Tanner (01:15:05):
Do it. Do it.
Can you please do a barbarianthing to it? What do you mean?
Do I get it? He's like it justwacky.

Bruce (01:15:16):
Okay. Or reckless attack for advantage.
No, I'm saying you don't haveto. I was just saying enough
fucking joke. I'm gonna recordI'm wondering.

Tanner (01:15:25):
Okay

Bruce (01:15:27):
Does 15 hit? Yes. Cool

Tanner (01:15:32):
now reckless attack means you get advantage. He does
do

Will (01:15:36):
against against specifically versus so my

Bruce (01:15:39):
next turn PC 13 damage eight plus two for rage plus
three for mushrooms. Okay,

Tanner (01:15:47):
as you come down with your axe you do take a chunk of
flesh out of the side of thething eight screeches Lord
lurches out at you just pissed.
And as it does yell out, you canhear this sound reverberate in
the cavern. And from the pathwhere you can still see your
torch faintly glowing. You cansee something else lurching

(01:16:09):
forward and next to this thingis a second frickin Greek

Bruce (01:16:17):
Okay, am I free of this thing?

Tanner (01:16:19):
Yeah, it doesn't have you grappled.

Bruce (01:16:21):
Oh yeah, you're not gonna that's fine.

Tanner (01:16:23):
So there are now two Greeks facing you guys the other
one is kind of back a little bitin the tunnel. And it has made
its way here

Bruce (01:16:30):
I brought Let's kill this thing. Get the fuck out of here.

Will (01:16:33):
Couldn't agree with you more?

Tanner (01:16:35):
All right. The first gric gric one we'll call it is
going to attempt to make aanother attack with its
tentacles on you. Archie atlurches forward with these BB
disgusting gooey suction youalready think it is? That is

(01:16:56):
nine plus 413 Which I believeMrs. Yes. All right. So it will
try and get you with itstentacles. But it does not
connect these things just kindof slither near you
and it doesn't get any purchaseto speak.

Bruce (01:17:17):
You'll hear it in the American made the mac and cheese

Tanner (01:17:20):
Yeah, the mac and cheese stuff because it did not hit
with its tentacles it is notgoing to try and go at you with
its beak. It is now a Baras turnand as she stands there sort of
in defensive position, seeingthis second grip come up, and
then we'll yell up to herI'm fine. Fucking kill it
and a borrower will rush forwardtoward towards the second gric

(01:17:45):
try and include closing on thatbut she doesn't make it all the
way towards it. So she will shewill rush up and get to the edge
of the opening at the tunnel andprepare to attack this second
brick as you guys are engaged inthe first as it tries to get in
through. We will now move to sixsix you are now facing two of

(01:18:05):
these things. One is has I meanit's got a little chunk missing
from it from Archie's axe andthe other one is fine. Brand new
boy All right,

Will (01:18:17):
I'm just go take a swing at the damaged one. Just smack
smack with my Macy mace. Allright, that is a nine on the
dice plus 413 is 13 Hidden

Tanner (01:18:35):
13 does not hit

Bruce (01:18:37):
but I get to plus two because I'm enraged.
Okay, just get that token outhow that works.

Tanner (01:18:42):
Dams drink that potion.

Will (01:18:44):
Maybe I should have but it's too late. I already did my
action. I have nothing else Ihave

Bruce (01:18:49):
it so it doesn't matter.
That's right. That's right. Alldone.

Will (01:18:53):
All done. Okay, turn.

Tanner (01:18:55):
Then we move on to gric number two who will slither in
and seeing that the other one isengaged with Archie will go
after you six tentacles arecoming your way. Gooey, gooey,
gooey, suctioning nasty bits

Bruce (01:19:11):
of Barbarossa range is it past the rebars threat range

Tanner (01:19:17):
though thank you thank you thank
you for keeping me honestall right yeah bar will make an
attack with it alongside yesgive

Will (01:19:22):
them a Balraj

Tanner (01:19:23):
she will connect

Bruce (01:19:28):
I'm not letting an attack other things dealing that solid
damage to me that's not good.

Tanner (01:19:34):
It's solid damage. Okay.
Thank you. Thank you.
Alright, so this second Greekwill make an attack on you six.
That is going to not do it nineplus four. Yeah. 17 AC All
right, so it does not make aconnection with its barbed
tentacles. Gross they areunfurled

Will (01:19:54):
oh forget vs close to AC right now, by the way.

Tanner (01:19:58):
Oh that

Bruce (01:19:58):
right? I will not Okay, I've got it. I was gonna ask
Tanner when he said there'ssomething here. Well, what was
it? Yep. Back to the top of theorder, Archie quacky sweat

Tanner (01:20:11):
rolling. Which one are you attacking? Attacking? The
damage one one.

Bruce (01:20:15):
That is the one I've hit twice. Great. Hit it a hit.
I'm gonna reckless attack and doit 15 On dice I assume hit like
plus five. So

Tanner (01:20:25):
yeah. 15 Straight

Bruce (01:20:31):
11 damage six plus three plus two.

Tanner (01:20:34):
Well, you have a battleaxe what type X you?
Great,great execute. You pull your
great axe back. And you baseballswing this nasty worm. Chicken
beat octopus hybrid. And you cutacross it right where its beak
splits and cut back into it. Andthis thing falls to the ground

(01:20:57):
like a limp noodle.

Bruce (01:21:02):
It does your limp noodle.

Will (01:21:03):
Nice. Yeah.

Tanner (01:21:06):
Cool. So that is great one the second one. The second
one will maintain its positionand seemingly just too hungry to
care. But now we'll move

Bruce (01:21:22):
on to killed me bro.

Tanner (01:21:24):
Now we'll move on to Ibarra, who will also try and
take another swing at thisthing. She will make another
swing with her great or her longsword. Sorry. So make another
swing with her long sword andthis thing is able to maneuver
underneath her. She did notconnect with it. Six. What do

Will (01:21:45):
all right, well, six is going to try to toll the dead on
this guy again. Roll that. Rollthat beautiful bean footage.
AKA wisdom save of 1313 Do I getto roll my dice? It saves Ah

Tanner (01:22:04):
yeah, on saves. They only have it's like a DC. So you
have to meet it.

Will (01:22:08):
How so? Yeah, you're right. But how's all artsy
looking?

Bruce (01:22:13):
strong and beautiful.

Tanner (01:22:16):
Oh, that's much better than mine.

Will (01:22:18):
Are GI bleeding too much?
Okay. All right, because

Bruce (01:22:21):
you know, we're all like I think it was majestic. I was
regal.

Will (01:22:26):
I would have been regal.
Regal Archie.

Tanner (01:22:30):
Regal is good from lions. What's good for wolves?
Fierce feral. Yeah,well, you are in a rage so you
are pretty feral right now?

Bruce (01:22:40):
Yeah, I'm like foaming at the mouth. What do you look?

Tanner (01:22:42):
Yeah, what do you look like when you're in a rage?

Bruce (01:22:44):
It's it's like it's like the cold hatred of vengeance.

Tanner (01:22:51):
Just the most obtuse sentiment got it? All right. The
Greek is going to try andtentacle you 15

Bruce (01:23:03):
He does not have advantage by the way because
it's not same grip.

Will (01:23:07):
What I thought everything

Tanner (01:23:10):
15 So this thing misses with your No,

Bruce (01:23:12):
no, no, I'm sorry. Yep, that is right. It is it is it is
it is a target. Yeah, go for it.

Tanner (01:23:19):
17 on the dice. Yeah, that'll definitely. Okay, it'll
connect with its tentacles.
These things wrap into your verynice shirt. You can see the
barbs pierce through it.
damaging the fabric. Ninedamage. Slashing. Okay, its
tentacles connect. So it's goingto try and snap at you with its

(01:23:42):
beak. Okay. 19 Yeah, that'sgonna hit. Alright, not too bad.
Six. Okay, so it wraps itstentacles into you. And it does
tear your shirt a little bitwith these barbs at the end and
this beak pinches into yourchest. It's unpleasant. It's not

(01:24:03):
nice.

Bruce (01:24:04):
Well, I'm not happy, that's for sure. I'm having the
time. I'm Allah. I cannotpromise you.

Tanner (01:24:13):
Okay, that will ngrick number two's turn back up to
arch Whack whack and

Bruce (01:24:23):
I am not one reckless tech. Okay, so regularly. Why
not? Why not?

Tanner (01:24:27):
Why not? I like it when you reckless tech.

Bruce (01:24:32):
Doesn't 11 Hit 11 does

Tanner (01:24:34):
not hit all right, you take another swing with your
great axe after your killingblow and the other one. Sweating
your palms causes you to nothave the best purchase on it.

Bruce (01:24:45):
And you may well and also the blood Yeah, the

Tanner (01:24:47):
blood the blood on your palms. Fine. Let's make it not
such a, you know, bitch move theblood on your palms make it slip
a little bit. Ibarra willattempt to make another attack.
She will take her long swordinto both hands and do it To
hand swing it is. It doesn'thelp. Six.

Will (01:25:06):
I'm going to use tin, I'm going to channel divinity using
my life domain.
Hey, Archie,I learned a new trick. And I
snap my fingers or do whateverthe robot can do for a snap. I
guess the chain of purchase onthe on the gloves that he has
on? Yeah, for sure. So both 10hit points to all Archibold

Tanner (01:25:30):
nice. You can feel this static hair raising electricity
come through us. You were

Bruce (01:25:38):
so themselves together.
Yeah,

Tanner (01:25:40):
I know. You're close to.
And then your wounds. Yeah.
Well, Imean, let's let's be honest,
Archie is wounded when hisclothes are wounded. That sense
apparently.

Will (01:25:51):
Is the grapple action. An action? Is that something I do
as an Asian?

Bruce (01:25:56):
Yeah, grappling like, kind of sucks.

Tanner (01:26:00):
Yeah, it's it kind of sucks. Basically, you can. It's
you can give other people youhave advantage and they have
advantage on attacks. It's kindof

Will (01:26:07):
I'm going to I'm going to get on the backside of this
thing. Flanking if you will.

Tanner (01:26:16):
Oh, I'm like, jumping around. I was like, okay, not
give me an idea of you're tryingto try and move around yet.
And which means you don't leave.
It's threat range. You're justrepositioning in here. Correct.
So you get you get on thebackside of it. I start yelling
at it. Do. We aren't reallydoing flanking
rules because we didn't havethose. Okay,

Bruce (01:26:38):
yeah, that was awful.
Either way. I'm

Will (01:26:39):
trying to confuse the thing. Maybe give it a different
target. Yeah, that's fine.
Hello, over here. Check it meout.
Big, big boy.

Tanner (01:26:50):
Go ahead. And when he says roll Sure. Not really
intimidating it you're justtrying to make it come after
you.

Will (01:27:03):
11 minus 110.

Tanner (01:27:05):
Okay. That's a roll that you did. It is now its turn. And
this thing will look around atthe three attackers and take in
sort of the location the roomand everything's going on. And

(01:27:25):
it will try and dart off to yourleft wing swag. Swag.

Will (01:27:30):
Okay, let's back up a swig of it with my mace do it well,
that shit 13 does not hit them.
Oh, but I get advantage What doyou get advantage? I don't I
don't be stupid. I do the samething. 14 Tigers, the attacker.
We know it's easy. Yeah.

(01:28:02):
We found it.
We are the world's greatestdetective.

Tanner (01:28:06):
Well, I mean, a 15 hit and a 13 missed.

Bruce (01:28:10):
Well, I don't remember 15 I wouldn't say that. It did
Yeah. I I have done monotonemonotone just dead no motion.
You're not getting away from me.
bruv. Nice. Roller demo. That'sa lot of damage.

Tanner (01:28:28):
How much? How much do

Bruce (01:28:30):
a 11 plus three is 13 plus three is 15.

Tanner (01:28:34):
Very nice. All right, you take another swing at this
thing and catch it in the backas it moves over to the side.
Aid it your axe does find somegood purchase on this thing and
as it moves it slices down thelength of it this thing
screeches out but continues onits path if Barr will also try
and attack she will connect withit on this one her long sword

(01:29:07):
catches the thing in the backwith the two arms strike. All
right, but this thing is able tomake it off to the side and
begins scurrying up the wallsinto the darkness. How far was
it is going to go it's movementsso it goes 30 feet diagonally?

Bruce (01:29:30):
I have lent it

Tanner (01:29:33):
eventually. It's still it's doing Yeah,

Bruce (01:29:36):
yeah. Okay. I thought you were done when it was Oh no, no

Tanner (01:29:42):
as it as it moves up because it hasn't made it an
action yet. As it moves up intothe darkness across the stone
above you both even with thetorch light. lose a bit of sight
of it. You know the direction itwent in and about where it is
but you can It currently see itunless you try and search for

(01:30:03):
Archie It is now your turn.

Bruce (01:30:06):
I can't see it, I can't hit it. So

Tanner (01:30:09):
I mean, you can you've got torches, you can try and see
where it's at,

Bruce (01:30:14):
oh, I can interact with an item and make an action. So I
use my left hand to throw atorch up into the air where it
was.

Tanner (01:30:20):
Okay. So yeah, you're able to also you're able to do
that because it's just a radiusof light. So you toss the torch
up there, and go ahead and giveme this will be active
perception.

Bruce (01:30:33):
Section 18. Okay, you

Tanner (01:30:40):
can barely see the tail end of this thing. You get kind
of where it is. But it is stillin motion as it's up there. So
you can try and make attack atit, it will be a disadvantage.

Bruce (01:30:53):
Yeah, 14 and seven, like, what are the odds that get half
of it is not going to

Tanner (01:31:00):
know you, you launch your javelin up and think it
hits right where its tail wasand bounces off the stone wall.

Bruce (01:31:09):
I'm gonna go count off because I will not be retrieving
that one.

Tanner (01:31:13):
Okay. All right. Ibara will peer out into the darkness.
And she will reach out and armand thunk it Funker fist against
you six. And it does make anmetallic. And she'll kind of
look at you and then point up towhere it is. You can tell that

(01:31:38):
she sees something in thedarkness.

Will (01:31:41):
So she points directly at it.

Tanner (01:31:43):
Yeah, she's trying to give you a line of sight to it.
So unless I mean, you could dothe torch maneuver again. But
now you have a general idea ofwhere it was you can still like
it depends on what your whatyour attack is whether or not
you'll be doing a disadvantage.

Will (01:31:54):
Alright, I'm going to use a guiding bolt. And I'm going to
aim it directly at the spot thatshe pointed at using my robot
things. I'm not aiming at it.
I'm just trusting that she knowswhere it is. And I'm going to
aim directly at that spot thatshe pointed to me

Tanner (01:32:10):
out what is what is guiding bolt do

Will (01:32:13):
So alright, so it's just a spell attack and it does 46
Radiant damage if I hit it.

Tanner (01:32:19):
Okay, disadvantage.

Will (01:32:23):
First one is an 11 on die so be 16 That one hits that come
on higher than 1110 on dice plusfive is 1515. That'll hit no
hits.

Tanner (01:32:34):
Roll that damage. Roll that beautiful.

Will (01:32:37):
Okay, I can't say that joke.

Tanner (01:32:39):
You can't you can't really say that already. That's
a direct McElroy

Will (01:32:42):
do 610 15 damage.
Plus, wait. No, no, no pluses.

Tanner (01:32:52):
Is this a single bolt or multiple bolts

Will (01:32:54):
that yeah, just 46 So it's a single bolt. I think it's a
single. Okay. It's like magic.
Let's just do it's like it'sjust a single bowl. I finally
hit something. I'm just excitedthat Okay, so one big single
bowl. So

Tanner (01:33:12):
everyone can see sort of this light pouring out from
underneath your blacksmithleather glove as this it kind of
glows outward and then throughjust right out of the center of
this glove, it actually cinchesa hole through it. This bolt of

(01:33:36):
energy rushes out and directlyup to where a bar appointed. You
can see this blue light connectwith the grid. The energy surges
through its body it thrashes onthe ceiling or on the wall and
it starts falling on the groundthis monstrous worm is just

(01:34:01):
thrashing as it dies you can seehow close it was to Anlin that
that was probably its nexttarget but this thing eventually
stops thrashing on the groundand is still you can smell the
kind of burnt flesh from thisthing as you can as you

Will (01:34:19):
look at it but you did it you go to gric Did it
we were also copywritten wellyou fair enough. Okay, well I
want to learn more about thesecreatures that we just killed
I'm just going to startinspecting say I really thought

(01:34:40):
I was going to be useless there.

Tanner (01:34:43):
As this thing does hit the ground really close to Anlin
she just staring at it.

Will (01:34:48):
Fuck back.
Those aren't the ones that wewere fighting before. That's
completely different. Yeah, I

Bruce (01:34:56):
had a bit of an idea it might be

Will (01:35:00):
Hopefully they come in pairs of shoes and roll

Bruce (01:35:03):
up my sleeves where they're like torn. I just roll
it up. So it's cuffed up to myelbows, my biceps and so there's
like white scars all overArchie's forearms, and just
jagged patterns. You can tellhe's Intel has been some
scuffles in through some shit.

Will (01:35:24):
And then, judging by the size of this cavern in the size
of these, I highly doubt that'sthe only ones

Tanner (01:35:32):
I fucking, I have, I have no idea. Ibarra and I have
not run into any ofthese. And, uh, Barbara shakes
her head as she cleans off herlong sword and puts it back in
the sheath.

Bruce (01:35:46):
Didn't make it like it was like, wow, it was dying.

Tanner (01:35:49):
It may it made some noise, but
most of it like it wasn't thesame screech. It wasn't the same
impact that the one earlier thatit kind of called Okay, that's

Will (01:35:58):
just judging by sheer volume of this cave system. And
these there could possibly behundreds of these.
There could.

Tanner (01:36:08):
And as freaking freaked out as I am. Science must
continue and you guys gotta getto the other side. And that's
where they were coming from. Sothere's only like, there's only
one way we have to pressforward.

Bruce (01:36:22):
What are we waiting for loves? Let's get on with it. All
right, the Archie just seemsunfazed.

Tanner (01:36:29):
The scientist and the bodyguard both nod and get
ready. Who's going down thetunnel first? Me.

Will (01:36:36):
Okay. I was gonna suggest maybe me. But I guess you still
probably have a little bit of ACleft. We'll just say it's
probably

Bruce (01:36:47):
it was only like 10 minute rounds. A con. Yeah, it
was all like 30 seconds.

Will (01:36:52):
So just in case something pops up. If you want to go
first. Do it. I'll follow behindyou. I'll take up the rear if he
takes first Tanner.

Tanner (01:36:59):
Okay. All right. So the scientist and the bodyguard
are in between the two of you asyou move on into this tunnel
with Archie in front. And as youtravel down. You do have the
tour ticket back tore through.
Yeah. So you guys still havethat you're able to see as you
move down. There are no etchingson the walls in this section. It

(01:37:21):
is a bit more roughly hewn.

Will (01:37:28):
Hanlon comments.

Tanner (01:37:30):
This area, I'm pretty sure it was one of the like
later additions that they putin. And I think, you know, it's
it's kind of one of those thingswhere they kept pressing
forward. Now, this tunnel doescome out to the other side of
the wound, but up ahead, itveers off to the left. And
that's the segment that we needto get into. And that's where we

(01:37:51):
need a little bit of help. Therecan't be like there must be
another tunnel that opened upthat these things got through
because otherwise I have notseen any sort of nesting grounds
or areas for them to go likethis. Like I thought there was
just this main tunnel. So theremust be something that has yet
to that we haven't been wehaven't discovered yet, which is
both exciting and terrifying.

Bruce (01:38:14):
There's a lot of darkness down here. So there's no telling
where they came probably

Will (01:38:19):
probably something bigger here too. That's pretty exciting
in itself. Yep,

Tanner (01:38:29):
exciting. That's the word I would use for it.

Bruce (01:38:32):
very literal. Like I said.

Tanner (01:38:36):
Alright, so you guys continue on in this tunnel and
we're using passive perception.
What is your passive perception?
656 is pepper spray perception?

Bruce (01:38:49):
Do you want mine to now I

Tanner (01:38:50):
know is really what? 17 years of shooting high 17 year.
Okay, as you guys are movingthrough this,

Will (01:38:59):
you

Tanner (01:39:01):
you feel a bit of vibration in your feet as you're
moving through this tall.

Will (01:39:08):
Stop. Same can I put my hands on the ground
to try to get a better feel ofwhat's happening?
Yeah, go ahead and roll.

Tanner (01:39:20):
This would just be perception. You're trying to
perceive things because it's notan you for the feeling.

Will (01:39:25):
That is a 22 This feels like some sort of tremor. It
feels like the

Tanner (01:39:40):
the earth is moving very slightly. But you were told when
you came in here that there wasa trimmer that actually
uncovered the cave mouth.

Bruce (01:39:52):
Doctor? Yeah. Do you have enough feel that

Will (01:39:57):
bullshitting for a pause?
Abara nods I can. I can shed alittle light that is a that is a
Earth trimmer. We're currentlyexperiencing an earthquake. If I
had to make a suggestion, weshould run. Okay. Leader Do you
run?

Bruce (01:40:20):
Well, most quickly, but we won't run. Some of us can't
see.

Tanner (01:40:23):
Okay. All right, you guys. quicken the pace as you
get up. Borrow, we'll look backtowards Anlin and shake her
head. And Alan will say out toyou to look if this really is a
trimmer, then we all just needto get and before she could

(01:40:44):
finish her statement. You canfeel the trimmer grow. The
entire cave is groaning from theearth moving and rubble begins
to fall. I need both of you toroll a dexterity saving throw
for added advantage. Great,because you are expected Billy

(01:41:05):
wagon advantage anyway. Oh, no.
Oh, yeah, I see. Because Ihaven't thought

Will (01:41:10):
does that mean he gets double advantage? Thank God for
advantage. That first one was athree double event.
And the second one wasn't one.
So my three is my best role.
You're welcome. Do yours. Master12.
Yeah, okay. All right. The caveabove

Tanner (01:41:33):
you begins to collapse in and being as your positioning
we have Archie in the front,then a Bara Anlin

Will (01:41:43):
six. Bara

Tanner (01:41:48):
realizes what's going on and sees you lose your footing
six. And she lurches backgrabbing Anlin in the process
and trying to fling you forwardtowards Archie. When she does
this. The walls collapse in andyou just barely make it to the

(01:42:12):
other side.

Will (01:42:13):
With one rock catching you in the back.

Tanner (01:42:20):
You take six damage from this shoe. falling rock then
could have been bad. Could havebeen bad and Barbara had a very
good role and use it to saveyour ass. The two of you are now
cut off from Anlin and Abara.
Ahead of you. You can see thatthere is rubble everywhere the

(01:42:43):
main path has collapsed in but apath off to the side has been
opened up by this tectonicactivity behind you

Will (01:42:55):
you can hear and linen Abara and Anlin will shout out.
Hey, we're we're okay.

Tanner (01:43:03):
Are you are you guys?

Will (01:43:04):
Okay? No, we're both dead.
I have died. Yes. Not aliteralist.

Tanner (01:43:13):
That was not literal.
Everything up. I'm so glad youguys are okay. Listen, we have
no choice. But to head back. Canyou guys it's a straight path.
Can you just push forward?

Bruce (01:43:26):
You said that's that's barred the straight man then.
Oh, unfortunately, Dr. Itappears as if the Earth itself
would prevent us from gettingthrough wound hold. Is there

Tanner (01:43:40):
I can maybe get the team back out here. But it might take
a while we're not gonna be ableto move this rubble on our own
Is there anything is there anyway forward.

Will (01:43:49):
There's the side path you spoke of. If you can go down

Tanner (01:43:52):
there, I think it might take you some time. But the two
of you should be able to movethe rubble there. It's there's
something back there that couldcould lead you out at least into
a place where maybe you couldprotect yourselves from more
rubble or more of those things.
We're going to go back and tryand get help. If you make it
out, send a message to either mein wound hold or to bathe and

(01:44:16):
he'll get a message to me or

Bruce (01:44:22):
there's we'll do that. So here's the problem. Do you go
and get help. People know wecame down here. People know we
came down here and we're stillhere. Well might not make it out
of won't hold. So it appearswe're on our own. We make it
out. We'll let you know.

Will (01:44:43):
Okay. Yeah, she she says,

Tanner (01:44:46):
Don't worry. He's got good people. And she seemed like
she was running

Will (01:44:49):
before she goes before she goes,
Hey, before you leave. And asArchie said, no need to worry
about us, but on a scale of oneto 10 And how would you rate
this? This interaction that wehad a fucking tank buddy?
improvement?

(01:45:11):
I really think I'm learning.
I brought definitely, by theway, call me six. My friends all
call me six.
You gave me a 10 Your friend. Idon't think she

Bruce (01:45:24):
heard that broth. Yeah,

Tanner (01:45:25):
you don't hear anything from the other side.

Will (01:45:27):
Oh, I like her. All right, so

Bruce (01:45:30):
I thump six on the chest.
So it makes like a claim

Will (01:45:34):
it does the why six

Bruce (01:45:38):
boldly forward on the path we go.

Will (01:45:41):
Aye aye, Captain. All right, you guys

Tanner (01:45:44):
move ahead. This side path winds in deeper and it is
still rather dark here. Luckily,when you lurched forward, you
still have the torch in yourhand, Archie, and you're able to
see through here, you eventuallycome to the wall of rubble that
she had talked about. It seemslike there the collapse actually

(01:46:07):
loosened some of this. So as thetwo of you get to trying to move
it out the way it's not quickwork, but you do eventually get
enough move to where you couldcontinue on in the passageway.

Will (01:46:21):
Okay, cool. Yeah,

Tanner (01:46:23):
and I can make your own string for that because what do
you do if you feel I try again.
As you continue down thispassageway

Will (01:46:33):
you can start to hear music.

Tanner (01:46:40):
It sounds like Oregon Music Off in the distance.

Bruce (01:46:46):
Well, that's ominous.

Will (01:46:50):
This doesn't seem like the place for music.

Bruce (01:46:55):
Not unless you're in a rock band

Tanner (01:47:01):
is very good.
You to continue forward, and theOregon music gets louder.
Eventually, you can see somelight casting in through this
tunnel, this faint golden glow.
And as you get to the edge, orthe end of this tunnel, you end
up in this large cavern. It'snot as big as the one you were

(01:47:26):
in before, but the markings andthe carvings in the wall are
extravagant. There's so manythings people celebrating, and
receiving gifts of all kindsdrinking, exchanging gold and
horses. But the one thing thatreally catches your eye is off

(01:47:47):
in the distance. It is thismassive organ. And the sound
seems to be emanating from theseclick crystals that light up for
every note. And at the helm ofthis Oregon is this person
surrounded in a golden glow.

(01:48:15):
This aura that just surroundsit. They turn they see the two
of you at the edge of the tunneland say welcome children
to the Cathedral ofopulence, the resting place of
all your needs!

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