Episode 30 Doppelganger

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Hello everybody, and welcome to another exciting adventure of
D&D 721, in the heart of the Temple with the Doppelganger.
Our five wonderful Godslayers are all spending a lot of time
taking each other in the nuts, apparently because that's how
you find the Doppelganger. Yep.

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Hello my nut crushers. Everybody say hi to the audience
today. Hello.
Hello everybody, we're here cracking nuts and cracking
codes. I'm not even sure if those are
supposed to be hellos or introductions.
So I am Pyro. I am playing in Arloeen, a

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seventh level artificer High Elfwith an affinity for fire and
lightning and damage, and I've got my trusty Phoenix Steel
Defender with me. Except he's locked outside.
He chose to be there. He's defending.
Who's next? Hi, this is Tolton here.
Playing Brad in here. Just wondering how to react to

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being called a monster by Pebble.
Hi, this is Pebble, wondering how why Bragg and rears a
monster? This is a very suspicious group
of events. Yeah, hello, this is Arcturus
playing Nochemist Whisper Wind. Hey, just a quick, quick call

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out. Why all trying to kill me?
Like can can you stop? Great question swap.
Mommy wants to live. She wants to heal you.
Stop being a jerk. I'm not trying to kill anybody,
just trying to make the monster force its hand.
All mosquitoes. Who plays Thea level 6 pedal
then level 1 warlock. Yeah, also thinking the same

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thing people. Someone's pushing me aside,
someone's trying to hit me in the non existent balls, and
other people are just wrecking havoc on other things.
As they say, kick them in the front box.
All righty everybody, welcome back to the temple.

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Let's just do a little bit of recap here just for you guys as
well as our listeners. You all chose to travel to the
continent of North Necrovan after the offensive Silver Moon.
You rode on an airship with a kind of plucky air captain named

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Todd, and you all pretty gracefully landed in North
Necrovan and took some time trekking through the swampy
marshes of this land of the undead that is ruled by Vampire
Counts and other nightmarish creatures.
And you did come into a little village that you found was

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completely abandoned. There was nobody on the streets,
nobody in the fields, the crops were withering and unattended.
But you did find one little old lady in her Hut giving milk to a
little calf or a goat, I forget exactly which I said.
But just there talking about howeverybody in the village had

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left for the All Temple, and that they had all gone there to
denounce the gods. And Annie Burke was her name and
she asked you if to potentially save her life and that of her
family, Jim Jim, Jim Junior and Jimmy John I think were their

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names. She asked if you would go and
try to save her family, get themto come home so that she would
also live. And you all went S towards the
alt temple After doing some investigating.
One thing of note, I do believe Nara Lewin found a pouch of red
colored leaves in a was that Nat20 check at someone's Hut?

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So that's a thing, and Nokomis led the way with some good
scouting in crow form, a lot of cawing at old ladies, and once
at temple. Exactly once at the temple.
Thea also had a little one-on-one conversation with her

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warlock. Pea tree, the Shabba, the lower
pantheon. Kind of a demigoddess of.
Misfortune. And once there at the temple,
the stones at the face of the temple rolled open and you all
entered and you went down this sharp incline 45° angle hallway

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into the earth and found a very scared, very paranoid crowd of
farmers who were all gathered around, some of them aiming
knives or shovels or pitchforks at each other.
All of them been scared of you. A series of events took place
and all of them panicked and ranout of the room as another Annie

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Burke was present there in the temple and the doppelganger
Annie Burke killed one of the villagers and everyone panicked.
And when everyone had pushed their way past the five of you,
up and through the exit, there was no Annie Burke, just a few
of the dead bodies that had beenkept in there by the

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doppelganger. And the five of you were told
that the doppelganger was among you.
For our audience listening, if you didn't listen to the last
episode, what are you doing? Go listen to the last episode.
But just in case you need the refresher, the doppelganger
knows who they are, and our heroes went through a series of

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unfortunate events of punching each other in the mutts,
revealing little bits about themselves, speaking truths,
trying to communicate. And there are some theories that
the doppelganger has not been revealed just yet.
The group escaped a slowly closing room.
They burst their way through a door, one of them nearly being

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crushed in the process. As they were pushed out of the
way, more nut kicking and front box kicking took place, and they
were then in a room with a candle that had a number of
pictures on the pedestal that the candle stood on.
And no matter what our heroes did with the candle, it kept
hurting everybody. Coincidence, honest mistakes, or

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sabotage by the doppelganger? We don't know, but we'll find
out. The heroes left the candle
behind, found the door on the other side of the room was
completely unlocked and ready for them to exit.
And that is where we find our heroes, deep in the bowels of
this temple. Heroes, what are we doing?

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I have. I don't know.
How in the room is I can't marvel.
Yeah, everybody roll deck saves.Wait a minute.
Nope. Nope, Nope, Nope.
Nope, you don't get to say I don't.
I need to hear from I don't knowwhat I mean.
I don't think that. Luckily I don't have fireball in
my arsenal so bad DM. I got advantage I I I fail

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anyway. I passed guidance on myself for
investigation and I want to investigate this new room that
we're in and see if I see anything.
You see how you, you, you do. So has you're, You're the one
who opened the door. So this this makes sense.

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You're the first one through thedoor, leaving behind the
previous room with the keyhole. And as the four of you are
walking through, I actually needeveryone but Thea to deafen
selves, please. Wait a minute.
Hey. Goodbye.

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Everyone but Thea. Everyone but Thea, please deafen
yourselves. Thea OH.
As you're making your way. How does the?
Table, you know, maybe feel likethat.
Like what does Thea feel like? Who who is she suspected?
Who is she angry with? I mean more so angry with Pebble

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cause Pebble is just punching everybody.
Brag has Brag pushed me out of the way.
Thea has no clue. As as you're making your way to
the you know the last you know you're at the back of the line
leaving the camo room, you see your shadow squirming on the
floor and similar to the floor it you're you're a piece of your

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shadow darts away from you and into a dark corner of the room.
I'm going to. Go towards my shadow.
Yeah, as you walk towards the corner, you see the eyes open in
the inky darkness as the shabba looks out.
And the eyes are almost like tilted inward and downward, like

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she's deliberately scowling withjust the eyes that you can see
and the inky blackness that's swirling around her.
And the shabba steps forward andgives you a sidelong glare.
Are you Thea? Am I Thea?
Yes, I'm Thea. How would you not know if it's

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me or not? Because the creature in this
temple is doing a really fucking.
Good. Job at obscuring everything.
I can't see the way that I usually wouldn't.
She's like shouting at the ceiling and at the walls and she
side eyes you again as you're lingering behind and she says,

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well, if you are Theo, everything that's happening in
here is delicious and I love it.I love all of the little mishaps
and the miscommunications and all the distrust is delicious.
Thea, you just remember as your patron, I delight in misfortune.

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I kind of I give her a smile andchuckle and just cause of her
delight meant. But.
Yeah, I have no clue who is doing this, what is going on,
how to figure it out. But these people are pissing me
off because they're everyone's just hurting everybody and we
can't, we can't figure out who it is to defeat them.

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She kind of gives you a sidelongglance and says, meow, that
could be something I thought I'll get here and say.
But if it is, if you are you, I'm just saying if somebody got
hurt or perhaps died like your little necromancer friend almost

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did, if you've declared it in myname, it wouldn't be the worst
thing. And so.
Someone dies again, I say For me, Shabba.
She nods, and the eyes kind of have like a smiling quality to
them as she continues to slink back into the shadows and the

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eyes. I go up into little puffs of
smoke, and the presence of the shabba is gall.
Oh well, I don't know what to dobut OK.
You hear a faint whisper in the back of your head.
You know what to do. Oh.
My God. Power.
I'm letting the rest of the heroes know that they could pun

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you. The four of you are making your
way. Into the next room.
Everybody. But how many of us?
Yeah, as I say, what? All of you I would like.
I would like Narloin, Nectomis, Braggrenier, and Pebble to give
me insight checks. With advantage because we know

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Thea so well. No.
I got a 13. 11. 16. That's a net 20, leading to a 23
for brag on air. Nat 20 OK Nicomas and Bragg you

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do know this the hanging back the last one to exit the candle
room. You do notice that she hangs
back and Darlene as you are doing your investigation check
looking at the next room. Your guys's attention is a
little bit split between the last room and the next room, but

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you do notice Thea muttering seemingly to herself in the
corner and then after a moment she enters into the room along
with the rest of the room. Hey.
Can I still go back into that other room to get the candle?

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Oh. We're just looking at it because
I just want to eat it. Oh, you can't eat it.
It's been hurting us every time someone does something to it.
That's why I want to eat it. I just shake my head.
As as the two of them are arguing about eating candles.
But our Louie you see in front of you is a large it kind of

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like an extended hallway. It's twice as wide as you would
expect a hallway to be. But it extends across the room.
And immediately all of you can see right away that the air is
just acrid and sulfurous and burns your eyes.

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It burns your nostrils. Your eyes are all beginning to
water as you enter this room. And Narloeen, as you begin to
investigate it, you're seeing that in the middle of the
hallway are a number of tiled walkways leading across a span

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of acid that covers the entire middle of the hallway,
essentially creating one narrow bridge that is on tiles and
extends forward and then makes asharp right turn and then makes
a sharp left turn and then extends forward and then makes
another sharp left turn. And it's twisting and winding at

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all these sharp hard right angles.
And it is the only path that leads from where you are across
to the other side. And there are railings on either
side of the media narrow walkwaywith a 16.

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At first it just looked like it was kind of like ported wires
that are strung along either side of the narrow path up.
With a 16 and a closer look, yousee that it's actually razor
long. OK.
I have a follow up investigationI would like to do.
OK. I would like to take the small

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mirror on a metal rod from my thieves tools and affix it to my
homunculus dragonfly and do an investigation on this path
seeing as far as I can go using those little mirrors and the
homunculus. OK, so your dragonfly, you want

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it to fly out over the path across the acid?
Basically so I can do an investigation with thieves.
Tools. Yeah, OK.
Oh, I'll allow that. Do another.
Investigation check the the thieves tools are utilized for
setting traps and stuff like that.
So I figure it would be helpful for identifying any kind of

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traps and and hazards that mightbefall us on this path.
Yeah, there's one thing that youhave not sotted, I'll tell you
that and it is IDC, but go aheadand do another check.
Does a 28 hit. Yeah, does it, but.

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So as an officer I have the proficiency with the thieves
tools and as a level 7 artificermy proficiency with any
artificer's tools double S so I get plus 6 any time I use my
tools sounds. About right with your dragonfly
as you're studying this and the dragonfly is kind of zipping

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around, But one thing that you do notice is that you're on a
platform on your side and there's this narrow pathway that
winds forward, cuts sharply at these right angle turns, double
s back on itself and then goes across to the other side.
And there's another platform on the polished side.
And your dragonfly also spots not only is the railings on

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either side a razor wire, but the tiles themselves appear to
be slick with some kind of oil. I'd say turn and kind of share
this with the group that I don'tknow what kind of athletics we
need to get through or cross this, but this looks like it's
meant to make us go into the acid or fall and die and hurt.

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How far across is that to the other side?
To the safe side. To the safe side, it's about 120
feet. Oh, that's it.
I can jump that. I'm kidding.
I can't. You want to bomb my ring?
A jumping paddle? I'm sure that'll help you.

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Well. OK, hear me out, guys, if you
want to, if you want to, if you want to hear me out.
How much rope do we have? I've got a jetpack on.
I'll think back to my previous jet pack, to my previous jet
pack flight, and I live with Pebble and I say I don't know

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about that, if I at least had something around to land on.
If I recall correctly it was it was an athletics check to pass
that. As as you're discussing this and
and talking about Jet. Packs and ropes and.
Marlene, you're sharing what yousee, all of you here, The
laughter of a little. Old lady.

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I look immediately at FIA. Old.
Oh. I'm doing the inside channel,
see if it came from any of us orfrom the walls go.
Ahead do an inside check. Oh, you're little I'm.
Also doing an insight check. I was so doing that 20 but it
rolled back to 14 so 16 for the insight.

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Was that wrong? I got A1, not that I got a dirty
1 so. Dirty.
Insight I was rolling insight tosee if I could tell where the
the laughter was coming from 18.Nacomis, did you do Insight?
Another one. I didn't see yours.
Oh mine was 16. No wait, yes it was 16.

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Unless this is a different insight.
Yeah, this is a. This is a new one this.
Is an insight for that. Voice, I'm scared I only rolled
an 8. OK, Pebble, the voice is coming
directly out of Thea's mouth. Rag and Nicomas, you're both

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hearing the voice come from Narlaleen.
Thea, you're hearing the voice come from the ceiling.
And Narlaleen, you're hearing the voice come out.
Of the walls. I climb up on to Thea and like,
try to peer into her mouth. I've heard it.
It's in there. I hope I'm.

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Calling a lot she did. Calling you small.
Yeah, she did. Yeah.
It blew right over your tiny little hand.
Yeah, I guess so, the laughter continues.
And coming from the various sources that you all hear, you
hear the voice coming from like the voices coming out of the

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direction of different people orthe ceiling or the walls.
With an 18, you recognize that it's you're hearing the voice
similar to the way you heard it in the previous rose.
The doppelganger has the ability, it seems, to speak in a
disembodied kind of voice. With that, you, you hear the

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chuckling sound of Annie Vert again, and she says, ah, my
little heroes. It's so much fun watching you
trying to figure out where I am.But down to business.
I you're all wondering how little old me came to be this

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delectable little temple. Well, you see them it was those
filthy swamp farmers that didn'tOh of course they didn't mean
to. Simple, basic creatures that
they are. They were so mad at all the gods

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for all their problems that theywent and got this bright idea.
What if we go into an old templeand declare that we're here to
worship nothing, no one. We are suddenly godless as
though that were possible. And those poor fools don't even
know what the word atheist even means.

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Well, an old temple is a place that can be dedicated to any God
or goddess at any given time. They're pretty common in a place
like this. It's kind of like a shared room.
They can all take turns in it toreceive worship.
Well, those little peasants all came in here and declared their

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intention. And just like that every God and
goddess was cast out of the all temple.
And Chaos abhors a vacuum. And that's where your.
Question. Certainly enters the sea.
Doppelganger question. Anne FERC.

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I'm what do I call you? I'm not in the habit of talking
to myself. I'm not talking to you.
So anybody in the? Way any?
Nara the Wayne who got to punch in the crotch yet?
How did you know I was punching people in the crotch?
My crotch still hurts thinking about it.

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You hear a fiddling laugh. You say you say any God could be
worshipped here correct? And chaos aboards a vacuum.
So what I'm seeing is we need tobring a God into this.
The room's occupied now. I'm here.

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Yes. But no books.
I'm a little tired. Of all of you having your
eyesight, how about we fix that?No.
I need everybody to please roll me Constitution saving throws.
Is. No.
Oh God. Oh my gosh, we all did very

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badly. I rolled an 8.
That's a Nat one for Greg. 2 + 6you rolled a Nat one.
My God, every single OH. My God, his luck pointing got
the same. I might have to.
You know what I think I am goingto tactical mind to add a 1D10

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to that. I believe I can use that on
saving throws when you fail an ability check.
Oh no, it's an ability check, not a saving throw.
Damn, you're awake. Can I add that Bartok to it?
I have a Bartok from last session.
If you had not used it, I believe, yeah, I'll give it to
you. Go ahead.

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I don't think I've used it. I don't think I've used it.
I listened to the last episode, I didn't listen to the whole
thing, so that's on me. But my, my recollection is he
did not use it. Yeah, go ahead.
He didn't. I don't.
I don't because I didn't need it.
Yeah, it was given to me and then I rolled like a Nat 20 or a
really high. Roll so.

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I've got an 8 and then I would roll another D Bragg, are you at
AD 10 yet or is it still AD 8? D8 I think.
OK. It's been a minute since I've
used a bardic. I'm going to go with the D8.
Best I can do is 16. Give me a 5 which gives me a
total of 14 I believe. Take a plasher, genius.

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Plus 3 + 3. OK, so so 8 + 5.
Somebody's going to see, damn it.
Thirteen 1313 + 3 so 16. Please pass with all of that,
jeez. Pebble everybody.
You feel the fumes rising out from the acid in the room, the

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stinging stench of it filling your nostrils with sinuses, your
eyes burning. All of you are starting to
cough, in fact. And everybody, everybody takes 9
points of burning damage. Blame or burning?

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Burning. Yeah, it's acid.
I believe acid is defined as burning.
Hold on, let. Me look up or something like
acid damage. Yeah.
Is it just acid damage? Yeah, it is acid damage.
What a waste of Bartik and and all that fun stuff.

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With that, everyone loses their eyesight.
Between the burning and the watering and everything else,
everyone's vision goes dark except for Pebble you.
Are. Miserable.
It hurts to look, it hurts to see, but you can blink through

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the tears and blink through the pain.
I'm just going to lean into you being a canvarian, I guess
you're, you're kind of able to just like squeegee your eyes
with your fingernails. And you can see that the bridge
of oil slicked tiles leading across the acid are subtly

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shifting and moving and rearranging themselves into a
new orientation. And you can just see the vague
outline of the shape of the tiles as they reset in place
leading across the pit of acid. But you can only see about 6
feet in front of you at a time. Anything beyond that, it's just

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too blurry, too too distorted. All right, you.
Guys do know, can y'all hear me?I know y'all can't see me.
Who said that? Yeah, I hear you, Pebble.
My eyes are burning the hell outof me.
All right, first. Thing pebbles going to do, you

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know y'all can't. None of y'all can see are.
You going to attack all of us inthe Downside Sword and you?
Have Pebble. Everybody has disadvantage right
now on being attacked. Anybody talk to anybody?
You have advantage on them even on Pebble.
Pebble is able to see just enough, but Pebble also has

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advantage on them if anybody wants to attack Pebble.
My eyes are burning, all y'all'seyes are burning.
Can you guys see? No, Nope, everything's fuzzy.
OK. Hello, like the worst allergies
in the world. I'm just going to sit down where
I am. Can I, can I sit where I'm in my
safe here. I don't want to want to wander
into that acid. You, you can.

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I was asking Pebble. I was asking Pebble.
Where where you're sitting rightnow or where you're standing
right now? I think this platform safe.
But if it's anything like the last room, you do realize that
she seems to be pushing us along.
Pebbles going to take her rope and Hyatt.
Was it like kindergarten or leash kind of thing?

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You know when you take a bunch of kids out on, you know when
you tie them up like a bunch of ducks?
Does anybody resist or does everyone let Pebble tie a rope
around their? Waist says hey, I'm tying, I'm
tying a rope to y'all because you know, pit of acid.
Oh, Pebble, I don't want to be tied.
At this point I don't see any choice.

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I can't see a thing, and if Pebble can see, there's not much
we can do. That's a 19, Yeah, agrees with
that. Brag.
With A19 you're pretty confident.
Maybe it's just because pebbles a little tougher than everybody
and that's why they can see. But there's a lingering

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suspicion the one punching everyone in the nuts is suddenly
the only one with vision. Well I've got an idea here guys
if y'all will bear with me. As much as we don't trust each
other, if it was Pebble I feel it would cut us down while we
can't fight back. I don't trust me.

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I'm. So I'm going to trust Pebble,
OK? So no one Gia?
Are you resisting Pebble tying you up?
No, I'll see you're. Tying them up, I'm not tying
them up. Or, you know, I'm just.
Tying it around their waist, notnot hobbling them.
OK, Yeah, OK, because there's. You're doing this, I need to

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know. The.
I need to know the order that everyone is being tied up at.
OK, Hubble has a plan and it requires a thing.
OK, so I need 2 of the. OK, so who is the head Pebble
lifts everybody up to try and gauge.
Yeah, I just need to check some of the lifting people.

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You know, basically she wants tobalance the weight of the rope
equally on both sides, you know,so the heaviest people, the the
two lightest people on the very far end, the second heaviest
people in tide in the middle. OK, so that's the order she's
going to go. So lightest, heavy, heavy,
lightest. To know, I guess, how how Pebble

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arranges them. OK.
I'm going to go. It's going to be Nokomis first.
Followed by Thea, followed by. By Narlawin, followed by Bragg.
So your. Reasoning is is that.

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Bragg, then Bragg, then Narlawinbecause I think Narlawin being
an alpha would be lighter than Bragg being an Asimar demon
thing. Bragg.
Is human weight. Human weight, yeah.
Same with Narlawine. So not not be like a buck aided
a buck, yeah. It'd be I think.

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I'm not Nokomis, Thea, Bragg, Narlowin. 2 ends of the rope are
the 2L's. Do you talk out loud about your
reasoning of having everyone? I'm saying I'm saying, all
right, guys. Nokomis handle being called one
of the heaviest people in the group.

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Lightest. Lightest.
Light ends are light. The ends are light.
I misspoke it first and I switched it.
Yeah. OK, I mean swap Mommy has a lot
of her weight up top, if you know what I mean.
Like I'm not showing the logic of the wood elf being the heavy
one here, but. OK, like.

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I understood he was saying the opposite, that the light is
going on the outside and the heavier on the inside, so the
most the weight is in the center.
Got it. OK.
OK, that's how you show you guysnow that I have you, now that I
have you guys right where I wantyou.
No, I'm joking. I didn't mean to say it like
that. Guys, calm down.

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I. Kick out at Pebble.
I swear on Mashaba I'm going to smack you to the ass.
Maybe maybe flat attack roll Brag Grenier.
If you're kicking at Pebble, make an attack roll.
Yeah, and that's what disadvantage I got a 19 and a
15. It's a flat roll actually
because you have disadvantage, but because Pebble is also

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mostly blind, they also have disadvantage.
So just do one thing. Oh, OK, so it's a fifth, It'll
just, if I'm just kicking, it'd just be a 15, right?
Does unarmed get up on us? So that would be an 18 with the
+3. It should be on your sheet for
an unarmed strike. Yeah, I believe it's.

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So it's it's a plus through for me and I, I rolled a 15, so
that's 18. Pebble.
That's it. Yeah.
And brag. Where do you?
Where do you kick Pebble? I, I can't see so I'm just
tripping out. I hear her voice and I kick
towards it. Gets me right in the shoulder.
Yeah, roll some damage. And I my my Shank is so low I

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don't get a roll. I just do one day.
How does Pebble handle that? She grunts the tag.
Calm down, brag, I know what I'mdoing.
OK, so my plan, this greasy ass tiled banister that we've got to

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walk across, You guys are all blind.
I can kind of see. I'm going to dangle you guys
over the edge and pull the rope along behind me.
What? And then and then when I get to
the other side, so you guys willhave already fallen off, but
behold, held by the rope. I I would like to clarify the
pools of acid are up to the lit of the tops.

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Oh damn. OK, it's.
It's not a, it's not a pit. I thought it was a chasm.
I. Might have described there as
being like a a chasm of like acid, but I I was just trying to
describe that there is a length of the middle that just has the
narrow walkway and there is acidon either side of the walkway.

(36:45):
I'm imagining. Floors lava and there's just
like couch cushions like throughout.
So like, it's all right up to it.
And these couch cushions are covered in oil.
And this is what a dungeon master so but tying everyone to
have a good idea to help keep everyone kind of no one falls
behind. No one.

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You know, you guys can kind of Congo line it along the path.
How about? We all lay down and you just go
as far as you can and then pull us towards you.
I mean, if we're a limp, we can't slide off, can we?
I. Really can.
I bet ragdoll physics here wouldbeg to differ.

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Ebel, are you going to leave thefront of the Congo line?
The thing's 6 inches across and we've got to walk across it.
It's about a foot. And it's slippery.
It is slippery. Yeah.
Like it does have railings. I know.
It's got railings. Made of razor wire.
Made of. Barbed.
Wire made of barbed wire the therazor sharp.

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Neither mean has a bit of an idea, I'm just not sure how well
it'll work if it works. So I want to talk through it and
get opinions. Yeah.
If I cast web on the path, will the sticky webs create enough
traction over the oil? I'll give it a it's it's not.

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Quite. Raw.
Yeah, I'll, I'll, I, I like where your heads are.
I like the creativity. It will reduce the DC of one
like of the section that you do that.
But we have 120 feet of section.Yes.

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Or more. It's like a 20 feet.
Yeah, it's Zigs. I'll.
Be with one section potentially.I it's creative.
I like it. How many times can you like?
Is it a spell slot that you haveor is it coming from litem?
It's a spell slot and I've only got two more level level 2
spells. Totally up to you.

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Yeah, save your spell, I mean. If you I will tell you if you
want to use your spell, I will let you use it for one of the
stretches, the path, and it willmake one stretch easier, but
only one of the like. I'll just let you guys know.
There's going to be 4 checks, 4 stretches of the path.

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It would make one of those 4 stretches easier.
I am. Then I have a different idea,
Pebble. What if you go down the path
alone with the rope and as you go down the rope?
Because I think you're the most athletic and you can see, and we

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kind of can't if you take hammerand nails and just kind of
hammer the rope down into the path so we can pull ourselves
along it once you get to the endand I OK, will cast aid on you
so that you're immune to all damage.
Not sorry, not aid warding Bond.Pebble, give me another

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investigation check as you're hearing they're going to
describe this. OK, you got a 10.
OK. Even with A10 you can see that
the path does still have those right angle turns to them.
And in I like I, I did say before, you can't see a head

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very far. But then the vague shapes and
the outlines you can make, you can see that there are some hard
right angle turns. So if you made it all the way
across through the rope or pinned it in some way and they
were using the rope to just lineup straight across, they would
slide across tiles and slide offthe acid.

(40:45):
Exactly. Yeah.
Although if we if we use it to climb, so I have pittens which
are little like kind of hooks, like eyelets to foot the rope in
between and a hammer. And so I have, I'm talking, I'm
talking about making a like a mountain rock climbing thing on

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flat ground because it's made ofoil.
I got you. It's up to all right, maybe I'm
just not picturing everything right and I'm just fucking
stupid and I'm going to cut thisall cut this part out because
it's like I've got I, I, I'm at a loss here.
OK, so these it's railings with I thought I thought the barbed

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wire was along the walls of the room.
Apparently it's a railing. OK, how high is that railing?
What it you know, like can it the barbed wire, can I clip it
off and and get rid of it? You know, like, OK.
So I, I will mitigate for you a little bit the I.
Yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm personally at a loss here.

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So there's a path across the acid.
The acid is up to the lip of thetiles that you're walking across
on either side of the oily path.There is a railing on either
side, but the railing is made ofrazor wire.
So if you were to try to just guide a group of cross or walk
across, there will be a check todo it.

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If you fail the check, there will be if you pass the check.
The idea is that you start to slip.
You start to slip, but you're able to grab onto the razor wire
to suck yourself from falling into the acid.
Razor wire hurts not as much as a foot falling into the acid.
So different kinds of damage. Well, either way, depending what

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happens on the pass. Either way, y'all are going to
take damage or we're going to take.
Damage unless everybody perfectly succeeds all their
checks. Yeah.
So that's, that's the next question.
Is this the check for somebody guiding or do we each have to
make checks? Because if we each have to make
checks, then, OK, so guys, I guess we're just going to walk

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across this as if we're making checks.
I, you know, I don't know how the rope along the floor is
going to help. We can't do anything with the
railings. Yeah, but the rope on the floor
will basically like think of making a rope ladder like we
did, like falling, like coming down off things like you're
basically. OK, wait a minute.
Something to pull. Pull our athletics.

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Not even that you're. Going to lower the DC.
And not even not even that. Can you guys walk a tightrope if
I stretch this rope across and nail it in each corner?
No. And then you guys are walking on
the rope rather than on the slippery.
What's with Uber? Sorry, bud.
I mean. I feel that would be.

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Harder. I feel that.
Would be harder than just walking across and using the
rope. Guide us and pull anyone out
that falls. I mean, do we even need the rope
to? You're not going to.
Yeah, OK. Bring us a via.
How do you do that? No, I, I, He doesn't know what

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to do. He's ready to get across.
So if I cause something to be difficult terrain, will that
slow us down from slipping? It depends on the kind of
difficult terrain. So like similar to what I was
telling Nara Lewin the web, it would reduce the difficulty of

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walking on one stretch of the past.
If you have other things to makedifficult terrain and you want
to use your spell slots in that way, let me know what kind of
difficult terrain it is and if it makes sense I will give it to
you. I would like to use Mold Earth
because it says if the dirt or stone you target is on the

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ground and we're on a stone pathway, that's slippery,
correct? They were metal in my head, but
they're stone now. OK, I heard.
Yeah. So in that case I would like to
make the next patch difficult terrain.
OK. By doing that, like if you, if

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you made it like gravel, right, or like broken cobblestone or
something like that, even with the oiliness on it, that would
make it a little more traction more, you know, thread for your
boots and it would make that section easier to press if you
chose. Yeah.
So with that, with that. I would cast that and it's a

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canned trip. Or you can cast that in each one
then if it's a canned trip. Sure can.
Yeah, that's a can trip. Has a 30 foot range but only has
a 5 foot area of effect so I'd have to catch.
It a lot. OK, good thing I have Nokomis on
the end of the rope. All right, So what I'm going to

(45:41):
do then? I've got this kind of figured
out because Nokomis brought thatup, right?
I'm assuming you told me that Nokomis.
OK, So what I'm going to do is I'm going to shore up all
y'all's rope. So you guys are kind of literal
Congo line and that you guys each have a rope tied to each
other. OK.
And I tell you, OK, stay in line.
Remember your bridge buddy. And I'm walking the Comus by the

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hand and telling her when to cast the mold earth, like, all
right, gravel it up. You know, each time we come to
the end of it, that's what how we're going to cross this.
OK, so there's one other piece to this that.
I have. Of course there is.
I've already told one of you, but I'm not going to tell
everyone. There is going to be a check for

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getting across each stretch of the path.
You are going to roll privately and tell me your role so other
people cannot see what you roll.And when making your way down

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this path, you can deliberately fail.
Explain that one more time. I just rolled AD 20 to you.
Is that what it's supposed to do?
So I can see what you rolled, yes.
Can anyone else see what you almost just rolled?
No, no. OK, so in the bottom left corner

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or when you when you do your roll you can choose to select
select to. Dungeon Master.
To stuff or yeah, Dungeon Master.
So like Nara Leen. I can see what you rolled, no
one else can see it. Yep.
So here's here's the thing, you guys are going to do your rolls
and I will call out what each person rolled and if a person

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chose to fail deliberately, it will be a low roll.
So OK, what? Because everyone is blind in
Pebble, you're at the front leading the way.
That's how this is going to be done.
If there are shenanigans or sabotage, this is a place.

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We'll deal with it Could. Happen.
If you fall in, I'm leaving you all.
Right Pebble, you're leading theway with Nokomis right behind
you. And Nokomis, you have your
cantrip of Mole Earth. You guys ready?
Right over be. I'm going to go ahead and use my
homunculus to cast a spell. Cat what spell are you casting?

(48:23):
Homunculus is casting boarding bond on me.
OK, and read that for everyone. Award the willing preacher you
touch and creates a Mystic connection, gains a + 1 to AC
and saving throws and hath resistance to all damage.
OK, so resistance and a + 1 to saves.
Good to know. Is everybody ready to walk the

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first stretch of the? Bets.
Yep, yes, yourself. Please roll acrobatics checks.
And that's just flat because of all the stuff, correct?
You're you're rolling acrobaticsand because you are so the mold

(49:10):
earth, I reduced the AC or the DC because Pebble you can see.
So you're rolling flat, but everyone else is doing their
role with disadvantage. Narlouine, Bragg and Pebble pass
Nokomis and Thea. You both begin to lose your

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footing and Nokomis and Thea as you are slipping, that Yanks on
the rope for Pebble, who's in front of Nokomis, and it Yanks
on the rope for Bragg, who is behind Thea.
So I need Pebble, Nokomis, Thea,and Bragg to all make Dexterity

(49:55):
saving throws. These could be pulp.
And these are flat. Yes, these are flat.
A dirty 20. Oh no, that's a ton.
They're all innate. Pebble you browned yourself
digging your feet into the ground and you are able to hold

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on to the rope and are yanking on it everyone else who rolled
Brag, Grenier, Nokomis and Thea.Your foot slips off the edge as
Nokomis and Thea begin flailing as they begin to slip and it
pulls on the rope and they both go in opposite directions.
A foot falling into acid, scorching acity burns filling

(50:42):
your boot and Brag. You are also pulled off balance
and with a 10 you also take someacid damage and everyone who
failed takes 7 points of acid damage.
Pebble. With a Nat 20 you ground
yourself. You don't even have to grab for
the razor wire to steady yourself.

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You take no damage it. It was a dirty. 7 points.
It was a dirty 20. Yeah.
All right. Thanks for being honest, Pebble.
You take five points of damage as you grab onto the razor wire
railings to steady yourself and the razors cut into your palms.

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I'm down. No, I'm just kidding.
Does anybody say anything? Fucking ow.
Yeah. Probably that.
That was 7 points right? I just want to make sure I heard
correct. Yes, 7 points of acid damage.
OK. Be being small mechanically, am

(51:47):
I able to sidle between these people on this path?
You know, kind of like balancingon the on the edge and to help
them get back up on the path. They get back up on the path
like they're not in the acid actively.
They just took some damage as they like, slipped a little bit
and literally burning their feet.

(52:09):
I'm not melting everybody. I'm just hurting you, OK?
How's everyone doing? I say does does I know I'm no.
Bit of. Healing.
How much damage to the tank? But. 7.
The Comus would like to cast a spell.
OK. I'm 16.

(52:29):
This makes so much sense. I'm going to cast a fourth level
healing spirit. Yeah.
Because I can't see, but it has a very long, long range and it
can move with us. So healing Spirit, let me read

(52:50):
it for a few audience members. You call forth a nature spirit
to soothe the wounded. The intangible spirit appears in
a space that is in a 5 foot cubethat you can see within range.
The spirit looks like a transparent beast.
The Thomas you can't See. Well.

(53:11):
Can I just cast it close by? We can.
We can do cure rooms doesn't require sight.
It requires touch. OK, now that's really dickish of
me. I will say that you can cast it.
Go ahead with your your healingsthere.
Yeah, I'm just going to cast it on my feet.
Yeah, go ahead, keep readings. OK, until the spell spell ends

(53:35):
whenever you or creature whenever you.
Moves into the spirit space for the first.
Time on a turn or starts its turn.
There you can cause the spirit to restore 1D6 hit points to

(53:57):
that creature. No action required since we are.
Can Ioffer the help with this? Since we are all tied together,
can I kind of like I was with the mold earth be Nokomis's eyes
and kind of like point her hand at each person like.
They're in it. Get it?

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You know, they're get it, get it.
So you guys are 30 feet out? On a narrow path with acid on
either side. Blind, choking on fumes and
Pebble, I will let you do these things, but there's a risk.
What guiding? Yeah, if you're.

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A blind person with your arms. Out in front of.
You and someone suddenly is grabbing your hand and moving it
and you're not expecting the weight shift or the balance
change and you're on an uneven ground with all these things
going on. I'm just telling you, I will let
this happen. But there is a risk, all right?
Screw it. Save save your spell slot,
Pebble just. Hands out healing potions,

(55:01):
that'll work too. Yeah, yeah.
I'm, I guess, all right, everybody.
I'm handing everybody. A potion of healing, you know,
here, you guys can pass it down,take one down, pass it.
Around if you don't take. It that's on you.
I'm not handing you poison. Halloween takes it.

(55:22):
Pop the porn. I'm going to cast.
Lesser restoration on myself because.
This is I can get rid of blind. Yeah.
All right. And it's.
Touch. I don't need to.
See. Great.
So I'm going to obviously. Cast that on myself.

(55:42):
OK, so then bastard So. That I could.
See first. Great.
Or. Nokomis.
You know. I have a bonus action.
Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, sorry, I have a bonus
action. Since I can see now all of a
sudden I can see clearly now therain is gone.

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I'm going to use my bonus actionof healing spirit rank. 2 all.
Right. Which is a bonus action, but I
can only use the. Looks like the second rank if I
can't use anything higher than the second as a bonus action.
OK, so that's fine you. Guys can.

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Drink the potions if you. Want I'm just going to say,
everybody has had them handed tothem.
Nicomas, You can suddenly see asyou restore your eyes and little
arcane goggles appear over your eyelids, protecting you from the
fumes, and you can see clearly again.

(56:46):
Nicomas, your DC is going to be quite a bit lower, and with you
able to more easily guide the group, their DC has also gone
down just a little. Huzzah.

(57:06):
Louine is at. Nine Health.
So. He popped pork and just like,
shoves the vial up to his mouth because he can't really see shit
and chugs. Yeah, I have everyone's health.
I I'm. Actually going to heal non
Halloween sun as well with my bonus action I I definitely
drank that potion. I'm going.

(57:29):
To cast, so I just. Cast But let me let me wrap this
up. So first I did cast the the
spirit thing, right. So that is that on impact
casting it heals. In a radius.
OK, And how much do they heal for now, Let's see.
Second rank is 1D6. I believe.
OK, just jump. Jump in one D6.

(57:50):
For everybody, yeah. No, I think I do it.
I roll it and. Then I just tell.
Me. Yep.
So I'm rolling it. It's one.
Fucking. Great.
Everybody heals. Do you roll it?
Do you roll it for each? Person just as a good.
Roll just as a good roll. The the good news is.
The good news is. On the start of.

(58:12):
Everyone's turn, if you're next to it, you heal again for one D6
and you can you can roll that one because on the right now
when it when it shows up, it heals for 1D6 in the radius.
And if you get close to it on the start, if you're in the
start of your turn, you're closeto it.
What you can heal for 1D? Six of your own hit points.

(58:33):
So to meta game a little bit, you're going to.
Call one, turn the next three stretches of the path and I will
say that this has appeared here in the first stretch that you
all have made your way across. So you have three more
opportunities. For this to.
Shield you along the way. OK?

(58:55):
I was going to say I fought. I.
I thought you'd, you'd, you weregetting it like, oh, there's one
turn to get through the rest of them.
Like we only get one more heal. No, no, no, each, each.
I was like wait a minute each. Stretch is about. 30 feet and
each stretch of 30. Feet I'm going to be I I've kind
of been treating as a single turn.
Each one has its own check and all of the things we're doing

(59:16):
cool. Left my turn.
Excellent. Has everybody drank your potions
and. Done your.
Things I drank my potion so the.Disease have gone down.
The. Difficulty for getting across
the Comus able to a little more easily lead the way, doing the
shaped earth on the ground, the healing spirit floating above

(59:38):
all of you. Thea.
You hear that familiar voice in the back of your head and it
says that was good. Do it again if you.
Can does Thea say or do anything?
Nope. OK.
Next stretch acrobatics checks. Please to South private or to

(01:00:00):
you. Private rolls to meet.
But now Nokomis doesn't have to do with disadvantage.
Nokomis now is rolling flat. Yay tech saving through.
No, this is acrobatics. Just kidding.
Acrobatics. Fuck's sake.
OK looking. At the rolls.

(01:00:21):
Here, Pebble, you pass our Louise Braggrenier Thea.
And Nokomis. You all feel your feet.
Slide. On the tiles again and pedal

(01:00:42):
tied to Nokomis. As Nokomis begins to flail, it
also pulls you off balance. I need all 5 of you to please
roll dexterity saving throbs. Would would you say that this
is? An.
Effect that I can see you can see.

(01:01:03):
If I see them slipping, this is an effect that I can see.
Correct. I I would say technically.
Yes. Except if you are still, are you
still leading the way? Yeah, I guess, but.
If I see. Everybody slip then I know that
you are looking straight. Ahead.
So. By the time you would like look

(01:01:24):
over your shoulder to look behind you, they're already
yanking on the rope as they flail.
Sorry I'm being a little. Pedantic with my my trap.
I've got a 15. Yeah, OK.
Thea. Nakomis pass Prag pass Pebble
pass Narlawine with a 4-5 and. I'm.

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Sorry, with A5 your other foot does.
Slip off. And you sink up to your shin
into acid and you're able to, using the razor wire and
everything else, hold yourself back out of it.
I'd roll 2 ones. You take two points of damage

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from one damage out in half to resistance.
Everyone. Else everyone.
Else. You managed to grab onto the
razor. Wire and save yourselves from
falling into the acid and somehow you all take more damage
from the razor wire. Everyone who saved takes five
points of damage. Acid is 2D5 razor.

(01:02:29):
Wire is 2D. Four, and that is the second
stretch. Everybody can roll for the
healing spirit. 1D6 to heal. How well are we there yet?
No. Halfway.
Thank God I healed for fun. All righty.
Healing across the board. All right.

(01:02:51):
Next stretch acrobatics checks. Please privately this whole
disadvantage thing is. Not advantageous.
Even not having disadvantage doesn't.
Save you from damage. I've passed every fail or every
check and still taking damage every turn.
So it's six or one half dozen ofthe other.

(01:03:18):
Quick question for mud, is the rope serving people from
falling? Completely in yes.
I don't think the rope's doing. Oh, it is.
Yeah, the razor wire, so. Essentially medigaming.
Like painting the scene as you guys are making across when you
fail the check and then fail thedeck save, you're you're
slipping, you're losing your footing on the slick ground and

(01:03:39):
with the blindness and the noxious fumes and a foot like
slides off the edge on one of the sharp turns.
Or maybe you take a step too farand between the when you fail,
it's a combination of you're taking acid damage and you're
catching yourself on the razor wire that's slicing up your
hands and arms, but it's keepingyou from fully falling in.

(01:03:59):
And if you pass the check, you've started to lose your
balance, but you're grabbing onto the razor wire, still
cutting your hands, but you're not slipping into Hassan.
So it's it's kind of like using the railing if.
You fail. The check is.
It's technically supposed. To average out to less.
Damage and if you slip into the acid, this last one just I mean,

(01:04:22):
I mean the rope around our waist.
Oh, that is. Allowing you guys to it, it
lowered the DC. It it lowered how this was
instead of having to like have the person at the lead say, OK,
Mccomas, keep going forward, keep going forward, OK, now turn
left and now the next person go forward, go forward, turn left.

(01:04:43):
I wasn't going to like role playout all of that.
It was just going to make the DCmore difficult with the rope
helping you guys. It lowered the difficulty of the
checks. OK, so we're just very.
Poorly, but the rope is doing. Something you know, Yeah, the
rope absolutely has helped you guys.
It has caused more than a coupleof you.
To not fail. OK, acrobatics.

(01:05:06):
I'm seeing brag. Pebble, Narlene Mccomas and Thea
OK Pebble Pass Brag fail. Narluene.
Fail Nicomas. Fail.
Thea. Crit fail Pebble because.
You're attached to Mccomas, and Mccomas failed.

(01:05:27):
I need everyone to roll Dexterity saving throws, please.
I'm I'm watching. This time I'm watching.
This. Time, so I'm rolling it with
the. Paying Attention 20. 20. 24.

(01:05:48):
3020. No.
OK. OK. 19.
So Pebble 19 is a. Save.
Arlene 19 is a save Thea. You crit fail as you lose your
footing, your feet skating underyou like someone on ice, right?
Like trying to keep your balance, like you're losing both

(01:06:10):
your feet and 1 foot, like slides out a little in front of
you, knocking out Nokomis's footand.
Nokomis. Fails your other foot slides out
behind you and it causes you to wrench yourself like trying to
keep your balance not to fall entirely your arms cartwheeling

(01:06:31):
around you and you fully shit brag Grenier across the face
with your arms brag. I need you to roll your Check
your Dexterity safe again as youtake this blow from Thea with a
with a fail. Thea.

(01:06:53):
Go ahead and roll your oil Thea.Go ahead and roll your unarmed
damage or just unarmed damage. Yeah, unarmed strike, Brad, you
take 4 points of. Damage as Thea.
'S gauntlet of hands slaps across your face.
A12 does still pass the comus. The back of your foot is kicked

(01:07:15):
out from behind you and you falland you fall flat on your ass.
No comus, not into the acid, butyou teeter to the side even you
know with your eyes able to CD and no comus.
You take 3 points of acid damageas one of your arms flails into
the acid and everyone else who passed the razor.

(01:07:41):
Wire somehow is being worse thanthe.
Asset. Everyone who passed takes 6
points of damage. Like I said, advantage,
disadvantage, it doesn't matter.I'm taking the the six as.
Well, OK. Is it 6 if you passed you took?
Six from the razor. Wire because these but I'm still
taking 3 rolling. Hot.

(01:08:03):
I'm taking. Three, right?
Yeah. Yours is cut in half.
OK, next stretch, another heal from the spirit, 1D6 for
everybody. I would like to do a bonus
action. OK. 2.
Three well, yeah, I'm going to do that.
Oh, heal for one oh, thank you. One heal.

(01:08:26):
But I I I would like to do a bonus action on this one.
And I'm going to use my. Fave the Summer Court.
And I'm going to burn all six dice to heal people because we
need it desperately. Fuck yeah.
Palmer, the Summer Court. So I'm going to.
Split up this healing a little bit as a bonus action.
By spending dice from the pool, you can restore HP to one

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creature you can see within 120 feet.
The creature also gains one temporary HP per die spent, but
I need to spread out these heels.
Friend. I need to heal myself.
So if I haven't had any heals from me, OK, Yeah, yeah, I.
Wasn't going to heal you. You have a ton.
Of help. I'm good.

(01:09:09):
Yeah, Yeah. So 6D6.
In total, I'm going to heal, butI'm going to use three of the D6
on myself. Alright, go ahead and do that
first. OK.
I just healed myself for 8:00. Those ones are killing you.
Brutal. Yeah, I know.
It's brutal. That sucks, I have.
Three more of these. Dice, I'm going.

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To burn one on brag, one on the other one and one on Thea OK if
bragger if. Thea needs them more.
I'm only taking. Half damage at a time and I'm at
20 health so I can sacrifice onedie.
All right, let me give 2 to brag. 2.
Heals to brag. You heal for six Brag.
Yeah, and one to Thea. Watch it be another one.

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Every single heal role has it's a four.
It's a four. Oh, thank.
Goodness it's a Thea heals for. 4.
Yeah. We Hummus is next to me right
now and the comus. Is farther down the line.
Never mind. Yeah, yeah.
I wouldn't heal everybody, no. I was going to say I was going

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to burn a heel on you. But if?
You're not next to me. I can't.
I'm not going to try to walk over to you and I'm using my
underline. So I'm.
Using my mold earth. Every turn.
So I can't cast spells like mainspells now, right?
Like so I can only use the bonusaction mud unless we pause for.

(01:10:35):
Unless we pause for six. Seconds then, then.
That's all I can do and that's that's sorry, I won't bend.
The rules any more than we already have No, you guys are
you guys are doing great like I'm I'm.
Good with like there there is a shape to the puzzle.
I'm trying to keep you guys somewhat in it, but I love the
creativity and I've lowered the difficulty a lot based on the

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different things they're doing. And you guys are being creative
and that's what this was all about.
So I love what you guys are doing.
Let's go to the third stretch. I thought we were done already.
No acrobatics. Yep.
Yep. I just not do it in private.

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I was I. Let me.
Yeah, I can't see it. Of course I failed in private.
OK, no comus. Shame on you.
I'm going. To give you your 16 no no, give
me the six it's less damage whenI.

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Fail, I mean. Really.
So. I'm over here.
Winning at life? And dying.
Only. Bragg failed.
Bragg and Sia failed. Which means everyone has to roll
except Pebble. Really.

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Two, I got a 10. No.
Oh, now I got a one. She's right by me.
Can I help? Her.
No, Nope. That one.
Nearly. 20 on my deck. Save.
And I also had some flavor for this role that I wasn't sure
about the cinematics because I can't quite visualize the map

(01:12:28):
that we're at. So I'm going to tell you what I
want to do and you tell me if itworks OK using my.
Telekinesis. I'm.
Going to shove whoever I feel falling via the rope.
I can't really see them but I feel the rope being tugged and
then falling so I'm going to telekinetic shove them towards
me 5 feet and they can willinglyfail us the save OK.

(01:12:55):
So are you? Doing that for the acrobatics I
have The Who if somebody. Starts.
To slide. Off of the path I can feel that
the rope to whoever I'm tied to,I don't know who it is, I just
can feel the rope stop. Basically telekinetics, shoving
them towards me, falling the rope, whoever slid them off.

(01:13:17):
I was going to say, isn't that 5feet?
Though. Somebody I can see within 30
feet. So I can't see them but I I'm
gaming it that I can feel them falling via the rope and no but
I'm saying can't move to five feet towards or away from me.
Are you saying there's less than5?
Feet between them and me and. They're going to bump it to me,

(01:13:38):
yeah. And this this will just.
Fit across, yeah. Hands on each other's hips, kind
of close. OK, I think we had 50 feet of
rope. So we weren't that.
Close to each other, but OK, then I won't do it.
That's what I'm saying. I have a hard time visualizing
what we're doing. Yeah, you guys are kind of the
healing's. Rather further apart, I'll take

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the healing spirit. Would hit all of.
Us either and also you would lose the benefit of the right
but. Yeah.
You know what though? Like.
I I I again. I like where your head is at
Narloeen. Give me an Arcana check as you
feel two people are losing it upahead at the front of the line
11. I love the.

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Middle of the road. Because it's just so hard on
you. Yeah, 11 so.
Nakomis with your Nat 1. You start to slip and Narlawine
sees you starting to like, can'tsee but he can feel that there's
like someone is losing it up ahead.

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He uses his telekinetic shove and it overcorrects.
You. And suddenly you're thrust
backwards into Thea and Oh my God, what a mess.
It. Did I mention I cast Thunder?
Waves, so we all have to run. Away.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.
OK, everybody look at you. Everybody look at your deck.
Save. If you passed.
You take two points of damage the the the D fours landed snake
eyes this time if you fail your deck save.

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You said I didn't have to roll adeck save.
Right. Because I passed.
Because you. Were you were?
Run away. From a person who failed,
everyone who failed you take 7 points of acid damage.
Everybody but Pebble got yanked around by the rope.
So Prague, Nara. Lewin.
You guys are taking the 2 pointsof damage.

(01:15:51):
The only person who failed was an A comas with a nap 1 and A
comas. You took the seven points of
damage. Got it.
I thought about. Making your gnat one more
punishing, but you. Guys are getting melted alive
here. I'm not going to do it to you,
OK? I believe.

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That was three of the four. Right, yes, last stretch
everybody heal 1D6 the comas youpull your arm out of the burning
acid just modeled scabbing burn marks all down your arm.
Oh, why? Is it?

(01:16:32):
Burn it. Smells.
I'm going to use a health potion.
Like a BBQ. I'm going to gobble.
A health potion, all right. So everybody, you rolled your
healing. Go ahead and do your health
potion, Nichromus, does anybody say?
Anything to anybody about? How this is going?

(01:16:54):
Keep it up guys. We got one more bit.
To go. I think that we're.
Just I. Am fouled.
At all y'all have fouled. A Pebble is.
Doing her best. Not to.
Go into a rage at this frustrating ass fucking acid
bridge thing. Because once you go into a rage

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she's a lot clumsier. I guess.
I don't know that checks out so.Do you all know that?
Nokomis can see as well as. Pebble, at this point, I
promise. Did you tell everyone that I.
Think she did. I think she shouted out.
I can. See.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. OK.

(01:17:37):
Hey Pebble, How? About.
Nokomis. Takes the lead and you just
untie and try to help whoever's having difficulties.
I say we just get past this lastbit.
I got four more healing potions if you guys.
Are that bad? But that's OK.
I said we not try, try not. To pull any more bullshittery.

(01:17:57):
And just get up, get off this fucking bridge you see to go as
Nokomis casts. Another.
Mold Earth can trip everybody. Give me acrobatics checks as you
keep your balance down the last stretch of path.
And I did it so so right. OK.

(01:18:18):
Pebble past, I'm gonna throw. This dice in the garbage.
Norluene passed. Thea.
And. Bragg O sprit sail so the comas,
even though you. Passed.
Thea and Bragg so. Thea and Bragg both.

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Are losing it again, feet slipping out both of them, arms
cartwheeling and I need. I need a another private.
Check you know who you are. Sleight of hand please, and roll
to yourself. Make sure you're rolling.

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To yourself. OK Narloeen, please give me your
decks Safe 8 in this last stretch.
Marloane, you take eight points of damage, cut in half to 4.
Brag you crit fail, I mean. Forgoing the.

(01:19:27):
Deck save aw, I take. Less damage then please.
Throw. Me A.
Unarmed strike, please. That's 5.
Yeah. As you're slipping.
You see? Bragg's hand go swinging right
at your face, just like your hand had swung in his face.

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Fairlier, but you slip and you dodge it.
Brag. You take the full 7 points of
damage as your whole leg. Like you straddle the side of
the ledge, a whole leg sinking into the acid as you're trying
to scramble yourself back up onto your hands and knees.
Thea please. Roll me.

(01:20:11):
In a tack roll nap 1. OK.
Feel the same thing? You also damn.
Near fall. Into.
The acid you land and slip and your whole butt lower back fall

(01:20:32):
into acid and you reach out. You grab Nokomis as you scream
from the acid and you in your desperation.
Trying. To save yourself you grab
Nokomis and Nokomis please roll me your deck.
Sage Thea, you take 07 points ofdamage, 17 OK.

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Nokomis. Thea.
Grabs at you, pulling and yanking and trying to.
Not fall. Into the acid and you fully bend
your upper half of your body. Over.
The razor wire to keep yourself from falling fully over the
edge, grabbing onto her and you yank her upward out of the acid,

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pulling her clear onto her back and you collapse to the ground
next to her from the yanking of the rope and just the razor wire
slicing across your midsection and mutilate.
From the razor. Wire 5.
Points of damage. And with that, all of you

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burning, sizzling, crawling, bleeding from arms, torso swings
to the face, and everything else.
You make your way off the last stretch of the bridge of the
greasy razor wire acid bridge and the door in front of you

(01:22:07):
seamlessly rolls open and all ofthe acid in the room rapidly
drains. Through the floor.
As if vented through open gratesat the bottom and the fumes and
the acreage stench in the room clears and everyone can see

(01:22:29):
again. How deep is there in back I
turn? Back and I say.
Why do? I Why?
Why is there no acid? Why do I we?
Just got banned a. Ton and there's nothing behind
us. Feather, were you attacking us?
No, my balls aren't. Sore so I don't.
Think so. Pebble grumbles and goes to the

(01:22:55):
corner. I need a break Narloween.
And we're all split, right? The ropes not.
High us anymore we can all seek.Yeah, you can.
Like we're going. I'm done yourselves.
Yeah. I would like to.
Go to up the Thea real close and.
I want to combine. A an investigation with a spell.

(01:23:19):
Can I do that? Tell me what you're trying to
do. Or maybe not.
An investigation, maybe insight.I want to see if she is the
doppelganger because I don't trust Divya.
OK check whatever whatever you want.
What spell? Are you thinking of casting?
I'm going to kind of get. Real close to her, put my hand

(01:23:41):
on her shoulder and cast my cantrip of shocking grasp and
hope that the kind of the electricity going through her
gives gives something away. Let's me see something about
Thea that's not that shouldn't be there.
OK, go ahead. And is that?
A attack roll or a saving throw?No, it's going to be an attack

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roll with advantage. OK, go ahead and make your
attack roll. So the shocking grass was a.
New one for me, so it's a. Lightning springs from my hand
to deliver a shock to a creatureI try to touch.
Make a melee spell attack. It's a target advantage on the
attack roll if the target is wearing armor made of metal.
On a hit, the target takes 2D8 lightning damage.

(01:24:23):
Oh, and no reactions until the start.
Of them there next. Turn.
OK, go ahead and make your attack roll net 20 + 6.
Oh correct damages. 20 damage Jesus.
So yeah. I'm the Chelsea guy. 1.
What? Oh, Jesus.

(01:24:44):
Well. You.
Feel better narrow in. She was the pain.
Narrow in. I got to see.
Go. Ahead and do your insight check.
Is this going to be what's advantage with the amount?
Of damage they just did, sure. Jesus 9 + 2 for an 11.
You watch as. Thea's hair stands on end as the

(01:25:08):
electricity jolts through her chainmail covered body and you
see her like, like you. Know old 80s like horror sci-fi?
Movies like you see her skeletonflash under her skin, you see
her fox skull flash as she takesthis damage reducing her to one

(01:25:28):
hit point and by Louine you justcan't tell.
Are we still by the acid? The acid, but the acid's gone.
You know what the acid is. Draining.
What is the OK? Can I push Noel Wayne into the
acid? You can make a contested grapple
check. Saber a regular check.

(01:25:49):
Jesus fuck. I quit, it doesn't matter.
Yeah, well, I mean, he might also fail.
That one's. The.
Flat 9. Narlawine.
She tries to. Push you into the VAT, giving
you a hard shove, but you're a couple steps away from the VAT.

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You don't quite fall and slip inas she is trying to wrestle you
towards the edge, Thea teeth chattering, your ears smoking
from the grass. You shove Narlawine once,
angrily. He does not fall back into the
acid. Sia, do you say anything to

(01:26:34):
Marlene Nell? Just imagine.
Like a cartoon. Character with the.
Actual smoke coming out of theirears.
The door. Is the smile looks kind of
looks? Down.
Marlene looks down at the and he's just still racking his
brain. Can't quite tell if you know

(01:26:56):
she's a doppelganger or just playing it so well.
No, I, I walk away. I do that, that terrible
attempt. All right, all right, everyone.
I'm walking in first. With one hit point, I'm gone.
Don't don't walk and you won't say anything.
No, no. I.

(01:27:17):
Walk into the next room. With one else.
Yeah, walks. I'm gone but.
I'm going to. Can cast it, not gonna cast it
if. She's already out of the room.
She won't. Be able to enter it Thea as you
walk into the Liz room, you walk.

(01:27:37):
Across. Some shallow water.
It almost looks like a bath house in here.
The room is large and round and all around it on all sides are
some warm steaming pools of water.
Not like a natural spring, but like literally like a bathhouse.

(01:28:01):
The there's a 10 foot ring of water that circles the entire
outside of this room and you walk across.
The entryway. Has a shallow spot after being
shocked and everyone is yelling and arguing and talking about
the acid in the room before yourfootsteps flick hollow in the

(01:28:27):
next room and in the center of the room there is a wheel and
the wheel has four spokes on it like 4 handles sticking out from
four corners. Thea, you're in there first,
what would Thea. Like to do.
The is going to use the rest of.Her lay.
On hands and heal for five OK. I mean, I guess I can

(01:28:52):
investigate the wheel. I don't.
Know sure, give me an investigation check. 17 it's.
Large. And coordinate.
The handles on it have nice nicely carved curves to them.
You can see that like you could like grab one of the four spokes

(01:29:15):
easily with two hands. It stretches about 20 feet
across. It's a it's a huge wheel here in
the middle of the room. You can see that it is affixed
to the ground. Go ahead.
No, I. Just said oh oh.
And. As you're walking in, you're
investigating. You do see that the wheel looks
ornate, like it's not attached to gears, it's not attached to

(01:29:40):
like a crank or a pulley or likeit steers or turns anything.
It just has the four handles sticking out in all four
different directions of the room.
Everyone else still. In the acid.
Room do you do anything or say anything before following Thea

(01:30:01):
either we go ahead and. Follow.
Thea or I can go in. There and.
Knock her. Out and.
Drag her unconscious body back here for a long rest.
I'm going to heal people. Nokomis is going to cast aid on
herself. NAR Louina Bragnier, What level?
How much we got? I'm using the.
Big boy heel. You're not healing, Sia.

(01:30:24):
No. She's not in the room.
Right. See her through the open
doorway. Like you could choose to do this
in the. Next room I'm going to.
Heal everyone else up to you, OK?
All right. I'm going to heal myself,
bragging Arluin. For 15, I'm going to cast AID,
and then obviously maybe not obvious how AID works, let me

(01:30:49):
just read it. Choose to up to three creatures
within range. Each target's hit point maximum
and current hit points increase by 5 for the duration, so it can
go past your maximum. If 15 you know was that I don't
think anybody is near their maximum.
No, I don't think anyone is either.

(01:31:09):
So I healed. US 3 for 15, myself, Brack and
Arlene I go grab. Athea and bring her back.
Here you can go talk to her while while.
While. Brag Rainier is casting his his
heart. I'm assuming that's what you're
talking. About casting Zach or?

(01:31:29):
Brag right? Yeah, if we can all.
Agree to it, but if. If one of us doesn't want to be
in it, I don't. I don't want to waste it.
I I think I I. Just I just figured you all were
like. Maybe you can pop some.
Sense into her. Yep, I walk in there.

(01:31:53):
I. Walk into the water.
Room. Thea, we're setting up camp.
Everybody's hurt, Pebble. Everybody is hurting.
Everybody. Yeah, what are we supposed to be
doing? How can we?
Trust any of us. If we're all just hurting each
other, how do I know I'm not going to go back there into

(01:32:14):
that? Tent and.
Get shocked again or that you'renot going to punch me.
I won't. Punch you.
And. That place is.
Holding on by a thread. Right now.
If we push forward now with everybody.
At half. Strength.
Are we supposed to say that we all go down so that we can find

(01:32:37):
out who the imposter is? I don't know.
I don't know how we know who the.
Imposter is, but stop. Nokomis already went down.
We still don't know who it is. I almost just went down.
We still don't know who it is. All right, well.
Or we just go back to the entrance and break it.
Down we got all the the people out of here, didn't we?

(01:33:01):
You both hear. The voice of Annie Burke's
growling. Guttural laughs.
Not sounding at all like the actual Annie Burke anymore.
And Sia and Pebble. You hear the voice say Come now,
don't you want to see the grand finale?

(01:33:26):
Please, by all means. Set up your little.
Magic cut and go to sleep in my dungeon.
That would be delicious. But if you want to all know how
the. Show.
Ends. All you have to do is.
Everybody come in the room here.I want to invest only me and.
Pebble hurt out to red. Weeds.

(01:33:48):
Yeah. Only.
Me and Pebble hurt. Yeah.
So it's in this room. Can I do an investigate check
on? Yeah, give me an investigate.
Will a 19 tell me who, who said it or where?
It came. From hearing it in your head,
same as you did before. That that would break some
continuity. I am going to say that all 5 of
you hear it. OK.

(01:34:10):
I was going to say like, I mean,yeah.
Yeah, it would. Make more sense?
For us all day, yeah, yeah, I. I kind of I I did that without
this is. Already kind of impossible.
Everybody you know, I got, I gotnothing.
Otherwise. We're.
Otherwise, we're about to fight.Yeah, I know.
Yeah. Otherwise, Thea.

(01:34:31):
'S going. Down.
Everybody. Is hearing the voice.
So we're in, in that, in that. Classic conundrum.
Of if we want to move forward, we have to listen to the enemy,
or we can just ignore the enemy and go bust down the walls to
get out of this place and, you know, go get some boiled barrels

(01:34:53):
of oil and roll them down on here and, you know, blow the
place up. Anybody down for that?
Well, the first room that we were in got.
Closed in on. I can breakthrough.
Walls Han Han 00 Pebble. I'm just digging through

(01:35:14):
inventory looking for dynamite all.
Five of you hear the voice againas it.
Says, oh really, don't you? Want to know which of you is it
not? Really.
All right. All right.

(01:35:35):
Dick Way and. The walls of the.
Acid Room. Began rotating and folding
inward and the acid room starts to shrink in size.
Are we in the acid room? You.
Are in the you guys are these. These three are.
And would the. Shrinking walls affect the Hut.

(01:35:56):
They I mean, technically, no, itwouldn't be.
Affected by? Anything outside?
Right, but we. Would then be in tuned.
Well, not if I'm at the doorway.But anyone that's.
Not in it when I cast. It can't enter it, so it would
be like leaving people outside. I'm fine, I guess we're getting

(01:36:21):
pushed in. The Room.
I want to thank Thea again like I really hate to.
Railroad, you guys. But like, really, there's like
something interesting that's about to happen.
All right, let's go in the room.I feel like we're being paced.
Now the wine says fuck it and just kind of shuffles past the

(01:36:42):
he. Just doesn't trust that.
It's not her and he doesn't wantto put us back to her and he
just goes kind of in the room shoving past her.
Is everyone in the room I. Would like to walk up to.
Thea. And put my hand on their
shoulder and apologize and catchthe third level here wounds.

(01:37:03):
OK, go ahead and roll that heel.22.
Elf, would you apologize? For brag, look.
I'm. Sorry, OK.
I didn't mean to push you out ofthe way.
Well, it's delicious. It's just delicious.
Can we all agree to stop? Hitting each other.
Next person to hit. Someone else you're.

(01:37:23):
All. You're all.
Hearing the stones reverberate. With a voice and it says don't
do that. We're at the grand finale.
Someone has to die. And.
It could be. Me.
I'm sure you all noticed there'sa wheel in the room, right?
Yeah, we see the wheel. Yeah.
I. Picture.

(01:37:43):
I I picture. This this creature as like.
Beetlejuice, like, hey guys, just come on, come on.
And we're all just like, not trusting.
The Beetlejuice. I'm like, yeah, OK buddy, we're
going to talk amongst ourselves,as Brian said way through.
The door does. Slide shut behind him as the
room behind continues to collapse shut and the boy says

(01:38:08):
all. Right.
Guys, it's real simple. You're going to love it.
One wheel, 4 handles, 5 brave heroes.
Only the real heroes can be holding a handle of the.
Wheel. If I'm not.
Holding a handle of the. Wheel I will.

(01:38:31):
Die. And if I am.
Holding. A handle of the wheel.
Everyone else holding the wheel will die, and only the outcast
will live knowing that they weremistrusted by their friends, and
I will let them live and walk out of here unharmed, alone.

(01:38:57):
But the. Rest of you.
Will die so. That's the puzzle, guys.
Pebble. Pebble pushes past the voice.
Says Shut. Up and she grabs the wheel.
I roll my eyes and I grab the wheel.
Only two spots out of the out. Of the after.
I said you're really carrying off that.

(01:39:19):
Whole party, huh? Only two.
Spokes left, is anybody going tofight for?
It Halloween looks over. At Nokomis.
And. Goes like I think the boy said.
Only. The people holding the wheel
die. If.
The doppelganger's holding it only four handles.

(01:39:39):
I'm not going to hold on to the.Wheel now is also not going to.
Hold. On to the wheel.
I want to. I actually want to go hold on to
the. Doppelganger's hand.
So can I just touch other people's hands?
Yeah, you can go touch. People's hands.
Or hold their. Hands so I want to go hold

(01:40:00):
Thea's. Hand I want.
To. Hold anybody's hand.
I'm going to. Hold Thea's hand away.
Yes. Roll with Dexterity.
There's going to be, yeah. Strength or Dexterity?
Take your pick. Yes, Christ, my roles are so
bad. Today.
Roll the seven for strength. Yeah, this is like a night of.

(01:40:22):
Horrible roles. It really, truly is.
Nakomis, go ahead, roll either Strength or Dexterity.
You are trying to beat A7 to grab hold of Thea's hand.
Well, I would not. Nakomis.
How? Do you work your way past Thea

(01:40:44):
trying to shove you away? I mold earth.
To block her attacks. And then I cast and then I.
It's going to get weird then. I cast.
Entangle on her and I entangle both of our hands together.
Beautiful, are you? Only holding on to Thea and not

(01:41:07):
the wheel. That is correct.
OK. Thea.
You watch as the. Earth molds around your feet and
the vines stretch out from Nokomis.
Druidic fingertips and vines wrap around both of your hands
and wrists, almost like Chinese finger trap style, binding the

(01:41:31):
two of you together as Nokomis chooses to bind herself to you
Thea rather than hold a handle of the wheel.
What is everyone else doing? Yeah, there's Tabbles is going
to. Grab a stoke on the.
Wheel. I think NAR Louine, you're the
only one who. Hasn't grabbed a.

(01:41:52):
Handle. That's true, but.
I believe. That there is a doppelganger
though if I hold the wheel with the.
Doppelganger. Then three plus doppelganger
die. Am I the doppelganger live for
us and the one? Person.
The three people besides the doppelganger.

(01:42:12):
Will die well if. We're not holding the wheel.
We survive. If a but.
We need 4. But we need four people to.
Hold the wheel Four people need to be holding.
The wheel does little brother count?
Absolutely not. Get in here, let's see what
happens. Yeah.

(01:42:33):
I'm holding the wheel. I have an idea I.
Cast. Mage Hand.
And it will be invisible and then I cast invisibility on
myself and I will be a mud what I do doppelganger.
I am awaiting your message. I look at Pepper and I say I

(01:42:58):
honestly. Couldn't tell you.
Who it is, if it's any. Of us.
I think we're. Just doing.
Paranoid. I think it's Sasha and Levi.
My dogs. What's our dogs?
OK. NAR louine you.
Do that and nothing happens. Worth a shot.

(01:43:23):
OK. Then.
You all just. Grab the wheel.
Be clear if. Nokomis is the doppelganger.
Nokomis will die or the doppelganger will die in the.
Form of. Nokomis.
I should say if Nokomis is not the doppelganger and instead

(01:43:47):
Pebble, Narlaweems, Ragrenier orThea.
Are. The doppelganger.
The other three people. Holding the wheel.
Will die? Well then our Druin can just
bring us back. I got this.
I'm not letting you go for the wheel.
I'm I'm. Confident this plan will work so

(01:44:09):
you. Want everybody to grab the
wheel, Nokomis? Yes, OK.
Yeah. That's literally everybody on a
wheel. OK, I'm I'm waiting to hear.
Narlaween. Say if he.
Grabs the wheel or not? Do you think Nokomis is the
doppelganger? I do not What.

(01:44:29):
Does Nara do not say narlaween looks?
Brag in the eyes. And says, well, doppelganger, I
guess it's time to. Die.
And I grab the wheel. Yeah, Pebble Bragrenier.
Narlaween wrapping the wheel, Nara Louine as the last one as
your hands wrap around the handle and Nicomas with your

(01:44:52):
hand firmly grasping Thea's Nicomas and Thea.
Are you looking at each other? Did the two of you say anything
to each other in this final moment?
Out. See you on the other side.
As Nara Louine's hand wraps around.
The handle. A booming, thunderous crashing

(01:45:14):
sound erupts from the center of the wheel, the air blasting
outward. Everyone's hair is whipped back
and the wind is so strong it's like staring straight into a
tornado. And the deafening roar of the
Thunder echoes in your ears, andeveryone is still standing.

(01:45:39):
And do you hear the voice say, Oh my God, that was beautiful.
Oh. Chef's kiss to Martivus.
Oh, this was. So delectable, so wonderful. 4
humans grabbed the. Wheel.
It's so beautiful to see. It's a.
Wonderful and beautiful thing and Mccomas, my hat off to you.

(01:46:04):
The selfless sacrifice, knowing that all your friends would die
and so you saved yourself, knowing you weren't me just oh,
oh the. The five of you are a treat.
Thank. You.
So much for coming into my dungeon.
Exits on the left. You may all.
Leave. Halloween looks around.

(01:46:28):
So. There was no doppelganger.
Among us. Oh, there was.
There just wasn't any of you. You can go, but if if I.
By your own rules. Like if it wasn't us and you
weren't holding the wheel then you would be dead.
So how are you talking to us? I lied.

(01:46:52):
So he could have lied and. One of our sisters still the
doppelganger and. We're all escaping.
I got it. I passed them.
If you want to take the game outside of my.
Dungeon. That's your prerogative.
I passed Styler, Willis found. Pebbles.
Cut off finger. That's what a pocket that does.
You launch from that of. Light up 1.

(01:47:13):
Creature the object. Within range, make a range spell
attack, unhit. The target takes 1D8 radiant
damage and until the end of my next turn it emits dim light and
can't benefit from invisible. And what are you casting it on?
Every. Finger my nose picker.
Yeah, the only other fleshy. Object in the party.

(01:47:37):
How about what you feel? A hand begin to.
Form. In your pocket?
No. And.
The spectral shape. Of a twisted dragon like thing
floating in the air above the wheel.
Looks at you, looks at Bragg, looks at you and goes ah, so

(01:48:03):
clever, you. I don't brag or near the.
Humble, of course. Oh, did I say exit on the left?
No. No, no, no, no, I meant exit on
the right. Be sure to grab something on
your way out. And the form was a poof of
necrotic air. Disappears.

(01:48:25):
The hell? Just that my finger's gone.
Your finger is still in your. Pocket.
Oh thanks, the finger was gone Ithink ends for.
That. Apparently my finger.
Was the doppelganger, your finger was the.
Doppelganger and then it was what I need to.
I need to say. That.
That was a joke. I can't believe at the.

(01:48:51):
End. Of.
All of this, You get it at the very fucking end.
OK, Turn the floor to the left and that door begins to brick.
Itself shut. And instead a different door to
the right rolls open and there is a path open to the right.
Now I guess, what pebbles going to?

(01:49:13):
Do is she's going to take. Out several metric tons of
dynamite and place them around and then tell everybody, all
right, we're out the door as she'd like.
As she walks out the door, the last one out, she lights the
freaking fuse and says fuck off room.
Would anybody like Halloween is Invisible?
And just walks out. Raglaner just.

(01:49:36):
Looks aghast and goes I did. I didn't honestly think it was
your finger that nobody should be messing.
With my nose picker. You had a hag in your nose for
some time. It's how I'm right?
I don't know if he's. Kind of walks out.
Necklace. As he's invisible.

(01:49:57):
He's kind of embarrassing. He.
Just walks out. Nobody really sees him go, the
mage hand just picks up picks upsomething on the way out.
We were told as. We searched.
We. Searched for.
Something to pick up as you walkinto, I mean.
Does anybody else say? Anything to each other, Nokomis
and Thea, you know, the vines kind of untangling from your

(01:50:19):
hands. Do the two of you say anything
to each other? Or I thought they were still
going to be. I thought they were.
Still going to? Be tangled.
I was going to look at a Nicomisand just be like, all right,
let's, let's get out of here. I'm tired.
I thought you were the doppelganger.
I'm sorry. Yeah, I'm sorry, everybody did.
Let's go. Let's just go, I thought it.

(01:50:40):
Was. I thought it was brag.
I had no idea who. It was.
As. I'll let you make your way.
Into the room to the right, you see a number of small chests up
against the wall and on some pedestals made of the same stone

(01:51:04):
as the floor. There's a number of items.
I'm going to do this kind of rapid style, and I'm also going
to send the list to the group chat just so that you guys have
everything. But in the chests, you all find
a number of racks of gold coins,and they're in like the coin.

(01:51:28):
Stacks kind of like. What you get like when you go to
a casino and you get like a rackof chips.
The gold coins are organized andstacked in these racks.
There are several of them without doing into it, you're
you're able to kind of bag them and grab them.
You guys can decide how you split them up, but you I'll,
I'll take them all, toss them inmy pack.

(01:51:50):
OK. Apple's grabbing all the gold
there's. Like arms sweeping the chests
and gold and stuff. Yeah, the gold adds up to. 8000
gold pieces in one of the chestsis a potion of greater healing
and you guys also got some loot we will get.

(01:52:11):
Into these items. In our next session.
But that everyone is where we are going to end tonight's
session in the temple of the doppelganger, where all along it
was the least likely suspect thefinger in Pebbles pocket.

(01:52:33):
Yeah, you guys almost left this temple.
Without any. Swag you guys almost just got
out with your lives and that wasit.
But you solved it bragging here in this you dumb log.
Yeah, no kids. I knew.

(01:52:58):
I I wish you. There's sometimes that I wish.
We had video turned on because the amount of flies I would have
caught with my mouth as my jaw dropped and you made a goose at
the end of this whole temple andsolving it, I mean, bravo.

(01:53:19):
Bragg sometimes goofing around. Works didn't work for Pebble.
Punching everyone in the nuts was not the answer.
I figured it would be revealing.On.
The severed finger. That was it.
Well, yeah. I I guess that just mean Bragg
gets first pick right? You guys can decide.

(01:53:40):
How we're going to divvy up the loot?
My arm swept it all into my. My.
Pouch so or my bag. Backpack.
So we got this stuff going out. Bradron here just for our
listeners. Say the name of the spell you
cast again. Starry wisp.
Starry wisp. It's actually a.
Cantrip that I I traded. I traded Prestidigitation for

(01:54:03):
that cantrip. Just read it because I wanted.
So I. Wanted a spell that wasn't a
wisdom. Save.
So I traded prestigitation for this and it you launch amount of
light at one creature or object within range, make a range spell
attack against target. On a hit, the target takes 1D8

(01:54:24):
range damage and until the end of your next turn emits dim
light in a 10 foot radius and cannot benefit from the
invisible condition. The damage increases by 1D8 at
level 511 and 17. Yeah.
So this was. Not the solution I expected.

(01:54:44):
I didn't even realize you had swapped out your spells, but the
finger was technically, by all appearances, both a creature and
an object. So no matter what, I was going
to give it to you for this. I got to tell you guys, I
really, truly thought that you guys were going to like, look

(01:55:05):
through your items or look through other sentient things.
Maybe blame the dragonfly or thehalflings that are in Thea's
bag, or like I had all kinds of ideas of what you guys might end
up blaming and you truly, truly beat each other up well, and you

(01:55:28):
just gave all the examples. We didn't even think of Yeah,
you, you literally set it up so that.
Never in a million years I'm messaging.
One of you guys. And, and then I, I don't know if
you were doing it fake, but every time, like, OK, I'm
messaging the person who's a doppelganger and you go click,
click, clicking Clackity, click Clackity, you know, and it's
like, and then you, you, I'm watching the other chats.

(01:55:50):
It's like, OK, that person took a pause before they said
anything. That person was typing wild mud
was typing with somebody, you know, like, OK, that person's
not it. Like you literally made it sound
like it was one of us. So it's like, so peek behind the
screen. I was literally.
Typing messages to my wife saying I'm pretending to talk to

(01:56:10):
the doppelganger. Yeah, I got that.
I got that. Really good now.
Honestly, I thought that. You were acting very well and I
thought. That Wawa was doing a fantastic
job of fooling us. I think she was just totally
frustrated. And yeah.
I think she was actually. But as soon.

(01:56:32):
As you cast that spell on her and.
She took 20 damage I and she I heard her door open and another
door in the house open and closed really fast.
I I had a feeling. I love you Wawa.
You go to the. Bathroom for who knows?
How long? And then you did that damaged
and I was like, all right, well,I'm going to push this
motherfucker. And I rolled the one.

(01:56:55):
I was like, well, I'm fucking getting them to go to the
goddamn bathroom. There's so many of the gnat.
Ones on the on the. Little walkway.
When you and Bragg kept failing,I was like, it's going to be one
of these two motherfuckers. And you're like, no, I just Oh,
yeah, you can. You know you can sabotage
yourself. Just let me know.

(01:57:16):
I'm going to have 200 blockers. Yeah, so my Rose.
Said. You said you.
Rolled A2 and then. Mud said he rolled A9, so I.
Was like, well, that's brag, youknow, because you guys
literally, you know, he said that you guys can fake rolls and
you I heard you say, oh fuck, that's a 2.
And then mud like in the next breath said, Oh, you got a nine

(01:57:39):
brag, brag Grenier. And it's like, well, how else
would have failed? Fucking red.
Red. Herring.
My rails were successful 13 and then it was an. 8A6 and A4.
An 8:00 and 8:00 and then a. Four guys, that acid room was
brutal. Yeah, I think that set the tone

(01:58:02):
for the whole evening with thoseroles.
Yeah, I will say. There are some.
Justifications for some actions or conversations that some
characters took that has been revealed to the audience.
But there there are some reasonsfor some things and I'm not

(01:58:25):
going to get into it because that's that's for later.
But end of the day, guys, like this was such a like I, I'm like
sitting in my chair like a goblin, like crouching on my
heels, like I'm so giddy and pleased with how this played
out. And my comas and via like
forcibly, like grasping hands ona comas.

(01:58:47):
I want to, I want to hear like, what was what was your plan if
everybody else died? Yeah, if everyone else died.
I mean, I could. Just heal that I like.
I can get them all up. I have enough healing spells and
and my brain I was like, well, Icould just revive them unless it
was like a perma death. Yeah, I guess I didn't get into
the. Meta of it.
But the the threat was meant to be that they would die.

(01:59:11):
Well then I underestimated the situation.
I. Mean that might be something to
come. Us to talk about in the future.
Yeah, see, I was just reading that as you know.
Along with the we go down like OK, no matter what roles we do,
we're taking damage. No matter what happens,
somebody's going to die, you know?
So like, just fucking roll. See through, see it through.

(01:59:34):
You know, I could have phrased that so much.
Better where I could have said something like they will die and
I will keep their bodies here asthe sacrifice to me or like
something that like implied the permanence of it.
Yeah, I think in my. Brain, I was like, OK, well.
Whatever I could just like if ifI'm out of the group, am I also

(01:59:56):
My brain was thinking. Like this right?
This is. Where my head was at if.
CEO was the doppelganger, right?Which I assume she was, but
obviously incorrectly. But if CEO was a doppelganger
and there's only four spots on the wheel, if the doppelgamer is
touching the wheel and I'm not touching the wheel, then I
technically beat the logic, right?

(02:00:17):
Well, yeah. And then Nicomas and I had this
or Arcturus. And I had the same thing.
I mean, this is a bulls and bears for everyone who's
listening. But in in the messages to the
DMI would be like, I stay invisible.
And I grabbed Nicomas's hand andthe mage hand touches the wheel
and puts what pressure on it so they feel the weight shift.
Yeah. And the idea is that the mage.

(02:00:39):
Hand is not a like sentient being.
It's not a. It's not one of the five of you
the creature like without meta gaming too much.
Like that, the creature knew. That you know you?
That it it wasn't actually you. How did it know it was in my
pocket? Its finger.

(02:01:00):
Was in your pocket, the rest of it was floating.
In front of you, invisible the whole time.
Oh my God, are you kidding? Me, I, I had thought.
About using the gem of seeing inthe beginning.
Oh my God, every time I. Use this.
It doesn't. Do anything.
So there's no reason for me to use this, yeah?

(02:01:21):
For all listeners, we are dumb. We are very dumb.
Oh, we. Are things that DM.
Thought we were going to do. We were going to do.
We were never going to search. I forgot about the goblins
living in the sack. There was none of that was even
a thought in my head. It was either the doppelgangers
in the walls and none of us, or it's one of us.

(02:01:42):
That was it. Yep.
Yep, I, I, we could have campaigned for three months and
I would have maintained. That, I swear to God, it's so
good. It's so good there.
Was the finger all along? Fucking finger.
Yeah. And you know what, I'm going to
stick on that and. Then use it as a back scratcher.

(02:02:05):
All right, I feel out of sheer. Dumb.
Luck I should get. Heroic inspiration for that one.
You know what? Yeah, Brag Rainier is so hopped
up. On his perceived success, sure.
Give yourself a heroic inspiration, guys.
I'm just, like I said, I'm I'm giddy with how this all played
out. You absolutely walked each other

(02:02:28):
for once instead of me. And it was so good.
It was, it was so pleasant to listen to.
I need to go to Bishop and sell all these.
Items. I can I, I can always.
Imagine. The.
Conversation you're about to have.
With. Your wife about this she is

(02:02:51):
sending. Me, a lot of laughing faces.
Yeah, I'll. Bet tell misses my dad.
We love her. I.
Will convey. The message but.
With that, everybody, you got a little peek into what the bows
and the bears looks like becausewe talked about the highs and
the lows, our favorites and our least favorite purse.
This has been a very role play. Heavy damage heavy everybody

(02:03:17):
almost died. Kind of D&D 721 adventure.
My name is Mudd and I am joined by these five wonderful real
heroes, none of them a doppelganger at all.
My real non doppelganger heroes.Say goodnight to all the good
people, goodnight to all. The real.

(02:03:38):
People out there. If you are real people.
What is real? Good night.
What is love? Funny.
Funny. Thing to know about that song,
it came out the day I was. Born, I think, or the year I was

(02:04:00):
born. There's a big difference.
No, I'm not. No, I'm not.
You don't remember? Hey guys.
The. Berlin Wall came down the day I
was. Born.
Or was it the year I was born? One of those things it was.
Actually, the year after. My bad.

(02:04:21):
OK. Sometime the year before.
Sometime. Before.
Or after his birth. This song was a thing sometime
before or after. Hey guys, I don't know if you
guys know this. Julius Caesar died more than
three days ago. Facts.
No. Lies are told.
No lies were told and. The only lies told here were to

(02:04:42):
you, the audience, and to these players.
For that, I will never apologize.
Thank you so much to our listeners, thank you so much to
our players, and thank you everybody.
Be sure to check us out at d&d721.com.
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(02:05:05):
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our podcast next week. We are celebrating one year
actually this. This episode will be coming out.
After that, so a couple of weeksago we celebrated a couple of

(02:05:27):
weeks ago, a few weeks ago, we have celebrated our one year.
I was just about to say when youfinish that, it's like, man,
guys, I can't believe it's been over a year because we're
recording this just before, but it's going to release like 3
weeks after. You can edit all that out.
Take it away, talk. About our one year, no, Yeah.

(02:05:48):
So our one, our one year, I hope.
You all had fun with it. We.
Haven't done it yet. Yeah.
So I'm kind of projecting in thefuture.
We had given away several awesome prizes.
I think we, you know, gave away like 200 bucks worth of fun and
prizes for trivia and holy cow, I can't believe they got that
answer correct. You'll have to have tuned in to

(02:06:09):
know what I'm talking about, what we're what we will have
done. I know what we will have done is
done the celebration on a Twitter space where anybody
who's played or or participated or people in the community can
come in and chit chat. And then we're we will have had
edited that up and posted it as an episode of a massive party

(02:06:35):
dice discussions. So this one year anniversary has
not. Happened yet, but by the time
you're but it will have had. Therefore, down in the.
Description below you can find the link to the recording to
that one year anniversary party.If you want to see that you can
click that link and I can check it straight to X boy, the mental

(02:06:56):
gymnastics guys. Thank you so much to the
players, thank you so much to the listeners, and I hope
everyone is ready to just trust each other a little bit more.
Good night everybody. Maybe, probably not good.
Night praise. My praise the chainwars praise
Mark. Thank you all.

(02:07:18):
Hail the crippled. God.
No. Who are you?
Who? Who are you?
Who am I? Am I you?

(02:07:48):
A temple brief of the rotten stone.
Shadows. Growler, lightest throne, candle
flickers, magic bite. Every specter is wrong in night.
Who are you? Who am I?

(02:08:16):
The demon laughs It. Where's my?
Skin. That.
Rejoins I. Trap with them.
Voices fracture. Truth is sin.
Who's the doppelganger? Grinning steps on narrow acid.

(02:08:40):
Breath. Wire cuts the air like death.
Push your father past too small.That noise swallows all.
Who are you? Who am I?

(02:09:01):
Am I? You, me.
The demon laughs and wears. My skin, every choice.
The trap weapon. Turn the wheel inside the line.
Drop this boys and truth will die.

(02:09:37):
Spin the wheel, watch it bleed. The temple feeds on what you
need. 5 together. None agree, but God is laughing
quietly. Who are you?
Who am I? Am I?

(02:10:01):
You, me over and over. Spiralling.
Down one by one, we lose the sound.
The candle dies, the acid breeze.
The wheel still turns. No one leaves.

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