The Xeshor Tablet (Tongues and Runes D&D One Shot)

okay all right okay agma in 3 2 1 [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] all right welcome everyone to the first onot special one shot for tongues and runes the tablet which uh with uh and uh with me David Peterson angua artifexian biblian and Joey Windsor our DM who I will throw to right now to give an introduction to the adventure awesome thanks everyone for for joining and letting me see your character sheets in advance and everything uh so we're going to jump right into this adventure I know some of you had some questions that you were able to uh invest investigate before you left sutina one of the capital cities of the region but now You' spent the last 9 days crossing the Eastern Eastern desert of dala Beyond valim Dam the ruined Northern Fortress and entering kazes the red wastes you didn't notice anything different about the desert itself after you passed into the wastes but your encounters with things that wanted to devour your flesh quickly went from 0 to 10 on your trk you've encountered ANS vicious large burrowing insectoids that spit acid a pack of death dogs two-headed beasts with diseased saliva and illusory terrain hiding a swath of quicksand was that a mirage caused by the Heat or something more malicious you're not entirely sure but now you stand at the base of Deal's Tower bit of a misnomer sure it belonged to a wizard in life but Tower leaves something to be desired it's a squat building maybe only 12T to a side and no more than 25 ft tall if it wasn't for something at the top catching and reflecting the light of the Rising Sun as you walked North you might have missed it all together before we get to see what's standing outside of uh Deal's Tower let's have you introduce your uh and describe your characters and uh maybe we'll start with uh George oh okay so I am playing py who is the handsome guy that's right up next to the door he is a a draconic origin sorcerer uh and uh he likes to to get in and mix it up a little bit and he's also a bit sort of rogish he's probably going to want to scout ahead but uh um he he is a elf and he has some draconic origin his family got around there's probably some Orc in there uh Edgar uh yeah so uh my dude's name is uh leish uh and he's a 75-year-old exell sword who uh put away his sword in favor for his true vocas in life and that's the uh the manufacturer and sale of salty confectionary um which he does in saltina uh he was out at the way at the races there trying to sell his Wares shifting some product and all and he caught when that there's a bunch of adventurers knocking around seeking to uh sort out the wrongs in the world and he taught you know what I'm going to come out of retirement for one last gig so he picked up his glaive and off with him and here we are uh egma all right I am a Toth Foo uh it's an alen name look look it up on my website uh tokat Foo he's a about a bulky mediumsized guy with red hair wears a large hat he is a barbarian of the path of the Zealot he's got a large axxe as uh as is the Barbarian tradition um he came into this area uh from from the uh from the West looking for ENT information that may lead to him finding his family which was taken away from him several years in the past he doesn't know how he ended up in this particular desert region but he's here he's living his life and he has a particular penion for collecting plants and keeping them he has a collection of little plant leaves and things pressed leaves pressed flowers the particular Obsession right there he's found his way after watching the joining up with you guys and uh here he is awesome bib my character's name is Ral which signifies he who is acquainted with the void by means of magic for it was in a dream that he came by this name and looking at him it's it was would almostly be kind of difficult to tell how old he is because he shows signs of premature aging he's of about average height but he is painfully skinny and gaunt and his flesh is altogether has an almost sickly power to it but the most striking aspect of his appearance is that what would be the whites of his eyes are in fact a solid dark blue and around his eyes there's serious discoloration and wrinkles alog together looks like a very unhealthy individual um and he fancies himself a seer of sorts he's definitely very interested in the esoteric Arts um he's not a particularly good wizard but he uh has been Guided by various visions that he's been having as to the existence and location of this Tower umh so he would have set out on this rather fool hearty quest to find it and I imagine would probably have met everyone sort of halfway there just bumbling around the desert um and there is strength in numbers after all so might as well tag along if we're all heading to the same place and David I I am playing a bronze dragon born Bard named brimon which is H Valyrian for bronze uh anyway so uh my my fellow he just basically is out here in This Magnificent world to have a wonderful time and to make sure that everybody else has a wonderful time and honestly he probably wouldn't be here on this Expedition except that he is taken a fancy to a blueeyed beauty by the name of Ral who he believes has a a basically latent predilection for the dragon born oh this is and I believe it's actually pyre that has like the the draconic skin a little bit but uh yeah so um pyre wears wears long sleeves all the time because a lot of his skin is covered in blue scales from his draconic ancestry um and uh he and he's like he's probably talking to yeah he's he's he's probably talking to Rosal uh quite often uh not not for the same reason as da but just because like he knows about magic but he wasn't formally schooled uh in it so like having someone else to talk to about these things is helpful for him um anyway um uh I'm hearing some Echo from somebody uh we were talking about um we can I can try to I can see um let's see if this 12 minutes in and we have our first technical issue good go yes oh my gosh okay I can't do anything about that while recording um so we're gonna we're gonna deal with that it's pretty minor yeah yeah it's all good yeah yeah maybe we can all press Echo cancellation and see if it's one of us no we can't it you can't do it I think um mute yourself when you're not talking and that will be helpful okay there you go um all right so uh uh what do we want to do we're I'm sit standing at the door okay so so let me uh describe this yeah um so you're standing on the burning Desert Sands in front of the squat Tower even in the early morning temperatures are already reaching the high 90s for our American friends the mid-30s for everyone else uh from where you now are you can see that what caught your attention is a large lens that seems to be catching the sun rays at the top of the tower it's difficult to directly look at the lens but it seems like you might be able to get up to it from the inside of the building if if you can figure out how to get inside what looked like doors or Windows from further away are completely bricked up by large stone slabs however the stone slab blocking the doorway does have some glyphs on it show to everyone Tada okay um you have seen this phrase before um anyone who talked in about deal in Sala uh talked to the dier or talked about the dier referred to him as excuse me uh gawin or gone asay a phrase you've come to learn is more metaphorical like a permanent detour um although this residency in Kaz provides a pleasant double onon to anyone who pays a second thought to the estranged Seer Okay so so like we we we've seen this but I I I don't really know what this means right uh well you do know this is the phrase gone astray that metaphorical mental detour thing the uh scorpion just below the phrase gone astray is a little new to you though okay um yeah I can't quite understand this does anybody speak the the delarian language at all no not me I'm going to nope while they're all standing around I'm just going to hobble over to the nearest one of these stone tablets with this marking on it and from my bag I'm going to take out some paper and try and making a little sort of lithograph I have some charcoal and I'm just going to sketch brilant to try get an impression of these syal as you do that uh you realize that there is sand obscuring some more glyphs and as you start rubbing this over and knocking the sand loose there are additional glyphs around this time as uh as you're doing this you can hear some sand shifting from a little higher up on the Dune and a uh fairly large oh my creature disappeared where'd he go creature spoiler T looks like I have to reload him in here but I'll do that I will continue to describe him while I look for his token uh um a a large stone creature uh or made completely out of stone is walking down the Dune after unburying him from unburying himself from the sands uh he's dragging a fairly large Club but has a fairly Pleasant demeanor on his face and is just kind of waving to all of you okay um I uh I I turned this this fits the description of like the the construct that that people told me about right that's right okay okay guys this this this dude is like a servant of of damal and like he's kind of dumb so don't don't be too I think we should be fine if we're not like too aggressive um he doesn't speak common though so I don't know how we're going to communicate anything to him uh we can communicate in the universal language of salty confectionary does any does anyone want me to go over and treat this guy to something for my backpack I'm not there's only one universal language and that is the language of song Come friend come join us he uh he kind of like Bops around a little to the to the strumming of your of your loot and uh seems to be enjoying it um because toat is the closest person to him he walks up and in this like very deep voice goes knock knock uh um who who who's there the person with the [Applause] password oh oh okay so he can that's convenient he can talk um he's looking at you as if he's waiting for you to provide a password after he um calms down from his little joke okay I'm I'm I'm looking to Reckless Rec call I'm like uh I my my stuff doesn't work work with this stuff but like do you have a way to to like translate these runes with magic or anything what what how how can we maybe maybe there's a clue there H I have been fastidiously doing my lithograph this whole time and I have it's almost as if I haven't noticed the construct getting closer how big is this thing by the way how tall uh he's the better part of uh 6 and 1/2 ft tall and almost equally Broad in the shoulders okay um I will just go out sideways and see this thing and just say ah an emissary of the one we seek fascinating and I shall withdraw a an amulet but at the end has a almost pendulous uh load Stone and I will walk over and start walking in circles around this thing both inspecting it and just attending to this little amulet that I have as if trying to glean some information this entire time I'm staring at rth roska like what the heck is he doing who who was like picked up here like what the hell is going on I don't know what kind of magic she's trying to do I that I have a seven wisdom oh God ah um yeah he uh he is completely made of stone the same type of stone that the tower is made from he does have discernable facial anatomy and fingers and toes and things like that uh he looks quite formidable but there is obviously some sort of magic that has created him uh I don't know that you'd gain a lot more by that uh you can roll an Arana check to see if you've heard of these creatures before that's not something that I would do I don't uh yeah that that's not something I would do at the moment but but r do I just roll a D20 and I just add it manually because I don't have the stats in roll 20 yes cool which case oo 19 okay you have in fact heard of galb durs before uh they are a type of rock Elemental usually created as Guardians typically they don't speak languages very well uh but they can speak Teran a form of primordial so you're kind of guessing that this guy only knows like two to three phrases in the common tongue especially the water Davian common tongue U that is knock knock who's there the person with the password and presumably whatever the password is okay so we ask him for the password I would imagine can I give that a try you want to ask him what the password is I would like to persuade him to tell us what the password is I can be very persuasive you can roll your persuasion fantastic I think I'm going to love this um oh that's an unrecognized command help me young DM SL r space D20 that's a 15 plus eight oh plus eight so what oh he's a Bard wow yeah so Daz starts uh engaging the galb dur in some conversation which isn't going particularly well cuz it looks like the galb door is getting a little frustrated and just kind of pointing back towards saltina and shaking his head that nothing you're saying is the password and then you stop and you shake your head for a second and you go knock knock and he says something that sounds like stones rolling and throat clearing which you assume is the Teran language you assume this means who's there and you say the person with the password and he starts laugh laughing and he says not gone astray gone away and then stops and realizes he just gave you the password oh friends okay I think we're immediately immediately I say Gone Gone Away the galb door walks up to the door places his hands on it uh the door seems to turn into another galb door which steps out of your way opening up into a space that is far too wide uh to physically get in this like 12T X 12T structure I'm going to send us to the second map always bigger on the inside by the way I play a little tune for our new [Music] friend so you guys can drag your character tokens back onto this map I'm going to be here pyre is like right in there he wants to see what's going on this this is this is what pyre is he so he's very interested in finding this tablet because it's valuable and it's powerful so he wants to be in there um inside this room it looks like uh Library SL Workshop uh there's not a lot of dust in here which is a little surprising um it's kind of neat uh there are some Scrolls and books scattered over the floors and um a few things that are largely out of place but as pyck is discovering in the middle of this lab there is what looks like a dissection table clearly covering a body the body is completely encased in thick webs uh even though there is no other evidence of spiders or webs in here anywhere there's also no other exit beyond the one you came in okay um well folks let's let's see what's in this room the my information is that the the tablet should be near the top of the tower but like I don't see stairs or anything so we're going to have to look for some kind of a secret entrance um on your your idea of a secret entrance there is only one thing that looks obscured and that's just to the right of the entrance there are curtains covering something over here pyre is at all places at all times sprinting around the [Laughter] room um yeah I'm going to open the curtain all right uh you open the curtain would you please give me a wisdom save oh god oh no oh no okay uh wisdom saving Thro how do I do that on my character sheet here um so saving throws do I just click the thing yep and so you're going to take the first one it always rolls to in case you're rolling with advantage or disadvantage if you're not rolling with advantage or disadvantage you just take the first one so it looks like a for it oh it reported okay I so yeah I got a 14 all right um meets beats so you're lucky um when you look at your reflection in this mirror it is a twisted horrific version of yourself as if painted by a realism Picasso uh looks like it's ready to attack you but you kind of Shake It Off and now you're just kind of fascinated with this weird reflection that you're get um okay so I'm going to uh uh move away from that and go back and take a look at this body again can I roll yeah call investigation uh it looks like there's lots of people around to help you with your investigation so you can roll with Advantage okay let me go ahead and do that uh bad can I uh can I um there's a thing here hold on hold on a sec hold on a sec everybody stop I'm going to use one of my bartic inpirations to help them with that role all right so you can do it again if you would like George oh I can I can try it the roll again that's what it does well you're trying it again and you also get I believe it's a D6 added to it for the baric inspiration which you can choose to use or not use after you see the result of your role okay um that's a 19 so I think I will save that baric inspiration yeah it'll last way that I can okay um all right yes so this uh slab has what is very obviously a body on it um you kind of touch the web a little bit and it is sticky but you're able to pull your fingers away uh it's not just a cocoon um so there there is a body inside of it and directly in front of pyre actually on the dissection slab is a set of medical tools so there are scalpel and things like that okay someone's been at work I wonder what this thing would look like in the mirror uh I I do not want to try that um the mirror is something that we might I don't know if we can haul that mirror out of here but it would be interesting to have um did we all see what happened to him when when when that dark the evil reflection happened did we all witnessed that too or is just definitely saw pyre like jolt back a little bit but you haven't investigated exactly what the infection was okay part of me would what okay guys do not look directly into that mirror that makes me want to look directly into that mirror honestly I want to see I'm sorry I've forgotten the name but I want to see bib's character look directly in the mirror maybe it's the reverse maybe some stunningly some face with PE back at them that that might be a good uh a good investment why don't you do thatr do it do it I totally want to see it sir honestly if he looks in the mirror I expect him to see the ugliest face in the world since right now there is nothing that charms me more than what I see in his very deep blue eyes yeah I'm I'm looking at Daz and I'm like very very confused as I'm I'm assuming that Dragon men have very strange beauty standards uh meanwhile I'm going to go like around here and start like rifling through like the papers on the floor and the the shelving of Scrolls and stuff all right there's uh a lot of research in this Library specific to the red wastes and even more specifically to a creature that is uh called The V uh clearly A dala name uh the the dier uh whose Workshop this was seems to think they have some sort of fayik quality but refers to them as cannibals and flesh eaters uh the various artistic descriptions you can see of them in some of his Scrolls and toms there tall very gaunt long stringy thin hair and teeth like an Ang angler fish he does say that they don't usually speak except directly through the mind though they have been known to mimic speech once in a while uh they are unable to accept ungrammatical things in languages they do speak and that usually gives away their their Illusions for example the uh motto of the dala region is uh doab uh which is not grammatical because it's reversed the subject and verb in what should be a verb initial language uh at any time that one of these creatures creates an illusion that has the motto on it they always restructure The Motto into perfect grammaticality oh uh he actually details in some of his Scrolls that he's managed to catch and keep some of these creatures for further research and he believes they come from somewhere else drawn by the red wastes or whatever is pushing the red wastes and um they they frequently cast Illusions to draw people to their death even more so if the vadil is then scared away after killing someone and not able to consume them it is highly likely that that person will rise as a poltergeist um okay so this is what happens to prescriptivists okay so I am I I am uh as much of this as I understand I am I am conveying to other people and I'm also like trying to like point the wizard to some of this stuff to for things that I'm not too sure about um where I'm we're just kind of Rolling Along here where am I able to uh discern how old the body is how long it's been like this uh if you were to cut open the Shroud you might be able to I think I'm going to do that yeah and there's a bunch of tools there so yeah what could possibly go wrong all right about so I don't think I use the at my belt okay you can also use uh with Advantage cuz you're using a bladed weapon so it's a strength check or Athletics if you like uh how do I do that it's just a straight up D20 David what were we just saying about prescriptivists as you challenge my pronunciation it's yours and yours alone friend can can people can people people see our live chat yeah it's on the screen there yeah banter absolute banter yes I also say artificer because they work with artifices not artifices well I don't think I think that is the standard pronunciation of artificer but I agree but everyone I talk to always says artificer Ed really I would say artificer or artificier I I'm in the artificer gang on this one I yeah this is what happens when a bunch of linguists play D aner oh he called we Haven we haven't gotten to the the real Linguistics yet oh god um okay sorry uh that supposed to be with Advantage sorry yes it was supposed to be with Advantage so you can roll another one then I will roll again oh good and what's your total much better uh eight okay uh your your kri is actually like getting stuck in the webs you might need some help with this I'll I'll pop over and help them out all right you can make an Athletics check with Advantage okay and sorry Joe you're going to have to talk me to it it's just roll to D20 yeah and then add your your Str uh hold on oh he cut right through that web it's all gone it's just 19 whole thing where is my strength at ltic all right uh plus one yes that's 20 yeah yeah you uh you go no no no you're cutting too much on an angle and you grab the curi and and slice down quite well there's a right way and a wrong way to do [Laughter] things WR what have we learned here today so far he's he's he's tread lightly it is unwise to disturb the dead this is true uh you're the one who's cutting it open I am going to leave a piece of salty licorice on the body as a piece offering for cutting up the dead I think that would appease any demons you move myself next to the door you catch a brief glimpse of a corpse uh but almost as soon as you see the corpse an illusion overcomes it uh it looks like a uh high elf as they were in life very clearly the person whose body this was and the programmed illusion begins to speak um knew I that would come ye saw I it many years now from but not from here ye mother speak I you you language in apologize I if not good you language I with but believe I that understand ye I afraid I not survive I foree ye to arrive here jar I dead bitten it I and now die I fear I that become I victim to they that study i v if this true not know I what do I in death and I Spirit a danger to you and this land take ye scroll I corpse hand from if true I foresight will know ye what do for enter above places drink you some tea then restore ye the tablet to seat it Al may we catch lucky break and then the illusion stops wow that chap speaks better in common than I do okay um here uh I am going to I'm going to raise my hand out and I am going to say do I have the thing here I'm going to say and out of my hand a spectral hand appears and floats over and just grabs the scroll because I'm slightly scared that this is going to be a trap and tries to gently pull it out okay uh Daz as you've predict positioned yourself beside the door the living door that it was closes at this point and a spirit appears um you have not had a chance to read the scroll yet but we are all going to roll initiative oh boy oh no I'm looking at that door like well laws of physics are already gone what else now okay and so sry just question how is everyone rolling rolling The initi Thing music there you go uh I have to turn that super way down now yeah uh initiative is a D20 roll plus your dexterity uh for Birds you'll get a plus one on that if you have a an extra feat you might get that I meant more like how is everyone getting the nice initiative rooll plaque thing I figured it out oh if they have their character sheets in roll 20 they can just click it yeah yeah oh interesting and then you can add your initiative um to the tracker uh I love how we're just like we're just dully describing how to do initiative while I've got the pumping music in the background the the action going the music's awesome it George is everyone aware that you compose this music like that should be a thing you should make people aware of because that's pretty ball so so all the music that you will hear is is in is uh is of George key of George production I did uh too much work okay anyway so yeah you can add your initiative to the initiative tracker like learish has done yeah oh I did interesting I don't know if I meant to do that but here we go why can we we can only see our own name in the initiative or uh yeah I don't know that why that is but I can see other ones yeah uh so pyre and toot if you can add your initiatives I just oh oh I get it I I clicked to roll initiative oh and then you uh have to just add it to the turn order boom oh okay how did I where is the so um so I rolled initiative and it was a nine okay I can add that for you oh there it is perfect yeah okay all right um rothos call you are the first to react to the as the spectral hand reaches out and pulls a scroll free of the grip from The Corpse's hand you just hear this unearthly whale of grief and pain and one of the uh Potion bottles from beside this bookshelf hurdles just missing you and breaking on the opposite wall you're not 100% sure where it came from uh because as you may know altergeists are invisible oh no what would you like to do so I cannot see this thing you cannot see it you you know that a potion was hurled at you from over here but it may have moved after hurling it so a lot of my spells are phrased in um like it says you target a creature you can see within range does that mean those spells will have no effect uh until you can identify where it might be you can take a guess um Ling I think honestly my first reaction would just be to draw my CER and just blindly just thrash her and just probably just mutter something incomprehensible trying to get it to go away so I'm you move anywhere or just do you move anywhere or just thrash in the square around you um I'll just move there okay uh rull starts uh swinging around but doesn't seem to be connecting with anything at the moment oh God toot you you have seen this bottle get flung and Rish wildly well upon upon watching rur skull swinging his swinging around Into The Ether I'm I'm kind of Connecting the Dots here I'm going to go up to the corpse laying on the ground and I'm going to uh going to swing my axe with the corpse and see what happens okay see see how it feels about that uh Move Yourself wherever you'd like to be all right I'm going to go right about here how about that and you're just like okay uh I'm not going to make your rooll for this uh so you pull out your Axe and you just take this massive like uh Lumberjack swing and the head is now only attached to the body by a few strands of web oh God nice you again hear this terrible shriek oh god oh no it reacted okay okay that that's good info I'm going to uh actually uh creep off a little bit you have a decent passive perception I'm going to say tokat you hear the shriek uh from directly off of your right side oh oh my I'm going to like what the hell there it is just like oh God oh he's he's like pointing at where it is uh looking at least yeah okay uh he's looking at where it is uh sorry Leo first name Leo second name leash yeah very important um the wait sorry uh that last bit you said can you see my mouse you can't see my mouse if I do stuff with my mouse uh if you click and hold it will there will be a ping that I can see okay okay can you see where I'm hovering no no okay never mind which one isma's token is what I want to ask the Hat uh tokat the Hat the Hat the Hat yeah okay perfect all right well if it's just off to his right surely it is in the Square immediately ahead of me uh so I think uh I'm not very bright um sorry when I say right I mean the character is currently facing south facing the section table characters right not the screen right yeah so the left from your perspective yeah yeah yeah um well in that case yeah I am going to move over to here maybe and then I am going to follow rosal's sorry for the pronunciations lead because I'm also not very bright and I'm going to trash wildly in the air as well I'm impressed with his form so I'd like to mimic it uh because this creature is invisible you have disadvantage but you will be able to roll and attack with disadvantage okay okay give me a second uh oh oh wait is it rolling it sorry I meant that was that was an accident I I I meant to open up the info on the spell and I actually accidentally cast it that's fine we should just ignore that so 16 do you want me to add something to that um whatever your attack modifier is um that is yeah plus one okay that is going to be a hit you can roll damage oh wow oh wow okay uh 1 D 10 uh one okay so that is did I roll did it go through and there's a minus one in that that's that's nine I think is it N and is this a magical weapon that you're using or just a normal weapon this is just a glaive okay just a regular bog standard glaive that I've owned my entire life it's a family arloom you you feel it connect with something uh and you are reasonably sure you've made purchase with whatever this creature is uh Daz you have a good idea of where this creature is now as well that uh Leo has uh has impacted it what H what did Leo uh oh so weird way of saying it I call him Reish what did he attack with a glaive a GL a glaive did he oh oh no well then that certainly makes things a little bit easier uh I'm going to hustle my buns to this position if that is allowed um yeah you'll probably have to do some vating across some bookshelves and things like that but now that you are are flanking the creature with re if you attack it'll cancel out your disadvantage Splendid then let's go ahead and attack with my mighty Rapier as Iron Maiden would have me do let's see here let uh no wait I mean long sword that's even better oh my that's even better okay that's the damage what do I roll for hitting is it just a regular D20 D20 yeah and then plus what plus the attack modifier next weapon name I think yeah so I have a plus six there okay so D20 plus 6 all right oh that's a fair sight isn't it that is a dirty 20 definitely connect sir please roll your the damage now all right looks like the damage is going to be one of two things that's weird can somebody explain to me what I see on my character sheet on the top it has 1d8 plus 4 and beneath that slightly grayed out is 1 d10 + 4 it's a possible to wield that weapon two-handed or one-handed if you're wielding it one-handed it's a d8 if you're wielding it two-handed it's a d10 h spoken like a true G DM who's had to recited that before well I suppose I didn't specify Mr DM how would you advise me what would Daz normally do would he take a a two-handed power attack or would he just try and go with one-handed more finesse like uh I mean if uh if he only had the one weapon in hand and he knew what he was attacking or that he was going to hit some certainly he would swing with both Paws or claws then d10 it is all right here we go pretty good and this is similarly not an enchanted weapon right oh no okay um because I know birds have lots of bonus actions are you giving any inspiration out or anything like that no I believe heartiness of my companions uh pyre you your Mage hand has this scroll within its grasp and your uh friends are lingering around the now decapitated corpse and swinging at something and seeming to find some purchase okay um so drawing the Mage hand to myself with would that be an action uh no you did that before combat started so it can continue its trk to you okay so so the Mage hand is is flying to my hand I grab the scroll and like stuff it somewhere quickly and I'm G to stay where I am and I'm going to shout out um let me actually cast a spell this time I'm going to shout out fighter and like in my hand a ball of acid not touching the hand just floating above it appears and I throw it over the heads of Rosal and and tokat into this space that they're attacking and that's a dexterity saving throw uh we've got a 17 on the save uh a 17 okay so let me see looks like your DC yeah so is it half damage or uh okay so it's he doesn't take any damage then no any movement or anything other than that um yeah actually um pyre is kind of done with this situation so he's going to try to find a way out and this fireplace is looking useful so I'm just going to be over here for a second okay um it is now the poltergeists turn and uh toat having recently relieved its Corpse's head from its shoulders he is going to attack you great all right lay it on me ghost uh that is a critical hit oh oh no I take that back take it you I think you deserve actually this Force impacts you and like knocks the wind out of you dealing 17 Force damage oh God no uh that was double damage cuz it was a critical hit yo did you say 17 oh God 17 to's going to go down in the first I am slapped to the ground I am caked um re tokat and Daz you feel something ectoplasmic move up and out of the way this way um maybe we'll go from north to south each of you get to make an attack of opportunity at disadvantage if you want to attack this thing as it moves yeah yeah I I had a quick um DM question okay so uh having you know seen of course the The Vicious attack laid on you know the fool pyre who you know unwisely removed the head from the body of the corpse um I see that I can use healing word as a bonus action does that mean I can do it like after I see him get hurt uh that would be a reaction so on your turn you have a movement action an action a bonus action a reac ction and an interaction okay reaction is one that can be done outside of your turn if something moment yeah wow I can do one thing hit him with a sword and by the way um you said going north to south who's whose turn is up first Daz yours ah wonderful wonderful wonderful wonderful you'll have disadvantage this time oh oh but this is wait this is just an opportunity attack is that right correct y ah so this isn't even our turn this is just a free swing oh my my my my my well I think I'm going to go ahead and use my bic inspiration on myself can I do that hold on hold on a moment hold on a moment no no no no I can't use it on myself I cannot never mind never mind I will go ahead and take my opportunity attack my two-handed swing with disadvantage how can I program disadvantage into this little box uh SLR space to bracket D bracket is that right is that the oh No Just 2D2 you don't need the bracket SL2 and then um do I still get for this opportunity attack do I still get my hit bonus yes you do oh how delightful and that applies to each of them does it not it does and I'm not going to spell the advanced syntax to do that let's see if it does it what that didn't work you put spaces between two and D20 well of course I did it's like an hour it doesn't like spaces there we go uh so an 11 + 6 is a 17 which is a hit you can roll damage sir Splendid all right let's see what [Music] you that is not a lot of damage that's still some uh toat are you taking an opportunity attack I probably should um but am I like prone when I got the wind knocked out of me was I I'm still standing you're still standing okay okay then yeah I I'm I'm just going to I'm just going to go right for it I'm going to do a little Spin and a a straight at where supposedly the Poltergeist is hope for the best um let's see great yeah yeah things are going great for me another I had to be a little elegant with that one didn't I you do have to thr another but man I love your inflection great just great yeah give me one more we got the guy with a giant Axe and he can't hit anything all right let's let's see it doesn't get any oh good oh love that thank thank you what's your Plus on that or is that all in oh man no that that's that that that's that's it okay those those are misses uh re are you attacking with the glaive uh yeah yeah but first I'd like to like exclaim about how I pop my back out with the previous trust given that I'm a 75y old man who's come out of retirement to fog Licorice and save the world um so I'm going to roll a 2D2 plus one is that right for Initiative for no not plus one I don't know what your pluses for attacking uh is that the is that the number that is in the initiative box no uh it should be by your attack roll so that will be your proficiency bonus which is plus two and your strength modifier whatever that is it should say hit DC above it oh where do you see hit SL DC next to the range I think you're looking at a different type of sheet Dave darn okay uh yeah okay I I I think it's a plus one I'm pretty sure it's a plus one okay I rolled I rolled pretty sure it's more than that it's the I'm yeah well okay did the Roll come is a hit it is a hit yeah fantastic and then we roll damage that so it's a 1 d10 minus one uh 1D 10 minus one let's go uh do eight that's not bad that's all right for an all block that's all right uh and as true Al guy I'm I need to use the bathroom real quick so I've see is all in about two seconds uh raish call it is your turn you see uh your compatriots swinging at this invisible thing which seemed to be on the move and headed somewhere north of your compatriots so it's gone like somewhere over here right yeah somewhere up that way um they were all swinging at it like kind of as it was going around this bookshelf so number one has um making contact with it and or injuring it made it any more visible it has not I want to say that I very nearly took the C invisible spell and I am regretting having not done that now because there's still not too much I can do about this without seeing it um do you have anything that's area of effect I believe in you friend um get him magic man you can do it I really don't think I can um you could ready an action you you can ready an action for when you know where it is to cast something or attack so okay what I'm going to do first of all I'm going to move and my speed is 30 feet right y so any6 squares um so could I feasibly get like there you can indeed okay I'm just going to try this I don't know what kind of action this would this would count as but is there any um sand nearby or just dirt in general or any kind of particulate or powder or anything um actually on the table right beside you there is some ash under a burner that was uh like a bunson burner kind of thing but not gas powered so you could grab the ash that is what I will do I will grab a handful of the Ash and just cast it in the general direction of where it was headed and just shout beast creature reveal yourself click on the Square you're throwing it on or the direction you're throwing it on I'm going to throw it in that direction there all right um well it is definitely going to R throw uh no cuz you're just like covering Ash all over the place um you have found it it is now outlined in Ash [Music] magnificent this is why I think of you as such a good friend the magic man did it so that was a um what do you call it a prim an action or a standard action so now I get a bonus action which I don't have so I believe that's the end of My Toot the uh the creature has been revealed I embarrassed myself a moment ago but now I've got a bit of a crutch so I'm just going to do the exact same thing again I'm going to run towards him if I have to yeah let's do it and that I'll unfurl more than just his eyes let's see yeah well that's going to be a 15 where are you moving to toat I'm going to go right over oh God wait I'm going to go right here around around here so you're actually going to have Advantage CU you're flanking with r scal so you can roll one nice I like the sound of that give me that Advantage nice okay that's that's hit but definitely a hit so you can roll some damage I like the sound of that this particular axe is uh there we go it is a D12 + three Kow that's 13 uh in the words of Matt Mercer how do you want to do this oh [ __ ] oh okay well in in uh in the spirit of Revenge for My Punishment I'm going to try and just go for a nice Spin and decapitate let's try and make it a nice clean move here spin decapitate all right the ectoplasm make roll performance oh God don't make me roll performance extremely low Charisma here the ectoplasmic ash covered body uh and in both portions I guess it won't Beals uh collapses to the floor with a dying shriek leaving a little bit of ectoplasm on the uh blade of your axe beautiful beautiful does the body dissipate or does it stay laying there uh it eventually kind of like Fades away with just a little bit of ectoplasmic ashy Trace got it I'm going to try and collect a little bit of the juice in my uh plant collection materials that's what I was going to do um there's enough to go around come on pyre you have a a scroll tucked away and uh re and Daz looking at the looking at the corpse can see there are a few other things inside this uh Webby casket of the corpse uh there is a web and uh the boots the corpse is wearing look pretty nifty oh oh corpse boots I good sir would love to take these corpse boots if I may you can indeed oh what's what's the what's the web I hear I hear about the web and I'm I'm just taking a look wand a wand oh my gosh oh this is incredible this is incredible good disembodied DM Voice May I Dawn These Boots of Elvin kind straight away you may indeed speaks into the E is anyone in and a perfect fit made just for a dragon born I'm I'm um my Mage hand should still be active so I'll just take the Mage hand and just like grab the wand and bring it to myself oh oh and what is the info ah okay look at that web yes okay I'm going to I'm I'm going to take that and if ratosa wants to fight me over it then then then we'll have a conversation but I'm going to take it right now um wait wow look that where's the item thing how do I take it that I can't answer you might have to manually enter it onto your sheet yeah it it it's kind of uh disappeared suddenly okay uh if you go to your Journal it should be available in your Journal now okay so the Wanda web so reques yeah so it has to attune to a spellcaster so it's either me or wrath or or Daz okay yeah hang on a sec uh Joey may I roll persuasion performance and deception um all three Dare I ask why oh you'll find out and incidentally I have a plus six on deception and per performance and a plus eight on persuasion I mean you certainly can um uh should we SC who are you doing this to to uh pyre pretty good pretty good pretty good oh no pretty good he's rolling for seduction you try to are you you're trying to get me to give up the wand of web not a bit good sir and I know you'll believe me when I say this I know this wand this is a very special wand it comes from an ancient rainforest where it was created by a tribe of spider worshipping uh of spider worshipping M magicians and I happen to know that the name of this wand is panosu P kashu all right I think we all believe Daz that this is absolutely gospel truth okay well uh sounds convincing to me that's that's wonderful uh I like powerful objects I'm going to take pun kashu punu um yeah I can't figure out how he lies go to inventory and can I I I think I I can go to the compendium and pick it up or um in the interest of time I am also going to show you what is on the scroll you picked up even though you didn't say you are reading it admit shown reposes oh was this on the corpse or on the the the Poltergeist on the corse The Corpse's hand this is this is the scroll that I pulled out with my yes with my dream hand interesting well not to be a prescriptivist but uh that's a incorrect grammar Hey go with that idea yeah yeah I mean we could get you know in some real trouble with this one right here from the from those demons H supposing that's true as they say should we all say it out loud that might be fun I need reminding what is it edmit shown reposes uh yes that is correct without the question mark and with the quotation marks there you go sh reposes it's almost as if it's a some other kind of password yep I'm just going to be while this is happening I'm just going to still be looking around this room to see if there's anything that I missed at any point you can roll a search or investigation is that it investigation yeah so if anyone is helping so if and Daz are both doing it one person can roll with Advantage uh what do you have to your plus investigation I would consider that question metagaming well well well well uh why don't you go ahead and investigate I am feeling like I should just help I get Advantage right correct okay wow so to answer David's question my bonus is plus four but yeah that would be at 20 all right um as you look around um clearly there were some potions for the poster gist to hurl although unfortunately it didn't hit any of you um there are eight potions in total and although you don't know what they are there is a green potion a bright yellow potion a uh extremely dark green potion a blue potion a red potion actually sorry two red potions um there is a clear potion with a toenail floating in the bottom of of it and a gray potion B you wouldn't happen to have identifi with you um again I very strongly consider taking it but in the end no I did not if there is anybody who has any knowledge of some of the apothecaric Arts perhaps you can search your memory bank and try to understand what some at least of these potions are naturally we all know that the toe potion is a potion of life I'm I'm can I roll Arcana and see if I have any idea what these potions are you can okay um oh I got a 22 not not 20 actually not 20 so I'm going to give you an addition thing on this um so you are reasonably sure that the green potion is a potion of dimunation okay hold on reduces size I'm taking notes Here same okay the yellow potion is a potion of fire breath the dark green potion is a potion of growth give that to the Barbarian the blue potion is a potion of speed speed uh you think both of the red potions are potions of healing uh okay uh the potion with the toenail in it cont to DA's suggestion is a potion of Hill giant strength oh the gray potion is a potion of flying oh oh and with your natural 20 in Arana you also look at this scroll and go I wonder what this would look like uh if the letters were all jumbled oh okay so we got to do anagrams okay oh okay let's um let's see what can we do here there it is again admit shown reposes let's put on some thinking music [Music] that's that's too loud okay I think the SEC I I think I have an idea really loud yeah I turned it down we're really thinking [Music] hard okay so admit sh repos so I think I know the second word let's see [Music] [Music] [Music] does pyre share this information by the way I'm assuming he does yeah I I I so like at some point I pulled the scroll out to look at it and I'm like I was I was showing it to everybody so everybody knows and and then I I I said okay uh it looks like maybe maybe this is an anagram maybe we can can we can figure out um the letters for Hearth are in there you can get the words open and Shadow out of that as well um if we're looking for places to go okay if we have Shadow we can't have hearts well are it are the spaces spaces between the rearranged words or oh well I'm I'm assuming not but that's not assumption I can probably make we can't we can't really say that can't really tell exactly this is this is like you know magically appearing to us in in in English but it's in like whatever common whatever I no it is actually written in your your water davan common this this was left for you yeah he he foresaw us coming open [Music] Master you can get a master out of it as well I'm going to I'm I'm going to go back where I was and where uh where's my roll 20 tab I have too many tabs open oh so like it's going to have to be it's going to have to be uh mixing up the words because like if you look at admit you can't at least I can't see a word in that on its own so we're going to have to borrow letters from other words uh unless I'm just while while people are puzzling over that I'm going to like take another look at the hearth can I roll like an investigation to see if there's anything special about it you can okay okay so that's a 13 um because of your ancestry you definitely get the sense there is something magical about this Hearth and um it might be linked to this scroll this this might be the passageway so so Hearth yeah cuz I can get the the letters for Hearth I need to figure out what call oh wait a minute he's got us um just before I do something I'm going to do one more sweep of the room and see if there's anything valuable that we [Music] missed um there are some Ever burning torches lying around that's what it's lighting this room um you definitely walk past the mirror again and like yeah I remember looking in that my face was all jumbled up and stuff yeah so I mean I don't know I think the we have we have some humans here who could use the Torches maybe they can grab them but that that's there's nothing more interesting than that then I am going um how are you getting Hearth that has two hes George no or is this some weird American spelling no you can't get Hearth oh I can't get Hearth so I need to figure out what's going on oh yeah that that's right I thought there were two hes for some reason I was just looking at the letters in isolation and I threw Hearth out there so it's not Hearth but there is something about the fire place um so would solving anagrams be a function of intelligence or um I will allow either I would actually say intelligence but I will allow either roll it roll it wizard boy see if you can get a hand can can I ask for something I'm going I'm going to do my best can can I ask for something that's okay um I'm sure the music is awesome for viewers but I literally can't hear biab so is there any chance we could kill it sorry okay I'm going to stop it okay there there we go sorry about that we were pondering the harder we Ponder the louder it gu high for me I don't know can uh I I'll ask the chat really quickly was it too loud for you guys I just want to know we can probably I can probably just not do loops even though the battle Loop is really [Music] great uh okay uh what do you add to that bib like what's your total uh that was my next question is this just straight up intelligence uh you could do intelligence or AR yeah um both of those would be the same so that's plus two so 15 okay um so rkal is is thinking and he's doing some some mental calculations and he just very quickly grabs the scroll from pyre and runs over to the wall and shows it to the mirror which jumbles everything up OHS oh okay oh wait a there oh man okay so um I'm I I am very cautious about approaching the mirror now so I'm I'm just going to take a quick look and say okay and I'm going to read that out loud I'm say the password is Omen and when the word Omen is spoken and fire moves out of the hear engulfing you all you feel like you become part of the fire and the next thing you know you have been transported deeper within the Wizard's Tower oh boy oh okay oh man um you can place your tokens outside of the earth down on the lower side of this map and I will read the opening to this scene okay I'm just going to be somewhere as the fire deposits you in this long study hall you feel your weight cause a board underfoot to Creek only you don't hear its groan in fact you don't hear anything at all the wall to your right is lined with books and Scrolls Laden in dust along your left are a series of three locked rooms with see-through metal mesh on the front the second of which has a plaque on the door with hieroglyphic writing inscribed and directly in front of you there is a statue of a woman kneeling down her left hand is on the floor kind of feeling the floorboards with a shield against her forearm and her right hand is held up to her mouth in a shushing gesture on her back is a great Axe her eyes are closed at the end of the study hall is an enormous statue of a warrior seemingly blocking another Archway to the west of that statue there is light emanating from some some other part of the hall but your view of that area is blocked friends I'm not the wisest of dragons so as you start trying to speak Daz you realize no voice comes out this entire area is a study hall you should be silent here so it is encased in a silent spell no sound can be uttered ah oh no well I'm useless no I'm okay so there's there's valuable things in in these things Corners so I'm going to look at the door and see if I can um if there's are they locked uh they are indeed locked can I ask uh something of the of the DM Y what I would like to do is anytime a character makes a movement or takes some sort of action to go do something in this room until further notice I would like to go with them and watch what they're doing okay um I'm going to start with pyre um Daz I don't know if you're following re or pyre immediately uh whoever goes first okay um pyre you look into this first room it seems to be a weapons Locker there are things like Nets and crossbows uh there are some Spears uh there is a weapon called a man catcher which is literally just walked around a person's arms kind of like a dog catcher leash um the second room is the one that has the uh sign on it which looks like that oh okay um in behind the sign in this room you can see a very fancy rug a nice pedestal and a crystal ball on the pedestal o and re as you look into the third room there is some sort of alchemical table and a writing desk in there okay uh can I see what's up here all right um as you you walk up there re there are a couple of um ever burning torches on the wall lighting things there is a pedestal with a book on it um and another little pedestal just to its right with a cup of tea there's a shelf just above it with a burner a kettle and a poach of tea can I make myself a cup of tea I know it's St in universe but when an Irish man here's what cup of tea he's drinking the tea hey wait wait wait wait wait the um how are you telling him to wait oh I can't I can't there's nothing stopping me now I'm going to go up and like physically tackle him if need be I'm I'm gonna I'm I'm going to like uh I mean I don't I it's I I have limited idea of what they're doing okay so you're you're dealing with them okay I'm going to go to the weapons and I'm going to I I have thieves tools um so that's dexterity right dexterity with proficiency if you have Proficiency in these tools yeah is the is the door locked do I need to do that it is locked okay so I'm going to um I can't click for this one so I'm going to be uh so it's SLR and then roll D20 SLR space D20 so it would be D20 + 5 oh it's is it the other slash yes sorry I'm going to go to the bathroom real quick one second oh I got a 23 three yes you are easily able to uh open this lock I'm just going to ask is there anything special about the way you unlock it or do you just fumble and go um it's literally I've I've just got some thieves tools I get some lock picks and and Fiddle with the lock until it opens okay um so I'll come back to you in a second uh Daz you are watching re go for this teapot and this s of tea that's on the Shelf first of all just as a little experiment everything in my power to stop him from doing I'm just as a little experiment I take out my liar and do this no happens okay just yeah um I I'm I'm I will uh out of character I'm going to say because other people might also remember deal said something I think about deal said something about uh taking tea right that's what I'm I can't speak obviously but I'm very mindful of the fact that the T was mentioned yes EXC so I'm going to I'm going to take out some licorice fruit and really prepare to drink that tea take my own home I am can I roll strength all right uh you can you can make a touch attack luckily I'm 75 so this shouldn't be too hard I mean I'm a strength based attack hagged old guy so so yeah this is either Athletics or no this is Athletics and um the battle of the Boomer is happening right you can roll Athletics or acrobatics to resist this okay uh just like whichever one is bit bigger I assume y yeah um sorry Athletics or acrobatics correct oh yeah they're both the same okay and it's yeah let's roll okay so you reach for the Satchel of tea and Rusk like grabs you around the arms and like pins you back silently kids these days you can see my mouth is moving I'm furiously trying to tell you to stop but you obviously can't hear anything okay also again I'm Stone thick so I mean somebody has to be dumb in a DND uh party because someone has to go and do the stupid thing that makes the monster appear that's it that's it um unfortunately pyre that was you this time um oh oh no I was so concerned with with with getting um uh yeah I don't know what you were thinking um is it my turn yet yes I mean all right let's let's let's let's give rasmi on the floor pretty please um so bearing in mind that I saw everything that all of these people did one of the things I did was looked at the book those um I recognize are magical spells does that mean that anybody who reads that book as far as I understand is able to use those magical spells so they're not Scrolls they don't instantly allow you to cast them but they do allow you to learn these spells that's exactly what I if you're and so if you're a wizard if you're a wizard yeah I there are things I could have done sure do other things but oh 100% okay we have cantrips fellow I just didn't happen to have these but they're very relevant um uh just um a a note for viewers and um uh the incantations you see there are in uh indaka which is the same language that I am saying my incantations in that I made uh Joey actually asked me to get incantations for a bunch of spells to put in here right okay so here's the important the operative question book you can see all of the spells that are in the book there you go H Opera question look at that oh goodness gracious there's even more but like in particular the the pages that the book seem to be open to right is it the case that I can now use these if I say these things um you will have to make a Charisma check to be able to comprehend them I mean fire makes a Charisma check let's let's just take a look at my Charisma let's see it looks like I have a plus six there that's that's something okay that is something how do you have a plus six to Charisma that's what I said earlier that's not a plus six sounds impossible yeah because my Charisma is nine B moment B moment that's a plus five that's a plus five plus four five oh no you're right it is a plus four 181 19 is a plus4 how how you have a 19 the bar lot of performance here to the seil no no no that's a plus four but then um but then I have you know extra bonuses to Charisma because of I because I'm a dragon born oh um okay so this isn't um yeah this isn't a skill so you're not adding uh proficiency or anything to this so a 19 is plus four oh wait oh I'm sorry no you're right you're right you're right you're right I'm I'm this is oh this is so this is the saving throw that has the plus six if it's a CH saving throw I have a plus fix if it's a Charisma I have you're rolling just a straight Charisma check which understood understood so that would make this 10 H um 10 and you are looking at AG hand at the moment uh yes uh 10 is enough for you to understand a c trip yes and uh will I need to do that again for um the uh message yes okay um before you do that again though because you you're taking a little bit of time to comprehend you know what is the gesture of The Conjurer and things like that uh pyre is getting attacked and cannot call for help I cannot call for help I cannot cast spells because I don't I didn't take the subtle spell like the whole point of my character is to shout things so question to question to DM here we don't know that py is being attacked correct uh yeah you guys except for toot toot uh is still hanging back by the Earth and probably sees this a fly over I've I've been patiently watching um um okay does 11 hit I think 11 misses you pirat yeah I yeah I got scales and I'm I'm a flip sorcerer so I can I can dodge that before before we enter battle properly I I would like to see as I've been tackled by forgive me bib your character I can't do the or rat rat squal whatever it was um uh I've been tackle with him I would like to retack back I want to see two old men like flapping at each other at one another so I'd like to roll whatever I need to roll to make that happen please uh so you're going to force uh raskal to do another Athletics check and you can do athletics or acrobatics as the defender brilliant brilliant okay so I should have rolled I can't see uh oh by the way um agma uh would you pull up the chat on your screen maybe cuz uh there was chat before now the chat is there go hey dice dice dice nice oh Dam it oh no so again you try to squirm out of your grasp and rra scal is just holding you going wordlessly I'm like what is it this guy um I am going to get everyone to enter the initiative again just in case somebody walks around and sees something okay um let's let me roll that that man I'm R good tonight so there's that and all right same as last time I guess okay it's fitting that I'm that I did not start the battle loop on this one cuz the whole thing is silent there you go we we should all actually just mute ourselves and and Joey will just try to understand what we want to do I think somebody said we really have to try to keep it to the three-hour Mark so yeah I I don't know I don't know who that is I don't know I'm I'm at a doctor's appointment right now I don't know what you're talking about I'm a doctor but not that kind of doctor I can diagnose your F fictives or something there you go there you go try the Veer nasal what what is that Shield that that that has appeared yeah yeah I was going to ask same thing well it hasn't moved yet but uh in the description of the statue you will remember there was an axe at her back and a shield on her forearm oh no oh god um all right so rashal there is no noise you can't hear anything happening you are holding uh Rish um what would you like to to do I would like like to um as I am trying to uh hold back re I'm going to try since I seem to be beating him pretty handily honestly with that last roll um I'm going to use one hand to cover my mouth and I am going to attempt to cast the message spell to see if magical audio will have any difference here if that can still be heard in some way interesting one second and in order to cast message um I don't need to roll anything um says the target hears the message and can reply in a whisper that only you can hear uh unfortunately in order to cast message there is a verbal component which you are not capable of uttering all right yeah so okay I try and make noise with the intention that um toat can hear because I want to tell him that tea is ready but okay so are you still holding on yep I'm I'm still very adamant about this that tea is going to be for toat that's his um very well um toot you see the axe float from the statue through the air towards pyck and swipe at him H well I'm going to I I'm going to kind of stretch a little bit and uh and head over in that direction where where where are like just over here with everybody else uh no py is is in this oh yeah pyx is in this room gotcha I'm here please help me I I all I have is daggers and a sling obviously I'm not hearing anything but I do see an axe moving and with sound separated from me I'm just going to be a little halfhazard I'm going to I'm going to swipe at the axe that is in the air and I'm going to see what happens maybe I can knock it down or something all right let's let's let's see if there's any uh logic oh great okay good yeah yeah that's good that's good that's good that and with with the with the uh if you add strength on no no that's it yeah that's that's it rip wait did The Shield just move yes so as takes out his axe to swing at an axe uh he makes contact with a shield instead that floats away from the statue and defends the axe now even though there's no sound do we feel vibrations like does the speed of sound still through the okay got it Good Vibrations Good Vibration that one I I can tell from personal experience it was not a Good Vibration uh up at the North End of the room Daz uh you are watching two old men grapple and trying and to stop or accomplish getting a bag of tea I uh uh oops sorry so I believe I uh already mentioned that I was going to roll for arousal but no actually um I I I kid of course no I as as fiercely as tooth is interest Ed in that t that is how interested I am in trying to learn both of those cantrips on the open page now I've learned one of them I tried to learn the other I failed I would like to try again uh did you roll for the second one I did and I got a five okay that that would not uh yep you can try again yeah yes fight for our lives and then we have two old men fighting over te and one guy who's trying and failing to learn spells sorry sorry the most important fight I'd have you know fighting the good fight yeah exactly come on yes yes yes you do indeed learn mess as well all right do I have do I have time to use one of those cantrips or no is it already the next person's turn uh you would spend your turn learning it okay okay and and then um it was was it tooth who was the one that that um was you know knocked flat last time yes yeah yeah okay well then I'm going to go ahead and use you know just for the heck of it because I forgot to do it previously I'm going to use my bonus action because I believe I can do this to cast a healing word um I believe healing word has a verbal component verbal components it does include the word word I I don't know if that's going to work right now so there is absolutely no sound that can be admitted admitted in here well that is if you can convey it through vibrations into my skin maybe it'll work can you sign it is that a thing you can do could you sign the word word uh if you spoke for example Dr sign yes oh unfortunate for today now I I I I do want to say I do believe that da did have line of sight to the Statue so at in the corner of his eye he might have seen the shield fly away it's right but it's directly behind me and I was very intent on the book I don't think I would have seen it okay so no more help is technically like up here with the book y oh okay is all your own kids yeah okay uh fair enough fair fair enough okay then then that will be my turn Okay uh pyre a animated Axe and shield have joined you okay um I I think trying to get away is not going to work because I am in a closed room um so like in a panic he's just going to draw a dagger and just swipe blindly at acts maybe there's like some unseen servant holding it or something I I will say from your Arcane knowledge if you think there is an un an unseen servant holding that axe it might be possible to rest it away from whatever's holding it um I am not very good at that but I could try it a strength check uh Athletics Athletics well I mean same difference for me but you can try it oh uh that's a Nat 20 um okay um wow there you go pyre you reach out and like you you are definitely fighting something but you get this Axe and it's still shaking in your hand you're pretty sure nothing's holding on to it and then it kind of comes down a little bit okay so I'm holding an The Shield is just still floating there beside you um it's not attacking the The Shield is not attacking okay um now that you are holding it oh oh okay this is a delarian word huh uh it it would be uh and if you scroll down you actually have to convince it to give it word to you uh cuz it is an Attunement item H oh okay but as long as you have it grappled it's going to stop attacking you um I I will briefly go to uh re to see what re does so now about the matter of this team uh just so just just out of Universe for a second why are we giving it a toat like am I really like going to mess with someone's uh uh Jazz here if if I pursue this tea narrative I I should also point out when I say a a bag of tea I do not mean a single satet tea bag that would be dipped I mean a bag of loose tea that could fill several cups or one very oh okay yeah one extremely concentrated large jug of tea yes okay but but no with that um in or out of universe thing why are we giv to toat why does toat need the tea what did I miss something in the setup here that we discussed I am very keen on giving it to toat because he very nearly died he took 17 damage in that last encounter and we were explicitly told that the tea was for rest and healing ah okay so in that case in that case I would like to cuz I don't know battle is Raging I would like to continue to go for the te why do I need to roll there you go again can I just say um just cuz I have some movement I while he's doing that I I we're still in Comet I'm just going to move as far as I can like one 5 10 15 20 25 30 over to here to try to get some help while I'm holding this axe yeah yeah I I could I could see myself disengaging from the te narrative if I saw that someone was in distress but right now it's all about tea right H so what what do what do I roll to try go for the tea some yeah's going to tell him anyway both of you are going to roll your Athletics okay okay so that's yeah yeah yeah as long as you can or maybe not um oh 19 tea time baby oh no so go you're you're you're like trying to get him and he like he's pushing and pushing and pushing and then like fakes out and Ducks under your arm and quickly sets the kettle to the fire no no no no no I reach into my pouch of salty confection I spray like salt in his eyes and I slitter free that's what I do that's what I do fair enough he's got his pocket sand but it's Li I mean literally all he's doing at this moment is putting the kettle over the flame so it's starting to heat up and then he's like going into the t- satel and and as you open the tea Satchel um you do get this wonderful Aroma of a black tea like a very good breakfast tea it also there is another little satchet containing a pinkish purple dust in the tea bag oh can I am I able to do some sort of check to see if I know what that is um or is or we have to wait yeah I I don't think re is liable to know what it is but uh definitely identifies it as not tea sure um raskal um you you've had some some salty confectionary uh sprayed in and around your eyes and um then tea has started to be made you you are definitely seeing there is lots of tea to go around here though there is only one cup I am very tempted to attack re he did just throw salt in my eyes I think that that is a direct Act of aggression but if I see once I managed to get the damn salt out of my eyes if I see this this mysterious not tea substance am I able to spare a moment of attention to assess what it might be yes you can roll an Arana check Conor in fact you know just for the hell of it because I haven't done this yet I am not going to roll because as it turns out I have foreseen this I I recall this from a from a dream I have had previously and in going to expend one of my two portent die which I rolled earlier which admittedly I did not roll very well with uh I got a 12 and I'm going to expend that and add my bonus so that's a total of 14 okay uh yes you have seen dust of disappearance before a dust that can be sprinkled over some individuals plural uh to make them go invisible and this very much resembles it you can quickly identify this as a dust of revealing which will either allow somebody to see invisibility or or make invisible creatures uh visible uh giving people advantage to hit them okay and um was that a uh bonus action to do that that was an uh that was just straight your knowledge so it wasn't really any action you still have your full turn um and this this um dust of revealing the invisible um how is it um packaged I guess um is it basically in what looks like a little T satchet so you could just take it out and there's there's enough for three uses in the satchet H I still don't know anything that's happening around the corner correct so well I really want toat to get this tea but I also want this dust so I'm going to grab the the satchet of of the dust and at this point I think I will try and run back towards the main body of this place so um yeah as you round the corner you see pyre coming with this like ax that keeps trying to like move away from a little bit and like there's Shield just floating beside him I I attempt to wave the axe at him but I'm probably just struggling about it on it all right uh toe Cuts wave the axe at me specifically like with the intent of hurting me no no just to get attention well obviously the action has uh has shifted out of this room that I'm in so I'm going to run over here um maybe more like here is something like that um now this Shield is following him but is it like is it intending on hurting him like is it going in or is it literally just floating behind it's just seems to be like following the axe it's not attacking it's not aggressive in any way does it have like a like a normal Shield like handles on the inside it does the inner side okay I'm just going to Lunge towards it and try and grab it so I guess I'll go a little closer you can make an Athletics check oh boy okay Athletics check moment let's see what this why okay okay so oh my god um Athletics though that's nine uh tiny tiny sorcer the uh The Shield is a little too slippery for you and you can't to it yeah God it's a little little too little too lubed up I can't get in all [Laughter] right all right um Daz um the the axe and the shield haven't come up around the corner but you do see uh rosull kind of stop in his tracks as he goes to run around the other way you still have the spell book in front of you though um so the first thing and I don't know if this is going to count as an action or not but essentially I I myself want to try to use what I've just learned with the message can trip is that possible uh once again there is a verbal component and this verbal component it uh it actually requires sound to escape your lips as opposed to just an activation of the articulators yes yes yes David and we're sure about that that's how magical silence works because of course you know if you were to just mouth a message and would activate the articulators and theoretically this would kind of magically transport itself to another person certainly they would be able to decode the activation of the articulators um I will say that if you would like to cast message without a verbal auditory component then they will receive the lip reading gestures if they have proficiency with lip breeding they can interpret it you got to be like a bone conducting headphone and you got to just put your mouth on another character's cheek and just and see if the vibrations will go through that way yo that is a baller idea like that genuine that is a great idea it's not through the medium of air so the sound will go through yeah theoretically I mean how are we breathing but I suppose it is a World of Magic is it not all right so um bearing all this in mind I turn myself about and what do I behold as I turn about um so you see Rish making some tea you see rkal uh looking towards the rest of the room that is obscured from your view uh with a bit of a puzzlement on their face um and then of course the uh giant statue blocking the archway in the north wall Okie dooke I'm going to move over there um certainly I'm not standing on the table I don't know how my character token got put there oh I moved it over cuz because we were talking about uh line of sight all right so then I'm in front of the table not on the table can we say that yep [Music] okay let's say I'm right there I've got one more movement I think okay you now see pyre and toot coming with um while The Shield is floating free though toat is trying to grab it and the axe is kind of dancing in Pyrex hands um we're having some fun uh I um it does it appear to me that uh pyak is having more success than tooth yes all right can I move on to this pillar is it just like a a fun pillar or is it a pillar pillar it is a substantial marble pillar H can I do this can I do that you can all right okay I'm going to try to help uh rest this Shield all right so you can make an Athletics check Athletics I have a plus six all right [Music] roll that's pretty good all right I don't think it stands a chance no uh it used all of its um Power to try and stay out of uh to cat's hands so you have now grappled an animated Shield once again you will need to persuade it in an area that allows vocalizations uh to reveal it's command word to you but uh and I suppose that will be another action yeah uh and also in a place that allows s sound I I guess you could probably Pur through interpretive dance or something but oh wait wait are you suggesting that I brimon could possibly persuade this thing through performance I am in fact anyway but yeah do I do this now or on a future turn uh you can do it now because all you've done this turn is [Laughter] move all right so then I am going to perform oh that's right I did sorry well I got the shield I grappled it oh yeah you grappled it but now you have to perform no fantastic very very good I am going to give this thing the absolute merest jig that my heart can conjure up and let's just double check that indeed I do have a plus 644 performance oh that's not very good is it um with with absolutely no music or or even like the rhythm of the the step giving you feedback from your dance you just you don't think your performance was great no uh py you are uh so we are essentially out of combat now but uh you are you are holding on to this ax it it's not struggling near as much but uh I don't know if you want to let it go and risk doing anything or um what I want to do cuz like I can't use an axe I'm not I'm not like going to try to uh control it but toot is right there can I like like wrench it over towards him and like gesture like for him to try to take it you can let's see okay um toot because it's being handed to you you're not going to have to roll for this one it's it's a little aggressive in your hand but eventually slows down a little bit all right all right tamed uh py you move anywhere else or um I guess um like I'm going to look around can I take a closer look into these two rooms or maybe just look into the room that I'm I'm standing beside and see if there's anything so once again this room has a locked gated front on it there is a a writing desk in the back and there is also a sort of magical creation table of some variety you see some glowing sigils on it uh clearly a workshop for creating magic items um could I can I roll an Arcana and see if like there's something I can see through the bars to to to say that that table would be helpful at all um I guess roll an investigation okay I can roll investigation 16 16 um you do see what looks like um a coin sitting on top of the Arcane table it's probably been Enchanted in some way um other than that you don't see a lot in this room there are some Scrolls but they don't from this distance look like magic Scrolls that contain incantations or anything okay um I'm going to so this is locked right it is okay I'm G to try to break into there with thieves tools again um [Music] so uh to see if do do I see what pyre is doing you do indeed yeah am I close enough to thwap him um you you could be we're not really in combat so yeah you could just kind of like take the shield and give him a flack yeah I'm going to do that and then I'm going to shake my head with a very frowny face okay and and I'm going to I'm going to be like and then continue trying to to open the door I'm going to roll my eyes and can I please use a canant trip it depends on if there's a verbal component or not do you have anything that's that's only that's no verbal it has a verbal you've got to be kidding me mage hand has a a hand the hand has a verbal component you're telling me you just learned the spell you should know this you so verbal sematic and material uh I don't see material just verbal and sematic oh really shape you psychic manifold and channel you the astral realm see you you mind in the Echo a second hand of make you the gesture the conture of while speak you these words I see this the speaking of these words part that's the that's the okay I if if I if I could cast Mage hand myself I would but I can't so are you are you going doing anything else to to stop me no I'm just going to pull up my my liar and then you see me do this okay okay oh n 20 oh wh full strum this is toai you feel the the AXS get a little aggressive again but you're still holding on to it and it calms down but the door does open okay I'm going to go in here and I'm going to grab that coin just desperately trying to figure out some way to end the the silent spell or something all right um as you pick it up uh and start to examine it raskal looking through the the bar into this room you can immediately identify what this is oh oh it's a charm of divination huh so um George would you like to roll 2 d20s please oh okay um I guess I can I can roll okay come on 20 and one okay 20 and then I will go R yo he rolled a 20 yep nice here comes one 16 wow okay so I have Okay so this works the same as his divination yes uh except once you use it once for either 20 or 16 um it's vanished now you don't have to be the one who holds this you can give it to someone else but those two roles are saved in it no I'll keep it I'll put it in my pocket okay um people I'm not hearing anybody well I first thing I want to do is I'm going to move over here because there's been commotion I'm going to leave the tea behind because I said I would do that um I can't really think of much to do other than join uh py okay in the room to see what's going on so I guess if I can just move M on over here and just have a gander at what's happening that's about it coin yeah just getting the thick action that's me is is my axe uh is it yanking me in any particular direction uh no it just it was trying to get out of your hands and it felt like it was going to attack pyre again but you were able to hold okay okay okay all right docile all right I'm going to try and through some combination of gestures um holding up the little sachche of tea that I have going to try and get Toot's attention and again you can't actually hear what I'm saying but I will be attempting to say would by my mouth movements you can probably tell I'm very emphatically telling him about this tea that this is for him oh jeez I assume that you're right in front of me at this point like you've walked over um I'm gonna I'm gonna look at you and I'm gonna like squint as you're as you're like waving this bag and I'm thinking that you found like some specimen of like dried plants or something and I'm very interested so I'm going to I'm going to walk over maybe kind of try and Tuck this axe in my pocket if it or on my belt if it'll allow me and then I'm going to grab it and I'm going to open it up start examining the leaves and see if there's anything uh see if there's anything good in there um like I I don't I don't know if anything notable happens when I do that but I am going to do that without realizing that it's you know something intended for drinking CU I just see a bag of leaves it smells really good if only someone brought some water down with them from the tea making station a I'm going to I'm just going to I'm going to smile I'm going to I'm going to take a little pinch of it and put it in a little baggie and then I'm going to hand the rest of it back to he now has opy yeah yeah exactly I'm here like looking at you guys like completely not comprehending anything that's going on with the teabag uh as far as me gesturing around the corner back to where the tea was okay so I I'll I'll take him up on that because it's like oh te's back on the card boils so I'm I'm going to move back over to here H and I'm I'm assuming the te that water is warm at this stage y y I'm going to take all the necessary equipment one might want to produce the finest cup of tea one can have and I am going to uh bring it back uh over to here and um hand it to toat and he should get the point right yeah I hope so yeah yeah at this point I'm like oh oh okay okay now soothing tea but it it doesn't have any actual healing properties despite what the Irish Nation will let you know well spiritually lies in slander okay um I'm watching them drink the tea and I'm kind of assuming that there's there's some reason for wrath doing his strange things um I'm about 5050 on breaking into places doing stuff that so re that door is still locked that's the one that had the uh my bad if you if you want to go in there I'm just about to try unlock it let me let me try unlock it for you this is the one that has the plaque on the front of it with the okay so there's so there's hieroglyphics there um looking at it does it look like I could open it or is like does is I you know what I'm going to look at the those and I'm going to motion to the wizard to come over and take a look at it because I am a little concerned this could be like a magic trap and I'm not necessarily going to try to break in immediately are these do we recognize these Hogs from before didn't we have some Hogs upon entering is there any commonality here um yes in interest of time I I will give you one similarity um when uh raskal was uh doing the the chalk grubbing of the original glyphs um these um arms stretched out this uh top left glyph is one of the ones that um became visible and that changed the the original phrase from gone astray to not gone as stray so you're reasonably sure the the outstretched arms are some sort of negation thing H okay I love the way my stone my stone T Cell sword knows about what negation is in language it's fun uh that's fifth edition you can take a feat called linguist and you immediately learn three languages sure sure how to write them speak them everything okay um so I still have that um chalk rubbing I took of the original um on the outer door um so I was going to say uh that yeah I will take that out and try to compare them and see if there's any other thing I Can Dream from them um I mean both of them contain an owl and both of them contain a cobra but without knowing what those symbols mean uh and I will say those are phonetic glyphs rather than words or anything um You probably wouldn't be able to get very far with that let me just check something no comprehend languages requires a verbal component as well uh I I will say the uh sneaky DM in me uh knowing that uh comprehend languages if you had a cast it earlier lasts for an hour I was like okay so if I give them some magic items that require Attunement that would burn out comprehend languages before they get here oh so I'm I'm going to gesture I have to actually cost a spell oh oh sorry um I'm going to gesture to pyre and just at the door to be like you know come on do something okay you know what I I'm going to since there doesn't seem to be any other way in I'm going to risk it and uh I'm just going to roll my thieves tools and see if it does anything an eight unfortunately your locks break off your picks break off in the walk so I I would like to seeing that pyre has failed I would like to just try and hit it in true fighter style if that's okay I'm going to batter with a cve let's see how we get on uh again what's our rooll for that sorry um so that'll be the D20 roll plus your strength modifier in your uh proficiency bonus okay right wait wait wait wait wait wait strength modifier plus my proficiency bonus that's plus one plus two okay it's plus three yeah yep sounds reasonable what was that uh it's a 13 so you can roll damage okay and that's uh 1 d10 minus 1 d10 minus one roll oh sorry sorry is that right no that is right if if you have a negative one modifier so um yeah you you put a a slight little chip in the wooden plaque but it doesn't seem to have done a lot of damage I've also like slightly put out my hip cuz I'm really old so now I'm like limping a little bit I should have made your model older that's what you get throwings my eyes tast Daz I see you moving up there and as you're kind of looking around you see a few more hieroglyphics on the door behind the uh the big statue well how about that let's go over and give this a closer examination all right you can roll in your investigation let's see nothing Lads can we get out of the St study hall and get to the final battle before that's pretty good could I ask agma to to put down the picture just so I see all the roles and stuff like the chat if that's okay thanks man um Daz a very familiar set of sigils is on the door behind this statue the Statue itself looks like it could be moved but um would be pretty difficult to do so um but you're your Arcane feeling looking at these sigils and how they were the password to get into the um the tower itself is if you could somehow complete this phrase you would be magically whisked to the highest portion of the Tower yeah uh indeed that is the um that is the beginning of it and we know what the end of it is MM cannot speak you can't speak but you can write okay uh what who it says convinced me I'm going to uh walk over to this door because I don't I'm going to check really quick I don't think I have any thieves tools um you might be able to remember if I do uh I don't suppose to disguise kit has uh any thieves Tools in it it does not no no all right so I am going to walk over to this door and gently but firmly push the old man aside who are you calling old but sir I said nothing okay all right and then um I'm going to I'm going to search my feelings to figure out what the best way is to bash this door in uh if you had a very big club or a battering ram although it does look pretty sturdy uh I mean I've I've got an an unequipped mace in my equipment yeah you could try with the mace okay I'm going to take out my uh my 4B mace and I'm going to give that a swing now I'm not attacking so like can I use Athletics with this or what do you recommend is it just general strength I I mean it is just a bash but you're still going to roll damage and it's a matter of doing enough damage to literally break the iron okay so then this is an act so this is an attack it is yeah okay attack it is um um you'll have to excuse me here I uh just one second using and then okay okay all right all right so then I've got hold on a sec yeah no this is just to hit right R D20 + 6 uh um I'm going no I can't I can't um that is enough to hit because you're just literally hitting the broad side of a burn uh but now you can roll damage okay the damage is well just wait a sec 1d6 + 4 hey okay um you you give it a good crack and you know brush off a a little bit of the cating but it it doesn't seem like you're having much of an effect on the metal it would take a harder swing than that to uh get through iron okay wait just so humor me here for a second we we we we absolutely need to speak like we need to try and find a way to speak can we not just like there's no nothing like we can just write this phrase I'm I say I think oh they can't hear you how can we so of course sorry but you can mind that so has da had found any way to like figure out to to like tell us I guess he he can't tell us what he found out about the Statue I can I can grab you I can grab them like if we're out of combat and out of turn order can I like go and tap each of them and take them to the Statue and point right you can all right all right everybody all right all right oh okay okay so I'm going to look at the Statue and we see that the the phrase the that there's something and would we would we all do we need to roll anything to know to like come up with the same idea that he had that you have to complete it somehow can I try performance again uh yes you can I'm going to uh try to perform for you oh God it really I I'm really naturally a singer my my my dragon born what I'm going to do is I'm going to kind of point to the top phrase point to the middle word and then put like a little box around the bottom where I attempt to indicate indicate that there should be glyphs there and then point to my head indicating remember when we and then point to everybody remember when we all saw this okay I'm going to I'm going to do I'm going to try to like pull the plaque off of this door oh no can I try that uh after DA's performance CU he he he did drag you away to try and show you this okay uh uh was that an eight Dez yes yeah okay uh it's not your best game of Charades ever but um and apparently you've lost one audience member cuz pyre drifted away but I I think you've gotten the general impression I do have a crowbar okay with a crowbar you can you can pull the plaque off the door okay I'm going to pull the plaque off and I'm going to put it up in the Statue underneath the other thing I'm going to shake my head and face palm that is communicated loud and clear and uh the result of tyre's actions um have already been interpreted by Daz okay uh I I would like to be prodding again I'm sorry bib's character um trying to make some sort of reference to the sketches he had made earlier um possibly pointing up where he stored them um yeah I have my character has an inkling that maybe there's something in that that is I was going to say I'm going to get the lithographs out that I've made and try and put them up against the uh the markings on the Statue and specifically the um remind me the original ones the the one that we found on the door the outside of the tower are identical to the ones on this statue correct okay um and that was um what was the specific phrasing for it again not gone astray but gone away so not gone astray but is visible there and then if you uh transfer the chalk back on that is not my intended way to get through this but I think that will actually work uh while I move you guys to the next map I will say if you had have kept exploring the uh mag's spell book you would have found that uh the mold Earth spell does not require a verbal component and can engrave in stone uh now come here did did we end up solving that for like you know time constraint reasons or was that actually like because he actually had like he had chalked it and then so when when he pushes back up and like puts the chalk on it it does right put the words there where it was needed so I take full credit also there was a table there was a table with a writing implement we could have just gone and written it on there but yeah your your tokens will be around this fire in the bottom right of the map okay yes um and for reasons of time I'm just going to immediately start initiative oh oh okay um where's there's a fire can't see the fire yeah I can't see the fire oh I'm we're this go next to next to do okay why are we this is not the desert this is not the desert this map where are we big we've been yed okay once again I have rolled can we speak very low on speak again oh okay oh that feels good oh goodness so when I when I gain the ability to speak I turn I turned to Roos call and I said and I say to him good sir care to sample [Music] my scales well I was relieved that I could could speak again but now I'm noty the problem is we can hear that's the problem yeah instant regret instant regret let's go back uh toat can youe that the dragon K are not as wise as yes yes yes put your put yourself on there do let's see that is going to be a 12 woo woo the best number the only time I get decent away all right um as you arrive through this um rudimentary campsite fire rather than a hearth this time you do find yourselves in uh very much not desert it's a a green area with uh a ruined building just to the Northwest there there is a broken bridge although there's enough left that it might allow you to jump over the river um and you get the the sense that you've been moving through pocket Dimensions basically in this Tower anyway so this is just another of the Wizards Creations um he did say go to the above places drink some tea and then replace the tablet and sort of as you appear and start looking around and uh realizing that uh your instruments make music your your voices are are audible again a little chant from somewhere northish of you comes but you don't see the individual as it in a very rough U sort of high-pitched voices T and you get the sense that it's almost mocking but um obviously anyone who speaks draconic knows that this literally says I see you I hear you I watch you I listen to you oh my um good thing I don't speak that do would I so I I know draconic and I use it for my spells would I recognize that as a spell incantation uh certainly sounds like one to you though it's not a spell you're familiar with okay okay me as a person that knows it but pyck doesn't know it yes uh so Daz um we are in initiative right away yeah we're initia order so I'm goingon to let da go first continue fantastic I would remind one and all that I am wearing the boots of elen kind and so my movements cannot be heard and I'm going to take this one step further and I believe that this is correct I believe I can cast this on myself can I cast invisibility on myself you can indeed yeah then I'm going to go ahead and do that and now I cannot be seen or heard all right uh do you take any movement right now or do you just use invisibility and stay put no go ahead and move let's see four five I'll put myself right there okay toot your Muses not anymore all right well while I am tempted to uh examine some of the plant life around here I uh I think at least for the time being I'm going to have my my little uh santian axe at the ready but I'm going to just kind of creep up this way same same distance over here but I can be heard so that's not great uh your your sentient ax can't be used with its magical properties until you attune to it that takes about an hour but you you can still swing it as it magical axe it's still an axe with a personality yep um so all you've done is moved you could double move if you wanted to or you could take any actions uh if anything else I will examine some plants on the ground nearby see if there's anything interesting okay um so then you can roll a nature investigation check please okay all right fine all right investigation great all right um that is going to be a 10 love it um yeah as you pick up like some of the vegetation it just kind of turns to dust in your hand like it's it's dying instantly and it you have never seen a natural plant work like that interesting dust does this dust remain or does it kind of vaporize Into The Ether well as you kind of like pick it up it's just like turning almost a sand in your hand and like as you rub your fingers together it falls back down in between the blades of grass does it te it doesn't te guys this grass doesn't [Laughter] tea SC right so in the interest of actually yeah somehow I've made it this far into the game without costing any spells so as soon as we arrive in this new location and once I've taken in the fact that we seem to be in this strange you know outdoor pocket Dimension I am going to kneel and we take out my load Stone amulet and I'm going to inone a single word of poweru and as I do that I shall cast the detect magic spell oh uh very nice um I have to quickly look that up to see what information you do get um I can sense the presence of magic within 30 ft of me um if you sense magic in this way you can use your action to see a faint Aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic and you learn at school of magic if any yeah um all right so uh looking around you Ral uh literally everything um within your 30 foot gaze is magical and while you do get a a very strong Aura of conjuration which would explain the the pocket Dimension you also get an aura of Illusion uh you can make an investigation check as well yes please investigation uh I don't think that's going to be good enough but that's a nine okay um yeah there there is definitely some illusion going on here but you're you're failing to see exactly what the illusion is uh do you move I am yeah I'm going to move uh North to be um keep in mind you can't see or here Dez but but I can see you and I can hear you pyre presumably I see Daz disappearing um actually detect magic yes yeah you you can see the illusion you can see an AA yeah so yeah you're right so um all right would he have bib would you have communicated like that this place is an illusion or I don't know um um I don't think I know quite that much yet um I maybe was AUST by just The Gleam of magic about this entire place okay but I would not have overtly said anything about any Illusions yet and you've heard reference to the fact that the grass does not indeed tea it's important okay um so I'm going to take a uh a a a hint from Daz and I am also I'm going to say get getcha and I will also be invisible okay um and I guess I have to manually do my spells slots and then I am going to be um I'm not going to I'm you guys are bunching up I'm not going to I'm not going to be bunched up with you guys but I'm going to go over like here okay and you know what I'm going to retroactively say that when I become invisible I say uh no there we go no that's the that's the stress pattern there we go yeah I mean all my name is valy nice list so mine mine says I am unseen what what is yours translate as it means uh in order to not be seen in the future okay or not to be seen yeah so like do not see no not be seen oh not to be SE okay uh re uh right um so I am going how how many how much distance can one cover with an ordinary thing uh six squares and then you can double move for another six if if needed uh yeah will you let me is there any chance I could Dash and maybe jump over the bridge to the other side it's kind of 12 kind of little bit absolutely yeah okay cool cool cool oh go do do I need to do some sort of uh checky thing to get like over the bridge or do we just assume my my awesomeness will make it happen your awesomeness will make this happen and my pleasure for you to do so okay okay so please I'm somewhere here ready to cause chaos oh chaos abounds how tall is re uh re he's 1.75 CM uh not 1.75 sorry sorry that's not what I meant to say what 1.75 m he like of the Chapstick like 6' two no no it's like 59 59 okay 59 59 510 yeah okay in the wrong units of measurement just yeah I'm kiding Canadian and I'm still going feed on this one I know I know um right so um re you run and you jump and everybody just watches as re sinks up to his shoulders in solid Stone like he just disappears and then even his head disappears um re you have just landed in quicksand there was no bridge on the other side uh and only your shoulders and head are out of the quicksand so you are still able to call out but um to everyone else you have disappeared under a bridge or wow so can can I just call out that there is danger here to everyone you can yeah whatever you'd like to say yeah D no tea here no no no bad here is bad oh no I don't think there's any tea anywhere in here so do time in universe and say well done proesa who of course was the first one to jump off the boat uh that reached that reached Troy and of course as prophesied the first to jump off the boat was the first to die so well done oh okay I I knew what I was doing I knew what I was doing I mean we'll we'll see Noble s cause we'll see if that bears out um toot would you like to do a wisdom save please oh the who that that that's not a good that's not a good portant um these th these th hate you man it's toot in your mind via telepathy you hear a voice run jump and save your friend and this seems absolutely perfectly reasonable to you since you just failed the save and throw on suggestion good on your next turn you will be running and jumping as well yeah don't worry I'm coming I'll check for T join me on the Beach Jazz goodness gracious me um I'm going to uh obviously not run and jump over the bridge that would be fool hearty um but I'm going to step over to the shore right here um and um without you know actually dipping a toe in I just want to examine the water and I don't know if I need to roll something for this you can tell me if I do but like is it rushing very hard is it very deep can I just walk across it all give me an investigation check sure I don't have a bonus for that 15 okay as you run your um I guess you're just looking and the the water seems a little inconsistent to you and your your senses are are getting different things like your eyes say this is a fast moving River but your ears are going um no if anything it's it's standing still and as this disbelief takes you this entire terrain melts away uh the hallucinatory terrain um no longer affects you and you can see you are in fact in standing in a complete desert there is in fact still a ruined Cottage there there is still a fireplace there but there is no River whatsoever and you can see the two patches of quicksand perfect okay and um oh goodness uh I you now also re's head hello oh good let's let leave so um with with um the message can trip is um can I I I could only send a message to one person is that right um I believe that's correct but if you cast a spell your invisibility goes away you're absolutely right can you can you not just shout though David can you just yell yeah I can it will reveal my location temporarily but I suppose I could anyway I think it's worth it here I'll I'll still stay invisible just in case but I say friends this entire place is an enchantment except for the cottage Yonder we stand in the desert at present if you follow me precisely you will be safe and they can't see you to follow you precisely oh gosh darn it that's if you uh if I you know what I say if you follow my voice you will be safe I'm following another voice are you uh moving any further Daz you know what um why not let's just uh why uh I'm going to I'm going I'm going to move um I'm basically going to move directly into the river and that is where I'm going to uh call out come to me you know me you trust me you love me and I'm going to go ahead and use persuasion on that where I have a plus eight I mean yeah you you guys definitely um trust him it's up to us whether we let the persuasion affect us right it is indeed um however it is to cat's turn and uh toat has not been dissuaded of his previous uh suggestion yeah well I'm going to go I'm I'm going to go dive in and look for some tea you know it's yeah boy got got got to do what I got to do I'm coming in for that tea here I come going to find out the truth yeah no I'm yeah and how tall is uh toot yeah how tall is toot I am 5 foot 10 okay so you're uh up to your shoulders uh beside re as well great nice do I feel contented by my choice or has the spell kind of worn off um you you have now uh followed the suggestion and that is the end of it um R um at the beginning of your turn you sink an additional 3T you now have your hands above the sand if you reach up I hope you're holding your breath wait wait r no no no I did I did get that mixed up sorry um L re re oh my just my hands are above the the the side yeah you sunk another three feet like you can try and pull yourself up if you want but uh it's not his turn yet though yeah sure wait from my turn yeah yeah it's it's ral's turn sorry so that that sinking will happen later that's what happened when I messed up the names yeah it's R skel's turn right um oh you know what I just as my bonus action as you listen to me just listen and just you know as to to convey my my location to those go ahead yeah ra SK you can keep going right so this this river is still apparent to me uh you do see it however you do see that it is illusory enchantment as is everything around and I can see that Rish and toat are currently stuck in see quicksand or does it just look like normal Earth to me it looks like they fell right through the bridge on the other side so you can't see them at the [Music] moment well if I can't see them then I can't help them so I'll just go over to Where Da is why I Mo we go do I need to roll to follow the sound of dazes no I think you can follow it [Music] well okay um I if there are any other auras within 30 ft of me that I gain by moving um I become aware of those but other than that uh you could do an investigation to see if there's anything else around but magically no I will definitely do that investigation [Music] 13 13 all right um you do see uh just up here on the corner of the cottage kind of peeking out this long skinny gaunt creature with string like hair and teeth like an anglerfish uh looking uh towards where your friends jumped across the river and drooling with hunger I will uh alert everyone to this okay I will point and there there a foe and I will well that's I assume that's all the actions I can do on this turn unless you have a bonus action I do not so okay then it is Pyrex turn pyre you have been alerted to the location of the fiend yeah just a quick question does um does he now uh does uh does r does he see through everything now does he know that I mean everybody knows they're in the desert but can they see what I see can he see what I see no a 13 isn't strong enough to break the illusion but it is good enough to see that the creature was hiding physically okay cool okay so so I saw the the two of these guys just disappear through a bridge and I know like intellectually that all I'm seeing is an illusion but I haven't broken through it right you can roll your investigation to try and break through it I can do that well I'll do that let's go [Music] investigation a one yeah yeah this magic is strong and has captivated your senses okay well if since I can't see anything I'm my only clue is is dad's playing his instrument so I'll just go 1 2 3 4 5 6 just as far as I can go up toward that um and hang out then okay uh re now at the start of your turn you start sinking another three feet um AMZ am I am I close enough I can try and pull myself up correct you can try yes it is would I be close enough to try and use tall cat as leverage no wait a second as wait wait say say that again Joey H how would you like to like you're literally just going to use him as something to climb on yeah like I press down his head and force myself like head off for um I love the sacrifices you are willing to make for the party uh yes if you want to do that you'll get advant on a strength check to try and Free Yourself great okay so strength check is uh I think that's a plus wait that can't be right oh sorry point point of order hold on point of order Joey um on the on the character sheet on Roll 20 is the modifier on the far left of the character sheet the big giant numbers yes uh the mod fire is the oh you have a minus one to strength I do yeah because 75 yeah yeah so D20 minus one D20 minus one and I roll a bage so I can roll two of them yeah you can oh God okay so I roll the seven there's a 75y old man trying to CL either a two or a four so uh no you're you're yep he's trying to climb up you but not making any Headway okay um can I wait does Bic inspiration count as a spell no it is a bonus action but people have to be able to see or hear you I think I can hear him sound's not sound proof we're definitely true true true so on your turn I I mean you did say you were playing um as a bonus action were you wanting to give someone vertic inspiration well I suppose this is a game question does baric inspiration can I essentially just use it whenever or is it the type of where I have to decide ahead of time you're going to get Bic inspiration at some point um you give Bic inspiration on your turn as a bonus action and a person can use that b Bon sorry baric inspiration day at any point of their choosing within the next 10 minutes okay okay then I I think it makes sense to give one of those to um our first friend who has jumped in um toov you're on your own you you knew what going on I have no sympathy for you okay so I give one I now expended two of my bar Inspirations I give you one of them so feel free to use it um and in case you don't know what that is um uh that you can add it to one ability check attack roller saving throw you can basically add 1d6 1d6 yeah uh I'm going to go ahead and do that if that's okay um slightly metagaming but do you want to do that on really bad roles or would you like to wait for your next turn no I would like to action Surge and do the same thing again oh nice hell yeah oh God God this is not good I'm I'm going to do so that's uh two 2D2 correct correct 2D2 minus one on David and let me tell let me tell you something about Bic inspiration you can wait to use it until after you see the role correct but before you know what the result of that role is so if you think it's a good role you don't have to use your Bic inspiration yeah cool okay excent right here we go we're rolling so you either have a 13 or you can add a D6 to that it's up to you i' have a 13 or add a D6 to that I'll add D6 that let's let's sense let's try let's try a d the D6 uh plus zero just straight D6 straight D6 a raw D6 some might say all right five you are s you are 7t in the sand and you have just rolled in 18 which means that you have clawed your way out wait a second and what happens to me uh you you you get later sucker all all over you and then oh God yeah um you still have movement of available cuz you action surged and you still have a bonus action so whatever you want to do re uh yeah I will uh can I go like over here that far I don't know where over here is but oh sorry over here um I wouldn't recommend walking directly back into the quicksand uh you go around I have to go around so I have to go out here out here somewhere like and Trace the perimeter six squares okay okay hold on so is something like that okay that's five squares you can do one more perfect let's go yeah let's just go here delightful and then I don't think I need to do anything as a bonus action my goal in life has been achieved done okay um love you agma yeah love you too artif effect sure you do shed sheds a tear in the corner all right um seeing that you escaped and you seem quite formidable in your your ability to claw yourself out from so deep this adversary doesn't like that he speaks into your mind and uh re if You' give me a wisdom save please uh yeah uh again that's using the far left column um no yes slightly to the right and up I'm just opening your sheet so you have a plus two to your wisdom yeah thank you 12 all right so that's a total of 14 um you can now consider yourself Charmed this uh this lovely individual hiding up here is a perfectly reasonable friend there is no reason to attack him absolutely we can have te don't have to listen yeah you don't have to listen to what he says like he can't command you or anything but you you are disinclined to attack him absolutely why will be yeah Daz you notice a mood change in r whereby he he looks at this person uh hiding up there and it's kind of like hey yeah this guy looks pretty cool and it is your turn so I am still invisible and nobody can hear me or at least nobody can hear my movements they can hear when I talk or play um how close do I need to get to this thing to be able to do I don't know an Arcana or history check so that I can figure out what the heck it is um I think looking at it you would line it up with the sketches that were in the first floor of this Tower and it is one of the vadil a type of the vad a cannibalistic Fay or flesh rending Fay and is this something that I would have learned about for the first time or is it something that would be well known to me if I were to do some sort of check uh this is the first time you've encountered it and you only learned about it from the the books below understood so uh how would everybody like for me to swing for the fences how Okay God hold on a sec let me just uh range 30 ft okay um so let's see yeah that's this should be good enough all right I'm going to uh break my invisibility an attempt to cast suggestion on this thing okay no suggestion on a fay I'm not sure if that's gonna let him cook let C so um my CU yeah my spellcasting ability is my Charisma correct yeah it is and so I roll a Charisma and my okay this is what it says at the top of my sheet modifier plus4 spell attack plus 6 and then save dc14 which of those do I apply to my Charisma role um I will say before you get into this and and pyre is hinting at it um from reading the material downstairs and understanding that this is a fay uh because suggestion is a charm you think it might be immune you can try it but well this is that that is essentially what I was trying to figure out if I could figure out all right fine you know what then I am just going to um I'm not going to do that but I'm just going to go put myself as because I can do like a double move right is that right you can yeah I'm just gonna I'm just going to park myself right behind it um stop playing off obviously uh I'm just going to sit right there for the time being still invisible I and still wearing my boots of Elvin kind which means I make no sound when I'm moving correct all right uh toot you were 3et in you sink another one foot oh good what would you like to do oh man all right well I uh does that animated ax does it have its own independent survival Instinct since it's not attuned to me like is it trying to escape uh it doesn't seem to be at the moment it's just kind of in your hands h h okay okay well I don't have too much good stuff with me um how about I mean I could just try to just Brute Force wriggle my way out of there I do have pretty good strength you are a barbarian I I I am I am a rather strong individual um I'm GNA do it and oh you know what honestly I think this might be the situation for that I I'm going to do it I'm going to rage and I'm going to try and make as much noise as possible while I do this to potentially signal the others that I am indeed trapped though uh some people already know all right well here we go rage mode we're gaming let's see what all right Advantage Advantage advantage hey there we go survival swim through the quick sand and pull yourself out the other side you still have movement left if you want to move oh man I'm going to I'm going to I'm going to run up quite confrontationally over to uh to artifa sian's character wherever he is I'm going to be like hm you wanted to collect tea together huh he's he's he's not up there that is your adversary but that's probably a good place to go to that is true that is true I will say that from a distance as I go up to this point here um because it is your turn and I know you are the one with the the tightest time constraint how important is it that we finish up incredibly quickly I it would be better it would be better I mean I could justify going a little longer um uh but preferably a little fast okay um I'll say if we don't kind of wrap up some majority of things by the time it comes back to your turn then maybe we'll end a little narratively and I'll do a a cinematic readout of what might have happened okay oh God all right uh rkal okay I am going to continue across the non River to like there okay and can I see this creature from from this Vantage Point yes it's no longer hidden because uh tokat has quite clearly pointed it out it does it appear hostile like does it look like it's about to like thrash around and attack oh yeah it absolutely wants to eat toot great I will lay down my pack rumage through it for a moment and pull out a spell scroll and hastily unraveling it and reading through the text that is scrolled on it I will raise a hand and point towards where this creature is and Shout May the rats eat your eyes as I cast blindness ah uh what kind of save is that so it is a uh Constitution saving throw of DC 12 uh that's what I have on the dice so that is not going to work o oof uh any bonus actions that case um NOP still don't have any of those so the spell scroll I assume just bursts into flames and disappears at that point I have used it it is a a blank piece of parchment now pyre okay so in the interest of like getting done I'm going to be so let's see one two three four five um if I move here am I safe uh you will not be in the quicksand in that square yes okay do am I aware of where the quick sand is I'm just kind of heading in the same direction as these people yeah you you watched where toot uh emerged back up from okay so I have some idea there's something dangerous there but okay I'm going to say I need to get close to this thing um so let's see um 30t so 5 10 15 20 25 yeah I can easily get there um I'm not going to go Okay so okay so I am going to cast uh I'm going to go here um no I can't do that well I can get adjacent to it and and and do something so I'm going to to I'm going to do this this I'm going to say j g cha and poof I'm over here now um and that's a bonus action and I can still do a c trip when I do that correct so I'm going to to like my I got my hands out and I'm going to say um uh and try to touch it so that's a 15 to hit that does indeed hit okay so and then what is the the damage is just 1d8 okay um and okay so it takes five damage and it uh cannot um it cannot take any reactions during this turn uh re okay so I am going to get out a my light crossbow uh and I'm going to Ping him I'm assuming I can ping him from here um and are are you not uh a friend of this guy who's just been attacked you're still Charmed right oh yeah yeah but hold on I'm not um what's the word um I can still see under compulsion right I can still see that all of my mates here are attacking this person I'm like okay maybe there's something I'll give you another wisdom save okay okay so what what's that just a plain 20 oh no 20 plus minus one [ __ ] oh sorry no plus two plus two wisdom NT sorry um okay me uh an 11 yeah you don't know why they're attacking this guy um is there anything you could do without just shooting him okay I or or do you have a rationel to shoot him even though he's a friend not with that role no in that case all I'm going to do is I'm going to just run up uh getting into the mix somewhere here maybe and just see what's going on further yeah I'm not I won't okay um as if uh confirming everyone else uh suspicions although not yours re the uh V goes for toot with two big claw swipes oh good wait I thought it couldn't take actions uh it can't take reactions no no reaction attack of opportunity or things like that um so the first one will definitely miss uh and the second one um is a 23 so I'm sure that will hit love it but you're raging so this cuts it in half so three and half is only one damage nice I like the sound of that did that te in the previous room heal me at all or okay all right just check it um had to make sure Daz it is your turn all right I'm going to move right here for a very specific reason uh I'm going to cast Thunder Wave and since I'm neither seeing or heard can I get advantage on this role yes absolutely all right Thunder Wave it is at level two so okay uh you're G to get hit me and toat with that no he can select which 15 which 15ot Cube oh okay yep yeah so um it's uh if I can ping wait how do I do this that's the left Edge that's the right Edge and then that describes the square that's why I moved to my left um okay do I have to roll anything for this or does it just happen and you try to save it happens and I roll a con save uh which I fail so it's full damage and he is knocked prone yes and also I think hit like moved from me from us yeah um he has nowhere to go so he's going to take damage from hitting the wall that you're pushing him into oh got it all right so then this is going to be a 3d8 since it's done at level two nice goodness gracious that's extra well that at least oh all right um and then as uh as um a bonus action I'm going to use one of my first level um healing word spots to heal Toth uh it's not a uh you can only do two spells if one of them is a can trip they can't be leveled spells well it says in bonus a actions that I can do a spell no this is this is like a weird rule if you if you cast if you cast a spell as a bonus action then the only other thing you can cast is a cantrip that has a Cas in time with one action huh it's a it's that's weird yeah you can give baric inspiration if you want but um we're probably going to end right after Toot's turn just in the interest of I'm absolutely my bic inspiration to toath oh God yeah see if we can legitimately take it out all right I've got a good axe I'm in Rage mode I've been given inspiration um what does the inspiration do for me is that also a D6 additional yep yeah oh good and I would remind everybody that we have a coin that can make any roll of 20 that's right that would be helpful if I had access to such a coin um I I have so here's here's the thing you know what um since we're just going to end it after this don't even roll I I I touched the coin and I foresaw I saw you cleaving into this thing with a with an axe you you did roll a 20 all right we're not get a roll damage toot how do you want to do this oh my God Deus xming a moment all right so I so I've I've come tumbling out of this sand swimming out of the sand sprinted up to it I'm going to grab I'm going to grab this Axe and I'm going to do a jumping lunge towards it and I'm going to scream there was no tea and and uh get him a good uh chop straight through the old Cranium yeah boy all right all right fat removes the top half of the B's head and as the corpse pummels down uh Daz notices that his Thunder Wave shook something loose where it been hiding in the mortar of the building and it is a great golden tablet you do a little investigating around and with um rosal's detect magic going you eventually notice that there is something in the sky um I don't know who actually picked up the dust of revealing but whoever did that flings it upward and reveals the entrance to a uh hidden area um Daz or Pyrex someone with Mage hand eventually searches that area with the Mage hand and pulls down the rope from a rope trick spell allowing you to climb up and restore theore tablet to the top of the Beacon House you have halted the advance of the red wastes yeah woo yeah baby okay whoops all right and we I oh there we go here we [Music] go oh we're not the same C [Music] [Applause] [Music] GG now you can see my shirt okay yes [Music] it's already too late that's awesome [Music] [Music] [Music] okay all right thank and uh thank you guys for coming on that was really great and uh I think we all got a chance to uh I I I will say for the audience so like my spells were when when I was shouting spells that that was in Daga and then um you were um bi bib was doing elwi which is one of his languages uh and then uh was although I didn't get to use it too much but that's fine yeah I think but I think it was pretty effective especially since you like described like what you did casting the Spells but anyway that's all for this and thank every thank you all for watching and um uh for for my part tongues and runes is still continuing and I'm still working Onaga because I need to finish doing the writing system uh we get a I got two more C trips to do on stream and then finish the writing system so come back next week for that and 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