So, yes, I would say that Luna, you would be able to navigate to, yeah, just that old rugged old tavern, and he would normally probably be lurking around out there. It would be around, I'd say, mid-afternoon, about now, like one or two o'clock. And it doesn't take a lot of looking around. Before you do find a kind of bear, someone wearing kind of a purplish bear skin of some kind, and he's kind of hunched over and clearly whispering with an orc next to him who seemed to catch you guys in the corner of his eye, kind of turns around and then starts to walk away, and the human just kind of, it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're all done. Come on. And you all see, I will put in the group chat, this man, I'll put it in the general in here. He just kind of brushes off his coat and just his arms and just looks at you, hands on his hips. Well, look who's here. Did you really have to go and blow that job for me? I didn't do anything. Whatever you did probably scared him off. I simply walked in. I see you've got new friends here. Hey, colleagues, friends is a strong word. Howdy. I am offended. I mean, you're the exception. Well, it's rare you ever come to me just to say hi. What do you want, Luna? We were hoping that you might have heard about a certain group, and I sit myself down at the table and drop my voice a bit lower. He folds his arms. Well, there's lots of groups in Chester City. Which one? It's called the Protectors. Yeah, heard of them. Like to roam around. What about them? Yeah, then, heard that they're up to something, but trying to figure out exactly what that is. Now, I was curious as if your rats had heard anything after all. They seem to occupy the same spaces as the Protectors. These cratches are chinabit. They may have heard something, but I'm not one to give information away freely. There we go. What? Name your price. What do you want? Or what do you need killed? Or what trinket do you want? I want something in the place that they're going, and I think you know where they're going. Enlightening. I need your word that you can get it for me, and he puts out his hand. I'd be very interested in knowing what the thing is before I shake your hand. Give me a persuasion. Yay! Good start. Decent. Hey!  Well, Mr. Witchtaker, if you must know, I would like one of these things, a little orb called a Warford Soul. You see, it's a very strong conduit of power. On its own, it can't really power much aside from a Warford, it can't even make it sentient. But to the right buyer, it can be something far greater. A Warford Soul? Aye. It's about a fist large orb-like made of steel, looks like it's got runes on it. And you're positive there's going to be one that we're going to be able to bring back to you? At least a few. Maybe some out of commission. Some broken down. Doesn't much matter to me, what condition it is. I can get someone to fix it. Fine. And I'll reach out to shake his hand. Yep, he takes it, firm. And with one simple shake, you've got a deal. So, and he leans in. Words out at the protectors have a new accomplice. One that they haven't really had in their ranks normally. A human. No. Any names? Hmm, didn't quite get one. They didn't let, my rats didn't hear any of that. Description?  Green hair. Does he wear a mask? Yeah, what exactly does the mask look like? Hmm, didn't wear a mask, covered his face with a hood. Then how did you see his green hair? Saw his chin, had a beard. Oh, wonderful. Little stubble, very well-kempt. And let me guess, smooth talker. Oh, very smooth. Tip them off to the Warforge factory, because otherwise, that sort of game is not really Castile's size, but he gave them some sort of guarantees that he would make sure they could get what they needed down there. I just look at the others. We, Renee, just kind of rubbed her temple a little bit and was like, all right, well, exactly would they be? Where are we going to find them? Well, he leans back and kind of rests his head against his hands, kind of folded behind his head. As long as you make sure that they don't go inside the one remaining entrance of the Warforge factory, you should be fine. Maybe you could lay a stake out, put some traps down. They do like to be direct. And from what I remember, the Protector's magic is more flashy. They don't do a lot of espionage, lots of flying, not lots of teleporting. So even if they wanted to go in, I don't think any of Castile's mage's know how. So they'd be running straight into your trap. No one else they would be. We just have to expect them at the Warforge. That seems a little too simple. He shrugs his shoulders. That's all I know. They expect to go there at dusk. Simple doesn't always mean bad. Simple solutions are how I've taken down some of my biggest gain. And simple answers usually have high prices. What do you intend to do with these souls? Or more importantly, what do you intend your buyers to do with these souls? Oh, I don't know for sure. I just wait for opportunity to fall on my lap. I know those things are valuable and I know someone's going to want them. Yes, and what if Luna isn't capable of getting them? He shrugs his shoulders. Well, then she's probably dead. And if there aren't any in this factory, there isn't a secondary payment I can bring you. Hmm, something shiny. He just shrugs, he just puts one hand off to the side and lifts a side of his lip. It's bound to be something valuable in there. I'm sure I can accommodate that. Yes, yes, I'm sure we can find something. Plenty of collectors here in this city. They want what's down there. I'll do it, I can. But also understand that I need to make sure I don't get arrested either. That I cannot guarantee for you. Well, no, I'm telling you that I'm not jeopardizing my safety for a trinket for you. Hmm, very well. You haven't strayed me wrong so far. What have I got to lose? Thank you. Bring me back a nice appelt next time I'm in touch, sir. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and next time could you at least make sure that I'm finished with my current client? Like I said, I just walked in the door clearly it was something you said and I'll start walking out. When you walk out and you see that the orc was waiting outside, you can recognize that this is one of the orcs that you actually beat up in the bar fight when you encountered Robert.  Oh dear, I've got no qualm with you.  It's your boss that I'm going to kick the arse off next time I see him. You're fine.  You're going to have to tell me this directly on the way. Oh, there was a reason I was late. We got in a bit of a fight. Oh, that explains a lot. I feel like Renee would be like go on as I like continue outward. Just like, story time. Now, she'll tell you the story as we go. Just like, you know. So you guys heading back to the mech factory then. Or rather, not the Warforge factory. I keep calling you back. I suppose so. Just to be sure. I mean, if it's really a part of their mission, then they would eventually have to go back to it. Yeah, just to be sure. We went to this man for information and the information he gave us was go back to the place that we just came from to get to him and wait. And not he, they were working with Bloodstride. They're working with Bloodstride. And that there aren't magicians who necessarily can get in. Like they, they aren't very good at espionage. They're more flashy. So like, basically giving us the information of, if they really want to get in there, they are going to have to get past us anyway. There's no way that they can do their plan. Like, not necessarily, but like, yeah. There's no way that they can really like, sneak their way in there for there. So they have to like, show up. Understood. In any case, on the price that they have asked for, I don't expect that we're going to be giving it to them. No, not at all. And you're fine with losing a contact like that. Oh, sorry I interrupted you. And you're fine, and you're fine with losing a contact like that. Oh no, I have other ways I can pay that back. I don't think he even begins to understand the gravity of what he asked me. I'm, I'm not happy to help with giving him a little bit of something shiny.  And that might actually make me lose my clients. Listen, we have work around. Sometimes I can't always bring him back what he wants. And there's no way a coward like that's going to go sculking around in the factory to look for himself. So, this, this alliance between the protectors and bloodstrive does make me a little upset.  It jeopardizes one of the plans that I had. But the reality means that we just have to deal with one thing instead of two separate entities. Honestly, I'm happy to see the protectors gone. They give sell sorts like me a bad name. Hmm. All right. Uh, yeah. So on your way, you eventually make it back to the entrance and you can see that, uh, Kuro is just like entire maw on the leg of a Kenku while he is being held down by both Scorpio and Magnus. And the Kenku is just kind of struggling. Is this, is this who I think it is? It is. You recognize that it is Robert. And, uh- Down boy. Down. No, no. Let me deal with this. Hey, let me. Oh, no. Show me the bird. It's you. There he is. Oh, my god. Oh, yeah. Bird. Bird. Bird. And, uh, Scorpio kind of has him in a headlock while, uh, Magnus is just holding down his legs and Scorpio is struggling. Look who I saw trying to sneak in early. Love that. I'm, I'm very appreciative that we don't have to search for it. Hello. It is so good to see you. Renee, remember that fight I told you I got in here? This is the one. Oh, this is the one. And he's Robert. Oh, that is so ironic. Listen, I don't want any more trouble, okay?  You left. We got no more business. I got the message. If you got no more business, then what are you doing all the way over here? I'm, I'm just concerned. I'm used to seeing Phil lucky with the stag, but I know this is so curious. What does someone like you be doing somewhere over here? Renee, you may give me your choice between persuasion or intimidation. Let's do intimidation. Oh, no, I didn't scare the bird. I'm just being playful. It's okay. I'm not scary right now. I'm just being silly. Luna, please introduce us to your new friend. Oh, no, really. I don't know him very well. This is the person that was trying to keep Scorpio in his, in his work when he was trying to leave. I believe the word you were looking for in ploy.  Oh, okay, so what you're saying is this is trying to make people stay in value that they don't want to be an animal. Oh, that is not good. Was there any threatening involved? Because we know that that is not a very good thing in the eyes of the bird. Oh, not just, not just threatening, but trying to take me and Scorpio. Attempted kidnapping too. Oh, no, no, no, no. So, so sad. Really, it was attempted taking. And I think that's the back encroaches upon our territory. It does, doesn't it? What do you have to say for yourself, Mr. Bird? All right, I think, I think with all of this in the position he's in, that's an auto succeed. I don't think you need to run. Yay! I stare down at the man and tighten my glove just a bit. And for days, just keep on like doing a little touch, touch, touch.  I'm just so disappointed. He just kind of squirms a bit. Listen, they told me about a big score. And since my main means of profits has been low, and he just kind of eyes at Scorpio, I decided to take Castile's offer. They told me to meet them inside, not much else. I don't even know what they'd want with this dingy old factory. It's been on a commission for decades. Just as he says that, you hear a loud creaking noise from the hatch and a loud boom. There are the inside, aren't there? Uh, Magnus and Scorpio just look at each other, and Scorpio speaks up, we didn't see anyone come through. Oh, fun. Okay, who's going in with me? Because I'm going to go in and see what the fuck's going on. I'm going with you. Good. I'll wait out here and watch this filth. Appreciate you. Just blows the kiss. He just kind of tie, he takes some rope and ties, robear and kind of tosses him to the side and just pulls out his bow and aims it at him. You sit tight. Magnus, Magnus gets up. I'll follow you through. I know a bit about these factories. That would be fairly appreciated. Thank you. Don't let him out of your sight, Scorpio, and if it gets dicey, run. You got it. You understand me? And Kuro hops into your arms, Enoch, and you have your homunculus back once more. Oh, good boy. That bow's back. As we're all like gathering into this hatch, I'm going to, as I walk by Roberto, look by him and I'll say, I'm going to want to talk to you later. Let's gather your thoughts in the meantime. And then I will walk inside. Don't recruit him too, damn it. Don't worry about it. I know. Let me. Every criminal's a goal. Don't worry about it. Don't worry. You look all the way to the bottom, all the way to the bottom. Scorpio's not there. Let me delete him. Hold on. Wait, what's that? Who's this? What are those? Who's that? Who's that? Who's that? Those are Rocks. Who's Rocks? Guys, I'm getting a hankering for some violence. And you may place your tokens at the bottom there next to Magnus. No, I will place my token right here. Then I will move down. Have fun being by the Warfords. That's going to crush you, Mr. Squishy.  That's Magnus. That's Magnus. Oh, good. Making sure. That's the tree folk, boy. That's the one who has it out for you. I actually don't have a handout for him. Him. Well, that's good that I didn't react because I don't know that there's a problem with us right now. Nope. That's an action. Not a problem. Not a problem. No, see, I've been eyeballing Magnus this entire time. I don't believe I called him. No, you didn't. In the meantime, you enter the factory down and down the stairs as the dim orange glow becomes brighter and brighter. And inside, you see the full image of the factory now, whereas it was too dark to see earlier, Nathaniel, when you came down here, even with dark vision. But you can see that you are actually on a platform, kind of like an industrial catwalk.  The temperature as you walk down here is considerably hot and dry. And the smell of molten iron fills your lungs. The factory is nearly operational. It's near operational now? Yep. Oh, no. Not this happened in a very short period of time, but I imagine that the thing they're waiting on is us. Magnus speaks up, but the protectors, they couldn't have teleported in here, could they? No, but they had someone who could. And as you see ahead of you, you can see that there are several deactivated, very run down and poorly constructed warfords. You can see that these are salvage, like someone was trying to build them, but was clearly unqualified. And you can see pieces of rubble around as well as some brass pipes in the walls as well. I'm going just for like, oh sorry, what's up? Oh no, I was going to say before we move anywhere, I would like to use fine traps. Fine traps. Ah, fine traps! Yeah, I think that broke the last dungeon. Let's do it again. Yeah, let's do it again! Let's break it! Okay, with that, I'm going to reveal a little bit more of the map, because there is more of the map that- Give me! That's traps, let's see.  I told you it was broken! I only get to use it once! Once every long rest, but it's worth it! Okay, you can see that these pipes are trapped. They have been rigged to spew hot air at whoever walks past them. All right, so avoid the pipes. And that there is something aimed directly down the hallway, however you cannot see it. Aimed? It is aimed at us? Something aimed looks cylindrical. So, uh, Luna, uh, Renee's gonna push Luna just lightly over just one square over Luna, just five feet. Just- and also move over to the wall just like- Just points over in the direction, it's just like- I don't know what the fuck- And you can- you can tell- I'm gonna draw it, hold on. You can tell that the triggering point for that aim thing is right here. Oh, god. Okay, okay, good. Um, Renee is going to just point down at that spot.  So, what is it- is it a- I can't tell from here, it's too far away, but at the very least, whatever you do and you step on that, it will trigger. Is it a- is it a string trigger? Is it a tile, a pressure plate? Can you tell? Good. Uh, I'm gonna investigate it, look at it a little bit more closely.  Yeah, it really doesn't, but like, let's just say it's- I can- I sense where stuff is, but I don't know specifically what it will trigger. I don't know, like, in that general area, there's gonna be something. I don't know what the trigger is, I don't know what it will cause. Well, I guess I'm just feeling generous today, though. I appreciate you for doing so, but like, I would say that that would be a fair point of like, there's something here, here, here, don't know what those are, but those are just like the general areas of something. I will say because I know specifically where it is, I might just inch a little bit closer and investigate it, like, but this might be as close as I get, but I'm gonna basically squat down to kind of like, look forward a little bit, see if I can see anything. You can give me your, uh, flat investigation and flat arcana. Okay, so here's investigation, and here's arcana. Well- Oh! Ha ha! Don't need the- who needs a spell? Am I right? Well, you can tell that this trap, whatever it is, is definitely magical because investigating it, you can tell that the physical is not really available, so it's definitely magical for sure, magically triggered in some way. What that is, you are not able to glean from your arcana. That's fair. That might sound more along like what I might now. Yeah, you know, would you like to come take a look at my friend because you are all the way over there with your lovely little dog, and I would appreciate a little bit of help. I would appreciate more help. Usually I'm very used to doing this by myself, by all means. All right, I look at Kuro, I tell him to sit and stay. I am going to slowly make my way up to the line, not cross it up to it. Yep, and I am going to check the magical properties of what this is, where it's connected, and possibly how to turn it off. Do you have detect magic of some kind, or are you just wanting to do an arcana? I just want to do an arcana, double check and understand its structure. You may give me, actually, when I said, this is my fault for not communicating clearly, when I said flat, I meant give me your stat, your arcane, your arcana stat. Oh, I have a plus five to arcana.  You've probably seen these types of traps before, it's very simple, it's just probably something very simply triggered by walking through and becoming in range of something, most likely. Can I see what that thing might be range wise? You can probably guess that this, like judging by how this is oriented and how this is most likely something set to where this is the range, that it is something with range, i.e. like you with your gun, that is set up to be triggered in this way. Then I would say, I wonder if it's a single shot or if it might be a multi shot. There is a very simple solution to this. I'm going to turn it over and I'm going to look at this guy. He looks at you and raises an eyebrow. What, what about me? You'll have, you'll have to forgive me, I've met a lot of new people in the city, who are you with? Uh, I am Magnus, I am an adventurer and I have heard much of you, Mr. Gainesby. Are you a fan? Judging by how much I know of you, I guess you could call me one. Very good, well, I'm going to ask you to please stay behind us because we are professionals. Luna, if you could kindly use your powers to activate all of the traps with the projection of your father, we don't need to worry about any of this or at the very least we'll get a better understanding of how they work. Uh, do we know if a cobra like to lead?  It's physical enough to damage other people, I imagine it would be physical enough to damage a pipe. You know, I also could just use it to bypass this trap entirely.  That is also a good plan. You know, what do you think? I don't understand these kinds of things. As far as risk assessment goes, if we can figure out how to get past this first trap, we might be able to get past the rest. It would be probably preferable to see if we can try and set off the first traps in order to try and not risk setting it off later down the line, if that might be a possibility. But, I think, I think the other thing I'd ask was about we just look ahead first. I agree.  Yeah, I, I agree. I mean, if it's completely pressure based, I could just fly over it and do some recon. No, it's magic, I think. There is one other thing that I can do. It will take me a little bit of time, about 10 minutes to prepare, but I was in here before with Daniel. I might be able to see or listen to where they might be located. Make it easier to try and find them once we, you know, set up all the traps and save ourselves some time of trying to look for them. I mean, that seems like something we could run simultaneously then.  Well, hopefully not set off the traps, but at least look ahead. All right. Is there anything else besides this, this line here? The pipes. The pipes will have set off something. Okay. Well, then, try to avoid those. Those seem easier to avoid than whatever straight shot is in front of us, which I also recommend. If we do set this off, let's just stay to the sides. Maybe behind the walls. Yes, if you're going to, if you're going to sit down and try and cast, maybe, and she'll like point over here. Immediately like walks back a little bit over actually where Kudo is just like, oh, hello. She like pet Kudo a little bit and I guess start preparing clairvoyance.  That's a one mile range. Jesus, where are you? Yeah, it is. So that's why I'm like, I am planning to use this at a later point, but this will definitely, but I have to pick a specific location. It's up to a mile, but I have to pick a specific location. Right, right. Now the location is further ahead you have been to with Nathaniel before. Exactly. I ventured down here with Nathaniel before. Okay. So I will now reveal that location because I assume that's where you're putting your mark. Yep. As far as we went last time. Yep. And I'm going to say for this, it's either visual or hearing. What do we want? Do we want visual or do we want hearing guys? Because if it's hearing that you don't have to expand it, it can just be there. And then you can tell me what I hear. I feel like hearing might be the more useful one because we could hear plans, but also visual, we can see numbers. So I guess I'd leave that up to you. What do you think is more valuable seeing what we're up against and counting how many people are there and confirming if bloodshed is there or listening to hear what they're talking about? I am much more an info gatherer in what they are plotting. I don't care about numbers because I feel like we'll be okay.  I mean also we can identify, we technically can identify some numbers at least through voice. I'd like to do hearing. I'd like to do hearing. Okay. So you're going to hear that room that you and Nathaniel once were in and I will let you know that that is the room where you found the Warforged Souls, the three of them. Yes. And you hear whisperings and the whisperings like, come on, finish that thing. They're on their way. And kind of like some running footsteps kind of clanging on metal and now you hear a wooden creaking. Just slowly like a, like the hull of a ship and it is just there creaking and the voices kind of dissipated and now there's only the creaking. Noted. I will overlay this while they're doing trap stuff. I'm, I'm just, you can go ahead and do trap stuff instead of etiquettes now. I'm just like, okay. I turned to Nathaniel and I'm like, okay. So can you roll that back a bit for me? I'm sorry. I'm slightly losing my concentration. No, it does say. Oh, sorry. I'm sorry to interrupt. It does say as an action, you can switch between searing seeing and hearing. Oh, and I'm doing it for 10 minutes. Whoa. I'll switch. Sure. Thank you. Yeah.  A single oak and bolter. Oh Lord. That is aimed down the way and is ready to be triggered. Oh, do I know if that could be automatically moved? Does that move automatically or does it move if someone has to move it? Because if its point is straight down this way, we just got to make sure we're not going straight down this way. It is like, can it be aimed? It is manned. It's manned. Okay. Okay. Knowing that, Renee will probably just be like, look, I would say we've met as well.  It is one dude with a dome. If we are fast enough, he might not be able to shoot. My only question is, would you be able to relay that in time because it was 10 minutes to cast that? Yeah. That's true. Wait, it was 10 minutes to cast that? Lock key, reverse what I said. It takes 10 minutes to cast. Yeah. So they probably would have already done their little shenanigan. But only in action to switch. Yeah. Yeah, but it still takes 10 minutes to wait for it. It takes 10 minutes to pull up. So they're probably like, oh, I see what's down there. They probably would have already burst through it, so. It's okay. It's okay. It was a good idea though. It was a good idea. We had a good idea, but that's okay. Let's do the other idea. Let's do the other idea. Let's go. Okay. We're going to play teleporting, teleporting hopscotch with Echo Dad. Is that what we're doing? Teleporting hopscotch. Yep. Sounds great. Yeah. Well, I'm looking at this and I'm pretty sure because I can, I can tell, I can summon Echo Dad within 30 feet of me. I'm pretty sure I can cheese my way to getting away from the pipes safely and over this barrier. It's like, it's a bonus action to summon him. And then I guess like mechanically I have to wait around. Then it's a bonus action to switch places and then I just do that over and over again. Why are you bothering switching places just to have the Echo hit things? I mean, because she also has- So she can cast the Echo further. Yeah, because the Echo can only be without, can only be 30 feet away from me or it disappears. Sure. I'll let you do it. So is that what you're going to do? I will say when you do this, initiative will start. I'll look back at the others as like I have my Echo like beside me and kind of give a, are you ready? Like you ready for me to do this? I'll give everyone one thing to prep before initiative starts. Because- I'm going to look at the tree guy and I'm going to wave him over here. Magnus, move out of the way. Very well. He moves towards the wall. He seems very unconcerned about everything. You seem very unconcerned about everything, is this what you're going to tell me? He just squints his eyes at you. Nothing important at the moment. Well, that was a very intelligent choice of words. Anyway, I'm going to turn away. Sorry, I'm figuring out where I want to like realistically have myself placed and I hate to say it's going to be in the middle. And now I'm going to take, I'm going to keep it here. I'm just not going to move the full 30 feet. Okay. So that's what Luna will be doing. This will be my position. Nathaniel, are you doing anything before initiative starts? I have done that. You have done that. Okay. Enoch, are you doing anything before initiative starts? I am racking around into the gavel. Okay. And by the way, maybe Coro should be with Nathaniel. Oh, you have control of the token. Coro's with Renee right now. Sorry, Renee. Yeah, sorry, Renee. But just in case if Nathaniel goes down, he can be healed. I appreciate that very much. And Renee. No, don't even worry about it. I'm assuming that like I might have just finished like starting the concentration on clairvoyance and then like, oh so and then I see everyone moving. She has to drop her spell so she can get ready for everything else. Okay. That would be what she'd have to do is because I was like, oh yeah, I got, I know what we're doing. Shit, wait, everyone's moving. Okay. Never mind. Once Luna teleports, the trap springs and the fire is rung out. And everyone roll for initiative.  We owe little 20s in this house. It doesn't surprise me. And now, for the best. Combat begins. However, the first shot is rung out by the Oaken Bolter. Yep. Please tell me I'm not in this line. Please tell me. No. I don't know how wide the line is. Unfortunately. Yeah, that's that's the sad thing. I don't either. I just didn't want to be close to the bike. It might just be a cone.  It fires out a harpoon at you. Oh, oh, oh. Do an anime. Cut it through the middle. I already had this happen to me. Or grab the harpoon. Use it as a javelin. You need to make a strength saving throw or else you will be grappled by the harpoon. Because it did hit you. Oh no. What? Oh no. Scorpion. Is that you? Okay. I don't know. I just had this happen though. In one of my games. History is repeating itself but I'm not ready. I can't. You take five damage and are grappled. However, it cannot pull you in because that requires a bonus action which it was not able to do on this springing of the trap. So now it goes to Nathaniel. You see a harpoon straight through Luna's leg and it is latched on. Well, silver lining is that's a distraction. So I'm going to take this moment to run quickly. Hi, I go dad. Hello. Uh oh. I will not move right there.  I was warned about that. I know what that is. I don't want to be right next to it. How far is this man? That's 45 feet. What do I have? That's 45 feet. I don't even remember anymore. I don't know. Look at your sheet. I have a new jinx. I want to. Okay. I don't want to use it yet. Okay. Do I have anything else? That's sorry. There is a few. I'll use this. I am going to stare over at the gnome and I am going to whisper through the air and please, we don't need to have this kind of problem. Move away from your thing. And I'm going to cast dissonant whispers. Yes. Yes. I would like him to make a wisdom save or else he will take seven psychic damage and be forced to use his reaction to run away. Now he is a gnome. Therefore, he will have advantage because of his gnome cunning.  He has advantage. All intelligence, wisdom and charisma, saving throws against magic.  We're useless. Okay. Uh, lucky for you, he rolled a 14. So. Hey. Runs away. Okay. And he does. He hops off. And what specifically were the instruction? Just run away. It's not an instruction thing. He's forced to move his speed away from me as a reaction. Oh, as a reaction. Yep. He hops off and just immediately starts booking it towards the other side of the room. There he goes. Well, they're going the way that we want to go anyway. Someone catch him. That's my turn. Cool. Okay. Nice. Luna. There's a harpoon in my leg. There is. But you're no longer grappled because that thing is no longer manned. Okay. Yeah. I still want to pull the harpoon out of my leg. Yeah. I'll say that's a bonus action. You pull it out. It stings a bit.  And I'm just going to run for 30 feet avoiding pipes. Would Echo Dad follow you? No. Echo Dad has technically disappeared because I'm out of this range and I can't bring him back because it's a bonus action and I had to use that in order to do that. So I'm instead just going to run after gnome fucker. Oh, you're going to dash? Yep. We're going to do a dash.  I'm coming. Yep. Get back here.  And you can see, you can see that there's also this kind of magical barrier door that you can see through somewhat, but it's kind of a hazy image. And in that room, you can also see that there is sort of a piston leading to a octagonal mechanism that has like threes little indents look like orbs might go in there and sort of some wires on the floor that lead to the various different rooms. And you can also see two stairs, one leading upwards and one leading downwards. But no other people other than the no- Nope, no other people. Okay.  Um, I'm going to go ahead and dash so five, 10, 15, 25, 30. And as I run by Nathaniel, I probably, well, I can't see that far, so I can't determine that yet. So that's 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 60. Whee, I'm coming! Okay, next is Enoch.  Sorry. I can't just move forward. You can move, yeah. No, it's, I know I can move. It's just trying to get- If it helps, I personally don't do like line of sight accidental hit unless you like that one. I personally don't like to do that. I do one or two because the thing about firing through an or through an ally into an enemy is that they'll get a plus two for being in half cover. So I consider rolling a one or two accidentally hitting them. But that's how I do it. I don't, yeah, it's, yeah. No, yeah. I'll let you know that so you don't have to worry about firing through your enemy because like five foot square is a decent amount of area. And I've just like assumed that, you know, you give your ally heads up. You have to shoot us. Yeah, you're probably at least decent with a gun. Yeah. Yeah. Oh yeah. Okay. Proficient with a gun. Perish the phone. Yep. So I'm going to move forward and I'm going to take a shot with the gavel on that gnome. All right. Jesus, we're already doming gnomes here. Oh yeah, easy. Oh. He got domed. Oh. Resist that. Yep. The gun you invented. You're seeing. You get a clear shot in the kind of his back kind of through his, his rib just. He's not looking good. He is at death's door. Oh, you're strong against magic. Well, Alakablam. Alakablam. You best get to stepping before I get to blasting. And then I'm going to have Kuro move up his full 30 foot flight speed. Okay. Oh, he flies. Six once it once again, just trying to you could just see it's almost like weirdly like the elongated body, but the little mechanical wings are just kind of letting him float along. According to all the laws of aviation, there is no way that a corgi should be able to fly. Yeah. But does it matter? No, it's. Oh my God, please. A little corgi flies anyway. Okay. Is that your turn? Yeah, that's as much as I can do for it now. Okay. Okay. Next is the NPC's turn. Rack's next shot. Magnus is going to move up a bit and on the sheath, his sword getting ready. Not really. He's taking his time. And I don't like how close he is to Nathaniel.  I know. This is me as a player. Like, I don't like this. Yeah. I see the writing on the wall. I don't like it. I am highly suspicious of him. You see what Koro is next to him. Even though Enoch hasn't told me anything about him, I'm highly suspicious because I asked what he's doing here and he said, effectively, I am a fan. And then I asked, are you like here for me or something to that effect? And he said, no. It's going to be fine. Don't worry about it.  It's OK. Anyway, now the gnome is going to reach into his pocket and throw, see how many, three spider mines onto the floor. Oh, jeez. Uh, the fuck? Thank God we're not spiders.  There are two around me though. Yep, two around you and one kind of on the far end. And they are going to try and latch on to you, Luna. So I'm going to need you to make two dexterity saving throws. OK, I don't, I'm no likey because I don't like the OK. OK. OK. Luna, please succeed in a save. And they, try it, Luna. They are, they're very small. They're about the size of a human head and they latch on to you and they start beeping. Oh, I have a problem. That's a safe response. That's good. Beeping means they're safe. And this one is going to skitter. You hear the metal clanging as it starts to head towards Renee. I don't like it. I don't like it. Nathaniel, it's your turn. I will break this spider's tiny mind. Does it have a tiny mind to break? And these things take psychic damage. Do these things take psychic damage? Let's find out. Oh, that hurt my throat so bad.  Oh, no. Well, I threw a dagger and I failed. Nice. I would like to use the power of my secret second dagger, which will not do as much damage because it's an offhand. Right, you may. Hey. This will be minus two, I believe. Minus one. This will be minus one, whatever I roll. OK. How many? You either succeed or fail. And you roll max damage on it. Almost max. Almost max. It would be, yeah. OK. So the first dagger just king and falls off of the railing and just king, king, king. You just hear it echoing as it falls down. You have lost that dagger, unfortunately. Fuck. And the second one, you land it straight into the jeweled kind of body and it cracks and beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and explodes. However, you are out of the explosion range. You are both fine. Yay. Amazing. Well, that's my turn. Cool. I'm going to be getting that dagger back after this. So you're going down? Presumably. I'll go up. Next is Luna. I haven't heard time with my Nathaniel voice. My throat's a little sore. I hate to say that this is going to be Luna's decision, but I would like to try and break one of the robots off of me. OK. Alternative idea. Wait, alternate idea.  Have you considered a headbutt? It's not on your head. It is head-sized. Yeah, no, no, no. It's just on me. Oh, good. Hug him. Hug him to death.  They're like, yeah, one's, like, latched on your hand. The other's, like, on your hip. I'd like to go up to this guy and punch him with a robot. With a robot. With a robot. Again. Correct. With a robot. All right, give me an attack roll. Right now. What is happening? No, I'm action surge. Wait, no, I have a second attack. You do have a second attack if you would like. Hold on. Punch him again. Yes. No. Oh my God. It's today's the day I action surge. Today's the day I action surge. All right. Action surge. Please. Sorry, I took all of the good dice luck. You really did. Someone had to be the sacrifice. Well, this is still not enough. Unfortunately, you're swinging and swinging and swinging. I created it. I took a dice that was roughly shaped like you and stabbed into it with a knife. Hug him. You took our fighter and broke her.  That's my turn then. Yep. You swing and swing and swing, but the gnome is dodging out of the way, dodging because he knows what those things can do and he is terrified.  For tonight. Hey, Brad. I think I'm about to meet you. Um, yeah. Is that a... Oh, okay. Um, so question. Uh-huh. Does he have any metal on him? No, he's wearing light armor. Oh, I know exactly what he's wearing. He's wearing some leather armor. I won't do that to you. I won't do that to you, Luna.  I'm glad somebody believes in me. 20, 25, 30. That is 30 feet for me. Um... Yeah, um, I guess I'll go upstairs. So I'll dash upstairs. Okay, you're gonna dash upstairs? 30, so that's 5, 10. That's 15 for me.  I will say you'll be able to see what's upstairs. However, what's upstairs is not taking notice of you yet. Okay, good. You can see pieces of rubble, some more deactivated or never activated Warforged, also equally as run down and kind of poorly put together, and a single spider mine in there. If only I had animated objects, I would make this so much more fun. But we're not high enough. Oh, animated objects is broken. And my objects would be so moored for this. Um, so that was 15. Do I still have another 15 feet of movement? Yes, if you dashed. Yeah, okay, cool. So I'm hugging the wall 15. Because I saw, I see this and I want to see what's over here. What you can see down there is you can see a bright orange light, and you can feel some very faint heat coming from there. Cool, so I'm assuming that that's something I need to stop. So I'm gonna continue on my merry little way. Okay, anything else? Anything you want to do with your bonus action? Um, you know what? Bardic inspiration to Luna, I think you need it. Um, as she's like running away, she's just like, like, you're Luna, like Luna hears her name, go, you can do it, I believe you! Next will be Enoch's turn. Punch him in the face! I love the flag. Uh, and I don't know which one needs to be taken care of first. Please don't shoot the robots that are on my body. I'm hoping that they will break before they will explode. That's the problem. Then would you aim somewhere specific? Like maybe it's legs so that it'll like, enlarge itself? Like cat! I would try to destroy what could cause the detonation. Oh, that's a fairly difficult shot. The spider! Now, hopping off what Kami said about destroying the leg, that will require a higher DC to hit. But I will say that can be done if you so wish. Well, I have a plus nine for a reason. Yay, whack it! Whack it, smack it, back it! It's okay, I will forgive you if I explode. All right. Terminator reload and then aiming down sight, hopefully trying to get one of these legs off of Luna because I don't want her blowing up. And then I'm a ghost!   Yeah. Let me see the damage. Oh my god! No, that's not the damage. No, that is the damage. That is damage! Holy crap! Max damage! Actual max damage! Wow! Max damage hit!  Oh my god! Wow, we thought you were wrong. I thought that that was another normal dice roll. Holy cow! I didn't think you could do that. So... This gun is terrifying! So that does hit, but your aim was a little off. Oh no!  And Luna, I'm gonna need you to take... Does that explode the other one? Dammit! Oh my god! Silver lining. Silver lining. We have an NPC here. Luna can play that guy. It explodes Luna, you take seven damage and that also destroys the other one, which also explodes. Wait, seven damage. Dammit!  What about the dude? Yeah, is the dude dead? Kill that guy. So the other one, you take an additional 12 damage from the other spider. I don't like this anymore. That's way more. And since the gnome was within... Like, here's the series of events that happens. A bullet whizzes through and completely like shatters through this one spider and it beep beep beep. And the gnome just goes... Oh hells. And explodes on Luna and the gnome is dead. Oh my god!  I guess the artificer was no match for his own inventions. Davi, you have disadvantage on all your rules for the rest of the game. What? All right. I agree with this. Okay. I don't think Luna is paying attention to you. I kind of think that after those things exploded, she went to her knees because two bombs just went off on her. I whistle as loud as I can and direct Kuro towards Luna. Is combat over? Yes, combat is over for now. Okay, that was like half of my health in one go. It's not doing... This spider mine is not doing anything. Cool. Do I see why? Is it deactivated? Let's get to that after these two are done with what they're doing. Oh, hold up. Oh, hold up. Don't worry. Don't worry about me. Sounds great. That was gonna have you roll something, but yeah.  Oh. She... Three. Three. She will give it to Luna. You can slightly hear the sound. Would you like another? Luna's going to shake her head, pat the dog, and be like, no, no, I'm good. And get herself up. I'm still fine, guys. I still have like over half my health. It's just Tylenol. It's cute. I mean, I think Tylenol would be a great thing to take when you've just gotten exploded in. Renee. As long as you follow it with an elive after, yeah. Hey, if I could just ask, if I actually do get blown up in this place, please let Scorpio know. I'm not going to do that, so do not get blown up. Renee. I'm upstairs. I am... Did I hear him calling for me? I am calling for you. I can't find you. Okay. Up, up, up, up, up. I hear immediate calling. I will trot back down the stairs. What happened?  That's what the boom... No, no, what the fuck? That's not the issue. I just need to know which way you went. If you want to keep going that way, it's fine. I'm going down. All right, the minute something else happens, you let me know. Or if there's another explosion, I'll just assume they whilst. Now, I will say you can check that way, but I will ask that you any further exploration be together. Right. Right, right, right, right. Actually, just kidding, yeah. I remember that. I kind of assumed that since it was all one map, it would have been the same, but that's fine. I'll go with everybody else. No, no, no. It's okay. You can look down that way. I'll reveal that down this way, you can see that it is empty and that there is a doorway that leads to something that you can hear sounds very echo-y behind it. So you can either go down the hot room or you can go down the echo-y room. Yeah. So do we want to hit flames or do we want to hit the echo? There's also... Are we not going to pay attention to the fact that there is a magical force field keeping us from getting into one of the rooms? Are we not? Is that a force field or is that dice? That's a force field, I believe. That is a force field, yes. I'm not good at magic, I just assumed. I didn't want to be the one to say it, but as villains go, it stands to reason that since there are two wires going in the opposite directions and one wire going into the force field, you can imagine that we have to go through each room and then shut down the force field, go through it, and then fight whoever's built this place. I was more into seeing if we could see through it. You know what? What is your passive perception? Mine is... Who is the highest, I guess? We'll just take that one. Nathaniel! Nathaniel, what is that? Like 21 or something? What do I see? It is 20. 20, okay. 20. It could be better. With a 20 passive perception, you can see that there's a large room past this barrier and there seem to be rows and rows of humanoid figures. Ah, good. The final boss room. As I expected. Good. Good. I hate it. Many more forged inside. Listen, I was just exploded. I just wanted to make sure there were no more bombs. No, you failed. Are you sure you don't want any help with that?  Hold on.  I am fine. I am fine. Do not waste your spells on...  Magnus steps up and just kind of puts one hand near the barrier. This thing isn't usually here. The protectors must have laid it. They might be on the other side. I think they're absolutely on the other side. Who else would be part of this? I... I cannot for the life of me remember how we met you. Your name... I thought it was with Scorpio. Yes. You're with Scorpio. I was. I came in contact with your friend, Mr. Solomon over there. She looks over at Enoch. Howdy. So this is your friend? Yes. Well, not really. What? I wouldn't say friend more like a recent associate. We have just met. Right? Yes. This is true. But why did you bring him along? I volunteered myself. I simply wanted assistance in taking down the protectors. With all due respect, what can you provide for us? I can provide you history and more knowledge about this place. I am a scholar of sorts and I have studied it. All right. What do you know about this place then? Well, it was built in a massive crater. Some large spell or weapon created it during the war and the kingdom must have found whatever valuable minerals inside to make the war forts that roam around today. And that this barrier isn't supposed to be here. This place was locked down and quarantined by the kingdom decades ago. And that whoever the protectors are working with is much more advanced in the arcane than they usually are in order to make such a barrier. Well, we're fairly certain that the protectors are working with the spine of death. He tilts his head a bit. Well, that's preposterous. And how is that? It's really not. And why would he be so sure of that? Well, they don't work with anyone but themselves. Anyone who is not with them is against them. And they despise the spine of death. They use them as exploits. Then I suppose their motives have changed. Well, somebody offered them a deal that they couldn't resist. Yes, they don't seem to be incredibly scrupulous with their motives. No, I'm not at all. So from we all walking the election, I'm assuming going to downstairs first, then upstairs to try and break this. I think going towards the talking is probably a smarter idea. Which way was the talking? Up or down? The echoing? The echoing was this way. And then the heart goes this way. All right, I'm going to start walking. Ken, do you want to be in front where you could get shot by something? Well, you literally will just set on fire. With all due respect, you've hit two mines and most of the traps. Yeah, Kuro's sticking next to you. I am going to have a private conversation with Magnus here for a moment. I'm fine with that. Magnus doesn't seem to follow anybody, but sees you approach. Yes, what is it? What in God's green earth do you think you're doing? He turns to you. Would you like to incite him? Yes. Okay, you may. Oh, okay. You can see that he has malicious intent. It's very, very clear and it's very clear that he's got eyes for Nathaniel. Yeah, I'm beautiful. Everyone has eyes for me. Yeah, of course.  And he looks at you and he simply squints his eyes laying the foundations. You don't have to worry about me messing up with whatever plan you've got going for now. No, that's exactly what you're doing. I'm going to politely and forcefully ask you to reconsider your position here. Give me a persuasion. He crosses his arms and just looks at you. I'll think about it.  Make sure nobody comes by here. And if I see any protectors, I'll be sure to cut them down. Very well.  Currently taking care of a situation. Sorry, don't want to waste time. And Magnus, I will let you know that Magnus will stay here. No, I'm not pulling any punch. Rather, I am pulling the punches and letting you guys know Magnus will wait here until this barrier is deactivated. Appreciate you. I'll turn around and speak. I'm going to see a friend. I'm sorry. I'm going to see a friend. Oh, he's keeping watch on the gate. Oh, thanks. You're a strange and mysterious friend that has a knowledge of the inner workings of this place standing right next to the barrier that we intend to turn off. Oh, we have to do two in order to actually get through, but... Yes, and when we do that, we will be all the way over here and they will be all the way over there. I'm sure that will go well. All right, let's go. Oh man, I'm just moving forward. I'm just figuring out what's in this room. Hello! So in this room, you can see that it is actually kind of closed off from... It's got walls that close off the kind of massive gap and lower kind of hole beneath you all. You can see inside there, as you walk in, they're not paying attention to you. They haven't taken notice of you yet. A bunch of monodrones, a dwarf on the other side of the room, and kind of a great, kind of a steel grate that you can see through where you see a catwalk and another opening to the rest of the factory.  Da-da-da-da-da. Kitty widgets. Kitty widget widgets. Kitty widget. They are like little mechanical kind of scorpion looking things. Yo, Joe, could you do me something? That would make me very happy. Can you click on one of these Modron tokens and then hit Shift-Z? Shift-Z. Look at these little boys!  Look at the libel! No, you guys. Okay, I can think... Look at the good libel!  They're so cute! Anyway, just no more body shaming. Sorry about that. Let's continue. Okay. Oh, a question. Are they made out of metal? Are they made out of metal? They most definitely are. Yes! Is that one of them on fire? Okay. They haven't done anything. They're just nice. Let's roll initiative and we're going to do a surprise round because they have not noticed you. Just like, obviously they look like Modrons by their tokens. What actually are they? I can roll decent on my initiative, but nothing else. They are Modron, specifically the Monodron. Oh, I clicked the wrong... Which can do one task at a time, basically. I imagine... We'll just assume that that's your turn.  This is a weird warforge to me. Yep. I may be a learned man, but I'm not an extra planar man. Yeah, I just see weird robots with lips and I want to kill them. That's all I see here.  Does Kuro have a different initiative than Enoch? I think we talked about this with Joe. It's just that he's going to move with me. You don't need to put him in initiative then. You can just move him at the same time as you. Yeah. No, I accidentally had Kuro highlighted when I rolled initiative. Okay, so this is going to be a surprise round. So you guys will be able to do something and then we will be skipping the protector's first turn. I think I honestly might just dash to this guy and make that my turn. A 70-foot dash? Wait, wait, wait, wait. I can count. I can do math, I swear. Go here. I don't know why I was thinking she had 40 feet movement. I was thinking of my Barbarian. Sorry. Yeah, no, I'm just going to dash through the room. Okay. You dashed through the room. And after I'm there, I want to use my bonus action to bring Echo Dad out behind this dude. Yep, you bring him out behind the dwarf? I think that's, yeah, I think that's, I think that's, it's got to be a 15-foot radius. Nope, I can't do behind. I can do right beside it though. Nice. Okay. Echo Dad has words for you. As you do walk along this, this texture is actually something important. It is a metal grate, as you can see, that it's got holes in it. And you can see that below it is kind of a orangy hue of heat. And as you walk through, I'm going to draw. I just get burned.  You do not get singed, but as soon as you step on one and step off of it, it as you run through. Oh, noted. Thank you for moving as far as you could. Those are now, will now continue to be on fire. Oh, no. For the round. Oh, no. Oh, no. I can't move. Okay, I'm sorry. I did not. It's okay. We didn't know. We didn't know. I apologize. I mean, I'm glad that at least I could be the test dummy. I'm the most resilient. Fine. This is not for sure. I'm going to worry about it. Okay. Okay. And with that, the practice turn is skipped. Nathaniel, your turn. All right. I have a few things that I could do. Let's see what we want to do here. I want to try. I'm sorry. You know what? I'm not worried about this. These creatures do not bother me. I also don't want my allies to be flamed. So perhaps I'm not going to move them all. I'm not going to shuffle everybody. So instead I'm just going to mind sliver. That's the boy right over here. Oh, which boy? Actually, how far can I reach with mind sliver? Because I might just do it on the guy. Let me check. Mind sliver 30 feet? Mind sliver is 60 feet, which is a very far. Oh, 65. Well, nice. Then I will reach out with mind sliver. Okay. Okay. Yep. You and that'll be my turn. Just a wave kind of like ethereal wave around his mind and he flinches a little bit. He will now have a less strong saving throw. I will describe it. I'll reach my hand out and I'll reach into his mind. And as he's focusing on Luna running at him with jets of fire following her, I'm going to try. I'm going to force his attention to be pulled towards me as he's continuing to try to force it towards Luna. And that like stretch between focus is what's actually going to damage him before he snaps back to Luna at the end. Yep. He is dividing his attention. Oh, wait. It's the next saving throw. Damn it. Yep. Sorry. No, no, it's fine. I just I forgot that what I wanted to do is contested. It's not a save. It's okay. Next shall be Yock. I might be able to help in that instance as I draw up the gavel. I am going to take my shot against the guy, but I'm going to use a winging shot from my marksman ability instead. And I hope that it hits. We will find out if it hits. Okay. I don't know how you can use winging shot. You are not a bird. Oh, so I'm assuming a 23. Yeah. Okay. Yes, that hits the dwarf easily. He needs to make a strength saving throw or else he falls prone. Oh, minus minus. Oh my God. Yes. Wait. Minus one to four. Wait. Did Enoch and Nathaniel just work together? Oh my God. The boys work together. I thought I was going to walk you to a room. You know what? I take my spell back. I'm giving him. I'm giving him his headache. I'll take that away from him. It's fine. Oh boy, oh boy, did you work together. So basically after he mind slivers, I almost like stepping slowly out with the gun. Just behind him.  Yeah. Oh, and it just- You don't need to like make that a combo because that's really good. Yeah. Yeah. Did you roll damage yet? Yeah, give me the damage. I have not. I have not. Let's see. Roll that damage for me. Roll that sweet sweet. Oh my God. Nice. He is not prone. He just got his head rocked mentally and physically.  I actually want you guys to know how well that worked out by what I rolled on his saving throw. I rolled a 17 and then the subtraction I rolled a four. So he was like- Yes. Oh my God, teamwork. Oh my God. Yeah, no, I don't have to lock you two in a room after all. I'm really happy about that. Yay. You can work together. I would like to remove- I would like to remove mind sliver from my spell list, please. Ah, yes. That's how you're supposed to be here. This is a feat. Oh, yeah. There's still Coro on the table. Yeah, what's Coro going to do? There is. Coro. Here's the thing. Coro's going to go and wiggle his way past Rene just a bit and he's going to point towards this dude. This dude in specific? A lot of drone, yeah. Yep. And he is going to use his force strike, which is basically bark. Morph! And what does that bark do? With the range of 30 feet, one target you can see, it does 1d4 plus 2 if it hits. Oh, okay. So it needs to roll an attack. Yep. Ah, Morph. Aw. He tries. Morph! Morph tried. Morph is not loud enough. Aw. Aw. It was a boof. It was in a barf. It was a boof. It was. Yeah, it's a boof. Next is Rene's turn. Nice try, Coro, but thanks. Heat metal on this boy. Okay, jeez. Metal on him. Just heat metal on it. On the being of metal. Yep. Yep. On the being of metal. It just catches on fire and takes 7c fire damage. It just catches on fire. Wow. Just instant fire. Boom. It bursts into flame and just shatters. Yay!  It's concentration up to 1 minute. Does that mean I can make it bounce to a different thing? Does it say that you can? No. I think it's very specific that like things that can do that. That's like, yeah, because Hunter's Mark does it. Hunter's Mark is like that. I was just curious if heat metal was like that, and it's not. It's okay. I will take it. I will take it. All right. Because I did cast it at a third level, so I will do it at a second level for other stuff. Next, the surprise round is over. Luna, you can see that the dwarf as well as the, kind of forget their names, the little... Modrin. Kid, uh, Kiddy Widgets. Modrin's... The Kiddy Widgets now have their attention on you. What do you do on your turn? Kiddy Widgets. Well, I want to go up to this guy. I'm not really paying those things attention right now. I'll deal with those when they come up. I'm trying to detain this motherfucker. I basically want to pin him down with the sword to his neck. Yes, you... Oh, just pin him. Yeah. Go ahead and give me the athletics. Yeah, you can take the 21 and... Yeah, 23, technically, with the Bardic Inspiration. Yeah. Let's... Yeah! The second athletics on? Yes, you have him grappled, and the second athletics will pin him. And I assume he is... Like a well-oiled machine. That was a 12, or it could be a Nat 20. He Nat 1. Welcome to Restrain. Oh, I got Nat 1! It doesn't matter! Nat 20 versus the Nat 1, who wins. All right. You have him pinned. Yeah, no, Luna is just saying. Scream in your head's gone. Okay, well, next it's a protector's turn. And he is just going to whistle and the Kiddy... Oh, God, I gotta remember their names. I'm just gonna call them Scorpi Babies. Scorpi Babies. The Scorpi Babies. Robots. I don't like that because it makes me think of Scorpio, and I don't think that's what I should be thinking of. Wow, there are Scorpi Babies. I'm gonna call them Widgets. Widgets is easy to remember. Widgets. The Widgets. The Little Widgets. Turn their tails forward and start to shoot darts at you, Luna. Oh, great. Cool. And there will be three darts. What just happened? Luna's tunnel vision. That's what I thought was going to happen. Dang it, Luna! Okay, you're able to dodge one, parry the other, but another one skids by and kind of nicks you on the shoulder. You take three piercing damage. Okay. The dwarf is going to try and get out of your restraint. It has disadvantage, yeah? Yeah. So you need a contesting athletics? 17. Oh, yes. You keep him there. He's trying. He's struggling, but no, you keep him there. These mojons are going to fly up because they have wings. So now they're no longer on the platforms. That's fair. And they are going to head towards Nathaniel, the closest target, and go stab him. Oh, you're coming at me instead of running away? Wait, question. Yes. Is the fire gone now? Oh, yes, that's right. The fire is gone now. Thank you for the reminder. Okay, I just wanted to know. Yes, because I came back to Luna's turn and they lasted that long. Okay, yes. It flies towards you, Nathaniel, and they're both going to stab at you. I'd like to see them try. Don't jinx yourself like that. You have very low AC. I'd like to see them try. They both stab you. You're bleeding. I'd like to see them fail. Nathaniel, no. Oh, you take five damage from both. You take 10 damage from stabs. That's only a third of my health. They take their little rusted metal rapiers and both start to jam at you, and you are unable to move as quickly, and they take a couple of stabs. Seeing a third of your health disappear from that scares me. I don't like that.  They're orbs. I'll be fine. Why are you so squishy? Speaking of Nathaniel, it's your turn now. Oh, good. Okay. Well, in that case, I am going to... Let's see what we got here. We have a couple options here. A couple different things that we can do. And since they are flying, they didn't trigger the little fire thing because they didn't step on anything. That's true. I think that is very true. I don't want to be here anymore. So I am going to kind of slink downwards, and my form will melt down into the ground, leaving only my hat behind as I reappear over here. What? Did you misty step? Yes. Oh, nice. But as is with my misty step, my hat stays behind. Oh, no, not the hat! Yes. So it's just right there. It's not in the fire. I'll be fine. But Nathaniel, you melt it. For RP purposes, my hat never comes with me when I misty step. I love that. That said, now that I'm over here, I can cast proper spells. I've got a million of them. Let's see what I want to do. What are the chances these guys have like no HP? I cast sleep. What are the chances they got only like 18 health? Who knows? Yeah, no. These things are not a mean to sleep. And yeah, roll me your damage. I have it. It's 18. Oh, it's 18. Okay. Yes. So does one of them fall over? So one of them does fall over. It falls over. Uh-oh. A sleep. I see what I have done. Oh, no. Yep. And now the fire is just going to go, Why is there just a banana hat? And it lands on the great, a loud thud kink, and a fire comes up and burns it to cinders. Yay! I meant to do that. The hats there, the drawing of the hat is there because I misty stepped away and when I misty stepped, my hat stays behind. All right. That's my turn.   So I'm going to take my shot against the, uh, the kitty widget. Jesus! Jesus! My god.  Enoch took all the good dice karma today.  Gun. So you're shooting at which target again? This kitty widget here. Directly across. Yes.  And I point towards Kuro and I do a little circle motion and he nods and I'm just going to have him walk around the grates like this. Just to set that one modron on fire. Yeah. Oh my god. Kuro just.  Actually, yeah. You know what? You're right. No, you're right. You're right. You're right.  You step on it. Kuro just jauntily steps forward on it and then steps back and the modron just looks down and its eye goes wide a bit and the fire cooks it while it's in the air. Just a big pillar of fire. It does a little loaf jump. Just. Yeah. I like to just think that he just pranced on it.  Yeah, they do that.  Oh, good boy. It's the next smart dog is Renee. I'm going to trust y'all to do your thing with the widgets and the dwarf and all the shenanigans. And I'm going to maneuver this way. So because I'm see. Okay. Question for DM. Do I see this like black line or is that just? Yes, you can see that those are wires. Okay. I'm going to follow the wires. Okay. So you follow the wires. 15, 20, 25, 30. And I hope I'm not going to have to dash. Yeah, you're going to dash. Yeah, I'm going to dash because I don't trust myself on the grates right now. Renee is the scout, it seems. And she's going to scout. I am a scout. And you walk through that door and see an entire different room. Oh, I don't. I. Oh, you. You creak open the door and this is what you can see. Where was the boss room again, Nathaniel? This is not the boss room and that is what's worrying me. Also, is this an open room or are there walls? Yes. So this one is actually open. The room you were in, Renee, was had walls. So that's why you had to go through a door. But this one has railings and you can see that there is a massive pool of molten iron underneath you. Cool. That was 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60. Can I say that I'm using my dash to barrel into this guy? Or would that not be possible because I'm dashing. The action to dash, you can run into him but tackling him would take an action, I would say. Exactly. And I don't have an action. No. Bollocks. I'm going to stay away from him then and I'm actually going to check. Oh, that was 30. I was here. So let me just make sure. Five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35. I could go 40, 45, 50, 50, 60. You also could run the railings again. You also could run the 30 feet back. You could. Now that you've seen the room. It doesn't mean I'm on fire as I run. Oh, right. You can't leave. Yeah, I can't. It sets on fire as I run. It would. Oh, oh, never mind. Sorry, I forgot how to slow it. No, see, you're fine. I would run back otherwise, but I can't now. I'm doing the game. Well, I'm coming for you. I'll come for you. I'm going to go right here. Just kind of draw the line of fire that you have just created. Yeah, that's fine. I would like to. It's a bonus action. So I'm going to use unsettling words on this or just right in on. OK, I can choose one creature within 60 feet of me and have to subtract the number rolled for the next saving throw that it makes before the start of my next turn.  It just raises both middle fingers just. Yeah, I will say walking into that area, everything does notice you now. So show me everything. Well, I mean, like it's pretty loud and you open the door. Now Creek, like if you were to actually, let me see because they need to roll perception. That's a good idea. I thought that there was a little bit of space. That's true. That's true. A long distance. OK, let me see. Let me see. And I'm not like shrieking at the top of my lungs. I'm just like, what the fuck? Yeah, that is true. Hi. That is true. That's a fair point. I would be fine with these guys here in me because they're close enough that that would be an issue. Yes, whoops. That's not supposed to be there. Yes, I was rolling perception and who would notice you. So that's fair. I'll take those. I was like the entire thing I'm screwed because that's all the widgets. That's all the eyes. That's all that's those two guys. Everything on the left side of the room from this yellow line that I just drew. I know it's hard to see what with the yellow and orange. That's fair. That's from the elf to the left. Those notice. Yep. That's fair. I can I can deal with that. I can deal with my mistakes. It's fine. OK, and that was so Renee. What's your thing? You said that you were... I did dissonant whispers on that dude so he has a minus 1d8 on his next. He doesn't make a save or anything? Save. Yeah, on his next saving throw he'll have a minus whatever I roll right now. Oh, OK. He just notices you and he's like, you're not supposed to be here. I'm not. Why did you let me inhale?  With your with your unsettling words he just slumps his shoulders.  That's my mom now you. That's my mom. Wait a minute.  Yeah, I am dummy. I don't like that you gave him Storing's voice jokes. Whoops, sorry. I have depression. See, there we go. All right, Luna, your turn. Why are you in here? Why am I in here?  OK, OK. So, I want to keep up keeping this guy down. I don't know if I have to, if I just have him down until he contests again. Is that how this works? Yes, I think you can make attacks against him. I don't want to attack him.  OK, so that is a gap. But I don't know where they are. Notice there is no pathway here. That is a gap.  Yeah, that you need to jump. Does your echo have gains? Technically, that's not too far away for me to put my echo. Oh, OK. He can move within, he can move up to 30 feet away for me is his thing. That is, that is true. Yeah, it's just, I can't spawn him. I can't spawn him 30 feet away. I can spawn him 15 away, but he can go up to 30 feet away for me. So, if I could get him over the gap, I don't know if he makes those kind of checks. Your strength determines how far you can jump. Long jump. I assume this is what's going to, because it's a horizontal jump. When you make a long jump, you cover a number of feet up to your strength score if you move at least 10 feet on foot immediately before the jump. My strength score, so 15. Oh, he makes the jump easy. Cool. Echo dad's going over here. I always just roll. Rolling makes it easier. Echo dad's going over here, and he's going to be taking my two baps at these things for me. OK, awesome. All right. Show me the baps. Wait, I haven't used my bonus action yet, right? Nope. And not for this round. Hey, guys, is there anything for me to become a lighthouse? Lighthouse! Do it. Radiant consumption going on, because then I get the bonuses for Echo dad, and this guy starts to burn. That's actually kind of funny. OK, six damage every turn. It's three. Three damage every turn. I made a macro to always remind myself. So this is the consumption damage. So here we go. Absolution. Absolution also has fancy things on it now. That's a natural fail, though. That is a natural failure. But I have another attack. You do. Go ahead. Yeah. And again, absolution is a fancy thing on it now. 15 is enough. Yay. Does the Cleveland Chapman extend to Echo dad, or does it physically have to be my sword? I'm going to say, since it's on absolution, it extends. OK. Well, well, I'm assuming I attacked this one. Then I believe the other one, if I'm reading this correctly, the other one takes half the damage. OK. So this one takes five and this one takes two. Yeah. This one also takes six radiant damage because consumption. Rad. Oh, geez. OK. This one's dead. Just like a bright light singes it, and then a sword cuts it down. And dings into this one. And this one is nearly broken. And this guy is nearly out. He's on death's door. OK. Um, cool. That's my turn. That's all I've got. Actually, I'm done as I can. Yeah, that was everything. Wait. Uh-huh. I haven't unleashed my incarnation yet. Oh. Echo dad finished this thing off. Oh, wait. Incarnation. Incarnation? Unleashed incarnation. It's how I unlocked two attacks before I got two attacks. It was the Echo dad makes a second attack when I make an attack. Nice. Echo dad takes me again. Wait, Echo dad. Please, one more. Echo dad. Yes, one more. Yes, 16. Yep. 16. And then the sixth, that is enough. You swipe down and cuts the widget, and it breaks apart into several pieces. Onto the great. Is it an action to let this guy go, or would it just be I get up and go? You just leave. Then I actually, I don't have enough movement to clear that. So, yeah, that's my turn. I'm staying on this guy for now. Next to the protector's turn. This guy, seeing as he's outnumbered and out-sorted, he just lifts up both his hands with his face, like, just like muffled on the floor. I give up. I give up. Good. He has surrendered. Good job. Good job. God, he's got, like, so many status icons on him. I'm going to put a wing as an angel wings to, like, white flag him. Nice.  Hello. Okay, that's fine. That's fine. I'm coming, Renee. I promise. It's fine. Oh, yes. He gets a good hit on you.  A good hit would be seven slashing damage on you as he brings his axe down, and you try and move out of the way, but he's able to juke you, and just cuts you pretty hard. These Modrons start to fly and start to get towards you. Oh my god, there's so many. Leave me alone. Oh my god, there's so many. Only these two have noticed me so far, though, unfortunately, so. But still. Oh god, they move so fast. Oh god, they fly now. Yeah, they fly now. They fly now. I don't want to make the joke. They fly now. We're dead. And this elf is going to cast mage armor on himself.  Oh, he's a mage. He's a mage.  That's nice. Oh god. No, it's going to be fine. Look at him achieving his dreams. Nathaniel, your turn. Well, there's a lot of fire in the way. Yes. I'm going to one, two, three, four, five, six. I'm going to pick up my hat.  I will say with your massive passive perception, you can see through the door that let's see. I'll say you can see the line of sight. No, you can't. Never mind. Yeah. There's nothing I can do. Nope. Unfortunately. Like, what if I was here? Let's see. I did that instead. Not really. It's not really. I'm going to say you can see that modron. Okay. That's good enough. That's enough. That's all I need. Anything further is heart angles. Good. Good. Good. All right. In that case, I'm going to a little a little rude. Am I allowed to see the guy right behind him? Or is that would that be too much? I'm going to say I have an idea. Fuck. Damn it. Okay. Can given like the spatialness of time and how I'm walking down, is they're all flying over? I'm going to hold my. No, it'd be kind of metagame. I'm just going to use mind sliver. Okay. Yep. I don't want to metagame. I'm just going to hit this guy with mind sliver. I had a great idea, but so yeah, hit him with mind sliver. Don't have anything else to do. I'll wait up. These things aren't too, too smart, as they're mostly made for following directions. And yep, you mind sliver. It like twitches. And you can see like little sparks coming out of its head. Like a strong gust of wind could knock this thing over. Yeah. Well, that's me. Thanks.  Joe, I have a quick question. How high does the ceiling go for those greats? And how high do the flames go for those greats? So the ceiling above the greats is about just enough for you to fit. The ceiling is about 20 feet up and the flames go 15. You can just squeeze through the top. However, the door is not that tall. It's fine. I just need to get over these first round of flames. If you would like, you could probably fly just above these things and see out the door. Okay. As long as you don't step on them. So radiant soul is a bonus action. And then I am going to. Can I see the green man? You most certainly can kind of the green man through the flames. You can see a silhouette of someone next to the silhouette who you can probably guess is Renee, you know, it fits the frame. I'd know that middle finger anywhere. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I've seen that middle finger on many different occasions. I slightly adjust aim away from it. Thank you. Thanks. And I am going to take my shot with the gavel. Okay. Yes. That's enough. That's enough. Hooray. Yeah. And then also Damage. Yes. Out of the fire. And I'm going to say since it passed through the fire, your bullet gains bonus fire damage. And also, I do an extra six points of radiant damage because of my You get an additional d4 of fire damage since it's been heated up by the fire as it passes through. Okay. So let's roll a d4. Yeah. Because that's a long row of fire. Six, seven. So 14 points of damage altogether. Yeah. Okay. Nice.   Fun. I don't have a lot that I can do other than being very clever. So what I'm going to do is I'm pulling out my crossbow, but I'm basically going to like turn this guy around and aim it at his back. If I can and just say like, I'm going to need you to very calmly call off all of your men right now. Thank you. I'm just trying to like threaten him and be like, hey, you don't want to get shot again. Let's just try and make sure that I don't get shot too. Yeah. Let's just try and make sure I don't get shot. Please. And thank you either that. But I'm also using it to basically stay behind him and he's going to be my meat cushion. If it doesn't work out, then I just get to have a meat cushion. Which is fine. Now turning him around, I don't know that that you could probably just like move around him. I don't know that I would say you can turn him around. So when I go like here then. Yeah. Yeah. The only thing is that everyone's going to see me do it now. Possibly. But yeah, you can give me an intimidation. I'm okay with that. I'll do it. I'll do it. Yay. I did forget to mention that Kuro is also flying along with me. And he needed, he needed to, I wanted to see if I could try and make it. Get him out to fly over to here. Oh yeah, he probably could. Because he doesn't, he's not touching it. He's just flying. Yeah. Yeah. I want to see if I could use force cannon on the green guys. Now there is a wall to the right of. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Well then I just want him there. Okay. Cool. I need him just in case somebody goes down. Let me see if this guy. Does intimidation work please? Does he have disadvantage? Oh wait, is this a save? No, that's a saving throw. He has a 15 damage. I know. I was like, I might as well do it. If I don't get it, then it's okay. No, I mean it was cool role play. You also gave him, you also gave him unsettling words. So his morale is a little low. Yeah. After seeing whatever it was come through the fight. He lowers his axe and drops it and puts both his hands up. Call them off. And the elf like stops channeling his spell that he was preparing.  They still hold their rapiers, but they stop. So you have made the orcs surrender. However, you can see that the elf still looks a bit antsy. That's fair. You have convinced the orc. You have not convinced the elf. However, the elf is waiting on the orcs command. Are we still in initiative order? We are still in initiative. And since that was Renee, we're going to Luna. That works out great. Is the fear gone? Is the fire gone? Yes, actually, it would have been on her turn. So now the fire is gone. Well, it's about to come back because I saw it.  Listen, someone has to go help Renee. And it's got to be someone that's not as squishy as you. So it would be a dash. It's a full dash for me to get there. So I could listen. She's going to have to make it through at some point.  Here's what I'll do. Oh, I can still fly over the flames. Yeah, you're fine. Here's what I'll do to help with some of the frustration of this now because I didn't think about this. If you so wish, Enoch, you can, Luna can, I don't know, like lead you alongside her and you can move your movements. Can I grab his foot? I would have her movement, but. Well, yeah, that's the thing. This took my entire movement to get here. My dash and action to get here. Yeah. No, it's fine. It's fine. I can fly over it. Yeah, I'm not. I'm not going to worry too much about it. Well, the problem is that you can't fly into the door. Yeah, the door is not as tall as me. I don't just probably feel like an acrobatics or something. Maybe an acrobatics to avoid the flame. We'll see. That's what I'm thinking. I'm assuming there'll be a check just to get through the door. It's going to be an awesome moment. Let's just wait. All right. Yeah. Either that or you can sit on fire, which will be even more terrifying. If you're okay with it, should note, everything within 10 feet of me is taking 3 radiant damage. I'm not in 10 feet of you. Thank God. Nope, but that includes your captive, which is... That's okay. I didn't know you had your captive, and I apologize. You didn't know. It's okay. Luna is trying to help. Luna is trying her best. Yep, you run in and just the blinding light as the orc is like, I yield. I yield. Oh, good. Good. About you. And I point my sword at that one. That will be on the protector's turn. And this elf is holding a mechanism that seems to be communicating, as you can probably tell, like as he holds it. And all of the constructs are just waiting at his command. And he takes a few steps back, but he is going to hold his action. I think about what you're doing for a year. Nathaniel, your turn. Hmm. I see. There has been fire here, though.  I'm sorry. Yeah, but you know what you could do? You could go in the arms of an angel. He can fly you through the door.  You make them work together. Maybe to be friends. I want, I want many things in life. He could just misty step. I will not do that. All right. Let Nathaniel say, sir. He's making his own call. I'm sorry.  I'm just going to have to wait. There's fire here. I can't get down. Well, this is all right. I'm here. I will hold my action to hopefully go where Luna is, but I can't even do that yet. Oh, I can't. I cannot. I cannot.  So instead, I will wait until my next turn while everybody else funnels through. I can see the balancing issue that I did not take into account. I apologize. No, you just made a really good trap. It is a very good trap. Yeah. No, like this like actually makes us have to think about who we're sending in. If you so wish you can fly through every single at the top, of course, of the fire pillars until you reach the doorway, in which case you will have to make a dexterity save for the fire. Okay, okay. Yeah, I am a pretty dexterous man. Okay. The thing is that I can't even get up to, like I will still be hanging here, even if it is my turn. But crew can go. Yeah, you could. You could dash. Air dash. You could dash. Air dash. Yeah, that's that's how I got here. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I guess I'll dash. Yeah. Yeah. And then you can get through the door. Now that last one, I will need you to make a dexterity saving throw. I thought you had like a longer amount of speed when you're flying. Flight speed, I'm pretty sure is equal to your walking speed. Yeah. Okay, let's see. 22. That's pretty good. Okay, so that being my six. Okay, you do take four fire damage flying through. That's fair. As you are singed a bit and flying through, you can see that the more people coming through the flames, the more shaky the else hand gets. And I come just flying down through the door right over Luna's head and then stop at the other end. And that's padding off the flames. I just imagined like the force of it like sent Luna's ponytail going over her face. Basically like a jet engine. Yeah, yeah. You know how like that stereotype of like your coat getting put over your head because of a strong wind? Yeah. Yeah, no, that's when the ponytail like padding himself as hard as he can just to get any of the flames that's on him off. It's like and looking at the elf. Howdy. Safe landing, I see. Rough winds, obviously. And then Coro is also going to make a move. Okay, Coro will need to make the next save as well. Oh no. Okay. Go, little corgi. One, two, three, four, five. Swear to God, if anything happens to this dog. Go, little dog. We are getting kicked up a twitch. Takes the full damage. Kill the dog. Okay, however, it makes a dexterity saving throw to only take half damage. It instead takes no damage if it succeeds on a saving throw and only if they succeed. If it fails. If they succeed. Oh, also. Only half, only half if it fails. They can't use this trait if it's incapacitated. Okay. Oh. Coro takes five fire damage. Coro's down. Yeah, he was going to be down on my turn anyway because he's in my radiant consumption. Oh no. So basically when one of these guys, they just shut down, he just basically splits and he just lays out. Oh, he's a solid, right? He's shut down. No, he just stays there until I use Mending on him to heal him. Oh, okay, neat. He's mechanical. Yep. So you can see Coro just kind of like like falls apart into a couple of pieces and will need to be Mending. Oh no. Yep. Poor puppy. He's just a very tired dog right now. Renee, your turn. When I pulled with this guy, I'm going to pull on this guy because I see, do I see his hand shaking? Yep, you do. He's really shook. Cool.  You'll be like, there's more where this came from? Do you really want to try me right now?  You may roll an intimidation with advantage. Yeah. There are several of you. Okay. Angry French woman. His one guard has given up. Angry French woman is just not having it. 15. All right, 15. Let's see. The mage's just size. You should have given me a better partner and just drops the thing. And you guys are out of combat. They've surrendered. Yes. I'm dropping gradient consumption now. I don't want to continue to burn things. And you can see that all the the Mo Modrons just like stop and go to like land at the nearest safe spot. And you can see the widgets just like power down. All right. I appreciate you guys being so kind. And you can see that there is a door into a room over here and two mechanically locked doors over here. For I proceed here because I want to go up to this guy and make sure that he is not trying anything. I want to look at this dude. Do these flowers have the same lovely effects as in the other room? Yeah. Yeah, they do. Good to know. Are they something you can turn off or am I just going to have to sprint? Fasca and he calls out to the elf and he's like fine. And he's just like can I go pick this up please? And he points down to the little button. Wait till I get there. And I will sprint across. Okay. Yep. You sprint across. The fire follows behind you. And I'll say that this fire has dissipated. Nathaniel, if you want to head that way as well, you may.  Say that run past all this fire. Yep. I am going to get down on one knee. It's all right, you're safe, you're good, you're fine. I'm going to get down on one knee. I'm going to cast Mending on Crow, which does 2d6 healing. Nice. Yay. Which goes right back to full health. Oh, good boy, good boy. All right. And Luna, you can see that there is kind of a box-like device with several buttons. You can see that there is a lever kind of for the monodrons, a lever for the widgets. And you can see that there is a switch as well, presumably for the greats. Does this guy, does he still look shifty or does he just look kind of more like, is he giving kind of like a Julius thing where he's just like, you know, done and tired? He's just consistently looking at you with a stink eye, dividing his attention between you and his orc companion. Because he's very unhappy with the situation that he's in, but he doesn't look like he's about to do any sudden movements. Okay, I'll look at him, kind of like jerk my blade towards the ground.  He slowly reaches down and flips the switch and you can see underneath the greats, there seem to be circles that kind of cover the holes that just all come in unison, covering the floor beneath you. Now take your hand off it. He lifts both his hands and puts them kind of way up. And walk that way and she's motioning in this direction. I appreciate you being so concerned that then you're running in like that, but she's kind of looking cocky but also like very like pleased with herself like, I've got things fixed you doubted here and you didn't have to. Yeah, there's no more fighting. Tell me. You cannot hide it. Which one of you created this fiery trap? The orc just looks over to his elf buddy and he speaks up. Uh, we didn't really make any of these. They were all run down, but we were shown how they work. I see by who? He's just tightening his lip. Darling, you might as well tell him because the only way that he's going to get information out of you otherwise is not going to be pleasant. And I'm nice. If you tell us, will you let us go?  If we tell you, will you let us go? I know you're scared, it's fine. That depends entirely on what you tell me. I will let you know this. When I came in here, I was in a very forgiving mood. The more that I have to wade through this fiery, stab, happy, maniacs workshop, the less of a forgiving mood I'll be. Oh no. And if I have to return here without the answers that you could give me right now, I will be in a very unhappy mood. No role needed for that. The elf just elbows the orc.  Listen, Castelia was talking with this human. He showed us how this place works, teleported us in, and gave us that button, taught us how it worked. The button over there? Yeah. I'm going to go back and get it. No, don't. Did this human have a half mask and a green stubble? Yeah, he did.      Good. Well, we already knew that, but at the very least, you were truthful. So, uh, what happens now? That is actually a very excellent question. Oh, for now, you're going to both need to be, uh, restrained. Let's go, of course. But for now, I need to make sure that once we come back here, we're not going to have to deal with fiery jets of lava.  And I hold up the button. I appreciate that, actually.  Yes, actually. That would be a good idea for you. They both look at each other. What do you mean by that? I...  What do we mean is we're not going to kill you. You're going to be put a little bit into just a little bit of my sleep for a little while, maybe a few hours. Give or take. You might have a headache after, but you'll be alive. But you'll have a pleasant sleep. You won't have to worry about much. All right, who's knocking them out? I'll let you go. Me? Luna's got the sword. I was just going to... I was just going to bap him with the pop of my blade, but you were trying to say something, Nathaniel? Oh, I mean, I was just going to say, if Luna's going to knock out one, I will take my hand and bring it to the side of the orc's face, and then we can in tandem do it. Sure, sure. Yeah, no, I have a... I don't know why I really want to smack this elf, but yeah, I want to smack him. Snack him. Yep. I will say no rules are required, because they're restrained. They're not resisting, and you would... If one hit didn't knock them out, I would assume you kept going until it would. Yep, I will very calmly hand to face mine's liver, mine's liver, mine's liver, mine's liver, mine's liver. Oh! Yeah, do sorry until it goes to sleep. You incapacitate them both. Well done.  I think you might want control of this, and I'll give you the button. I think having you in control of the fire is the smartest thing.  It's what they use to control the floors. Let's switch on the side. I'm going to investigate all these buttons. With your passive investigation of eight, I think it was? Absolutely not. What was it? No, plus eight is what he means. So here's the thing. My investigation is better than my perception. I have a passive... Or I have a passive investigation of 20. Let me make sure. Just I believe the observant also gives this to me. Yep, it's a passive investigation of 23. Nathaniel, what the hell? With a passive investigation, you're able to figure out the controls very easily. These monodrones and widgets can follow very simple basic commands with those controls, which is what all they're good for. You can select...  That's a very good idea. And are these things alive? They are... no, they are constructs. Okay, that's understood.   That would be an awesome way to slow people down. Yes, it would. We're keeping that button. Hmm, right. Oh wait, sorry, you can either control... Sorry, let me be specific. Since there are separate controls for the monodrones and the widgets, you can command either one. The widgets are ranged, the monodrones are melee, so they will have to fly within range of your target. Why am I being given an army? What is this? Where are you putting... What are you hiding inside of that boss room? All right, I will spend some time collecting all of the monodrones and the widgets and putting them in one big group over here. All right, great. Is it okay if I... That looks like a box and I kind of want to open it. That's a box. I want to open it. Okay. You may. And let me just... I'm the one with probably the best sleight of hand here. Yeah, I'm just gonna stay next to you in case it's a mimic. Again. Yeah, like last time. Come here, Coro. Oh, don't get your dog eaten by it. Come on now. Listen, he is a combat dog specialist that is specifically designed in order to help those who fall in battle and also to bark really, really, really loud at enemies. So sleight of hand. A minor tweak that needs to be made when we get back. I'm gonna put my tools. I got these tools and a sleight of hand of plus six for unlocking. It does not need to be unlocked. It's just a normal chest. Oh, okay. Well, yeah. You're like getting all your tools ready. Then you go, oh, there's no lock on it. Okay. It's just a simple link. Kick it open. A simple storage chest. You kick it open and roll initiative. It's a mimic. Yep. Dark Souls music starts. With the objection pointed out at the entire time. Cure feels fishy. I bet you appreciate how they get it now. I'll be down here now, just looking at all of the. As a matter of fact, I do not. These things are remotely controlled, and I imagine that if there's something that made them understand them better than we do, it might have an override control. It might be better that we just destroy them now. So inside, inside you find one potion of healing, 10 gold pieces, and what is called a gravity rod. What? And it will need to be identified, because you don't know what it does. It just has the name gravity rod. Okay, well, you find a rod of some kind. Gravity rod. That can be extended and contracted that looks very wand shaped, but we're just going to name it gravity. Rod. Rod's a different thing from a wand. They're different items. Yes, they are. Well, your face is a different item. Got them. I tell all my robots to move down 15 feet. Anyway.   I'm probably going to see what's going in that there, because it looks like the wilds from earlier hit that place. This is a trap. I know that these robots are a trap. I know it's a trap. I don't care. No, it's not robots. They're a trap. I'm not getting an army. Renee. Renee. Yes. May I come with you? Okay, quick question. How many healing potions was it? One. One. One. One. I'm going to give that healing potion, and I'm going to have our boy carry it around. Coro. Coro's going to carry the healing potion. Coro's going to carry. He's like, what are those rescue dogs that like rescue from the snowstorm? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm going to inform the party, hey, if y'all start feeling a little sick, Coro's got you covered, and I point towards the healing potion on one of the little, like it's just kind of stored between the nape of his neck and along his back. Well, if anyone wants to take it, they can. I'm fine. I could use it. Yeah, you probably could. Coro, go. What a, what a, what a, what a. I'm also going to use my healing hands on myself. Here I go with my drinking again. Hey, so give me 2d4 plus 2. Glug, glug, glug. Glug, glug, glug, glug. Not bad. Nice. Almost all of my health is back. Yay. Hey. Very nice. I'm one HP down. Let's do this. Coro goes pork. God. Pork. Pork. Pork. So you guys, uh, you guys not exploring these locked doors at all? Not yet. I cannot deactivate until you tell me that your service is satisfied. Okay. You are satisfied with your healthcare. All right. Uh, I totally realized that I didn't update the thing on the roll 20. I updated it on the D&D Beyond but I didn't update on the roll 20. So I was like, I'm fine. I'm in full health. Look at my D&D Beyond sheet. Oh no. Never mind. I died. So what are you guys doing now? I want to go over here. To this door. Because it looks like the wires led that way. And I am following Renee so she does not get separated by walls of fire again. I am not going to split the party even though I really want to know what this is but. I really do too. But I'm prioritizing this. We will come back for it. We can catch it on the way back. We're going to catch it on the way back. Yeah, we'll come back for it. I am prioritizing trying to figure out what the hell the wires are and then we'll come back. Okay. Sounds great. Let's deal with the protectors then we can go exploring. Yeah. Yes. Exploring. Renee, lead the way. Wait a minute. All right. Opening the door.   Have they noticed us yet? They have not, it seems.  I didn't make a thing for them. How have I not? Oh, well, I'll just show how I jankily have shown. So yes, you can see they're bickering amongst themselves and they haven't noticed you. What are they bickering about? You listen in and they seem to just be arguing over the plan. No, no, no. Cassie said to wait here for those goons to come in. No, no, no. Cassie said for us to go out and go get him. Renee might actually like gesture back for the device. Just like, did it, did it? What? Just to gesture back for the device. Basically like give, give, give, give, give. Would they control these ones? No, I have a plan. I was going to just try and like pretend that I'm a goon. All right, I'll hand it off to you. Yeah, I mean, I don't know how well it's going to work, but I might as well just try and put on a performance. At the very least, it'll get us in the room long enough to situate ourselves. Can I just say that I stay within 10 feet of you so that somebody can help you with kicks?  That's fine.  I love Renee. I love Renee. I don't want anything to happen to her. All right. Okay. But all right. I am basically just like deep breaths. And then oh boy. Okay. So you head on in and like at the first step both their ears twitched these two Tabaxi and they both kind of take a defensive stance and you can see them. I will put this in the group chat and then show the chat chat. Yay. The chat chat. Yep. Oh, that's so hot. So these two Tabaxi. Of course they are. Of course they are. They are. They are twins. It's a sparkle cat. Twiddle D and twiddle.  Twiddle D and twiddle. It's a sparkle cat. Twiddle D and twiddle G. Twiddle. Oh, my. Why? I don't know how to do it but consistently. There is not a single person in balconies but it's not attractive. Yeah. So Renee's going to walk in. They both raise their fists towards you Renee. Just kind of like widening their stance. Halt. All right. All right. No need. No need to. Calm down. It's no need for all that. They see the button in your hand and they both kind of in unison tilt their head. They don't remember you. No, she was the one. She was the one. She was at that place. No, she wasn't. What place?  I'm literally brand new.  Give me a deception. Okay. I love how easily you switched into that two guys. That was good. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Really not 25. You can see the darker haired one just kind of goes and baps the other one kind of on the chest. See, we didn't meet her before but now she's here. She's probably a new recruit. Welcome. Thank you. Now can you tell me what the fucks are going on? I'm just trying to figure that out. Those two not tell you on the way. I told you they were unreliable.  They won't even be nice to me. Well, the white haired one speaks up. I'm Yaltool and then the black haired one speaks up. And I'm Koutool and we're and they both pose lieutenants of the protectors. Oh god. That's very nice to meet you. My name's Elaine. It's nice to meet you. They both kind of send a hand to you but they kind of like bicker and kind of bad each other's hands on who gets to shake yours first. Oh my god. I love them. Don't make me love them. Sorry. If you weren't, I assume you want to know what's going on because those bungle heads didn't tell you.  You can't trust no one in here. I know, right? Yeah. God, especially this thing. This thing right here, this crystal, Cassie told us that this thing was supposed to activate these Warforged but it's missing.  It's got a little orb. Supposedly, something round is supposed to go in there but we can't find it. She said, Oh, just look harder.  Oops.  I know. I thought all the stuff was supposed to be in here to start with. I know. That's what she told us but apparently somebody nicked it. Oh, that is just downright shabby of them. Now we've got these hunts of metal that don't do anything. All that things. This thing forgot to backseat.   Can I go take a look? I might be able to see what's going on. Too right. Go take it. Take a look. Oh, much. Much appreciated. Thank you. Thank you so much.  I'm just going to knock it over. Basically, I want to look like I'm fussing around with it and then I'm just going to accidentally knock it over. Like, oops. Just for the, I just want to make sure I'm still out of sight from these two. Uh-huh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I assume you're like just like behind the wall at an angle. Yeah. Yeah. No, I'm literally just wait listening for signs of distress from Renee. That's it. Perfect. Yeah. No, I'm just going to accidentally quote unquote knock this over. But while I'm trying my best to figure out what's going on, like, maybe if I twist it like this, boom. Yeah. You knock it over and it just just loses all its color. And they're like, oh, be careful with that. Hey, that's things important. Hey, sorry. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.   No way. We're going to tell Cassie she's going to kill us. Very only if she finds out. Hey, maybe, maybe because I'm new, I'll be able to sort of figure things out with them. So I'll go ahead and take a fall. Wait a minute. It's first day. First and stakes. The yo tool walks up. Uh-oh. So you just a newbie coming in here thinking you know about crystals. What are your qualifications? I was specifically recruited. I've been working with Warforge most of my life. Give me one more deception. Come on. Go along with me. Come on. Go along with me. Come on. Rainy. Oh my god. Bonjour. No. Go along with me. Code. Fucking. Code tool just walks up and just kind of slaps her sister on the back of the head. Oi, stop being so mean to the new recruit. All right. Sorry. Sorry. Fine. Jeez. Thank you. Listen, no worries.  Listen, glow and reviews all around. Listen. Apologies for my sister's rudeness. Listen. We got some nice loot in these chests. If you would like us a little bit of an apology, you can grab one of them. I still want to keep one of them because they're fancy. Are you sure? I want it in true as she's like making her way over to the chest. Oh, I'll take a look at it. I'll take a look at it and see if there's anything. Not much use for weapons. We just mostly pumps things, but you can have one of them. No, that's super fair. Let me just see if there's anything I can grab. Maybe like I can rework one of those things with the more foolishness. And they both kind of, they're both kind of shoulder to shoulder pushing and shoving each other as they look in this chest. Okay, what the fuck's in here? Okay. I feel bad that we're probably going to have to fight these two. Why do you make every member of this one of Jeff so charming? I wonder if I can lock the door behind me. This is a non-issue.  All right, you look at that chest. I don't really know what my accent is right now. And you, yeah, I don't know either. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's what I mean. You were just like, it's cockney. It's like kind of cockney. You find several, just like scraps of metal, possibly some crafting materials. So you can get that. A coin purse that contains eight gold pieces. Mine. And that's mine.  They look in a similar kind of design as all the warforged in this factory. These will also need to be identified to see what they do. However, you can still use them as a basic improvised weapon. Cool. I'm just going to take those. I'm sure that our happy little artificer is going to have a ball with those. Maybe they'll be good bones for the dog. Anyway. I'm just going to take those and be like, all right. Maybe I can see what I can do with these. Thank you so much again. I really deeply apologize. So I'm going to make sure that you can see what's going on. Make sure I let you know everything. Coach. And please, could you tell her to give us someone send us something about if those goons are coming down here or not? We're getting bored. Absolutely. Listen, I totally understand. I will make sure that they come down here. Coach, I want to punch something.  All right. You guys know a fun game you can play about. You got actually, you know a fun game you guys can play while you're busy. Oh, I like games.  Why do you why do you hold hands out like this and like basically holding both our hands out palms up? Uh-huh. Our palms are palms down, actually. And then Renee is going to put her hands underneath and then flip them around and smack the hands. It's a game. It's a game of speed, see. And you guys can see which one's the fastest by seeing if you can slap the other one's hand before they pull them away. And it's also a game of deception.   They're going to play it for hours. Yeah. Yeah.  Turn to each other. And coach was like, you go first. I don't want to go first. You go first. You got to see how she did it. You're just going to cheat. I'm not going to look. Okay, fine. I'll go first. And then they start to play slaps, essentially. Yes.  I'll go make sure everything comes shut. And they see what they're doing. And they continue to bicker amongst themselves. You cheat. No, no, no, no, no. No, look. And she comes over and like their voices fade. Lock the door. Lock the door. Lock the door. Can we lock the door or barricade it with something? Well, it does. Well, whatever locking mechanism would be there. I don't think you would recognize, but you could, I don't know, how would you, how would you try to barricade it? I mean, we have all those mechanical things. We could just ask them to stay, stay put, barricade the door. Let's see. Oh, oh, I have an idea. I have an idea. What is your idea? From being an officer, I was able to make an alchemy jug. Because I remember this. And I am wondering if I could use acid to melt the metal together. Smelt it closed. Do you have an alchemy jug on you right now? Yes, I do. I do. Okay. It's from being an artificer. You get a magical item. I don't think, I don't think you get one. It's one of your infusions. Oh, it's your infusion. Yeah, yeah. All right.  I cork the top, close the door as quietly as possible and just pour acid to where the point that the metal begins to slightly melt together. Okay. All right. Well, that was something else. Well, I will see if the metal is weak enough to be melted. We'll see. Worst case, if not, that we made an attempt. I feel like Luna is just staring at your Renee with just this like... What?  That was amazing. Well, you just did. Thank you. That is part of what I do. That, yeah, I know what you do. I'm not much of a fighter. I know that. That was good. That was really good. All right. You pour the acid kind of along the doorframe and it slowly starts to melt. It's going to take a little bit of time, but you can tell there's wear and tear on this entire kind of factory. So this thing is not holding together well. So given enough time, this will warp this doorframe. All right. Question. Does this door have hinges? It does. Yes. Is there like a piece of scrap metal anywhere around me? You're going to wedge the door. I mean, I take the bench. Yeah, I was thinking just wedging something in the hinge to like keep it there while we're waiting for the acid to melt. I'm going to make this very simple for everybody. I'm going to like command two of these mojrens to just hold the door closed. Yay, thank you. Beep boop, do job. All right.  No, just hold the close. Hold door. Hold the line. Do we want to check out what these doors are? Do you? You can if you want. Now you can see some large locking mechanisms on those doors. Very old and very worn, but also very complex looking like with lots of gears and kind of handles and such. Okay. Wait, it's a very complicated lock? Yes. I'm a very complicated person. I'm going to try to pick the lock. Okay. Do you need my thief stools again? I think I still have my own. I haven't broken them. Did you have them? Yeah. I thought you didn't have them before I gave them to you. Oh. I let you borrow mine. I see. In that case, mojren come here. You are my thief stools. You're going to pick apart the mojren and like use them. Is it going to object? It is not. It is under your hand. I could just give you my lock. I would like to have my own so that I don't have to keep asking for yours. Okay. Okay. Yeah, you can easily pick apart the pieces and bolts and kind of wires of the mojren as it like slowly falls apart like pieces of its arm and wing and you are able to fashion yourself your own set of thieves tools.  I command it to walk five feet to the left. Oh no. It walks and just kind of like tries to flap with its one working wing up onto the rail and into the lava. I do hate to interrupt, but before we might potentially set up a trap, have we gone over these bodies yet to loot them before we, you know, want to unleash our McKinnon? Yes. I just feel like that's something good to get out of the way before whatever the hell happens here and I'm sorry. We'll do Nathaniel's lockpicking first and then we can loot those. Okay. Bring it on. So with a 17 and these, yeah, I was going to say these are different from the other lock that you had all the time, even though you have all the time in the world with this one. Yes, you do require a check and the reason being is because 17 is not enough and the door has a kind of second door above it that slams shut and that door has been locked down. Right. Well, that's unfortunate. However, there is one more door that leads to the same. Do you want to try again? I am not incredibly adept at opening these doors. I mean, neither am I, but. What do you need done? Try to open these doors and it seems like they have a little safe proof thing if you don't get it done in time. It seems that the lock is, it has its own defense mechanism. If you are capable of unlocking it for us. I can pick locks. Can you pick locks as good as me though? I'm not saying that in a mean way. Who is picking the lock? I'm staring down Enoch for that comment. Like, all right, go for it, sir. I got a plus six. Go for it.  Yeah, no, no, no. What she's going to do is she's going to slowly.  Just go for it then. You made the woman mad.  All right, fine. Geez. I have to God you can open that door. You're going over the side. Enoch, before you start. Yeah. You look at me. I look at you. We look at each other. Okay. I expect you to do well. And I give you my bardic inspiration. Is that the first bardic inspiration to Enoch from Nathaniel? Correct. Oh, my God. To be fair, I don't throw them out very often because I usually use mantle of inspiration. It's very rare. It's because I use mantle of inspiration so much, but I want this to be. It's arguably more useful to us. You have an additional d8 that you may spend. Very, very good. All right. Also, can I have Kuro provide me with a help action to give me a vantage? I'm going to say not for these locks. These are very particular locks that are old and foreign to you. And that Kuro would not be able to help in any way unless Kuro somehow knows ancient history of balcony locks. I don't know. Did you install that? I put that in his backup file.  Did you install that software onto him? You haven't gotten the ancient tools update? Yeah, eventually. All right. Let's give it a go. 12. And?  Oh, my God. I mean, what's the inspiration? It's a d8. It's a d8? Okay. No. 16 and 1, unfortunately. The second lock, you hear a kachunk. And the door slam shut. What was that? What was that about? Can you pick a lock as good as me? What was that? My expectations have been not met. Oh, the. Cheers. Maybe you should watch your tongue next time, Enoch.  That was. Well, we didn't get what's inside of that door.  Okay. What's inside of that door? Let's continue moving. Yeah. So we will call the session here. Thank you for playing, guys. Thank you. I'm glad to be back in it. Yeah. Oh, my God. I've missed this so much. I do. Yeah.