Dungeon Crawl Classics - Veiled Vaults of the Onyx Queen 04

[00:00:00] The Rancors Brothel presents

[00:00:02] Dungeon for a while

[00:00:35] You got anything you want to do?

[00:00:37] Fucking Walter Payton, Reggie White, you name it.

[00:00:39] I am running through those guys like a defensive line and taking that boy all the way to Alter Town.

[00:00:44] Those are two different positions.

[00:00:47] Yep.

[00:00:49] To do what?

[00:00:50] Two different sides of the ball.

[00:00:52] Hoping to take Skelly Boy all the way to the altar.

[00:00:56] Right, you're running, you're running, you're running. Are you stopping in front of the altar or are you doing something?

[00:01:01] Does anything happen as I run through that line?

[00:01:04] You see several heads turn towards you and be like what the hell.

[00:01:09] Next round they will be reacting.

[00:01:11] Do I see the stairwell as well?

[00:01:13] Yes.

[00:01:13] I run towards the stairwell.

[00:01:15] Okay, you'll get there next round.

[00:01:17] Sure.

[00:01:17] Right now you are right in the middle of the ritual.

[00:01:20] Yep.

[00:01:21] Okay.

[00:01:22] Yep, if I had a stick of dynamite, just toss her in there.

[00:01:25] Okay, this round the blue flames within the Great Urn rise tall like writhing phantoms,

[00:01:30] bleeding darkness into the air while an unnatural wind begins to blow, scattering debris throughout the hall.

[00:01:37] The entire circle of cultists are too intent upon the unholy ceremony to notice the PCs at this time.

[00:01:44] Next round, Spencer, what are you doing?

[00:01:47] So I pull out the holy symbol that I got from McCheese.

[00:01:52] Gotcha.

[00:01:53] And I hold it up and I say, be gone filth.

[00:01:59] And I have a plus one to turn on holy checks.

[00:02:04] Can you tell me what holy symbol that is and who you're praying to?

[00:02:08] The God of Cheese.

[00:02:12] The God of Cheese, man. Come on.

[00:02:15] Well, the holy symbol that I got from him, that was from a random crate in a random room.

[00:02:22] I know. Why don't you make me a roll and see if you even know anything about it?

[00:02:27] You ever seen Salem's Lot?

[00:02:30] 11.

[00:02:31] Okay. What is your alignment?

[00:02:33] I was neutral, now I'm lawful.

[00:02:36] Oh, so this is the Squire?

[00:02:37] Yeah.

[00:02:38] Okay. It fits. I mean, that's justicia.

[00:02:42] Lawful goddess. Make me a personality check. I want to see...

[00:02:49] 14.

[00:02:50] That's pretty decent. That would pop a spell.

[00:02:53] It might.

[00:02:54] I'll give it to you.

[00:02:56] I need it because he's all I got left.

[00:02:59] Yeah.

[00:03:01] I like that.

[00:03:03] Jeff feeds into clerics.

[00:03:04] I do. I like clerics.

[00:03:07] I mean, you're not a cleric. You're going closer to Paladin than you are a cleric.

[00:03:13] But a light just explodes from this and the thing cowers.

[00:03:19] Sweet.

[00:03:19] It turns and runs.

[00:03:20] That's what I wanted. Sweet. Hopefully runs towards the chaos.

[00:03:25] Can't make a luck roll to see if it runs one way or the other.

[00:03:28] Oh no. You're lucky you got that.

[00:03:32] You're lucky you didn't tear your face off.

[00:03:34] I know.

[00:03:34] If you make it out of this, you've got an end with justicia.

[00:03:39] Sweet.

[00:03:40] Okay?

[00:03:41] It's a real big F.

[00:03:42] Yeah, it is.

[00:03:44] That's your only character?

[00:03:45] Troy.

[00:03:46] Steve would not have seen that other door or the stairway.

[00:03:50] Nope.

[00:03:50] Would he have felt himself out of sight enough to make a run for back the other way?

[00:03:56] Yeah, if he stopped at the stairs going from the first chamber down into this,

[00:04:01] he'd have seen the skeleton charge past him.

[00:04:05] Okay. He will turn, tail and go back upstairs.

[00:04:09] Okay.

[00:04:10] So you'll meet up with the new cleric.

[00:04:14] The other folks will move towards the other stairway that they saw.

[00:04:20] So they're going to rush through the clerics?

[00:04:21] Yeah.

[00:04:22] Or rush through the cultists.

[00:04:24] Well no, he cut to the side when he got to him so he's avoiding.

[00:04:27] Oh, I see what you're saying.

[00:04:28] Yeah.

[00:04:29] He's running down the wall now.

[00:04:31] Much less cool than what I'm doing, but probably safer.

[00:04:33] No, I agree.

[00:04:34] But I wouldn't get there necessarily this round, would I?

[00:04:37] You'd get to the stairs.

[00:04:39] Okay.

[00:04:40] So before then exiting the stairs, throw some stuff.

[00:04:47] How many daggers do you have?

[00:04:48] Three.

[00:04:49] Three?

[00:04:50] Okay.

[00:04:50] I've collected them every time.

[00:04:51] No, I know you have.

[00:04:52] So I have two now.

[00:04:53] Yeah.

[00:04:55] Twelve?

[00:04:56] That'll hit a cultist.

[00:04:58] Two.

[00:04:59] Okay.

[00:05:01] Sling will go at a different cultist though.

[00:05:04] That will not hit.

[00:05:05] Okay.

[00:05:06] And you've gotten to the stairs.

[00:05:08] Steve's going back the other way.

[00:05:09] I don't have a luck token anymore.

[00:05:11] Cody.

[00:05:11] What is happening as we all come running in and this shenaniganry that is going down?

[00:05:19] You see them collecting themselves now and they're about to turn on you.

[00:05:22] There is some kind of ritual going on.

[00:05:26] You're close enough, you'd be able to pick it out.

[00:05:28] You see tentacles coming out of this black cloud and like snapping onto the corpses

[00:05:34] one at a time and yanking them back.

[00:05:37] Where's our skelly boyfriend at?

[00:05:39] He is about to rip into some cultists.

[00:05:41] Cool.

[00:05:43] Actually, judging by what's about to happen, it looks like he's tearing through the

[00:05:48] cultists to get to you.

[00:05:51] So is he still focused on us, right?

[00:05:55] Primarily, yes.

[00:05:56] But it looks like he will be delayed.

[00:05:59] Gotcha.

[00:05:59] Jesus will scream something about fighting back the darkness and he will run towards

[00:06:07] the altar and sling one of his holy symbols in the general direction of the people on

[00:06:14] there or the inky blackness.

[00:06:15] He really is not aiming well.

[00:06:17] Which one?

[00:06:19] Well, I figure if he misses one, he'll probably hit the other.

[00:06:21] That's fair.

[00:06:22] Generally, he's letting Jesus take the wheel.

[00:06:27] Okay.

[00:06:28] So he's just generally slinging shit to sling shit.

[00:06:31] High or low?

[00:06:32] Low.

[00:06:34] Low for the bodies.

[00:06:36] High.

[00:06:37] You want me to roll something?

[00:06:38] Yeah, I don't care which.

[00:06:39] Or what die?

[00:06:41] Roll to 24.

[00:06:42] On?

[00:06:43] I don't know that die.

[00:06:44] 24 is high.

[00:06:46] So it goes, it hits the bodies, right?

[00:06:49] Sure.

[00:06:50] He just slinging it.

[00:06:51] I don't care.

[00:06:52] Because obviously the power of cheese is just going to banish all this shit, Jeff.

[00:06:55] With one fatal mozzarella blow.

[00:07:00] That's a 19.

[00:07:02] Okay.

[00:07:03] To winging this bullshit.

[00:07:04] Two points of damage.

[00:07:05] Cool.

[00:07:06] I imagine like Star David perfectly spinning through the air and plinks into a dead

[00:07:12] body and chain swings.

[00:07:15] Who's next?

[00:07:17] I mean, it's worth a shot.

[00:07:19] I was going to throw shit at shit.

[00:07:21] Any other suggestions?

[00:07:23] I was hoping to hit a priestess or something.

[00:07:25] The evil queen.

[00:07:27] You said you were throwing it at the bodies or at the black thing.

[00:07:30] The living bodies, not the dead bodies.

[00:07:32] Oh, okay.

[00:07:33] Okay.

[00:07:34] I'm sorry.

[00:07:35] The living bodies.

[00:07:37] You need to specify these things.

[00:07:39] Well, I didn't realize that there were...

[00:07:40] Which one?

[00:07:41] Well, the evil queen.

[00:07:43] Okay.

[00:07:44] Evil queen.

[00:07:45] Go for it.

[00:07:46] You rolled a 19.

[00:07:47] Two damage, right?

[00:07:48] Yep.

[00:07:49] Okay.

[00:07:50] Cool.

[00:07:51] All right.

[00:07:52] Yeah, I mean we can continue to do that.

[00:07:54] Cheechin had a dagger so he could throw.

[00:07:56] Are you staying there?

[00:07:58] This is a drive-by.

[00:08:00] Okay.

[00:08:01] Cheechin will throw a dagger.

[00:08:04] He rolled an eight.

[00:08:06] Against the queen?

[00:08:07] Yeah.

[00:08:08] Miss.

[00:08:09] Kind of figured.

[00:08:10] And Lonnie will throw one as well but with his minus four he basically needs

[00:08:13] a crit.

[00:08:14] I rolled a two.

[00:08:15] So I rolled a negative two.

[00:08:17] All right.

[00:08:18] And you guys take off towards the stairs.

[00:08:20] Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep.

[00:08:22] As the chanting rises, dark threads of black vapor serpentine from the urns,

[00:08:26] interweaving themselves into a growing shadow.

[00:08:29] A reek of septic flesh fills the chamber with the promise of approaching doom.

[00:08:34] The crowned woman whirls her narrow eyes alight with red lust for murder.

[00:08:40] No one defies the queen, she screeches.

[00:08:42] All of you must die.

[00:08:44] All remaining cultists form a protective perimeter around the queen and priest,

[00:08:49] attacking anyone who approaches or getting mown down by a giant skeleton.

[00:08:54] Yep.

[00:08:57] Yeah, they jump in front of the queen to protect her from this skeleton.

[00:09:03] And let's just see.

[00:09:05] Let me find the skeleton.

[00:09:09] I just don't know.

[00:09:10] I just don't know.

[00:09:11] I mean, I don't imagine the skeleton itself being that tough necessarily.

[00:09:16] You would imagine wrong.

[00:09:18] Yeah, I imagine it hits hard.

[00:09:21] Did you see all his pictures of the shit he did?

[00:09:26] Ghosts are easier to kill.

[00:09:29] I'm sorry.

[00:09:30] I'm missing page.

[00:09:32] I believe he rolls at a plus 15 Jeff and probably has 800 hit points.

[00:09:37] Not quite that much.

[00:09:39] Sorry, 765.

[00:09:40] I was rounding up.

[00:09:42] Okay, that's a hit on the first one.

[00:09:46] That's more than enough to kill it.

[00:09:48] He continues to cleave.

[00:09:51] That's...

[00:09:52] He's getting multiple attacks.

[00:09:55] It's almost like every time he fells a foe, he continues.

[00:10:02] So he killed the next one, Jeff?

[00:10:04] Yeah, he did.

[00:10:05] So that's four of them dead now because Troy already killed two of them.

[00:10:09] He only said there were nine, so...

[00:10:12] Okay, that one missed.

[00:10:13] So he just took out three of them.

[00:10:18] What's his plus?

[00:10:20] Yes, it still missed.

[00:10:22] Still missed.

[00:10:23] Thank you though.

[00:10:24] That's worth a shot.

[00:10:26] Six, three, yes, still missed.

[00:10:28] But he still took out, so what, seven of them are out now?

[00:10:31] Something like that.

[00:10:32] Yeah, so there aren't many cultists left.

[00:10:35] Okay, so the other thing.

[00:10:37] Steve is running back.

[00:10:40] He's going to get attacked by a fleeing zombie thing.

[00:10:43] God damn it.

[00:10:45] Troy, man, I'm so sorry, bud.

[00:10:47] How has the zombie caught up to me?

[00:10:49] It was coming out of the alcove.

[00:10:51] It's running away from the alcove as you're running back in.

[00:10:54] But the new cleric of justicia just...

[00:10:56] Okay.

[00:10:57] God damn it.

[00:10:59] It's gonna miss.

[00:11:00] Oh, thank God.

[00:11:01] I can't deal with the amount of guilt of things I've done to Troy in this game.

[00:11:05] You killed Captain America!

[00:11:07] Again.

[00:11:09] Okay, that's it for me.

[00:11:11] What are you guys doing?

[00:11:13] Steve is running back upstairs to the prince's room.

[00:11:18] Okay, so you're heading up that way.

[00:11:20] We'll get to you.

[00:11:21] What's your other two guys doing?

[00:11:23] Three guys.

[00:11:25] The ones over there by the door.

[00:11:27] Running to that staircase.

[00:11:29] I don't know if it goes up to the same place.

[00:11:32] You get up the stairs, it comes out in a secret door right in front of the alcove with the door and the four angel statues.

[00:11:39] Oh, okay.

[00:11:41] I mean, I think they would still also go upstairs because there's something to be solved there.

[00:11:48] Steve has figured it out.

[00:11:50] Everybody else knows something needs to be figured out, but I don't know that we know as a group.

[00:11:56] But I think Steve thinks he knows.

[00:11:58] Two rounds.

[00:12:00] That's probably being very generous, but two rounds.

[00:12:07] Cody.

[00:12:08] This platform.

[00:12:09] Can we get up on it?

[00:12:11] What platform?

[00:12:12] The sort of area where there are these braziers and the horrible darkness and...

[00:12:18] There's no platform.

[00:12:20] It's just on the other side of the altar.

[00:12:22] I think there's a component we've missed.

[00:12:25] Is there a way to get...

[00:12:27] Can I run around the altar?

[00:12:29] Yes.

[00:12:30] We're going to continue our Three Stooges routine as we're going to run counterclockwise around the entire setup.

[00:12:38] Okay.

[00:12:39] I see you.

[00:12:40] I see what you're doing.

[00:12:41] Dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge.

[00:12:44] And if I can knock over anything that looks important while doing it, I will do that as well.

[00:12:48] Anything like what?

[00:12:50] People, braziers, darkness.

[00:12:53] Once you get past the altar, there's no other people.

[00:12:56] There are braziers.

[00:12:57] There are black gloopy demon-y things.

[00:13:02] What do you want to knock over?

[00:13:03] Where are the black gloopy demon-y things?

[00:13:05] The big black thing with the tentacles coming out that's eating dead bodies.

[00:13:09] But it's on the altar, right?

[00:13:10] It's past the altar.

[00:13:12] It's in between all the four braziers.

[00:13:15] Oh, okay.

[00:13:16] Well, I don't want to go past the braziers because the braziers are probably either containing or summoning.

[00:13:22] Or just for looks.

[00:13:24] Then what do you want to do?

[00:13:26] Ah, yeah.

[00:13:27] Don't worry about it.

[00:13:28] Let's knock over a brazier.

[00:13:29] We'll get there when we get there.

[00:13:30] I'm going to run behind the altar because my goal is to keep bringing Skelly Boy towards us.

[00:13:34] Because he's going to have to mow down all the evil cultists and fight the black thing to get to us.

[00:13:38] Okay.

[00:13:39] So I want to get behind everything as much as possible.

[00:13:43] Does that make sense?

[00:13:45] So where are you going?

[00:13:46] Here's the altar.

[00:13:47] Here's the goopy thing.

[00:13:48] See, I didn't realize the goopy thing.

[00:13:49] That's what I'm saying.

[00:13:50] I don't know where the goopy thing is.

[00:13:51] I'm going to run around the altar.

[00:13:53] Where?

[00:13:54] To the south.

[00:13:55] Right around.

[00:13:56] Yeah.

[00:13:57] Nope, not that far.

[00:13:58] Yeah, right through those braziers.

[00:14:00] Okay.

[00:14:01] You're on the other side of the altar in between the black goopy thing and the dead bodies.

[00:14:06] Yes.

[00:14:07] Okay, cool.

[00:14:08] What are you doing?

[00:14:10] Continuing to run to the other side.

[00:14:13] Basically just turning to...

[00:14:14] Okay, so you're past the altar now.

[00:14:16] Yes.

[00:14:17] Okay.

[00:14:18] I'm sprinting through there.

[00:14:19] Okay.

[00:14:20] So what are any of your characters doing?

[00:14:21] Yes.

[00:14:22] Okay, Spencer.

[00:14:23] You're basically just trying to draw the skeleton in, right?

[00:14:26] Yeah.

[00:14:27] Yeah.

[00:14:28] Okay, I want to talk to Troy real quick.

[00:14:31] I have a theory.

[00:14:32] Can we talk theory?

[00:14:33] I don't care.

[00:14:35] Sick.

[00:14:36] So what do you think, Troy, that each of these represents the different people

[00:14:41] we've seen so far?

[00:14:42] No.

[00:14:43] You don't think so?

[00:14:44] Okay.

[00:14:45] Because then I thought that book that he has, if it represents the one dead body we've

[00:14:52] seen that's the scholar, then his book will be the key that unlocks the queen's

[00:14:56] thing.

[00:14:58] Or does something for the nephew was my thought.

[00:15:00] Each of the...

[00:15:01] The soldier represents the big skeleton guy.

[00:15:05] The saint represents the...

[00:15:07] Yeah, I don't know.

[00:15:09] No, my thought was of taking a page out of Lord of the Rings, speaking friend

[00:15:14] and inter.

[00:15:15] Oh yeah.

[00:15:16] And instead of friend, it's book.

[00:15:17] Yeah, that could work.

[00:15:19] So what are you doing, Spencer?

[00:15:21] Well I'm stepping out and I see what's going on and I don't want to pull attention.

[00:15:28] I don't want to pull the attention of the skeleton because I like what Cody's

[00:15:33] doing.

[00:15:35] So I'll...

[00:15:36] I can't take any pot shots.

[00:15:38] All I have is a mace.

[00:15:39] Shit.

[00:15:40] Oh, I'm gonna go fight another zombie.

[00:15:42] No, I'm kidding.

[00:15:43] That's really dumb.

[00:15:45] I'm not actually gonna do that.

[00:15:46] Yeah, I'll...

[00:15:47] It was a cool story moment.

[00:15:48] It was a very cool story moment.

[00:15:49] Yeah, it worked out.

[00:15:50] For a character who may or may not live the next five minutes.

[00:15:53] Yeah, seriously.

[00:15:57] I will step up and I will speak the language of the queen because I learned

[00:16:02] a language when I went in and I'm gonna cash that in right now.

[00:16:07] She speaks the same language you do.

[00:16:09] Damn it.

[00:16:12] You live in her kingdom.

[00:16:14] Yeah, that's true.

[00:16:15] What about the language of the thing?

[00:16:18] Which thing?

[00:16:19] The oozy blob that's eating.

[00:16:22] You learned abyssal.

[00:16:23] Cool.

[00:16:24] Sweet.

[00:16:25] That can't have repercussions.

[00:16:26] Yeah.

[00:16:27] Justici is not gonna necessarily be pleased about that if I had to hazard a guess.

[00:16:30] She doesn't need to know.

[00:16:32] He's a deep cover spy for Justici.

[00:16:34] Yeah, yeah.

[00:16:36] I'll run up and scream what do you want with this plane of existence in abyssal?

[00:16:44] Did you see the extended cut of Fellowship of the Ring?

[00:16:47] Yeah.

[00:16:48] Where Gandalf speaks in Rivendell in the language of Mordor and it's like calling

[00:16:55] down thunder around him and everything like that.

[00:16:57] That's what I imagine.

[00:16:58] You step in there.

[00:17:01] You hear a reply, the dead.

[00:17:06] And then I'll yell to Cody, get rid of its food.

[00:17:09] Okay.

[00:17:11] And I'll ready my mace, but I'll just hold the defensive position a little ways off

[00:17:18] because I really don't want to fuck with the vibe that Cody's got.

[00:17:22] Kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill kill.

[00:17:26] Oh no, I'm doing the cultists first.

[00:17:28] They ain't gonna do shit.

[00:17:31] At least when I'm critted.

[00:17:33] Who has a higher dex sir?

[00:17:35] Because I bet that thing does.

[00:17:37] No.

[00:17:39] Plus two initiative, zero.

[00:17:41] I have a monster crit table if that's what you're looking for.

[00:17:43] I don't really care.

[00:17:44] You're the one who brought it up.

[00:17:47] Yeah I know.

[00:17:50] The Queen stays back out of reach.

[00:17:53] The Hierophant comes after one of your characters.

[00:17:56] Uh no.

[00:17:57] Yeah.

[00:17:58] Okay.

[00:17:59] Which ones hurt?

[00:18:00] Just roll one.

[00:18:01] Tell me one.

[00:18:02] I don't care.

[00:18:03] I don't care either.

[00:18:04] Three.

[00:18:05] Ji-Chen-Chong!

[00:18:06] I don't think six is gonna hit.

[00:18:08] I don't think so either.

[00:18:10] Cool.

[00:18:11] Um.

[00:18:12] You're protected by the light of the cheese brother.

[00:18:15] The skeleton missed on the first roll, so.

[00:18:17] Got an 11, needs a 12.

[00:18:20] Chip!

[00:18:21] Yeah do you have any chips?

[00:18:22] Oh wait.

[00:18:23] Ha ha.

[00:18:24] Had a whole pile of them.

[00:18:29] Uh.

[00:18:30] Cody.

[00:18:31] What are you doing?

[00:18:35] My three characters hearing him scream about food are having no items useful to that.

[00:18:42] Are going to go and attempt to, these braziers have something burning in them.

[00:18:47] They're going to attempt to throw it or push it over on top of the pile of bodies.

[00:18:52] Okay I'm sorry what?

[00:18:54] They're going to go and attempt to push the brazier which presumably is full of

[00:18:58] oil or has charcoal or some shit in it.

[00:19:01] It's full of burning skulls.

[00:19:03] Okay we're going to try and push the burning skulls on top of the bodies.

[00:19:06] Okay.

[00:19:07] To ruin it's food as Spencer has suggested.

[00:19:10] Okay make me an attack roll.

[00:19:12] An attack roll?

[00:19:13] Yep somebody.

[00:19:14] Alright well we'll just start with the first one there.

[00:19:16] Uh I assume that would be a strength attack roll?

[00:19:20] Sure yeah.

[00:19:22] That is a 10.

[00:19:23] It's an inanimate object but it also is.

[00:19:25] That will hit.

[00:19:26] Uh roll me a d6.

[00:19:29] One.

[00:19:30] Okay.

[00:19:31] Rocks.

[00:19:32] The next one will run up and try and knock it over.

[00:19:35] Okay yeah you got three.

[00:19:37] That is a crit 20.

[00:19:38] Oh yeah it flies over.

[00:19:41] It might come in handy.

[00:19:43] It's yours.

[00:19:44] Yeah it might.

[00:19:46] Okay attempting to knock it over, smash it, put the bodies on fire kind of a thing.

[00:19:52] Uh you tip the brazier over to dump it onto the bodies on the altar but they

[00:20:00] don't catch.

[00:20:01] That blue fire doesn't look like it burns anything else.

[00:20:05] Huh okay.

[00:20:08] But you do see a difference in the ritual once you do that.

[00:20:12] Okay.

[00:20:13] It's still happening.

[00:20:14] It's still the black mass is growing bigger and bigger but you do see a like something

[00:20:22] like a twitch, like a diminishment.

[00:20:24] Uh.

[00:20:25] Almost like you're only a quarter of the way there.

[00:20:28] Uh.

[00:20:29] Cheech and Chong will run over and attempt to hit another brazier.

[00:20:33] Cool.

[00:20:34] I rolled a two.

[00:20:35] Okay.

[00:20:36] You bounce off of it.

[00:20:37] The shadow grows into a colossal bulk of darkness that sucks the sapphire flames

[00:20:42] from the urns and fills the chamber with a chill of utter death.

[00:20:46] Alive with energy of eon veiled horrors, the swirling bulk of gloom spreads to reveal

[00:20:53] an enormous set of shark-like jaws surrounded by worm shaped tendrils that coil into the

[00:20:59] chamber with malignant life.

[00:21:01] Uh.

[00:21:02] Reveal cause we're in a...

[00:21:05] This is the part where you kill the PC still in the room and then take over the world.

[00:21:11] Then it becomes a DG game.

[00:21:14] Uh your three characters need to make a will save.

[00:21:17] Uh sure yeah that'll definitely happen.

[00:21:20] Lonnie Thames Dio with a minus four.

[00:21:23] I mean that's still not bad.

[00:21:25] That's an 11 with a minus four.

[00:21:27] Pass.

[00:21:28] Nice.

[00:21:29] Jesus Reist.

[00:21:30] Uh.

[00:21:31] Here you go.

[00:21:34] Yep.

[00:21:35] He rolled a one.

[00:21:36] Oh.

[00:21:37] Rolled a one.

[00:21:38] I thought you were using it.

[00:21:39] Nope.

[00:21:40] And Cheech and Chong rolled a 19 plus whatever his modifier is.

[00:21:44] Cool.

[00:21:45] Um.

[00:21:46] It was Cheezus who failed?

[00:21:47] Yeah.

[00:21:48] Uh he just stops.

[00:21:49] He is paralyzed.

[00:21:51] Okay.

[00:21:52] Not great.

[00:21:53] Yep.

[00:21:54] Those who succumb to the visions are rendered paralyzed for one round by the haunting images

[00:21:58] of countless dead that march million footed and grotesque beneath fetter belching skies

[00:22:03] that stretch off into an infinite ruin.

[00:22:06] That doesn't sound good.

[00:22:07] Yeah.

[00:22:08] Spencer what are you doing?

[00:22:09] Um I see this happen.

[00:22:11] I see the flicker in the intensity of the spell and I want to run up and try

[00:22:17] to knock down a brazier as well.

[00:22:20] Okay.

[00:22:21] You can probably attack it too if you wanted to.

[00:22:23] I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

[00:22:25] Uh.

[00:22:26] I counted it as an attack.

[00:22:27] Fair enough.

[00:22:28] 12.

[00:22:29] 12 to attack?

[00:22:30] Yeah that will hit.

[00:22:31] Which dice should I use for to hit D4?

[00:22:33] What are you hitting it with?

[00:22:34] You want to hit it with a mace?

[00:22:35] Uh yeah so I guess.

[00:22:36] I think a mace is a D6.

[00:22:39] Yep.

[00:22:40] Six.

[00:22:41] Uh you smash a brazier.

[00:22:42] Cool.

[00:22:43] That's my turn.

[00:22:44] Neat.

[00:22:45] Troy.

[00:22:46] You still have to get up to the room?

[00:22:47] You're still spinning another turn running right?

[00:22:49] Oh everybody's running upstairs.

[00:22:51] Uh Steve was ahead of everybody technically.

[00:22:54] He said two rounds.

[00:22:55] I feel like you've done two rounds of stuff over here.

[00:22:58] Okay sure what are you doing?

[00:22:59] Touching the book and saying book.

[00:23:02] Uh okay hang on.

[00:23:03] That was exactly what you needed to do.

[00:23:06] Nice.

[00:23:07] I'm doing a Lord of the Rings.

[00:23:10] Yep.

[00:23:11] Once both have been done, a folded leaf of fine parchment magically falls from the painted

[00:23:16] book.

[00:23:17] So what does it say?

[00:23:19] Opening the folded letter reveals a written note.

[00:23:22] Uh player handout number four.

[00:23:26] Troy you're all about the handouts man.

[00:23:29] As you unfold the letter there's a tinkle as something hits the floor.

[00:23:33] A small metallic object.

[00:23:35] What do I find?

[00:23:36] An owl headed lock pick.

[00:23:39] Aha.

[00:23:40] This handout basically says the prince, the prince nephew, feared his aunt was evil and

[00:23:49] um I'm wondering if she probably had something to do with his death.

[00:23:54] Doesn't really say that but he feels himself growing sick and weak.

[00:23:58] Well if he was killed I doubt he would write a letter afterwards.

[00:24:02] Get ass Troy.

[00:24:08] Obviously.

[00:24:11] I go pick a lock.

[00:24:13] Okay.

[00:24:14] Make a lock pick check.

[00:24:16] Do I add a skill to that?

[00:24:18] Untrained.

[00:24:19] No.

[00:24:20] Uh it is trained.

[00:24:22] 17.

[00:24:24] Pops the lock.

[00:24:25] Which character is this?

[00:24:26] This is Steve Rogers.

[00:24:28] Oh lawful?

[00:24:29] Yes.

[00:24:30] Oh yeah.

[00:24:31] Okay next round you'll get in there.

[00:24:33] Um you see this skeleton just mowing through shit.

[00:24:37] I'm not rolling at all.

[00:24:39] There's a couple of cultists left.

[00:24:41] Uh.

[00:24:42] You coward.

[00:24:43] What?

[00:24:44] Not rolling at all he might just mow through everybody.

[00:24:46] He'd kill the priestess.

[00:24:48] Oh he missed on the first roll.

[00:24:50] You bastard.

[00:24:51] No, roll to four.

[00:24:53] Uh huh.

[00:24:54] Uh huh.

[00:24:55] Uh huh.

[00:24:56] Uh huh Jeff.

[00:24:57] It's almost like he's projecting a little bit here.

[00:25:00] I know right?

[00:25:01] No.

[00:25:02] Uh.

[00:25:03] Interesting.

[00:25:04] The hierophant will go after one of your characters.

[00:25:07] I don't care which.

[00:25:08] Number three.

[00:25:09] You should care.

[00:25:10] That's Cheech and Chong.

[00:25:12] That's Cheech and Chong.

[00:25:14] That's a.

[00:25:16] Miss.

[00:25:17] 13 to hit.

[00:25:18] I imagine that hits because unarmored is 10 so.

[00:25:21] We'll save.

[00:25:22] Won't save.

[00:25:23] Uh.

[00:25:24] Actually it may not matter you took three damage.

[00:25:26] It does not matter.

[00:25:28] He is crushed by the thing.

[00:25:31] And probably dragged to some abyssal hell.

[00:25:33] Actually when you see when your other characters when you see them die you see a tentacle.

[00:25:38] Reach out and grab the corpse.

[00:25:41] Yep.

[00:25:42] Nice.

[00:25:43] Yep.

[00:25:44] That's gonna be a fun eternity for you bud.

[00:25:46] Yep.

[00:25:47] Okay that's you that's you that's you go.

[00:25:49] Uh.

[00:25:51] Lonnie will run over and try and hit another.

[00:25:54] Cool attack roll.

[00:25:56] That minus four.

[00:25:58] That's like a negative three.

[00:26:00] Okay that's a miss.

[00:26:02] Anybody else.

[00:26:03] Jesus is probably still paralyzed.

[00:26:05] True.

[00:26:06] Oh no it was only one round.

[00:26:07] Okay because he hasn't actually been paralyzed for a round of his turn yet.

[00:26:10] Cool.

[00:26:11] Spencer.

[00:26:12] I will take another run at a goddamn thing.

[00:26:16] Brazen or whatever it's called.

[00:26:18] Do it.

[00:26:20] 12.

[00:26:21] That hits.

[00:26:22] Not a d20 but okay.

[00:26:24] I'll take it.

[00:26:26] Two.

[00:26:27] Okay.

[00:26:28] Still up.

[00:26:30] Troy.

[00:26:31] I've unlocked a thing.

[00:26:32] Oh yeah.

[00:26:33] Uh let me get back to that.

[00:26:35] A massive rotunda looms before you.

[00:26:38] Its white stone walls are marred in chaotic symbols and disturbing hieroglyphs that seem

[00:26:44] to shimmer with a malignant e- oh this is the locked door sorry.

[00:26:48] You enter what can only be a chapel of the goddess Justicia.

[00:26:52] The place radiates with divine energy.

[00:26:55] Its walls are decorated with images of armor clad sword saints in scenes of valor,

[00:27:00] mercy and justice.

[00:27:02] In the center of the chapel suspended from the ceiling by chains is a heavy shield wrought

[00:27:07] of gleaming silver and emblazoned with the flaming golden longsword sigil of Justicia.

[00:27:13] Reach for the shield.

[00:27:15] Okay.

[00:27:16] This was Steve.

[00:27:17] Yeah.

[00:27:18] Lawful.

[00:27:19] The shield likes you.

[00:27:20] It speaks to you through your mind.

[00:27:23] It is a plus one shield and as soon as you connect with it, sunlight.

[00:27:30] 20 feet around you.

[00:27:33] Wow wow wow.

[00:27:36] And the wielder receives a plus one.

[00:27:40] Your dice go up on saving throws made against evil effects, evil creatures, undead

[00:27:47] demons and anything else unholy to their faith.

[00:27:51] In the hands of a cleric of Justicia, the shield grants a plus one die bonus to turning unholy checks.

[00:27:58] Okay.

[00:27:59] Do I get the sense that this is the shield?

[00:28:02] This is the voice that's been calling out to us?

[00:28:04] It is.

[00:28:05] It is the same voice.

[00:28:06] You are greeted warmly and told thank you.

[00:28:10] I will then run back downstairs.

[00:28:14] Cool.

[00:28:15] Got a couple rounds.

[00:28:16] We'll see what the big ass skeleton does.

[00:28:20] I've already rolled another four.

[00:28:23] Cultists, two left.

[00:28:26] That's a miss.

[00:28:28] That's a miss.

[00:28:29] The hierophant is going to take one more swing at Chi-Chiang.

[00:28:34] He's dead.

[00:28:35] Oh he killed him.

[00:28:36] What's left?

[00:28:37] I forget.

[00:28:38] Lonnie Thames Rio and Jesus Reist.

[00:28:41] Jesus is paralyzed right?

[00:28:44] It depends on when the round starts but yes.

[00:28:46] When it gets back to you he'll be unparalyzed.

[00:28:49] Lonnie missed.

[00:28:51] Rolled a two.

[00:28:52] The queen is going to go take a swing at the one wielding the mace at the braziers

[00:28:59] and roll a fucking three.

[00:29:02] Cody, go.

[00:29:03] Lonnie will go and try and hit a brazier with his minus five to his roll.

[00:29:10] That is an 11.

[00:29:12] That'll hit.

[00:29:13] Two damage.

[00:29:14] You've already done two damage to it.

[00:29:16] That one crumbles.

[00:29:17] How many have we gotten through?

[00:29:19] Three.

[00:29:20] Jesus screams for the good of the Gouda.

[00:29:25] No, no, no.

[00:29:28] That's my favorite one so far that you've done for the good of the Gouda.

[00:29:32] We're going to do this right.

[00:29:33] Where's my D16?

[00:29:34] We're not going to fucking do this bullshit.

[00:29:37] We're going to fucking yeah.

[00:29:38] Here we go.

[00:29:39] What are you swinging at?

[00:29:40] The last brazier.

[00:29:41] Okay.

[00:29:42] 11.

[00:29:43] That'll hit.

[00:29:44] Four damage.

[00:29:45] Yeah.

[00:29:46] Slings that holy symbol.

[00:29:47] It was a D3.

[00:29:48] Oh, sorry.

[00:29:49] Two.

[00:29:50] He dealt two damage to it.

[00:29:52] The fourth one crumbles.

[00:29:54] Okay, hang on.

[00:29:57] Disrupting all four of the flames.

[00:29:59] It's like a whirlpool.

[00:30:02] The black thing gets sucked more and more into it.

[00:30:06] And at the last minute, one black tentacle reaches out, grabs the queen, pulls her in.

[00:30:12] Nice.

[00:30:13] Cool.

[00:30:14] We did it.

[00:30:15] Almost.

[00:30:16] Now let's run.

[00:30:17] Let's run.

[00:30:18] Yeah.

[00:30:19] Running.

[00:30:20] Running is the next order of business.

[00:30:21] Running is the next thing.

[00:30:22] Yeah, you still have your moves.

[00:30:23] The three of you can run.

[00:30:26] You see the...

[00:30:27] It's like the fight goes out of the cultus.

[00:30:32] When Sauron's destroyed, the orcs just turn and run.

[00:30:37] That's that type of thing.

[00:30:39] And the skeleton hacks the last two down.

[00:30:43] It turns to you as you're running away.

[00:30:47] I'm really hoping that that front door opens now.

[00:30:50] Yeah, that would be nice.

[00:30:52] Okay.

[00:30:53] Troy, what are you doing?

[00:30:54] My goal is to run in to meet my party.

[00:30:57] Okay, so you're heading back downstairs.

[00:30:59] What happened to the other group of my people that were going up the stairs?

[00:31:03] When would we cross paths?

[00:31:05] I don't know.

[00:31:07] It depends on which way Steve's gonna go.

[00:31:09] The most direct route.

[00:31:12] Yeah.

[00:31:13] Okay, he probably won't.

[00:31:15] Because the ones that ran out through the front have the longest way to go to get back to those circular stairs.

[00:31:22] And Steve's going to go back down those circular stairs.

[00:31:25] He ran up the stairs, did a thing.

[00:31:27] Oh, that's true.

[00:31:29] They have to run...

[00:31:30] That room wasn't that big.

[00:31:31] Sure, they'll meet up before Steve goes down the downstairs.

[00:31:35] Okay, so then we'll as a force then start running downstairs to conceivably defeat...

[00:31:41] The darkness.

[00:31:42] The darkness that's not there anymore.

[00:31:43] That Jesus Christ has already saved you from.

[00:31:45] Guys, guys, I figured it out! I figured it out!

[00:31:48] Guys, I saw the puzzle! Look at this, this is so cool!

[00:31:50] You get down the stairs just in time to see the skeleton charge up the stairs at the other end.

[00:31:56] Okay.

[00:31:57] And you don't see... you see a pile of bodies, you don't see a ritual going on, the blue lights are out and nobody else is moving.

[00:32:05] Wait, which way is the skeleton going?

[00:32:07] The stairs to the far end.

[00:32:08] The secret door that you guys ran up.

[00:32:10] Okay.

[00:32:11] Because these guys all just ran up there and now the skeleton's following them.

[00:32:15] Well I see nothing really going on down here now so I'll turn back around and go up the stairs.

[00:32:20] Okay.

[00:32:21] Oh, as you were going from the upstairs to the downstairs, your shield is lit and the moss crumbles.

[00:32:33] Okay.

[00:32:34] It does not like sunlight. What are you guys doing?

[00:32:36] I'm hoping that door opens, Jeff.

[00:32:38] Okay.

[00:32:39] Otherwise we're just going to yackety-sack until we pass out and die.

[00:32:42] It does. It'll open up.

[00:32:44] We are going to fuck off, Jeff.

[00:32:47] Yep.

[00:32:48] Into the sunlight.

[00:32:49] Yeah, I don't think this thing could follow you outside.

[00:32:52] Now it's Troy's problem.

[00:32:54] Troy, what are you doing?

[00:32:56] I don't know that that thing leads to the other room, but that's where I would go because I wouldn't know else.

[00:33:04] What thing to what room?

[00:33:06] I would know the other, the secret entrance exists technically.

[00:33:10] Steve wouldn't. Your other two that met up with him.

[00:33:13] Okay, so yeah. We would then coordinate and head down.

[00:33:17] Because assuming that's where everybody...

[00:33:19] Yeah, no it's a fair bet.

[00:33:21] Steve leading the charge.

[00:33:22] Yeah, you get down there, you go up the stairs.

[00:33:25] As you come out the stairs, there is a giant skeleton staring at them outside the door.

[00:33:30] Okay.

[00:33:32] Okay.

[00:33:33] So he stopped at the door.

[00:33:35] Yep.

[00:33:36] Steve is going to bull rush him.

[00:33:40] Okay.

[00:33:41] You got the sunshine?

[00:33:43] Let me check his stats.

[00:33:45] Let me make sure that there's not something about sunlight for the big ass skeleton.

[00:33:50] As horrible as it is, I kind of hope he smashes the shit out of all four of your characters at once.

[00:33:55] Do you have...

[00:33:57] Could you look up undead traits?

[00:33:59] I don't know what those are.

[00:34:01] Yeah, besides Steve Rogers, only one other person has taken damage.

[00:34:06] Steve, make a bull rush attack at the skeleton with the shield.

[00:34:14] Oh damn!

[00:34:17] To nat 20.

[00:34:19] Okay.

[00:34:20] What's your crit thing?

[00:34:22] What's my crit thing?

[00:34:23] Yeah, roll on the crit table.

[00:34:25] Where the fuck do I find that at?

[00:34:28] Page 82.

[00:34:29] Just roll. D4.

[00:34:30] D4 plus luck.

[00:34:32] 2.

[00:34:33] I don't know what a shield bash does.

[00:34:35] D4 plus D4? I don't know.

[00:34:36] Sure. 2D4. Plus strength.

[00:34:39] 4?

[00:34:41] 4?

[00:34:42] Fuck that guy, he's dead.

[00:34:44] See, he didn't have that much hit points.

[00:34:49] Well, he'd been wailed on by cultists for a while.

[00:34:53] How many hit points did it have?

[00:34:55] It had a grand total of like 15.

[00:34:57] That's not that much.

[00:34:59] Yeah, but he crits and moves and crits and moves like...

[00:35:03] I understand that, but if you've got distance damage...

[00:35:07] Any last thoughts, Jeff?

[00:35:09] Uh...

[00:35:11] What? Are you guys leaving?

[00:35:13] Uh, yeah.

[00:35:14] Yeah? Okay.