Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos - The Big Sleep 14

[00:00:16] presents The Big Sleep, A Cthulhu Mythos 5e Adventure

[00:00:43] Hey Grumpy Gills, how you feeling?

[00:01:26] Uh oh.

[00:01:27] Pull a cap and knock it over.

[00:01:30] Cool.

[00:01:32] When you dive down, bud, you do notice some shimmering coins on the ground at the bottom.

[00:01:42] You can still see underwater.

[00:01:44] Oh okay.

[00:01:44] You see at the bottom, you do see coins of varying color.

[00:01:54] Scattered about as if people were tossing them wishes.

[00:01:58] Like you do in a well.

[00:02:00] Yep.

[00:02:00] Got the gold ones.

[00:02:01] It's our time down here.

[00:02:04] Give me a favor and roll me a con, save me the room.

[00:02:11] See we let them go first and see what the dangers are.

[00:02:14] Oh that's a single digit.

[00:02:20] But he was a gentleman when he rolled it.

[00:02:22] He was.

[00:02:23] Eight.

[00:02:25] With the modifiers and eight?

[00:02:28] With our OP characters and eight?

[00:02:32] Um, you begin getting very sleepy.

[00:02:36] In the white room.

[00:02:37] Very quickly.

[00:02:39] You look down and you go, ooh coins and you go, ooh what the fuck's going on?

[00:02:44] Man everything starts to slowly, tunnel vision for you.

[00:02:52] The two of you that can see your aquatic friend has kind of just stopped moving

[00:02:59] and is kind of looking down at his hands.

[00:03:01] He rolls over and starts floating belly up.

[00:03:04] Oh no.

[00:03:06] Anything the two of you would like to do before we move forward?

[00:03:10] I'd see what happens next.

[00:03:12] I'm not excited about getting in the water.

[00:03:14] I mean am I just becoming sleepy or am I becoming like just disoriented?

[00:03:22] Yes.

[00:03:22] Is he tripping?

[00:03:24] Yes.

[00:03:25] Okay, that's a difference.

[00:03:29] You've never drank and you've never, you've never drank and you've never drank the, what was it?

[00:03:34] The elixir of Zoth before but you're starting to feel some.

[00:03:37] You don't know where I've been.

[00:03:38] You're starting to feel some effects.

[00:03:42] Most of which from what you know is sleepiness.

[00:03:45] That is true.

[00:03:46] So you're getting really sleepy, very numb in the face.

[00:03:50] You're not a cleric are you?

[00:03:51] He's not at all.

[00:03:53] He is the cleric.

[00:03:54] Purify food and drink.

[00:03:59] I would need to rest to get that smell.

[00:04:02] Holy water.

[00:04:02] What is the cat doing?

[00:04:04] Just watching the people do their thing?

[00:04:06] Yeah.

[00:04:07] Okay, yeah.

[00:04:09] As the bucket comes down and it scoops up some water and comes back up.

[00:04:15] And as that happens the woman continues to add bits of this green elixir into the well.

[00:04:22] Is she right on the edge?

[00:04:25] Yeah, she's pouring it into the well.

[00:04:28] Sweet.

[00:04:30] You said it was 30 feet across right?

[00:04:31] Basically where I've drawn them on this little sketch is fairly accurate right along the edge

[00:04:35] kind of back in the back and a little in the middle there.

[00:04:38] So she is...

[00:04:39] One of them is just kind of holding the boat off to the side.

[00:04:43] She's on the edge, right?

[00:04:45] So she's on the edge of the well?

[00:04:46] Yeah, that's why.

[00:04:46] Or is she in the well?

[00:04:47] She's not in the well.

[00:04:48] She's standing along the edge of it on that side where that landing is.

[00:04:51] Right but she's leaning over into the water.

[00:04:54] She is holding a barrel with a spigot over the water.

[00:04:58] She's extended somewhat, yes.

[00:05:01] Okay, so it's 30 feet across right?

[00:05:04] Correct.

[00:05:04] So if I were to take a couple of steps and also extend my body over we would be 30 feet apart from each other, right?

[00:05:14] Accurate.

[00:05:15] Okay and they are...

[00:05:17] You're going to have to roll a stealth roll.

[00:05:18] Unaware of me?

[00:05:19] If you roll, if you succeed in the stealth roll that you'll be unaware of you.

[00:05:23] See I'm not trying to stealth.

[00:05:25] That's how you become unaware?

[00:05:27] Well no, she doesn't see me right now.

[00:05:29] That's because you're at the doorway.

[00:05:33] I have not moved either of the two of you.

[00:05:35] These are the only two that have walked into this room and done a thing.

[00:05:38] Alright, I'm going to board.

[00:05:39] Uh yeah, stealth I'm sure is going to go great for me.

[00:05:43] No but she's unaware of me, right?

[00:05:44] Right now.

[00:05:46] Okay.

[00:05:49] Yeah.

[00:05:50] Plus the minus, right?

[00:05:51] I throw a javelin.

[00:05:53] Alright, go ahead and roll it.

[00:05:55] I'll let you roll it.

[00:05:56] I mean it's disadvantage because I'm behind but it's advantage because she doesn't know I'm there.

[00:06:01] So I'm rolling flat roll.

[00:06:02] Sure.

[00:06:06] Yeah, why not?

[00:06:07] Let's see what happens.

[00:06:09] It's not a careful roll.

[00:06:10] 12.

[00:06:12] What are they under?

[00:06:14] Of course everything that are not in this book.

[00:06:19] I printed out a bunch of shit from Monster Mania.

[00:06:24] Scouts and cultists.

[00:06:25] Trying to argue for advantage on my threat.

[00:06:27] No I understand what you're doing.

[00:06:31] Javelin's 30 feet, I was hoping it was like 40 or 45.

[00:06:34] You said 12?

[00:06:35] Yes.

[00:06:36] Just hits.

[00:06:40] Five points of damage.

[00:06:42] Oh, you hit her, she falls back but she is alive.

[00:06:45] The barrel tumbles into the water.

[00:06:50] And she screams you may now roll for initiative I suppose.

[00:06:54] Wait the entire barrel fell into it.

[00:06:56] Yeah the barrel just falls in.

[00:06:57] She has to let go of it.

[00:07:06] 19.

[00:07:08] Let's put them all in the same niche.

[00:07:25] Cody.

[00:07:26] 10.

[00:07:28] Troy?

[00:07:29] 18.

[00:07:30] Flann?

[00:07:31] 19.

[00:07:32] Alex?

[00:07:33] Eight.

[00:07:36] God damn.

[00:07:38] So Flann you get to start us off.

[00:07:41] Alright.

[00:07:41] Then it's Troy.

[00:07:43] Then Cody.

[00:07:46] Then Alex and then me.

[00:07:49] Which does not spell cat me out for this time.

[00:07:52] No, it's not a good omen.

[00:07:55] Let's go ahead and...

[00:07:58] Number one I will say has five damage on her now.

[00:08:01] Okay.

[00:08:02] One, two, three.

[00:08:02] Javelin threw her arm.

[00:08:04] So you're probably closest to number one who just got hit.

[00:08:07] That would fucking hurt.

[00:08:08] How's she looking?

[00:08:09] Not great, but not dead either.

[00:08:12] I like the idea that there's a javelin literally through her god damn arm.

[00:08:15] She's mostly dead if not...

[00:08:18] Okay.

[00:08:19] I will go ahead and attack her.

[00:08:23] Okay.

[00:08:24] That is a 23.

[00:08:26] Still holding the blood in mostly.

[00:08:28] Yank it out.

[00:08:29] That is a six damage.

[00:08:31] You jump up and slither through.

[00:08:34] She drops.

[00:08:35] Alright.

[00:08:35] She's had a really shitty last 10 seconds of life.

[00:08:38] Right on.

[00:08:39] Like out of nowhere fucking javelin.

[00:08:41] Dropping a key point.

[00:08:42] Okay.

[00:08:42] The flurry of blows.

[00:08:44] Being lining to...

[00:08:46] What are the other two doing?

[00:08:48] One woman was simply holding the boat.

[00:08:51] The other woman was at a workstation.

[00:08:53] Okay.

[00:08:54] I don't understand why there's a boat.

[00:08:55] Workstation.

[00:08:56] I don't know either.

[00:08:57] She's getting one.

[00:08:58] Okay.

[00:09:00] That is 10.

[00:09:02] Misses.

[00:09:03] Okay.

[00:09:05] And...

[00:09:06] Counting it.

[00:09:08] 24.

[00:09:09] I can see the surface of it.

[00:09:10] 24.

[00:09:11] Hits.

[00:09:13] That is seven damage.

[00:09:16] She's bleeding out but still alive.

[00:09:20] Ding.

[00:09:23] Troy, you're not feeling great bud.

[00:09:28] Um...

[00:09:30] Yeah.

[00:09:32] What would you like to do?

[00:09:34] You...

[00:09:34] Well, I didn't get a much choice of what I could do earlier.

[00:09:37] I didn't think I could do anything.

[00:09:39] I mean, you're just starting to hallucinate and get sleepy.

[00:09:43] Right.

[00:09:43] I would have pulled myself out of the water before...

[00:09:46] Yeah.

[00:09:47] That can be your action this turn.

[00:09:48] The other things happen at the same time.

[00:09:50] It's all simultaneous.

[00:09:51] So...

[00:09:52] Right.

[00:09:52] I never really got mine though.

[00:09:54] Yes, because you failed your role.

[00:09:57] Go get the cold.

[00:09:58] No, you assumed what I was doing.

[00:10:03] You went in the water.

[00:10:05] Just touching the water makes you hallucinate.

[00:10:08] No, you went in the water.

[00:10:09] Right.

[00:10:10] That's what I'm saying.

[00:10:11] The failed con-save, I think.

[00:10:12] The failed con-save is what made you hallucinate.

[00:10:15] I understand that.

[00:10:17] Okay.

[00:10:17] What initiates the con-save?

[00:10:19] Being in the water.

[00:10:20] Being in the water.

[00:10:21] Okay, so I'm trying to guess.

[00:10:22] Just touching the water...

[00:10:23] Yeah, it's filled with poison.

[00:10:26] Okay.

[00:10:26] Yeah.

[00:10:29] If you would like to move and pull yourself out of the water,

[00:10:31] I'll let you do that,

[00:10:32] and that'll be your action for the round.

[00:10:36] Yeah, I would pull myself up

[00:10:37] into one of those...

[00:10:38] the nearest pillar.

[00:10:42] Just...

[00:10:42] You can choose one of the four.

[00:10:44] I don't care which one you want.

[00:10:46] It would be just the closest one

[00:10:48] to...

[00:10:49] on the right.

[00:10:51] So, my right...

[00:10:52] This one?

[00:10:52] It's like right here.

[00:10:54] Okay.

[00:10:55] Yeah, you're on a pillar.

[00:10:56] No problem.

[00:10:59] Do you see a dead woman?

[00:11:02] With a javelin in her

[00:11:03] and a cat scratch across her throat?

[00:11:06] Is there anything else you would like to do?

[00:11:08] Which one are you sitting?

[00:11:10] So, am I poisoned?

[00:11:13] Is it technically poisoned?

[00:11:16] That's a fair question.

[00:11:17] What is the condition?

[00:11:20] Yeah, well, yeah, you're poisoned.

[00:11:23] Essentially.

[00:11:24] Okay.

[00:11:25] Physician, heal thyself.

[00:11:32] Well, technically I can't...

[00:11:34] if my action was to pull myself out.

[00:11:37] Gotcha.

[00:11:40] Cool.

[00:11:41] If you have nothing for that one...

[00:11:43] Hold on, I didn't say that?

[00:11:47] Not so many words.

[00:11:49] Yeah, I'm not going to do anything else.

[00:11:50] I don't think it's worth spinning the spell.

[00:11:53] Alright, Cody.

[00:11:56] I'm gonna work my way

[00:11:57] walking around one of the little thingies

[00:12:00] to go to the other one.

[00:12:03] Yeah, it just takes all your movement to get there.

[00:12:05] That's fine.

[00:12:06] Am I within 30 feet of a woman

[00:12:08] I haven't pierced yet?

[00:12:10] I was gonna say penetrated,

[00:12:11] but I feel like it's a bit much.

[00:12:13] Which direction did you go?

[00:12:15] We are the Raincors brothel.

[00:12:16] I know.

[00:12:18] It's like...

[00:12:19] Apropos.

[00:12:20] It is, but it just felt dirty

[00:12:21] as I was conceptually saying it.

[00:12:24] It feels weird when you say it, right?

[00:12:26] Which direction did you go right or left?

[00:12:29] Sorry, that means two things.

[00:12:31] Push and rope.

[00:12:37] Whichever one is more conducive

[00:12:38] to getting a 30 foot throw

[00:12:39] is which way I'm going.

[00:12:41] Then you would probably have to go to the right

[00:12:43] to be able to see the other two better.

[00:12:44] Sure.

[00:12:45] So I would go that way.

[00:12:46] Yeah, you can see.

[00:12:47] Am I within 30 feet of one of the others?

[00:12:50] Yeah, you're good.

[00:12:52] Perlin or Heavlin?

[00:12:54] Heavlin.

[00:12:56] Oh, that's a 23

[00:12:57] to hit that lady with a Heavlin.

[00:12:59] Hits?

[00:12:59] You're throwing a tiny pig?

[00:13:03] You hitting the boat or the worker?

[00:13:06] Whichever one was 30 feet.

[00:13:09] Boat.

[00:13:12] That'd be eight points of damage.

[00:13:14] She's on a boat.

[00:13:16] Right through her chest.

[00:13:19] If this were a game of numbers

[00:13:20] she'd be just nearly dead.

[00:13:22] Anything else?

[00:13:25] So don't we have two nearly dead?

[00:13:27] Yeah, two nearly dead.

[00:13:28] Like Flynn will probably own them

[00:13:30] on his next turn theoretically.

[00:13:32] Maybe he spends a key point.

[00:13:34] Alex.

[00:13:35] Alex, you're still on the original side.

[00:13:38] I walk to the edge of the platform

[00:13:40] and fire my crossbow at...

[00:13:43] Who's contested?

[00:13:45] Who's within range of...

[00:13:47] Boat lady doesn't potentially hit Flynn.

[00:13:51] Other lady could shoot the cat.

[00:13:53] So your choice.

[00:13:55] Either one.

[00:13:57] Your crossbow can hit both of them.

[00:13:59] Got it.

[00:14:02] Um...

[00:14:03] Let's not kill the cat today.

[00:14:06] Coward.

[00:14:08] He has my bag of holding on his back.

[00:14:11] That's true.

[00:14:12] Can we get it back?

[00:14:13] Yeah, that is true.

[00:14:15] Think about that later.

[00:14:19] Does a 15 hit?

[00:14:21] Oh yeah.

[00:14:22] Yes.

[00:14:23] Excellent.

[00:14:27] Four points of damage.

[00:14:28] She did.

[00:14:29] She did.

[00:14:30] Put it through her left eye.

[00:14:35] And...

[00:14:36] Fantastic.

[00:14:37] Jesus Christ.

[00:14:37] So fucking annoying.

[00:14:38] He is.

[00:14:39] Side question.

[00:14:41] How much are those crystals that we keep finding everywhere worth anyway?

[00:14:44] Are they just...

[00:14:47] Amethyst basically?

[00:14:48] Yeah, it's not a precious stone.

[00:14:52] Blast.

[00:14:53] You got one person left I think.

[00:14:55] Yeah, I actually get to take a turn.

[00:14:58] I'll swing at the cat.

[00:15:00] Why not?

[00:15:02] Come on over here.

[00:15:02] Action search.

[00:15:05] Does a 16 hit the cat?

[00:15:07] Nope.

[00:15:08] Then she misses.

[00:15:10] It goes back to...

[00:15:12] The cat.

[00:15:14] He retaliates.

[00:15:15] Boom baby.

[00:15:17] Oof.

[00:15:18] 10.

[00:15:19] Just misses.

[00:15:20] Bonus action, sweating with the other hand.

[00:15:22] Ya!

[00:15:23] Ooh.

[00:15:24] 25.

[00:15:25] Yes.

[00:15:25] Boom baby.

[00:15:28] Five damage.

[00:15:29] Kills.

[00:15:30] Slick.

[00:15:31] Three dead women.

[00:15:32] Uh oh.

[00:15:33] I've heard this joke.

[00:15:37] That's how the joke ends, they're dead.

[00:15:39] There's no punchline, they're all dead.

[00:15:41] It's not funny.

[00:15:45] What did you laugh?

[00:15:46] Don't you take my fun from me!

[00:15:48] What did you laugh?

[00:15:49] Jeez.

[00:15:52] We're all getting canceled.

[00:15:55] Thanks Flynn.

[00:15:58] You have three dead female cultists.

[00:16:00] Each one wearing a silver amulet.

[00:16:06] You're basically out of combat.

[00:16:10] The bucket drops down again, soaks up water, gets rolled back up.

[00:16:14] Probably stop that.

[00:16:18] The barrel was closed when it fell in the water right?

[00:16:21] Three of you look over and see your fish friend looking at his own hands and zoning it out quite a bit.

[00:16:31] I'm free of poison.

[00:16:34] And then clear himself up.

[00:16:36] Should you get that barrel out of there?

[00:16:39] I like to imagine it's an oil barrel.

[00:16:41] Just like...

[00:16:42] Oh no, at this point it's at the bottom, it's 50 feet down.

[00:16:47] What kind of barrel is it?

[00:16:49] Like a wooden...

[00:16:51] Then why isn't it floating?

[00:16:55] I don't know.

[00:16:56] There's air in there, they've been dumping water out of it.

[00:17:00] Fine, it floats.

[00:17:01] It's initially a barrel over there.

[00:17:03] I don't want to give it, it's not empty.

[00:17:03] It's not empty, but it still floats because there's less fluid in it than it's surrounding.

[00:17:08] We should get that barrel out probably.

[00:17:12] It is floating in there.

[00:17:13] You can drag it and you can drag it out of there.

[00:17:16] It's no longer leaking, the spigot is closed.

[00:17:18] I unlike most of the people at the table do not have an arts degree, I have a science degree.

[00:17:24] You shut up with your smarts.

[00:17:28] Dick.

[00:17:32] I will recover my javelins.

[00:17:34] You got your javelins.

[00:17:37] You can pull the barrel out, you're all now I assume all on the same side with a three dead one.

[00:17:42] I understand it, I'm laying.

[00:17:43] I understand it.

[00:17:46] Get them!

[00:17:47] There's death if you want to eat them.

[00:17:49] Fresh death.

[00:17:50] I haven't dead long enough.

[00:17:51] Fresh death.

[00:17:52] I kind of want to check out the work table.

[00:17:55] It does appear as though she was taking ingredients and mixing and creating more elixirs in smaller vials.

[00:18:08] So nothing useful, got it?

[00:18:10] Depends on how you use it.

[00:18:12] And they're alternatively dumping some of it into the water.

[00:18:23] Don't look at me, I'm just here to kill things.

[00:18:25] I know but pure five food and drink doesn't.

[00:18:28] It's only a five foot radius sphere.

[00:18:30] I don't think you can do a 50 foot like massive multi gallon well.

[00:18:34] You can, just gonna take a while.

[00:18:36] It's gonna take a long while.

[00:18:37] I mean it could cast those ritual.

[00:18:40] I mean it did take a while but you could do it.

[00:18:45] This is one of the times where I think a formula spell could be useful.

[00:18:53] None of you took spells as formulas, it's part of the core book for this campaign.

[00:19:01] The Kuthilu core book.

[00:19:03] Like baby formula?

[00:19:05] No, that's it's...

[00:19:06] Formula one?

[00:19:08] It's formulas.

[00:19:09] Instead of calling them rituals they're called formulas.

[00:19:12] They're just more in-depth ritual spells.

[00:19:14] Formulae?

[00:19:15] Perhaps.

[00:19:17] Either way.

[00:19:19] It's French for formula.

[00:19:22] In fairness a lot of them are mythos based spells but like you can summon...

[00:19:29] Pretty sure you can summon Biaki and some other shit.

[00:19:32] It's pretty fucked up and you don't have to be a spellcaster to take them.

[00:19:36] You just have to take the time they learn them.

[00:19:38] Boy stop using this well!

[00:19:39] You just cut the rope.

[00:19:41] Next time the buggy comes down just yank on the rope.

[00:19:49] Yeah, you guys are on the other side.

[00:19:50] There is a door behind you.

[00:19:54] Where's the boat go?

[00:19:56] I don't understand what the boat was for.

[00:19:58] It's a boat.

[00:20:02] Looking at it the boat appears to have a rope attached to it that is attached to the other side.

[00:20:08] As if you could just get in the boat and safely travel to the opposite doorway without getting in the water.

[00:20:16] It's a ferry.

[00:20:17] It is a ferry, yeah.

[00:20:19] But it is actually sitting there like on the concrete brick.

[00:20:27] Were there doorways on the other two?

[00:20:29] Those are just dead ends.

[00:20:30] The only two doorways are the ones you came from and the one right behind you.

[00:20:36] Should we go forward? We still missed two doors back.

[00:20:42] Let's go forward at least.

[00:20:46] Let's see where we're at.

[00:20:48] Maybe see if somebody has a key at some point.

[00:20:51] This appears to lead to a door.

[00:20:56] It kind of just curves.

[00:20:58] It's not very long.

[00:21:00] Maybe 30 feet.

[00:21:01] Curves pretty much dead south.

[00:21:02] And ends at a dead end where there's a door.

[00:21:08] Wooden door.

[00:21:10] Can you in?

[00:21:12] Check the door.

[00:21:14] Unlocked.

[00:21:16] It appears to be a pantry.

[00:21:18] Maybe not still.

[00:21:21] Stealthfully raided the pantry.

[00:21:25] Any fun news?

[00:21:26] Oh sorry, let me slightly backtrack.

[00:21:29] Again each one of them had an amulet.

[00:21:34] One of them has a purse of 35 gold.

[00:21:37] Noice.

[00:21:39] And unless you're able to dive down into the bottom you don't get anything else.

[00:21:44] Because there are toxins in the water.

[00:21:50] Yeah.

[00:21:51] So you come to a door.

[00:21:54] You open it up and it looks like the inside of a pantry.

[00:21:57] It's not large but there are clearly foodstuffs on your left and right

[00:22:01] and a door directly in front of you.

[00:22:04] And you do hear some voices on the other side of that door.

[00:22:08] Male voices.

[00:22:12] Kind of talking, laughing.

[00:22:14] Pressure plate.

[00:22:19] Smells like...

[00:22:21] Teen spirit?

[00:22:22] Smells like smoke.

[00:22:22] Smells as if something has been burnt.

[00:22:26] Shroom smoke?

[00:22:27] No, wood smoke.

[00:22:31] Are we going up in elevation at all?

[00:22:33] Like are we going back up to the surface here?

[00:22:39] Perhaps a little.

[00:22:41] Flynn, you're at the door.

[00:22:42] What would you like to do? You're in the pantry.

[00:22:44] In the pantry?

[00:22:45] There's a door out of the pantry.

[00:22:47] Correct.

[00:22:48] Is the stuff in the pantry fresh?

[00:22:51] Yeah.

[00:22:52] I mean like is it...

[00:22:54] I've been playing a lot of fallouts.

[00:22:56] So is there food in the pantry like...

[00:22:57] It's edible.

[00:22:58] Okay.

[00:22:58] It's mostly spices, dried goods.

[00:23:01] Okay so it's not...

[00:23:03] Maybe some pickled things and jars perhaps?

[00:23:10] How hard did the door open into this?

[00:23:13] Does this feel like it's a door that is used frequently?

[00:23:18] Somewhat frequently.

[00:23:20] It was maybe slightly stuck, little push opens, no problem.

[00:23:24] Frequently enough that it wasn't locked and you had no

[00:23:27] kind of trouble really opening it at all.

[00:23:29] Maybe dragged on the ground just to tad.

[00:23:32] I look at the cat and...

[00:23:34] Pull my head to the door and then shrug.

[00:23:39] Still?

[00:23:40] Okay.

[00:23:41] I just kicked the door off the hinges put.

[00:23:43] We can do it your way.

[00:23:44] It's fine.

[00:23:46] 22.

[00:23:47] Okay, you're opening the door quietly.

[00:23:49] Yeah.

[00:23:50] This appears to be the kitchen where the old woman died

[00:23:54] before the fire hit and the...

[00:23:58] boarding house.

[00:23:59] Oh!

[00:24:00] We got our house back.

[00:24:01] Holy shit!

[00:24:03] That's our house!

[00:24:04] You do see the charred remains of parts of the boarding house

[00:24:08] that were set on fire and you clearly recognize the kitchen.

[00:24:10] Where are you?

[00:24:11] Once...

[00:24:12] Where are the voices coming from?

[00:24:13] Guards.

[00:24:14] It appears that there are guards kind of walking and patrolling through here.

[00:24:17] Hey!

[00:24:18] Get out of my house!

[00:24:18] Get out of my fucking house!

[00:24:19] Free loaders?

[00:24:21] Yeah!

[00:24:22] All right, we have a secret passage down to a...

[00:24:26] Coldhouse.

[00:24:27] Cool.

[00:24:27] So the cold house goes under the crack den.

[00:24:31] The cold house goes under the church and the cold house goes

[00:24:35] under the boarding house, right?

[00:24:38] Those are the three exits to the city we found thus far.

[00:24:42] Yeah.

[00:24:42] Correct.

[00:24:43] And it clearly goes under some sort of well.

[00:24:45] Yeah.

[00:24:45] That is very close to our house.

[00:24:48] Right?

[00:24:49] We made any friends with like actual priests?

[00:24:51] The house was in a slummy...

[00:24:54] Yeah, there's one guy at the church.

[00:24:57] We don't think...

[00:24:58] I mean, we haven't been led to believe he's part of the cult.

[00:25:02] Can we send for a messenger to purify the well?

[00:25:05] I mean, it's...

[00:25:06] The guards are right outside.

[00:25:07] Yeah, the guard.

[00:25:08] Yeah, that's what I'm saying.

[00:25:09] I'm not exactly the talky-talky person, but I feel like that is a message we could

[00:25:13] communicate to signal...

[00:25:14] So yeah, you want to grab one of the guards then?

[00:25:17] I'm a cat.

[00:25:18] One of you who speaks to humans?

[00:25:21] I'm a ghoul.

[00:25:24] I'm...

[00:25:24] A pal then.

[00:25:27] None of you are human.

[00:25:28] I get it.

[00:25:29] Do we want to do that?

[00:25:33] I mean, if you talk about the most good for the most number of people, people are actively

[00:25:36] drinking from that well, so...

[00:25:38] Yeah.

[00:25:40] They're basically getting a whole bunch of people addicted constantly.

[00:25:45] I will slowly try to get the attention of the guards and...

[00:25:57] That's fine.

[00:25:58] Okay.

[00:25:58] You can...

[00:25:59] Yeah.

[00:25:59] Let them know.

[00:26:00] So hey, this leads to the well that is being poisoned.

[00:26:04] Oh, that's interesting.

[00:26:05] Just send to whoever we think can fix it.

[00:26:08] Can we get a priest or somebody to come help, bless, slash, clear this water up?

[00:26:15] Yeah, I mean, we'll do what we can.

[00:26:17] We'll contact the arbiter.

[00:26:18] We'll see what we can do.

[00:26:20] It's new to us.

[00:26:22] Well, the well is poisoned.

[00:26:24] You should probably coordinate off until it's clear.

[00:26:27] Yeah.

[00:26:28] Yeah.

[00:26:30] We'll see what we can do.

[00:26:31] Not to tell you of your job or anything.

[00:26:33] I mean, you guys...

[00:26:34] That boarding house was in kind of a slummy area.

[00:26:37] It's actually known as Dredgstown.

[00:26:40] Nat 20 on Insight.

[00:26:44] Four.

[00:26:45] Is he bullshitting?

[00:26:46] Does he seem...

[00:26:47] Do I get the sense that he was previously aware?

[00:26:49] He's never been aware.

[00:26:51] He's clearly not aware.

[00:26:52] He will contact his higher ups and see what when it can be done needs to be done.

[00:26:58] I mean, we can hang out for a little bit.

[00:26:59] In the meantime, they can kind of...

[00:27:01] Secret Coltty Guard guy maybe.

[00:27:03] Yeah, fair.

[00:27:04] I mean, we can hang out and wait for the results.

[00:27:07] You know what I mean?

[00:27:08] Like, is anybody injured?

[00:27:10] No one seems injured.

[00:27:11] We could rest.

[00:27:12] We could make a meal.

[00:27:13] Like, we could hang out for a minute.

[00:27:14] But it's true, you guys need to...

[00:27:17] You can take a 10 minute if you need to get any health back for anything.

[00:27:21] Mechanically, we may not need to,

[00:27:23] but we could just for narrative convenience sake.

[00:27:26] I think for everybody, it's an eight hour rest for spell slots.

[00:27:29] So, it would not be a mistake.

[00:27:31] Short rest gives me my key point back.

[00:27:35] If I take a long rest, I can rearrange my spells.

[00:27:40] That's true.

[00:27:41] It will be eight hours.

[00:27:42] I mean, you do kind of realize that it's a little darker out.

[00:27:45] Well, it's a bit darker out than it used to be.

[00:27:47] I mean, you've probably kind of lost track of time down in these caverns

[00:27:50] and you realize that it is evening.

[00:27:52] It's late.

[00:27:52] Later than it was, for sure.

[00:27:56] So you're just going to call it a night

[00:27:58] and venture back out in the morning?

[00:28:00] Let's see when the priest gets here.

[00:28:02] I don't need eight hours of sleep in order to necessarily...

[00:28:05] I think I'm good on hit points.

[00:28:07] I don't have any key points to spend.

[00:28:08] I don't think I've used any rages.

[00:28:11] I mean, I've expended all of my lay-on hands

[00:28:15] and I can only get that back with a long rest.

[00:28:17] Go to bed upstairs.

[00:28:20] We could break the priest in here and say,

[00:28:21] hey, purify this and we could sleep overnight.

[00:28:23] Purify this.

[00:28:27] And that, and I can get some more applicable spells for the dungeon.

[00:28:32] If I rearrange, instead of guidance, I can get light.

[00:28:36] There we go.

[00:28:37] Yeah, if you're going to rearrange your spells, start thinking about it.

[00:28:40] Yeah.

[00:28:41] Well, if I rearrange, I do get access to purify food and water.

[00:28:46] Expedious retreat.

[00:28:48] I have that feather fault.

[00:28:50] I mean, I guess it could help to have that doubled up.

[00:28:54] But it's not going to help purify the well.

[00:28:57] Not to like the metagame.

[00:29:01] But something probably terrible is going to happen when we go through that door.

[00:29:05] So I'd be prepared for some fucky wucky going to the Dreamlands bullshit.

[00:29:11] You guys can rest here if you want.

[00:29:13] That's fine.

[00:29:14] I have no problem with that.

[00:29:15] We're ready to set up your spells.

[00:29:16] You can get your spell slots back, get your health back.

[00:29:20] If you lost any, you're no longer under the influences of the potion.

[00:29:26] We level up.

[00:29:28] Not quite.

[00:29:31] There was a northerly passage from that pit room, and then there was the one stone door that you guys didn't check out if you would like to go back down.

[00:29:39] Oh no, over the time that you guys were taking your breaks and waiting, someone would have come down.

[00:29:46] They would have blocked off basically in a use of the well so that it can be purified.

[00:29:53] So they have done their due diligence.

[00:29:56] We would also probably send a missive to our patron.

[00:30:00] The fuck is that guy's name?

[00:30:02] The King?

[00:30:03] King Brunor.

[00:30:04] A-Trax.

[00:30:05] I don't know.

[00:30:08] King Aesop's fables.

[00:30:10] I don't remember what he is.

[00:30:11] The guy paying me.

[00:30:12] A-Trax.

[00:30:13] A-Trax sounds like an anti-depressant.

[00:30:15] King Brunor.

[00:30:16] King Brunor maybe?

[00:30:17] Yeah, Battlehammer.

[00:30:18] Sounds like A-Trax I think.

[00:30:20] It's pretty close.

[00:30:22] Like the next letter of the alphabet at least.

[00:30:27] King Brunor Battlehammer.

[00:30:29] No way.

[00:30:31] We would send him a message of all the cool shit we've been doing and how we've been saving his city and he should buy us all kinds of cool magic weapons.

[00:30:37] Sure.

[00:30:39] You may do so.

[00:30:41] Next morning?

[00:30:43] Would you like to finish the caverns?

[00:30:46] Yeah, I just swear.

[00:30:48] He's reorganizing them.

[00:30:49] His spells give him a second.

[00:30:50] Yeah, sorry. Take it down.

[00:30:51] No, no. Go ahead.

[00:30:52] I can do this on the run.

[00:30:54] I'll keep you listening.

[00:30:58] So if you guys are ready to move on, I'm good too.

[00:31:02] How far back do you want to go?

[00:31:03] Do you just want to go back to the cavern and go north?

[00:31:06] Or do you want to go all the way back to that stone door?

[00:31:08] We're going to wait for the Alice in Wonderland door for very last.

[00:31:11] Okay.

[00:31:12] We've already decided that.

[00:31:13] Yeah, so then you go back to the pit room and then head north.

[00:31:17] Yes.

[00:31:18] There is not terribly far down.

[00:31:21] Another door to your right, another corridor to your right,

[00:31:25] as well as a continuation north.

[00:31:28] Jesus Christ.

[00:31:30] We take the branching path, right?

[00:31:34] I think Dave designed this.

[00:31:37] And there's another one.

[00:31:39] A stout wooden door.

[00:31:42] Stands at the end of this room, at the end of this hall.

[00:31:46] For a logger door.

[00:31:50] A whiskey door?

[00:31:52] A logger door.

[00:31:53] Thanks.

[00:31:54] What are you rolling?

[00:31:57] I just wanted to roll.

[00:32:00] Nosey.

[00:32:00] It's Flindz's rolling dice.

[00:32:01] 18 stealth screen.

[00:32:04] And yellow.

[00:32:05] 18 yellow on stealth.

[00:32:07] It was all yellow, but you did open the door.

[00:32:10] This appears to be a basement of some kind.

[00:32:13] There are all kinds of...

[00:32:17] All chemical ingredients.

[00:32:19] I bet the basement of that fucking alchemy shop.

[00:32:23] Aren't we supposed to stake that out?

[00:32:25] Yeah.

[00:32:27] But wait, they were going to meet with...

[00:32:30] Where the cultists come in there.

[00:32:31] We had that guy arrested.

[00:32:33] We were still going to pretend to be him.

[00:32:35] It's like two years ago.

[00:32:38] You had the alchemist arrested for working with the cult.

[00:32:41] You realize, like Flindz, I think you're finally getting like...

[00:32:45] You get to be an adult and you start to forget things,

[00:32:47] but then you have a kid and you start to forget things.

[00:32:49] It's like, God, I am dumb.

[00:32:52] No, but there was a meet set up between him and the cultists.

[00:32:56] Yeah, but you had him arrested.

[00:32:57] Yeah, but we were going to dress up as...

[00:32:59] There's still a meeting.

[00:33:00] Yeah, we had a plan.

[00:33:01] Sure.

[00:33:01] I think I remember talking about a cat in a cow.

[00:33:04] A long time ago before you guys got back here.

[00:33:08] But that's where we are, right?

[00:33:10] You seem to be inside the basement of the alchemy shop.

[00:33:12] Yes, that appears to be correct.

[00:33:13] I mean, meetups are pretty convenient if the basement is connected to their hideout.

[00:33:18] Well, if we are back in the alchemist shop, I say we raid it.

[00:33:25] It appears as though the walls here of the basement are covered in hanging bundles

[00:33:32] of dried Zothian fungus.

[00:33:35] There's also a table in the middle with a large mortar and pestle,

[00:33:38] and a ladder that leads up to a trapdoor.

[00:33:44] Check the trapdoor.

[00:33:45] We're back in the shop, right?

[00:33:46] You are on the shop.

[00:33:47] All right.

[00:33:47] The trapdoor.

[00:33:49] Back out and straight.

[00:33:51] Yep.

[00:33:52] Okay, back out and north.

[00:33:56] Walking, you're walking, you're walking.

[00:33:59] You come to what appears to be the backside of...

[00:34:05] What one would assume is a secret door, as there is no handle,

[00:34:10] but you can clearly tell that this is a doorway, somewhat coffin shaped.

[00:34:17] Oh.

[00:34:19] Wait.

[00:34:20] The crypt.

[00:34:21] Yeah.

[00:34:22] So we've walked in a complete circle then?

[00:34:25] You have made a complete circle.

[00:34:27] All right.

[00:34:28] Very lengthy multi-day circle.

[00:34:32] So the Alice in Wonderland door, try to find a key, go to the other door.

[00:34:36] Say, all we've got is the Arcane Lock and the Alice in Wonderland door.

[00:34:39] That's it.

[00:34:39] These are true statements.

[00:34:42] We could have brought somebody to pick the Arcane Lock.

[00:34:47] Do we...

[00:34:48] The Alice in Wonderland door is a cool door.

[00:34:51] Yeah.

[00:34:54] The Arcane door could have magical weapons to get us on our quest.

[00:34:57] That's true.

[00:34:59] It never does.

[00:35:00] So could the Alice in Wonderland door influence?

[00:35:03] Your magical items that will help you on your quest

[00:35:05] is always in another castle, Troy.

[00:35:07] It's a red herring.

[00:35:08] Princess is in another castle.

[00:35:11] So then are you going to the Alice in Wonderland door

[00:35:13] that has the green paint on it that says everything in slash begins here?

[00:35:17] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:35:18] We get the metaphor.

[00:35:19] We understand.

[00:35:22] We're gonna have some absence, don't eat the worm.

[00:35:24] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:35:25] What is a metaphor?

[00:35:29] Comes after a meta three but before a meta five.

[00:35:33] Thanks.

[00:35:34] I still feel like we found that key but he forgot.

[00:35:38] An Arcane Lock theoretically needs a spell to open it.

[00:35:41] So then are you opening or attempting to open?

[00:35:46] I kick it in.

[00:35:49] It opens easily.

[00:35:52] No problem, not locked.

[00:35:53] We all get sucked into the Black Void.

[00:35:55] You find yourselves in a cool vaulted cellar.

[00:35:59] This place is pretty cool.

[00:36:00] The only other exit from here is a stone stair well at the far end leading up.

[00:36:06] Barrels of wine and ale all labeled with red paint and stamped with a wax seal

[00:36:11] are lined up against the walls.

[00:36:13] Kind of wax seal.

[00:36:16] A royal wax seal.

[00:36:19] Uh oh.

[00:36:20] Like a royal crown or like an RC Cola crest.

[00:36:26] Yeah, but is this as this as this King Ajax?

[00:36:31] It's the same crest that is on your paper that says you are allowed to

[00:36:36] interview anyone you want to interview.

[00:36:40] It appears to be a tracks crest.

[00:36:43] Uh oh.

[00:36:47] And as you guys kind of look around the trap door at the stair well opens up

[00:36:53] and a servant walks down and goes, oh hello can I help you?

[00:37:02] Third javelin.

[00:37:06] Spears to be a perhaps middle aged man clearly in servants clothing.

[00:37:12] I will walk as I was a walk over and grab him by his lapel and lift him off the floor.

[00:37:19] Um okay.

[00:37:22] He is shaking.

[00:37:26] Where are we?

[00:37:29] Below the palace.

[00:37:32] Where did you come from?

[00:37:35] Who are you?

[00:37:39] Yeah, you're gonna ask that and I forgot his name.

[00:37:41] I think it's Thomas.

[00:37:43] Wait he was NPC.

[00:37:46] No there is actually a I think it's like master of wine and they are something.

[00:37:51] He actually has a name.

[00:37:52] Formerly NPC.

[00:37:54] Odd question.

[00:37:57] That guy who ran away from us under the church did we ever find him or did you just

[00:38:03] disappear?

[00:38:04] Yeah no I think we found he was when we encountered like the group of chanting folks.

[00:38:11] He was with them.

[00:38:13] I wasn't sure if he bolted after that as well or if we killed him yet.

[00:38:17] I'm pretty sure we took care of him.

[00:38:19] Got it.

[00:38:20] I was hoping we didn't have any loose ends like that running around.

[00:38:24] Now we've got a new loose end to tie.

[00:38:27] Yeah shove him in a barrel.

[00:38:28] He'll thank us later.

[00:38:31] Drowns.

[00:38:34] He died happy.

[00:38:35] He died the way he lived by drink.

[00:38:38] This was not a secret door this was just a door leading into.

[00:38:44] No like if you close the door behind you you'd never know what was there.

[00:38:47] Yeah I don't.

[00:38:48] Okay it is a secret door.

[00:38:49] Yeah.

[00:38:49] Okay.

[00:38:51] I got another question for him but I thought Lucas was gonna have the name pretty quick.

[00:38:55] I do he's fuckers got a name and I just can't find it.

[00:38:57] Just make up a name.

[00:38:58] I'm gonna call him Thomas.

[00:39:01] Thomas.

[00:39:04] Father Thomas.

[00:39:05] I won't keep doing the voice because I'm sure A it's gonna be irritating to edit and B it's gonna kill my throat eventually.

[00:39:14] And it's only really fun in like really short pits.

[00:39:18] Cyrus will ask him what do you do?

[00:39:26] Those four words.

[00:39:27] Careful.

[00:39:28] You're stretching your...

[00:39:30] I fetch the wine and ale.

[00:39:34] For King Atrex.

[00:39:35] I will point to the barrels.

[00:39:37] You buy these.

[00:39:40] We make...

[00:39:41] You know them.

[00:39:43] Yes.

[00:39:44] Which ones aren't yours?

[00:39:47] And I throw them towards the barrels.

[00:39:49] He kind of scours over all of them they're all ours.

[00:39:53] Look again.

[00:39:56] And he will he thoroughly checks each and every seal.

[00:40:00] None of them have been opened.

[00:40:05] So they're...

[00:40:06] He says these are wines these are whites these are reds these are ales.

[00:40:11] These casks are these bottles.

[00:40:14] It's mostly casks maybe some bottles.

[00:40:17] Okay because I would be pointing towards the casks.

[00:40:21] Yeah they're all...

[00:40:22] They wouldn't be fucking with them in the bottles.

[00:40:24] They're all sealed no seals broken none have been tapped.

[00:40:29] Who else gets the wine?

[00:40:34] Guests at parties perhaps.

[00:40:37] Where does the wine come from?

[00:40:39] Oh we have a vineyard.

[00:40:41] We make the wine here.

[00:40:47] And only the royal family drinks them I mean it's you don't outsource this wine anywhere it stays in house.

[00:40:54] Correct yes.

[00:40:56] Would you...

[00:40:57] Would you like to speak to the king?

[00:41:00] He's just upstairs.

[00:41:01] We've...

[00:41:02] I'll pull out the writ like we're on we're here on business.

[00:41:07] Yes.

[00:41:08] Oh it's okay yes yes yes yeah.

[00:41:12] Please.

[00:41:13] As I've still got them at arms length.

[00:41:15] I'll look at the...

[00:41:19] The artificer and the cat.

[00:41:21] You.

[00:41:22] You.

[00:41:23] Look.

[00:41:24] And I look at the...

[00:41:24] I nod towards the barrels again.

[00:41:29] Inspect the barrels look for any weaknesses.

[00:41:35] Signs that they're tampered with.

[00:41:37] Tampering the blue seals because like this like tonight would do if you want to fuck with the king

[00:41:41] is clearly come in and screw with his wine.

[00:41:43] Sure not taking a thorough 20 you guys find nothing to miss.

[00:41:47] These are clearly casks and bottles of the local wine or ale or whatever drink may be down there.

[00:41:58] Nothing strange.

[00:42:00] Nothing appears to be tampered with.

[00:42:06] So if they're fucked with they're fucked with at the source.

[00:42:11] Or whatever one's most recently been fucked with has already been served which is why I was wondering who else the fuck comes down here besides Pittle on his pants Thomas.

[00:42:21] I'm happy to fetch the king or I can bring you to him.

[00:42:26] Perhaps perhaps you have...

[00:42:28] I hope to watch that conversation.

[00:42:29] You okay we need you in the cellar.

[00:42:31] He kind of he kind of points to your gestures towards the scroll that you showed him with the writ and clearly you are working for him.

[00:42:38] Perhaps you have news.

[00:42:42] Show me.

[00:42:43] We have news yes.

[00:42:44] Yes this way this way.

[00:42:45] I'm still holding him though.

[00:42:47] You said you threw him.

[00:42:48] I know I'm picking him back up.

[00:42:50] Helping him up and then continuing to hold.

[00:42:53] This way carry me this way.

[00:42:54] He needs to be knocked by his hands.

[00:42:56] Most likely to choke somebody.

[00:42:58] Up the stairs up the trap door.

[00:43:00] Miming walking.

[00:43:01] You know how when you grab a child and you like scoop under one arm and then across the chest and over the other arm and kind of like just sidearm slam.

[00:43:11] Cyrus didn't take no fucks I'm just banging doors open because like I said at this point my thought is that whatever the poison cask is has already been set out.

[00:43:23] It may not be the most intelligent of interpretations but Cyrus is a man of action.

[00:43:29] See my thought went sort of the other direction.

[00:43:32] Like is the world is maybe the king but as somebody in the royal family.

[00:43:40] Well that's why I want to ask Thomas didn't immediately attack us.

[00:43:44] Right.

[00:43:44] And Thomas doesn't seem untrustworthy thus far so who the fuck else comes down here.

[00:43:50] I would imagine this is not necessarily a locked or guarded area.

[00:43:59] Maybe I don't know.

[00:44:00] And a cult doesn't dig a tunnel and place a door to the basement of the king's cellar without doing something about it.

[00:44:11] There's some fuckery afoot.

[00:44:14] You guys may ascend into the kitchen.

[00:44:18] You see maids and cooks doing their duties.

[00:44:23] Just slaying poor Thomas the porter of wines under my arm.

[00:44:27] What's going on?

[00:44:28] Is everyone all right?

[00:44:30] I hope there's like a lamb shank or something like cooking and I just rip a whole haunch of it off and eat it in the other hand while I'm slinging Thomas.

[00:44:38] Did you want that cooked?

[00:44:40] Delicious.

[00:44:41] Sure.

[00:44:42] Rawl does.

[00:44:42] And she just throws another one on.

[00:44:45] Now you guys.

[00:44:47] God damn Brazilian steakhouse in here.

[00:44:49] You guys will find your way into the palace.

[00:44:51] A couple of guards will guide you to the king.

[00:44:56] Perfect.

[00:45:05] Thank you all for listening.

[00:45:12] The Big Sleep was written by Sandy Peterson and Jonah Baumgaard's.

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