Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos - The Big Sleep 26

One hell of a fight, but the crew has made it through. At least they got some sweet stuff. Now they must choose to descend back down the interior of the mountain, or the exterior toward Yetive.

Find out what happens next as we continue The Big Sleep, an adventure in Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos.

Starring 

Cody as Cyrus, a Ghoul Barbarian

Flynn as Mr. Whimples, a Dreamlands Cat

Troy as Cassius, a Triton Paladin

Alex as Magnus, a Dragonborn Artificer

 

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[00:00:17] Bancors Brothel presents The Big Sleep, The Mythos 5e Adventure.

[00:01:24] Punch Nazis.

[00:01:26] It's a great way to start a game.

[00:01:28] There might be God-nate Nazis in this game now for us to punch.

[00:01:32] We did discuss that I think when Flynn was out. Or maybe not.

[00:01:39] Peterson apparently is incredibly religious.

[00:01:42] Really?

[00:01:42] He's Mormon.

[00:01:43] Which I didn't realize.

[00:01:44] Oh.

[00:01:46] But he also wrote like Doom and Call of Cthulhu and a whole bunch of really metal stuff.

[00:01:50] So like Sandy Peterson continues to be my hero.

[00:01:53] He's the most metal Mormon of all time.

[00:01:55] Is he full on weird underwear Mormon?

[00:01:56] I'm not sure if that's far back.

[00:01:58] I don't know because I've not asked him.

[00:02:01] I wouldn't be surprised.

[00:02:03] Maybe.

[00:02:03] It's one of the things that I realized that I've never heard him swear or speak an unkind word.

[00:02:10] Or drink a Coke.

[00:02:12] He's a very, very calm like speaker.

[00:02:15] He's a very calm speaker.

[00:02:16] I've talked to him a couple times at Gen Con.

[00:02:18] He's a very nice guy.

[00:02:18] Oh no, he's a very nice guy.

[00:02:20] He'll answer any question you got.

[00:02:21] But it just cracks me up.

[00:02:22] Also wrote Doom like.

[00:02:23] Yeah.

[00:02:24] Pretty fucking metal.

[00:02:25] Yeah.

[00:02:26] Right.

[00:02:26] And Call of Cthulhu is like, you would think that it's like, it's such an interesting,

[00:02:31] he's such a cool, interesting person.

[00:02:33] Yeah.

[00:02:33] Like, I like that.

[00:02:35] His brain works in a way that is incredibly intriguing.

[00:02:38] I would agree.

[00:02:40] It's just like, Doom is, Doom is impressive.

[00:02:43] Like, I mean, you don't see a lot of the writing from Doom, but like the concepts like are solid.

[00:02:50] Yeah.

[00:02:51] It's free on Game Pass right now, the original.

[00:02:53] Anyway.

[00:02:53] Um, where do the three of you like to go?

[00:02:57] You're kind of either hanging out outside of a mountain or you're going back into the mountain.

[00:03:02] Which did Lucas not prep for?

[00:03:04] And that's what we should do.

[00:03:07] Well, when I ran the game last time, I am well prepped for going back in the mountain

[00:03:13] because I basically already ran it and going outside of the mountain is what I'm prepped for now.

[00:03:18] So what do you want to do?

[00:03:21] What's my third option?

[00:03:23] We turn the recording off and keep punching Nazis.

[00:03:26] Okay.

[00:03:27] We commit seppuku.

[00:03:29] Makes this game really easy.

[00:03:33] Realistically speaking though, how long...

[00:03:35] Problem is with 5e is you got to roll the hit every time, so...

[00:03:41] You rolled a one.

[00:03:42] I like the...

[00:03:42] You rolled a one on that giant die.

[00:03:44] No, I just grabbed like eight dies and I rolled a...

[00:03:50] Two match...

[00:03:51] No, three separate shields and a health symbol, a two, an 11, an eight, a five, ninety, seven, one, and a four.

[00:03:57] If you're trying to commit seppuku though, if you get a one, and usually most failures end in bodily harm, does it just mean you stab yourself somewhere else?

[00:04:07] You accidentally heal yourself.

[00:04:07] I think you stabbed the person beside you.

[00:04:09] Yeah.

[00:04:10] You committed seppuku for someone else.

[00:04:13] The point is it takes an hour and a half.

[00:04:14] Troy's now dead.

[00:04:15] It takes an hour and a half to hurt yourself in this game.

[00:04:19] Um...

[00:04:19] No, I...

[00:04:19] Realistically speaking, like, the way you described it from the last episode, like, did we just meander the fuck down some stairs and like found our way through the pass?

[00:04:28] No.

[00:04:28] You guys walked out a passageway through which you could...

[00:04:32] You are facing...

[00:04:33] I believe it's essentially south toward the kingdom of Yeti.

[00:04:37] Essentially south.

[00:04:37] Toward the kingdom of Yeti.

[00:04:39] Like, we went into this place.

[00:04:41] There was an up and a down.

[00:04:43] Yeah.

[00:04:43] We went up.

[00:04:44] Right.

[00:04:44] And there was like a left and a right.

[00:04:45] We went right or left, whatever.

[00:04:47] Correct.

[00:04:48] And then we came to the three old fuckers and then found a way out.

[00:04:52] So I'm like...

[00:04:52] There were two exits from that main room and you took one and that's the one that we...

[00:04:55] Well, that's what I'm saying.

[00:04:56] Like, did we walk for like four days to get out or did we walk like 10 minutes?

[00:05:00] No.

[00:05:01] It's literally like there are two exits from this big room at the top of the mountain.

[00:05:04] Left or right.

[00:05:05] Okay.

[00:05:05] You went one way.

[00:05:06] Because if it realistically is not that hard for us to backtrack and look at the other way, then I feel like it's worth seeing what else is there.

[00:05:13] Like, it's sort of like in the, you know, when you're playing the video game and you're like, oh, this is clearly the route to the next level.

[00:05:20] I'm not 100%ing it, but it's not that hard to turn around and walk back.

[00:05:24] Let's take a look.

[00:05:25] Yeah.

[00:05:26] Yeah.

[00:05:27] I mean, you can go back if you want and go out the other, the opposite tunnel from you within that main chamber.

[00:05:32] Yeah.

[00:05:32] I feel like we should continue to explore the area unless you guys are opposed.

[00:05:36] We killed the three big bads.

[00:05:38] And took their stuff.

[00:05:39] That's what I wanted.

[00:05:40] Right.

[00:05:41] Yeah.

[00:05:41] Which does take an hour of attunement.

[00:05:43] So you got the rest an hour to attend to it if anyone is wearing or using a piece of it.

[00:05:47] Did we forget that literally when we were just talking about doom, my character continues to scream rip and tear, right?

[00:05:54] Yeah.

[00:05:54] That has nothing to do with attuning to things.

[00:05:56] You don't wear armor.

[00:05:57] You rip and tear.

[00:05:58] I'm not saying you had, you had to take some, anybody could wear that armor as long as they can wear medium armor.

[00:06:03] They better catch up then.

[00:06:06] It's a chain mail.

[00:06:07] So whatever.

[00:06:09] But as far as, so we, we, we had an up, we had a going up stairs, going down the stairs choice.

[00:06:18] We went up.

[00:06:20] That's where you found the council room.

[00:06:21] Right.

[00:06:22] Have we explored everything in the up except for this other direction out of the chamber?

[00:06:28] I thought, I thought there was another way we could have gone earlier.

[00:06:32] There was a down.

[00:06:33] You went up.

[00:06:33] Right.

[00:06:34] There was a down that when you first walked into the mountain, there was a down or an up and you went up.

[00:06:37] Please display for me a three dimensional orrery of exactly the position and orientation of all of these chambers.

[00:06:46] Yeah.

[00:06:46] Um, when you guys walked in, there was a down and an up.

[00:06:52] You went up.

[00:06:54] He's flipping him off.

[00:06:55] It's rude.

[00:06:56] It is rude.

[00:06:57] Because it is an audio podcast and they can't see.

[00:07:01] Thank you.

[00:07:01] Continue to make visual jokes.

[00:07:03] You dipshit.

[00:07:04] I will constantly harp on you about that every time.

[00:07:10] If you've clicked on this YouTube video, you are sorely disappointed for visuals.

[00:07:14] It's still a blank screen with a logo.

[00:07:18] Um, it's not a blank screen.

[00:07:19] It's not a blank screen.

[00:07:20] Your friend.

[00:07:20] Um, what do you, what do you want to do?

[00:07:23] Do you want to just go across the other side of the council room and then work your way down?

[00:07:27] I don't care.

[00:07:28] That's fine.

[00:07:28] Okay.

[00:07:29] We want to find out what's going on.

[00:07:30] You do not.

[00:07:32] Good.

[00:07:33] Good riddance.

[00:07:34] Wow.

[00:07:36] I'll bring you back in a minute.

[00:07:39] So let's go the other room first.

[00:07:42] Uh, across the council hall.

[00:07:43] The opposite crevice in the council chamber, um, leads out to a ledge, jenning about 20 feet from the sheer side of the mountain.

[00:07:52] Like the prow of a stone ship.

[00:07:55] It's a drop of about 500 feet to the steep slopes of mountain below you.

[00:07:59] At the end of this, at the end of the ledge stands a monolith of black obsidian seemingly sprouting from the naked rock.

[00:08:05] Part of the monolith has been formed into a natural lens.

[00:08:09] It appears to look like a lens.

[00:08:13] An actual piece of glass almost.

[00:08:19] Do I see any cultists at the bottom of the, um, cliff?

[00:08:23] Like flowing into the mountain?

[00:08:25] I don't know if it's on that side or not.

[00:08:28] It would be a very, very, very, very far, uh, I mean, based on the map, it's on that side, but based on how high you are, it's, there's probably clouds and shit in your way.

[00:08:39] If I wouldn't actually see them.

[00:08:41] I'm going to drop a rock off the edge anyway.

[00:08:42] Sure.

[00:08:45] 500 feet down, you, it, it lands.

[00:08:48] I don't know if you actually hear it or not.

[00:08:49] Cause I hope I hear somebody sputtering down there.

[00:08:52] Yeah, probably not.

[00:08:53] It's going to roll down the mountain and cause an avalanche first.

[00:08:55] I was going to point to you as being, I presume the most intellectual of the party to like, see what the lens does.

[00:09:02] Is this like the eye of Sauron or some shit?

[00:09:05] I wanted to start my avalanche first.

[00:09:07] Oh, so, uh, is this?

[00:09:10] Sandy Peterson's pensieve or something?

[00:09:12] Like what does it do?

[00:09:15] Eh, let's try investigation.

[00:09:17] Let's see here.

[00:09:18] Roll me investigate.

[00:09:20] That's a 27.

[00:09:22] That's a six on the die.

[00:09:24] Good thing it adds 21 to it.

[00:09:28] Actually, I ended up with a 13.

[00:09:31] Any good?

[00:09:31] I was going to give you a 12 DC.

[00:09:33] I, it, you would assume this is probably something that would require magic to see through.

[00:09:39] I also have that.

[00:09:42] Uh, let's.

[00:09:43] If you have detect magic, I can tell you what kind of magic it is.

[00:09:47] Don't you have detect magic?

[00:09:48] I do.

[00:09:49] Does identify count?

[00:09:51] I do have that spell.

[00:09:52] No.

[00:09:52] No, it's different.

[00:09:53] You're, that's identifying an object.

[00:09:55] I will do it as a ritual.

[00:09:57] So I'm supposed to.

[00:09:58] That's fine.

[00:09:59] Um, it's enchanted with divination.

[00:10:02] That's a shocker.

[00:10:04] Divination.

[00:10:08] I go up and touch it.

[00:10:10] Cool.

[00:10:11] Um, it kind of vibrates when you touch it.

[00:10:16] Um, you feel a little unnerved.

[00:10:21] I placed the cat on it.

[00:10:23] You feel a little unnerved by it.

[00:10:25] Um, roll me, actually, roll me a, a wisdom save for a fear check.

[00:10:33] Spooky, scary skeletons.

[00:10:36] You're good.

[00:10:37] 20.

[00:10:38] Yep, you're good.

[00:10:39] Uh, you kind of shake off this like essential feeling.

[00:10:43] As you step back and you look up, you, you see, um, you see what's left of the city that you have left behind.

[00:10:52] And the mound of, uh, rubble, smoke, still burning fires, smoldering bits, dead bodies, creatures of unknown origin, and Sathagwa at its center looking larger than he ever has.

[00:11:10] Hey bro, is that Bo Krug?

[00:11:13] He's been eating well.

[00:11:15] Appears to be slumbering right now.

[00:11:16] That froggy piece of shit.

[00:11:18] He just had Thanksgiving and is now sleeping it off.

[00:11:22] So I just get a picture of old man going to sleep in the ruined city.

[00:11:29] You see that thing sleeping.

[00:11:32] For people at home, there's a giant Sathagwa figure on the, on the table right now.

[00:11:38] I don't have to worry about that.

[00:11:39] That's on the other side of the mountain.

[00:11:41] Way over there.

[00:11:42] It's me.

[00:11:42] It's actually a couple of days away from you.

[00:11:44] I mean, the city is, it was like a two day walk to get what you got here.

[00:11:48] To them.

[00:11:51] Um, but yeah, he is, he appears to still be there and, uh, and Haradabaz, what's left of Haradabaz.

[00:11:57] And, um, yeah, there he is.

[00:12:02] So that's what I saw.

[00:12:04] Should we go down on stairs?

[00:12:06] You guys aren't seeing it, but this is what he's telling you.

[00:12:08] You see, he sees.

[00:12:12] So he touches it.

[00:12:13] He sees a thing, but we don't see a thing.

[00:12:16] Yeah.

[00:12:17] He touched it.

[00:12:18] He saw it.

[00:12:18] Um, mirror, mirror on the balcony.

[00:12:21] You also see countless swarms of formless spawn and misshaped flying creatures converging on the mountain from the direction of the city.

[00:12:33] Hellmouth now.

[00:12:35] Hmm.

[00:12:36] Where's Buffy when we need her?

[00:12:39] I'd rather have doom slayer.

[00:12:41] And I don't mean like here's three or four creatures coming your way.

[00:12:44] These are massive swarms of things.

[00:12:49] If we're going to loot, we better loot and run soon.

[00:12:52] Neat.

[00:12:53] I touch it.

[00:12:55] You see the same.

[00:12:56] Okay.

[00:12:56] Yeah.

[00:12:58] Give me a wisdom check for fear though.

[00:13:04] Not great.

[00:13:05] Uh, yep.

[00:13:08] Uh, wisdom.

[00:13:09] Is it a check?

[00:13:10] It's a save.

[00:13:10] Sorry.

[00:13:11] It's a wisdom save.

[00:13:11] Yeah.

[00:13:13] Go ahead and take one fear on your, on your chart, on your chart there for now.

[00:13:17] What would you like to do?

[00:13:20] I think we can shove it off this plant.

[00:13:22] I was kind of, I was kind of, uh, the joke was going to be, I would like to make a check

[00:13:27] and then he would say, make a wisdom.

[00:13:29] And then I would say no strength.

[00:13:31] That was the joke.

[00:13:32] I was going to, well, if you touch it, you see it.

[00:13:34] So, it's basically, it's like a flash almost.

[00:13:38] How?

[00:13:40] How much wisdom?

[00:13:40] We can make a wisdom first and then a strength check if you want to try to push it off.

[00:13:43] That's fine.

[00:13:44] I guess I wouldn't necessarily know that I was going to do that.

[00:13:47] I should probably pull the curesh.

[00:13:48] That's also a good idea.

[00:13:49] Here's a question though.

[00:13:50] Yeah.

[00:13:51] Uh, how much ground is actually underneath of the cliff?

[00:13:54] Not much.

[00:13:55] It's at the edge of the, of the, uh, ledge that you're standing on.

[00:14:01] I would say you got, I don't know.

[00:14:04] Eight feet before they actually hit the edge of it.

[00:14:07] I got a shovel.

[00:14:09] It's a, uh, probably a 12 foot tall monolith.

[00:14:12] Oh no, no, no.

[00:14:13] I'm not talking about the monolith.

[00:14:14] I'm talking about what's under it.

[00:14:15] I don't have to touch the monolith.

[00:14:18] Just cut out the stuff.

[00:14:19] It's going to take a really long time to dig through a frozen mountain.

[00:14:23] Yeah.

[00:14:25] How much of a swarm do you want me to hit you with?

[00:14:28] I'm not sure if we're going downstairs yet or not.

[00:14:30] So I occupy myself somehow.

[00:14:32] Totally fair.

[00:14:32] So is he foreshadowing the shit coming this way?

[00:14:35] Is that what he did?

[00:14:36] Hmm.

[00:14:36] There are swarms of lots of things coming toward the mountain.

[00:14:39] Basically all the nasty stuff.

[00:14:40] You don't see them with the naked eye.

[00:14:41] You see them in the lens.

[00:14:44] All that nasty stuff we found as we were exiting the city is now coming this way.

[00:14:49] Yeah.

[00:14:49] Yeah.

[00:14:53] Yeah.

[00:14:53] How do we feel about going downstairs?

[00:14:57] Now that I know that there's a massive thing heading towards us, I feel like if we're not exiting, we should probably like skedaddle.

[00:15:05] Well, that's cool.

[00:15:06] We should probably move quickly if we're not going to exit.

[00:15:11] Those things are coming here, right?

[00:15:13] Right.

[00:15:14] If you'd like to continue exploring, we should get onto it.

[00:15:17] Okay.

[00:15:18] Your context was confusing.

[00:15:20] Fair enough.

[00:15:21] I realized that I was sort of only half saying what I was thinking.

[00:15:25] Like, are you saying we should leave this place or should we should go downstairs?

[00:15:29] I would like to destroy this, but we did kill the people who probably used it.

[00:15:32] So probably okay.

[00:15:34] Yeah.

[00:15:35] All it is, as far as we know, is a seeing stone essentially.

[00:15:38] Then, eh.

[00:15:43] I'm okay with leaving.

[00:15:44] Would you like to continue exploring, Troy?

[00:15:47] How far back is it to backtrack and explore?

[00:15:50] Like two hours?

[00:15:51] Like down the bottom, towards the bottom of it?

[00:15:53] Is that where you want to go?

[00:15:54] I mean-

[00:15:55] Like on the interior?

[00:15:56] That's what I'm trying to get at is, there's a horde of things coming towards us.

[00:16:00] Correct.

[00:16:00] Our options are to leave, essentially meeting them probably in some halfway measure or-

[00:16:07] The exit's on the opposite side.

[00:16:08] The exit's on the opposite side.

[00:16:09] They're coming from where we go.

[00:16:10] In fairness.

[00:16:11] Yeah.

[00:16:12] That's fair, yes.

[00:16:13] That monolith is actually facing the city of Radovaz.

[00:16:17] That's fair.

[00:16:21] At least in that direction.

[00:16:24] It's like a giant spot.

[00:16:25] I would like to repeat my-

[00:16:26] The monolith is on the same side as the way you guys went into the mountain.

[00:16:30] Which is not directly facing Radovaz, but it's facing that area.

[00:16:35] Whereas the exit where you walked out and saw the kingdom of Yativ in the distance is on the opposite side of the mountain.

[00:16:42] Shout out to-

[00:16:44] I forget who it was who built the awesome 3D model on the Facebook page, which is-

[00:16:49] That was cool.

[00:16:49] The Facebook page.

[00:16:50] Uh, he also has some great chats with Jeff and I.

[00:16:53] Um, I think he's nervous to post about it in the Facebook group, which nobody should ever be nervous to post in the Facebook group, book group.

[00:16:59] Because we love chatting with people who listen to this podcast.

[00:17:02] Um, but much like he put in, uh, the effort of a 3D model, Lucas, I feel like I need a 3D model of what's going on.

[00:17:09] Because somehow we were near the backside and walked-

[00:17:12] So we walked somehow all the way around and are facing a different cardinal direction.

[00:17:16] So there was a big room at the top of the stairs that we came in, and there were two exits opposite sides of the mountain.

[00:17:23] Right, but mechanically somehow we are essentially in 180 degrees opposition of the way of those two exits.

[00:17:30] Because one led us down some stairs to something on the other side of the mountain range, and he's saying this is a giant magnifying glass looking towards Haradavas.

[00:17:40] So from what I'm understanding from what he described-

[00:17:42] This is why we need an artery.

[00:17:44] We came in through an exit, bottom floor.

[00:17:47] Right.

[00:17:47] There's stairs going down an angle, stairs going up.

[00:17:50] We went up the stairs.

[00:17:51] There's kind of all, essentially a loft area.

[00:17:55] Go to the group chat.

[00:17:56] Which-

[00:17:56] I just dropped a picture of part of the map I cut out.

[00:17:59] I erased a bunch of it.

[00:18:03] But then you can kind of see what I'm talking about.

[00:18:05] The council chamber is right there in front of you.

[00:18:07] So those exits are directly across from each other.

[00:18:10] That is very helpful.

[00:18:11] One of them is facing the direction where Haradavas is.

[00:18:13] I really expect maps out of mashed potato in the future, but this is acceptable for now.

[00:18:18] Hmm.

[00:18:19] So yes-

[00:18:19] There's something to this.

[00:18:20] This means something.

[00:18:22] So the stairs downward cut at the 12 o'clock angle and meandered their way down.

[00:18:28] Yes.

[00:18:28] The sort of other places is at 6 o'clock.

[00:18:33] So yes, we are on two opposite sides of the top of the mountain.

[00:18:36] But to climb those stairs up, it was probably a couple hours climb to get to the council chamber easily.

[00:18:43] Right.

[00:18:43] No, no, no.

[00:18:44] But what I- I'm just trying to understand.

[00:18:46] So essentially, Troy, we would have to go quite a ways down to explore the area that you want to explore.

[00:18:51] About how far away is this horde of things that are coming to eat our nuts?

[00:18:55] They are leaving the city, so if it was a two-day walk for you guys, there's probably about a day or a day and a half flight for them.

[00:19:02] We have some time, but we should probably hurry.

[00:19:04] Right.

[00:19:04] Like you could feasibly go to the bottom and go back up and leave before they get there.

[00:19:07] Because maybe we find the ability of some way to collapse this mountain pass while we're down there.

[00:19:12] I'm not opposed to it.

[00:19:14] If you'd like to go, I am cautiously supportive.

[00:19:17] Yeah.

[00:19:19] What do you feel?

[00:19:20] Leave or explore?

[00:19:22] I think we got the most important things because we beat the bosses.

[00:19:29] And probably the rest of the mountain is full of those crystals of obnoxious people.

[00:19:33] It's video game talk right there.

[00:19:35] I mean, he's not wrong.

[00:19:36] I don't have to go back and look at the rest of the chamber.

[00:19:38] What's his name?

[00:19:39] Sorin?

[00:19:40] Saren?

[00:19:40] Shot himself in the face.

[00:19:41] I gotta find that one chest that's hidden up on a ledge, Skyrim.

[00:19:46] Don't have to.

[00:19:46] We're not trying to 100% this.

[00:19:48] Golden Ring, baby.

[00:19:50] Yes, sir.

[00:19:51] I can't stand a Souls game.

[00:19:53] Sorry, I can't do it.

[00:19:55] It's a master.

[00:19:55] It's a master.

[00:19:55] So sad.

[00:19:56] It's a blasphemous masterpiece.

[00:19:58] I'm trying to shit out.

[00:19:59] But I don't think we're going to really find any major lore here except for the same

[00:20:05] old tired song and dance.

[00:20:10] I like how even Alex is tired of living this bullshit.

[00:20:12] I just want to get off this mountain is all he's saying.

[00:20:15] All right.

[00:20:15] Let's leave.

[00:20:15] So, yeah.

[00:20:17] I think we'll have more fun in the not decimated kingdom that we're about to invade.

[00:20:23] I will reread just because it is a nice little paragraph.

[00:20:28] No.

[00:20:28] I will reread the description of what you see out the back door or what they're calling

[00:20:31] it the back door.

[00:20:32] Is there something you've not paid attention to?

[00:20:34] Um, you leave the ancient hollow mountain full of so many crystalline sarcophagi.

[00:20:39] A narrow path takes you along a ridge of rock toward a shadowy valley between two smaller

[00:20:44] mountains beyond the grassy plains, beyond the grassy plains of the kingdom of Yetive

[00:20:49] stretch to the horizon promising a respite from the horrors that destroyed Axvain and

[00:20:57] you hope allies to help you fight back.

[00:21:00] The whores.

[00:21:01] The whores.

[00:21:02] There's an army of whores?

[00:21:03] The whores.

[00:21:05] God damn it.

[00:21:06] Down the mountain you go.

[00:21:08] A few hours here, a few hours there.

[00:21:10] It is getting a little dark.

[00:21:12] You do find a bit of an area that is safe enough to rest.

[00:21:16] We go to the next area.

[00:21:17] It's clearly where you've set up the trap.

[00:21:19] You may rest and level up to level five.

[00:21:24] You said it was going to take like forever to level up to level five.

[00:21:27] I wasn't because I expected you to explore the rest of the mountain.

[00:21:31] Well shit, let's just keep going.

[00:21:32] Level up.

[00:21:33] Take that.

[00:21:33] I was like, if we're going to go floor by floor, you'll level up when you leave the mountain.

[00:21:37] I didn't even think about leveling up.

[00:21:38] I told you to prep for level five.

[00:21:41] When do I listen?

[00:21:42] I don't know, dude.

[00:21:44] It was in a message on Facebook.

[00:21:46] That's the worst way to tell me to do something.

[00:21:48] It's the only way we communicate.

[00:21:50] Right.

[00:21:51] Level five, I become a problem.

[00:21:53] Everyone does.

[00:21:54] Schroeder came into the office today.

[00:21:55] He's like...

[00:21:56] What are you leveling for?

[00:21:56] You weren't there.

[00:21:57] I didn't want to send you a business message because you ignored it.

[00:22:01] At some point in time, you wake up to Purse.

[00:22:04] Is that a whore's joke?

[00:22:06] No.

[00:22:06] Your cat friend has returned.

[00:22:08] He's down one level though, right?

[00:22:10] He didn't get on that speed.

[00:22:12] I've been grinding.

[00:22:13] I've been grinding cultists.

[00:22:15] I've been grinding mice in the dreamlands.

[00:22:18] I'm level 20.

[00:22:19] What do you guys got?

[00:22:21] Five suckers.

[00:22:23] You guys are level five.

[00:22:24] What'd you get?

[00:22:25] Action surge.

[00:22:27] So you want a fighter?

[00:22:28] I got an extra attack.

[00:22:31] Extra attack and stunning strike.

[00:22:33] Ooh.

[00:22:35] Alex, you get some spells, bud.

[00:22:36] So I ended up getting extra attack as well as several spells.

[00:22:41] Poser.

[00:22:42] Everybody get an extra attack now?

[00:22:44] Mine's an action surge.

[00:22:46] It's slightly different.

[00:22:48] To his point, it is fifth level.

[00:22:51] Getting extra surge which I will use for an extra attack.

[00:22:54] Yeah.

[00:22:55] So for my class, I ended up getting access to mirror image as well as shatter.

[00:23:01] And I also picked up for my level two spells at level five.

[00:23:10] Enlarge and heat metal.

[00:23:13] Nice.

[00:23:14] Enlarge slash reduce.

[00:23:15] I can do both.

[00:23:16] Make me big.

[00:23:18] Yeah, making him medium sized cat.

[00:23:20] He was just debating on which one of us he should use that on.

[00:23:24] I mean, both have options.

[00:23:27] One D4 extra damage.

[00:23:29] All your weapons increase in size with you.

[00:23:32] Big ass paws.

[00:23:34] And then the heat metal is just a fun one.

[00:23:38] Especially if we're fighting anything that's armored.

[00:23:40] I just see Alex asking everyone.

[00:23:43] He's like, you survey the room.

[00:23:44] Is anyone wearing a codpiece?

[00:23:46] Is anyone wearing a codpiece?

[00:23:48] No.

[00:23:49] A codpiece is hotter now than it was.

[00:23:50] No, Alex has some class.

[00:23:52] He doesn't always immediately go to dick.

[00:23:55] But like, how uncomfortable would you be?

[00:23:59] You're like hanging out, just chilling.

[00:24:01] I don't know.

[00:24:02] Never worn a codpiece metal or otherwise.

[00:24:05] Honestly, I could...

[00:24:07] I would probably either go for the chest plate or the boots.

[00:24:15] Ooh, hot feet.

[00:24:17] Hot feet would be good.

[00:24:18] Because it's really hard to attack anything when your feet are on fire.

[00:24:23] Attack the weenus.

[00:24:25] I'll leave that for you, gooey boy.

[00:24:31] Can you lick yours?

[00:24:32] I can't.

[00:24:34] I can lick yours.

[00:24:36] Don't you have to remove a...

[00:24:38] That's a podcast.

[00:24:39] Don't you have to remove a rib to lick your own weenus?

[00:24:41] Ask Marilyn Manson.

[00:24:42] That never really happened.

[00:24:44] That's twice now.

[00:24:45] You're just like tossing out facts today that don't make any sense.

[00:24:49] So I picked up a couple of things.

[00:24:50] That was the rumor in like 2001, I think you were going to rib to suck his own dick.

[00:24:53] That was the whole point.

[00:24:55] I picked up quite a few things actually.

[00:24:58] Yeah, I mean you picked up more than these guys apparently.

[00:25:04] An extra attack is plenty good enough.

[00:25:06] Oh, it should be.

[00:25:07] And it better be.

[00:25:08] You like more infusions or stuff like that probably?

[00:25:10] Not till six.

[00:25:11] Yeah, six is different.

[00:25:12] Yeah, once I get to six I get...

[00:25:14] So, get that as well as...

[00:25:18] What was it?

[00:25:20] Tool expertise.

[00:25:21] So, any kind of thing that requires tool usage.

[00:25:24] I get a double proficiency bonus at six.

[00:25:28] So, that'll be fun.

[00:25:31] Breaking all the locks.

[00:25:35] You do wake up to find your cat friend back.

[00:25:38] You may...

[00:25:39] Where the fuck have you been?

[00:25:41] Give all info if you wish of what you've just been through.

[00:25:46] And yeah, you can tell them what you've been up to.

[00:25:48] I'll just kind of stretch...

[00:25:51] And yawn.

[00:25:52] Flick my tail.

[00:25:54] Suggesting that I've been sleeping.

[00:25:57] Show off your butthole and flick it aggressively.

[00:25:59] Yeah.

[00:26:01] Ow.

[00:26:03] Uh...

[00:26:04] No. Explored a mountain.

[00:26:06] Found some shit.

[00:26:09] Being chased by monsters.

[00:26:12] Nothing new.

[00:26:13] Not really.

[00:26:18] I killed some...

[00:26:21] Old...

[00:26:22] Cultists.

[00:26:23] I got the sense from...

[00:26:24] What was that movie?

[00:26:26] Underworld.

[00:26:27] When they're like a freaky old vampire in that.

[00:26:30] Mm-hmm.

[00:26:31] That's what I pictured when Lucas was talking.

[00:26:33] Yeah.

[00:26:34] That's actually pretty good.

[00:26:35] I kind of pictured the same thing.

[00:26:36] Yeah.

[00:26:36] I don't remember who that actor is, but...

[00:26:39] Bill Nye.

[00:26:39] Oh, yeah!

[00:26:40] Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:26:41] Not to be confused with Bill Nye.

[00:26:43] Yeah.

[00:26:44] Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill.

[00:26:45] When I first heard that was Bill Nye, I was like, Bill Nye's in this movie?

[00:26:48] Oh, it's a different guy.

[00:26:49] Bill Nye from Underworld.

[00:26:51] Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill, Bill.

[00:26:53] I prefer Bill Nye from...

[00:26:56] Fuck, I forgot the movie.

[00:26:57] Goddamn it.

[00:26:59] I made a solid impression on him.

[00:27:01] He's in Love Actually.

[00:27:02] That's what I'm calling you.

[00:27:03] Is he in that?

[00:27:04] Yeah, he's the...

[00:27:05] He's the, like, singer.

[00:27:07] I think I've only seen that movie one time, and that was enough.

[00:27:13] Or Shaun of the Dead.

[00:27:14] Most people.

[00:27:16] I know that.

[00:27:18] You've got red on you.

[00:27:20] Out of that movie.

[00:27:21] Who is he?

[00:27:22] Is he the roommate?

[00:27:23] No, he's the dad.

[00:27:24] He's the stepdad.

[00:27:25] Oh, that's what I said.

[00:27:25] Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:27:26] I forgot about the mom and the stepdad.

[00:27:32] He's fucking fantastic, man.

[00:27:34] All right.

[00:27:35] D&D.

[00:27:36] It's almost October.

[00:27:36] What's our next course of action, Lucas?

[00:27:40] Starting fighting with the legend.

[00:27:41] I didn't know if you guys needed a conversion on Mike.

[00:27:44] He said he's just been licking his butthole.

[00:27:45] Eh, that's true.

[00:27:46] I mean, he's a cat.

[00:27:48] He won't pay attention to anything we fucking say anyway.

[00:27:51] Shiny.

[00:27:51] It's true.

[00:27:51] He's your cat.

[00:27:53] No.

[00:27:54] Whoa, whoa, whoa.

[00:27:54] That's not how cats work.

[00:27:55] He's his own cat, thank you.

[00:27:56] He's his own cat.

[00:27:57] Geez.

[00:27:58] I mean, if you feed me, I'll be yours.

[00:27:59] I don't care.

[00:28:00] See?

[00:28:02] Everybody's got a price.

[00:28:03] Don't be easy, Flynn.

[00:28:04] Don't be easy, Flynn.

[00:28:05] Hey, tell me what to do.

[00:28:06] Everybody's got a price.

[00:28:07] Flynn's a slut.

[00:28:08] Yes.

[00:28:09] So is the cat.

[00:28:13] Who's looking for kitty?

[00:28:15] Did I bang that one cat in the dreamlands?

[00:28:17] Who loves kitty?

[00:28:18] Maybe, probably.

[00:28:20] Who knows?

[00:28:20] All right.

[00:28:20] It's canon now.

[00:28:23] Flynn having sex in D&D.

[00:28:26] Chich!

[00:28:27] I'm retiring in this character.

[00:28:29] If you can get...

[00:28:30] I need a new...

[00:28:31] I'm not gonna do this character.

[00:28:32] I need a new conquest.

[00:28:34] On one D&D.

[00:28:35] Again.

[00:28:35] As you all continue down the mountain, it quickly becomes very steep.

[00:28:42] Zig-zags downward.

[00:28:44] It's punctured by many dark tunnels.

[00:28:47] All right, hop on my shield and ride it down.

[00:28:49] Whee!

[00:28:51] Link would be proud.

[00:28:53] Nice.

[00:28:56] Is Sothogwa hanging like...

[00:28:58] Four titties?

[00:29:01] I believe he is, actually.

[00:29:03] But like...

[00:29:04] Those are four Mormon titties.

[00:29:07] Four Mormon titties!

[00:29:08] He absolutely is.

[00:29:09] All right, fellas.

[00:29:10] Here's our goal.

[00:29:11] We're gonna find Sothogwa while he's sleeping.

[00:29:13] Four arms too.

[00:29:13] Each grab a tit.

[00:29:14] And we're gonna give him the biggest titty twister.

[00:29:16] He's got four arms.

[00:29:17] He can rub them all at once.

[00:29:19] I feel like milking Sothogwa is definitely like a weird, like, you know, print-on-demand book that you could find on Amazon.

[00:29:27] Oh, yeah.

[00:29:28] Coming soon.

[00:29:30] Well, he's gonna ride it when he gets home.

[00:29:32] Yeah, like ten weeks before this comes out.

[00:29:35] Make it a reality.

[00:29:37] Eventually, you kind of get to an area where the tunnels are large enough that you can kind of walk through.

[00:29:46] Or you can kind of continue through the outside of them if you wish to zigzag through.

[00:29:52] It's entirely up to you.

[00:29:53] So we're still moving through the mountain then?

[00:29:54] You're moving down a mountain.

[00:29:56] Right, but we can't...

[00:29:57] And the tunnels lead into the mountain?

[00:29:58] There are tunnels that lead into it.

[00:30:00] Or you can try to zigzag around without going through them.

[00:30:05] But like, they would lead us backwards, wouldn't they?

[00:30:08] Not necessarily.

[00:30:10] So, into the tunnels we know nothing about or keep going down the mountain that we know where we're going.

[00:30:16] Towards the city.

[00:30:17] At this point, you've kind of entered what they're calling the valley.

[00:30:21] We...

[00:30:21] Right.

[00:30:23] Which is still technically in the mountain.

[00:30:26] I demand an orrery.

[00:30:28] So we're in a valley on a mountain?

[00:30:33] Yeah.

[00:30:35] I see.

[00:30:36] Ain't no mountain high enough.

[00:30:39] Ain't no valley low enough.

[00:30:42] Lucas...

[00:30:42] What? Just...

[00:30:43] I'd like a plateau at some point.

[00:30:45] What were your grades in geography?

[00:30:48] I don't know.

[00:30:49] I mean, I know we've talked about your math, but like...

[00:30:52] So what you're saying is, we're going down a mountain.

[00:30:54] We can either go into tunnels furthering down the mountain, or we can go outside of the tunnels furthering down the mountain.

[00:31:02] Well, how do we know the tunnels go down if they just go into the mountain?

[00:31:06] Right.

[00:31:06] Right.

[00:31:06] They might lead us back up.

[00:31:08] Right.

[00:31:09] I demand the table.

[00:31:10] I demand...

[00:31:11] Axis was a table.

[00:31:12] So, are we able to see Ytiv still?

[00:31:18] Or was that on the other side?

[00:31:19] Once you get down far enough below the peak, you can...

[00:31:23] You don't...

[00:31:24] I mean, technically you never saw a city.

[00:31:26] You're just seeing the land that is the area considered Ytiv.

[00:31:32] And is Ytiv where we're going or where we're coming from?

[00:31:35] Going.

[00:31:35] Going.

[00:31:35] You came from Hradovaz up to a mountain, and now you're on the opposite side of the mountains.

[00:31:40] And where are we going to Ytiv?

[00:31:42] Because it's the next place to go.

[00:31:43] Did I send you another...

[00:31:44] I mean, I'm cool with that.

[00:31:46] I just didn't know if there was lore.

[00:31:47] There's a giant swarm of masters behind us.

[00:31:50] There's like three kingdoms.

[00:31:51] I mean, the most compelling thing he said so far is we looked through the mirror and saw that there's a lot of shit following us.

[00:31:57] So we want to get away from the shit.

[00:31:58] Yeah.

[00:31:59] That's the most compelling not Lucas forcing us to go in the direction he wants us to go.

[00:32:03] And so we've had it in like two sessions.

[00:32:05] I know I sent this at the beginning of the game, but I will send this map again to show you the land, the area map.

[00:32:11] He is ancient.

[00:32:12] He is the land.

[00:32:12] No, the land is in Florida.

[00:32:15] They call it the land because it's near the sea.

[00:32:18] Under the sea.

[00:32:20] But yeah, there's three kingdoms.

[00:32:22] We've destroyed one of them.

[00:32:25] And then there's like three kingdoms and then sort of a neutral.

[00:32:30] Neutral.

[00:32:31] Sorry, my fingers in that.

[00:32:34] I was trying to get...

[00:32:36] So we're just circling around until we burn this whole...

[00:32:39] Trying to fix the glare.

[00:32:40] I mean, you could literally go to the chat and look it up.

[00:32:42] Yeah, but as you can see...

[00:32:44] That's true, dear.

[00:32:44] Your finger was in the old one.

[00:32:45] But as you can see, it probably was.

[00:32:47] So we had the same glare.

[00:32:50] But as you can see, so what you guys have came out of is what is called the Vormittenhorn.

[00:32:54] Okay.

[00:32:55] Which is just, you know, a little southeast of Haradava's two days walk-ish.

[00:33:01] So now you're basically coming out almost directly south of the Vormittenhorn into the kingdom of Yetiv.

[00:33:07] Okay, so Yetiv is not a place.

[00:33:10] Yetiv is an area.

[00:33:12] I mean...

[00:33:13] So we're heading to the kingdom of Yetiv.

[00:33:17] Yeah, Gore's Nachos.

[00:33:20] Gorgeous Nachos.

[00:33:21] Oh, what's up, Nachos?

[00:33:22] Yeah, I mean, you guys not being from here, technically you don't know that exists.

[00:33:26] But yes, like there are some smaller villages and towns along the way.

[00:33:30] If only we were up high and able to maybe see it from a distance.

[00:33:34] There's a chance that you might see it, but I mean, it's not short.

[00:33:36] It's not a short jump.

[00:33:38] It's approximately a two-day walk if I just extrapolate how far Haradava's is from the...

[00:33:44] Yeah, but you had...

[00:33:45] The only way you could see Haradava's from the mountain is through a monolith.

[00:33:49] You can't see the city from the peak of the mountain.

[00:33:52] So, the question is, do we want to dungeon crawl what Lucas has?

[00:33:57] Are we going to completely avoid it?

[00:33:59] Are we going to narratively allow Lucas to...

[00:34:02] I'm gonna force him to put us in those tunnels.

[00:34:04] I'm gonna keep going.

[00:34:06] I am fleet of foot.

[00:34:08] I'm going down the mountain, zigzagging.

[00:34:11] Are you familiar with Rosencratz and Guildenstern, Lucas?

[00:34:14] No.

[00:34:15] Flip a coin, Flynn.

[00:34:16] Come up heads or tails.

[00:34:19] Give me perception checks as you guys continue down the side of the mountain.

[00:34:23] Let's roll dice in this game.

[00:34:27] 22.

[00:34:29] I did better than 22, but I don't know how much better.

[00:34:31] I just need a 14 or higher.

[00:34:34] Oh.

[00:34:35] I've got that on the die.

[00:34:36] I beat a 14.

[00:34:37] Cool.

[00:34:37] All y'all notice...

[00:34:39] You all notice, as you have made your way down,

[00:34:43] winged creatures not too far in the distance any longer,

[00:34:46] heading towards your direction.

[00:34:49] I'm gonna push this in.

[00:34:50] Very clearly not burdens.

[00:34:56] How many?

[00:34:57] Storks?

[00:35:00] It's hard to say.

[00:35:01] Are we talking like...

[00:35:03] Swarms.

[00:35:04] More than three?

[00:35:05] Swarms.

[00:35:06] Wait, so they were coming from...

[00:35:09] Radovas.

[00:35:10] And so they have circled now around the mountain?

[00:35:13] They've eagled us.

[00:35:20] There's no more.

[00:35:20] You wanna fight a couple of them?

[00:35:23] I mean, Lucas is gonna have just as many of those as cultists.

[00:35:26] Make our last stand here on the mountain.

[00:35:33] Go in your fucking tunnels, Lucas.

[00:35:36] So as you come down into what they call the upper canyon,

[00:35:39] the valley makes an abrupt turn.

[00:35:41] Which is not a tunnel.

[00:35:44] Technically not yet.

[00:35:46] The valley makes an abrupt turn to the left,

[00:35:49] where it intersects with another narrow defile,

[00:35:51] becoming a steep-walled canyon scoured by icy winds.

[00:35:55] Cave entrances gape like eye sockets in the walls.

[00:35:58] To the right, a wooden palisade falls off...

[00:36:01] Sorry.

[00:36:02] A wooden palisade walls off an intersecting ravine.

[00:36:08] It's sturdy gate barred with a massive beam.

[00:36:10] I need some kind of visual.

[00:36:14] You can't live like this.

[00:36:15] I'll make some mashed potatoes and like...

[00:36:18] Cheez-Its, can you...

[00:36:20] form some sort of 3D model?

[00:36:22] It sounds like we are being funneled into these tunnels.

[00:36:26] Yeah.

[00:36:29] Because the ravine is walled off and presumably impassable?

[00:36:36] Presumably, yeah.

[00:36:37] There are...

[00:36:41] 3...

[00:36:41] 2, 3...

[00:36:43] Hang on.

[00:36:44] From where you're standing, you can see 3...

[00:36:46] 4 different branches.

[00:36:50] Of tunnels?

[00:36:51] Like 4 entrances?

[00:36:52] Yeah, there are 4 different directions you could head.

[00:36:57] From where you're standing.

[00:36:59] Consider yourself on a rectangle.

[00:37:00] There are...

[00:37:01] From what you can see...

[00:37:03] 4 branches off of it.

[00:37:10] There are...

[00:37:11] Technically, one is to the north, which is where you came from.

[00:37:13] There's one directly across from you to the south.

[00:37:15] There's one directly to your west that seems to be blocked off by...

[00:37:21] by a big...

[00:37:23] giant wooden structure.

[00:37:25] There is one a little further...

[00:37:29] to the...

[00:37:31] east and north...

[00:37:34] and east and south.

[00:37:36] Sounds like we need to get undercover from these flying things.

[00:37:40] So we should take an entrance that is easiest.

[00:37:46] Is there a place where we could run in and it appears to be somewhat defendable from this aerial menace?

[00:37:53] Any one of the...

[00:37:55] directions I've claimed.

[00:37:57] One you said had a semi-impassable barrier.

[00:38:00] Can you give me...

[00:38:01] the dry erase board and the marker up there please sir?

[00:38:04] We're gonna get a visual!

[00:38:06] Well, if I can draw this area you're standing in, it will give you a better idea.

[00:38:11] I'm not gonna draw the whole map, I'm just gonna draw the section you're standing in.

[00:38:14] You're basically standing where that many is, and those are the directions you're shaking.

[00:38:19] Didn't he say there were four directions?

[00:38:21] Because I see six.

[00:38:24] Two, three, four, five...

[00:38:26] What's this?

[00:38:27] You came from there.

[00:38:28] There's one south.

[00:38:30] Okay.

[00:38:30] Did I say four?

[00:38:31] We came from that direction, so there are five.

[00:38:33] There are...

[00:38:34] Sorry, you're correct, there are five.

[00:38:35] My apologies.

[00:38:36] What is this?

[00:38:36] That's where we came from.

[00:38:37] That's where you came from.

[00:38:38] What is this?

[00:38:38] That's the block dock.

[00:38:39] That's the impassable blockade where you can't go to wherever the city of good nachos are.

[00:38:44] How...

[00:38:47] How sturdy is that?

[00:38:48] I have grenades.

[00:38:52] It's just wood, dude.

[00:38:53] I knew I liked you.

[00:38:55] Do you guys want to go through the impassable barrier?

[00:38:58] What direction is this?

[00:38:59] We'll call it that way, and we'll call it west.

[00:39:03] No, see, it's actually important because we're heading to a place...

[00:39:07] So if that place is this way, then that's a consideration.

[00:39:11] Because those are the opposite direction.

[00:39:13] The kingdom of Yetiv is pretty...

[00:39:16] Almost directly south from the mountain, so we'll call it west.

[00:39:20] Which one's south?

[00:39:22] That is almost the exact angle that this map has drawn.

[00:39:26] So that's what you're looking at.

[00:39:28] Okay.

[00:39:28] So we don't necessarily want to go through that blockade per se.

[00:39:32] So that would be...

[00:39:33] It's probably up to you.

[00:39:34] Southernmost.

[00:39:34] Right.

[00:39:35] Yeah.

[00:39:36] Yeah.

[00:39:36] So I think the map wants us to run straight across.

[00:39:39] Well, from what you can tell, I mean, you have no idea how that...

[00:39:41] If it curves around.

[00:39:42] That's true.

[00:39:42] That's what you're seeing.

[00:39:43] You're seeing these different holes in the wall.

[00:39:46] Well, I did roll a d4 and it rolled a four, so...

[00:39:50] Four.

[00:39:51] How do you roll a d4 for five options?

[00:39:53] For five options.

[00:39:54] Well, we were told four at the time, so...

[00:39:56] One, two, three, four.

[00:39:57] Fifth option is not an option.

[00:39:59] So you're headed here.

[00:40:01] That's my vote.

[00:40:03] All right.

[00:40:03] Go ahead.

[00:40:04] Okay.

[00:40:05] Pick one.

[00:40:05] You picked one.

[00:40:07] We scramble that way.

[00:40:09] Away from the...

[00:40:09] Did we determine what the flying things are?

[00:40:13] Swarms.

[00:40:15] Swarms of things that are not birds.

[00:40:18] Monkeys.

[00:40:19] Plains.

[00:40:20] Are they close enough down for me to shoot one out of the sky?

[00:40:23] No.

[00:40:24] Oh.

[00:40:25] We could find out real fast if I could get one down here.

[00:40:30] They have the most incredible D&D armor of all.

[00:40:35] Plot armor.

[00:40:37] That's not a D&D exclusive.

[00:40:39] That's used everywhere.

[00:40:41] If that is the direction you wish to go, that is the direction we will read.

[00:40:44] Woo!

[00:40:45] You walk into an area.

[00:40:48] A great outcropping of rock, like the prow of a ship, splits the canyon ahead in two.

[00:40:54] Both paths leading to precipitous drop-offs.

[00:41:00] That's an interesting word.

[00:41:02] Precipitus.

[00:41:03] Oh, precipitous.

[00:41:04] You're correct.

[00:41:05] Ancient statues crowd the upper reaches of the outcropping, badly eroded, but displaying unusual proportions and strange physiology.

[00:41:17] So what you're seeing is a path that literally splits in two.

[00:41:21] Did you use the word physiology?

[00:41:23] I did.

[00:41:25] Strange physiology.

[00:41:27] Right, but...

[00:41:29] Because that's what they wrote.

[00:41:31] I know, but physiology implies...

[00:41:34] Body parts.

[00:41:36] They're statues.

[00:41:38] Oh, yeah.

[00:41:40] For some reason I thought you were describing the cavern at that point.

[00:41:44] Ancient statues crowd the upper reaches of the outcropping, badly eroded, and displaying unusual proportions and strange physiology.

[00:41:50] No, no, no. I gotcha.

[00:41:52] For some reason I thought you were describing the cavern with strange physiology.

[00:41:55] The statues make more sense.

[00:41:56] No, no, you're getting it.

[00:41:57] No, no, you're getting it.

[00:41:58] So we see statues and two drop-offs.

[00:42:01] So you're either gonna head...

[00:42:04] Wow, so it splits, but there's another option.

[00:42:07] So you can either turn to your...

[00:42:10] If you're facing south, which is kind of the way you're headed,

[00:42:14] there's a tunnel to your right,

[00:42:16] or it splits south, going either southwest or southeast.

[00:42:21] So now we have three options.

[00:42:23] Correct.

[00:42:31] Thank you all for listening.

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