Sandy Petersen's Cthulhu Mythos - The Big Sleep 30

[00:00:16] Bancors Brothel presents The Big Sleep, New Mythos 5e Adventure.

[00:01:25] Only for now, kikow! Door kicked open. Kikow!

[00:01:36] Just doing it all on one rage guys, doing it all on one rage.

[00:01:40] Um, that shot misses you guys, it's a room that has essentially a sandpit at the bottom.

[00:01:48] Um, you see on the far end of the room, two more debased serpent folk archers, and standing in the sand, two of them holding swords.

[00:02:02] Actually, because it's a little wider than-

[00:02:04] A lot of assholes in this dungeon.

[00:02:07] About to be a lot of dead assholes.

[00:02:10] Uh, yeah, you kick the door open and there they be.

[00:02:14] Um, run while you can!

[00:02:19] Yeah, no one's running.

[00:02:22] Well, then they're real fucking dumb, cause all their friends are dead.

[00:02:32] You and your friends are dead!

[00:02:34] Finally a room with only one entrance.

[00:02:38] Uh.

[00:02:38] As he draws another entrance.

[00:02:41] No!

[00:02:43] It's a bunch of doors, what do you wanna do?

[00:02:46] Uh, we'll keep the same initiative, so Cody that was your turn.

[00:02:49] Alex, you're in the other room, would you like to get in the east end of the hallway everybody standing in?

[00:02:54] Is there a way to get through the hallway?

[00:02:56] You wouldn't make it all the way into this room.

[00:02:58] You might be able to get behind Troy.

[00:03:00] Can he go through-

[00:03:01] I guess he heard-

[00:03:02] Oh, well, you wouldn't know.

[00:03:03] Theoretically, I don't know if one of the other 18 doors off of that main hall leads to here.

[00:03:08] I don't even know if there's other doors in the room we're currently in.

[00:03:11] Um, this room is about-

[00:03:13] You're in a different room.

[00:03:14] Southeast of the room you were standing in.

[00:03:16] There was no door headed that direction.

[00:03:18] You were in a dining room.

[00:03:20] Um, there was a door that went direct east and then two stairways that went north and northwest.

[00:03:26] A double door.

[00:03:27] You are now southeast of that room.

[00:03:30] Makes perfect sense.

[00:03:30] There is no door on the top there where he would be able to get to.

[00:03:34] I almost want-

[00:03:34] Can you have AI draw a map of this dungeon?

[00:03:36] See what I can do.

[00:03:40] I almost want to just sit down and take a nap until you guys are done killing everybody.

[00:03:45] It gonna be a minute.

[00:03:48] Uh, at best a double move, I can get you maybe behind Troy.

[00:03:54] It's still a narrow-

[00:03:56] No, if he runs, it's what?

[00:03:58] Three or four times his movement?

[00:04:01] Well, you got 35 feet, so-

[00:04:06] Yeah, but there's different rules for movement.

[00:04:11] Long jump.

[00:04:11] You could double move into the room, but that's the best you can do.

[00:04:14] If you want to double move into the room, that's great.

[00:04:17] That's probably an old rule.

[00:04:18] Cody, what you do see as well, the sand pit kind of is down a little lower.

[00:04:23] There's a ledge around the edge of it.

[00:04:26] And then they sort of-

[00:04:28] I bust into the snake version of the mafia sauna.

[00:04:32] I got it.

[00:04:33] And these circles I drew are braziers.

[00:04:39] Must be some big snake ta-tas.

[00:04:46] That was a brassiere joke for anyone who was-

[00:04:48] Furious.

[00:04:49] Yeah, it was.

[00:04:50] Fork-tongue pasties.

[00:04:52] Hey, have you listened to this show before, Troy?

[00:04:54] Yeah, I'm hysterical.

[00:04:59] Here's something.

[00:05:04] I'll get behind the paladin, but not directly behind.

[00:05:12] Five feet behind him?

[00:05:13] Off to the angle.

[00:05:15] There's no angle.

[00:05:16] It's a narrow five-foot wide space.

[00:05:18] The only thing you could do is get into the nook that that guy stood in.

[00:05:24] Carry on.

[00:05:27] Which is about there, but there's-

[00:05:29] Essentially, there's a wall here.

[00:05:31] I don't need to be able to hit them yet, because there's bodies in the way.

[00:05:37] Fine.

[00:05:38] I just need to make sure that they can't hit me.

[00:05:40] Yeah, you're not in sight.

[00:05:42] You're good.

[00:05:43] Uh, Flynn?

[00:05:48] So, what is this edge thing?

[00:05:51] It'd be 25 feet to the door where he's standing, 30 feet.

[00:05:55] You could get you right inside of it.

[00:05:58] But what's this little ring thing?

[00:06:00] It is a ledge.

[00:06:01] There's a ledge around the entire outer portion of this room, and then this obviously sticks out further as a sort of a landing.

[00:06:12] And then the actual sand pit is about two feet down below that ledge.

[00:06:17] It's kind of an actual pit below you.

[00:06:21] But you can.

[00:06:23] You could traverse that edge.

[00:06:26] So, 30 feet would get you literally right here on that ledge inside the door.

[00:06:31] Like a fastball special at Flynn.

[00:06:34] You just hop on my back.

[00:06:35] I take you there, big boy.

[00:06:37] I take you there.

[00:06:39] You just worried about going through the middle?

[00:06:42] Yeah, I assume it's...

[00:06:43] Yeah, you wouldn't be within his range.

[00:06:45] You're not leaving his range.

[00:06:46] So, yeah, you're good.

[00:06:47] You're not going to get into the Apatax doing that.

[00:06:49] I'll attack the Pinkman.

[00:06:51] Can you do that after double moving and key point dashing?

[00:06:55] Well, key point dash was the double move.

[00:06:58] I have a speed of 50.

[00:07:00] Oh, you're a cat.

[00:07:01] I'm a cat.

[00:07:03] All right.

[00:07:05] Oof.

[00:07:05] First one probably doesn't hit.

[00:07:08] Second one.

[00:07:09] 19.

[00:07:10] Depends on what the first one was.

[00:07:12] What was the total on the first one?

[00:07:13] 12.

[00:07:14] It does not hit, but the 19 will.

[00:07:16] Okay.

[00:07:17] That is 8 damage.

[00:07:22] Attacking right between those braziers.

[00:07:25] Big old brassieres.

[00:07:28] So, DS Archer 1.

[00:07:31] I'm with ya.

[00:07:32] I wonder if I can drown someone in sand.

[00:07:35] Probably.

[00:07:37] 2.

[00:07:38] I kind of want to try.

[00:07:40] Sorry, what was your total?

[00:07:41] 8?

[00:07:42] 8.

[00:07:44] 8 it is.

[00:07:52] Keeping the same Troy.

[00:07:54] It's nice just rolling one initiative and rolling through this.

[00:07:58] Yeah.

[00:07:58] I just keep putting them at the bottom.

[00:08:00] I just put them at the bottom of the initiative.

[00:08:01] It doesn't matter to me.

[00:08:03] Yep.

[00:08:05] That is your choice.

[00:08:06] Well, they don't roll.

[00:08:07] I'm rolling it.

[00:08:08] They're just not rolling well.

[00:08:10] It's a single digit every time I roll it.

[00:08:18] Gonna regret it.

[00:08:19] Put me next to dark blue.

[00:08:22] Dark blue.

[00:08:23] Dark blue.

[00:08:24] Is there something for this one?

[00:08:27] Classic.

[00:08:32] Going to do the thunderous smite once again.

[00:08:35] Okay, then.

[00:08:35] Um, 16.

[00:08:41] Yep.

[00:08:46] We do have different hit points.

[00:08:51] What?

[00:08:52] It's a CX.

[00:08:53] 8.

[00:08:53] That's a 6.

[00:08:57] Or a 9 if my son's down here.

[00:09:01] Uh, 16 plus...

[00:09:04] So it's 21 damage.

[00:09:07] Damn.

[00:09:08] I need a strength saving throw.

[00:09:09] I forgot to do that the last time.

[00:09:13] It's a 6 on the dice.

[00:09:15] I'm assuming no.

[00:09:15] He is pushed back 10 feet and knocked prone.

[00:09:19] Nice.

[00:09:19] He's not 10 feet to go.

[00:09:21] He's against a wall.

[00:09:22] Well, then he hits a wall and he's knocked prone.

[00:09:24] See, he doesn't have any damage for that.

[00:09:26] Drown him in the sand.

[00:09:28] Drown him in the sand.

[00:09:29] He's also not looking well.

[00:09:31] At all.

[00:09:32] Second attack.

[00:09:33] Prone means advantage, right?

[00:09:35] You do.

[00:09:37] He did it.

[00:09:40] It's a 19?

[00:09:42] Yep.

[00:09:43] He doesn't have very many hit points left.

[00:09:45] Does he have 10?

[00:09:48] No.

[00:09:48] He's dead.

[00:09:53] So that's that.

[00:09:56] Else before we move on?

[00:10:00] I should have enough movement to get on the edge of that ledge, I think.

[00:10:06] Which ledge?

[00:10:07] Next to the pink person.

[00:10:10] It's a brazier between you.

[00:10:11] He's fine.

[00:10:14] He feels supported.

[00:10:15] Yeah, you're supported.

[00:10:23] Why would you be that kind of knight?

[00:10:32] Coward!

[00:10:33] Good.

[00:10:36] So these guys actually have spears.

[00:10:47] Nope.

[00:10:48] So the spearman misses the cat twice.

[00:10:51] Does he stab his buddy on the other side?

[00:10:53] No.

[00:10:53] Yep.

[00:10:54] Nope.

[00:10:55] Did not roll a one.

[00:10:58] Both of these guys just dropped their...

[00:11:01] Are gonna drop their bow since you're up on them.

[00:11:04] Blue will attack the cat.

[00:11:06] That might hit...

[00:11:09] That's a 21?

[00:11:11] Yep.

[00:11:12] That is a bite.

[00:11:14] Do do.

[00:11:16] Snake boy.

[00:11:18] Jump on it.

[00:11:19] Jump on it.

[00:11:20] Jump on it.

[00:11:21] Six piercing.

[00:11:22] Con save.

[00:11:23] Poison damage.

[00:11:24] Be.

[00:11:25] Be.

[00:11:26] Be.

[00:11:27] Be.

[00:11:30] Con save!

[00:11:32] Oh baby.

[00:11:33] 20.

[00:11:34] Yep.

[00:11:35] Cat man.

[00:11:36] Jump on it.

[00:11:37] Jump on it.

[00:11:38] Jump on it.

[00:11:38] Pink will...

[00:11:41] Yeah.

[00:11:43] Pink will do a little bit of an environmental thing.

[00:11:47] Pink will kick the brazier.

[00:11:53] Let me get to that page.

[00:11:55] Sand pit.

[00:12:00] I need the cat and the fishman to make a dexterity saving throw.

[00:12:12] That's the wrong guy.

[00:12:14] No, it's a nine.

[00:12:15] That's what you got.

[00:12:17] Still not good.

[00:12:19] I think the nine on the D10 was better.

[00:12:23] 28.

[00:12:25] Nat 20.

[00:12:30] You'll still take half.

[00:12:31] Hold on a second.

[00:12:36] I guess it doesn't matter.

[00:12:37] It was a one.

[00:12:38] Yeah, it was a nat one.

[00:12:39] You got evade?

[00:12:41] Is that a third ed thing?

[00:12:43] No.

[00:12:45] Fucking fifth ed.

[00:12:47] Always cool when people would evade fireballs.

[00:12:51] Wow.

[00:12:52] I'll both max on that.

[00:12:55] Those are really pluses.

[00:12:57] 11 fire damage to the fishman.

[00:12:59] Half for you.

[00:13:02] You vulnerable to fire, Troy?

[00:13:06] He's got resistance like Pokemon.

[00:13:08] No.

[00:13:11] And those coals just sort of like fizzle out a little bit.

[00:13:15] Not that it's dark in here, but.

[00:13:19] His action was to kick rather than to attack.

[00:13:22] So he will not get two attacks.

[00:13:28] Cody, you're on the other side of the room.

[00:13:32] I was on the other side of the room.

[00:13:33] There's a lot of room over there, but you can traverse the edge if you'd like.

[00:13:38] 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 puts me next to Bloomin' and Greenman.

[00:13:43] Up here?

[00:13:46] Sure.

[00:13:46] We're down here.

[00:13:47] I mean, 25's there.

[00:13:48] 30's the ledge, so.

[00:13:50] You got to tell me because there is a difference and I need to know which one you're doing.

[00:13:53] Well, if I'm running through the sand, if I'm already in difficult terrain, you should let me know as I run.

[00:13:57] If it's not difficult terrain, I just need to know whether or not you have the high ground.

[00:14:03] Wow.

[00:14:04] Or the low ground.

[00:14:05] Because the low ground is not good.

[00:14:07] It's a slight negative.

[00:14:09] It's a disadvantage roll.

[00:14:12] Knowing that and being given the option, I feel like I would take the extra 5 feet.

[00:14:16] You have the extra 5 feet.

[00:14:21] I now Russian leg sweep my opponent into the sand.

[00:14:28] You hitting blue or green?

[00:14:32] What's the wrestling move where you grab with the legs and scissor drop them or whatever?

[00:14:37] Twist them.

[00:14:39] It used to be called something.

[00:14:40] Dragon screw?

[00:14:41] No, not that exactly.

[00:14:45] Just like you would lay down and just like, you know.

[00:14:49] Oh, it's just a scissor sweep.

[00:14:50] Yeah.

[00:14:56] Reckless attack?

[00:15:02] That's a...

[00:15:03] Yeah, that's not very good.

[00:15:05] That's a 14 to hit.

[00:15:06] That does miss.

[00:15:08] Yep, 14.

[00:15:14] That's another 14 to hit.

[00:15:16] Yep.

[00:15:17] Blue has not been hit.

[00:15:21] You get three, don't you?

[00:15:23] No.

[00:15:23] You get three?

[00:15:23] No.

[00:15:24] No, I'm just rolling dice until I get a better number.

[00:15:26] That's an 18 to hit on my seventh attack.

[00:15:29] Cool.

[00:15:30] No.

[00:15:31] What else?

[00:15:32] You move your attack.

[00:15:33] Anything else?

[00:15:33] Uh, I rolled a white skull and four shields for damage.

[00:15:38] Oh, you died.

[00:15:41] All right.

[00:15:41] See you guys.

[00:15:42] Get the fuck out of my house.

[00:15:44] That was the super secret roll.

[00:15:46] I'm sorry.

[00:15:48] No, I got nothing else.

[00:15:50] Alex, you can enter the room now if you'd like, bud.

[00:15:52] I will move up to the doorway.

[00:15:56] And shoot into a crowd like all good marksmen do.

[00:16:00] Well, I was thinking about going towards green who isn't actively in anything.

[00:16:07] He's not behind people.

[00:16:08] You can actually hit him.

[00:16:08] But I could always shoot into the crowd.

[00:16:11] Let's see what kind of nonsense happens.

[00:16:13] Shoot into a crowd.

[00:16:14] It's the thing to do nowadays.

[00:16:17] Well, first things first, I'm going to nail green with the hunter's mark.

[00:16:23] Uh, sure.

[00:16:24] As a bonus action.

[00:16:26] Now I will roll to fire and see if I can actually hit something for a change.

[00:16:31] That would be good.

[00:16:36] 23?

[00:16:37] Yes.

[00:16:38] Spearmen have a slightly lower AC.

[00:16:43] And hit points.

[00:16:44] 13 damage.

[00:16:46] 13 it is.

[00:16:47] Still stands.

[00:16:48] Oh.

[00:16:49] Before I forget.

[00:16:52] Plus three.

[00:16:54] If it gets hit by a weapons attack with hunter's mark, it gets a d6.

[00:16:58] 16 total.

[00:16:59] For each time it gets hit with a weapons mark.

[00:17:02] He's still standing.

[00:17:03] Still not.

[00:17:03] He's, yeah, he's still standing.

[00:17:05] Uh, 19.

[00:17:06] Yep.

[00:17:11] Three.

[00:17:14] And.

[00:17:16] One.

[00:17:18] Three and one.

[00:17:19] That's four, Lucas.

[00:17:24] Okay.

[00:17:26] Um.

[00:17:26] Is it still alive?

[00:17:28] Yeah.

[00:17:29] Oh.

[00:17:30] Oh, now I'm mad at it.

[00:17:34] How dare you live through that?

[00:17:35] I mean, he's bleeding really bad, but he's still alive.

[00:17:38] Uh.

[00:17:41] Any.

[00:17:41] Uh.

[00:17:42] Anything else?

[00:17:43] Not yet.

[00:17:46] Then it will go to Flynn.

[00:17:49] We're surrounded by assholes.

[00:17:51] Flynn.

[00:17:52] Flynn.

[00:17:53] Flynn.

[00:17:53] Flynn.

[00:17:53] Let's attack.

[00:17:55] Pink again.

[00:17:56] Because he's.

[00:17:56] Sure.

[00:17:58] He's the one who kicked you in the brazier.

[00:18:01] Kicked you right in the brazier.

[00:18:03] That is a 14 to hit.

[00:18:06] Yeah.

[00:18:06] That failed for me twice, but.

[00:18:08] Yes, that one hit.

[00:18:10] All right.

[00:18:12] Pinky's different.

[00:18:14] That is nine damage.

[00:18:15] It's so hard to tell when they're all the same basic character figure and he's been using

[00:18:19] for the last three combats.

[00:18:22] Sorry, what was your total?

[00:18:23] I can't remember.

[00:18:24] Nine anything?

[00:18:25] I believe he said nine damage.

[00:18:26] Thank you.

[00:18:27] Good thing.

[00:18:28] He was talking and I missed it.

[00:18:30] I heard it and I was still up.

[00:18:31] He's still up, yeah.

[00:18:32] You only hit him once last time.

[00:18:34] 20.

[00:18:35] Yep.

[00:18:38] That is 10 damage.

[00:18:41] He's just literally dangling by a thread.

[00:18:45] All right, just bonus action.

[00:18:48] That is 16.

[00:18:51] And 10 damage.

[00:18:53] He did.

[00:18:54] I unzip him like a purse.

[00:18:57] Kind of a purse.

[00:19:00] Gucci.

[00:19:02] We're talking like a big like mom handbag or like a little going out for a date night clutch

[00:19:08] kind of thing.

[00:19:09] Oh, big mom handbag.

[00:19:10] Okay.

[00:19:11] Yeah.

[00:19:11] He's spilling all the Werther's originals and extra sugar free gum.

[00:19:15] This is your chance for a Macbeth quote because he talks about him.

[00:19:19] What's he say?

[00:19:20] Ripping him from sternum to navel or something like that.

[00:19:26] Apparently when they perform it, they used to stuff the actor with pig innards and then

[00:19:30] they would open it up and let them all spill out, which is awesome effect.

[00:19:34] Cool.

[00:19:35] One of the reasons why I wonder how many people hate Macbeth.

[00:19:39] It's like, have you read Macbeth?

[00:19:42] It's cursed.

[00:19:42] You can't say it.

[00:19:43] Awesome.

[00:19:43] Can't say it in the theater.

[00:19:45] I saw a version of Macbeth in Chicago that was produced by and the like visual effects

[00:19:52] was done by Teller of Penn and Teller.

[00:19:54] Nice.

[00:19:55] It was so good.

[00:19:56] So good.

[00:19:58] I imagine lots of cool magic.

[00:20:00] Yes.

[00:20:00] A lot of appearing and witches three doing bullshit.

[00:20:03] Catching bullets in your teeth.

[00:20:05] Nobody said a damn word.

[00:20:07] Yeah.

[00:20:08] That was a little weird.

[00:20:09] That's the best part.

[00:20:12] When I was in London, I stopped and we got a tour of the rebuilt theater.

[00:20:18] And I think the only thing I bought in the gift shop, I think my mom has it.

[00:20:23] But it's an all white tea towel that you turn it over on one side and it's got like six or

[00:20:29] seven red drops on it and it says out, out, damn spot.

[00:20:33] That's nice.

[00:20:34] Yeah, that's going on.

[00:20:36] You sound like you're from London.

[00:20:37] You sound like you're from London.

[00:20:40] I'm bleeding out here.

[00:20:43] Troy, it's your turn.

[00:20:44] What do you want to do?

[00:20:44] Move me in front of, oh, Mr. Blue there.

[00:20:50] Snake man.

[00:20:54] 24?

[00:20:55] Yeah.

[00:20:59] First time Blue's been hit.

[00:21:01] For 10 damage.

[00:21:10] That's a bigger on the die, so it should be a hit.

[00:21:19] For...

[00:21:20] Sorry.

[00:21:21] Sorry.

[00:21:22] Something.

[00:21:24] Knight, 17 damage.

[00:21:25] Because you're in tight?

[00:21:26] Yeah.

[00:21:28] Really?

[00:21:29] That one died.

[00:21:30] Oh.

[00:21:32] You haven't been hit.

[00:21:33] Green is still standing.

[00:21:34] How unfortunate.

[00:21:35] You did 27 damage.

[00:21:38] I have 26 hit points.

[00:21:41] Green is still standing.

[00:21:43] Green.

[00:21:44] Are you done with your turn?

[00:21:48] Actually, I will...

[00:21:51] Green doesn't look good.

[00:21:52] Yeah, I'm not going to waste these spells.

[00:21:55] Took some bullet hits.

[00:21:57] Then he gets to go.

[00:22:00] And sure, he'll try to spear you.

[00:22:05] Ooh.

[00:22:06] Is that a 20...

[00:22:07] 21 hit you, Troy?

[00:22:09] Nope.

[00:22:10] Sure does.

[00:22:12] Spear is a d6.

[00:22:16] Ooh.

[00:22:17] Bummer.

[00:22:17] That's five piercing.

[00:22:25] Second attack...

[00:22:26] Four misses.

[00:22:28] So...

[00:22:28] Well, four on the die.

[00:22:29] Doesn't matter.

[00:22:30] Missed.

[00:22:31] Top of the order, Cody.

[00:22:32] You got a green guy with a spear in his hand right in front of you.

[00:22:38] Uh...

[00:22:39] That'd be a 15 to hit.

[00:22:40] Yeah.

[00:22:41] Yeah!

[00:22:42] Rolling well!

[00:22:44] That's like...

[00:22:45] Eight rolls with those dice that have been under 10.

[00:22:50] That'd be a...

[00:22:51] Nine points of damage.

[00:22:52] Yeah.

[00:22:52] He didn't have very many left.

[00:22:53] He had six hit points left.

[00:22:57] You now have a door to yourself.

[00:22:59] Or you can backtrack to the main room and check out some of those doors you missed.

[00:23:03] It's up to you.

[00:23:05] Um...

[00:23:05] Keep the rage going.

[00:23:07] Keep the rage going.

[00:23:08] Listening at the door?

[00:23:10] Uh...

[00:23:11] Perception shot.

[00:23:14] Look at you trying to make sure you don't get hit by something.

[00:23:16] I didn't give a shit if I was gonna get hit by that.

[00:23:18] This is fifth ed.

[00:23:19] Who gives a shit?

[00:23:20] Characters don't die.

[00:23:21] Uh...

[00:23:22] Fourteen.

[00:23:24] Uh...

[00:23:24] You hear no sounds.

[00:23:28] If it gets to my turn, I'm just drop kicking the door wide open.

[00:23:31] At this point, you are out of initiative.

[00:23:32] Ah, you bitch.

[00:23:34] So open the door.

[00:23:35] I slapped Flynn.

[00:23:36] Ah!

[00:23:37] Meow!

[00:23:38] Meow!

[00:23:40] You open the door.

[00:23:44] Um...

[00:23:45] Just...

[00:23:46] Once a minute, hit him and you'll maintain your rage.

[00:23:48] Yeah.

[00:23:50] Wait, do you have to attack or do you have to hit something?

[00:23:52] Uh...

[00:23:53] I have to attack or be hit by.

[00:23:55] I'll hit you.

[00:23:56] You can trade me.

[00:23:57] Trade back and forth.

[00:23:58] Hitsies, tradesies.

[00:24:00] I don't know who that would be worse for.

[00:24:02] Hit me with an unarmed strike.

[00:24:04] Won't hurt much.

[00:24:06] You'll probably miss.

[00:24:08] Yeah, I might.

[00:24:12] Like, why are you recklessly attacking me?

[00:24:15] Oh!

[00:24:17] That would be a 21 to hit.

[00:24:22] Uh...

[00:24:22] You enter a room with, um...

[00:24:26] Directly in front of you...

[00:24:28] 10, 15, about 15 feet in front of you.

[00:24:30] You see a raised platform and on it is a large boulder of some kind.

[00:24:36] Very well-rounded boulder.

[00:24:38] Shaped.

[00:24:40] Um...

[00:24:40] And...

[00:24:41] Is there a purple and blue bird behind it, perchance?

[00:24:44] It's on a platform that appears to go to your right that is made of wood that slopes

[00:24:49] downward.

[00:24:50] Sits at the top of it.

[00:24:52] Meep, meep.

[00:24:55] I'm gonna...

[00:24:56] I'm gonna claw on, uh...

[00:24:58] The fish man's leg.

[00:25:00] And meow.

[00:25:01] Hey, can I get some of that laying on hands?

[00:25:04] Meow.

[00:25:06] Meow.

[00:25:06] I'm bleeding.

[00:25:07] Meow.

[00:25:08] I'm at 11 points.

[00:25:10] I'm at 20.

[00:25:12] Uh...

[00:25:13] Meow.

[00:25:14] I'm bleeding.

[00:25:15] Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow.

[00:25:17] Yeah, you can have 15.

[00:25:19] Oh, meow.

[00:25:20] Sweet of you.

[00:25:22] Flynn swishes his tail, knocks up there, and angrily swats the boulder down the ramp.

[00:25:28] Yeah.

[00:25:30] Knock it off this big table.

[00:25:32] Are we at the bottom of the boulder ramp?

[00:25:34] Or is the boulder clearly...

[00:25:35] It's above you.

[00:25:36] It's in a platform above you.

[00:25:37] It's in the same room, but...

[00:25:39] He's asking if the ramp is coming towards us.

[00:25:41] Oh, no, no.

[00:25:42] To your right.

[00:25:42] It slopes to your right.

[00:25:43] The room gets longer side to side from where you're standing.

[00:25:47] Well, to your right side.

[00:25:50] Um...

[00:25:50] It does look like there's some space behind it.

[00:25:53] Uh...

[00:25:53] Behind the platform, as if you wanted to squeeze behind it.

[00:25:56] But...

[00:25:56] Very narrow.

[00:25:58] Um...

[00:25:58] But yeah, the platform kind of goes...

[00:25:59] While I'm laying on hands on the cat, I toss him up there.

[00:26:03] Meow.

[00:26:04] You're on top of a boulder.

[00:26:07] Um...

[00:26:07] Down at the end of the platform looks like it probably goes into, um...

[00:26:10] Another room.

[00:26:12] Um...

[00:26:15] Give me...

[00:26:16] What spells do you have?

[00:26:17] I'm gonna check.

[00:26:18] Would that be?

[00:26:19] I guess I made perception.

[00:26:20] I made perception.

[00:26:20] So many spells.

[00:26:22] You got any sweet zero level spells that would be useful in this?

[00:26:26] Uh...

[00:26:26] I got a couple camps for this.

[00:26:28] I've got guidance.

[00:26:30] I've got fire bolts, mending.

[00:26:33] As you stand up there, you kind of spin around, look around.

[00:26:36] You do see that there is a mechanism behind the boulder, as if it were, to allow it to release.

[00:26:40] And at the very end of the platform, um...

[00:26:43] With that roll, it's good enough.

[00:26:44] You can tell that that boulder probably would not fit through that hole.

[00:26:48] As if it was meant to plug it up.

[00:26:50] Oh, okay.

[00:26:54] That's way less cool than what I had planned.

[00:26:58] Kind of wanted to be like, hey, you guys!

[00:27:01] Yeah!

[00:27:02] It's clearly set up as some kind of a trap, but...

[00:27:05] It's a battle.

[00:27:06] It does not seem to go into the next room.

[00:27:09] Very lame.

[00:27:10] So there's a hole, and there's still another door to another room.

[00:27:14] The room you came out of...

[00:27:15] If he's standing on top of the boulder, facing down the ramp.

[00:27:19] To his right, it's the door you came out of.

[00:27:21] There's a trigger mechanism on the back of it.

[00:27:24] And then there's a narrow pathway kind of behind it that does kind of follow a ledge off into the darkness.

[00:27:30] So it's not really a doorway, but it's sort of a narrow ledge you can continue down.

[00:27:34] If there's no other door, who's this trap for?

[00:27:39] Four.

[00:27:39] Like, we came in from the construct inside, right?

[00:27:42] I don't know what's a logic rule in this game.

[00:27:44] Would it just be...

[00:27:45] I don't know.

[00:27:46] You tell me.

[00:27:46] You're the DM.

[00:27:47] Insight.

[00:27:48] Insight.

[00:27:48] Okay, give me an insight rule.

[00:27:50] See if you can figure out exactly what...

[00:27:52] You can tell with the trap, but how does it work?

[00:27:55] The trap!

[00:27:59] Insight's definitely a barbarian's thing.

[00:28:01] It is.

[00:28:02] No, no, it's not.

[00:28:04] 20.

[00:28:05] There you go.

[00:28:06] Four!

[00:28:08] You would guess that from the other room, if you were running up this ramp, someone could

[00:28:13] trigger it and try to hit you while you were climbing up it.

[00:28:17] That's your best guess as to how this trap works.

[00:28:20] And it would...

[00:28:21] It's a Scooby-Doo trap.

[00:28:22] It would, at the end of it, catch and not go through the hole.

[00:28:27] So, if there were...

[00:28:29] If there was a fight in two different areas, you would separate the party from this room

[00:28:35] and the next.

[00:28:36] I kind of want to make a loud noise and see who comes through the door.

[00:28:39] That's why I was asking you what spells you have.

[00:28:41] I...

[00:28:43] I have many loud spells.

[00:28:45] Loud noises!

[00:28:48] So far, everyone's been alerted to you anyway.

[00:28:50] I've got Thunder Wave if we need somebody to be really interested in what we're doing.

[00:28:54] We're trying to draw people in here?

[00:28:56] You do have a lot of doors and stairways you didn't go through in that main hall, the

[00:29:01] cafeteria hall.

[00:29:03] In all the time you've played D&D, have you ever, A, come across a boulder trap, and B,

[00:29:10] come across a boulder trap that hasn't been triggered?

[00:29:14] Because I want nothing more now than to trigger this boulder trap.

[00:29:18] Actually, I can use that fun little artificer trick to make this boulder make tons of noise.

[00:29:26] Blink could hide behind it with the trigger.

[00:29:28] We could sneak off to one of the dark corners and see who comes in.

[00:29:32] Be like, what the hell's going on here?

[00:29:34] It's just if the thought was, if this is a we're protecting the second level, then we've

[00:29:40] killed everyone on the first level, so we're not going to attract anyone in.

[00:29:43] Yeah.

[00:29:43] That's what I was trying to understand from where the boulder was going.

[00:29:46] Now, if the boulder's going to a door that we haven't come through yet, then I think we

[00:29:49] would knock on that door and say housekeeping, and then see if they would come storming in

[00:29:54] to thus crush them with their own boulder.

[00:29:56] No door, just an opening.

[00:29:58] Right.

[00:30:00] What's the opening?

[00:30:01] Can we just peer through the opening?

[00:30:02] Two.

[00:30:05] If you'd like.

[00:30:06] I believe that is why he suggested it.

[00:30:13] It peers down into that area.

[00:30:20] What you see, and it slopes really far, so it's down.

[00:30:27] In this area, they call it the lower canyon, so it's a canyon-type area.

[00:30:34] You kind of look up and around.

[00:30:36] Two natural stone bridges arch over the section of the lower canyon.

[00:30:40] An archway flanked by bas-relief pilasters, gapes empty and black in the eastern wall.

[00:30:50] That is what you see.

[00:30:52] You see no individual standing here.

[00:30:54] All right.

[00:30:55] So if the boulder were to roll down here and you were to run from it, you would be

[00:30:58] trapped and forced to go out into this cavern.

[00:31:01] Yeah, if you guys were to fight something in this room, and some of you ran down that

[00:31:05] ramp, but something could have triggered that trap and separated the two of you, and you

[00:31:09] would have been stuck in that other, the lower canyon, and not with your party to fight.

[00:31:13] We're not going to get to play with the boulder trap.

[00:31:16] You took the back route and killed everybody that would trigger it, so.

[00:31:19] I say we backtrack to the dining room and see it.

[00:31:26] That's a fair point.

[00:31:28] I'm not opposed to it.

[00:31:29] It's just things have been going relatively well by surprising everyone coming this direction.

[00:31:34] Feel free to split the party.

[00:31:36] Yeah.

[00:31:36] Because now at this point, coming up the ramp, we're going to theoretically be at the same

[00:31:42] level as those levels back there.

[00:31:47] We're just coming at it from a different angle.

[00:31:48] So the question is, do you want to go back and then work your way back this direction,

[00:31:52] or you just want to go?

[00:31:52] I don't know.

[00:31:53] I have no orientation as to where this is going and where we've been.

[00:31:57] No.

[00:31:57] I'm going to presume everything was on un level.

[00:32:00] No, I'm not talking about level.

[00:32:02] I'm talking about direction.

[00:32:04] Yeah.

[00:32:04] Like, as far as I know, we could be leagues in an opposite direction.

[00:32:08] We've not transversed yet.

[00:32:09] But if the whole goal is to go back there to go upstairs, which would be your only option,

[00:32:13] or was there another door we missed?

[00:32:15] There were two stairways and one doorway.

[00:32:18] But the stairways went up.

[00:32:21] When you guys first entered this area, you came in and went straight down into that prison

[00:32:25] area and then walked through.

[00:32:27] Like, that's what you did.

[00:32:28] Yeah.

[00:32:29] But what I'm saying is, at this point, we have theoretically cleared out that level because

[00:32:34] we've gone in every room without going upstairs.

[00:32:35] There are definitely some doorways and areas you've not entered, so you would be unsure.

[00:32:39] No, there were doorways even back that we've not-

[00:32:43] The most doorways and-

[00:32:45] We kept finding things, so we kept just going to the-

[00:32:47] We just kept walking through doors.

[00:32:48] Yeah.

[00:32:49] If you were to backtrack back to that cafeteria, there are one, two, three different areas

[00:32:57] that you could go to that you've not ventured into yet.

[00:33:00] Try to remind me to draw a map next time since Lucas is not providing us with a map.

[00:33:04] I'll grid out a map.

[00:33:08] So-

[00:33:09] Make a map next time.

[00:33:10] Thanks.

[00:33:11] Appreciate that.

[00:33:12] Yeah, be the AI.

[00:33:15] Ask Copilot to draw a nine-room dungeon for you.

[00:33:21] Do you want to backtrack then?

[00:33:31] I mean, I kind of do.

[00:33:32] I mean, it seems like this is going-

[00:33:37] I don't know where it's going.

[00:33:38] Deeper?

[00:33:39] So we can-

[00:33:40] Well, we wouldn't-

[00:33:41] I wouldn't want to go out the hole.

[00:33:43] Right.

[00:33:43] I don't know where else there is to go up here next to the boulder, because he made

[00:33:46] it sound like there was somewhere else to go.

[00:33:48] There was a ledge you could squeeze through that goes on the other side of this platform,

[00:33:53] but you don't know what's beyond that.

[00:33:56] I yeet the cat in that direction.

[00:33:58] He's already on the boulder.

[00:34:01] He's just taking a cat nap now.

[00:34:03] He's going to eat the fish man in that direction.

[00:34:07] It's a flying fish.

[00:34:08] I'm surprisingly aerodynamic.

[00:34:12] Like a goddamn lawn dart, just-

[00:34:14] It's the extra weight.

[00:34:16] It counterbalances you.

[00:34:18] It's impressive.

[00:34:20] I go investigate the ledge.

[00:34:22] This is what AI made.

[00:34:24] Ah, sweet.

[00:34:25] Apparently, Lucas, we just need to go to the left.

[00:34:27] Cool.

[00:34:28] If you squeeze behind the boulder, it's a very tight squeeze, and you see that the ledge

[00:34:33] is parallel with the platform that goes, or the ramp that goes down, and then immediately

[00:34:40] dog legs to the left.

[00:34:41] You have no idea what's beyond that.

[00:34:44] Okay.

[00:34:45] But I can fit through there.

[00:34:47] Yeah.

[00:34:48] So if I-

[00:34:48] And now am I like, is my ass like scooting outside off the edge of this canyon now?

[00:34:53] No, you're up against a wall.

[00:34:56] It's tight.

[00:34:57] It's a tight squeeze through there.

[00:34:58] Well, where does it go when it goes left?

[00:35:00] It appears to be a stone bridge that goes across.

[00:35:07] Across the canyon.

[00:35:10] Yeah, you can tell that the canyon is-

[00:35:12] It's not immediately in front of you, but it is a little beyond.

[00:35:14] You can see that there is an opening space.

[00:35:15] So it appears to leave the structure we are currently in.

[00:35:18] Oh, yeah.

[00:35:19] Okay.

[00:35:20] I will relay that to the party.

[00:35:22] This appears to be an exit.

[00:35:26] Not an exit from all of the area, but it does go to another area beyond the canyon below you.

[00:35:34] It's not like you're exiting the mountain.

[00:35:41] Yep.

[00:35:41] Does stand to reason that that might be a way out?

[00:35:50] Well, the way that Lucas is describing this to me, I almost see that we are working our way through some sort of underground fortress or reinforced castle or something.

[00:36:03] So this might be a reinforcement rampart from outside the main structure to the main structure, like a place that they would retreat from?

[00:36:14] Yeah.

[00:36:15] I don't know.

[00:36:16] We were forced here by narrative convenience and flying birds.

[00:36:21] So it's a question of like-

[00:36:23] It's also the only pathway down the mountain, so I don't know where else you're going to go.

[00:36:27] I believe that there's probably an on top of the mountain pathway down.

[00:36:31] Yeah, and the game just ends with you dying on a mountain because you'd go nowhere.

[00:36:35] Let's do it.

[00:36:38] Ten, ten, ten.

[00:36:39] Great way to TPK.

[00:36:41] Ten, ten, ten, ten, ten.

[00:36:44] So do you want to keep exploring this?

[00:36:45] Turn around and go back then?

[00:36:48] Or do you want to see where this exit rampart goes?

[00:36:55] I kind of want to go back.

[00:36:57] Yeah, go back.

[00:36:59] Go back.

[00:37:00] Although it does seem like if we barricaded this up, this could be a place where we could rest relatively easily.

[00:37:09] Oh, yeah.

[00:37:09] Yeah, yeah.

[00:37:11] Give me the word, I'll flip that switch.

[00:37:13] I mean, at this point, I'm just looking for any excuse to flip the boulder trap just to see if it works.

[00:37:18] Like, if Cody in real life came across a boulder trap, you better goddamn believe I'm going to trip that boulder trap.

[00:37:25] I would not be against a long rest.

[00:37:30] Whistling the whole way.

[00:37:31] Do, do, do, do.

[00:37:33] Do, do, do.

[00:37:35] Because I hope it doesn't work.

[00:37:37] I mean, that would be the best part.

[00:37:38] You flip it, it just sits there.

[00:37:40] It rolls back on me.

[00:37:44] There's some really nasty traps in that Grimtooth stuff that, that does that where you like show up and you're like, oh, it's very obvious what this trap does.

[00:37:52] And then it does something fucking nice entirely.

[00:37:55] Are you backtracking or are you barricading in here?

[00:37:58] We're flipping the boulder trap.

[00:38:01] Let's do both.

[00:38:02] How damaged are you?

[00:38:03] The boulder rolls down and slams into the hole and dust flies.

[00:38:07] Rocks probably crumble down from the ceiling a bit, but it is lodged into the hole.

[00:38:11] Perfect.

[00:38:11] Perfect.

[00:38:11] Now they can't come that way.

[00:38:13] Yep.

[00:38:14] Now we could just need to barricade up or similarly stop people from coming down that rampart.

[00:38:21] And then basically the only way out was the way we came in.

[00:38:24] That is true.

[00:38:26] Was it a wooden structure, wooden ramp structure?

[00:38:29] Yeah, the ramp structure appears to be made out of heavy logs.

[00:38:32] But is the, is the space we went through, is that also made out of logs or is that part of the-

[00:38:36] No, that's stone.

[00:38:37] Yeah.

[00:38:38] Yeah.

[00:38:38] The, uh, the structure itself is made out of, is made out of, uh, wooden or yeah, like log pillars that, you know, it ramps down.

[00:38:49] It's made, it's basically a log bridge that ramps down.

[00:38:51] So I didn't know if we could knock that ramp down and use it as a barricade.

[00:38:57] I mean, it would take some time, but it's feasible to chop it up.

[00:39:01] I don't even necessarily mean chop it up.

[00:39:03] Just take some large chunks and-

[00:39:05] It would take a lot, it would take quite some time to do.

[00:39:07] It would be, it's a lot of, it'd be a lot of work.

[00:39:12] And then there's no little boulder trap to block that way.

[00:39:15] No, there's not.

[00:39:16] But no, I, I would, I would, I appreciate taking a long rest.

[00:39:19] I'll get back my stuff and I'll, I'll heal up cause I'm less than half at this point now too.

[00:39:25] I don't have anything necessarily to like help barricade or block the door, but I mean, we could take shifts and-

[00:39:33] Yeah, no, we could do it.

[00:39:34] I was just thinking if there was an easy way to like topple it over and just put it in the way.

[00:39:38] In fairness, there are only two exits, which are both doors inside of the sandpit.

[00:39:45] Mm-hmm.

[00:39:46] So they do close.

[00:39:47] That helps you out.

[00:39:50] You got a lot of dead bodies you can stack up.

[00:39:53] It's about, it's about the best you got.

[00:39:56] That actually could work pretty well.

[00:39:59] We could get a couple-

[00:40:00] Are you able to forge something?

[00:40:01] No, I, I was just thinking I've got, uh, I haven't touched my second-

[00:40:07] Go, go gadget door!

[00:40:09] My second level spells at all.

[00:40:11] We grab a couple bodies.

[00:40:12] I just enlarge them to large since they're piled up against the door.

[00:40:17] That's hilarious.

[00:40:18] And just use them as a barricade.

[00:40:21] Uh, it, I believe it's quite a while.

[00:40:24] I think it has to be a willing participant.

[00:40:25] They are dead.

[00:40:26] It's a living creature or an object.

[00:40:30] I'm going to count a dead body as an object.

[00:40:32] Ah, no.

[00:40:33] It's no longer a living creature.

[00:40:34] It's an object.

[00:40:35] No, they can, they can only resist it if they, they can resist it.

[00:40:40] It's funny, go ahead.

[00:40:41] It's funny, so I don't care.

[00:40:43] That's the thing, it's like, willing, but if they're unwilling, but they're dead, they have no will.

[00:40:49] He's completely unwilling.

[00:40:50] He's dead.

[00:40:51] No, no, no.

[00:40:51] He has no will.

[00:40:53] He can't resist.

[00:40:54] No.

[00:40:56] I mean, it's like looting a corpse.

[00:40:58] You guys may barricade and take a long rest.

[00:41:08] Thank you all for listening.

[00:41:15] The Big Sleep was written by Sandy Peterson and Jonah Baumgartner.

[00:41:24] Music by Ian Chan.

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