S1:E10 – The Surveyor

In our last episode, Day finally succumbed to the same dream state that Ichabod and Waylin had entered earlier in the evening. Together now, our adventurers navigated a strange dreamland populated by bunnies, loved ones, and multi-hullered sheep. Waylin's strange, dark, angelic companion led them into battle against a giant ravenous matroshka doll. It eventually became clear that attempting to fight the creature was futile, and instead they allowed themselves to be eaten again and again by increasingly smaller dolls.

This, fortunately, released them from the dream. Upon waking, Day and Ichabod realized that Waylin was still in his stony form. Join them now as they wait for him to get better. Sorry that it's not a more exciting hook.

Welcome fellow travelers to Legends of Chill. Hi, I'm Theron. I'll be playing Day. She is a human druid.

Hi, my name is Kieron. I'll be playing Waylin. He's an Asmar barbarian. Hi, my name is David.

I'll be playing Ichabod Pike. He's a human wizard. And I'm Hazel, your DM. So that's done.

I don't... Can we abandon Waylin here and get away from these lights? Roo. Oh, good.

This had the weirdest dream. And you were there. And you were there. And you were there.

And you were there. And Professor Bradley? What's the time on Waylin's finished cooking? It's done.

It's done. You can run a check on that. No time is passed. Sit with a monitor and do.

It was popped up in the others. Yeah. Oh, he splashed out. It's pretty angry.

So, Waylin, you can tell that time has definitely passed. And that Waylin has made progress on his recovery. But it's still not going to be until about noon tomorrow, you think, before he recovers. Okay.

And it's still not right now. So? This will just settle in. Try and rest again.

Yeah. Not after he's about giant dolls eating us. And tiny dolls eating us. And dolls.

And all the rabbits are nice. Yeah. So, yeah. So, yeah.

You guys have your actual long rest. Cool. You store out the new day after your very eventful night. And despite, or maybe because of the strange happenings and stress you underwent, you guys have attained.

We leveled up. Just to say it. You leveled up. So, why don't we talk about that?

Let's start with you. Okay. Mine is very easy. Druids don't get much at third level.

So, I didn't get any new special abilities, but I learned how to cast second level spells. And so, I have a couple of those prepared now. Okay. Pick them up.

These are going to sound very familiar to people who just heard days' week. I don't get any new powers. I did learn how to use second level spells. And I added two new spells.

First level, Chromatic Orb, and second level, Scorching Red. So, you guys wait until noon. And then you're just standing around standing, staring at Waylon I guess, waiting for something to happen. And if you're not doing that, that's fine.

Waylon, you feel this warmth start to come over you. And the stone just starts receding from your skin and flaking off. And you're standing there in this clearing where you had not really cleared on the road, basically, where you fought the stone curse. And there are no metroschkas or giant hopping bunnies.

Thank God. And he starts moving again? Yes, he's back. So, I go like, ah, you're back.

That took forever. I had the weirdest goddamn dream. I had never huge ass bunnies. It was a giant wooden doll.

Like, do you ever know what the hell was that? Well, I think that we all shared that experience. I think that we all shared that experience. Yeah, you have like powers in there, though.

That's you, God. Hmm, then I focused for a second and tried to summon the wings again, because please tell me that was a dream. Okay, so you focus and you try summoning the wings. And not like last time when you try it, whenever you just go ahead, those little wings pop out.

Your wings, skeletal wings, pop out fully from your back, just like we're on your day back. And your eyes turn black and these luminescent white tears. Start flowing down your face. And how does that affect work?

And who is standing here? Everyone within, I think it was 30 feet, has to make a DC 11 crew visit. Like, Curvizmo, you're going to take over our minds? Oh, yep, it's good.

I failed it. What did you say DC was? 11. Yeah, I failed it too.

I got a 10. You are both afraid. Reasonable? That tracks.

Afraid like we have to run from you afraid or just we can't go closer and we're like, your spooks, you know, I don't think you have to run. Can't fly. Yeah, as wayla dies turn pitch black and huge skill to wings and throw over. Yeah, take a step or two back.

What is going on? I'm not entirely sure yet. I'll let you know what I find out. But I think I'm really to that angel we saw in the dream somehow.

Do I recognize that this is like a magic effect or is it actually a part of the things like if they're so intimidating? Roll and or trying to problem? Oh, never 19. Okay.

Is that pretty good? So, 20. So, what are you asking? Is this like a magical thing?

Like if I were to say, like, can you turn it off? Would I know that that's going to get rid of the mind effecting thing or am I just a smoker because it's scary? You? You think that it would probably, like if you can control it and turn it off, you think that it would probably get rid of the fear effect.

Okay, so I say that. Like, can you not? Oh, yeah. And then close my eyes and calm down for a second, I guess.

So, I'm 10 feet of you. Okay. I was so nervous. Yeah, we knew that you were going to come back here on noon.

So, we're probably waiting. We didn't know that was going on. So, what else did you get after the level? Well, I took the path of the zellith.

So, I got divine fury while I rage to deal extra radiant damage for a turn. Of course, more dead points and that's always useful for a barbarian. And when attempting to restore me to light, the caster does not consume material components. Nice.

So, yeah. Those are the things I got. There are also a few other cool things. Like you can cast this weird light.

Oh, like? Right. Oh, we're going to stop pretending he's human now? Right.

So, I am obviously as a lion out. I can heal people a little bit with a touch only at points equal to my level once per day. Don't rely on it. Or that I can do it.

We can't wait. We'll probably just not know about that yet. We'll discover it. We'll figure it out sometime.

I thought it was always like, when planting anything that he would have a green thought. He would just use it to restore plants a little bit too much. Unconsciously. But obviously it's become stronger since we leveled up.

And you can cast a light cantrip. So now that all that boring, unimportant leveling up sounds like, give me my favorite part. You guys are camped out beside and on the road. And what would you like to do?

I just want to get away from here really. Yeah, I'm okay with that. I will collapse the tent and not look back and start walking. Alright.

And now I'm just going to push over every statue we see. So you're continuing down the road. You're surrounded by these fruit trees from this old orchard that seems to have been here. The fruit trees are lessening and where the regular trees are starting to appear.

And in the distance in front of you, you see a statue. On the side of the road. Wait. Is it holding a sign?

Uh, what would be a percentage? No. Sixteenth. You cannot discern whether or not there is a sign really, but Ichabod can tell that there is no sign.

How far is it? Basically, is it further than 30 feet away? Yes. At the moment, unless you wish to approach it.

As soon as I get within 30 feet of it, as we continue down the road, I'm going to throw plains at it. Alright. We're all in. We're whatever you're doing.

Thirteen. I should probably get up my step box. Oh boy. I mean, no, it's just a search.

Thirteen? Yeah. Alright, you see something really high. You see it has a meter stone.

That does not hit. Okay. So you see the flames go flying past. Does it react to do it though?

Um, and they burn a swath in the brush around it. And it does react. It starts to move and it turns and it looks in your direction. And it starts approaching.

What is the statue on? The statue is of a goblin. Goblin? Yeah, goblin.

I say goblin. I get goblins in on some stuff, but it's a goblin now. Cool. A little stone goblin.

And let's roll initiative. Wait. Eighteen. Yeah, the real number is coming.

Here it goes. I mean, I'm last. So I have to say hello to the number plus. Yes.

Three. Three. And the stone curse has twenty. So, think about it.

You are up first. I'm going to fly across the world and I miss. Okay. You know there's another pear tree behind this one?

The pear tree is just slamming right into the hole of the pear tree. Right. A tree way to me. Alright.

Alright. So it is going to move towards you guys. And you are only thirty feet away. So it starts running towards you guys.

And it runs super slow. Let me tell you. So it runs up and it's about ten feet away from you now. It's not up to you.

And win. Wailen will take a bit of a jump and hop skip and swing his site in attempts to send a flying with a reckless attack. Good role. Five and a seven.

Alright. That's the twelve. Okay. You don't have a plus ten.

That's unfortunate. Thank you. So you swing and win. Yes.

I also got twelve. So that brings us around the day's turn. Okay. I am going to sort of step to the side so that I am not going to step wailen.

Okay. And then I'm going to say bonsai and make my extending spear grow effort on. I got an apple 17 and you've just said this way. So that is seven.

Mine is one huh? Okay. Oh but it's a plus one weapon. So five damage.

And I look delighted because I think it's the first time I've hit anything of this gear. So you're squeezing it. Excellent. Okay.

It runs us back around the hicobot. I'm going to hit it with an acid splash. Alsace. It's a DC 13 deck save.

That makes it. It does no damage. Alright. So did you want to move or anything?

I'm going to say back where I am. I think way to go out to the idiot. I'm a little bit back. So it is going to take its clawed hand and swipe it with advantage.

Alright. Thank you for reminding me. That's an actual 19. God.

What's that like to roll? Good question. Tell me about it. Sorry.

So that hits and it does some amounts of damage or another. Just write that down. It's just a small amount. Just say just say one hit a score damage.

Okay. I need you to make a say the content. Oh, remember this. You do remember it.

Um, 11. Alright. So here we go again. It's a stone.

Start to move along your skin again. It starts turning gray. And you are me straight. You are me straight.

You are me straight. You are me straight. Give up. So that brings us to the valence turn, I believe.

And restraint gives me disadvantage, right? High-high girls. I think it just means that you can't move. Oh, okay.

Then we are going to rage because I want him dead now. And swing like this later again because 15. 15. That brings us to day.

I see that it hit whalen and I don't want him to get petrified again. And I just learned lesser restoration. I know that doesn't work for somebody who is petrified, but could I use it to stop him from becoming petrified? I think it's like three fails basically, right?

It's just two. Okay. I would say that the lesser is not going to prevent him from it having again. But if you cast that, I would say we get rid of the stone that is currently on him because of strain.

So we'd be back to needing two. Okay. I was a worth it. He's someone who is doing damage if he can hit.

So yeah, I'll do that. I'll do that. I'll go up and I'll cast lesser restoration so that the stone eats on his hands flakes off and he's back to normal. All right.

I'll have two of those. So we are no longer restrained. Okay. What's the say?

She comes up and touches 12. Oh, that's frustrating. So she comes up and touches you and these business stones start to like back off again. Oh my God.

Did you know anything else? I got back up again. Okay. So you guys move up to behind plate and reach out and touch him and then back up.

Cool. Okay. So let's think about the trick. Okay.

I'm going to try something new. I'm going to position myself in such a way that I can hit it with a cone from a distance that I go up also touch way with. All right. This is going to be a color spray.

Nice. See this? See this? 3045.

So I blind up to 45 hit points. Okay. It's definitely blinded. Okay.

Thank God. Now it's blinded for one round. So we'll get one round worth of advantage and it'll have one round worth of disadvantage on us. Sounds good.

I think about it. So it is its turn. It will affect weila. It's a good spray roll as I recognize it.

Right. Okay. What does it have to add to that? We can listen to this.

Damn it. It has a plus five. Just make the seat though. Yeah.

Yeah. I just have to roll above a seven. You have to have faith in your days. I'm trying.

I have no zealous about my days. It does. 10 damage and I need to make a conversation. Oh, I need to get that guy.

18. Great. How much time is 10? Okay.

So arching rate. No. Oh wait. You are raising your forgiveness.

You did reckless. Okay. You were raising your forgiveness. I did raise your forgiveness.

I did raise your forgiveness. But you did raise your forgiveness. Okay. After you got it.

Right. Right. Right. This turn because you have a bandage on it.

Right. That's a double digit. Yeah. That's a 23.

That hit. It does divine. Oh my God. Oh no.

It is a double one. It's a D-6 and a D-12. Holy crap. Well, that's still hydrant and not great.

I'm glad you guys read all the ones. No. Definitely not happening. Let's see.

Hold on. That's still eight damage. Are you going to be able to add? You are absolutely a bit of a miss.

Yeah. That's false. That's my best case. That's more damage than they did.

Well, I do have a minus one just right now. Swing your side down and the stone gobbling in like you cut off in here and bite you into his arm and these fractures just start spreading out across his body. It looks pretty rough. It looks pretty rough.

Daster. I'm going to stab it again. Okay. A bonsai.

You do have a bad day. Okay. So 17. That just does it.

Okay. So that will be one damage. Your spear strikes out and you're aiming for that crack that way like me. But you miss that and you hit the other shoulder just perfectly fine.

This is a little, a little apocalypse there. Yeah. So tickle by. All right.

I'm going to hit it with a chromatic orb. I'll do thunder damage. You'll match that. That's a 23.

Okay. 11. 11 thunder. Caster.

Thunder damage at this creature. And you can see the stone in the shoulder that way the damage. It's starting to shake and you see pieces start flicking off and it just kind of explodes and cracks from the force of the sounds and crumbles to the dust on the ground. Thank God.

That one's going to stop. Okay. You guys are really bad against those. So you're not going to get into the third one that's supposed to be there.

Thank God. Okay. I was going to ask a creature or something if there were any more in the area so we could buy past them. Oh, I see.

It's going to be a relationship with the dice. Take them out, breaker. Yes. So you continue down the road for a while.

There are no more statues and the fruit trees start fading away and giving over to the dark forest trees that were here before. And as you're going, it's getting darker. The canopies are starting to cover the path more than they were before. What kind of trees?

These are dark. Are they deciduous or for trees? They are a mix mostly deciduous. There are a few evergreen trees here and there, but they're mostly deciduous trees.

And on the path, in the forest beside the road, you start to see more cobwebs start to appear. Or saves a fail. But you pass by that area too. Oh good.

Nothing really happening. Yeah, I'm fairly traumatized by the last time we've got spiders. And after a bit more of a walk, it's getting later in the day because you started trekking out. Day.

You happen to see what looks like a table beside the road, just a little way off the road. Is it nice? Like a nice table or is it standard table? It just seems like a standard table.

Yeah, a wooden table just sitting there. Is there a little thing? It's just a standard table. It just seems like a standard table.

Yeah, a wooden table just sitting there. Is there stuff on it? Give me a perception checker. Okay.

I also say like, hey, does everyone see that table? Seventeen. So it's hard to tell from here. You think there might be something on it, but something that's very flat.

And looking at the table in the area around it, you see something metal glinting. A little distance away from it. Like into the woods or down the path? It doesn't seem like it's too far, but it's kind of thickly brushed and wooded there.

It's a little way away from it. And it's metal and it's glinting. And it seems to be like a tallish thin structure. Like a flagpole?

A flagpole? Yeah. Okay. I was joking.

Some people are just like holes. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a beanhole.

I'm a beanhole. I'm a beanhole. I'm a beanhole. I'm a beanhole.

I'm a beanhole. This is true. No, no, we don't have much beans either. I think that if I don't see stone statues or moving trees in the area, I'm going to be a little less cautious.

I'm going to go check out the table. So the table has a large piece of parchment on it. It's blank. And there is an ink well and like a fountain sitting on the table next to it.

And you can see better from here that shiny thing that you saw. It appears to be there's a tripod. And on top of it is what kind of looks like a spyglass or a sexint. Okay.

Have I ever seen anything like that before? Like it seems like surveying equipment to me, but is it something that they would recognize? You can give me some kind of intelligence check there to your element. Okay.

That's really, I guess, knowledge of things in the past that you've seen. Okay. Fifteen. No, you've never really seen anything like this.

You're not sure. I mean, it was kind of like a sexint that sexens were used on the potion, not out in the middle of the forest. All right. Is there anything you said there was nothing on the parchment?

Nothing on the parchment. Are you guys like with me? Or are you like, exactly. Check out the table for us.

I'll have the idea of that. We can just get to get to the house. But how far? I don't know.

Tell that you're going to. Is there a perception? No. Is there anyone else around?

Because it seems like a people would be there. So you don't see anybody, but you do hear this crackling sound somewhere deeper than it was. Does it sound like a person or a creature? Pretty not sure.

Okay. You got the ten hundred percent. So you're... All right.

I'm going to cast Mage Hand. And take the pen out of the inkwell or pick up the pen, dip it in the inkwell and write kickabog was here on top of the... Sticky, but you're not too late. Okay.

That certainly works. Yeah. Roll it for us. Oh, eleven.

Yeah. It's... You haven't written much with your Mage Hand and it's not the best. My hand.

Yeah. It's not the best writing, but he's definitely legible. Cool. All right.

I'll lay the pen down and I'm going to go take a look at the surveying equipment. Okay. What are you trying to ascertain about the surveying? Does it...

Does it magnify? If I use whatever the scope is to look through, and it... It does. I'll lay it all the way down.

With the turtles. It doesn't magnify a lot. You mean an investigation? Okay.

Hey, seven. That's probably enough really. It's not too difficult to see. So you can see that there are a lot of numbers written on the side of it.

So you think it doesn't magnify a lot. You think it's mostly used as some kind of measurement? That's for me. Do I know anything about this kind of equipment?

Can I try a history check? I think. Do I want? Yes, you do.

You know about surveying equipment. And from what you've read, you know that you need to set up equipment in a few different spots so that you can kind of triangulate and get a good reading. Also, since Ichabod loves this kind of stuff, you know that this device is called the Theodolite. Well, yes, I did.

So you think there are probably a few other of these set up. They have to be set up within line of sight because it doesn't magnify, right? Am I right about that usage? It magnifies a little bit.

And you think that the triangulation is more to focus on a target and set where everything is so that we can see each other necessarily. They don't need to see the same thing. I see. I didn't do that much research on it.

Has this one been known since we founded? If it's in generally the same spot, can I try to track where it was pointing to see if there's anything using the God or see if there's anything in that direction that seems of interest? Sure, you can do that. Go ahead and make a discussion check.

17. Something towards where it was pointed. And it was mostly pointed in the direction of the road. You don't really see anything of interest other than that.

You guys do hear a really loud clanging of metal that happened around now. Still along the road, but further down the road than you guys have traveled and you think probably in the forest? Yeah, how much is a big piece of pressure like that works? I mean, I know.

How much is it? Well, is it like a valuable object? Is it like a weird at least a gold or is it just kind of normal? It depends on how far it is created in this world, basically.

Yeah. The paper making process is fairly common. And so it's not incredibly expensive. Okay.

If I don't think that anyone's going to yell at me when they come back and see if the bottom's here on their parchment, I'm going to say hello. So you don't hear anything for a while. And then you hear these footsteps slowly approaching. And you see the head beep around the tree.

And it is very white. Way too white. In fact, it doesn't seem to have any skin or flesh on it at all. It is just a skull.

And you see the skull peek out and you see it go back behind the tree. Okay. I say hello, Mr. Mr.

or first image skeleton. What do you want? Where did you come from? We're just passing by.

We're curious about the setup. I'm surveying your area. I promise we won't hurt you if you come out. Can you click around the tree?

Are you a wizard? You look like a wizard. I am. Yes.

Did you want to talk about magic? I'm sure you guys are all right. You got a wizard. Is there something wrong with wizards?

They're in slavers. They enslave everybody. Oh, he's got a never master. Is that helpful?

I know what that is. That's the kind of wizard that enslaves skeletons. Oh. What kind is he?

I'm this kind. And I'll put my hand through the air. The shower sparks will come out. He screams.

So you guys know anything about this road? Not really. I don't know if there's tags on it somewhere. They come out very coz it's in me.

Right, to be like percentage? All right then. And what you see is a 12 skeleton. They are about 5 foot 11.

They're wearing a leather pack and they have like, there's a tripod on their back and they have bags and they have like map cases hanging from their sides. And they're wearing a plain tan, loose-fitting straight-legs trouser that ends about mid-calf. They're wearing blue button of turk with sleeves that go just past the elbow. And they have a carpenter pencil tied to a long string around their neck.

I was just, uh, don't travel this road often. It's, uh, just showed up the other day. That's news to me. Yeah, it's news to us too.

So, uh, yeah, so the town's in me out here to take a look at it to map it out. Yeah. And it'll occur for us. Yeah.

There's a town out here? Yeah. We thought the guys were on it. We thought those were the only town for hundreds of miles.

Where's that? Yeah, into the road. No. I don't know, maybe I'll head out that way sometimes.

He was down there. Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, Have any more lizards down there? I would be cautious. Okay.

We don't see many, um, people who don't have flesh in our parks. In fact, more often than not bad things coming out of the forest. So. Okay.

Yeah. Not too surprising, I guess, sports fields, all kinds of things. For us, most designers. You know, we have through those.

How many are there? Do we see multiple? No, it's just a skeleton. No, it's just a skeleton.

It's just this person. Okay. It's like, uh, oh, right. Uh, introduction.

Sorry. Uh, my name is Jonathan Knopney's. Oh. Uh, what are your names?

My name is Wayland Bier. Nice. Demetia Wayland here. You're pretty big.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Take a bite, Pike.

All right. All right. You can just call me day. Okay.

Okay. So nice to meet you, I guess. Uh, so you said, said something about some hags or something? Yeah.

We have always, we've always heard that there are hags somewhere if you follow this road out of town. That's interesting. Old man bones. He used to, he used to tell some stories about a hag.

He lived up near the town in the old castle. Now it's after the wizard days. Uh, I can't think of this fast enough. I don't think, I don't think she's there anymore.

Before my time. Jonathan, is it an option for you to take us to the town? Oh, I guess. We're pretty hesitant about wizards.

I'll keep it under wraps. I just want to see the place. All right. We have to think what the name of the town was.

Oh, yeah. It doesn't have a name. We call it Skillet Town. Oh.

Happy Pending. I guess, I guess I can take you up that way. I've got some work to do here, but I guess I can wait getting dark anyway. So that would be awesome.

We would love to sleep in bed so there's an inn and see your town because it sounds like an inn. We got an inn. Wait, you do. They'd love to have you there.

We never get anybody. Uh, but you know, they run it. The end, I think the sleep. Are you having me?

It's a Ray system. I don't even know if they're undead. I mean, he's obviously not alive. He would be a contract.

Fair. We usually, yeah, don't usually sleep in the end though. We have our own homes. No, nobody really goes to the end much.