In our last episode, the party explored in the old abandoned castle. Inside, they found a shiny button that made a throne retract into the wall. Invisible bars designed to trip unwary adventurers, every privy in the castle, and some sort of cold mold. They decided that it made more sense to head towards the most likely place to find a hag, the large central tower accessible only through the second floor.
Our adventurers today are David, who plays Nick about the wizard. What I want, because I'm 17 and mature. Kiran, who plays Waylon the Barbarian. So, who's the capital?
Farron, who plays David Druid. I say, I found a button as I press it. And our DM Hazel. Turn close.
Didn't plan out that far. Welcome, fellow truckers. Dellegance of chat. So, you safely make it up the stairs.
Off to your right, at the end of the hallway, is a door. And, slightly to your left, across the hallway, is a door. And there's another door at the on that side. And there's a door on your side of the hall as well.
So, no offense to Ichabod, but invisible poles going across the thing. It seems like wizard bullshit, not action. Close. And where are we?
This is the stairway. You guys, out of there. And our relation to the tower we want to get to, what direction would that be in? This one.
Yeah. I guess, thankfully, it's too left. So, you guys turn left and there is a doorway there, which you're opening in the usual method I assume. So, you guys open the door and you step into a library.
Hi guys, it's Theron from the future. I'm bringing in here to tell you that if you hear over your noise that sounds like a monster. I'm marching army of soldiers. That is Kieran playing with his dice.
And I removed everything of it that I could. So, sorry about that. The walls are covered with shelves and books. There are various places to sit and a few tables, which also have books on them.
Are the books in good condition? I know we have work to do, but I've been in a few minutes. Yeah. So, they're dusty.
If you'd like to look around and see if you can find any books that you're interested in. I guess I'm not sure. You may do an investigation check. Wait, let's sit down in a chair and yawns.
Loom's a dust just puff up around here. No, that was a bad idea. Fourteen? I would specifically like to look for books about tags.
Natural legend. Okay. So, you're looking around the room and you're pulling out these books. And a lot of them, they start to decay as you pull them off.
They start losing their shape and the paper starts flicking off. And a lot of them just look boring and uninteresting. But you do find a couple that are interested in you. So the first book that you find is called The Tretiary of Satan's Shell.
So you pull that off of a shell. And the other book you find on a nightstand or a little table next to a chair. And that one is called Heat of Hunter. That's from the dream journey.
Yes, it was a book of your mother's that you'd seen, but not taken much notice of on a table. And you also saw it on your dream journey. It was on the carpet. It's just like a 50 shade to gray thing.
Do I already know that? You can open up the face. I don't know. I don't know.
I don't know. I'm going to poke for a while. I've got suspicions. So I'll open it with what I close.
Okay, are you going to open it up to the beginning? Or are you just going to crack it open at a random spot? I'll crack it open. I'll open it up to a random spot.
And it says, Jeannie has leaned forward brushing her lips across Jacqueline's. Her heart pounded wondering if she was being too forward. But Jacqueline's seen receptive. Her mouth opened and her tongue darted out.
Licking Jeannie is okay. Okay. Mom's dirty book. That's an old ass dirty book.
It's been a long time. I guess. Pretty popular, I guess. I just have a team.
So I want to hold on to it for research. Okay. I'm going to figure out. I'll be able to do it once.
I do not. I'll unify. You said that he was interested in the Treasury Ath Infini, or were you going to request access to that cook? Yes, please.
Yeah, sure. Okay. You. But I'm going to go far away from that book and start at the beginning of a Treasury Ath Inn's shell.
If it's a particularly long book, I'll skim the first couple pages and instill it. It's fairly long. So it's The Treachery, the same shell by Burton Francis. Oh, the Treachery?
Yes, the Treachery. I heard the Treachery of Satan's shell. Say it one more time, for me. The Treachery of Saint Michelle by Burton Francis.
So you're skimming through this book. And a lot of it's very dry and boring. The author of this book rambles on for some time. He tells the story of Saint Michelle.
Saint Michelle was born during the reign of Emperor Peregrine II on a farm not far north of Estherim. She was a beauty with dark blue eyes, warm brown skin, and a strong contralto voice that she used to lead the workers in song. One day, when she was 18, the emperor's son, Prince Alexius, came to ask her for her hand in marriage. When she explained that she was already the truth, the prince bowed to her and left without another word.
And so Michelle married. They built a house at Three Gross Farm and started a family. They had three children, two girls, and a boy named Linus. They spent 10 happy years together until one day, her husband was killed by a group of bandits.
Not long after the prince returned and restated his offer, again, she turned him down explaining that she was still in mourning. It would not be ready to remarry for a long time, if ever. This time, Prince Alexius urged her to accept claiming he was mad with love and reminding her of the status she and her children would gain. Still, she said no.
A few more years passed. There were hardships. Heavy taxes were levied on the farms. Livestock suffered high losses.
And her parents died in a magical accident. Despite the tragedies that passed through the farm, she made great advances in the community. She united the farmers in the area to share work, a group which has since grown to become the East Agriculture Union. When Emperor Peregrine met his death and Alexius took the throne, he made Michelle another offer, this time at the palace.
But again, she refused him. The Emperor tried to sway her with words of love, of money, and power, but Michelle rejected him, saying that she was satisfied with her state in life and did not let him. The exact record of events after this point is unclear, for there are many variations on the tale. Regardless, it was not long before Michelle was imprisoned under charges of treason and assault upon the emperor and put to death.
When Michelle stood into her noose, she was surrounded by a beam of radiant light and disappeared from the plain to stand in the halls of the gods. And though he doesn't deny that that story is true as whole, he does state that it's incomplete. He then talks about the other tales that he's heard and how he has teasily discounted each one, and why the authors who have written them are in fact fools. And he talks about what elements of them have some element of truth.
But he finally gets around to talk about this tale that he said he was going to talk about. And what the story claims, skimming through it really quick, is that Heather, one of Michelle's daughters, thought her mother was the fool when her mother would not take embers offer. And she offered herself to the emperor instead. The emperor took her offer, but he didn't merit her.
And he took her as a mistress. And indeed, after that, he became engaged to another woman, an elven princess named Alia Norak. So Heather knew that she would never gain the power and wealth she desired, as long as either her mother or Alia Norak lived. So she plotted to set the princess against her mother, and then she was going to poison the princess.
But whenever her mother died, Heather was stricken with grief and drank the poison herself. And that's the story that he calls. There were two daughters that we didn't know of, right? That were supposed to be Wall Street Street.
And this is just the one of them. This is one of Michelle's daughters. I don't remember when she had two or three. I believe that she had two.
I believe she had two daughters and a son. I have the file of them. Because that's where the, she had two daughters. Yeah.
And they were both lost to history. Yeah, their names aren't known according to this source. Okay, this talks about one of them. We betrayed her mother and killed herself basically.
It's a bad book title. I don't know if I like this hurt in Francis' guy. It is a bad book title. Because it sounds like he's talking about something that he apparently isn't.
She's being betrayed and not being treacherous. Yeah. Is a trickery of her not by her? It's clickbait.
No, it's a very clickbait title to get the cells on. You gotta write a scholarly work you have to have a full. Okay. Huh.
Interesting. Is that significant to you? You've seen the symbol of the chest? No, is that actually still there?
Yes, it's actually in your light, whenever you saw it in your light at any time. That's the light that was in your chest. Okay. So you've seen the symbol.
You realize it's the symbol of the same shell, right? I know now. Yeah, I know. And now we've seen the fallen angel, or at least soon as the fallen angel.
And the fallen angel is the daughter? Possibly. Possibly? Hmm.
She must have used my light to bring her to mind me. Huh. We have bigger concerns at the moment. Do we?
I think I'm gonna say the gods seem to be taking notice of Waylon. I'm more concerned about our homes and our families and the gods. But, sorry. They are important.
But first we need to find the hags. So I'm just gonna keep this book in the bag. So you'll at least later, even though I'm not a very solid person. So let's just keep looking for signs of the hag.
I'm gonna pretend I didn't read this for now. Did anything bad happen for my natural one? Right. You were doing an investigation check for things.
For hags. I think I must just do that in combat. Okay. So we'll just...
I just wanted to make sure. Yeah. Thank you very much. So I'm gonna go back to the book shelves and almost hit a kabod in the head or something.
There's wisdom but... And I can't get up from this chair right now. Here a moment. So when you're ready to proceed, there's a door you entered into the hallway and there's also a door in the back of the room on the far right from where you entered that leads somewhere else.
Well, that's the direction that the tower is, right? Yes. You open your phone and turn off the sound? Yeah, probably.
So I guess we'll go through that door in the far end of the room. Oh, right. So there's another room back there. Weird.
That's a large. Could that be a tower? Looks like it. That's a lot of doors.
Thank you. Are there no doors into the tower? You do not see a door into the tower. Well, the plan has worked out perfectly.
So this is an elaborate room with nice parquet flooring. There are numerous wardrobes and there's a large porcelain bath. There's a large vanity on one side of the room and a bed. A large king-sized bed.
There are numerous frames, paintings around the room. There are a few tapestries, including another tapestry with Coron dill symbol eye hanging on what appears to be the tower. I'll do a curse research through the room to see if there's anything of interest besides what we've already seen. I'm making an investigation check.
Who sleeps in the bathroom? I'm going to save the picture. That's true. What's that below?
So you see a rope hanging from the ceiling and you go and tug it just a little bit and it just kind of falls down. And you do find a jewelry box sitting on the vanity. And in that box you find some items. So there's quite a bit of jewelry.
There is an amulet. It has a large teardrop ruby set in it. There is a gold bracelet. There are some harness silver items.
There's a silver bracelet, a pair of silver earrings that are shaped like feathers and have little garnets around the edge. There's a big chunk of amethyst. And there is an old tattered faded letter which is here for someone to read it there too. It's a love letter.
You want me to read it for the show? Sure. Okay. So I'm going to read it for you.
I dream of you at night missing your voice and your warm smile. The way your ears curl up at their tips when you smile. I see that. I can smell the scent that you wear and that so often I wear it due to our closeness.
I cannot smell it on me now. I've been gone from you for far too long. I miss you and I pray that Corindale show our king that this trek into the woods is pointless. Our might has never been strong enough to stop this corruption.
It will be no different now. I would have relished it when I was young but I find I have no heart for it any longer because that belongs to you now. Now and forever more my love. Your dusty skin has sunk to me on many a night but I yearn for far more than the fudgers of the flesh.
I yearn for that look of understanding. The regal of your nose when you laugh. The pleasant conversation. My dear, I miss you so much.
I pray that you yearn as much for me yet pray that you do not yearn at all. May we be reunited soon. Yours truly Hubert. This is like a nerd.
I didn't do much for me. I'll say the book. So I'm confused actually at this point. I say that second Corindale tapestry and I see this letter and I'm like is Hubert the wizard?
We could ask him. We could ask him. We could ask him his name because if that's the kid like Corindale is a very good god. Sometimes you'll do worship Corindale or assholes but Corindale is great and somebody who follows Corindale that much would probably not be a necromancer.
So I'm confused about stuff. Well, didn't the wizard move into the tower after the kingdom? Probably. I guess so.
Have I ever heard of these names? Can you please? You're tight for me. 23.
You have actually some ancient histories that you've read from the library. Mention these two people as lord and lady of one of the holds of Arn. Okay. So they used to rule a particular area as part of the empire of Arn.
And you know that they were lost to the corruption of the forest. They couldn't keep it back and they lost a lot of settlements in this area. And that was long ago. It was before it's winter time by far.
Hubert, human, shallandria drow? They are both elves, dark skin elves. I don't think they're trapped. What else?
Probably. How do I do the poncho system? Fine. It still seems weird how many traces there are of these very old things and we've come across almost nothing from later inhabitants, others in the candle.
You're just sticking with wrong sides. Maybe. You should have gone right. But from the others, no entrance to the tower at all.
Not that you see. Well, behind that tapestry maybe. Do you want to move the tapestry? That is a manual investigation check.
You move the tapestry side and there's a door there. Cool. All right, let's... The same old time dance?
Okay. Okay. You open the door by and it's fairly similar to the other tower that you entered. It's that there's no access to anything above it and the stairbell goes down.
In the center are it looks just like just a little sitting area. There's a table and a couple of chairs. Nothing on any of them. Just sitting in the center area there.
But did you say there were windows in the tower? There are no windows in this tower. There are windows in the other room. The other room doesn't have room.
Yes, looking out over the courtyard. But there are no windows in this tower. The other towers have air slits. But this one does not have any openings.
But I want to look around and see if there's anything you have note in this sitting room. Okay. 18. It's a bare room.
You don't see anything. That's fine. Any entrances down the bottom of the tower. Okay, look.
Let's look. Let's do, watch your head and feet. Yeah, really. Okay.
So you head downstairs and you come out onto another landing. There's another set of stairs that goes down. And here there's no doorway. There's just a hallway going back this way.
It's the making. It's the making. And more stairs going down. And at this point we're going into like a basement level.
If we were going down. If you were going down, yes, you'd be going down to a basement level. Okay. Because this is the first floor.
You can either go back onto the first floor or you can go down. Do we want to try? Right side. I'm inclined to believe that if the camera is set up, we'll probably be down.
Okay. Yeah, let's try the dark. I figure it's either down is where we want to go or it'll be just the size of this tower and it'll be quick to check. So we might as well go down.
All right. What is ever going on when you go down to the basement, right? Shimble now. The next that look like doors.
Trapped doors that look like spikes. Gas and cools. All that good stuff. So you send down into the tower and you reach the bottom.
It's not a long trek because it's in like a basement as far as just another floor down. So you reach the bottom and you come out into the bottom of the tower. There are no more stairs and there do not seem to be any exits and there are a few crates stacked along the side where the down would be if there was a down. But there are a few crates and you're at the bottom.
Okay. So you look at the crates. Yeah. I think like to take a look at the crates in terms of we'll move them.
If they're moving, we'll see if there's like a hidden trap door going further down. Also see if there's anything inside them. Yeah. Okay.
You move the crates. You do not see a trap door. You open up a few. It's not difficult.
They're old. It's fairly button. And they seem to be old clothes. Mostly moldering now.
They were fancy at one point. But they are nothing now, basically. It's been there. I'll see some clothes.
Yeah. Okay. And there are no exits in the room. It does see the storage area.
It seems extremely odd to me, but we're going to track down where that throw went. I'll search around the edges of the room to see if there are any hidden doors. Okay. Go ahead and make a investigation check.
Fifteen. All right. You find two hidden doors, actually. All right.
One leading away from the key and one leading back in towards it. Start with it. Yeah. Let's start hitting into the key.
All right. So you open up this door and you are in this long room. It's about 50 feet long and 25 feet wide. And there are displays of armor and weapons.
And you see there are a few gold pieces laying around that not many. It looks like there's some kind of display or treasury. But most of the wealth that was here since have been taken out of it. Please quantify the few gold because currently our party fund is at 30.
So we're taking whatever's there. Okay. Good idea. I'm going to say that you guys find about 50 gold and 100 gold worth of jewels.
Okay. And you can also all roll a D 100, I think, if I figure out what the tables are and what they require. It's a D 20 actually. D 20.
Sorry. I mean, I can divide it. So day you find this small ring, this gold and it has these blue gems in it that look like waves. Okay.
Can I, I mean, it will take me some time, but can I cast a deck magic on it? Is it a magic ring? You can, it is magical. You also, whoever has the amulet, you get a ping off of that.
Okay. And you know, I see, I'm sure somebody else has a magic stuff. But you see both of those things as well as whatever these two guys roll. 17.
17, you find this road that's still salvageable. That's, it was with this suit of armor that's mostly rusted and gone. And it's covered in these weird patches, like there's lantern, things like that. You, four, four, you find this thin gold crown and on it is this purpley red gem right in the center.
And so of everything that we've collected, the bracelet, the amethyst, the earrings, the amulet with the teardrop ruby, the robe, the crown and the ring, they all, those are all enough. They all yield some magic. All right. Let's spend a little time.
And I'll, I'll run through, identify for each one of them. Okay. You have a robe of useful items. This was a random chart.
So I don't have things made up. So we're going to work on that or I can do that. Say people's needs. Sorry.
We only have a robe of useful items a day. You have a ring of swimming. Okay. If about you have a circle at the blasting.
And whoever has the inlet, I do have that because that was not found down here. So you have that for now. An amulet of re-fifification. An amulet that takes the form of a large red teardrop ruby and closed an intricate cage of gold and silver on a golden chain.
On falling to zero good points, the amulet activates. The magic infused gem evaporates into dust as life once again flows into your body, waking with one hit point around you after you've felt the zero. The amulet is unable to restore you back to life. You died at old age and is unable to restore missing body parts.
That means magic in the amulet is completely used and restoring your life cannot be used again. So. Yeah, to wailing. Should I find a meringue?
I don't remember exactly what that does. I think it just gives me a swim speed, right? I think so. But you can breathe underwater.
I'm not sure. I can look it up. Does that count if you can cast redification on me without consuming the material components? Yeah.
There are swim speed of 40. Ooh, nice. Cast red and I can walk. That's like 24 out of 4.
If you have this one. Yes, don't correct. Circulate to cricket. Cricket.
Cricket. Cricket of last day. I'm gonna get many black. Cricket of last day.
How many charges do you have? They're actually cast a scorching race battle. We shall don this. And um, how many charges does it have?
It's used once a day. No, okay. I'm gonna get a few charges again next on, which is very acceptable. And the road in use lines is going to require some roll-in, I believe.
Yeah. I'm like that we got like nice jewelry and now we're just like this patchy road. I mean, use silly patchy, but- I mean, you can give him a nice piece of jewelry instead. I mean, you didn't name it.
Yeah. You have a- Yeah, use the end line. Let's check. Use an action to detach one of the patches causing to become the object or creature it represents.
Once the patch is removed, once the last patch is removed, it becomes an ordinary road. It has two each of the following patches. It's kind of neat, actually. So you've got two daggers, two bullseye lanterns, and when you pull it off, it's- they're filled and lit.
All right. Two steel mirrors, two ten-foot poles, or one twenty-foot pole to see how you look at it. The first tape detector. If you're gonna- Mm-hmm.
Two rope, fifty feet coiled, and two sacks. We're just- we're about to make hazelberry around me. In addition, the rope has 44 other patches. The GM chooses the patches are determined some randomly.
Yeah. Does it give you a list of patches? It does, actually. Yeah.
It's a D-100. It's a 44, and it depends on the D-100s. Sure. That many times.
Very cool. Yeah. Oh, these other items are very cool. Yeah.
What is that? That's a three. So three. Nice.
Six. Big numbers. Yeah. Yeah, twelve.
Okay. D-100s. Twelve packs. Yep.
Jesus. You're gonna help? That would probably be good. Yeah.
You're gonna eat roll four? Sure. 62. It's a little too big deal.
I just rolled 56 twice. It's very odd. 98. That's something good.
Oh, that's a portable ram. Nice. I know a portable ram. Eight.
Bag of 100 gold. Nice. I think I could use some more money. I told you that's a real.
94. Window. You have another one of those. I also rolled them.
Two windows. Wait. I rolled four times. I thought you were doing tough.
I didn't think you were start taking. Okay. Well, it looks like you've got already has four right now. Oh, it's okay.
We'll stick with yours. We need those. Why? Windows are sweet.
I can just put it all in. Go through it. Yeah. Jesus.
Oh, look for it. Yeah. You can place on a vertical surface you can reach. It's there two by four up to two feet deep.
It's not like you can take them down again. Nope. There's just one by two. Okay.
My rolls, you got two, because they're all 56 twice. You got two pits. They are a 10 foot cube. You can place on the ground within 10 feet of you.
Another four portions of healing and a 24 foot letter. Those portions of healing will be nice. Yeah. I have a 59.
That's another pit. Jesus Christ. 70. A rowboat.
Twelve feet up. Oh, cool. Swimming. Rowboat.
And 21. Iron door. In place in an opening you can reach and conforms to the opening attaching and hinging itself. Barred on one side of your choice.
Okay. But. Please go away. I'm going to work with the little quippers.
Right. Yeah, that's well. Jesus. Oh, my God.
Jesus. That's a grand day. I really wanted to get windows for the one time. I use one of those.
I didn't get any windows. I really wanted it. I got none. Oh, my goodness.
I just had a curiosity. What my rolls? Did you get the coffee? The dogs.
The dogs. That would be so cool. Yeah, I could turn into one. We could just have dogs everywhere.
We have to change our names to dogs everywhere. Okay. So that was the treasury. That's interesting.
I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one.
I'm going to go to the next one. I'm going to go to the next one. Okay. So that was the treasury.
That's interesting. And you can go back up where you can go across. There's another door in the treasury. Oh, there's the one that leads away from the key.
I wanted to move this away from the key. Might as well check that out, I guess. Well, that's a way from where we want to be to investigate. True.
So probably go back up to... That was the library. What was the second? That was the master bedroom.
Master bedroom. There were the double doors and there was the single door over in the corner. Start with a double door. Sounds good.
Okay. Back to the second floor. The double door goes up 15 feet. Is this the hallway?
Okay. So 15 feet leading out into a very large room? Yes. 15 feet leading into a very large room.
And you can see in that room some things. Probably. Day. As you're coming out, you think for a moment you see something moving and you see it here and it disappears.
Something like how big of a something. You have no idea. I say hello. You say hello.
And you see it come back into view. It's another one of those jugglers. Bester. I throw fire at it immediately.
Sure. Go ahead and then develop all initiative. I don't remember if that's a good idea or not. 19.
To hit it. 19 hits. It does three damage. All right.
Do you do an initiative? Yes. Four. Great.
Congratulations. Stakes. 11. Can't wait but 16.
Pattern is starting to do one here. You know initiative today. I don't know if you've been doing that. I don't know if that's really good.
But we'll see if it holds three of the tackles. So the jugglers just got a nine. So we'll be going third. And it is way less turn to start out.
Okay. So we're roughly here. Yeah. And then it's like over here.
Yeah, it's there. And you should be able to see another one. Pass or expand. I did not prepare anything.
Any other stuff for today. So let's throw it. There are two. Okay.
We are smooth skins. You know looking things juggling human-based goals. One of them flashing with electrical lightning sparks. And one with this frosty cold luck and one flaming.
And then just one with this big and pretty and really heavy looking. Okay. Okay. Well, I'm going to reach as a bonus action and move that.
Because fuck these guys. Shit. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Are you buying clothes or are they just like blank? There's kind of blank.
Because I was remembering to wear like a suit and bow tie. Who's why I drew this. I don't know. I don't know.
I'm going to be wearing a suit and go from half line with that. I guess I'll just dash into his face so that he has to attack me with this. This is a good thing. I'm going to put a crossbow bolted to that one.
That's an 18. Is that it? Yes. And that's the one that the day hit with a fire.
That's a six-cursing advantage. I do not have offensive spells prepared right now. Let me throw your tomatoes. Yeah.
The first juggler is going to take a frosty skull in his hand and slam it. That's wheeling? Probably getting a 16. Yep.
Just smash it right into your face. Now, and that is going to be four gold damage. The second one is going to take one of those heavy iron skulls and it's going to chuck it right at day. 12.
Cool consensus. Pronces off my shield. Great. Now get back in it.
Comes off your shield and hits the wall. It kind of rolls to a stop before it disappears. And you see that as they're juggling, another one of those skulls comes back. And it is dazed.
Okay. So I'm going to throw my vegetables onto my back and I turn it to a wolf. And I howl and run at the same one that way it's tacking. Okay.
That's okay. Get quite to it because it's performing as an action. So that brings us back around to the way. Okay.
Then reckless. Good. Oh, wait a minute. Even of four.
So, um, 14. 14 is just hits. Hallelujah. That's disappointing.