In our last episode, the party ventured through tunnels of mold and into the triple tower that was once used by the wizard. On the first floor, they set off some traps, but the tower only collapsed a little bit. And on the second floor, they found the destroyed remnants of an old teleportation chamber. Our adventurers today are David, who plays the group on the wizard.
The old saying, while those legalities. Kieran, who plays Wayland and Barbarian. Both of the troops. Theron, who plays David Druid.
You're interested enough to play the multiple floors in the intellectual chain. And R.D.M. Hazel. Nothing too serious, just some bad bathroom practice.
Welcome to fellow trackers to Legends of Child. Carry on. So does the safety system beginning as far as staircase continues going up. So on this floor, there are no signs of those stone stairs along the outside wall anymore.
Though the spiral staircase in the center continues to go up, it doesn't look like the original tower did. Okay. There is a plush carpet covering the floor here. Looking out of the room is mostly empty.
There are a few bookshelves. There's a petite on chair and a small side table on one side. And on the other, there's a desk and chair. Very large space for as far as the furnishings are.
Does it look like the tower used to be shorter? And that's why there aren't stairs? Or does it look like this sort of used to just be the top? But it's not any, like whatever room was here used to go all the way to the top of the tower.
Is this quite the top or? This part of staircase continues up. I think. Yeah.
Okay, this one. So this looks like it was probably once the top floor of this tower. Looking around, you can kind of see there's like a section on the side where the second door is trapped in the door. Once it's been kind of filled in and bolts for a ladder to be there, but there's no ladder there.
So you can see that. So you think this is probably the top floor and you can continue up to the roof. But now there's a sprawl staircase going up. And you don't see, like it's open.
You don't see any sun might come through and there's no rain coming through there. So there's obviously another room or something up there. I'm going to search through the area. There's a couple of areas of interest in here.
There's a couple of different books. Yeah. So it's actually blocked by the condor. So nothing here.
That's too hard to find. So I'm not going to do the hoo roll. So none of the books really catch your eye because that's how things work in this game. You can't just detail every single interesting book that exists in the room.
Exactly. On the small side table next to the padded armchair, you find the quill, a dry bottle of ink, a box of sand, and a small book. The book appears to be a journal in the desk. There's nothing.
There are a few papers there, but most of them crumbled. Let me take a look at the journal. Initially, I want to see if there are clues about who the author is. Overall, I do want to see what, if I can get a sense of what the contents are.
Yeah. So looking through here, the person who owned the journal was a wizard named Bob. And they were doing experiments on, they were basically trying to create a new kind of sentience. They're trying to create a sentient creature.
It turns out that over the course of his research, he was able to achieve this and he created the skeletons that you met previously. And he employed them mostly as a servants. Did the wizard trapped in the cantilever identify himself? Did he declare himself to be Bob the terrible or anything like that?
I don't remember if he said a name. I don't think we ever got a name. Or if someone said Bob, we thought it was a joke or you can remember. Yeah, I don't think he mentioned his name.
You tried not to talk to him too much. We did. The only thing that I've ever done that he said is please don't do that. That is not necessary.
What we were trying to blow him out. Which is skimp's. And he told us about fake throwing that we already discovered. Do we get the idea, like from Silicon town, they considered themselves or their ancestors or whatever slaves, basically to that wizard?
Do we get the idea that that is still accurate or is it like mythologized? Yeah, based on the journal, it seems like he considered it to be servants, but he also created them and he did not pay them or anything. So slaves, to some fairly accurate. So they were servants.
They were servants. They were servants. Was used as servants without any payment or personal freedoms. Yeah.
I mean, they were his children in a way. He pays their children anything. So he seems, I guess, run of the mill evil, not like a big evil monster. Yeah.
I mean, he's accomplished something pretty amazing. Yeah. Yeah, he's not. I'd made turn him into a candle.
No, that was old man bones. Oh, okay. Brother something. Cool.
I was trying to put that down. Is there any indication in the journal about the purpose of the room we investigated with the circles and so forth? Was that part of the experiments or was it unrelated? He doesn't mention that room in his journal.
You think anything to do with that would have probably been in the notes, but maybe just a bit greater. They use hard to come all. You could probably assume that it had something to do with his skeleton army children because that seems to be one of the few things that he talks about here. There aren't any serious research notes here or anything.
It just seems to be a journal. At the very beginning of it is like, my friends told me that keeping a journal was good for your mental health. So that's why. Very night in the woods.
Okay. And there's another floor up there. And where are the doors? Yeah.
I remember. There are the doors. They were ripped over here. Okay.
So there are doors that they aren't ripped over. Cool. Up we go. So these two rooms are filled with bunk beds basically.
There's a floor and a fifth floor and they are filled with bunk beds. The diameter of this room is smaller than the previous one. You get up there and you notice there aren't any stock side towers and the room itself is smaller than the main tower was. There's nothing really up here.
It's just where the skeletons lived. Is there like a trap door or anything leading to the roof? No. Okay.
So you know, as weird as they are, they deserve freedom. Yeah. So that doesn't seem to be much else in these towers or was there another way? That was it.
I think that was it. Okay. We took Bob. Great and terrible.
Bob's kind of like a life-sto-says. There it is. So we checked the basement. We went down the tunnel.
Was there an exit door to this? Triple tower. Oh, the only other thing was the one side that we had triggered completely collapsed and the other side we could get through when there was an exit out of there. Okay.
Yeah. There was a hole in that tower. You could go back the way you came where you could go out of that hole or maybe you could go through the pool. But one of us could, at least one of us would drown.
But yeah, those are ways out. I'll just wait for that. It'd be nice being dead backpacks. You could get through your pizza button.
Okay. Yeah, but the door on the first floor was ripped over. So you can't get out that way. So there's not anything.
The hole inside of one of the towers was the way you came in. Okay. I mean, I guess that's the way to go. Well, there's nothing back for us.
I mean, we could go steal some eggs from the skeleton. So that's fine. Well, what's the fastest way back out to the road? We should be mostly sitting to the road.
Probably that's true. So what would be the best way to get back to the road? Probably going through the scale of time. Maybe the best way back to the road.
What can we just see? Yeah, let's look. We'll go look out of the tower through that hole and see what's out there. Okay.
So you look out of the hole. So you can see the castle wall right next to you and you can see the forest spreading out behind the castle. You were on the outside of the castle wall. You can see the whole wall wall.
And then you can see the whole wall wall. There is not. The whole wall looks like it is fairly old. There's growth along the edges of it.
It's not the way back to the road, basically. Okay. You don't want to stop the scale of time. You might as well see if you could get a chicken if I remember.
I kind of want a chicken, but. Maybe if we pass it on the way back. I feel like that's the best option here. I wanted to eat a chicken.
I wanted to eat a chicken. Oh, you wanted a chicken for that? I don't remember that. Okay, I'll just eat them all.
I guess you got me to your top right at the moment. Okay, so the easiest way back to the road is probably to follow the castle wall around until you get back. So this is the path. That's the easiest way to get it to be on the outside.
Do we think we'll hit more jugglers on the inside? We can't get out of anything that was in there, but we also have to go past it out, poison again. Right. But it's, you know, minor poison damage versus the chance of getting attacked by something.
I'm getting attacked by something that might be fairly exciting. That's not day same. I'm confident I can be back if it comes this way, but... Well, you said the quickest way was outside of the castle wall.
Well, you're already outside the castle, so following the wall around. Yeah, it'll fall around until you get to the road. Okay. To Sky the Town.
So you guys walk along the castle and you get to the Gate to Sky the Town, which you get through. And strangely, as you pass through it, you hear like a bell ring. Like an arm bell? Kind of, but it's not like a big bell ring.
It's just like you look at the gate, you can see that somebody's like tied the bell on a string over like a four to twig. Okay. And then a little skeleton kid runs up to you. He's like, hey, you guys are back.
How did it go? Not bad. Good. Old man bones wanted to talk to you guys.
Okay. Yeah. So you should head over there. Alright.
I guess we'll do that. Yeah. You guys get to hold man bones place. He opens the door.
Oh, you're back. Come on in. Thanks. I'll get some eggs cooking.
I'm trying to come over and they ask me about the egg thing and there's a big council and stuff. Wait, what? Egg thing? Sorry.
I mentioned that I wanted to eat some eggs. I think, like, if it was acceptable and I guess that that's like a hubbub. I'm counting you. That's why I never went to town.
The, uh, the decided that it was, you know, it was fine if you wanted to have some eggs. I can cook some up for you if you want. They kind of asked me about it because the only ones who, yeah. Sorry, it's like writing your name.
No problem. Yeah. The only one who's around back when we actually had a human that we served. And, uh, yeah, I can cook up, cook up some eggs.
Do you guys want some? I mean, I don't want to impose, but if you have the eggs and you're okay with me using your stove, you're like, oh, you better. Okay. So cook us up, like, not dry rations.
Thanks at all. I'm going to show him the journal and this is what we found. I figured you might want to see it. The journal.
It's about the history of where you all came from. Well, I appreciate the thought. But, uh, we've left that all behind us and once I'm out of here, it'll probably be completely out of our advice. Mine's just, I think, is probably for the best.
So, uh, if you, uh, why, you can hang on to that. Okay. We did find the wizard trapped in the candelabra. He implored us to release him and we elected not to.
I appreciate that. Yeah. Don't know what to do about him, but even the first ones to come around in a long while, I don't think we have to worry too much. If we weren't going to see hands, I said we'd just take him within a CP somebody's fault.
But, or we could trade him to the hags. That sounds really wrong. I don't like that. I just guess that.
I hear that adventuring does that to people. No. That's, that's cute and talking. I'll be like, um, wait, it's too good for that.
Quick flash of worst nature. It's a good person. Yeah. You know what it tastes like?
Yeah. It tastes like a good person. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. It tastes like a good person. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. So, did you find anything else up there you find out what you're looking for? Anything about a hag from the beer?
Well, we did learn about me. But, yeah, not the hags we were looking for. All right. She's talking about hags all the time.
Well, we found, we found her chicken experiment notes and we found some big old eggs from some things she was trying to make even bigger than the, uh, bigger and fluffy. Oh. It was, the tracks were like, tiring a source. But, they were huge.
Yeah. Whatever that is. That was, that was a, that was a monster. That was, oops.
Yeah. She wrote it out if you're on it. Ah, that's so cool. Just tell me it was a actual philosophy right there.
I can't do this one. It's a beast. It was a, it was a big chicken. Huge.
But it had like these, uh, had like a duck feet with like sharp claws on the end of them. And like, it had like a woman's head in his chest. And, uh, she used to be doing what this looks like already. Yeah.
Hadn't seen it in a while. Rode out of here. It was, uh, I'd see her and it go. That's for sure.
God. That's twisted. Oh, yeah. Got you.
Got you. Got you. Can come home and wait for her. I bet the hags liked it.
Don't look. And where did she head out to? Just down that road. Oh, that road, uh, that road was here.
I thought that road was pretty weird. Did you just run again? Roughly in that direction. Are we causing the road to exist?
Or the road, well, I don't think we're causing it to exist. Well, our desire to look for the hags. Or something like that. If it's new for Skillet Town.
Yeah. Whatever magic is in the Witchwood is telling us to go this way. Uh-huh. Have we asked here about Mad Marley?
I don't remember. You have. We have. They haven't seen anybody in a long time.
Okay. Or far longer than the Mad Marley would come through. Jonathan also said something else about your town and having some trouble. That's why you're here?
Yeah. Uh-huh. We've got a lot of eggs. If you think that would help, we've got a couple people who are willing to head out there.
Now I know you said that, you know, they're facing monsters and we look like monsters to them. So it wouldn't be best for you to show it up. But maybe if you gave us something so that, I don't know, something that would make us be more willing to talk to us. We could help you out a little, maybe.
Hmm. We could write them a letter. I don't know. I was thinking that maybe we had something that was like, obviously from us on us.
I know that Mad Marley gave us some stuff, but I think we might need that. Is there some kind of symbol for the druids that you could give them? I don't know. Probably could I do something like that?
Yeah. Okay. Then I would make up. I'm kind of picturing like I'd make something out of wood, like twines together with a symbol in it and give that to them.
Something large enough where they can be pulled up from a distance. Okay. If you guys are into this plan, then yes. I mean, it sounds dangerous.
And I would stress that to them for sure. Like we faced really rough times on the path. I don't want you to put yourselves in danger for us. They might be exempted because it seems they're kind of like, as it's a forest.
Might be safe for them, but that's a big name. Okay. Well, if you can just kind of tell us what you ran into, then we'll try our best to avoid that stuff the best we can. We've got a lot of people here who are...
Want to try the adventure? Yeah, I have much to do. They like something to do. So it sounds like something to do that could be good for them.
Okay. I would give them a full accounting of like the stone cursed and... The trees have attacked us. The trees have attacked us and the guy with the mouth.
Oh, the tree cutter. The tree cutter. And whatever else that I don't remember. The hanging scarecrows.
The scarecrows, yeah. Yeah. Don't follow any screens. Alright.
That's... I don't know. Interesting stuff. There was also a model E in the fall of us, but I don't know if you got worried about that.
Alright. You guys seem to have seen a lot of weird stuff out there. I think this must be a pretty break. We've seen some shit.
That was in the art chair. I don't know. I kind of think that based on our perspective, Skeletown might be the strangest thing that we've come across. I am saying that.
Shh, yes. But that's certainly not most deadly. Certainly not dangerous, but unusual. Really?
Yeah. That's me. You can see that. Pretty long to us.
But, I mean, we read that journal. And based on that account, you're all entirely unique in this world. You were invented by that wizard. Yeah, I guess.
I don't think you have to see it as a bad thing. Well, you were pretty bad. Yeah, but... Yeah.
Yeah, that's true. Just don't really like thinking about it. Alright, you guys hanging around here for a while? Are you heading out?
Anything? Anything we can do for you? You want to stop for the night and then head out in the morning? We can stop.
Sure. We'll probably just spend up the night and then we don't know anything. Oh, and we got hurt too. Why you get blue?
No. It's not even the third of mine. It was a little more than a fifth of mine? Yeah.
That's like a mod later than a lip-ray. I keep too much. I just thought that. You guys are fine.
No. Cheat in our favor as much as you like. We don't have like 12 feet of motion. So you guys are fine.
Does he? Oh, yeah, all in the road. Oh, yeah, it's true. That is very true.
I forgot about the road. I do have, let's see, eight potions peeling in the road. That's real nice. Yeah.
Because I have two patches of four. Same with the windows. Not that I think of it. He probably shouldn't have the cold rope if he has the patch rope.
Oh, yeah. I'd rather have the cold rope in the patch rope or patch rope. That thing. Patch work.
Rope of minutal things. Rope of fusillights. Cough. I suppose I can do that.
Yeah, I can do that. Oh, but it makes sense to tear one of the healing potion patches down on the distribute. Is there a little in the hole in the last? I think they just become real healing potion.
Yeah. And I think that it takes an action to take it off. So if you need it in a hurry, then it wouldn't be great to still have it on the road. Yeah, if we distribute a set of four now, and I guess it would be one, one, and two.
And then we can keep the other one in reserve just so it's not taking up room. Probably mine. Feel off the windows or anything. We can't do this.
Why did you do that? There are dogs on there too, right? Like lots of dogs. There could have been dogs on the ground.
Okay. How many of the human forces do we have? Total, because we have the three from an answer. I don't know how many of these.
There was three. I know that I gave two to Whalen and one to Ichabod and I know that Whalen has used at least one. And I've used mine as well. Okay.
So then I'll assume that I have two to do. So then we spend the night. Yeah. Alright.
I've already seen that book over and over. The trailer's same shop. I'm going to divide my time between the filthy book my mom used to read and the creepy spell book. I'm going to see if I can just spend time making guesses at trying to puzzle out the passenger.
I feel like I have some information. I want to see if it's, you know, try to anagram it up. Okay. Yeah.
Maybe you could cross reference with the journal too. That might help. Only if you 100. 33.
Okay. You puzzle over it for a while, but if you feel like you're getting closer, you feel like there's something there, but you're not quite getting it. My plan is to whenever we have these kinds of long rests, I'll spend the time just working on the book. Okay.
Okay. So, next day, it has stuffed rain, though it is still grey and cloudy and you can have a breakfast at eggs if you want. Eggs. I'm going to turn those quick.
One can do around the eggs. And as you're heading out, you see a group of skeletons. You'll take old men bones, word, but they're young. Are they short?
No. No. Okay. Regular humanoid heights.
The leather jackets are giveaway. They've got the symbol that you made and they're carrying some baskets of eggs. And when they see, they go, oh, we've been waiting for you to get up. And one of them picks up a basket off the ground and brings it over and is like, here, you guys.
Thank you. So you have some food. I think so. We'll say hi to your family, so are you.
Good luck along the road. Be careful. You can be well. Bye.
Bye. And wait. So they head off, down the road, back from the way you guys came. I really hope that works out.
You guys head out on the road again with the big basket of eggs in your hand. Nice. It's been days since you've been on it, but it seems much the same. The woods are basically the same.
Oh, you get past the spider rats. I don't know if you guys want to do a quick battle with the spider rats. So you guys make it past the spider rats back up to the road. And it's more of the same.
And you walk for a while. It's about halfway through the day around noon time. The clouds are starting to dissipate a bit. What little you can see through the overhanging trees.
And you can see a sign ahead of you. No. What's holding it? There is stuck in the ground by a post.
Oh, okay. At least it's not a broken stone board. Or stone cursor. Whatever we call them.
So you get closer to the sign you can read it. And it says toll bridge ahead. Except there's a little carrot with an R between the T and the O. Like somebody has added it there.
Oh, okay. Trolls. Oh, I get it now. Hopefully we stay home with it.
Sign the first one. I'll speak to you ahead. Troll. I keep regenerating.
I didn't think of that earlier. Being there. What do you guys know about? What's the troll?
Do you know what trolls are? We face monsters. By the way, they're mostly spiders. Mostly spiders.
You've probably heard of trolls. From who? Books. These guys attend the college of the month.
Would you just want intelligence? Remember? I could do. I could do.
I could do. I could do. I could do nature. Great.
That makes it a 12. Okay. 14. Natural one.
That's great. What kind of story we got today? You know all about trolls, of course. They know some things about trolls.
So, Waylin, you know more about trolls. I'm going to get my troll knowledge up about what they look like and stuff. I forgot to do that. Would you say that Waylin knows enough about trolls to know the sat block?
I would say that Waylin has heard about their regenerative capabilities. Okay. So, they are big hulking monsters about eight feet tall. They are vaguely humanoid.
They are a smallish kind of giant can. Lovely. And has house pronounced. So, they were generating less than take acid or fire damage?
Yes. Awesome. We're well suited. Yeah, we're oddly well suited to fight trolls.
Usually doesn't go that way. No. I said fire. Big sharp.
Sounds good. So, you guys got to continue on down the road? Yeah, we don't give some hags. We are well suited to fight trolls.
Well, I don't know the plural applies to that sentence. I'm one at a time. We are well suited to fight troll. We can do that.
There's more than one. I think there's more than one. Well, me, there's two. That'd be ugly.
But the CCR is definitely connected to the regenerative thing and will be negating that. So, if you continue down the road, you get to a point where you start hearing the sound of flowing water. And as you move further along, it starts to get louder. Until finally, you come up and you see a wide stone bridge.
It looks like it's made to be wide enough for a carton across. And it spans this river. The river is probably 45 feet across. And it's moving fairly swiftly.
You do not see signs of a troll from where you are at the moment. Okay. Or a troll. No, like a little coin box.
Okay. I'm kind of... Can we look under the bridge? Can we get to a point where we can look under the bridge?
If you'd like to. From a slight distance. Alright. So, yeah, you move out from the road a bit and you kind of try to look around.
You get a slight angle on it. You can see under it a little bit and you don't see anything there, but you can't... You don't feel like you can really get a good look underneath the bridge without getting closer to the water. I mean, we could hope for a three-billion-goat-scrap sort of situation.
I feel like I should have done that. It is a fable. And actually, I'm pretty sure that the goats get to cross the bridge the first time. And it's not until they're coming back.
The... the adventure behind me. It was much tastier. And it doesn't have any fire.
It's not a different herd of three-billion-goats. It's a little storied. Alright. So, I guess we can cross the bridge.
Yeah, unless we want to announce our presence to a troll. Well, for now, let's just walk us. Don't want to try and be stealthy because I can cast a spell. Wouldn't be a bad idea.
Okay, so I will cast a battle trace on all of this. Okay. And it'll be CDCD. So, plus 10 to your self-check.
Nice. Less nice. 29. Alright.
15. Okay. I'm gonna roll the two. Can everybody also give me a perception check?
Yeah. 16? 9. 13.
Okay. As you're approaching the bridge, before the stealth check will take place. Wait a minute. You notice in a bush off the side of the road, it looks like there's another sign just right next to the bridge hidden in the bushes.
I go, I point it out to take a button and day. I cast my each hand and push the bushes aside so I can see what's on it. On the side. Okay.
As you do that, you see this big hand on the side of the bridge. And this troll launches itself up. And you hear this humming noise. And you see these pink sparks coming out from behind the troll.
And it's hovering up above the center of the bridge for a moment. Before it lands on top of the bridge. And what you read on the sign, it says... Troll has jetpack.
Troll is fabulous. Ask about our new riddle option. Ooh, riddles. Wait, does this mean that I don't have to spend that spell?
No. I was working that into what I was doing. Okay, cool. These two failed.
So that's our role. I fade into the greenery. Hold on a sec to stop. Exactly.
And it looks out at you. All right. Pay the toll and I'll let you cross. Tell us about your riddle option.
I should get rid of that. Sorry. That's fine. You can try the riddle instead, I suppose.
And a small boat appears on the edge of the river. It was like big enough for like one person and maybe something else. Maybe like a chicken or a wolf. Or maybe like a fox or a goose and a large bag of beans are right next to the boat.
And he's like, oh, that's a big one. And he's like, oh, that's a big one. And he's like, oh, that's a big one. And he's like, oh, that's a big one.
And he's like, get these three across the river safely and you may cross. You can only take one at a time. And if you're eating, you fail and must suffer the consequences. I fade back in from the greenery and say, what's the toll?
I should have made that up. You're not going to have as many as you have. We're not going to do that considering starting with zero. I have a lot of jewelry.
Twenty five gold apiece. That's a lot. It depends on the value of these gems and jewels that we have. We have like a bag or just a big handful, I guess, of jewels that are worth a hundred gold.
Would he accept jewels? Yeah. Okay. You want to solve the riddle or do you want to pay?
I think I know the answer. Okay. If you want to do that. Well, that's here.
No, no, no. I think I'm paying that. I'm paying too. But if Willem wants to solve the riddle.
Well, you guys just want to pay, go ahead. But I think I can know the answer. First, I'll eat the beans. What do you mean that?
Well, time to suffer the consequences. Whatever those are. Just eat all three things. Of course not.
I mean, like, actually, if we don't want to solve the riddle, can we take the beans? The beans are probably the middle. We'll stay here. Okay.
Typical. I think we'll just pay. Okay. Sure.
Sorry that that's like, I hate the circle. I hate the circle. I appreciate first you take the goose. And then, yeah, it's a thing people don't think of is that you bring back.
Yeah. Yeah. And then you bring over the fives and take the goose with you. Yeah.
And then you take the beans over and then you can go back and get the goose. But you're okay. Yeah. Okay.
Also, I feel like having to try to make up a lot of checks across the slip moving over. I can do it. That's not it. It's okay.
That's pretty easy. I want you to know the solution, which I have written in front of me. I don't screw it up. And it is not cheating.