In our last episode, working under the assumption that the flumps would allow us into the treasure vault if we entered the proper way by defeating the Hydra, we engaged the beast in an epic battle. Turns out, the flumps still wanted us to leave, and sprayed day and play-star with stank when they both refused. However, the party is now in the vault looking at a sea of riches and realizing they have no way to identify them without Ichabod. Our adventurers today are Kieran who plays Whalen the Barbarian, Max who plays Playster the Monk, Theron who plays Day the Druid, it's a podcast you're not supposed to shoot.
So, the potions were once labeled. You can make a perception check to see if you can make out anything that's left on them. The labels are completely illegible, you can't tell anything about them. I'll turn around to everyone at the thing of a bag.
So, have you know how to identify magic items? You know, to the large group of people assembled here. Because we can tell these are magic, we can't tell what they do. They all kind of look at each other, and then shrug, except for the Minotaur, who moves out towards you.
And he says, there's only one item that you need to identify, and he will point at the mirror. I'll focus on the mirror then. Does everyone look at the mirror? Yeah.
Okay. He says, the founder of my clan, she was trapped wrongfully in that mirror, her name. Now I need to come with the name. You can go and write this down.
Her name is Leviathan, and I need you to go there and find her and bring her out. You will need to ask the keeper, or you will be trapped there forever. And then he says, Sagebrush, and the three of you can feel yourselves being pulled into this mirror as you're looking at it. Can I grab my side off the wall as I get sucked in?
Make a strength check. Oh, fuck. Day. Day, your sphere.
The sphere is not as important as the site. I was going to give the old man a traditional Minotaur greeting, but all right, I guess this is what we do. Just street strength or athletic. You can do athletics.
Thank God. Not helping much. Eleven. You, unfortunately, are unable to push your way to your side as you're sucked into this mirror.
Oh, fuck. Can I grab something? I would also like to try and grab something like anything. Okay.
Both of you and day two, if you would like, roll me a D100. 31. 50. I don't know why I said that in my radio voice.
Oh, nice. Hey, hey. Palaisstra. There is a monocle sitting on one of these tables, and you managed to grab that as you are pulled into the mirror.
Day. There is a box of hair dye. Nice. Cool.
That's actually way into that. And you grab that. Waylon, as you're trying to pull your way over to your axe, which was very far from the mirror. Shit.
It was really hard to get over there. You managed to pull this axe. I'm not going to talk about the mirror. Oh, thank God.
That axe is unfortunately a bit rusty and pitted. It is not magical, but it should be serviceable enough. All right. Is the hair dye magical?
Yes. Is the monocle magical? I don't think you'd know that, but yes. If I don't know that, I don't know, but I just thought there's any way for me to know.
I would ask. We land in this strange world, and I say, oh, good, you got something magical. Well, I just quite work like that. You are pulled into this mirror and you find yourself surrounded by this dense fog.
That's just floating around you. You are not near either of your companions. Oh, great. You are separated from them and just all around you, wherever you look, there's this dense, slightly glowing fog.
You can't see any more than like 10 feet in front of you. All right. Well, if there's nothing like happening, I'll be like, hello? Hey, police, Rob.
Hello. Do we hear him? You do not. Hello.
Is anyone there? All right. Well, start walking around. Nothing's happening.
Yeah, you can walk around. Hello. Everywhere you go, there is fog. Okay.
Old Minotaur, he said something about a guardian, right? He did. He said that you had to call out to the keeper in order to find his clan's founder and free her. Excuse me.
And if you didn't do that, you would be trapped here forever. Okay. So that's where we go. That remember that keeper of the mirror?
Excuse me. Keeper, keeper on the wall. Who's the bear system all? So Wayland.
Hello. So whenever you call out to the keeper, you see the fog start to start to start to start. Just swirl around. And then with a loud, whooshing sound, a gate suddenly appears as if it moved at you from a great distance at a great speed coming to a rapid stop near you.
Whenever I was writing that, I was imagining that and I was trying to figure out how to describe it. And then I was like, it's kind of like in the matrix with like, I remember these racks of weapons or something, like just suddenly moving really fast and then. Yeah, they're training. Like warp speed.
Kind of. It was like they came out of, it was like a perspective thing. So like they came sort of like out of the distance was almost like two trains pulling up. It was just infinite gun racks.
I think that's before after he learns Kung Fu. That's way after. Oh, yeah. I think on the other side of the gate, you can see that there is a hallway and in it stands the keeper.
The keeper is mostly hidden by robes. The robes themselves see me made out of the same dense fog that flows around your body, except it has elements of gray and black and red that are shifting about. And beneath the hood is a horned humanoid skull. And that skull is green instead of the normal white or beige, just kind of color that you might expect.
And when it opens its mouth, you can see that it has this deep red palette in its mouth and a long pointed tongue that's covered in these white rain, slalen source. And the keeper says, yes, did you want something? Why am I in here? How did I get in here?
I do not know. You came in. You came in through the mirror. You have been chosen to be imprisoned for some reason.
I do not know why. Hmm. Is the mirror to this? No, it's you.
It's required that a command word be spoken in order to send people into the mirror. Shoot. What did the man try to say? I didn't want to say except that I'd be metagaming.
Sagebrush? Is that the command word? Ah, yes. That is the one.
No, because I know the command word. Am I allowed to leave? You are not. Hmm.
Well, the one who said the command word only wished for us to free someone in here because they were apparently unjustly imprisoned. Ah. Yes? I can help you with that.
Okay. But first, I am going to need you to draw a car. Oh no. Oh no.
If this is the deck of many things, I'm going to move my shit. All right. So first, do I have reaches out, takes the card. Ace of Spades.
Let me look up the deck of many things. Oh you fucker. Oh no. The ace of spades.
No. No, no, no, no, no, no. Oh god. So the ace of spades is the Don John.
What's that? Oh no. No. Oh no.
So you draw the card and you look at it and immediately you disappear. How the fuck are they supposed to get out of this? Your clothes and items fall down into the hallway. And you appear within a sphere right on the other side of the gate where you were and the sphere opens up and you are standing naked in your cell naked naked.
Naked. All this clothes and stuff dropped down into the hallway. No, I am not. No, I am not.
I am just in a stone cell now or back into the misty. No, you are back into the misty fog cell where you were before. On the other side of the gate. And the keeper goes.
I love it when that happens. Another card. Oh that was rude. I don't like this deck.
Is there something else I can do? No. You are cool. It's going with that helpless being fine.
Queen of clubs. Queen of clubs. That is a card with flames on it. Oh no.
We are going to pull the lariain to this campaign I think. Yeah, it sounds like a tux. A powerful devil becomes your enemy. The devil seeks to ruin and plagues your life.
Savoring your suffering before attempting to slay you. The envetee lasts until either you or the devil dies. So the gate opens and the keeper gestures out into the hallways as you may search for your person to be freed. This is mean.
David would love this. Who wants to go next? Me, me, me. So you are in the cell full of fog.
Okay, and I feel like if I was 100% on it, it would take her a while to remember the whole keeper thing. But then I would call out for it. Okay. The same thing happens.
Same effects. You see this grotesque green scold person with bright red tongues and swollen pustules and he asks you what you want. I say, wow, you're really ugly. Thank you.
You're welcome. I am here because somebody wanted me to find their friend, their leader. I'm not sure. I don't know what's going on exactly.
Ah, I can help you with that. Would you like to draw a card first? Do I have another option? You may stay in your cell.
I guess I'll draw a card then. Okay. I got the two of diamonds. Oh, a red card.
Yeah. That card depicts a comet. So if you single-handedly defeat the next hostile monster or a group of monsters, you encounter. You can experience points enough to gain one level.
Otherwise this card is no attack. Okay. Do I know that? Like does day know that?
Yeah. You feel like if you beat the next thing on your own that you're going to have some bad skills or something. Okay. Are you actually going to let me be a level ahead of everyone else?
That seems wrong. I think it'd be cool. That's the card you got. All right.
Does he let me pass after that? He does. He lets you out into the hallway. Before I step out, I take like a really good look at him.
Do I think I can take him? Away, but is he hostile? I could make him hostile. Why don't you give me a perception check?
Seventeen. He looks pretty tough. Okay. Then I will just step out.
Okay. You step out into the hallway. The gate closes behind you and turns into a door with a blank plaque next to it. Wait, let's do that too.
Okay. It is Calatia's turn. Calatia, you are wandering through the fog. Are there any kind of walls or anything or does this feel like I can wander infinitely?
It's just fog. It seems like you could basically wander infinitely. I guess they would just be calling like hello. Hey, hello old guy.
You know, my dad is Atlas Ironhoof the second. So you know, you don't want to mess with him. My mom is probably real important too. And then I guess eventually they'll be like, is there supposed to be like a what do you call a moderator, an administrator, a custodian, a guardian, a keeper?
And with that, the fog starts to swirl and this gate just rushes right up next to you. And on the other side, do you see the keeper? Now with the keeper being horned, can I tell if this was like a minotaur skeleton or like some kind of devil or something or a tiefling? It seems like some kind of devil.
Definitely not a minotaur. I guess I just say, hey there, dootie. What's up? You know, just keeping my place.
Oh, I don't like that. I don't like that. I am uncomfortable. But that's not what the police just says.
They say cool, cool, cool. So any idea how I can get out of here? Ah, you wish to get out, do you? See the way you're saying that makes it sound like I should be very careful with my wording.
So I'm going to say I would like to return to the plane of existence that my friends and I came from, please. Ah, I see. I suppose, would you like to take a card? Is this a necessary, this is a mandatory thing, the card?
If you'd like to leave yourself. Is this like a game or is this more of like a trick where I'm going to pull a card and no matter what, it's going to be something bad. It might not be bad. Okay, so it definitely could be bad.
Look, do you want to like play chess or checkers or like arm wrestle? Hmm, the cards first and then I was hoping I could do one of those in place of how I find and let me see what card I get. Oh boy, I just, the pit of my stomach tells me this is really bad. I got a queen of spades or sorry, clubs.
I don't know why the hell my brain did that clubs. That is a flames again. That would be, that would be why my pit of my stomach told me it was bad. It's like it's bad and if it's red is good.
Amazingly. So a powerful devil becomes your enemy. Do I know this? Yes.
You can feel that you have enraged a devil in some way or another. Oh, it's going to be a long time before I get to go home. I want to look at the keeper and say, all right, can I just get this over with and fight this devil? You have to find him first.
Okay. Can I return to my previous plane of existence with my friends now? I believe your friends are out in the hallway. What hallway?
The gate will move through you and you find yourself out in the hallway. So the laser just suddenly appears with everyone else? Mm-hmm. I mean, you're spread out along the hallway.
You're about 20 feet from each other. They, the other two look and there's just a place with their arms up and their hand. They're like, Nope, nope, don't like it. Don't like this at all.
Don't like any of it. I hold up the same card. Yeah, I mean either. Do we have the same devil?
Maybe. I don't know. That would certainly make our lives easier. I don't have a devil.
So it would make me and police just like easier because then we can just go kill the same guy. Yeah, you can like pick me up with your wings and then just drop me on them. I can't fly. You have wings, but you can't fly.
All right. Okay, priorities. We will talk about that later. Did you not?
You saw them. They were like- They were all so magical. Like wicked magical. I should tell.
But I guess I should tell. All right. All right. Listen, I have angel blood, but it's like cursed and fallen.
So I guess that's why I can't fly with them. Isn't a fallen angel the same as a death? Okay. Nope.
Never mind. All right. We'll talk about it later. No, we will have the physical, the theological discourse later.
How do we get out of here? I don't know how good I am going to be at this conversation. I'm just a damn farmer. I just want to go home.
But apparently I have a demon to kill before I do that. And the guy that we have to kill that we're out here to kill. Yes. Him too.
Are we supposed to kill something here or are we just supposed to find someone and bring them back? Sorry. Sorry. We're talking about our over-arting quest.
Let me catch you up. I'm going to be aware, Dave talks about how we're supposed to go to the center of the forest and kill some sort of big back. And then at the end of it, Lisa says, okay, can you go back to the part about the like chicken person duck thing or whatever? I like that part.
I don't know what it is either. That's probably the most interesting part other than skeleton. Yeah, bone town sounds cool. Yeah.
The keeper reappears next to you guys. By the way, you may open only one door. And after that, we will talk about how you are going to leave. And then it will walk glide into the hull and go fade through it.
Okay. So how many doors are there besides the what, three we came out of? Answer? Way too fucking many.
Probably. There are eight other doors. Yeah, way too fucking many. I was expecting infinite doors.
Are the doors visually distinct from each other? The doors look the same, but there are plaques next to each of the doors. The three that you came out of the plaque is blank. There's a fourth one where the plaque is blank and then they have pictures on them.
What are the pictures? So there is a horn, a spider, a crown, a bow, like a bow and arrow bow. Okay. A horseshoe, a snake and a moon.
Well, I mean, I'm sorry. What was a horn? Is it like a bull horn? A horn, a crown, a spider, a bow, like a bow and arrow.
Yeah. A horseshoe, a snake and a moon. Anyone else remember what the sheep didn't name was? Yeah, Leviathan.
And they were probably a minisaur. That would be strong. So horn is a good guess. But we each get to open one.
Well, but if we came out of a blank one and we were teleported in here, what if I assume the blank ones are empty because those were ourselves. Oh, so like they would have had pictures representing us before we came out. Yes, my probably would have had a piece of weed. Piece of weed?
I don't know. I guess that's in the character. I don't know. While it might be appropriate for Keir that is not for Wylie.
Is that looking for the Irish? Right. They probably would have been like not starting to come up over a hill. Yeah, probably.
Why does asshole send us in here with so little information? That's what I want to know. Like we're nice people. We could have gone to save his chieftain with more information than probably a cow.
Like, come on. My dad is always telling me about the minitar coke. He doesn't actually tell me what any of it is, but he's always saying stuff about what a minitar shouldn't do. And I'm pretty sure this is on the list of shouldn't.
And I'm going to have to have a real long talk with this guy because I don't think he knows who my parents are. Very, the spoiled Brad is finally coming out. Buddy, I, okay, but they're very important minisars. Have fun with that.
I'm the very important child of important people. No, I'm kidding. I didn't know. They don't really say that.
So, all right. So heart starts horseshoes, clovers and blue moons. Okay. So we know that there are minisars and that they're the chiefs.
Right? Yeah. So horn and crown seem like horn crown and then just to pick the other. I think the bone arrow isn't bad.
Maybe not, but I was thinking the horseshoe just in case it's. Because only horses have uncloven hooves, which is why a horseshoe is for all other hooves animals on cloven hooves. The mirror was surrounded by horseshoes that were looked like it was. Is this a detail that Hazel had different ideas about or?
The mirror is definitely surrounded by horseshoes and also shurikens. Oh, that's what that is. Oh, cool. I thought it was just like something sparkly.
All right. I called to the keeper to make sure that we do get three shots and it's not all three of us get one. I would even want to take three shots because then we can get separated again. I mean, no, we take them one at a time.
Yeah, but so you call it out to the keeper and they arrive and you ask them if you're allowed one each or just one for your group. One for all. And all for one. All right.
I examine my monocle and see if maybe it is helpful in some way. You can. What should I roll? A roll and arcana.
I had a feeling it might be that. Oh boy. Well, they fiddleed at the IP so I'll be like, so will you give us any information on? So who is in each cell or is it just a pictograph and we have to guess picture, not pictograph.
We'll say pictograph. Roll a persuasion check. Yeah. 15.
Okay. They lean in close to you and say, you might want to try speaking their name and then they will fade back into the wall. Okay. So I shot Leviathan.
So for your arcana, you inspect the monocle, you look at it and you look through it and when you look through it, you notice whatever magical items the other two are carrying, they start putting off this aura that you can tell that they are magical. Oh, okay. Cool, cool, cool. So please, please tell me that.
Let's just tell him. Okay. What happens if I look at the doors through the monocle? What happens when you look at the doors through the monocle?
If anything, everything here is fairly magical. I don't think you really get much more than that. You can tell that they're magical, nothing really stands out to you. Well, I guess this could come in handy at some other point, but it's not going to be handy right now.
So I do do the thing where I scream the name, but I don't have to do it again because it's recorded. Sorry, I just want to make sure we resolved that. So for sure. You scream the name.
Leviathan. And that doesn't seem to have any effect. Okay. I was in going down the hall and probably not going.
Everything's kind of made of fog. It's like solid looking fog. Okay. Oh, maybe I go and I like touch the horn placard and say Leviathan in a door voice.
Okay. The plaque glows briefly and then you see the door become transparent. Oh, through the door, you can see this large minotaur woman. Okay.
Can I try it on other doors? Like what if there's lots of minotaurs in here? Also, I thought minotaurs couldn't get trapped. I just, it's got a like prop and elbow and the wall and look at you like that really won't go like like, oh yeah.
You can try it on other doors when you speak the name while touching the symbol on other doors. Nothing happens. Okay. So I point that must be her.
Okay. Okay. So what's going on now? I am not brave enough to open the door.
So I'm waiting. Okay. Where's where's comes the worst? I have to fight that devil.
I don't think that devil is going to fight this. The laystra opens the door. You see the door briefly become a gate and then Leviathan is standing on the other side with you. The door is closed and the plaque next to the door is blank.
She looks around at you three and then looks at place. She's like, who are you? What's going on here? You hear give me out?
Yeah, I guess. Some old one eyed jerk didn't even give me the chance to give him a proper minotaur greeting just threw us in this mirror with a magic word supposed to get you and come back. Okay. I've been here.
I don't know how long. Oh, lead the way. I guess. All right.
Key bar. Phone guy. The keeper will arrive and says, huh, I see you have found someone. I hope she is who you were looking for.
Well, believe she is. So you said that we would discuss leaving this place. Ah, yes. Follow me.
The mirror is this way. And they lead you back down the hall to the end and the gesture and the mirror appears. And you can see on the other side the treasure room, there is nobody standing around in it that you can see. I say that.
That's not true. The old mannehart is there. I know it's called a treasure and leave. Probably.
And the keeper says, I will let you go. But first, one of you must be to me in a competition. And what competition is that? I will let you choose.
I see you're stumbling about. It can be physical. You may challenge me to a fight. You may challenge me to a wrestling match as your companion here did earlier.
You can be mental. You can challenge me to a game of chess or some other game or tournament as you've seen it. I don't know if you guys think I can take a parm wrestling. I was just going to sumo wrestle him.
Or I guess I don't know if we should say sumo that might be like cultural appropriation. Sumo style. I have proficiency in land vehicles. We could have a race.
Here we go. No, I think that one of you two should do it. I'm sure you're equally good. They will also do challenges from each of you.
And just one of you has to beat them in order to exit. So I just need one of you to win. I'm willing to step up and go first. Sure.
I'm going to do the traditional style of wrestling that I started doing back home. I guess we're going to try and push each other out of a ring. I don't know if this should be athletics or if this would count as attacking. Yeah, I think athletics is good.
Oh, do I have to disadvantage his empoison? Yes. Fuck. Eleven.
Okay. Wow, an eight and a five, huh? So eight plus zero, a ring appears and the two of you get set and you start pushing and trying to get each other out of the ring. And it's pretty close for a while.
They're kind of hard to grasp onto because they're just made of this fog. But eventually you manage to get them and push them out of the ring and they smile. The ring disappears and they give you a little bow. I will return the bow.
I'll be a good sportsman. And they say very well. Thank you for providing me such entertainment. But I think I am going to need my cards back now.
Okay, no problem. And I'll hold up the playing card and it back to him. Does giving them back mean that the effect is removed? You start to hand him your cards and then they disappear from your hands.
And then he takes his hands and he just reaches into your left and he pulls out the cards and says, these are the real ones and he puts them back into the deck and he does the same today. Not cool. I do not like any of this. This is just.
And then he gestures at the mirror. Are we just supposed to like pop out? Can we feel the demons rage? Like is it gone?
Yeah, it has faded. And they just not feel like if she defeats the next person that's okay. I mean, yeah, that's better than two of us having a team that wants us dead. I know.
I'm not going to wait to get out of this terrible place. Oh, that guy. That was the worst. I would rather spend another week with the dogs.
I wonder how stinky's doing. Is that the worst thing we've done? That wasn't the worst thing we've done by far. Definitely not.
Remember that giant place that kept falling over? Yes, the house. That was fun. Yes, the tower that kept repeatedly slamming us to the ground.
Like the whole. That was worse. Yeah, this was just unpleasant. All right.
So we stepped through and I zoomed with Iath and follows us. I'm not going back in there again. She does. Yes.
So you step out into the treasure room and find it with a lot less treasure than it had before. Surprise. A lot of the rusted weapons are still there. Not all of them, but a lot of them.
And there are a few other things left. Did they at least leave my scythe on the damn wall? They did. I want to pop on my monocle and start pointing out magical things to Wayland and Day for them to collect.
The small chest with the hammer and anvil on it. Yeah, I want that. It's magical. Please tell me that's a horrible forge.
It is, but you probably don't know that. Hell yeah. The charm hanging from the skull with the Mohawk charm hanging from the sword is also magical. I think that we'll see.
Thank you for it. There are two potions in the crate. If somebody could roll me D6 a couple of times till they get different numbers, that would be good. There you go.
Five and six. Five and six. Okay. You can identify potions by tasting them, right?
Yeah. I will do that just to make it simpler later. Cool. Then I will look at what they are.
Oh great. We've given a living castle full of monsters, a whole bunch of magic arms. I mean, as long as we get out of here now, then we don't have to worry about it and we can just let them do whatever they're going to do to each other. They can have.
They're a little turf. I mean, I guess we could theoretically stick around and just pick up what's left of the stragglers, but that doesn't seem worth it. So the potions are a potion of water breathing and a potion of gaseous form. Okay.
I will give the potions to them. I don't need either of those. I don't think. Well, gaseous form, I guess could be useful, but I don't need water breathing.
You guessed enough as it is. Listen, I will get within five feet of wail and so he's poisoned now. Also, I'm going to do that to the old man. Oops, guess I'm within five feet of you.
Sorry about that. Yeah, I guess before we actually finished leading this place since whoever's taken whoever's lashes ours, I guess we should actually talk to the old bull. I mean, you guys can. Like this guy.
So that was rude. But he's a game chief. Oh, thank you. Great Leviathan.
It has been many generations since you were trapped here. Geez. I am the last of our clan and it has been an honor and you have formed it was a great clan and yes, and I have finally freed you after all these years so that perhaps you can start anew what has fallen apart and Leviathan says, I am very saddened by this news. Let's take a walk, shall we?
I'm sorry. I don't think I got any of your names. Apologies. My name is Waylon Biro.
Elaystra Ironhoof. Okay, Elaystra. I'm Day. I'm Grumpy over here.
Okay, yes, I'm sorry that this one has forced you into this from what I understand. Oh, she seems like a good chieftain. I'm less grumpy now. Um, maybe ask what?
Why? The Lord of this place. He was talking to our clan and I guess decided that taking me prisoner would do him well expecting them to pay ransom or something I expect which I guess if that came through he decided not to free me. He was an awful man.
Anyway, I guess I will speak to this one. Pulestra, if you're interested in helping me start a new clan I guess. Well, no I'm good. Thanks.
Very well, more than fine. You three enjoy your looting or whatever you said you were going to do. I must speak further with this one and see how things are. Well, you know, if you really don't have a home and they're looking for a place perhaps you could go to Bell's run.
It's a small farming village on the edge of this forest. It's not exactly safe. No, but it's home. But it's our home and strength in numbers.
Okay, it might be a good start. Is there a well-traveled road from here? Or what direction is it in? It's one new sense you've been in them here.
The land that this castle sits on in the entire region have been cursed. There is actually a portal to the Shadow Pal corrupting this forest that we're trying to go. Oh, is that what's up with this place? Oh, yeah, we definitely did.
It probably like two minutes ago or whatever. But place already came out to be. They were thinking about the chicken duck woman thing. There's not a well-traveled road, but we can play to the general direction.
I see. It sounds like it might be a difficult journey. Probably. I'm sure we'll make it through all right.
It's no more difficult than any other place in this cursed forest. I thank you. I thank you for the assistance. Good luck.
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