In our last episode, the party went up to the second floor after deciding they should thoroughly search the castle for anything that might help them on their journey. There, they were pretty much immediately attacked by a flamescull and a couple of Vargwheels. We rejoin them as the battle is winding down. Our adventurers today are Kieran who plays Whalen the Barbarian, Max who plays Playster the Monk, It's nice to help people, duh.
Theron who plays Day the Druid, I was just gonna say I saunter in, but I can tread lightly, and our DM Hazel. You could have done that on your own, you need to exert more willpower. Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Challenge. It is your turn.
Oh, sweet! Then I will move, he-ah, and I'm within 5 feet of play, so reckless will make it a straight roll. And attack twice. A 10, and a 23, 23, high.
23, will hit, and a 10 does not. 17 damage. Nice. Alright.
The flamescull has been hit for a second time. Yeah, so your size goes slashing in, and- And I'm gonna heal a D4 because the impure is a charm. Oh! Whoo!
Whoo! Alright. Alright. So after Wayland's turn, it is Day's turn once again.
Okay, so I'm gonna move my bear up 10 feet so that Wayland's in the ore again. Okay. And I am going to get away from the flaming sphere. Mm-hmm.
Don't like that fire being there. Yeah, and produce a flame in my hand and throw it at the skull. I don't know if that's gonna work, but I don't want to get closer to it, so. Is it 12 hit?
It's 12, it's not hit. Okay, so it goes wide. Alright, so you produce some flame in your hand and throw it towards the skull, but you mess in. It just ends up being enveloped in the big flame orb.
Oh, no. It's adding fuel to the fire. Adding fire to the fire. Fire!
With fire! Okay, and that brings us to the flamescull's turn. So the flamescull will move the fiery orb. Let's move it onto someone, I guess.
Let's move it onto Palatra. Oh, boy. Palatra, I need you to make a deck save as this fiery orb moves towards you. Deck's already saved.
20. That's a 20. Alright. So that is half of five fire damage.
So two fire damage. Okay. And then it is going to cast, because that was a bonus action. A fire ray.
Is that like a sugar ray? Maybe. Tuh! Actually, they would have disadvantage with fire ray, so it's gonna cast much muscle again.
This is going to throw them all into way then. Alright. So you take nine force damage. Shikidoki, that burns into the last of my temporary hit points, and I take three damage.
Oh no, poor baby. Yeah, it hurts so bad. I've only got another 50. Must have been nice when those temporary hit points actually went above your maximum, instead of getting you a little more than half way.
No. Like some of us. We'd already take the half. I'll take the fireball.
I didn't go above my maximum. I just kept a separate track of them. Is everything okay? It was only gone for a minute.
Yeah, I was not thinking about a way later for taking three damage. When I'm wind-mean-while, I had to like fight my way back up to 20 something. I need to help start a starting fool of 81. Oh, okay.
Barbarians, man. Yeah, barbarian monkey. Altical. Sauspolicious turn.
Okay. Oh man. I feel like it keeps me in my... I guess because I had to make that deck save.
I will make a horn attack and a 21 hit. A 21 hit. A 21 hit. Oh, thank gosh.
Thank gosh. I guess is what I was going to say. Not five-piercing. I'm just going to jump right into my second attack and hit it again.
12. 12. Just misses. Dang.
I should have used the first one for what I was planning to do, but I decided to press my luck. Oh, wait a second. It doesn't say it has to be immediately after. It just says if I hit them on my turn.
So as a bonus action, because once again, I am a tavern brawler, or I took the tavern brawler feet because on this turn, I hit the flame skull with an unarmed attack. I can use my bonus action to attempt to grapple it. So I will attempt to grapple the flames. I'm going to grab this.
I'm just going to reach out and grab this thing. So, oh shit. I'm at disadvantage though. Oh, here we go.
Opposing strength checks. Or not. Roll 20. What are we doing?
10 versus a natural 20. Yeah. Well, yeah, whatever. It doesn't matter.
It's a 10. Oh, yeah. I don't know. I just missed.
I just whiff it. Or is it like I grab it, but I like it's on fire. So it's on fire. I'm like, oh crap.
I can't touch it. It's on fire. Exactly. A nice, brief game of hot potato.
And then you fall down onto the ground. Dead. Bones clattering all over the place. Oh, are you dead.
Ripped. Oh, yeah. Oh my God. All right.
Wayland's turn. Okay. Reckless attacks to make a straight roll. 22 to hit, 16 slashing damage.
Would you like to describe how this flame skull dies? Wayland just like turns the scythe around and hits it with the blunt end, the back head, like it's a baseball bat and it just showers against the wall. Cool. Hit at the backside of your scythe and it flies and hits the wall and your little skull charm just whips around in the air.
And I got two hit points back. All right. Nice. So that was grueling.
That was rough. That hurt. Yeah. I feel like I made a lot of bad decisions.
Mostly because I wanted to show off. That's fair. Okay. Who needs healing?
Me. Where are you sitting for hit points? Because I might need healing the most. Oh, I'm at about half.
So I'm at like 22. Okay. I'm at 20. How are you feeling?
22? Sorry. Sorry. Okay.
I'm a little above half. 52? Okay. Everybody gets a level one cure.
So this one's for Balestra. This one's for violin. Nice. Nice.
And this one's for me. Nice. Whoo. So eight to both of them and 11 for yourself.
Do I still have the temporary hit points or those gone now? Those are going to be gone in a minute when the bear goes away. Okay. I'll just take care of the rest right now.
Oh, what are we doing in the bone room now? The bone hallway. Bone hall. You're standing in a hallway full of bones and things you just defeated.
There are three doors to your right and a door to your left. And you see further along the hallway, there is a hall leading off to the left and there is a hall further down to the right as well. I would like to sort of just wander through the hall without opening any doors and make sure that that is safe. Get that locked down before we open anything up.
That's fair. Yeah. Can I say while day is wandering, I want to put my ear to the door of room number five there and listen, see if I hear anything? Sure.
Both of you give me perception checks. Disadvantage. I'm not going to be sneaky about doing anything. I'm going to go like, hey, is there anything in this hallway?
I can still hear perception checks. I mean, I'm not being like sneaky. I'm just listening before I open it, but I only got a nine. So who knows if I actually hear anything?
I got a 17. I got a rock. You're pretty sure that there is nothing else in the open corridor areas. Cool.
So, um, the lay straight, you're listening at number five. You don't hear any noises coming from in there. Okay. I'm going to slowly open it.
Okay. The door creaks open and you find yourself looking into what looks like a sitting room of some sort. There are chairs and couches throughout the room. And you see some, uh, there's like a table and looks like there's a shelf with some board and card games on it.
Ooh. Is there any, there's not like any one or anything living or at least not obviously? No. Okay.
I'm going to step inside. All right. And wait and see if something magic happens. I guess.
Okay. The least there's waiting for the magic. What are you two doing? I guess looking down this corridor with between six and seven.
Why are there? Is there an obvious reason there are dash marks? You're looking down the corridor between six and seven to your north. I believe that those appear to be a library with a hull going through the center.
The walls are dashes because they are not solid. There are a few archways and columns, but it's mostly open. Okay. Into those two rooms on either side.
And like I said, they are a library. They're lined with bookshelves and a few seating areas. Well, too bad a kabasana here. He do losing his mind.
I don't know. I guess all the peruse, the shelves for anything interesting. Okay. Go ahead and roll me an investigation check then.
Okay. This is going to go so well. Oh, hey, 18. You did?
Yeah. You search through the shelves and a lot of them are rotten and falling apart. You do find one book. It's in pretty rough shapes though, but it's holding together a lot better than the others.
It is called Magic Through the Ages. I would say Winter Heat. Magic Through the Ages? Yes.
How big are these areas? Like how big is the room that police drove into and how big is this library? I just don't want us to be too separated. Yeah.
I had scale measurements whenever I made it, but I did not bring them here. So I don't really know what it is. So it doesn't matter. I don't know what sizes are, but if Whelan is over here looking at a bookshelf and Flaster is over here, are they within shouting distance of each other?
Yeah. Okay. They can definitely shout at each other. Cool.
Then just like every conversation in my house. What? I am going to... Okay.
Now I'm just trying not to met again because that sitting room sounds like it's suspicious to me as well. I will also look at books. Okay. Go ahead and make an investigation check.
I only got an eight. You look through the books, but you don't find anything that looks at all like it's holding together. That's okay. I'm half-heartedly looking at books anyway.
Is there anything on the table of the sitting room or are all the games and stuff on the shelves? There is something on the table. There are seven decks of cards. Yeah.
Haven't had a great time with cards. Can I just look just kind of without really like touching stuff? Just kind of look around the room, see if there's anything valuable or anything like to eat or drink? You can.
Go ahead and make an investigation check. Oh boy. I'm so good at those and I have disadvantage. Let's see.
That's an eleven. Not bad. Some of the games look like they might be interesting. They look like they're in really bad condition, but you could get like the name of the game and maybe find a newer copy somewhere if you were interested in that.
Nah, I was kind of looking for either treasure or some liquor to use for like an alcohol bath. So I'm just gonna stroll on back out and join everyone in the library. I thought we were gonna end up in there and you'd have like a game of settlers of good tan set up for us. I will say like as I walk by like hey there's some couches and stuff if we want to rest some place and then can I also look for a book?
Sure. You can look for a book if you want. What kind of book I'm looking for is it just gonna be like investigation or perception no matter what. You can tell me what kind of book you're looking for.
A palaisra is looking for some adult literature or anything with like pictures. Okay. Those are the two. It's either like Dr.
Seuss or Lake Chuck Dingle. No. Okay. Go ahead and give me an investigation.
No. Eight. Even worse. Yeah.
All these books are rotting and falling apart. It looks like way like not the only good one. Neat. Okay.
So the three of you are in the library. Up above you to the north there is another hallway going from the left to the left to the right leading to two rooms on either side. And then there is a hallway going down to the south. Okay.
I want to check out room number one here on the left. Okay. So you open up the door and this appears to be a lush, well-appointed bedroom. Above the bed there's a portrait of an elven woman.
She's dressed in a low-cut black dress. Her skin is dark and her hair is coiled up on her head. It's like a bun made out of braids. Cool.
I will poke the bed to see if it's a mimic. Okay. Roll for it. It is not a mimic.
Is the blanket a blanket is smothering? I think I got a shake it. I was resisting the urge to say no it wouldn't be a mimic. It would be that.
But that's a meta game. You pick up the blanket and see if it's a thing. Yeah, I pick it up and I shake it out, which is also good because it'll clear the dust off. Yeah.
Can you just give me, oh, Rayland's entered the room. Is Play-Shall also in the room? Uh-oh. If there is room in the doorway, I don't know how far everyone is in the room.
I walked all the way over the bed. I was just in the doorway. I'll squeeze past Wayland to be in the room. As you shake all the dust off of this blanket, why don't everybody give me a constitution statement?
Fifteen. Seventeen. Twenty-three. Okay.
Dust fills the air and you can feel it scratching at your throat, but none of you break down into a big coffin fit or anything. It's all right. Okay. Cool.
Okay. So besides the bed and the portrait, there is also a dresser in this room. And there is also a doorway to the north, which leads to another room, apparently. Yeah, I kind of wanted to peek in there.
No, like, desk or anything in this room? No, no desk. Okay. Vanity?
Uh-no. All right. So according to that room, it looks like it is a bathroom. Yes.
This is where the vanity of the mirror and various bathing products and stuff are, and a bathtub full of dead insects and a doorway leading to another room from here. All right. Palaisra is just immediately going to be like, hey, yes, I'm cleaning myself of the sting. Is there like working plumbing?
I think I'm going to find out. Please try to find out, I guess. Yeah. Do you want me to wait until everyone else is done with their stuff?
Yeah, I'll have Wayland searching a dresser. Okay. Perception investigation. Let's do investigation.
Nope, three. You don't. You search through the dresser and you find a bunch of men's clothing. And as you're showing the drawer, you do notice that, oh, there's also a chest on top because the DM forgot to tell me there was one.
Oh, me. And that's the mimic. Yeah, definitely. Can I try to open it?
I assume it's locked. You can. It is locked. Yeah.
Can I try to pry it open? You may. You may give me a strength check to do that. All right.
In the meantime, day, are you doing anything? I am flopping down on the bed, waiting for news about plumbing. Okay. That was a 16.
Okay. Yeah, you can pop it open. Yeah, I just wedged like the blade of one of my hand axes in there. Inside of the chest, you see a gold pocket watch.
There are two bright blue gemstones. Ooh, ooh, again. There is a coin purse with 15 gold pieces in it. Gold pocket watch.
I'm slow at writing. You know, I heard dresser and I was like, I should rifle through that, but then I heard bathroom. I'm like that first. Anything else?
After the coin purse? Yes. There are several letters that are drawn Jonathan to Aramaeus. I want to read the letters.
No, Z. You can look at those letters more in a bit. If you want, in the meantime, we will move to Playstra. Oh, joy.
If you could give me a D100 roll, that would be great. Okay. Is this to get the bugs out of there to see if the plumbing works? You have no problem getting bugs out if you want.
This is check the plumbing. Okay. 62. That's a D.
You turn on the faucet and you hear a gurgling sound and this brief rush of water with a bunch of air bubbles behind it so that it kind of shutters as it comes through. But it's just like a little bit of water and it's kind of brown and rusty colored. It's not enough to fill a bath or anything. If we clean the bath, I can fill the bath with water.
Sure. I have not any character. I'm not a character because I don't know what you're doing in the bathroom. I'm just not like I'm eavesdropping on you.
Okay. All right. Before I leave real quick, I want to check out the vanity. Okay.
Is that investigation or perception? Oh, we'll do an investigation. 13. Okay.
You don't find much of interest here. A bunch of shaving products and old dried up or separated perfumes, gloans. That kind of thing. Scissors.
Nothing. Nothing here valuable. Yes, some scissors. You want some scissors?
You can have some scissors. I'll take the scissors and if there's like a razor that looks like it's in usable condition and maybe some shaving cream. No shaving cream. All right.
That would be bad. But if there's a usable razor and a pair of scissors, I will grab those. Yeah. I'll say there's a straight razor.
Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I will grab those things and then walk back out of the bathroom and go, well, tops busted.
Not because it's not because of me either. I found it that way. The tub itself is messed under the plumbing. The second thing.
I mean, I can magically create water. It won't be hot, but we can use it. If it will get this flump stink off of me, I don't care if it's hot or not. It could be colder than witches' tit.
I don't know why I went to that immediately. It'll probably be room temperature. Because it's the witchwood. All right.
Cool. Okay. So I go clean out the tub and I use create. I will clean it out for you before you put the water in.
Okay. Cool. It doesn't seem right to make you clean it with water. I use create water to create some water.
I can make 10 gallons or I can make the water fall as rain within a cube and you can take a shower. Oh shit. Yeah. Yeah.
Let's have a shower up in here. I mean, I don't know if there's a shower curtain, but I guess that doesn't matter. I mean, I'm probably going to get in with my clothes on because my clothes need to get washed too. All right.
Oh, by the way, if any of the water is pooling in the tub, the lay stress is like on top of it because they have a ring of water walking. Cool. They will probably also take some of that separated like nasty perfume and still like throw it on their body a little bit. Ooh.
All right. After being clean. It's a mistake. Great.
I mean, not if it smells that bad. After the shower, police are also going to trim their bangs so they can just see without, you know, this headband nonsense. And yeah, I guess that's all the limelight stealing I'm going to do. You're going to cut your own bangs?
I will, unless someone else offers to. I don't think the police are going to ask someone to do it for them. Oh, a day's not going to offer. Nope.
We totally do it if asked. But you can cut your own bangs. If we're going to hang out here for a while, I mean, they're going to probably attempt to give themselves an entire haircut. That's why they took a razor too.
But I'm just trying to be. Today wants to sleep. This is the first bed she has seen. It does technically have to be a short rest that I bathe during.
Yeah. Yeah. So I guess this is a short rest. Okay.
I get to use hit dice. I'm going for a long rest. Like I mean, that sounds good too, to be honest. I have two second level spells left.
We can do long rest. Okay. Anything. Anything that says short rest, you can do out of long rest.
Yes. I think you guys are planning on taking a long rest here. We are. Okay.
I did not expect the bathroom to be used. That's interesting. Cool. So yeah, you guys can take a long rest.
I am going to look through the clothes. See if there's anything usable because my clothes are old and stinky at this point. And I am also going to use one of my precious spells lots to take a shower. Okay.
Can you give me a D100 roll? Sure. Why? To see if there are any clothes that are still in shape.
Okay. Oh, that's a good idea. Look for the clothes actually. Can I also do that when day's done?
I got a 22. I got an 81. Day you don't find anything usable. A palestra.
You find a nice suit? A suit? I'm not feeling super. I want the suit today.
So I will hand the suit today assuming it fits her. It just doesn't suit you. I mean, even if it doesn't, I'm still going to hand it to her. It's her problem.
Thank you, Karen. You're welcome. I had to go with that little hanging fruit. I missed it.
I did not. Doesn't suit you. All right. All right.
So day now has a suit. Does it fit reasonably well? Yeah, I mean, it's not perfect or anything. How tall are you?
Fairly short. Like probably I seem to be thinking that I'm 5'5", but I don't know if I actually have it written anywhere. Oh, man. If the suit I found was big enough to fit me, it's going to be huge on day.
The clothing is a little long. Okay. But it fits you reasonably well other than the length of like the arms and the legs and, you know, where the torso line falls. The hem of the shirt.
Yeah, it probably wouldn't fit me at all. If the arms are too long, I will skip the jacket, but there's a shirt with it, right? Yep. Okay.
I'll take the shirt and wear it with cuffed sleeves and I will, I guess for now cuff the pants too, even though that sounds fucking stupid looking. Is there like a waistcoat? Is there a tie? Like what are the suit accoutrements here?
Whatever suit accoutrements you want. Okay. There's definitely a waistcoat and also the waistcoat is like plaid and the pants and coat are gray. I love a gray suit.
Can I like, can I convince you there was a hat? Yeah. Actually, I already, I have to wear my hats. So it doesn't really matter.
But there's a hat now. And I took off some stuff that somebody else might be able to use. Like I have, I have a big fluffy shirt. I had a little waist censure.
I don't know if that would fit anybody else because I'm kind of small. Definitely not me. The hilarious watching Wilder squeeze into it. I don't know.
He has the smallest waist. Yeah. That's true. But like, anybody waste with the rest of the annual face?
You found some new clothes? You're saying you're wearing your old ones? Well, the laser's been looking for clothes and we only found one suit of wearable clothes. So I'm just mentioning like, hey, I'm dumping all this shit here if you want it.
All right. Okay. So now I'm dressed to the nines and I want to read some old letters. Oh, yeah.
No, Z. Okay. I do not have any letters written out strangely enough. What's the basic content of them?
They are romantic letters. Okay. I want to go see if there's another bedroom. Okay.
That sounds a little weird. Let me take these romantic letters into a separate bedroom. I have to hide under the covers and read my fluff. So is, is, is, so across the hall.
Remember to, is that a bedroom also? It is a bedroom. It is also lush and well appointed. Above the bed hangs a portrait of a halfling man dressed in a black suit and a gray shirt.
Okay. He has light, freckled skin and blonde hair, which is cut short on one side and has long, lot swept to the other side. Why not write so much about this guy's hair? The ends curling up at the end so that you can go away.
Okay. All right. So it's another nice bedroom. There's another dresser and all sorts of stuff in here and another bathroom.
It looks like. Okay. Talk about the band beyond. Yeah.
Okay. With a chest on it. Cool. So I clean off this bed too.
I'm happy to roll another constitution check for you. No, that's fine. One's enough. Okay.
I get all cozy under the blankets and I shout good night and then I finish trying long rest. Should you hear something? What? Yeah, me neither.
I just wail in wakes up from reading the, um, yes to Magic through the ages book. He's trying. It's going poorly. It's pretty dry.
I guess. So you guys are in separate rooms, right? Yeah. You can choose.
Are three and four connected? Looks like it. Yes. Yeah.
That's, I've just double checking. Um, is there anything in room number four that would interest me? Um, it is also a bathroom. Mm hmm.
And it's basically the same as the other one. Nothing. Uh, no, like jewelry in the vanity or anything. No, no jewelry in the vanity.
More perfumes. Hard to tell what they went for, but they're in a bit fancier bottles. Hmm. Okay.
I think Palaister is gonna like close the outer doors to the two bathrooms and leave the inner door open and like sleep in between with the idea being that if there's trouble in either room, they are equidistant away from the other party members. Fair enough. Okay. Probably not the most comfortable night you've ever had.
They also take a pillow or blanket or something. Whatever. Wayland is not using in that bedroom. Sure.
Yeah. Okay. So you have a long rest. Day reads some really old letters between some people.
And you know that's like my favorite thing. And you all wake up in the morning. No problem. Cool.
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