In our last episode, the party resumed following Spike, but not until Weyland and P'L'Aestra had a friendly wrestling match. After that, our heroes walked into, or rather, onto, a shambling mound. They defeated it, only to discover if they were still on top of something. A giant turtle.
Join them now in the Shadow of the Departing Turtle. Our adventurers today are Kieran who plays Weyland the Barbarian. Excuse me, a lot of teas of Angel. Max who plays P'L'Aestra the Monk.
It's nice to help people. D'Aww. Theron who plays Day the Druid. Nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog and RDM hazel.
The police are waiting for the magic. What are you two doing? Welcome, fellow travelers to Legends of Chall. The four of you get off the Zaritan and are once again on the ground.
Well, that was interesting. That was an exciting adventure. Yeah. Was it late?
Was it sitting on it again? Oh, good question. Yeah. Let's look at the ground there.
It's probably just a bunch of worms or something. Should we roll a perception to see if we see any stuff on the ground? You may do that if you wish. And I will sit here and try to see if I can come up with anything.
Hopefully you do not roll well. I rolled the 20. I also rolled the 20. Damn.
I just got to get wrapped up and push my fingers to the dirt. Okay. Yeah. It seems that it was basically just laying in the swamp.
You see a lot of water starting to fill the area that it left. Like in the mud. And you do indeed see a number of worms. And why not?
The two people who got 20, the 20 twins. High five for the 20 twins. You see some kind of vial in the buck. A what?
A vial. Nearby. A glass vial? Yeah.
Oh no. Sorry. I don't know how much of that's. I'm trying to remember how much of that song I still know.
I haven't seen this. I think it's a long-time little glass vial. A little glass vial. A little glass vial.
How far away is the vial? Hazel. I am here. Okay.
Go before I look at the layers of the song. That's basically what I'm aiming for. It is about 200 feet away. 200 feet away.
Okay. I'm slowly covered by swamp water, seeping back into the void that has been left. I will settle over there. I'm pretty fast.
I go 40 feet as a spider. I think that's... I go 45 feet, but I mean I don't think that's enough of a difference for me to try and race before it. But it might be fun.
Yeah, but you're already going to get it. I'm over here looking at my rocks and if it's worth it and it's a cool rock. It's probably not. The throat over my shoulder.
Every rock is cool. Day, give me a dexterity check. As a spider? I assume.
Yeah. It's probably better than mine. So, oh, a 10. Yeah.
The water is starting to cover everything and you reach in where you see it and you try to grab it, but you're not making contact with it. Okay. Like in a mystical way or just... I think it's just a light refaction kind of way.
Yeah. Okay. Can I still see it like well? Like what color is the liquid in it?
It is a green liquid. A green liquid. It's a clear vial is a green liquid. Okay.
I think that it's not worth spending another shape just to get one vial. So I will spider shrug and slowly walk back. All right. I was really interested in getting the vial or are we moving on?
The police already forgot about the vial. I would try if... First I'll take the stick from Stinky and fucking... Okay.
Okay. Get a point. And then if the vial was pointed out, to me I would try to get it because I was looking for an advantage in these fucking swamp. You did see day scuttling over there really quickly for some reason.
What you got over there? I'm like waving one spider arm and pointing down. Oh, okay. Try to grab the green violet.
What's this? I will have you make me a dexterity check with disadvantage because the water has filled in more by the time it takes you to get over there. Okay. Ooh, a five.
Damn. You kind of reach in there and you accidentally shove it further into the muck? That's not what? You cut out.
You accidentally shove it further into the muck. I'm definitely not going to go get it. Shit. So again, I spider shrug and...
Belong to the swamp now. Belong to the forest. I mean, I guess it's the forest. I'll try to grab it one more time.
I'll dive down and try to grab it, but I'll take that with disadvantage again. All right. Oh, 60. You managed to grab it.
You are very wet and mucky, but you have this vial of green liquid now. I'd be serviced and wipe the mud off my face. Got it. Any labels on it or anything?
Probably not. No, no labels. It's green. It's not even a lot of shit.
I'll hold it up for day and then put it in my bag or pocket or something. We'll figure this out later. The important thing is we got it. And then we'll carry on, I guess.
Yeah. Put spiked it back down and back to work. You continue onward and you find yourself along a path. It has overgrown quite a bit, but you find yourself approaching that building that you saw and you discovered that there is in fact a whole town.
Ooh, what? You see before you a village, the buildings are all on stilts. They look like they are mostly in disrepair, but you see every now and then it looks like something has been patched over or painted more recently than some of the rest of it. On the building right in front of you, you see this big patch of blue paint that's still fairly bright.
And there is a sign right in front of you. There's two tall posts that reach up overhead and then there is a sign that is slightly dirty that has been reattached lower than it originally was. Is it about Wayland's head height? So I took around nearly avoiding my face.
What does the sign say? Does anybody reach your conic? I don't. No.
All right. It is in a foreign script that you do not recognize. I think we probably recognize that it is your conic by now. But there is a lot of your conic.
All right. There has been cobalt. Yeah. Do we think that it is little?
Do you think that we can assume it is a cobalt town or that we wouldn't leap to that? With the sign being in your conic and I think that you have seen a lot of cobalt stuff with cobalt stuff in your conic, you would probably assume it was a cobalt town. Does it look abandoned? It does look abandoned.
Dang. I was hoping for a town town. Oh, that man? Yeah.
That was too. Can I get you all to make a perception check for me? Yeah. 23?
9. Is this just site based or is this any kind of hearing or? You want to? It's just general site hearing.
Whatever. Stinky is going to perk up an ear and listen out so he'll have advantage. That's 22 for stinky. Go stinky.
Okay. So, day, you hear this echoing hammering kind of sound in the distance. It sounds like somebody is tapping on something, hammering something in somewhere. Like they're repairing something or like they're in a forge?
I feel like. Yeah, kind of like they're repairing something. Okay. Can I get it good enough to know what direction it's coming from?
Yes. It is coming from the northeast. Okay. So, I point that way and say I think that there's somebody over there.
Do we want to just assume that they're nice and cold out or do we want to sneak up on them and see? I feel like it doesn't hurt the look first. Okay. Stealth tracks are just fine.
That's what it is. That's fine as those can go. Yeah, right. I got a 13.
Wait, wait, wait. It was 6. The laser somehow got a 19 and oh, stinky has like been stealth apparently. Stinky got an 18.
So, I said that all these buildings were on still because they're also all made of wood except for in like the center of the town. Number 5 there? Number 5, yes. Is this big metal building?
It is not on still but it has big ramps coming off the sides of it down to the ground. Okay. So, this is that building. So, you guys are all sneaking off to the northeast.
This is the path that I think I would take if I was trying to be sneaky. I'd go like here and peek around this corner. Okay. I guess I would just be following her lead.
Yeah, I'm following. And then tripping and falling on my face. Yeah. I like trying to crack down and follow you but I don't account for the length of the size.
It's just dragging around on the ground. Yeah. So, the four of you move around the building there and you see coming down towards you. This big...
It's so cute. What is that? I need to zoom in. This big machine of some kind.
It's got wheels and it's got this big wooden dragon head and inside of its mouth you can see the spear and it's got like sweats back wings coming from behind it, kind of like a crossbow. This is so detailed. Wait, where did you put this? Right next to the building five, like two blocks above day.
Oh, oh lord. Okay. So, this thing is rolling towards you because it has... It's not heard of something moving around.
Gee. So... Gee, I wonder who that could have been. Play strip now.
Don't even. Let's roll initiative. Okay. Oh man.
I'm going to say, um, Palaestra and Stinky can be hidden around the corner behind the building. It doesn't really know they're there, but it definitely spots day and waylin. Where is Waylin? Uh, I did not get this.
I'm a doke hound. He didn't move. Because I'm a dingus. If it spots you, let's say you went here like we went both ways around the building or something.
Sure. So, Palaestra got a 15 on initiative and Stinky got a nine. Oh, hey, that was cool. For a total of 22.
I got an 18 and spike also got an 18. And the Oken Bolter got a 20. Oken Bolter. Hm.
Really an NPC for my game or something. Yeah, it sounds like something that we named it a Ryan Bolter. So Waylin, you see this big wooden machine that looks like some kind of big fancy rolling Galista or something moving up on you guys. What are you going to do?
Well, if it sees me and it hasn't immediately shot me, I'm going to head out. Please don't attack me no harm. Please hold my side and dodge. Oh well, it sees days.
So I will move right in front of day and dodge. Okay. So whenever it attacks you, it'll have disadvantage. Good to know.
Hello, please stop. Please stop those things. Maybe fuck. Oh, he's going to do that.
Cool. I don't like that sound. So I will say it's attacking Waylin does a to hit. Nope.
Explosive judging policy. Oh Lord. Does it still explode? If it misses like I think it still explodes.
So it says an attack, but I'm not sure. I'm thinking about the alchemist in like Pathfinder rules where basically you have he throw something at a point and if you miss, you have to roll to see what adjacent square lands in. But since it's a 20 foot radius, it doesn't really matter. It blows all up.
Yeah. So I'm going to need you all to make dexterity saving throws. I don't know if you're going to have danger sense. So I have advantage.
I get a 10. It doesn't help me. I got a five. I got a 21 and stinky got a 19.
Oh right. Spike got a nine. Oh, Spike said. Yeah, we're going to have to stop here for the night.
Well, everybody who failed takes 17 damage. Yeah, so Spike is dead. And the people who saved take half that. Eight.
And that was its turn. So that brings us to day. This is risky. I want to try.
Well, I'm going to run away so that we're not in a group. But as I do, I want to try and cast a spell magic on it. So any spell third level or lower ends automatically, if it's a higher level spell, it has a DC for me to make. Okay.
Well, this is a hundred percent mechanical. It's a construct. It's not a magical construct. Like the fact that it seems to understand where we are and stuff like that seems like it couldn't be just mechanical.
Unless someone's piloting it. Yeah. Unless there's somebody in there. There is not.
Okay. Do you want me to look up rules on dispelled magic versus constructs? Yeah, that would be good. So if you understand, this is, it does not give me any specific spells that it's using.
Maybe animate objects if we just want to have like a level to check against because animate objects is a fifth level spell. If it was an animated object, casting the spell magic would cause it to become inanimate. So if that's what we want to base it on, I mean, obviously it would be more a complicated spell since it's like smart and it has all this extra shit. But as far as I understand, it would work unless you really think that it's some sort of mechanical AI.
So third level or lower? So it would have to make a roll? I don't know. I have to make a roll to see if my spell works.
So if it's a third level spell, that's it. It's dispelled. If it was a fourth level, I would do a DC 14 check to make. Okay.
I think we said animate objects was a five. So make a check and we will see what you get. Okay. I got a 23.
Yeah, that'll probably do it for whatever spell it was at. Yeah. So yes, you disable the open culture. It is no longer moving.
Great. I'm like running away because I'm not sure it's going to work and it like isn't making that little noise anymore. I just sort of like, stop over here. Like, oh, I didn't expect that to do anything.
Quick, stabilize the hand. He can't be stabilized. He just, he'll come back in the morning. Oh, after our period of murder.
I'm sorry that I ruined your cool, your cool toy. No, that's fine. I was like banishing something like. Just no.
Yeah. Sinky picks up, Sinky picks up Spike and brings him to today. Thank you. Or did he say Bork?
Yes. I can understand his meaning. He can talk to me. He just, no problem.
I guess is what he would be saying in dog. Okay. I pat him on the head. He tries over to sniff a thing.
We should probably make sure that there aren't any more of them. Yes. Agree. Well, I yelled out hoping someone would come and shut the stand thing off.
Apparently, no one came out. So we'll just, I don't know, start checking out buildings. Yeah, we can check out buildings. We can see if there's like a nice, a nice place for us to sleep and it'll at least be dry inside.
I think we should check out building five first. Yes, it's weird. Yeah. That's also the most defensible if there is someone who doesn't want us here.
And it's weird. Because it's metal. Yeah, that's it. So yeah, on what?
To building five. So you guys are right near the ramp way leading up to the door of building five. So this is one big door. It seems like it slides to the left.
It is about 10 feet wide and 20 feet tall. Just before we open the door, I like put it in my finger and say, hold on a second. I'm like, heal myself. All right.
Nice. Yeah, I'll just keep going. So big ass door. There was a handle, right?
There is not a handle. Oh. Is there an edge? Like is it off the wall or is there like I'm imagining like a big sliding freezer kind of deal?
Like push it like whichever way it gives unless it's voltage. I grab the edge and try to just open. Even without grabbing the edge, you can just push on it and kind of lean yourself. Yeah, that's it.
Yeah, you can you can try that, but it is locked. Oh, damn it. I just say police dress assumes a position with the ring of the ram like ready to shoot. We don't have a thief or anything.
Oh, wait a second. You hear the hammering noise continuing, by the way. The hammering noise continues. Okay.
So if the hammering noise continues, I'm going to head this way and shout like, hello, is anybody here? I'm sorry I broke your toy. The hammering has gotten a lot louder, but you don't see anybody and nobody seems to be responding to your calls. Okay.
Go ahead and tap my chime of opening on the store. Yes. Okay. Mark off one of your uses of the chime of opening and the door is unlocked.
All right. I guess I will push it open since I unlocked it. Uh oh. What is that?
What is that? Oh, no, I don't like that. I don't like that at all. It's not tentacles.
They're like weird flower petals or something. Oh, shit. It's one of those boys, isn't it? What are they called?
I don't like that. It is a pinto drone. Yeah. I don't like that.
I don't like that. You see this large metallic thing in the center of this room. Okay. It has it looks kind of like a flower.
If a flower head was made of metal and had eyes on its petals and you had like five weird spindly robot feet, it is not moving. You also see beyond it that there are these little cylindrical like pods with smaller creatures in them. smaller versions of it oh okay that answers my question I guess they're kind of spherical in shape they have wings sticking out of their backs and a big single eye in the center they're also made of metal they are also stationary okay this is a weird thing for us to encounter but okay yeah this is I don't know what to make of this too bad about my hair I think that he would be I mean he'd be intrigued but I don't think he would know either but I mean yeah he didn't know a lot of things he would have a great story though you too as you are standing there and places trying to talk to you see this little it's one of the features I described one of the smaller ones the spherical ones yeah one of the smaller ones it just starts walking past you guys over to this building you can see there's like a hole in the side of it and it has it's carrying like some boards under its arm and has a hammer and it's got like a utility belt and it's moving over here with its boards okay I as it's walking by me I call out to it again like excuse me it looks over at you and it leans its boards up against ability and it moves over and then it starts talking to you in basically binary cool like literally like one zero zero one or like yeah it's kind of like this weird modulating static that's impossible for you to understand well but it would only be like it would be like two tones like a positive and a negative tone dots and dashes essentially but really fast thank you for listening Legends of Channels and Worksone production made possible through the support of our wonderful patrons you can join them at patreon.com slash work zone and even gain access to bonus content including patron only behind the scenes channels of our discord server even if you can't make a monthly donation you can always still join the server to chat with the cast and fellow listeners to learn more about the players characters and other workzone shows head to workzone.com or check us out on Twitter at the workzone