In our last episode, the party explored an abandoned town. It seems to have once been inhabited by cobolds, but now all that remains is a gathering of strange mechanical creatures, a varying shape and size, most of which are immobile. Our adventurers today are Keeran who plays Whalen the Barbarian, Max who plays Playster the Monk, Theron who plays Day the Druid, nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog, and our DM Hazel. The publisher is waiting for the magic, what are you two doing?
Welcome, fellow travelers, to Legends of Child. Alright, you have defeated the Cranium Rats. Yay. I'm really weird that Whalen didn't get in on that combat.
I guess that was where the key point is. It's like, huh, okay. Just opened the door and was like, what the? And then we all, and then y'all just jumped in and curbsonked it before I could do anything.
This is where the play's like rats, I know what to do with rats. That's a tradition where a playster is from, rats stomping day. So interesting rats, anything interesting in the room. Yeah, is that what sticky smell?
It's just rats? Probably. Stinky smell rats. The room is another living room.
It is fairly similar to the last one, but there's no kitchen in this room. Alright. It looks like there's a kitchen off to the side. Yeah, I'll stick my head in this room.
Yes, so you look into the room on the left, and that is a kitchen slash dining room. Okay, now all of this, does it look like it was all just left in the middle of a day, or did they know they had to leave stuff kind of deal? Sudden tragedy or did they have to pack up and go? It looks like they packed up and left.
There's stuff left behind, but mostly it's like bulky stuff like furniture, or just like trash that they didn't want anymore. But it looks like a lot of stuff was basically packed up. Okay. Is there another one of those screams in this living room?
There is. Can I play with one or play with it, I guess? See if I can do anything with it, or is it just like a black panel in the wall? Sure.
Is there a remote? Give me an investigation check between the Coshions of the sofa. Thirteen? Yeah, you don't find the remote.
Okay. So with the panel, you discover there are a few buttons on it, and press down on them, and they kind of click and then spring back, but they're not doing anything. All right. Anything in these bedrooms, I assume?
No, nothing. Nothing of note. Okay. Strange.
Let's keep exploring, I guess. Yeah. So we still got a couple rooms here? No, not really.
You're wailing looked in this room, J. Oh, sorry. I had a moment. I think I was like waiting for a good chance for me to say that I was going to look in there and then my brain just kind of went like, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah.
So I'm going to ask Stinky in Sylvan. Are there any other rats here or living creatures that we need to look out for? You should go find out. All right.
Which Stinky role here? So you're asking Stinky to go survey the rest of the town? Yeah. If he already has gotten a good concept of what's around, then he doesn't have to.
I basically ask, is there anything else alive that we have to look out for? Yeah. Stinky's already looked around. If you set up the two barks thing for yes and no, Stinky will bark no.
Okay. That there's not anything else around. I think we can split up a little bit. Before faster.
Okay. I'm going to moozy on over to number 10. How do we want us to divide ourselves with a split up? Like, is Stinky staying with me?
Or are we going to do like two and two? I think Stinky could stay with you. And then I'll go to nine, Dachn go to ten. I'm going to go to two because I don't trust that thing that went into eight.
All right. Which actually might be a bad idea. You're pretty far, but that's okay. Yeah.
There's two of us. So we will start with Waylon on nine. So you notice as you approach nine that there is a big tree going out of the center of this house. Cool.
There are roots down below the house. The stilts are broken and the tree grows up through the center and out through the top. Okay. And you can go in and see that this house is pretty well destroyed.
As you would expect with a tree growing through it. It's pretty cool in there. There's some furniture and stuff that's around, but there's nothing really interesting in here. Mm.
Other than the cool tree. Geez. I wonder where these were pretty sure it was cobalt's right? Yeah, we're pretty sure it was cobalt's.
We as players are. I don't know if our characters are. Well, we've seen cobalt's before. I already know we haven't seen them, but we've seen cobalt constructions like with Ichabod.
Who actually had spells that would allow him to read your conic. Mm-hmm. Day. You step into building number ten.
I do. And this house looks unfinished. There's no furniture in here. The beams and the rafters on the inside are bare.
There's nothing covering them up. It looks like this place was under construction when people left. Okay. So I'll look in all the rooms and stuff just to see if there's anything, but it seems like coming up dry.
Yeah, there's nothing in there. Okay. Building number two. As you're going up the steps, can you give me a dexterity saving throw?
Sure. Uh-oh. Cobalt love traps. That is an eighteen.
Oh, cool. Yeah, as you're walking up the steps, you step onto one and it just breaks under your foot, but you're still balanced enough on your back foot that you don't fall through. And you manage to step up into the house. You find yourself in a kitchen.
There's one door leading on from here into a larger chamber. Is there anything in the kitchen? Like, just anything obvious, I guess. No.
In fact, there's nothing in this house as in many of these houses. The big middle chamber is a living room. And then the other side where there's another door going outside is a bedroom. But there's nothing really interesting in the house.
Interesting construction. Is there, trying to think of anything I might want to look for in a house period? Is there like a ball? What kind of ball, a bouncy ball, a crystal ball?
Any kind of ball that would be worth throwing for stinky to run and get. It's a not a crystal ball. So a baseball tennis ball. Okay.
I didn't know how to paddle these sports. We explored the sporting life of Sheldon. Roll me a die. I don't care which one.
Just roll me a die. Okay. Let's see here. I did a die that doesn't exist.
Okay. You rolled a D17. You got a six. So you do not find a ball.
Okay. You all right? Are you okay? No.
Why? I don't know. It's just a weird move. I almost told you to roll one that had an even number but didn't.
Is there a pillow left on the bed? Yes, you can get a pillow. All right. I'm going to take a pillow.
Okay. I'll head up here and see if anyone found anything. Nope. Nothing yet.
Yeah. You guys see Whelan or not Whelan. You see a place for show up carrying a pillow. Was it nap time?
I mean, sooner or later it will be. Okay. That's fair. I'm going to go try my luck with this guy again.
I'm going to look in eight because he went in there so there must be something in there. I'm going to stand by. I was like, oh, look out here because I just don't trust him. I'm not worried about it.
I'll go to 11. Okay. So we'll start with Whelan again. We'll do 11.
Whelan, let me know if you find any balls. Okay. Whelan, you step into this room. It is another big living room kitchen combo.
But the floor is a little weak. So why don't you go ahead and give me a dexterity saving throw, which I think you have with advantage. Yep. I remember right.
Twelve. Okay. So you step in here next to the couch and the weight of you in the couch is just a little bit too much for this floor. It's been weekend with time and you start to fall.
You may catch yourself. Just catch yourself on the edge as the couch goes tumbling down beneath the house. Oh my God. How high up is it?
It's not very high, but you said tumbling. I just imagine there's like some pit under the house. These last two traps seem more like the houses are just old. Yeah.
That they are. You can pull yourself back up and if you want to search for a ball, I will let you make a die roll. Sure. I will look for a ball for Playstra.
Oh, it's nice. Thank you. Doing odd number. You know, I'm just going to go classic at d20 18.
Yeah, you find a little round bouncy ball. It doesn't bounce probably as well as it used to, but like a high bounce pinky. Yeah. Okay.
It's not too small, right? You're not going to choke on it. Oh, he might. I don't know.
I don't know. I think he has a very big mouth. I don't know. I just worry about him now.
And then I assume there's nothing in the back room either. No, there's a bedroom back there. Nothing interesting. That's where you found those all.
Okay. Boys draw a ball. Awesome. I'll take a picture ball.
Oh, this is for stink. I'm just going to pocket it for now. He's like, I thought there was a ball. Okay.
He's probably going to stick around there anyway though because I mean, he already established that he prefers to play with Waylon. Okay. That might have been a fan fiction I wrote. I might have just forgotten.
So I don't know. I just could swear there was something where I threw a stick not very far and then you threw a stick really far and we just decided to think he preferred to play with you. I don't I don't remember that. I'm sure that that's just something you came up with in your brain.
But I like it. Okay. So building number eight, this building is right behind the big building with all the mode runs in it. There is just one entrance and it is just one big room in this room.
There is a bed in one corner. There are a lot of desks. There's not a real kitchen. There is a refrigerator like thing and then like there is like what are those things called where you just like have a hot plate that has like a hot plate and some pans.
There are a lot of those screens all over the place. They're not quite as big and they're on stands on the surfaces instead of being bounded to walls. And there's a lot of like gyms like crystals, not necessarily valuable, but a bunch of crystals and like this weird bits of metal and stuff scattered all about. And the mojon is standing there and there they have a drawer open and they're taking out like a bag of nails.
Okay. I say hello again. Do you understand me like waves at me if you do the mojon will wave at you. Okay.
I don't know how to communicate with it. We could come up with another yes or no code, but beyond that I'm like stumped. Can it right maybe? Oh yeah, yeah.
I'm just gonna ask can you write you look like you know your shit like do you can you can you draw a picture where are we what are you what is this place it's amazing. So it will I can write my notebook for it. I have one. Oh, okay.
And I have a fancy ass pen after the last place we were. Yeah, so it will take your pen and paper and it will write on them in Draconic. And I'll like shake my head and say I don't understand. I don't understand Draconic.
Okay, it stands there holding the pen and paper for a while and then remembers that you said something about drawing a picture and it will draw a couple of wavy lines next to each other. Okay. And then it'll draw like the outline of a person with an arrow pointing at the person's butt. Where are the wavy lines in relation to the person and the arrow?
Oh, looks like we're getting a picture here. Wait, what? What bottom? Like river bottom.
It waves his hand. As a yes. Okay, cool. So here this that's what this place is called.
Okay. Um, go ahead. Are we in like a floodplain in the dry season and that's why all the buildings are elevated normally this is a like a floating village on the water, but right now they're the water's gone. They're kind of just shifted all the time.
I mean, this is kind of I will ignore what was put on the role funny map. This is a little this is a little bit meta, but I seem to recall in season two of role, like a girl, which was also set in shell that this place they started in was actually like in the middle of like a river bed, right? But there was a dry season and a wet season. Oh, there's a really dry season.
I mean, it's always pretty dry because it's a desert. It's like the Nile, but there's an island in the middle of the river. It's a big fucking river, but I don't think that it's related. We're really far from there.
I think this would be a river that dried up or shifted course over the course of what hundreds of years. I also think it could just be there on stilts in case of flood. I don't know why else you would call something a river bottom unless there was a source of water nearby. Yeah.
And you guys have been trudging through a swamp for a long time. That too. I guess for our listeners at home, someone wrote on the map River Ass Village beneath the diagram that Hazel drew us. Yep, Baron.
It's not always me drawing these things and writing them. I don't know what you're talking about. I mean, usually it's me if it's something like that, but you're one so one. So I did the tree.
I asked it. How long have you been here? I would like to assume that number systems are the same, but it doesn't have to be. Oh, you're asking me for a timeline and I'm not sure I've established one other than it's been a long time.
All right. He could just hold his hands out really wide. Sure. Sounds good.
Okay. Just hold his hands out as wide as I go. Okay. Long time.
Okay. I point to the building right behind me with all the storage stuff or all the charging panels. Like, are those your friends? When you ask that, it'll open its mouth and emit a lot of static stuff and then it'll just start trying to walk past you.
Okay. I'll let it go by and follow it. Oh, maybe it will walk over into the room. I know we've lost between us now.
To the pinto drone and it will point at a lever on a control board nearby. I trust him. I'll pull the lever. Okay.
Okay. You pull the lever and you see the pinto drone start to stretch and move its joints and like they creak quite a bit because it's been standing like that for a long time. But it seems to manage to break all the rust and corrosion that's there, loose and it looks about and then all the monodrons start to wake up. Okay.
And they start leaving their pods and some of them go out the opposite door and some of them try to walk around you guys and go out the other side. I'll let them. I'll let them buy. Okay.
So they all head out and the one that was with you just kind of looks at you and nods and emits a burst of static and then goes back out. I'll hold my hand out to like to shake his hand. Let's get it. It'll slap it with its hand.
Yes. You just high five robot. Yeah. That's like I should break that down right now.
That's a diary. What are the event? So like the pinto drone. What's it up to?
After all the monodrons leave the pinto drone starts to leave as well and it walks really weird but it starts heading out the opposite door that you guys are standing at. Okay. Well, I'll say like, wait, do you why? I thought that we would learn something.
Can you speak common to the pinto drone? Oh, let me look it up. I don't think it can. Languages, mo-dron.
Okay. So it will emit a burst of static at you. It is slightly different in tone from the monodrons. Okay.
But that seems to be all it is capable of speaking. Cool. I mean, I'm disappointed but cool. This is unfortunate.
Do we want to try and explore the rest of these houses or do we think that this is just like a mystery that we will not figure out? I think may as well look about. Okay. Do you want to each take a house there or three left?
Sure. Let's go out and it looks like the monodrons are moving about trying to make repairs to the village. Okay. You know, these would be useful to have back home but oh well.
If they need to charge like that. You're right. We couldn't just send them over a foot. Wait, did we see where the power source was for them?
Not particularly. Can I follow one of the cables to see like where it goes? You can. It goes into the floor.
Oh. Can I put my ear to the floor and listen? You can. Would you like to make an investigation check?
Sure. I got a five. The only thing you hear is the pentadrone is still leaving and you can hear its weird steps as it's heading out the door reverberating in your ear. That's all you can hear.
Okay. Well, if the cable. I was just going to ask if there are cables on the outside of the building going anywhere? No.
Okay. I give up on that one. All right. Because I was going to say if it's going through the floor, could we go underneath and look at where it's supposed to go through and continue following it?
I thought about that but I decided Felicia doesn't feel like ripping up the floor just to solve the mystery unless we have to. We can't see on the outside then. Yeah. We're assuming, especially since Dispel worked on that Guardian, I would be assuming that it's like crystals or some other thing that you can store Magic in.
That's what I was thinking. That's what I was kind of interested to find. Oh, what happens if I look at the cables and stuff with the monocle? Interesting.
Interesting. So you hadn't planned for that? No. So, detect magic works on magical items.
So if there were a magical energy throughout flows through the cables, the monocle probably would be able to see them because the energy flow would be inside the cables. The thing says it detects magical energies on objects. It doesn't say like it works exactly the same as detect magic, but you can of course do what you like. I'm going to say you don't see anything magical.
All right. Well, I don't see anything magical then. The cables are well shielded. Okay.
I will take house six. Okay. I guess I'll take house three. Let's think.
And then I will take house one. Oh, okay. Well, let's start with way less. Uh oh.
Oh, don't worry. We're going most boring to least boring. Oh, okay, perfect. So this is another one of the rectangular houses with a big living room kitchen area that goes into two bedrooms.
Are you still pretty thoroughly examining these rooms or are you just kind of giving them cursory glances? I'm still trying to figure out why they left. So I'm still trying to find something. Okay.
So as you open one of the kitchen cabinets, why don't you go ahead and make me another dexterity safe? All right. I got five. Okay.
So three. You know, um, this kitchen cabinet was not packed very well. And whenever you open it, a bunch of pots and pans fall out onto you. And I want you to take the four points of bludgeoning damage.
Ow. Like a big cast iron fan lens on your head for four. Yeah. Oh, fuck.
In a walk out of the house rubbing the head. Okay. That brings us to day. Oh, now we know who's interesting.
Oh boy. Okay. So what do we find in six? So this is the building that your original monitor was working on.
So there's a freshly patched section beside the door that you're going into. And you step in and you just see all these boats floating around in the air. And as you probably are breathing being a person who needs to breathe. Yup.
The character doesn't need to breathe, but they does. No. I need you to roll a constitution saving throw. I got a 10.
That doesn't make it. Okay. So what did I write down here? So you inhale a bunch of mold.
Oh, why couldn't you be circle of spores? Come on. And you are poisoned. I didn't write down for how long.
So I can make up a time. So let's say for a minute. Okay. Gross.
I coughed. And I think that I probably will just back out and not finish exploring. Cool. And then go to meet up with the others.
All right. So that brings us to Phyllastra. Oh boy. Oh boy.
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