In our last episode, the party continued to explore Station 5. They followed Psyche and Medusa to an old abandoned building that had a problem with rats in the basement. When they got there, the fight with the rats was actually really hard. 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, nobody wants to cuddle with a big frog, Arizona who plays Psyche and Medusa. I look like I petrified my shoulders. And our DM Hazel.
Felicia is waiting for the magic. What are you two doing? Welcome fellow travelers to Legends of Chal. I'm not having a great day, I understand.
I'm going to cast Conjure Animals and all around me, like one is going to be on Felicia's head and a couple of them are going to be right at my feet and then the rest are going to be surrounding me. I'm going to conjure eight cats and all of the cats are going to attack the rats that are on me. Yay! They don't have advantage like the wolves so it'll be a little bit easier.
Okay, so the first one is a 12. Mrs. Okay, the second one is an 11. Oh, damn it.
Wait, really? The third one is a 6. That hits. Okay, so that's one point of damage.
The fourth one misses. The fifth one is a 7. Hits. The sixth is a 12.
Misses. The seventh is a 5. Hits. That's one damage and the eighth misses.
Why are the cats rolling so well? Because we get any bonus. Is there a way to give myself this advantage? Oh shit, you can like prone.
That's actually not a bad idea. You genius, absolute genius. So here I'm thinking, can I punch myself in the head really hard? Does someone have liquor so I can get drunk and fight drunk?
When you were laying down earlier I was like, oh, wait, I was going to give their next attack, laying down and then they'll learn the disadvantage thing. I mean, even that isn't going to guarantee success though. Nothing's going to guarantee success. Well, okay, yeah, sure.
I mean, it's not like, oh, whenever you have this advantage, you usually roll really bad. You could have this advantage and roll like 17 and 18. Well, the rats are a tough challenge. You were warned by many people.
We just didn't believe you. I just warned you. Like, come on, I just went to rats. I'm like, no, these rats are fucking scary.
And you're like, it's fun. I think Wayland has to roll like a three with his main weapon in the rat. So I have to roll seven. So I got to roll one, 11 or below.
I literally have to roll a one or two. Yeah, they're tough. Oh my god. Who's turn is it?
Police just turn. I lay prone on the ground and kick a rat. Okay, are you kicking the ones on psyche or on day? The ones on day, I guess, just because that's where I started already.
Okay. So I'm going to roll and have this advantage. Hey, that's a crit fail. Nice.
Yeah, you hit the rats. Roll double damage. Six, six is 12. That's minus 15 on half the swarm of rats, which is enough to kill it.
Hey, you lay down on the ground and you kick up at the rats on day and you just smash them all. You just like scrape them all off of day and they slam against the wall and they are dead. Just rat's just hitting the wall. Oh, gross.
Cool. That was your first attack. Yeah. Another cray.
Oh my god. I've never been so happy. That sounds all those 20s. Yeah.
Final ice. That's going to be 12 again. Oh, yeah. Okay.
You have destroyed this swarm. You have killed all the rats. So laser just lays on the ground for a while. I will sit with you.
Hell yeah. Well, that was an ordeal. Yeah. Yeah.
You attacked from a worst position and did better. Yeah. Is what just happened? I have.
Yeah, because everything's, you know, upside down sideways inside out in this gookie place. I don't pick up my sword. I have trained for years to make my body a lethal weapon and this is what I'm used to. Do I, do I know any debuffs?
I could, I could cast confusion on all of us. Oh. That wouldn't work out well because a lot of times when you just stand there doing nothing. Well, if you fire all of us, they'll have a really hard time hitting us because they'll have advantage.
Yeah. Yeah. That's true. I could verify everyone.
I even have that. I don't have it prepared. I could, I could prepare in tangle. We need liquor.
Do we tangle us? So you guys, what it means to be a drunken master. We have alcohol in the bag, right? Somewhere.
You guys might, I don't. I believe that we have one bottle somewhere. I already checked earlier because I had the idea a little while ago. We sort of tend to go overboard when we decide to start drinking.
So we might have finished everything. Like college kids. So, shit. I mean, we are like that age.
So I'm a little bit older, I think. Should we go through the hole and see where they were rusted by? I mean, I'll send my cats through. That's good idea.
Bye cats. Yeah, so my cats are going to go through the hole. I'm going to organize them so they're easier for me to move. What are their names?
They don't have names or cats. I'm naming them. All right. I'll take them in the chat.
That's how it always is with cats. Cats don't have names. That's C. I'm guessing it's spunky.
I pet one of them as they go through. I just like have my hand down. My snake is just kind of washing them going. Okay.
So you're sending your cats in? Yeah. Just to check out that room on the other side, see if there are any more rats. See if there's like a way to get to some sort of rat singularity.
The rat had an eyes of. Okay. I take a cue from whoever did the play strip to the kicking. Yeah.
And I lay down on the ground as the cats go in. Just like full like shreds or just like waiting. Cool. So day, can you see through their eyes or are you talking with them?
I can't. So what I did is I asked them to drive any rats in that room back towards us. And then I chose one to be the leader and to scout ahead for us and to come back and report. Okay.
So they wander back through there. Your scout comes back before the others and tells you that it found several rat holes, but no sign of any rats currently. And it found a big room of shiny stuff. I like shiny stuff.
Oh, well, I want to see the shinies. Have I been to that room of shiny stuff? You have. This is new to you.
I'm even working on clearing out this basement. You fought a few rats warm seer and you did not know that there was a room on the other side of that wall until the giant rat busted the hole through it. Do you like report this to the rest of us? Yeah.
I'll share with everyone what this guy says. I just like I've been like super like very like focused, but like a little bit of that weight kind of lifts and I give you a thumbs up. Great. I just like my shoulders relax a little bit.
Like even out of combat I was still pretty tense, but when the crazy cat lady saves the day. Usually I'm a crazy wolf lady, but that seems like a bad plan. They bite really good and they get advantage on everything. So are we going to cross through the hole?
Who's going first? The cat's safe. I don't think it really matters. Yeah.
Can I ask whatever? Well, I mean, I can't talk to the cats, but can I ask day to ask the cat where the room with the treasure is. Yeah, they'll lead us to the treasure. I tell one of the cats to make sure that that you follow and like rubs up against your ankles.
Aww. It's like he's like, we don't really have these here, but as long as it doesn't kill me, then great. I've done a pet the cat. I don't think so.
You see the cat before it purrs happily, which might be a little alarming for like a little murder machine like that. It makes the noise and like he goes, I look at Jane, I go, is that supposed to do that? Yeah, that just means it's happy. Oh, okay.
I continue bedding the cat and then follow it. Okay. So are you all wandering through this hole? Yeah.
No, we're moving with purpose through the hole. Yeah. Okay. We're heading towards that gold.
Well, they didn't say it was gold. They just said shiny stuff. That could be anything. Such a rat eyes.
Could be John. I'm just keep rolling up. July, this cubes. They're awful.
I just have PTSD from things that try to eat you. That's fine. Oh, no. Oh, no.
Oh, no. The psyche is contemplating possibly stealing one of these cats. That's stealing the like cat and brining it up. Oh, yeah.
That's good. Her kids are not playing without permission. You can try, but it's going to disappear in an hour. Oh.
Thank you. So this is our temporary cat. Yeah. Very temporary cat.
It just appears the kids are so big. It's just a day like, what did you tell me? It's like, I did. Okay.
So you wander into this next set of chambers, really. It looks like this first room you enter was some kind of warehouse. It's got a bunch of crates and stuff stacked up with nothing interesting in it. So please don't ask me.
Damn. You're lucky I'm not playing a rogue. I'll be all over this. And there's a hallway leading back that goes to another room.
And in that room, there is some kind of workshop. There's a big bench there. There are some more crates and stuff along the wall and scattered across the work table. You see the shinies that the cats were talking about.
There are several annulates laying on top of the desk along with a leatherbound journal. Okay. I go for the book. That's like my thing.
Can I pick up one of the annulates and do like an arcana check to see if it's either like activated or just like what the hell does this thing. I inspect the quality of the tools. I guess I also look at an amulet. What challenge?
I try to read over days shoulder. We got something. I would hold it so that you could read if I've noticed. The interwisdom for arcana.
And I think it's intelligence. 14. Okay. It does look like it's magical.
You're not sure what it does, but it looks like it has some kind of magical effect. I look at it and I kind of nod like I know what it is and then I look at everyone and I go, I have no idea what this does. My wife's the magic one. I just hit some.
Oh wait. I can. Let's see. I'll use the thing.
That piece is the jewelers. The jewelers monocle to cast. I identify on one of the annulates. Okay.
Do they all look the same? They do all the same. Oh cool. There could be multiple people wearing them maybe.
So someone can read that loud when they're ready? I guess I'll let it since I cast it. This looks like we got here a amulet of grand weakness. Wandress item very rare requires attunement.
When attunement of this year amulet, the wearer will feel a weakness. Keep over the form as a halo of scintillating rainbow light forms around them. The amulet reduces a creature's proficiency bonus to two and grants advantage to creatures attacking the wearer. I put it on immediately.
I just put this thing over. Like this snake's kind of get tangled up in it. I guess I would probably tell me if it was going to like fuse to my skin. So I'll take one and I'll like hang it on one of my horns.
Is there one for everybody? Yeah, there were four. I thought there were. There is.
Yes. I didn't remember. Okay. I just said a few.
There are more. There are more than four on the table. If you were to open the crates, you would see that somebody made a lot of these. Okay.
Yeah. I make a mental note of this. Just in case the others die and I have to run away. And they kind of a mental note that there's more of these for anybody else who's coming to kill these rats.
So this could be turn the time. I will make a note for my people who already have magical items that it does require a two-man. Yeah, that's why I'm listing magical items and I'm a two-man. Oh, yeah.
I got a two-man work. I usually play non-magical. The way that it works basically is that you can only attune to three magical items that require it. So it's basically like a balancing feature so you can't just strap on all the magical gear in the universe.
Okay. I don't think any of my shit is magical. So I think. Yeah.
And oh shit. What's the attack on the fucking hell of the rober? I said it like plus three or plus four? Sorry.
I don't have. In the discord I have all the magic items. Yes. Let me see.
I am now going to D&D to check my. It doesn't say. Oh yeah. I'm going to do custom magic items and see if they're tuned.
Ah crap. I feel like I have three items and I just can't find the third one. I'm going to tune from the refrigerator clip. Ah, yeah.
I have my lucky stone and I have spike and I thought I had something else. I took off this amulet of reviccation, right? That's gone. I don't think you've been able to.
I don't think you've been able to. You tried a few times and you can't even put the amulet on right now. I'm sorry what? Wayland's still wearing the amulet of reviccation because he hasn't been able to take it off yet and you can't wear it too.
Well, I guess this counts as I have to take it off, right? Oh boy. It might be easier here. You never know.
The seven lee experience attune as well. Okay. Does a 13 let me take it off. Wait, was I going to do something?
You had some. You talked to Wayland about it. You did talk to him. Yeah, we talked about it.
I don't remember what you guys decided something like you were going to make sure he didn't forget this time or something. Yeah. Okay. I can't remember the specifics.
Wayland would have advantage. Not that it matters since they rolled a 13 and a 5. So 13 is their heist anyway. So yeah, you don't want to take that off.
I can't do it. So I'm like looking at all of my stuff and I think I'm going to unattune from my spear and then like I'll look to say, like, do you want to use this magic spear? You have to attune to it, but it seems like you don't have that much fancy gear. That's very kind of you.
I'm sure. So I don't. It's basically just a regular spear except it can hit from up to 120 feet away. Okay.
I'll type the thing. Am I proficient in this? I would not be proficient in this case. It's probably a good thing.
Simple melee weapon. Oh, no, I'm probably. Only two of my magical items require attunement. So I'm good to just put that on.
This might be a kind of game-pulting question. If I put this thing on this amulet, I normally have a plus five to basically all my weapons. Would that go down? Would that be the same or like?
It would go down by one because it would be reducing your proficiency bonus by one point, I think. Well, the thing is like what I have right now is I have the NPC build for Psyche. So that's my question is I actually don't know how this works for an NPC. What do you use for attacks?
Is it strength or decks? I can look at a meta- Depends on the weapon. Well, the shortsword is finesse. So you can use decks that were strength?
Oh, yeah. Well, yeah. Damn it, I should have done that battle. Yeah, my strength is plus zero.
So would that be? I would probably be proficient in this shortsword if I'm using it. So that would be just a plus two to the shortsword. I'll go in and edit that.
A snake hair of a nest weapon is the question. I think that natural attacks do count as a finesse thing, like an arm strikes. All right, cool. Then that's also reduced to two plus two.
The longbow is still kind of. Is there anything else in this room? Can I perception check? Any other shit lying around?
You may. Six. Yeah, that seems to be all that was in here is the amulets. There are a few crates of those and the journal that Day has.
Oh, I want to read that. Oh, I actually have an idea. Can I pocket a couple of the amulets on a tune to them? But I want to pocket it enough for my family.
Just in case I don't want anyone to die. Yeah, I'll take, so, Clio and then the three, that's four. I'll take four. Let me just give these things out in the streets.
Just throw them out windows. Yeah, I was thinking not that I said it up pretty well. But this might be a good stepping out spot for you because you have all these items. And if you give a Balora, a Garistro, something that reduces them down to a two proficiency.
That helps a lot. Not as much as it should. And then they can be easier. So you might have an easier time recruiting or you.
Oh, no, I can definitely come back and get them. Probably because it's not going on the streets in this part of town. It's flooded with rats. I just, for sure, I want to defend my family.
Yeah, OK. Oh, Day's reading the journal. Yeah, I want to read the journal. Let's see what my notes say.
I didn't actually write a journal entry. Is it a drill reference? Nice. I didn't mean to.
That's exactly fair. Basically, the journal talks about the increasing rat problem. And it goes into their design a little bit and how they made them. And it also curses at Queen Marguen a bit.
Queen Marguen? OK, this is a long time ago. Do you want to know where that is? You do.
So Queen Marguen is the ruler of this realm. Not just station five, the whole plane. There are some old stories, which you don't know if you believe. But they're stated in this journal about how she came in and she ruined everything.
It used to be these adventurers who you were created were talking about. Like it used to be the big, powerful looking creatures were the strong ones. And rats and things were inconsequential. But she came in and she changed everything and ruined that.
We've heard of Marguen too, though, right? You have a sword of vengeance? I think maybe. Yes.
Yeah. I tell the party. I didn't write it down. I probably wrote it down.
I still remember where. The sword of severance? Yeah. You mean the story from it or the actual details of the sword?
The story from it. And like, I don't think that we know that much about it. Just that it was a castle that we found and it has her name on it. And we know that it's a plus one weapon, but it becomes a plus three weapon and does a whole bunch of radiant damage to Queen Marguen.
Okay. I was just trying to make sure that it was Queen Marguen. Yeah. It's sort of vengeance for Queen Marguen.
And you didn't get it in a castle. You got it from the Thrall who was protecting the Vampire Tree. The Go-Bye Street. Not that where you got it.
It's really very important for knowing more. Okay. That's another path we might be able to consider. Wait.
Are you suggesting we go kill the queen of this plane? Or you know, like threaten her a little? I don't know. Ask her to set the natural order right?
Maybe? I don't know. So the people stop trying to leave. She's pretty.
I mean, if what I've heard about her is true, she's pretty fucking scary. Like you think the rats are scary? This woman is like... She must be really tiny.
... with us, then I think you're welcome. But I mean, you should think about your family because we could screw up and die. Well, I knew what I got into trying to fight the rats off.
I'm in. Okay. Sounds good. Let's go kill the queen.
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