Forgotten Hope | Pathfinder: Knights of Everflame | Episode 6

[Music] [Music] welcome to the sixth installment of the nights of ever flame a special eight part adventure to celebrate the launch of Pathfinder 2nd edition I am Jason Bowman director of game design at Paizo and one of the game's creators today I'll be your host and game master for the session but before we get started let's throw it around the table and meet Our meet our performers hi I'm Rachel Seeley hey America Fermina hi I'm Aki hello I'm Gina DeVivo and I'm Jeremy Steven Walker all right now that we've gotten a chance to meet our

cast why don't we get started right when we plant when we last left our intrepid band of adventurers 5 heroes conscripted and sent to last wall made their journey north along with lieutenant and 'la ålesund private car and little plucky halfling Named lucky that's such a friend however when you arrived and last while you found it in ruins the place on fire lieutenant ed listened tasked you with one thing and one thing only swearing you to become members of the last fall nights she tasked you with going south to return to her home town and

bring refugees to safety for three days you fled south being hounded by the undead as they poured out of castle ever stand the lieutenant and private left behind You made your way south to the small town of Khasan upon arriving there you found a less than welcoming reception the mayor of the town didn't seem too happy to see a bunch of refugees arrive on his door but fortunately the previous mayor Joan arc uptill found you heard your tale and immediately took you to his friend hole gassed a wizard in town and with the two of

them in tow you went to go speak with a very skilled ranger our nama who immediately went out to Help verify your tale the only way you were going to convince the mayor to save this town was to bring him proof on ARMA provided that proof being hounded I a number of skeletal Knights and a giant skeletal Minotaur you managed to defeat these folks and provide the proof to the Town Council which then gave you the all the supplies and Men are you needed to defend the town building up your defenses as best you could

building barricades reinforcing walls two days Later the undead or upon you their forces came in waves first hordes of zombies throwing other zombies even Giants throwing zombies it was it was a terrifying scene as the John be zombies tried to bash their way through the walls and indeed they destroyed most of the gates but that wasn't the end of the fight soon after skeletons came pouring through and the fight continued almost all the way until dawn you sent scant forces to guard the gates but they were Not enough and unfortunately hull ghast who was out

at the east gate did not return from his mission indeed striding into town was a headless horseman and upon closer inspection you realized it was the body a private car animated into foul by foul necromancy and turned into a headless horseman he threw the severed head of whole gassed at the group and charged was a ferocious battle car well armored and incredibly skilled at the blade nearly claimed Another couple of heads during that fight but you managed to prevail putting car back down into the grave you looked around it was dawn there was a dark

figure looming just outside town in the shadows and as the first rays of light approached it it faded into mist and vanished the town of Khasan survived but there was much mourning to be done there are many who died during the conflict including friends the town gathered the bodies for funeral pyres pyres burials Services in grieving but later that night there was a celebration held at the seven Silver's there the town folk gathered to remember those who were lost and celebrate those who triumphed you were guests of honor and insisted that up till joined you

the the old mayor seemed to regain some of his lost confidence at that joining you up at the head table she celebrated life and victory but such happiness turned out to be a little short-lived our nama who was Missing during the entire fight finally returned to town to tell you some rather unfortunate tidings the undead that you defeated were only the first wave they were the ones that were moving fast but there was another force a larger force that was coming in behind it slow moving the town had days to prepare but you barely survived

the first attack thoughts were starting to turn to fleeing leaving the town abandoning it going separate ways perhaps trying to Distract the undead all desperate gambits returning to the table you told uptill of your plight and he seemed to remember something he had came had come to the tavern with a book wrapped in a simple brown paper and he immediately broke it out ripped open the paper and put the book down on the table an ancient history of the deeds of heroes you he began to point you to various parts of the book that described

the life of ecat Casson the town's founder As turns out he was buried in a crypt some miles south of town and there above his tomb was installed the ever flame it was a magical flame that burns eternally above his crypt and the town had always assumed it was just a simple torch mounted into the wall but in this book there was an illustration of Casson wielding a burning blade and the end of it turned into a bit of a metal basket and if you were to flip that over and bury it into the wall

it might indeed Look just like a torch better yet more encouraging the description in the book mentioned that the sword was a weapon against evil and that it had power to put the dead to rest seeing hope in this you read further up till flip through the book to various stories and you learned that this might in fact be a legendary blade a relic of sarin ray the goddess of light and fire her holy magic is a scourge done dead and that lifted your spirits even higher a plan began to Form as the group gathered

to pay their final respects to hol gassed his body put on a barge and set down the river ablaze the group of you stood together triumphant knowing what you must do you must retrieve the ever flame and that is where we will pick up but before we do that evening you're all able to go back to your your rooms and rest you are exhausted even though you've got some sleep during the day it has still been another long exhausting day for many of You more than just physically there are scars of the past some of

which are been opened others which are trying to heal that takes a toll and you're able to rest but you feel renewed and invigorated and due to that you have all gained a level you have gone from fifth level to sixth level and to keep the stream moving along we've actually done all those adjustments between sessions so you are all ready to go and and prepared for further adventures so I Know you've all picked up some extra feets some extra abilities and those are really awesome but we're gonna let those be revealed during play so

when you run into them make sure you let the folks know that you're you're using something new and sparkly all right all right so it's the next morning everyone's gotten a full night's rest all of your spells and abilities are recharged all of you are at full hit points you're all in great shape as you get up you know you All kind of get up and I'm assuming gather in the in the in the the seven Silver's to discuss your plan Joan arc said that he was going to go and fetch a map so you're

just kind of waiting for him and you're all enjoying breakfast which at the seven Silver's are a number of sweet pastries some fresh fruit and some some some apple juice from the local orchards so you're all you're all there escena is serving up the the breakfast Meals there aren't too many other people here it's it's just it's just you mostly other locals you know they have houses so they're barren breakfast at home they definitely don't go out for breakfast so a few moments go by you know you're enjoying your meal and uptill comes in and

he's got like a whole like he's holding like a big sack of stuff and he's got a scroll wrapped up in one hand and he's like oh good morning and he's he's looking a little bit more Disheveled than he was last night but he hooked morning morning friends I hope you slept you slept well Oh hmm well so I was talking to to to some people in town last night and and and as they were burying the dead they you know because they were gonna burn them they stripped them of things that maybe wouldn't burn

and and and and father passed checked and and there were a few things that seemed like they might be magical and and I talked to him and since since Since you're since you're going on such a big quest we thought maybe you should have them okay so he kind of he he he opens up the bag now now the the father told me what kind of what these do but but I don't I don't really remember but but I'll kind of tell you because he figured it out he's better with magic than I am that

that stuff scares me and he kind of sits the bag down on the table and he starts dumping out items and there's not too many things in here There's that there's a pair of rings there's a set of boots and there's a suit of studded leather armor knees now don't worry a lot of these were on were on yeah but but but they've been living they've been cleaned so they're not matter means readjust the bracelet I have two staffs and I don't need to do you want all guests well you don't even know what it

does you've been holding it this whole time And you haven't investigated you can find out what the staff does you can do that by spending some time with it and making a skill check and that skill chests gonna kind of depend on what skills you're particularly good at for you it might be religion if you ever caught me you can try our chronic yeah go ahead and give it a try huh so you spend a few minutes examining the staff and you realize that it is that whole gas staff is filled with illusion magic And

while wielding it you can create a number of different types of illusions you can make simple sounds as a canned trip but if you spend charges and for any one of you who prepares it although I think it's probably it might actually only be the bard who has the right spells to prepare the staff well yeah and to properly use this you have to have all the spells in your fellas so it allows you to create like an illusionary creature or an illusionary horse you can Change your appearance or you can kind of throw your

voice or something it's called the staff of illusion so I'll let you check that out and you got a spare moment he's almost knowingly kind of looking at you you're pretty sure the portrait didn't just wink you're pretty sure that all right magic picture illusion you so powerful then you realized that he he holds out one of the rings and he says now now This ring this and it's a copper ring and he's like this ring will protect you against a little bit of fire so if you if you get if you get put on

fire this this ring will protect I'm terrified to fire oh my you sure are afraid of water that too but my family does not like fire you use other than Meyer spells right not on myself well I'll just I'll just put this and and these boots these are these are elven boots and you look at them and they are did you just say They are exquisite elven made boots and and he's like I don't really know what they do but I think they make you like really kind of like Dancy like an like an elf

pairs of these back home well I think I would be happy to take them if any of you have any objections you've awesome don't stink fancy boss would be quite what's my outfit I think they'd suit mind just and and here's some here's some armor and it's protective it's just studded leather Armor he's like I think it protects you like armor but but but look better armor because it's because it's magic I had a magic dust no your arm is pretty good yes very well down at her tattered I mean I've gone with less yeah

they try to fix it but great we know it won't stabbed you with it's hard right there's a big hole in it yeah that time I got secured perhaps you should take the off I tried but it's all no adventure with life flesh You know sewing it back up sure it's a bit different when it's dead yeah you're very close to things as well oh yes you know this isn't even mine you know this is sort of a hand-me-down so I guess not a lot I'm used to hand-me-downs okay so I'll just take that it

looks like it looks like with a little bit of adjustment it looks like it was made for somebody about a foot taller than you but you can adjust it he's like I yeah I had a magic vest once and it just you Couldn't get food stains on it it was really nice you know so so but but it I lost it anyway uh and in here and he puts up the last thing out and it's a it's a silver ring the head of which looks like a ram and he's like now I guess this ring

can summon a ram or something I don't really know I think you I think you can throw Rams at people I don't really understand it that's what they said I can throw around but that's that's What the preset is a live Ram and then you throw it you know I thrown around for I will take this so you yeah it like throws a ram it I don't really can identify it if you must okay also if you punch someone with that in the face what an indent right yeah you're going to make another are kind

of check if you want to learn a little bit more because his his description of it is a little lackluster you're like apparently it throws Rams You don't know I would I don't know lien-tsai most say a bit the the the father price just said you you just have to focus on it and it'll it'll do its thing you can folklore derp yeah and it throws a bigger RAM and RAM like in the middle of the like like in the middle of the tavern yeah so you just did it right and and you just you

only spent one one brief bit of focus doing it and all of a sudden this Ram like shape of force comes emanating out of the ring and Blows across the room it knocks over tables and like flowers on stuff things go flying everywhere and a scene is like apologies everyone and up dose just like that wasn't a ram what was that and it did kind of look like a ram fancy horse and you can make a fancy round we're going to have a whole fancy fire I shouldn't call him rod well so ramrod yeah so

that that's what they found there's also a couple of these potions and they said that they Would heal you there's a these are that's that's true i I've still got a couple of these on me so I yet had the chance to use them because we have such a competent and skilled healer just very true also I forget to use on what I'm sort of so these are these are these are simple moderate healing potions there's there's three of them and they will heal you for 2d 8+3 when you drink maybe it is better that

you have them all so my loud hold more than for sure then I'll take one though I don't know if I can drink it in the middle of bottle it has been a bit of a trick who you busy - busy swinging weapons to be to be drinking potions but you never know when it might save your life because the healer might not be anywhere near by you and somebody else might need to come to your aid and we need to take out that potion and sure if you need to just start a dribble it

down mean like a like a baby bird I'm okay if not you know sub Fighters should take that okay sure I'll take one let's hope it doesn't come to baby birding Hylian oceans alright you don't know it won't it's not before I'm I heard it before yes you know one of my friends in the monastery liked to climb the outside of the monastery and then he fell one day which I told him he would but he did not listen to me and then I had to Babybird him a potion so sure - already got it

so the breakfast rolls on as you continue To discuss potion dribbling strategies and we'll just assume there's a montage of it and and and up till up till just sits there like through the whole thing being like anyway a scenic continues to serve you breakfast and she finishes off it off with some very strong tea and as she is serving that are nama makes her way inside and she comes striding in and takes a seat at your table sheet she grabs a chair flips it around and just sits on it with her propping her elbows

On the back morning morning glad to see you're all in good spirits just about ready to head off I do have a question as it's been determined what is going to happen with the cussin when we leave have you have you come up with up tolls like well I've been working with with Colvin and well I I think the best thing we can do is try and rebuild some of the barricades and and and especially the gates and stuff to help help secure the town it could work if there enough of You mmm perhaps you

could invest in maybe digging some shelters underground well I think we can try I think the the main priority right now for a lot of the wood workers is getting stronger gates built because those those that's where they got in but they can carry a shovel in anyone who is not working on the wall good we have to be doing that the instead do you have any basements or shelters being right next to the river of basements don't tend to Do too well I had a wine cellar for a while but it kept flooding but

but but we can we can try I know there's there's a bit of a cellar underneath the the church and we can maybe try and expand that out a bit our nama kind of looks at all of you and says well I've been out I've been out ranging this morning I made my trek out to my vantage point to get a sense of where the forces were they're still moving they moved through the night that Kind of confirms my worst fears they are heading this way but they're slow and I think if if what I'm

seeing is true they're not traveling as a tight group which means they'll probably stop to gather before they attack oh you know I just had an idea because you have quite a bit of time before they come here perhaps you could get father price to work on a lot quite quite a bit of holy water and then you could use it in in like a cauldron above one of the gates And when they start to pile on you dump it like what some people do with boiling oil Oh nama looks to up Tolan he's like

I'll mention it so are nama says bye my best guests we have three days maybe four but I get a more probably closer to three residents prepared themselves for the worst-case scenario yes I don't want to scare them but I also don't want them to be unawares surprised Annamma says possible that Your own debt may be raised against you in the in during the battle when people fall we don't know what it is that is animating them are controlling them so burning the dead as you go is a good idea they make a great point

our nominees up dole says well yeah we uh we as we started making more preparations this morning word word spread fast so the the folk are worried but I'm think and I'm a pipes in and she's like well I think it's best if we Try and keep people's hopes up as best we can they'll be a bit better at their work and and be a bit more prepared for things to come I think worrying about the worst is on everyone's mind now they're amazing fighters and I don't just mean with weapons I mean in their

hearts she nods we we do our best I talked to that that I talked to rennet this morning just to give him the heads up about what was Happening I'm sure he's already to report to the mayor who's agreed to continue to work improving the town and fortifying it so you know small miracles yeah perhaps when is the election not for a few years I'm afraid it only happens once every four in I listen I I appreciate all of your concern but right now politics is not exactly what we need I agree vent nurses that

nurse a worthless fool but but right now we have bigger bigger bigger problems on our Doorstep is anybody making it has made attempt to reach out to him and ask him ask him to step down step out or step up what is the other hmm well I he's not currently in our way so I can't ask for much more than that but rennet did provide me with one thing that I think might help I got a pair of ponies and horses for y'all outside so that should help you get along ridin horses yeah and and

I've already stocked Him up with provisions for the travel so you should be good to go Oh yuck I also included some my scones um Joe knock you came in with the scroll is that the map Oh John argh he's had it tucked under his arm this whole time and he's like it sure is and he kind of unrolls it and holds up the map and he's like as you as you can as you can see here here's Casson and and and to get there there's there's a Path that leads down to the the broken

blade and it's called that because there's a bunch of trees knocked over and it got hit by lightning or something I don't know long time ago and then there's there's another trail that that takes you along the gray lake mm-hmm that that's a nice place it's it's Pleasant there and and then you need to make your way to serpent gorge it's it's kind of a windy Sargent place and and on the other side Of that and down at the base is is is is the the crypt of the ever flame that's that's where that's where

it is now I see this Gorge is there a safe way to get down in there well it's not it's it's not it's not it's not too steep I mean you you probably don't want to take take like like horses down in it but you can probably you probably get down it without that it's not like sheer it's just kind of yeah so so I'm just gonna a hand that you can take that I made a Copy that's that's that's copy I made one of those copies in like a 10 years no appreciate your assist

really I will be able to be so so I should also tell you kind of what's in the what's in the in there in the in the craft that would be no but they're they're they're gone we we made sure the place was cleared out there there's there's there shouldn't be anything in there there the dead are rising every day but it's but it's a bit of a it's a bit of a Maze in there right I mean cuz it because it was a crypt and at the bottom of it is you need to go

down down one whole level so there's the top level and there's there's a entry hall and there's a room with trap with pits but there's there I think the pillows might even still be in there they're probably gonna smell real bad and then then there's well that's that's gone and he's he's sitting here cataloging all these like traps and Tricks and stuff that are all broken and gone and at the end he's just like well yeah I mean you should just be able to walk kind of straight through and down to the crypt it shouldn't

be a problem at all things to turn off certain traps no no not really the one trap that you would have had to worry about like that at that that was dis act deactivated when we went in there and got the bodies out okay that was a long time ago we closed the place up and boarded up the Entrance so nobody nobody should have gone in there I mean it was ten years ago I don't think anybody's checked on it though so any sort of danger we might face in serpents gorge well I mean it's

it oh you're worried about snakes no no it's called that because it's kind of windy yeah it's fine I doubt there are any snakes in the in the gorge the mayor's like I don't I don't know well anyway I don't think you're gonna see any snakes in the serpent right I mean I Mean there might be don't worry if there are any I don't really know I don't want to lead you astray because the last time I said people there it went badly so I don't know be prepared we suddenly very worried no expectations and

even if there is something wrong there it is not your fault it has been neglected for a very long time and so who knows what has happened to it in the meantime alright okay And with that uptill kind of looks at all of you and says well that that's that that's all I all I got I I wish you well and and and and good luck finding the they ever flame bring it bring it back Thank You mr. mayor because I'm calling you mr. mayor you will be learn to take a compliment right thank you

for everything that you have done absolutely we truly would not be here today without your vehicle without your support and Your help mmm thank you for trusting us and the scones so you make your way outside and our nama is out there she left at once once up til started talking about the map line um I went outside to to to prepare the horses and and you make your way outside and there are our five horses they look in good shape there are well none that you're being given so I'll always mind pooch punt punch

punch punch punch so you're picking so well you kind of have to pick One of the one of the ponies there's two ponies and three horses that's fine I picked a one with two baby fat yeah that that's definitely one of the ponies ponies that looks creepy there is one that's kind of a grey Palfrey huh this one's mine and his name is Bowie I I will take one of the ponies and I will name it mughelli alright my horse will be called game teabiscuit alright cuz it's carry to school got it I love it

What is breakfast you can decide on what color is the last one the last one is a mottled Brown pony but it appears to have silver eyes I mean it would save me a spell slot and we have two horses yes dang it I had a name and then I lost it we can even a moment to meet her yes I want to meet her I wanna get to know I wanna see oh she rides all right so she are Namas there and she's she's she one by one she kind of unties they're there their

bridles from the the hitching post And hands them to each one of you she explains that they all have saddles and saddlebags on them already she explains that in one side is food and and some water so there's some mostly it's like hardtack and and traveling food but she does say that she included some scones in there for each of you and on the other side she explains that there's some like traveling like bed rolls and stuff like that so you can you can have a easy way to stay are nama once she Hands all

of those to you she kind of looks at all of you and says now I I reckon that you got three days mm-hmm the the map that up til gave you the Crypt by horse is probably only a little bit over a day away so you should be able to make it a good chunk of the way there today and arrive at the crypt early tomorrow if you're able to make your way through the crypt quickly you can be back here by the end of the second day you might have to push hard Into the

night to make that happen but you should be you should have a day to spare we will try to be as sweet as we possibly can thank you for their map it will help tremendously thank you all right well I wish you all the the best of the best of luck and we'll be here when you get back can I can I make a suggestion of course Oh since we are going to nap since we're going to take a day to get that and then get there in the morning I could go ahead and cast

Wanderers guide and then we can get there quickly and maybe sarin ray will smile upon us and have us avoid any danger on the way if that is what you would like to do you are more than welcome to we're not later Oh later tonight yes so I hurry storm I'm a bit distracted my dad asked is there something I can leave for a father past with you are naama says yeah you sure can I mean he's he's probably right over in the in the shrine you are right next door I'll take it to him

I need to go in anyways okay we're gonna run into the temple together sunshine squash our hearts thank you feet Bowie one of my scones they already are I love Bowie so Wanderers guide was the perfect spell to get you through that lost forest but here where you have a trail on the map it's really probably no okay just so you know because you're not Lost and you're not traveling through difficult terrain you're going on a trail and you know where you're going I just wanted to give you a heads up so you make your

way over to the over to the over to the church and you go inside and the father is currently in the middle of wrapping up a sermon and so he's he's talking about he's currently extolling the virtues of community and how the bonds that bring people together are are inspired by a Rasta and that the God draws people together and it's through his his love that communities stay strong and he wraps that up and there's a number of villagers there and they kind of nod and and get up to go and pay their obeisance 'as

to varying shrines and then and then go on their ways so he's he's currently like closing up his holy book and and he he sees you and and knots for the past man he looks at you of of course of Course what is it any kind of what he does is he scared he's got a very easygoing nature about him for a man who's who's kind of pretty live and and well built he moves with kind of a fluid grace and he kind of steps off to the side of the altar and he just kind

of sits down next to it and so he's kind of looking up at you and he's like what can I help you with a beautiful sermon by the way it was very nice I may not follow your deity but that was beautiful I've been doing a lot of thinking about our conversation yesterday hmm and I want to leave you with something he's like I donated to help feed to the poor in the image not so much a donation she like gets out a couple gold coins okay maybe she could leave the donation yeah that's that's

up near the front door there's like a plate all right um you see what I wear with shillings emblem yes I that is that is how I got a sense of who you were Nicholas pulls a petal off of the emblem of shellin mmm-hmm I've been searching for something that's similar to this hmm I'm hoping that by leaving this with you a man of faith hmm perhaps pieces of it may find its way back to you and when I find my way back to you you could have let me if you find the rest he

kind of looks at it knots well I will I will certainly keep an eye out he says I've never seen anything like it before is it Something sacred to shellin looks like part of a rose it is it's more of a family heirloom hmm and well this is only part of it that I mmm the remainder of it is uh it's out there somewhere he he takes it and he says well I will I will keep it safe and should any of the other petals cross my path or or should I hear of them in

town you will be the first first person I alert I appreciate that and again thank you blessings be upon you when your your companions and Upon you a wrassle strength I hope that it guides you good luck so to speak if I see any I'll let you know from now the entire journey down there but also I'd like to run over to the shrine of Sarah and Ray and give it a little kiss yeah and then cast the light can trip on it so that it shines and and and it works nothing although you can't

help but be troubled by your nightmares from the other night it worked it did work it did work and Now it's shining no it's here and I know that it's shining and this image right here gotta burn it into my brain and it'll be stuck in my head the shrine of sarin ray shining with light and everything's fine everything's fine so the five of you gather back outside smart boots nah they look good on me and hey your armor is looking rather nice on you too you know I do say so myself look at this

waist come on thank you and She kind of like watching it's like watching a child get up on a horse she's like and just hangs on to the Kinect first four first you're kind of like strong over it as if I'm on it it's okay we're not gonna fall are we boys how I do it I'm gonna just swing your leg that's gonna hurt your tummy oh oh I mean yeah that makes more sense okay yeah what's your once you're kind of seated in the saddle all right these are these are proper saddles so they've

Got a little bit of a saddle back to them and they've got gonna pommel and you're able to kind of grab those in the rain it's if you've never been on a horse before and and many of you at least haven't been on a horse in a while it it is it is a little bit of a period of adjustment but they do move swiftly Nicholas takes a scone jeepers good have a tea biscuit oh oh I should also note that the saddlebags also have feed for the horses Well there are also like in addition

to some like some general feed there's also a handful of like there they're older kind of looking apples but perfect care of us on the road if we need I am we're going to be okay I guts here we've got two we had powders in a backed-up horse well some music to travel by road trip list how fast does a pony go well fat faster than you on foot but like instead of moving it like you know 25 30 feet you know per move horses Move it about 40 you all begin riding leaving the town

of Caston behind as you leave the town square are nama is there watching you go up tall up tall and escena come out to wave and see you off is your turn and make your way south because that is the direction you must go the the undead armies are looming to the north you are turning and heading south to head to the crypt of the ever flame you ride south to leave cast into the south gate the only gate that is in Fact intact it was the only one that was not destroyed during the during

the assault you make your way up to the south gate and this is right next door to Colvin's house and you see him out in the front yard and as you ride by he stands up to wave at you and but as he does so he kind of very nervously like throws a tarp over something that he's working on that's kind of big and he he sees you and he immediately throws the tarp over it are you making a horse it's Not that big but it is something kind of Oni kind of long that he

is he is in the middle of of carving are you making a very long Pony he's you start shouting out of him what are you making and he's just like never you mind never you mind good luck it is an 18 on a perception check it's a long pony so all of you that took a look of course listen particularly curiosity you take it you take a look and you you Try and get a glimpse of what it is and all you can make out is that it was some ornate carved pole it looked like

but it was kind of hard to make out exactly what it was it was some sort of large ornate thing that he was in the middle of carving and but the moment you showed up he threw this tarp over it and he's just he's standing in front of it as if he's as if trying to block your view of it you keep your secrets I know what it is I don't want any spoilers it's a pony I'm already sick before it's a long pony turn one that all of the kids in the village can sit

on I'm right okay I know I'm right he he waves to you as you pass and and and and shouts good luck the town will be here when you get back we will return hurry he has a concerned look on his face there's something kind of haunting about the way he's he's he's looking at you but if there's some sort of worry on his on his face he is he's been through a lot I think it is a safe To say that everyone in this town right now is a bit troubled but I think that

I if it still seems as though he is a experiencing grief grief when we return maybe we take some time to sit with him maybe he just needs some companionship alright the group of you begins to ride south so the miles begin to roll past and the day with it the journey through the fang wood this part of the Fang would at least is relatively serene you begin your journey by just kind of Riding through Pleasant forest lands here and there you run into large clearings where there are farms because south of the town are

where most of the farmers live north of the town by the way is actually technically last of all this town is on the border so Casson kind of straddles the border but to the south is where most of the farmers live in open meadows and whatnot they if they've plowed them and planted crops you ride Through some apple orchards you run through a few areas of fields there are farmers out there going about their their daily lives many of them probably blissfully unaware of the danger that is to the north of them although certainly the

ones right near town new but after a few hours you start running into the last of the farms and and these farmers seem oblivious to what has been going on they're just going about their daily lives the journey then turns into the Deeper wood and you begin making your way to the first marker on that map the broken blade from what I can see from the map has been cleared by some sort of phenomenon it is a an empty patch just here in the middle of the wood well you you find out soon enough because

a little after midday you arrive at a very large clearing at this point in time you've been traveling for about four or five hours those of you who don't have any experience on horseback are really Starting to feel it yeah and generally speaking that means for those of you who aren't trained in nature you probably don't have much experience in horseback this is this is what they do I mean I think but if you are ever want any lessons or pointers or tips I have known oh my god so the first thing that is most

important for you to remember is you have to move with the horse that doesn't mean like bouncing up a down a bunch but allowing for the the horses Movement to show in comments the motion of your hips and stuff like that it the motion in your hips is the most important thing to just stay loose motions stay loose there's exciting you might not what to worry about that right now Oh get experience with a decent oh no no no what are you all there's at least one moment where you go racing off the end of

the path and it takes about a whole minute for the horse To kind of calm down take a little bit of time with that horse you arrive at this broken glass in the early afternoon and at this point in time all getting a bit hungry it's been it's been many hours since breakfast to see if I can step in the rabbit or quail give me a survivor I'm squaring very well I want to go hunting for berries if they're only I know it's autumn so there might not be much much up many options but I

would like to uh I want to go Hunting for flowers are you serious ridiculous he snuck a few more scones [Laughter] but I have the forager the forager feet which means I believe that you get twice as much as long as it is and it is the these woods are very bountiful you're able to find quite a few handfuls of kind of end-of-season blackberries have you ever tried the blackberry and oh not too much berries for me you know they don't really grow Or I grew up sweet the scones and you also managed to catch

a few quail and then any mushrooms that I pick up any other no you didn't - water oh no no no I we will roast the queer and then with the scones maybe we can make a little bit of a blackberry sauce to go I'm not so sure there's any skulls though they are better be scones I have not had this if you fed them okay fine I will take you out oh you all had a couple wrapped up in Your own saddlebag you but it but it's clear it's clear that oculus has all of

his there they are gone Tony Tony I think that between the three of us we can probably provide for everyone so everybody can have a scone with them there and you won you won only one you have I'll go build a fire I sound so good especially if you have never first you have to try this fresh okay no this is our blackberry it's our knack berry lakhvir and you said it pops it's like a Pop of flavor just one go yeah just pop right into it you never trade on either the roof or your

mouth it tastes like end of season very discriminant yeah no this is a little tartar than you would like you would probably send this back these are the kinds of berries that they're perfect for making wine so if I managed to find enough of them I might take some of them back to a house fear alive I should note some of you did wake up with a bit of a morning light was a Little bright in particular I believe omelet and linnaeus both had a little bit of fuzz around the I don't know purpose headache

I'm excited to be hungover ugly way too exciting while we're eating and workshopping names with my horse so so the horse the horse has spent the entire ride it's a very it's a very proper horse it hasn't has it bucked it's giving night oh it's it's giving you a very smooth ride and unlike Around the other horses it kind of holds its head a little high and it's just kind of it has a nice kind of high trot [Laughter] alright so we have two biscuit key biscuits and tea - it doesn't look like the one

you have and she pulls out this like little blue flower and it has all these little like it's not even petals it's very small spiky bits ton of them it's not really spiky but it's a bachelor's button she passes it off it's Not like you always but it's pretty well I am a bachelor so you're able to enjoy a bit of break and lunch in this sunny clearing and all of the troubles of the last few days seem now almost like distant memories as you're all kind of lounging in this warm Glade lounging per se

I'm still keeping it where they're of course but but this is a this is a pleasant Glade it does look like at some point in time in the past some sort of and it may have been a long time ago Some sort of kind of Cataclysm hit this Glade like something struck it and a bunch of the trees were knocked down I know but you can give me a forest lawyer to kind of try and determine like from the signs what it might be like well that's not bad at all I will think it that

would be a 28 so it's definitely not a lightning strike that generally only hits one or two trees and starts a fire this looks like it may have been and you've seen this Once before in back in in Kainan the every once in a while a star will fall from the heavens and when it does it kind of can cause some pretty bad devastation depending on the size of it it almost looks like a falling star hit this part of the forest probably a long time ago the the trees here are the fallen trees here

are gray that's how old they are and they're not petrified but they are calcified they're they're not they're not there but these Are these are like oh you can't even tell because it's been so long and the force too slowly started to reclaim the glade it's it's kind of impossible to even see what direction it came in well there's nothing fitting name for such a place as this this is a star Haven I want to find it yeah it's it's clear that the locals didn't quite figure that out they don't they don't definitely review if

you become mayor oh no no dirt clods go you know the Mirror yeah they are more charismatic and Enda intriguing folks among us than I think oh no I don't want to be man as long as they're good people you don't necessarily need to be mean did you meet the current mayor he's got no no charisma no you haven't you hear to not make a friend what do you mean you're not charismatic that's true it's true I've made friends with all of you and they say that's five people in a matter of moments yeah Mm-hmm

and I appreciate the confidence you are confi I find you very charming you're roused all those farmers to be bowmen your you're good at Raleigh and Rae I'm Raleigh and binder yeah I would vote for you thank you so the lunch is quickly finished and your your journey still lies in front of you you continue to dig for a bit but never find it you never find well you find rocks Oh pocket a couple of I know It's a pretty run of scars if you think about the three RL stars you do find one that's

about this big that is kind of looks like it's dark grey rock oh do I promise that I'm quite knowledgeable of rocks dude do you have a a lower skill field but that's where my family is and I'm a rock runner sort of well well you have dwarven sure what kind of one these days she's just holding up a rock after Rock almost all of them are just like that's granite and that that's granite And that also granted 24 so you don't know what it is but it's not technically completely a rock that's not far

as metal in it that's definitely not for rock that looks like a bit of what I know and a bit of what I swing oh you pocket it great yeah all right if you can polish it you might have a yeah immediately you're going to start using it to sharpen and start polishing this down so you can't use it to sharpen your axe it doesn't Look like it's it's kind of a jagged piece of rock you used it you might dammit it's not a stone it's more sort of it's like a chunk of rock I

mean yeah with metal inside yeah that's some striations of some sort of dark gray metal how did you not a stone polish a rock with a rock maybe we are maybe we see if we can find in I mean I know you in experts experts but that's not particularly what I was trained and shame or my family so so you try and Polish the rock with another rock I'm a crafter you can kind of try that I mean you you might just determine what which one's Harbor but because that scales how would I purchase don't

you ever craft I need more wet storms and so give me give me a craft check good craft craft will help no it's too early to spend a hero point on identifying a ride my journey as game master is complete can I help her I'm crafty yeah you can you literally are looking at and you have no Idea what it is I have 23 everyone is looking at this rock like what is this and that's the party that's the gauge all right so um none of you can figure out what it is but I will

give you one piece of information you do take another Rock that's just kind of an ordinary rock and you kind of just scrape against it to kind of see which one's harder to see because you have a piece of just kind of ordinary granite and something Interesting happens some of the rock that's around the metal bands breaks away when you when you scrape it against the rock so that stuff is pretty fragile but the metal the the striation of metal it doesn't break or bend at all and it scores right through the granite here's what

we do we use the rocks you get the other rock off the the one with the metal and then we have just the mantle and then we can look at just the metal yeah that would take hours this is what I'm going to be doing on top of podge it's it's actually really hard to do that with case you're gonna be trying but thank you see this if we ever have the time to do a little bit of exploring if we ever get some time time after this we should come back here and see if

we can find more of that we can maybe make you a new axe so when you see that happen it does kind of jog on ancestral memory Oh wharves dwarves love to work in rare and exotic Metals and you don't know what that is but you're pretty sure it it very well could be a type of sky metal you you don't know much about sky metal but you know it comes from the sky well maybe that's the star collecting I don't know I send a note to me mom yes daughter would know yeah she's the

one who trains all my sisterís I can see now who's receiving the note this is definitely where my mother lives and you see list scratch out something on the Map and and write something else right so you you pick up and it's it's a small it's a small rock we're not talking about okay a huge but you have a small these so you pack up after your lunch you finish up your your your quail and your berries and and some and some scones for those of you who still have them you you enjoy pretty much

just some water that that's what's in the in the in the in the water skins that are in your pack although I should note that Each of you also has a tiny little hip flask of Mead floating around in the bottom of your of your of your bags it's not much but it sits there so you're able to you're able to pack up and continue your journey pushing deeper and deeper into the Fang wood as the the day wears on the forest gets more and more dense more and more wild in fact you are entering

a part of the wood that is very old growth there is a trail it's a very well it almost looks like a well-kept Hunter's trail that leads south so your the guide the horses horse is quite well and with the with the help of the map you avoid taking any wrong turns it may not show it on there but there are some some other paths that crisscross this trail and but those are marked and you are kind of told the correct way to go it's pretty clear that this map was designed so that a bunch

of inexperienced woodsmen could easily follow it to the destination but no and For you with some skill at navigating your group can find your way without a trouble without any trouble at all so you continue making your way and the day slowly slips into dusk but just as that begins to happen the forest gives way and you find yourself looking out at the banks of a very large lake nestled out here in the in the forest there is a long body of water and you now see why it's called grey lake it is very Placid

it's not it's it's just kind of not big Enough to have much in the way of waves so it reflects the sky with kind of good clarity and if it were cloudy that would just be a grey mirror but right now it's it's it's dusk so the the sky is full of colors that is now reflecting off of the off of the lake do you want to know something weird sure the monastery doesn't have mirrors so I don't really know what my face looks like you don't know what you look like I mean you know

we would like to sit between classes and look at each other and say you've got long brown hair and you've got blue eyes and yes but I always got like you look weird no oh that's mean oh it's not mean it's just true I don't think there's a doctrine different you look like you we just not a bad thing oh this is I haven't brain my weird weird is fine weird is different you want to take a bit teen of a peek at yourself like squats on the Edge of the lake and just stares for

a minute so she is readable but she's not afraid of you just move in water a bit flat she's not going over it she's looking I want to go look - that's been a while my horse is like five names I still can't decide I wanted to give her a title something something legal excellence lady elegance oh yeah toying with different fabrics radiant velvet thank you listen I still looking over like please lass you know it's a good Call can we touch the one in the mirror okay so you you reach out and kind of

touch the water yeah and and and and Placid ripples go out into the water and feels like what Achilles and I'm gonna say Liss the three of them are currently the other three are currently arguing over horse names right into my own back your big bang your face without the curtain Oh interesting to see with both eyes yours do too hot for your face the perception penalty all right listen A Nicholas the two of you are not engaged in that discussion Gillis Nicholas touches his his finger to the the water a placid ripples just kind

of go out into the life they don't go far I mean it's not like a magical effect it's normal but King both of you give me a perception check just the two of you my new perception everyone's everyone's perception went up by one because you gained 11 21 21 8 26 now you missed that one 26 lists you Look out to the water you notice that the ripple that left from Achilles's finger-touch is being met by another ripple that is from further out in the water and is moving toward the group rapidly everybody move away

from the water right now you are able to call out and give your watcher or shouts warning as a matter of fact that's exactly what it is as the water in front of you erupts you are all blasted with water as rising up out of the lake is an Absolutely gigantic snake the mayor made it very clear that you would not meet any snakes at the serpent guards and you're not at the serpent great alright can I get everyone please to roll initiative please for everybody this is gonna be perception if nobody was out hiding

or doing anything like that and I want to be clear this snake has to be about 20 feet long its body is a good foot and a half two feet wide and it is just rising up out of the water this Perception so it's Linnaeus what do you have 26 26 tauriel what do you have 23 lists I rolled but so I have a 16 oh well this is winter but omelette I also wrote but for me 20 there are worst all right uh thanks to Lissa's warning Nicholas Oh whatever you get to go first

and I do mean literally because of Lissa's warning head oh you not shouted out that warning oh no it would go first and I was right so it is rearing up to strike what do you do It is currently it's already ten feet away from them so it's ten feet into the water okay now the water here is pretty shallow but moving into it the water will count is difficult terrain which means when you move into it for every five feet that you want to move you have to spend ten feet of movement but it's

not that far away so you can still get to it with one move my first Achilles is first reaction steps back is is ramrod alright alright So you're going to use the ring of the RAM on it are you going to spend all three actions uh well because the snakes what you said 10 10 feet away so yeah and I have a range of you have a range of 30 feet okay but the way the ring works is that you can spend one two or three actions to activate it okay each additional action you spend

makes the force more powerful so it'll do more damage and it'll push the snake back further okay let's use all three all Three well also I should note none of you have weapons drawn you're not ready for battle you are just arguing about sorry debating horse names and and looking at your reflection so none of you are ready for battle the ramrod would be the perfect absolutely so go ahead and this doesn't actually require you to make an attack role okay so if you're spending all three actions on it you are going to do six

d6 damage oh and I need to make a fortitude safe correct Oh yeah all right I have to make a fortitude save correct yes all right I need two more yeah oh these are cool terminal dice all the numbers are little hearts it's gonna be 11 16 21 23 23 points of damage and you're attempting to push it back 15 feet because you spent all three charges yeah it makes the fortitude safe so it's only going to take half damage instead of taking 23 it's only going to take 11 but that is 11 points of

damage it didn't have before and it is still pushed back 5 feet which is super important because it could reach you at 10 feet it can't reach you at 15 which means it has to spend an action to move this is next I love this ring it's a good ring so this snake which by the way looks like a giant anaconda is going to strike out an attempt to bite Achilles the force came out of you so here it comes armor class 33 oh wow 25 25 that's going to hit but It's not a crit

I'm going to do 17 points of damage okay and for its third action it grabs you so here's what here's what happened Lee it currently has you grabbed in its mouth it you cannot move from your current position and if you attempt any action that requires you to manipulate things like drawing a sword or getting a potion or doing anything like that because it kind of has you those actions might just fail so you have to roll What's called a flat check to make those actions it's a real simple thing whenever you try to do

them you'll roll a d20 you need a 5 or higher if you don't at least get a 5 the action is wasted because you try to do it and you can't okay but you can try as many times as you want to spend actions okay so that's that's really the only penalty other than the fact that you're also flat-footed yeah so that's that's that's What's going on so that is the anacondas turn though linnaeus what would I have to rule to identify this thing that would be a nature check because it is a giant snake

I'm gonna try it all right just this does take you an action 17:17 you know that it's a giant anaconda on the upside you know that anacondas are not poisonous good start but they are they will crush you yeah yeah okay okay knowing that I point a Finger at it and I say drop him and I it needs to make a will save against my fear alright so you're going to use a fear effect against it not a command that's an important distinction as it can't understand you if you if you can try and cause

to causes have fear this is a will safe I am going to get a 34 oh I guess right so that's two of your actions no yeah that's - oh yeah you're all done correct if you'll give me another no - you've got it Toriel it is your turn to act okay well um I am going to use an action to cast inspire courage all right so you have cast inspire courage which is going to give everyone a +1 bonus on fact roles you have two actions remaining I do but I don't have anything drawn

I could you know I'm just going to use a telekinetic projectile alright well there's there's plenty of rocks next to the river inside questions yes I took the feet spell reach yeah This isn't applicable to this term but does that also apply to staff I don't think it applies to staff spells it only applies to the spells okay well I'm just going to grab a rock and that believe that requires you to make an attack role so go ahead and do that [Music] 21:21 will miss stone bounces off of its leather --'tis scales you can

make a lot Of Paris come on team look at this guy alright that was tauriel omelet hello you're what's for breakfast Cal Narnia omelet I'm coming okay so this thing is right for me no actually it's uh still ten feet out in the water you can still get to it with the move sure sure sure all right you go splashing into the water one wolf you do not have a weapon drone you now have a weapon drop alright so you are not raging no not yet No time for that no time hmm + 15 /

6 / 16 28 28 is a hit go ahead and roll damage quite as much because you're not raging 23 23 points of damage still a very reasonable hit your ax dives into it's scales red blood pumps out of it but it it looks like it's still in prime fighting provision that is a wound but not a serious one listen I am going to scratch one booth against the other tap my toe against the ground and activates my boots of elven kind huh I am going to Place my hunt prey target on the snake and

then I am going to spend the movement on any feet I took which is quick-draw all right which allows me to draw my weapon and shoot it in the same motion all right so I will do that first all right so you just picked up quick-draw which for one action allows you to draw a weapon and attack oh wow it's going to be a 20 on that first first attempt total of 20 yes your your arrow goes skipping off of its Its scales and does not manage to land and then I'm going to use my

final oh wait I still have two actions well you you hunted it and you only have one I will use my movement to get a little bit more distance on it oh you move back a little bit alright yeah because it's it's really close like it could attack you from where it's out right yeah I'm gonna I'm going to scoot back top of the order Nicholas now you are grabbed yeah you do Not have a weapon drawn that's gonna limit your options a little bit okay who can draw a weapon or try to you can

also try and break free of the grappled now to break free of the grapple the best way for you there's a few different ways you can do that you can make an athletics check you can make an acrobatics jacket yeah and let extractors just to force your way out the acrobatics check is to kind of wiggle your way out and last but not Least you can just try and kind of beat your way out of it you won't deal damage but you're just basically trying to punch it until it lets go of you it's not

about dealing damage it's about kind of getting it to leave you alone okay with your skill a curb our athletics might be your best bet but I leave that up to you let me I'm gonna break free all right ethics check it's a 26 so you attempt to force your Way out but a 26 is not enough okay so that is your first action you can continue to try you can also try and draw a weapon but remember that's gonna be a flat check I'm okay with that okay so you gonna try and draw your

weapon yeah okay so what did you get ten ten that's enough you managed to succeed so with your second action you draw your blade you can attack that's okay that that you can just do that's all right so it still has you grabbed and you attack [Music] I'm eating up the hero points early in this session let's go okay so that's going to be a 24 a 24 just barely misses you're like your blade hits the the backside of it and slides down the swellow eight i have the such 25 forgot about the partic inspire

courage huh yes that's gonna hit Thank You ty yeah yeah that's much better alright so go ahead and deal damage okay and it's just gonna be okay the things I done did yeah it's Gonna be a D twelve plus four six six alright it was like better than nothing you you score a wound on the serpent alright alright so the Anaconda goes this is this is delightful the firts first action it transfers you from so it starts wrapping around you so it has you bit like it's holding you with its mouth and as it does

so it's body starts wrapping around you and soon the mouth let's go but that's because you're in its coils and it is now got you Coiled up that's one of its actions is just to transfer you from its mouth to its coils with its second action it's going to constrict you now the way that this works is you need to make a fortitude save so why don't you go ahead and do that 18 all right so you're in trouble take 10 points of damage and it squeezes you so hard you black out he he's just

he's not dying though he is currently unconscious okay but he's not in dying correct he is Unconscious that is different he's like um what it basically means is that he cannot act until he regains consciousness now that's not going to happen as long as he's constricted so as long as it has him he cannot act and it's probably going to continue to crush him every round so that is its second action with its third action now that its mouth is free it darts out and attempts to bite omlette so this is unfortunately It's only attack

of the round so it's not taking a penalty on this everything else wasn't it wasn't an attack role so this is going to be an armor class of 30 to take 18 points of damage from the bite it does not have an action left to grab you so that's good it's turn is over the snake has a cue las' in its coils it is crushing the life of out of him I would say that he is turning blue but none of you can tell behind the mask linnaeus the skulls are coming up Indulging that's true

I'm going to pick a spot right behind it okay so I can get all along the back all along the back of the head all along the back of the coils sure I'm gonna cast viable alright you can easily position that in such way that it doesn't hit Achilles because it's nice kind of reared up out of the water and I should note this thing is in the water and if it takes Achilles under the water mm-hmm he's in very bad trouble it's Real real bad enough good luck I'm going to make a reflex save

that's caught that one right there okay 17 points of fire damage it's going to fail the saving throw and take the 17 but that is not enough to kill it or even get it to let Achilles go you still have one action remaining so questioned yes since I have I don't have my staff in my hand can I just channel my magic through it without having it in my hand to heal him from the staff yeah well so with one Action you need to be able to touch you could draw the staff though if you

wanted to and if you want to use the staff you have to have it yeah okay you can't have it stored in their back no I want to get in there they want to move up okay you move up into its into its into its area tauriel courage yep second I'm going to oh shoot it's an action to pull out a scroll isn't it yep three actions not quite enough that's one more than you had in first edition [Applause] um but that's only a move oh that's true like omelet what's I swear I was only

I was really quickly time I could use for action be hold on it hit it hit it you're already quite wiggling to actions cast haste alright alright so you're gonna get an extra stride or a strike that's all you can use those for I wonder which one moving down the order the next person to act is omelet right My friend go okay so first things first okay so I'm on the snake it's it's it's wiped at me yes so um I would like to start hacking away at the coils in an attempt to sort of

loosen and if I see any loosening further investigation all right you're gonna have to do a lot of damage to it to get it to start loosening up right now it's uh it's looking pretty fit pretty fit it's fit it's got some wounds but it doesn't look like it's Despero yeah okay okay then Well denote rage all right I mean I'm doing to make sure damage oh as I'm as I'm running wittle my hips to sort of activate Jo so it's time to wake up swing alright so you raised with your first action second action

is an attack woohoo oh gosh no it's I saw one so and okay 35 45 is exactly what you needed to score a critical so go ahead and roll that that to d12 add up all of your bonuses I'm assuming You're doing negative damage right now 24 doubled doubled to 48 48 slam your axe into the snake and like at one spot you cut it almost all the way to the vertebra and and the snake kind of Rives and hisses blood is pouring out of its side now it looks like it went from being in

pretty good shape to being pretty hurt but it still got a hold of Achilles all right I still have to go ahead and make no it depends on the day all right so you make your your second Swing nope and that that's not going to do but you do still have one more action because of haste yeah and it can be a stride or a strike this one's gonna still be at a -10 but you can still make it striking no it's readable it's cocked but it's readable I'll keep that so you swing furiously your

first hit was brutal but the other two just the other two just couldn't manage to come in it connect angry well you're also standing In like River mud and stuff or lake mud so your your footing isn't very great in this rashing about lists it is your turn yep pray my pray and I will get you you have my friend you will let him go at this very instant and I will take my hunted shots all right two arrows come hissing out the first one I don't know I'd say 15 plus 7 which is 22

which i think is not hits 23 yes 23 is going to come up just short thank you for anything you had that this One I'm always very advised that's remember and the second one told me he it's either but they still have it there that you still have two more actions because if you use that hunted shot that's two attacks for one action but they the hunt prey is a is that just up well well hunt prey once it's up it stands up until the creatures dead tight yeah you only get the extra precision damaged

all on one head these last two attacks are gonna be at a Very large penalty yeah this is 30 minus 10 which is 20 which it doesn't hit yeah and I don't even know what the penalty is for a fourth hit it's still just minus 10 they get caps at at at the top natural 20 well that might do it let's figure out what the attack role is to see if it's a hit or a critical hit 35 minus 10 which is 20 36 minus 10 which is 30 I know that that inspire courage always

catches you yeah we should get a flag for good so a 36 minus 10 is at 26 26 is a hit the 20 makes it a credit so go ahead get my precision on that correct very well you'll get the precision it's just not doubled okay all right cool I got neither as though there is that oh this is great actually you know what I think the precision is double I think the precision is doubled as well but there's something else that I get to do oh so that's grapple it back that's actually exactly what

I guess this is your arrow I get to immobilize It because I have a critical specialty with my bow that I kind of forgot about but we uh ya know we're back I can I can pin it to the ground awesome that's enough so we can't go in the water oh so so does the precision get out of yes so that's nice plus eight which is 17 yeah 17 times 2 34 34 plus 5 39 points a day and it is now immobilized so your arrow thank you notice flying through the air and dives straight

through the snake you Hits hisses and Rives but it looks like you you pinned its tail down in the muck it will now have to struggle to break free of that but it'll cost it in action if it even tries to do so but it still has a killer ain't going nowhere baby it's still fighting top of the order Achilles you're unconscious you don't get to act you're you're blacked out you're in you're in you're in a darkness that feels far too tight and and and crushing as a matter of fact the snake Now goes

its first action is to continue crushing you take 11 points of damage as it does so with its second action it is going to attempt to bite omelet again that is an armor class 37 the snake desperately hurt rages and slashes out with its fangs with its bite and hits you for 36 points of damage instead of trying to grab you though it spends its third action lashing out at with its tail its tail has greater reach but oh the well the it's it's immobilized kind Of in the middle of it the tail can still

kind of swap out it looks like it it's it's it doesn't know what's kind of what's holding it on it's not used to being pinned uh-huh what it does still it still slashes out with its tail and it's going to slash out at linnaeus because you are right next to it the tail comes flying you this is an anti all tax so the penalty isn't as big 23 it's by one so it's going to hit you with the tail You will take 22 points of damage and you're knocked back ten feet so you're knocked back

away from it so you're put Li away from it and because you approach on the side of Shore you are pushed out back onto land it fits you so far hard you get knocked back up on to land that is the snakes turn Linnaeus okay well this thing has made me mad what do we do to things that make me mad we send sarin rays holy ass I I'm not sure what spell that is called Searing light oh okay I didn't know was shaped like a butt but all right not a 20 but it's a

19 let's see let me hang on it's it's it's a 30 did you have your plus-one visit one place 31 that is a hit no 32 sorry it still not a critical hit that's fine that's fine that's that's just fine right you don't get to make a save you're gonna take it all yes that is 26 fire damage oh and then is this good damage 21 good damage it doesn't take the good damage that's it's Not evil only evil creatures take good damage searing light works great image which is quite good quite good it was

26 fire damage if it's like a really it was three sixes a five and a four so yeah that's 18 plus 9 so that's 27 all right so that is going to put it 2-1 oh I'm sorry it was a three another four it is it was 28 26 so you were still bringing right so your your your your Holy Light slams right into it the fire burns through its scales it is scorched This thing is kind of thrashing about now it looks incredibly badly hurt it has wounds all over it arrow hits axe hits

burns I was still fighting and you have one more action okay just slipping in an attic on I'm pulling out the wand all right that was linnaeus tauriel all right two actions to pull out the staff in the wand all right you pull up the staff in the wand just are you ready we're ready omelet [Laughter] 30/30 your axe goes whistling through the air no 15 yes 30 32 33 still follow it are you right it keeps going up yeah that doesn't give a bonus minute gets bonus the damage and it drops RAC oh no

oh but it matters those are those little ones make the difference between hits and crits more often than you might think 17 so the axe dives into the snake slicing through scales more blood comes humping out of the Beast and it begins To sink beneath the waves not very fast you're pinned well it actually is such a big snake that it can't fully submerge in this shallow of water so it's just kind of fallen into a bit of a heap sheath yeah scoop yeah you're able to you're able the moment it's dead its coils immediately

like relax and that sound of like kind of scale on scale as it kind of slivers and and coulis is kind of very strong we're saving the thighs I mean the rest of you is just a Perk yeah so the moment the coils release you hear him kind of do it as the air is allowed back into him it was the it was the fact that it was kind of landing him from breathing which just was causing him to black out so the moment it's kind of released from him you you seeing nothing but stars

and and kind of blackness but your vision slowly starts coming back to you say something about my thighs they are majestic it was only good Things okay all right so you're going to you you're going to start by doing some medicine mm-hmm all right the one on Nicholas is going to be yeah it's it's beating it it's fine it's like a 19 well that if you score are critical hurt you more you've only been shooting at the DC 15 right yeah funny yeah cuz I wanna be safe um 31 a 31 is a crit so

it'll do it'll do 48 date and this one is not a he'll so I don't get to use MIDI tons correct these are just medicine dang it 16 points of healing all right shake it thank you all right and I'll just continue through the rest of the night to treat his wounds as well and then 17 so I hit are you spending another 10 minutes sir I can treat two people at once two people at the same time picked up word medic which allows you to treat more than one person at once I see I'll

just and very cruel that can still lay on hands right absolutely okay so you just regain Another patting your face gently it's fine that'll be another to d8 for ya 14 thank you very much it's um 14 healing and I'm just going to if we're gonna camp anywhere nearby then I'm going to spend the rest of the night just about the snake snake snake stays behind snake is it you you won't know how you claim victory over eat you eat it I started carving awesome I'm going to use my foraging skills so yeah go ahead

and give me a survival check and we'll See how much leather and meat you get survival that would be a 34 I will harvest out of this thing so you you spend some time I'm assuming you've decided to camp here because that is like probably within the tree lines a little bit yes just in case the snake has a family nearby all right so you're able to kind of carve up the snake you get a whole bunch of scraps of very fine snake leather although it's not a complete Snakeskin because you've cut it up in

so many places it was so badly damaged I said what else we see yeah you do get a number of nice big sheets of snake leather you can't really properly cure it or a hand or dry it here but you can kind of scrape the meat off and and throw some salt on it you're also able to get a whole bunch of snake meat and there is one intact Fang the other the other the other Fang it's not a poisonous snake so they Weren't they weren't gigantic fangs yeah but they're they're I mean they're like

this big yeah so there's one of them that's pretty intact the other one got a bit chipped in about weight is a bit tough you could actually pay it to your belt or something I know it's and it's a nice I'm appreciating an accessory you got me hooked on him it's got all these shiny bauble bits all over your night team for myself saw you we have a potential leather jacket exhibit jacket And I am going to start grilling up some steaks I'm going to eat the last of my skulls does not sound appealing tastes

like chicken a little bit of it if you don't like it you don't have to continue but I say try everything at least one you never know except for necromancy you don't train necromancy once but okay I'll try I make a bit [Laughter] after after what you've all been through That's a reasonable guideline all right so the the group the group goes over to the forests edge and you and you break down to camp and you enjoy some some grilled snake fillets they taste mostly like chicken for the most part but it makes for a

fine meal and you are able to a while away the evening I'm assuming you keep watch but nothing comes to bother you the night is uneventful everyone can get healed back up to full via medicine and because of the lay on Hands so I'm not even gonna ask you to roll that's just a matter of time and you have plenty so you're able to easily triage everyone everybody gets all of their spells and preparation back and you wake up the next morning waking up along grey Lake it is it is a pretty sight your your

kind of camped off to the west side of it so as the Sun rises its its fiery colors reflect right off the lake and you're able to kind of have a have a beautiful morning it is a Natural beauty in this place you are after all in the fang wood that's why I think it's his name now we understand lots of things with fangs waiting me I'm sorry what I have little sharp teeth oh is that kylie's just born that way does not unnatural my sister's got a bit of a key ninth mm-hmm it's totally

normal everything is totally normal it's normal I'm gonna go look for more Flowers that's don't leave our row I'm leaving now all right so you're all able to pack up you're able to do your morning preparations prepare your spell's get your food settled feed the horses I'm assuming you took good care of them last when I was also probably in the morning maybe trying to find some like a some Robin's eggs or something to make maybe a little bit of a scramble with the leftover steak me an omelet my family For many years I want

to make some kind of different snake omelet a snake I made sure go ahead you miserable prick how doing just want to check one thing of course is it dirty 20 you managed to find a few birds eggs you didn't find any snake eggs all right no problem we weren't trying to get oh you mean snakes Nick oh you want to leave now okay let's go so you've been given a day and a half to get there yes oh yeah you you you do wake up with With a bit of kind of refresh purpose and

you and and and the weight does settle on you that's one day the ended armies closer you now only have two days remaining you might have three but there's no guarantee that that's the case so you begin pushing onward now with renewed purpose you you get back on your on your steeds and begin continuing your journey south the next three hours pass in a bit of a blur the forest is very dense but the trail is well marked And although it appears that no one's been this way in quite some time especially this far south

the trail itself was well built all those years ago and although there are places where you have to kind of lead the ponies around new dead falls or things like that are there horses and ponies around new deadfalls the trail itself is still intact there are places where it's gotten a Little overgrown but not so much that you would have any chance of losing it this is a distinct difference from north of gray lake where it looks like that is kind of much more within the ranging area of hunters now that you're south of this

now you're starting to get into the deeper wilds of the Fang would the the journey from this point takes you kind of ever closer to your destination and after three hours the tree line breaks and you are now looking down at a very Large gorge at the moment we start to approach it you can see this has started like unpacking it rope from their pack and Soma pythons and like getting starting to like rig some stuff up there like they're on their horse kind of just not under horses doll and not just that we can

leave the versus up here but I am a rather safe than sorry condition okay so let me explain one little thing to you because as you arrive you notice a new Complication this is why I did looking down into the gorge the gorge itself is as described it's not very steep it sits at about a 45 degree angle at most um so it's it's you know it's just kind of a an incline you wouldn't want to really take the horses down it's there there's far too great a chance that the horses could stumble and fall

and break a leg or something which would be catastrophic so you you know you can't do that but there's a further complication that's Gonna make it a lot more challenging it looks like over the years a this the sides of this valley has become home to an entire kind of field of bramble it's just it's just a twisting curling bramble a covered in sharp thorns almost all the way down the slope it's mostly on this side but the gorge it's really wide I mean you're looking at oh no no no no it's it's got to

be like half a mile tall um it's huge I mean it's it's like a Giant divot in the earth it looks like at some point in time way in the past there was either a river that ran through this way or earthquake split it open it's kind of hard to tell um this is huge it's really big in some places it looks absolutely gigantic like it might be you know as you look out towards the ends it looks less like a gorge and more like just a giant depression that could be several miles wide should

I burn my way through well You have Purdue's flame right kids Oh burning hands is a first-level spell do you have produce flame so well you look that up this bramble what you can but it would take hours I mean you have to remember you're talking about chopping through half a mile of brambles going downhill how far can you shoot your bowl pretty far maybe you could start to do like a like a you shoot a rubble cross and we sort of shimmy our way and avoid the brambles All together if it wasn't quite as

wide that would probably work but the gorges like a mile wide here there's no way you have a mile of rope I believe in you cast phantom steed and the Phantom steed is not immune to damage so it can be hurt like a horse my boots will allow me I think to travel over this quite easily but I cannot that but that is just me and this is not all of you and sure so lists can you give me a survival check please yes I can do that as you're uh Surveying the bramble which one

of you has not betrayed me too much lately yeah take a risk on you that is a 24 okay so with the 24 you look down at this at this slope and you identify the fact that there are definitely places where the bramble is thinner there are some places where it's absent and although it looks really imposing looking at it you're pretty sure that with minimal kind of amounts of hacking or burning you might be able To navigate a way down but it's going to be a bit of a challenge we are definitely going to

move a lot slower than we usually do but I have some some skill in AI this kind of kind of terrain anything with any kind of underbrush I can generally make my way through fairly easily it just takes a little bit more time I can probably guide us through it fairly safely but we need to tie up the horses in the tree line probably is the Best place sure yeah that that you're looking at it you you think that's probably the best bet I mean firing an arrow with a rope would work if you could

fire it far enough and you had enough rope but you don't have nearly enough rope burning it together burning it or cutting it would also work but would be incredibly time consuming interest to the rest of the environment I think that I'm clear as we go I could use is viable but it is not steep enough That I think we need to worry so much better I don't know worried about making sure the horses are properly you're safe properly secured so hobbling the horses is easy yeah you pretty much just tie them together and they

won't go anywhere as they're not horses just aren't smart enough to go together at least some new growth in the underbrush close enough to like this the the Sun that it looks like there's there's some decent uh yeah no problem you you even find a place where They can graze and where there's a small pond I also offer them their the slightly old apples as a sort of you have done such a good job thank you for bringing us into the forest and out of the forest and into the woods and out of the woods

good job alright so you managed to you managed to tie off the horses they they'll be fine they have food and they have water and they're relatively secure I mean if a monster comes upon them that's not Good but there's there's there's there's no way to protect them more than that yeah dummy and I wrote it down in my hand trips but that means that I have to take it out and I can I have an empty spot in my can trips go you can prepare different cancer that's fine if you yeah I mean yeah

I'm assuming that's what you wanted to have in that spot anyway so you can have produced flame in there that's not a problem but once again produce flame isn't going to all of the Tools that you have grappling hooks axes produce flame are gonna help you try and make your way down but know one of them is a solution you can use but I will do my best I have my dagger and I will try to cut away some of these things and of course if you if you want to keep kind of stay of

course with me we can probably sharp axe to help clear the thicker bits but I think I can guide us through all right here my way - yeah I'm gonna scimitar in one hand so so with All the tools at your disposal I'm gonna I'm gonna drop the DC down a bit I'll just apply that as a reducing of the general DC why don't you go ahead and give me a survival check this is one of those things that you can't technically fail because you can just keep trying until you make it so this is

a fail forward kind of 29:29 is very good I'm sorry not a 20-9 it's a 19 I'm sorry Oh a 19 less good so here's here's the challenge If you you know with this sort of check failing doesn't mean that you don't make it to the bottom it just means that you now have a problem so in this case you've failed I'm gonna give the group one of two options you can fail this in one of two ways you're still gonna make it to the bottom but either it takes four hours or it takes two

hours and everybody in the group is gonna take damage from brambles I'll take damage you all have to decide as a group it's Not either/or can i treat wounds while we walk no no I mean after after we get through the bramble you can but that'll that'll force you to spend more time waiting so it's everybody takes 18 points of damage from brambles as you push your way through some spots basically your navigation led you to a few dead ends and instead of going back you just forced your way through and and you you you

hacked and burned where you could But in the end there were some spots where you just kind of had to push your way through the brambles so everybody can take 18 points of damage you can you can mitigate that you can heal it if you want once you're down at the bottom let me describe what you find down at the bottom so you reach through the bottom of Serpent's Gorge and as described on the map you find the entrance to the crypt of the ever flame it's obvious it's not hidden it's not obscured it is

But it is a very simple affair there are two large stone lintels emerging out of the ground or to stock two large stone columns with a stone lintel on top of it above it is the symbol of of Casson which is kind of a forest of town symbol and this is set into the bottom of the gorge kind of like a doorway into the earth the front of the tomb is covered in boards that looked like they were nailed in place into the stone itself a long time ago some of the boards have Fallen off

some of them have kind of rotted and turned gray but on the whole somebody could have slid through some of the holes but it looks like the barrier is intact or as intact as they intended it to be maybe we don't want to do too much this is a sacred place we don't want to do that let's do it do it open those boards that they put up you can easily pry the boards off one two three it takes a few moments I'm not gonna make you roll out loving sex these Things are not that

secure on there um it takes a moment or two and you're able to pull them off if you wanted to do a medicine check to to heal up some of the damage you yeah you can do that and then after that I'm also gonna light an incense okay I can just do lay on hands cuz it's 18 points back sure and then while --whoa all while she's doing medicine you can pray to shellin and get the focus point back love exactly all right okay so we can see what's going on About that torch five Sartain

is back there you go five for you I'm good I'm good no it's right for you thank you and six for you thank you so that's ten minutes and then for the two of us as we're walking in I'm gonna spend another ten minutes I can also you mean well I can heal two people at the same time oh yes so I might as well 70 oh that one's a crit I'm gonna do that on you then 188 you're gonna get 21 back well you're gonna be Smallville yaaaaah for myself 25 yeah that's a crit

unless you were going for the higher no I was going for the 15 all right so that's a great the DC is only 15 so 25 is a prayer 20 for me all right so a number of you healed up a good chunk of the way there it looks like there's a few scratches left but you'll have to live with those for at least an hour until medicine can be done on you again Or if someone wants to burn a healing potion you can get rid of it now all right you live with it you

cast Dancing otário you cast dancing lights inside of the crypt once the boards are pried loose and inside you see what looks to be like some sort of grand entrance hall it it's probably 30 40 feet deep there's some pillars running down it on the far end there's a really old moldy tapestry hanging on the wall that you can't make Anything out about anymore and that's kind of it you you can you don't see too much in the way of religious iconography so if you want you can look around for some but as of yet

you haven't really seen any okay is there a specific question you were trying to ask are you just looking for something yeah now if you you're not really seeing anything so all right would the thurible help him at all or is it just me it's just you okay all Right it's you know in in church when the priest is walking down the aisle and he has the little thing full of it okay so the group of you enters the crypt of the ever flame and your group together and you enter what is a very large

entry hall now from this hall it looks like there are two doors out one to the east and one to the west the one to the east however looks like it has suffered a bit of a cave in the ceiling looks like it Might have given way in the in the past 10 years and it looks pretty choked with rubble so your only real path is the way to the left now an interest in this room there are some very very very old looking bloodstains on the stone they look like they're probably maybe a decade

old and there are a few scattered fragments of bone like you find a like a whole finger bone over in one area and a bit of a femur over in one spot it looks like there there was something That happened here but whatever it was it's long in the past so I had the book of heroes yeah um Joan arc I was reading it as a bedtime story sure around Passons chapter yeah did I read anything about there isn't anything about the Crypt because that was after his heroic deeds so this is these are these

are deeds about when he was alive there's nothing about where he was buried or anything like that and so yeah It's mostly stories about what he did when he was an adventurer now there's there's nothing about it in the crypt the only thing you have to go on was the kind of the rambling tale of Joan arc who who said others rooms and traps and stuff but it's fine we disarmed them all it's it's it's it's empty maybe I can put him to rest so oh yes so you make your way out of this chamber

there's really only one direction to go at this point and you soon find yourself going Off to the west unless you want to spend a whole bunch of time clearing debris didn't think so you make your way off to the west and you find yourself in a room that's a maze of giant stone pillars pinners pillars giant stone pillars it's kind of a maze of those and you kind of I mean it doesn't look like it's a very complicated base it doesn't look like there's dead ends it just looks like it's a room filled with

offset pillars kind of making it hard to see where you Need to go looks like an art installation oh yeah I know yes sure we do lots of stuff like that she's sort of showing off your sort of artisan talents so I just sort of sell your goods I didn't know that there was a that oh I thought that maybe it was just my culture I didn't know it was others as well that is a very very sloppy way of thinking of things hmm I think a ours are not quite on this ground of scale

but The illness tend to do like more of like smaller items Shahrukh depends on the crafts list are you still in the lead yes as you kind of thread your way through this room looking for a way out I tried to pick Joan Eric's brain about the mazes and stuff like he said they were simple but I take nothing on faith when when he does when he described this maze as simple he wasn't really wrong it is literally just a grid of columns and you start looking around for the door And you kind of round

the bend and you're walking between two columns and suddenly the floor gives away give me a reflex a will do doesn't look like they remember to disarm all the pit traps I hope they're still pillows that will be a 25 you are managed to just like stop yourself an inch before the end and you look down it's down in the bottom are a bunch of old moldy black pillows that look like they're covered in filth and mold uh and the stink coming up out of There is far worse than the ten-foot fall would have ever

been probably got damp from the from the ground it smells so horrible I don't know but they're very glad I did not fall in those everybody keeping weather I did I notice can I take a quick look at the markings that like so looking around it be you kind of look down one way and you can see one of them that's open further down and you start to realize that the pattern of these as you kind of feel Your way around the room is is really kind of random and there is a trail to make

your way through the room I'm not gonna belabor it because we're not playing a map or anything like that and they're not really that dangerous so with the foot before yeah you're able to slowly you know it takes ten minutes but you're able to navigate your way through the room and find your way out a door leading out is open although it looks like it was once closed with some Ancient sort of complex lock mechanism probably something some devious designer required you to find you all the levers in the room before you open but they

but they left it open no it's a metal lock so but you're able to make your way out of that room and you find yourself in a number of twisting kind of corridors just keep things moving along there's a few dead ends and you find yourself in a room with an ancient fire pit you find you eventually make your way kind of up A short set of stairs and over to a chamber where there's like the ruined pieces of some ancient wooden statue that's kind of just fallen to ruin did this you are making your

way through what looks like a dungeon that's just been spent there isn't much to it what do you mean this burial ground you think they added all these rooms in the hopes that they would use this furnace why did you have so many rooms full of nonsense because it was grave robbers but also it Was for children I think after I was originally this one was for like you know all the grains and things he would need in the afterlife and then another one was for all the weapons that he would need in the afterlife

and you know people are very concerned about what you need in the afterlife wanted in the same room some cases you build traps to protect you know well this kind of helps me with my theory that perhaps they knew that it was the episode every flame and Instead of red they were trying to hide it it's very weird to get you're distracted like that's right continuing onward you eventually find your way through a series of doors in to an ancient chamber that looks like it has a pillar that was filled with arrows because there's spent

arrows all over the room like the pillar was firing arrows in every direction but oh no they're ancient rusted arrows they're they're in no good shape at all I still Take one here and and and so interestingly enough many of them have blunt tips as a matter of fact it looks like most of them have like small bean bags tied around the front that's sort of adorable baby this room my first done yeah did Jonah ever tell us how old the kids were that he would they would send to do these things like David it

was like a coming-of-age ritual like you know like 15 16 it was they were they were they were like newly Minted adventurers or you know some of these beanbag ones might be good for bludgeoning they would but they are in terrible terrible shape the fletching is ruined the wood itself is warped over the years because of moisture nicholas takes one just kind of like yeah they badass they literally Bend yeah I know they're everything everything in here has been sitting for 10 years in in a dungeon filled with moisture and rot on redstone I end

at Pillar just in case it's got a few sparse left you you end up walking through the room and when you step on a plate you hear a click oh and I'm all of a sudden the pillar moves it there's a shudder and a shake and you hear a train and you hear the sound of a bunch of like bolt strings snapping as some of them were still loaded but they've they've been held taunt for 10 years and when they released like the arrow just slides out and falls down so there's Nothing there's nothing of

danger here and you make your way past this and you found it and you find a set of stairs going down that we have made our way through the decrepit theme park let's go you you make your way down this this stairs but you do find them choked with rubble you you have to spend almost an hour kind of clearing out some debris it's not impassable but you have to clear some out to be able to climb through it no problem once once you have Once you have cleared that out you're able to crawl through

but it would take you several more hours to be able to like move quickly through this so as a note you know you it does take you quite a bit of time to get through this but after after about an hour you're able to make it down into the Crypt itself okay so now you're done in the crypt and this is the part where John art gave some specific instructions he said yeah there there's there were Three ways you could you could go the if you go to the the West you'll end up kind of

in the in the old part of the crypt I think part of that collapsed a long time ago and there's water and it's not good don't go that way that parts ruined but if you go if you go to the east you'll you'll start heading into the crypts proper the moment you start seeing places where bodies are buried that you know you're heading in the right direction and he said if you need A place to rest if you go just dead south from the the stairs you'll end up in a small sanctuary but that that's

a dead end it's possible that we might have to spend the night in this place depending how much longer this takes right now right now it's like early afternoon yes but that's only if everything goes according to plan that we don't do uh spend the night here all right well do we take with the water log or do we take The east way we're probably going to run into someone dead we have to go east east is the direction that John Ark was like yeah if you go east you're gonna end up you're gonna that's

the way to get to cassings castles - that's cool so you make your way through I might already my staff instead that's what I'm going to do so you make your way to the east and through some chambers where it looks like there's a bunch of dead bats that little either got trapped in here And died someone who looks like they've died by violence and through there you make your way past one last guardian trap that has long since been deactivated like a statue and it looks like it was on wheels and could have like

rolled forward and hit you but it's it's broken now and beyond that there's a great set of doors gilt doors and even now all these years later although tarnished with age the gilt doors stand before you Showing an image of Casson you've seen this from the book so you kind of know what he looks like standing proud and tall the kind of bearded woodsman with his he doesn't have his sword drawn you can't even see it but he's just standing looking proud out I think I'm out at the out of the horizon and that's that's

on the gilt doors in front of you you know that that probably leads into the tomb itself ready let me wait let me see some some words to sarin ray don't know Anything about opening doors there's no etiquette for that but sarin ray we are here this is where you mentally that's good if not her whoops please watch over us I'm going to retrieve that sword all right okay so uh you approach the doors and open them beyond the doors there's a grand set of stairs that leads down into the tomb of Casson your mind

starts filling in what this place might have once looked like stone walls sacred burial places Sarcophagi around this place and in the central location there must have at one point in time been a grand tomb and I say there must of at been at one point in time because that is not the situation you see when you open up this door the stairs go down into a chamber that looks like the entire back half of it has fallen away into the darkness there is a vast hole in the back of cassings tomb where there should

probably be a crypt in a place of honor Central to your eye line there is instead nothing but a pit going down into darkness standing in front of this pit there's an ivory statue of an elf with a giant pair of blades in its hands it is a statue and it stands there silent over the pit that doesn't seem to comport with anything that John Ark mentioned but the moment you opened the doors the statue suddenly creaks and moves it looks like it's made of stone But it is animate and it begins to stride for

you toward you blades ready can I get everyone to role perception for initiative please can I yell something uh yeah I mean you can talk yeah I'm just gonna yell I'm a Turkish army I'm here for his sword the statue makes it so evil down there the statue does not even remotely appear to recognize you it's it's done not for attacks ulis what do you got Well my mask is inhibiting my sight and it's dark so a 13:13 that's terrible settle 1 1 s 3:15 tario 20 not great omelet 35 all right I'm just gonna

put that up near the top somewhere Chris 30 30 all right omelet you see this this statue suddenly spring to life it looks like an elf it has long pointed ears but the expression on it isn't joyful happy elf it has furrowed brows and and kind of a grimace carved into its face that is totally unmoving as the head looks Forward it has two blades in its hands but they actually look like they're just part of the statue itself they're not actually swords they're actually just an extension of its arms they're carved into it but

all of it begins to move and you don't see joints the stone just flexes great what do you do Dores looks like some Eve eyebrow so tapped a stone come on wake up all right you raised for some work and I Choked I could move and I just Chuck the hammer that I was hold and straight at the stone all right you can go ahead and throw a hammer at it you're dead to me that's uh you know down here does ar-15 no not even yeah it bounces off the statute you now need to spend

another action to draw weapon yeah anything in hand so that's gonna be the end of your turn do not in this Wow okay not have everyone had their weapons out I had my staff so I'm Going to oh wait I have a few that say arrows are probably not going to do much against stone so I'm actually going to I'm actually going to take a run and I'm going to slide on my knees and just take a crack at it with the stuff go ahead and make me I'm holding it with two hands all right

you go running up to it that is one of your actions you spend your second action to attack go right ahead That is going to be a 22 a 22 misses as I am passing it I am going to try and strike it again all right go ahead and make your third or your second action like an attack third action it's made of stone yeah it's probably gonna be resistant almost all hard that's matter one minute thirty thirty twenty it's not going to be enough now I'm sorry you do manage to hit it twice but

all that you do is manage to make your hands numb as your staff slams into it now goes and With only one target in front of it it attempts to slam its blade down into you of course armor class 27 yes that will hit but it is not a good to go take 21 points of damage 21 21 points and there's a second wind coming it does take its second attack ah that's not quite as good though 23 that's exactly my AC Oh No take another 15 points of damage I did not heal up all

the way me inator oh boy and I did you did you see this just Start coughing up blood oh that's not good you're a range fighter um and if it's with its third action it is going to throw one of its scimitars even though they look like they're made of its hands it's going to throw it and as it does the Scimitar starts glowing with red heat it throws it at em linnaeus okay I yelled at it but I I'm going to miss that's my third attack so the blade slams into the stone next to

you where you can feel the heat radiating off of It oh it's way too big for you dang it it's like it's like eight feet long cuz this thing I should note this thing is like 13 feet tall oh it's almost reaching up to the ceiling sorry oh oh geez okay well I'll take an action to drop dancing lights you don't have to spend an action on now you can just leave it and then blend oh great I will just leave dancing lights then and instead use that action to inspire some courage good call and

then with the Last action or two actions shoot two magic missiles at it alright those both streak out and hit it deal to Defour or 2d four plus two total that would be 6 plus 2 8 damage 8 damage alright both the missiles streak out and slam into the statute chips of stone fly off that doesn't look it slowed it down much but it did something linnaeus okay there's a couple things I want to do I want to just again yell at it do the same thing please stop I'm a cleric up Sir and I

am here that's talking things okay instead of just common yeah before cuz I realized oh no uh but it's still a stone it probably doesn't do anything I'm gonna do it anyway uh what would I need to rule to figure out what this thing is if it has any weaknesses can I do is that like Arcanum Arkana it's a statue probably animated by magic okay so it's not any kind of religious iconography no you don't see any on it okay okay [Music] fifteen not enough yeah that is one of your actions okay um how close

am I to it into everyone else you are one move away from it you are adjacent to most of the party foot wise it is it is about thirty feet away and they are they are all adjacent to you except for know everybody's no one's moved up to it yet oh sorry no this has moved up to it yet so there there are about 25 feet away There the rest of the party is adjacent I'm going to cast bless okay so everyone within a 5 foot range with me gets a plus-one to all attack roles

okay so this will not stack with inspire courage but this does last a whole minute as long as you stay next to and I can build it out by 5 feet every turn which means as long as they're next to you that frees you up to not to encourage everyone okay so that's Bless all right next up Nicholas the ring of RAM all right it is within range of that okay one two or three actions I mean this thing's gonna take three all right so I'm gonna go ahead and make the porter tape go ahead

and roll 66 you call upon the ring and a ring shaped force goes flying through the air slamming into the statue chunks of stone go flying left and right and it may get pushed back okay I'm actually gonna fail so six nine very poorly 13 18 19 19 Damage all right and it gets pushed back Oh 15 which causes it to fall down the pit no forced movement doesn't cause it and you have to have the reaction but the the upside is it does tumble back and fall down into the chasm that is the back

of the room excessive force to tumble down 30 feet which causes it to take 30 points of damage that's certainly showed that all right so it's going to take a bunch of damage from that it doesn't doesn't doesn't Take a tremendous amount but it does take a bunch all right so the statue has fallen down and and and I want to be clear it doesn't look like a pit it doesn't look like someone carved a pit it looks like the the back of the the crypt just fell into the earth so the it's not a

sheer fall that the statue kind of tumbles down a rocky surface is anything break on the step oh yeah it takes cracks and damage from the fall and the strike but it doesn't look Like it's been destroyed it just looks like it's now down so see it kind of your light is allowing you to see it and even as you're looking at it it's stirring and preparing to stand back up but it looks like it's going to be a challenge for it to get back up it's like a cavern structure behind it yeah but your

lights can illuminate very far into it it there's there's darkness there well too late now go to finish the job or someone's Already taking this one there's so how many feet away is it now it's now well it was about 30 feet away before and now it's about another 20 feet down and down yeah it's like it's it's it would be all three of your moves to get down to it because the last one you would have to spend climbing down no that helps all right you can you can make it with a sudden charge

if you make an athletics track you can bound down the stones ooh oh oh sure sure and I also I'll use my My dashing my bracelet so I get 50 feet go ahead and give me the check and should go charging into the pit after not 20 you go you go yeah 34 yeah you go you go jumping and tumbling down the the rocks running running across rocks like you were born to them deal with difficult terrain from rocks to you know I don't even need to make a check you go you go bounding straight

down way start 20 no she cannot 20 look at me tap-dancing along I'm gonna I'm gonna give it to you but you have to use it on an attack role in this fight all right mmm well it's gonna be it's gonna be the end of the session so yeah all right go ahead and go ahead and make an attack role okay nice at the end and now I take it back I'm very generous 27 27 hits yeah pounding straight up to it as it's trying to stand up it's still flat-footed because it hasn't stood up

Yet and you slam your axe right into it 12:12 that does significantly less damage than you would have hoped just because it's made of stone and you have to get through its hardness before you've heard it so that did some damage you still have one action left I strike again alright go ahead and roll water flip in 20 I have to stay in the trial nope all right there's nothing but you do have this get that 20 back that's worse nothing ventured nothing gained ah Liss it is your turn so this is going to come

up more blood and then going to take a moderate eating pushing out of their pack it's one action drink it yeah alright yeah listen so I get the 21 neat points back alright you were getting 21 hit points and you still have one action remaining oh I see so the pulling I am going to ready my bow my arrows right well you have quick-draw so you can actually draw and fire I don't have the staff in one hand yes that's why I went Ahead and just did it as one action oh okay so so in

reality probably what you did is put the staff away yeah alright so that's fine alright alright it goes this statue stands up and you don't have a tack of opportunity correct I don't alright so the statue stands up and then it is going to swing at you with its built-in kind of scimitar that is going to be an armor class of 25 it's did your class that is going to be 1818 yeah and then with its third action it's Going to swing again but a one is going to miss entirely its its scimitar slams into

the sky toriel it is your turn all right well thanks to the bless I don't need to inspire courage so I'm going to is it an action to just put the wand of my teeth to grab something else because I don't want to drop it yet oh I'll let you do that but you can't take any action that has a verbal component without dropping it and that will beast that will still Be in action you still have to put it there put it away all right all right I will cast telekinetic projectile all right at

eat all right is the range on that enough are you gonna I have reach I have spell reach oh so you can double the range by spending in action it's an action Asst so what you do is you using so reach spell is a meta magic feet and what that allows you to do is spend an action to enhance the next spell you cast so you Spend an action to add add more reach to the spell and increase its range so have to spend in action so it will be it will be all three of

your actions to do that but that's fine to attack it from here if you do that you think you could just hold on to the wand you only need one hand to cast a spell then I will use all my actions you read spell and then cast the spell it's going to be 28 to hit a 28 will hit nice if you own the blue dice today I guess I'm kind of feeling the blue days today seven points of damage seven points of damage the the chunk of rock slams into it but it doesn't look

like it had very much effect let's continue moving down the order that was tauriel Linnaeus going to take an action to grow my blessed by five feet all right so it's now up to ten feet and I'm going to run forward okay to the edge of the pit yep 25 feet yeah almost to the edge of the pit one action left am i Within range of them are they in my 10 feet radius no no okay I'm gonna be in the pit alright so that means that requires you to climb down into the pit give

me an athletics check to climb down there oh you had to okay oh that's good daddy 20 no problem alright so you climb down and now they're within range you may also now be in range of the statue but all right Thank You Nicholas nice oh and you're not actually down in the pit now that I think about it though I saw you move you still have to move to get to it so yeah that's right I move move closer so that's going to take you to of your actions and I need you to make

an athletics track on the second one to make it down to it without getting her come on down to pitch fine no no y-you will are you falling down the pit that's a 1 so you're falling down ok bodysurfing unless you unless you have a hero point to hand me you just fell down The pit so you are charging up and you start bounding between the stones but you'll slip and lose your footing so much shoes you fall down into the pit take 15 points of damage from the tumble okay and you are now next

to it but you are also prone yeah yeah which means you're flat-footed which means it'll have a much easier time hitting you but you could so you have a choice you can either stand up and stop taking that penalty or you could attack it because You do still have one action left guys ever I mean can I punch it again with the RAM no the ring of the RAM can only be used once per minute and you've just used it all right well I'm just gonna swing this right so you swing your sword at it

even though you're down on the ground you swing away anyway go ahead and make me that attack role no 23 mm you're coming up short omelet back to you you swing wildly but your blade skips off it's knee omelet What are you up to I'm swinging away because I just saw my friend tumble down to rocks and are swinging madly at the ankles alright uh and I get a press one yep um sure poor boy padeen Suzie 27:27 alright a 27 is a hit [Music] sixteen damage at that the statue is showing a whole lot

of cracks it's still up and fighting but it looks very badly damaged like it to be drost mm-hmm swing again garbage don't think it I Don't think I don't think that would do so that's negative right ten nineteen twenty twenty is going to be just shy yeah yeah and then third why not Hail Mary twenty no no really bad but it's not really old it's just not gonna be better so it's armor class has recently changed what did you change less not $20 no that's what I mean it's I wanted to know how low it

wasn't quite low enough all right yes it is returned I am a foolish foolish person I am so so dumb and I mark my prey no quick draw and they shoot all right still kind of coughing up blood but I'm better now slightly I don't have bless on me no and no inspiring courage okay good sorry I'm so that's what being a 26 hit yay cleaned and solid nice that means I get my precision and 2d 626 look at these for more damage wait for that one skips off the stone sorry five Five yeah but

that one you're not sure that one did anything at all yes and then I will take my hunted shots with my last action which is two shots not gonna do anything 33 minutes 10 so 23 hint yay I managed to score another hit your whistle severe and slams into the statue for ya no that's not quite doing it the arrows are are kind of bouncing off its its stony surface these statue goes it's going to take one swing at omlette that is going to be a 29 that it's take 15 points of damage okay its

second swing is going to be at a coulis because you're prone and then is going to be a 29 that is going to deal 11 points of damage and it's going to take a third attack this time just trying to stomp on you and you roll to the side just barely misses yeah toriel it is your action the statue is fighting furiously but it looks like it's badly hurt it would take me to move actions to get down there right yeah it's 2-2 whole Move action I'm gonna put away my magic missile one and just

start going down well you could hit it with the magic missiles from here no I had to used it oh you use the wand once per day no that was the first thing I did was they used it down here oh yeah that's right yeah you're right yeah sorry I forgot all right that was tauriel Linnaeus okay I'm going to first all three actions in my stuff to heal both of you so if this is just the staff it Was only going to be one da because remember the staff only casts at first level if

you want to heal more than that it's got to be one of your spell slots I'm gonna use the font instead all right then it's 3d ten oh yeah sorry 3d 10 this will feel the two of you in it the statue gets nothing because it's 20 20 points and some 20 really energy bursts over all of you oculus it is your turn to act all right you are both down there next to the statue you are still prone To be the right choice but you know what I'm gonna try it I'm good I still

can't punch no but we do have those magic arrows right that wrap it up in a vine yeah so you'd have to drop or shave your sword draw your bow and then fire you would get one attacking you'd still be prone okay well I'm gonna stand up all right so that's one yeah and I mean it's your actions do what you want no that was a high cost yeah one arrow at it I'm just gonna it's just hack hack hack away There comes a point in time where violence is the answer it is yeah awesome

and when you're finding a giant elven statue that may be the case yeah I don't know going to jail so go ahead and make me your second attack oh my no nothing's happening I just the the the the the dice gods are not favoring you omelette yes no one has managed to hit this thing in in almost an entire initiative cycle now no it's okay to cuz 24 that here de cive dad yes It looks like once you did enough damage to its armor kind of cracked and now it's easier to yeah you and your

stupid eyebrows it is their evil and they add to my armor class 25 damage it's so missing eyebrows yeah you're uh you're late no wait no face for you slams into him but he's still standing give me your second attack 28:20 armor class 20 is not going to hit okay third attack yeah that's what made it to 20 I think yeah that's what made 1919 greatest first role just in just a hair short for a second this the statue is teetering it looks badly wounded this all right can you go just my hunted shots all

right hopefully something that is going to be a certain return energy a 30-30 is a hit that is eight damage for their first teeth I did a little it is rocking on its heels shot is going to be a 23 hit Oh Take it out check it out check it out in this 8 damage the Statue tears and falls in this gotcha so the statue crumbles teeters and falls into rubble leaving you alone in what was once the crypt of Casson it's clear to you there's iconography along the walls that are still intact that you

can see the events of castles life his founding of the town his adventures you can see those all carved into the stone here and there but where there should be a tomb in fact Where there should be an ever flame there is instead just a gaping hole leading deeper and darker down into the earth as your light draws near it you can see that on the stonework above which is still intact like the ceiling is still intact and some of the wall above is intact there has been something written it's written in common so it's

easy there easy to understand and it says we have Reclaimed what is ours and we'll have our revenge return to the light for only darkness and death awake you below and that is why I'm going to end it for today everyone I want to thank you all for watching and encourage you to tune in next week for another exciting session if you've enjoyed what you've seen here today you can learn more about the game at Pathfinder second edition calm the core rulebook best eerie adventures and accessories are available Now from Pi so calm and from

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