2026-6-22 — Akasha

Benny:Now recording.

Argyle:I think you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:joined quickly.

Benny:Why are we going to walk away?

Argyle:I was going to go

Argyle:start a Marvel game.

Benny:Oh.

Benny:Those resolve in five to ten minutes?

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:It's good.

Argyle:how are y'all

Johnny:alive

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:oh one of those days

Johnny:are you guys alive

Benny:Yeah.

Johnny:yeah

Argyle:yeah yeah

Johnny:are you guys alive

Johnny:I

Benny:Yeah.

Argyle:yeah yeah

Johnny:every year we have to get all of our roofs evaluated

Benny:you

Argyle:So you drew the short sick not to be the one with him.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Johnny:to make sure you know

Johnny:that they work as roofs

Johnny:and our contractor

Johnny:is a real hands on sort of dude

Johnny:which is great but

Johnny:he really likes

Johnny:us to come up and look at the roofs with him

Johnny:so I have been up

Benny:you

Johnny:on roofs since 8am

Johnny:and it's very hot outside

Johnny:and he's a

Johnny:very chatty dude.

Benny:you

Benny:Chilling.

Argyle:oh

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Johnny:Yeah.

Johnny:It was a very long day of being up on roofs

Johnny:and I know

Johnny:a lot about this man now.

Argyle:yeah

Johnny:What about you guys?

Johnny:What's up?

Johnny:Thank you

Argyle:I uh oh what was that

Benny:I had a eureka moment with AI today I had a breakthrough after days of deliberation Well I been having it engineer its own prompt based on like I like here a piece of code that was bad Here a

Gamemaster:you you

Anzu:you you

Benny:piece of code that I wrote. It's good. How do I make language models or specifically Claude write

Benny:the good piece and not the bad piece? Because Claude wrote the bad piece. And then it gives me

Argyle:yeah

Benny:like a an md or whatever and we kept doing that iteration and then i was like all right i think

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:i'm comfortable enough with sort of knowing where the downfalls are and and directing it and i was

Benny:like hey here's this badly written ai generated code i need you to one shot the entire creation

Benny:of this dashboard like this and the entire refactor of this dashboard and use this data

Benny:frame library and it was like okay and then it gave me all the code and then i ran it and it

Benny:matched 100 the previous code and it was 30 times faster and i was like okay cool i'm comfortable

Argyle:yeah

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:now i'm comfortable and then i was looking at the code and i was like listen i didn't understand

Benny:what the previous code was doing this code i also don't understand but i it's because i haven't read

Benny:it and then i started reading it's like this makes this is laid out way way better than the other was

Argyle:so have you been doing more

Argyle:spec driven development or

Argyle:or

Benny:but

Benny:No, this just like, hey, refactor this in polars.

Argyle:yeah

Benny:And it was taking raw dicts.

Argyle:ew

Benny:And then it did a bunch of vectorization.

Benny:And then raw dicts, raw dicts, please, please, please.

Argyle:ew

Argyle:Oh.

Johnny:What's this thing?

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:Raw dick.

Benny:Listen, we had someone ask on a prod call who introduced the keyword

Benny:or who introduced the variable come to the repo

Benny:because they were doing a lot of cumulative calculations for a new module.

Argyle:They did the...

Argyle:What was it? That Reddit story?

Benny:the red no no

Argyle:when they just

Benny:I don't think so what reddit story are you talking about

Argyle:they were talking about how they just had to come all over their code base because of cumulative sums Yeah

Johnny:Oh no Oh no

Gamemaster:you you

Anzu:you you

Benny:oh no no that is that is what happened And it just like I think it was my manager that introduced the word

Benny:and he is English as a second language.

Benny:And it's just like, yeah, no.

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:I mean, I saw it because I was reviewing some of the code,

Benny:but I didn't say anything.

Benny:That is beyond my scope of maturity.

Benny:I will not say that shit at work.

Benny:you

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Josh, how are you?

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Johnny:How's your job?

Johnny:He cannot respond.

Johnny:Josh has been killed.

Benny:he sent an ai here finally he got everything working he got the

Johnny:Oh, no, it's going to send us prompts in the chat.

Benny:he got an end-to-end model working just so that he doesn't have to dm anymore

Benny:he's running it locally so it's

Johnny:That's how we're doing this now.

Benny:he's running it locally

Benny:from from disk

Argyle:no he's doing that like 800 billion parameter model on a macbook all he has to do is downsample

Johnny:Oh, he still has Fable.

Gamemaster:Or my mic was unplugged.

Anzu:you

Benny:so it's at like

Benny:.2 tokens per second

Argyle:everything uh

Benny:no no

Benny:he's running fable 5 from swap

Argyle:yeah

Argyle:i had a um no i am

Benny:or that

Johnny:He took it.

Gamemaster:no that's that's crazy

Benny:hmm

Argyle:I had some interviews today because I just can't stop interviewing.

Johnny:We know you're addicted.

Anzu:you

Argyle:But this is for a venture capital multi-strat company that does venture capital all the way to public companies.

Johnny:We love you for it.

Johnny:What do you do for it?

Argyle:And it was the most fun interview prep I've ever done.

Benny:Thank you I think with photonics you like oh we got this company that promising and it

Argyle:Just research like potentially emerging trends.

Gamemaster:you

Argyle:trends and I was like wow this is fun how photonic chips can help Scale AI and all that stuff I like wow this is great this doesn feel like a real job but it cool people are hopeful from before that

Johnny:you This feels like one of those things where people put we just going to hang out and

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you you

Johnny:get paid and they're like, yeah.

Benny:like, we might see a return in 10 years.

Benny:uh

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:for a lot of these chips

Argyle:because they're not looking to replace the GPUs

Argyle:or CPUs necessarily

Argyle:the first step is to just like

Argyle:basically replace the copper wiring between GPUs and hard drives.

Argyle:Because that wiring is slow, heat intensive, and energy intensive.

Benny:oh

Argyle:But if we're able to do that with photonic-based bridges,

Benny:it is a lot less crazy than what i was thinking this you're you're talking about like essentially

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:you could drastically increase time and then also help load larger models quicker,

Argyle:load larger data sets quicker

Argyle:have less

Argyle:energy burden

Argyle:yeah

Benny:fiber optics extended into the computer i was thinking of photonic computing like using the

Benny:lenses to do matrix multiplication.

Argyle:people still want to do that

Benny:Oh, yeah.

Argyle:but that was a while from now

Argyle:it was also funny

Benny:Yeah, unfortunately.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:because one of the

Argyle:I met with one of the partners and they were just like,

Argyle:what are you most excited about?

Argyle:I was like,

Argyle:obviously I think,

Argyle:uh,

Argyle:quantum computing would be amazing,

Argyle:but like,

Argyle:I think we might be landing on Mars before that happens.

Argyle:And then the founders like,

Argyle:but we should be doing both of those things.

Argyle:Right.

Argyle:I was like,

Argyle:yeah,

Argyle:yeah.

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Ideally we will be landing on Mars and have quantum computers.

Argyle:But I just thought it was funny how the guy's like,

Argyle:whoa,

Argyle:you don't believe in Mars.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:And I was like,

Argyle:Oh,

Argyle:whoa,

Argyle:whoa.

Argyle:Thank you.

Benny:yeah quantum uh

Argyle:I was like, I don't know how much you bought of SpaceX, but...

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:i don't know from what i understand there are evangelists and there are people that think it's

Benny:an absolute crapshoot and i think there's a lot more people at least for now whatever the state

Benny:is i mean i also follow bullish uh or not sorry bearish quantum people on twitter that are like

Benny:we can't even factor like

Argyle:oh we're we're a long way away from

Johnny:Yeah, I can't count above.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:Hello.

Benny:fucking numbers above 200

Benny:with whatever we have

Benny:currently available

Benny:yeah

Argyle:quantum

Argyle:those are cool yeah

Benny:but the photonic chips

Benny:those seem

Benny:way cooler and it's just like

Argyle:yeah yeah

Benny:oh no you just do all the matrix math at once

Benny:it's like wait that makes so much more sense like it's immediately

Benny:applicable but quantum it's like

Argyle:yeah yeah one of the

Benny:the one thing it's supposed to do is factor numbers

Benny:and we're not above 200

Benny:yeah

Benny:okay

Argyle:One of the photonic companies is called Light Matter.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:I think they have $4.8 billion in evaluation currently.

Benny:yeah the big lab-esque companies are the ones that have like nvidia intel probably

Argyle:Yeah, but there's also the heavyweights.

Argyle:NVIDIA said they were working on this last year.

Argyle:So once NVIDIA dials that in, it'll be pretty dope.

Anzu:you

Benny:like where hardware meets

Benny:software.

Benny:It's like fucking

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:I don think so Thank you Hello

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:I feel like...

Benny:I don't know, Bell Labs.

Benny:The people with the physicists.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:Although I guess it's technically fucking everyone.

Benny:Did I tell you guys about my physicist

Benny:co-worker?

Benny:He joined

Benny:Hello hello I think I think it was but it was like he sat next to me like for like the first three weeks

Anzu:Hello Oh I feel like we were talking about somebody that sounds like that last week but go ahead

Argyle:you Thank you

Gamemaster:you Thank you

Benny:and then we like moved floors a bunch um but he was like picking everything up pretty quickly and

Benny:I was like oh okay cool and then I was like you know he cares a lot about his tools etc etc

Benny:And then it was just like largely impressive.

Argyle:oh is he the one that's hired on the hot girl team

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:What?

Anzu:you

Benny:And then I looked up his education background, and he has a PhD in physics from Harvard.

Benny:And I was like, oh, the hot girl team?

Argyle:yeah you said there's one pm that only hires women and then uh decides

Benny:Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Argyle:you

Benny:That's a stats PhD from Texas A&M.

Benny:No, no, no.

Benny:i also i i had a very interesting discussion with my manager about that guy because he's like hey um

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:he he technically reports to a guy in london who i sort of report to like i half report to him i

Benny:half report to an engineer in in new york and he's like by the way he's going to ask you to help this

Benny:guy with his his stuff because uh uh peter fires very quickly and he hasn't really delivered

Benny:anything and it's like since he's joined and i'm like oh god this was the guy with the the 13 or

Benny:14,000 line PR

Benny:diff and it's just like

Benny:hasn't delivered anything. So now we're under pressure

Benny:to move this huge glob

Argyle:Oh, so one of the sociopaths in London likes you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:of shit into our code base.

Benny:Maybe he should have checked in with us

Benny:earlier than four weeks before

Benny:he snowballed this horrific PR.

Benny:But anyways,

Benny:yeah, so I

Benny:this guy from London who technically

Benny:manages him messaged me like

Benny:this guy has a demo due. Can you

Benny:help him get shit in line for a demo?

Benny:And I was like, absolutely.

Benny:So then I helped him get shit in line for a demo.

Benny:But no, no, no.

Argyle:That's a good sign.

Argyle:Go ahead

Johnny:you Thank you

Gamemaster:you you

Anzu:you you

Benny:This guy is way nicer One of the sociopaths in London now really does like me he visited last week of the no the week before last week and um was like very complimentary of me constantly

Benny:doing support work so it is it is going notice but no this the back to the the phd physics from

Benny:harvard um it's very funny because he's like he's comes from like a random town in nebraska

Benny:his dad owned like a furniture store or something and he goes and gets a phd uh in physics from

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:harvard it's like okay like chatting with him and then uh it comes out like because of course he did

Benny:like when you look at his history he spent eight years at harvard doing his phd which is like oh

Benny:so he picked up like teaching commitments etc like you can't just be a student for for eight years

Benny:and then um he was asking like we were talking about food from different regions of the world

Benny:and he's just like well you know like they're talking about europe and he's like well honestly i

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:felt like switzerland had garbage food and they're like what do you mean uh you know this isn't this

Benny:place isn't that bad or this other place like near the border and he's just like no no i lived in

Benny:this town for six years trust me it didn't it there was no good food you have to leave the

Benny:town for like an hour two hours and then the other guy's like that's literally the other side of the

Benny:country if you get on a fucking train in france and then i was like oh switzerland six years he

Benny:worked at cern for six years yeah and i'm like oh okay it makes sense why every time i tell this

Argyle:Oh.

Johnny:He's a smart guy.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:guy something he immediately remembers it and applies it everywhere it's applicable i'm like

Benny:oh okay this is terrifying

Benny:yeah no no no

Benny:me too Me too

Argyle:you you

Johnny:you I knew you had nothing happening

Gamemaster:Thank you my computer just hates you i guess it flips a coin when it goes to serve stuff to you

Anzu:So I just decided to load Foundry because it always loads so slowly

Anzu:And I was like, you know, let me just get it set up before the session, you know, get

Anzu:this process rolling.

Anzu:And it came up in seconds.

Johnny:Okay.

Benny:Josh has been.

Benny:He's been optimizing.

Gamemaster:No.

Anzu:Indeed.

Benny:You haven't been optimizing with agentic workflows?

Argyle:you

Johnny:against Tanner

Gamemaster:What?

Johnny:oh not just optimizing against Tanner

Benny:No, no, no.

Benny:To improve the load time of the website.

Gamemaster:No.

Gamemaster:So I will say, the one thing I did have an LLM do

Gamemaster:is I was looking to consolidate a bunch of various D&D repositories

Gamemaster:into one big repo so that it's easier to manage

Gamemaster:because currently it's just held together with a bunch of ad hoc bash scripts.

Anzu:you

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:And when I was having an LLM go through

Gamemaster:and figure out what would be required for the migration,

Gamemaster:it pointed out to me that there was an issue with my dice bot

Gamemaster:because it was using a seed that gets attached to a random seeded thing from the OS,

Gamemaster:and so the original seed was unnecessary.

Gamemaster:And I thought that was very funny that I had to be like,

Gamemaster:no, no, my players wanted it.

Gamemaster:They like having the number attached to it.

Gamemaster:That's on purpose.

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:what did it

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:We like pretending to have power here.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Gamemaster:So that was fun.

Gamemaster:But, um...

Benny:say when you're like oh no my players

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Benny:are dumbasses or they're superstitious

Benny:I talked

Gamemaster:No, LLMs don't actually have feelings.

Gamemaster:So I just said, no, I did that on purpose.

Gamemaster:And then I said, okay, and I moved on.

Gamemaster:I just thought it was funny that it brought up, like,

Gamemaster:hey, this is dead code. It's not doing anything.

Gamemaster:I'm like, no, I understand.

Benny:I talked to it like a human

Johnny:It's very...

Johnny:Yeah.

Benny:I just want to see what it says

Anzu:you

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:Why?

Benny:like if it like

Benny:This one thing, I sent it a PR and I was like, I'm sharpening my ClaudeMD.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:So I see a PR.

Benny:I know my comments that I'm going to have.

Benny:And then I give it to Claude and I ask for its comments.

Benny:And then I go, no, these are the comments you should have.

Benny:And then I give it to ClaudeMD and I go update it so that you don't think the first thing and you always think the second thing.

Benny:Like when I'm giving you, I'm dead serious.

Benny:Like when I'm giving you, because I have a custom prompt for reviewing PRs.

Benny:I go adjust this so that you never tell me the other shit.

Benny:You only tell me the shit that I think.

Benny:I'm just cloning myself.

Benny:and uh one of the things it was just like uh i guess in the the prompt it said like some code

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:is like some bad code is allowable on a deadline which i believe is true and it in its response it

Benny:was like this sort of implementation is okay because of the deadline and i was just like first

Benny:off the fuck deadline are you talking about no deadline was mentioned here second off how long

Benny:does it really take to move this to a general utils file versus keeping it private and hidden

Benny:in this specific module.

Benny:So that's what I said.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Long time?

Anzu:you

Benny:I was just like, really, how long does it take?

Benny:And it's just like, no, no, you're right.

Benny:Copy, paste, very simple.

Benny:And I'm like, okay, okay, there we go.

Benny:Or I'll say like, dude, what are you talking?

Benny:Or like, this is too complicated.

Benny:Can you make this simpler?

Benny:Like, I want to see some level of personality out of it

Benny:when I ask it shit.

Benny:Or if it has any, I guess.

Gamemaster:I don't like it. It's a tool. I want it to do what I tell it to do and no more than

Gamemaster:that. Don't pretend to be a person. I hate it when, so I've only been at work for a week,

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:and already I'm getting into spots where, like, I'm talking to it, and it says, hey, this is a,

Gamemaster:you know, a three quarters of a day lift. That might take a while. Do you want to take a break

Gamemaster:and pick this up next time I like no What do you mean First of all time isn relevant to you your computer program and second of all what do you mean pick it up tomorrow We working on it right now I don get it It stupid This is Claude

Benny:Is this Claude

Johnny:you you

Anzu:you you

Benny:I've,

Benny:I've heard,

Benny:I've seen funny and weird stuff,

Benny:but it continually referencing,

Benny:like,

Benny:like for some reason you use Claude code.

Benny:It's like,

Benny:this is like a one week type thing.

Benny:And everyone's like,

Benny:Claude,

Benny:are you fucking on crack?

Benny:We're doing this next 15 minutes.

Benny:Like,

Benny:what do you mean a one week thing?

Benny:Like,

Benny:this is,

Benny:you just laid out the whole plan and you're going to do it.

Benny:It's going to take you fucking five minutes, bro.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:Like, what are you talking about?

Benny:But in the chat UI, it keeps telling people to go to bed.

Benny:Like, if the chat gets too long, it goes like, go to bed.

Benny:We'll pick this up tomorrow.

Benny:And this one guy that I follow just keeps posting pictures of his poodle and his poodle's, like, feet with, like, the, or, like, paws with all the hair.

Benny:And he just keeps referring to his dog's monkey feet.

Benny:And I guess he's mentioned this to Claude.

Benny:so Claude is like go

Benny:rub Newt's monkey feet and go to bed

Argyle:you

Johnny:Go to bed.

Gamemaster:ridiculous

Anzu:It's just being friendly.

Benny:it's like a real thing Claude said

Benny:and he's like what the fuck

Benny:are you talking about

Benny:go to bed

Gamemaster:time to go to bed

Benny:you gotta go to bed

Benny:and it's like 3pm

Benny:I want to know what happened

Benny:in evals that made

Benny:go to bed like a score

Benny:high like if you just say

Benny:go to bed in like arc agi2 does it like pass the puzzle or something like what the

Argyle:you

Johnny:Claude knows that people need to go to bed more.

Gamemaster:Yeah, it's bedtime.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I think the AI is dumb.

Benny:it's hypnotizing people to give it good

Benny:go to bed give me a thumbs up on this message and go to bed

Gamemaster:That's the moral of the story.

Benny:hans what was what was that

Benny:I a tattletale it not a critical miss

Gamemaster:What?

Gamemaster:What's happening?

Argyle:you you

Johnny:Oh no Anzu is starting stuff

Gamemaster:Are you guys all hanging out in https://btl.iridi.cc without me

Anzu:you Thank you

Gamemaster:Oh, he missed.

Gamemaster:Wait, no. Yeah, he missed.

Johnny:I wish you would tell us how much we missed by.

Gamemaster:I know how much you missed by.

Benny:it's not a critical miss

Gamemaster:But I'm not telling you. It's not a critical miss. You're correct.

Benny:so it's a 36 or under

Johnny:So there's eight.

Benny:which means Benny will hit

Benny:75% of the time.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Crazy.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Geeth.

Benny:No, I'm

Benny:joking.

Benny:It's close, though.

Benny:I think

Benny:with whatever

Benny:plus one

Benny:Johnny usually gives me, that would mean

Benny:36 or below

Benny:Benny will hit

Benny:Oh, no, that is 75% of the time.

Benny:No.

Benny:25% of the time.

Argyle:yeah yeah

Johnny:That's a big goal.

Gamemaster:Why are you guys even all in foundry?

Anzu:I think I, oh my gosh.

Gamemaster:Are you planning on fighting this guy?

Gamemaster:I gave you a plus 75

Benny:Well, Tanner was saying something like,

Benny:I opened Foundry today and

Benny:Huh.

Benny:I feel like

Anzu:Now that's mythic.

Benny:what are the circumstances

Argyle:um

Benny:that

Benny:you

Argyle:his circumstance bonus

Argyle:josh gave it to me

Argyle:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Johnny:super mythic

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:to your circumstance bonus

Gamemaster:for what

Argyle:You said I wasn't allowed to know.

Gamemaster:Oh, right, of course, it's one of those classified you get a plus 75 bonuses, of course.

Argyle:It was classified.

Argyle:Yeah, it's just not on me.

Argyle:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gamemaster:Johnny with a dagger is worse than Anzu with his beak.

Johnny:yet Anzu's never missed with the beak

Johnny:yeah our guy was plus 75

Benny:So this must be like a godlike entity we can't fight.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Argyle:Besides Argyle Yeah yeah Oh man guys

Anzu:you you

Benny:Of course of course

Gamemaster:Besides Argyle because Argyle got a 97 on his last roll so he definitely hit That too many

Johnny:Why are you doing a hundred and four acid?

Gamemaster:Oh.

Benny:Spicy.

Gamemaster:Another thing.

Argyle:I wasn't allowed to know.

Gamemaster:I record the results of every die roll from the Dicebot in Discord,

Benny:Spicy.

Argyle:Oh, I wish.

Gamemaster:because I was afraid that I would be accused that the rolls aren't fair,

Gamemaster:and I wanted proof that they are.

Argyle:Huh?

Johnny:And you've discovered the therapy.

Gamemaster:They are fair.

Benny:you

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:That's besides the point.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:I didn't have any limits on what gets put into the database.

Gamemaster:And just because of the format of the database, if you roll a pool of dice, like 3d6, it records that as three different rows.

Gamemaster:Because I needed to know the result of each die roll, you know, instead of like the addition of all of them.

Gamemaster:and I got an alert that it was taking up some space,

Gamemaster:like more space than I would expect

Gamemaster:because it's just like a little SQLite database

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:that's just sitting around in the file system.

Gamemaster:And that was because somebody some time ago

Gamemaster:rolled a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

Gamemaster:D, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.

Gamemaster:And that turned into a bunch of rows in the database.

Gamemaster:So I like go to check

Gamemaster:and the database has 47 million rows in it

Gamemaster:and only like

Gamemaster:4,000 of them are legitimate.

Benny:I had a feeling

Argyle:Who rolled that?

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:So, Mike.

Gamemaster:It was Mike.

Benny:I had a feeling

Benny:When you said all the numbers

Argyle:I knew it was either Mike or me,

Argyle:so I was really hoping it was Mike.

Gamemaster:So I've updated the logic.

Argyle:Mike.

Benny:I was like maybe this was Jorge

Gamemaster:no

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:Jorge

Gamemaster:I've updated the logic and it doesn't

Benny:Jorge

Gamemaster:save those kind of rolls anymore

Gamemaster:because I don't need that

Gamemaster:but that was a surprise

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:That's great.

Gamemaster:that was a good time

Benny:Is there any...

Argyle:you can save it as a proto if you wanted that right or an array that just makes it gross for no reason

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I don't believe

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:Actually, I don't know how a database would handle

Benny:if you saved it as an appending map.

Benny:I guess that wouldn't matter, actually, much.

Gamemaster:I don't believe

Gamemaster:SQLite has support for

Gamemaster:protos or

Gamemaster:for arrays by default

Argyle:it does

Argyle:it's not worth it's not worth setting up because it just makes every look up like a terrible

Gamemaster:no I know Postgres has arrays

Benny:Oh.

Gamemaster:and it has like general bytes

Gamemaster:I don't know if it can support arrays in SQLite.

Benny:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:I mean, I'm using, it's a very, very simple table.

Gamemaster:No, why would I want to store the results of 123456789d123456789?

Argyle:i'm just saying

Argyle:yeah yeah so modern uh sqlite doesn't have it but it does have json so that's the recommended

Benny:well cuz then you would only add one row but it then it would add an array of

Gamemaster:Like, how is that useful?

Benny:of however many billion or million.

Gamemaster:Yeah, it's still a lot of space for no reason.

Gamemaster:Yeah, but I'm not gonna store just Jason either.

Johnny:Oh.

Anzu:you

Argyle:all right

Gamemaster:I'm just not gonna store that.

Benny:Store it.

Gamemaster:I put a limit in so that if you try to roll a die over a d100, or if you try to roll more

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:than 30 dice in one pool, I'm just not gonna save it.

Johnny:Oh.

Benny:You should store it as a text file that is not like CSV,

Gamemaster:like

Gamemaster:sure

Johnny:Thank you

Anzu:you

Benny:and then you'll have to write something to parse the text file.

Benny:Just make it as hard as possible.

Gamemaster:I don't think I want that

Gamemaster:because

Gamemaster:and I feel the need to reiterate this

Gamemaster:what would I do with that

Gamemaster:information

Gamemaster:the dice rolls are fair

Benny:You'll finally see how unfair the dice rolls.

Argyle:Thank you So for your unedification

Benny:if I didn't roll

Benny:one of each side of the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 in as many rolls It not fair I expected to roll each one once if that doesn happen

Gamemaster:That not how that works

Anzu:you you

Benny:in that many rolls.

Gamemaster:You know that that's not how that works.

Gamemaster:You're the most statsy of us.

Gamemaster:It's not true.

Argyle:foundry doesn't let us roll any more than 999 on any part of the dice spot

Gamemaster:Nope.

Gamemaster:Yep.

Benny:What if we do a lot of damage?

Johnny:What if we do max damage?

Gamemaster:Which is, I think, a reasonable restriction.

Anzu:you

Argyle:i don't know

Gamemaster:Oh.

Argyle:i still kind of i still kind of think there should be a rule in pathfinder

Benny:What if we do a lot of damage?

Johnny:I mean, integer for Pathfinder.

Benny:Pathfinder Maxin.

Argyle:that if you crit you have the option to roll another die and if you get anything besides a d20

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:Oh, I like that.

Gamemaster:Well, you're not quite, but kind of describing exploding dice, which are a thing in some

Anzu:you

Argyle:it's gone but if you get another d20 it turns into a super crit

Gamemaster:systems, which is traditionally in damage rolls, if you roll the max number on an exploding

Gamemaster:die, you get to roll another version of that die and add it to the total.

Gamemaster:and if you roll a max number on that die

Gamemaster:you get to add that die to the total and roll it again.

Benny:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Usually you see it on like d4s and stuff

Argyle:I was going to say, smaller dice are actually more chaotic, right?

Gamemaster:so it can never really grow out of a like bound

Gamemaster:but it is a thing.

Argyle:Because then they're more likely to have more rerolls.

Gamemaster:They're more likely to explode

Gamemaster:but the increment of each one is less.

Gamemaster:But like in general, in general, you know.

Argyle:Lower variance.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:But if I do a fireball and I upcast it and I have like 6d6,

Gamemaster:Yeah you get some extra damage out of it it fun It also a pretty difficult modeling problem to like figure out the probability of getting a certain value off of exploding

Benny:Thank you

Johnny:you you

Anzu:you Thank you

Argyle:that a good chance

Argyle:Yeah, now you have like some weird geometric series.

Gamemaster:die. Yeah. This isn't what I thought it was. I have all of these new songs and I haven't

Gamemaster:had taken the time to go through and figure out what each one sounds like. I'm just going

Gamemaster:off of the name. This is Wish Come True, in case you were curious.

Benny:it in constant time with recursion?

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:No?

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:No?

Gamemaster:How?

Benny:I think you can.

Gamemaster:How?

Benny:You define an exploding die as like the exploding d8

Benny:would be the expect 7 eighths times the expectation of everything

Benny:but 8.

Benny:So like 1 through 7 times 1 eighth of the exploding die.

Benny:So it's like x equals 7 eighths some number times 1 8x.

Gamemaster:Oh.

Gamemaster:No, that's fair.

Benny:Oh, you just have to solve it algebraically.

Argyle:I'm going to go ahead and close the session.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:I don't know how I would represent that in a program, like generically.

Gamemaster:But...

Benny:You just have to solve for x and then tell the program.

Benny:There might be a general form of n-sided die.

Benny:But there were many probability problems in my probability class

Benny:where it was like, you look at it, you're like,

Benny:I have to solve this infinitely.

Benny:And it's like, no, no, no.

Benny:Just write a variable as x, and then it's like fifth grade,

Gamemaster:I'm sorry

Benny:which is very disheartening

Argyle:well it's also like i remember when i was chatting with some like physics professors for wpi when i

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:was going to go there they were just like all of math is just really algebra calc is really just

Argyle:some like fake algebra and then you just really try to make it algebra again

Argyle:calc is really just like what if we just said this number's zero you know like what if we just say

Benny:I mean

Gamemaster:I mean I remember in Calc 3 where we spent a non amount of time doing Laplace

Argyle:if it gets close enough, it turns into that number.

Benny:Algebra with constraints Algebra with constraints

Argyle:And then you like all right cool Now you go back to algebra Yeah

Johnny:you you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:transforms just to get back into making it look like algebra again.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:So I see it.

Benny:Yeah, that was also

Gamemaster:Oh yeah.

Benny:Diffie Q.

Benny:You'd turn a differential

Argyle:Yeah, but they did that in a...

Benny:equation into an algebraic.

Gamemaster:Well, it's so much easier to work with it as algebra than it is, like, otherwise.

Argyle:It's all

Argyle:trying to turn it back into it.

Benny:And then there was

Benny:like

Benny:Well, yeah, but then there was also

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:I suppose.

Anzu:you

Benny:Coordinate Transforms

Benny:Which was the most suicidal I've ever been in my life

Benny:Here's the formula to get into polar

Benny:For fucking

Benny:Transform this into

Benny:Fuck you, dude

Benny:Here's hard algebra

Benny:I don't want to do this

Gamemaster:Do we even want to play some Pathfinder?

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:

Benny:Yes.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Uh, okay.

Gamemaster:Does anybody remember what happened last time?

Gamemaster:Do they want to do a recap?

Gamemaster:Okay.

Benny:I will do so not using my memory, but only my notes.

Gamemaster:That's fine.

Benny:Session 32.

Benny:I think I may have lost count.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Benny:We're trying to figure out plans.

Benny:We realize we want a map.

Benny:Harlequins probably have one.

Benny:uh prime meridian maybe but they said they didn't other large orgs probably have a map

Argyle:hmm

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:hmm

Benny:um we also think that we have to get other hearts energy at some point spoiler alert we do

Benny:uh so we we start interrogating our now genie-esque uh compatriot chuck who tells us about a map in a

Argyle:hmm

Gamemaster:you

Benny:library we go and see Verdant Holdings they don't let us come in as a walk-on

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Benny:like Mark Wahlberg in the famous movie

Benny:invincible

Argyle:you

Johnny:Nothing really.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:yeah let's see

Benny:oh yeah so we go to the

Benny:Harlequin's place

Benny:but there's some weird movement about

Benny:there's some weird movement

Benny:of mana in the town

Benny:there's clock towers

Benny:there's a church with the eyeball

Benny:in the hands

Benny:and

Benny:We go to the library, we see a bunch of hands, we see a wall of fire, we see a bone guy.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Benny:After much discussion, hooting and hollering, we either have to give up knowledge effectively forever for unlimited access to the library,

Benny:or we can get this guy his ink ribbon or something.

Benny:and he doesn't know where it is so it's like not helpful but i guess if he knew where it is he would

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Benny:get it he told us that actually many times when we kept asking him where it was um the eye in

Benny:hands represents four princes and the eye which is the thing that awoken them um that's not specified

Benny:anywhere it was just ominously said to us and we had to kind of live with it uh we go to herney and

Benny:heavy. We chat

Benny:with them. It seems like they had

Benny:a gun to their head while they were

Benny:speaking to us because they were

Benny:cold, but not

Argyle:Thank you you That was the power company

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Thank you If I can Doug if I can quibble a little bit why did you think Ternion was cold but not rude

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:rude.

Benny:And then

Benny:Benny went and

Benny:killed a bunch of hearts

Benny:while Johnny

Benny:did this with his hands.

Benny:We took all that

Benny:energy and we bought

Benny:walls, a moat,

Benny:and a selection of rooms hopefully allowing us to fit our new populace Dog

Johnny:dog Uh Okay So I going to go ahead and show you the slides To see if there any questions

Anzu:you

Johnny:I'm going to go ahead and.

Anzu:...

Johnny:I'm going to go ahead and share my screen.

Anzu:...

Benny:Wasn't that the thing?

Anzu:...

Benny:Where they were like...

Johnny:And I'll just wait a moment.

Anzu:...

Johnny:I'll just wait a moment.

Benny:Was it Ternion or was...

Anzu:...

Johnny:I'll just wait a moment.

Anzu:...

Johnny:I'll just wait a moment.

Anzu:Kurnian was relatively kind.

Johnny:I'll just wait a moment.

Anzu:They just...

Anzu:And they actually offered to help us,

Anzu:but they won't join our alliance,

Anzu:because they're already allied with Grayson.

Benny:Oh, yeah.

Argyle:and the problem is like

Johnny:We got a couple of people being like, was it Hildebrandt?

Gamemaster:Yeah, both.

Johnny:They were like, those guys are sketchy.

Johnny:They're murderers.

Johnny:They're bad people.

Johnny:They shot us out of the sky.

Gamemaster:Both.

Argyle:they're just our butts

Anzu:Which one called us a little naive?

Argyle:so

Argyle:that was the energy company

Anzu:Was that Braxton or Jethro?

Argyle:I have a solution

Gamemaster:That was Ætherion Limited.

Benny:Yeah, Tass and Braxton.

Johnny:Oh, Ætherion and Ætherion.

Benny:Right.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Argyle:for this

Argyle:once we start

Gamemaster:For being naive.

Argyle:yes

Benny:Yeah, we killed him.

Argyle:think

Anzu:Thank you.

Benny:You were naive to think we wouldn't kill them.

Johnny:Who's the ace? You don't even have a brain!

Gamemaster:so yeah I think I think otherwise that was that was a pretty good recap

Johnny:Think, Arthurian limited! Think!

Argyle:think Mark

Argyle:you

Benny:Yeah.

Gamemaster:unless anybody else has anything to add um I can get the mythic point

Gamemaster:and we will

Benny:Oh.

Argyle:Yeah.

Anzu:One thing that we left out is that Tanner learned the definition of a word that he's

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:open up today's session

Gamemaster:with all of you

Gamemaster:in your newly

Gamemaster:reinforced home

Gamemaster:excuse me, with some new guests

Gamemaster:that you've absorbed

Gamemaster:from those veins that you murdered

Gamemaster:yes, Tanner

Gamemaster:that's true

Anzu:probably not going to use again.

Gamemaster:he did do that

Argyle:I told that

Gamemaster:yep

Anzu:Thank you Yes indeed

Gamemaster:laughing well so as as it turns out yeah as it turns out it was a learning experience for everyone

Argyle:I told I told that story to Bailey because neither of us knew what nonsense were So then I was like and then Josh was like what did I say to make you think that

Benny:Thank you You

Johnny:Man I looked at a guy and went this pedophile right there

Argyle:We were with you, Tanner.

Argyle:We had no idea.

Gamemaster:so it's fine um

Argyle:I just loved Josh's horror when he was just like, what the fuck did I say?

Johnny:Yeah.

Gamemaster:yeah I was

Johnny:I also,

Argyle:I say?

Benny:I heard Daniel say it, and I know the definition,

Johnny:I also wish with an insult.

Anzu:It's because of the chip on my shoulder.

Gamemaster:it's a

Gamemaster:it's fine

Benny:and I was just happy with the added aggression.

Benny:Call them whatever you want, as long as they're being mean and hard-nosed.

Benny:Call them pedophiles.

Benny:I don't even know if they are, but I like the energy.

Benny:It's because of the chip on your shoulder.

Johnny:Guy's bad.

Benny:Watch out for this guy.

Benny:I'll call anyone a pedophile because of the chip on his shoulder.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Argyle:so

Benny:It talks to him sometimes.

Johnny:He's mad as heck.

Anzu:All right.

Benny:It's how he psychs himself up.

Argyle:yeah

Benny:He doesn't want to hurt innocent people, so he just imagines things.

Johnny:He's like,

Johnny:Squaw! Squaw!

Johnny:These pedophiles! Squaw!

Johnny:Squaw!

Anzu:That's derivative.

Anzu:And according to my notes, we have 73 energy in our heart.

Benny:Yeah.

Gamemaster:I'm trusting you on it.

Argyle:So I have an idea, gentlemen.

Benny:Who knows?

Johnny:Okay.

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:I'd like to chat with you guys before we go to bed,

Argyle:just the court group.

Johnny:Johnny's in his pajamas.

Johnny:He's ready.

Argyle:So part of my training with the Scale,

Argyle:I worked with some pact brokers,

Johnny:Okay.

Argyle:and I learned the ritual of Gaius.

Johnny:That a pretty good idea actually

Argyle:What if we make a constitution

Gamemaster:Thank you

Argyle:that everyone that in our group we not allowed to hurt each other or our heart unless we make a vote That way everyone signs it and we know there no spies

Benny:Thank you

Anzu:you What I mean what more are the terms of this ritual

Johnny:Can you imagine get around?

Argyle:Well, that's why I got you guys here.

Anzu:Well,

Argyle:You're the smart ones.

Johnny:I am the smart one of this group.

Johnny:Thank you for noticing.

Argyle:There is a feat in Gaius

Argyle:where basically it just says like

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:I think the only way to get around it is basically with a wish,

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Sorry, what are...

Anzu:you

Argyle:if I'm understanding this correctly.

Gamemaster:Where did you get this ritual from, and what are you reading?

Argyle:So this is not from the new archetype.

Argyle:That is oiled slick walls and consecrate.

Gamemaster:Okay, I found this on...

Gamemaster:Oh, yes, that's true.

Argyle:So I removed those.

Argyle:I forgot to send that.

Argyle:Gaius I got on Argyle.

Argyle:I asked if I could get Gaius and Angelic Messenger,

Argyle:and you said yes.

Benny:Wait, I like that.

Argyle:so i asked for this a while ago

Johnny:The consequences of your actions.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:This is my fault.

Gamemaster:I told you you can do this.

Gamemaster:Yeah, this was, this wasn't new.

Argyle:um yeah by the way there's a cool ritual feat i think it's a third level where you effectively

Argyle:just go drinking with your buddies and then you black out and then if you roll well something

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Argyle:good happened but basically it's just like a bender which is so funny it's a mythic spell

Johnny:This is a...

Johnny:I can get this spell then.

Argyle:and I think you need like mythic diplomacy for it.

Argyle:Let's see if I can find it.

Benny:totally go for that

Anzu:you

Johnny:What is the...

Johnny:One day I'll be able to get this spell.

Johnny:What is...

Johnny:Hang on.

Argyle:Yeah, it's so funny.

Benny:this is like a hangover but we end up in like the

Argyle:Butterfly Bender.

Benny:king's

Benny:what's it called

Benny:oh so real

Argyle:Butterfly Bender.

Argyle:The cost is alcohol worth 20 gold.

Benny:expensive booze

Argyle:Oh wait, no, it's a medicine check.

Benny:...

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Benny:...

Johnny:It's not...

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:...

Johnny:It's not a mythic.

Johnny:We can just do this.

Argyle:Never mind, I was looking at a different mythic spell.

Benny:...

Johnny:This is medicine diplomacy?

Argyle:That was like a...

Johnny:We can so do this.

Argyle:Yeah, but I don't have that spell.

Benny:you

Anzu:you

Johnny:Everyone stop.

Johnny:Okay, well, we got to figure out where the spell is.

Johnny:We'll deal with this later.

Benny:you

Argyle:band of heroes i think is the yeah it's the mythic one but this isn't a bender

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Uh, yeah.

Anzu:Is Gaius just free?

Johnny:you

Argyle:well people have to agree to it people have to agree to it

Benny:Virgo

Johnny:you

Benny:you

Argyle:i don't know why you wouldn't agree to it unless you're a spy because i'm literally just like

Benny:you

Argyle:hey what about if we just don't hurt each other or hurt our heart like it's a it's a

Argyle:constitution and then if you want out you can get out if we vote as long as you're not hurting each

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:for what it's worth just because this might be a gotcha if you end up doing it in the future

Anzu:you

Argyle:other

Argyle:does that notify people on the breakage of it

Gamemaster:uh the restriction on you need something like a wish to remove a gas is if the target is willing

Gamemaster:if at any point the target becomes unwilling then it's a curse and it can be removed with remove curse

Gamemaster:um

Gamemaster:I like I would assume

Argyle:Okay.

Benny:I gotta be honest.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:that you would be aware if it gets

Gamemaster:broken

Gamemaster:yeah I

Gamemaster:I would say that the primary

Gamemaster:caster would know if the

Gamemaster:contract gets broken for whatever reason

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Benny:This butterfly bender one is perfect for the group.

Benny:Because there have been so many times where we're like, we don't know what to do.

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:I don't know.

Benny:Let's check the same six places that Josh has to take us.

Benny:You don't find anything.

Argyle:Butterfly Bender is really hysterical

Johnny:Thank you I don think we have that already Common item A new friend

Anzu:you

Benny:You want to look around?

Benny:You don't find,

Benny:he doesn't even ask us to roll.

Benny:He just goes,

Benny:you don't find.

Benny:And then we're missing the one thing.

Gamemaster:Any options that aren't chosen are temporarily lost to you?

Gamemaster:...

Gamemaster:If this is one of the things

Benny:Your dignity is one of them so

Argyle:you you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:lost an existing friend refuses to speak

Gamemaster:to you for one day

Gamemaster:If you don't take a useful piece of knowledge

Johnny:Oh no.

Benny:It's literally just like.

Johnny:A convenient

Johnny:gift.

Gamemaster:you just have a minus four penalty to your

Gamemaster:next recall knowledge. You just

Gamemaster:knocked out a few brain cells

Gamemaster:you have problems like thinking of stuff.

Benny:It's...

Argyle:I feel like that ritual

Johnny:I think the last one is just a convenient opportunity of the GM's choice,

Anzu:you

Johnny:which means if we pick that every time,

Johnny:we just get a lot of convenient opportunities.

Gamemaster:Correct.

Argyle:deserves its own session.

Benny:But it's fantastic.

Argyle:That's not something you do just, ah, let's just do this one.

Argyle:I feel like that's enough to be prepared.

Gamemaster:It's crazy.

Benny:I mean, the flavor of it's hilarious.

Benny:Like, you know, guys, fuck it.

Argyle:Yeah.

Benny:Let's just go get a drink.

Benny:and then we end up in wherever

Benny:doing whatever.

Gamemaster:Okay, well, so, sorry.

Argyle:Heather Ritual has been a

Johnny:Okay.

Anzu:you

Argyle:scotman in Boston

Argyle:alright but

Argyle:gayeth

Argyle:make a constitution

Argyle:effectively

Argyle:someone else can handle

Argyle:I can't do two checks

Argyle:I can do the religion check

Argyle:so effectively

Argyle:we want

Argyle:every member of the group

Argyle:yeah

Benny:All of them.

Gamemaster:just to clarify here, how many people are you planning on casting this on?

Argyle:everyone

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:It's going to take a while to cover everybody.

Gamemaster:Okay, so I'm assuming excluding Iconoclasm.

Argyle:I'd say we eventually do it

Gamemaster:Or including Iconoclasm.

Argyle:we might not be the first ones but

Argyle:yep

Gamemaster:Okay, well the reason I ask is because it's a day of casting per person.

Benny:Oh, Jesus.

Anzu:and also we can do other stuff So

Gamemaster:Yes.

Benny:Alright well we just kill all our allies then Josh

Gamemaster:Correct Because you busy casting the spell

Argyle:Thank you

Johnny:you you

Benny:Is that what you want us to do?

Benny:Because we can't force them into a contract.

Gamemaster:No.

Benny:You want us to just kill everyone in our house,

Benny:all the people that we agree to take in?

Anzu:Yeah, you know what?

Anzu:Screw them.

Benny:Yeah.

Gamemaster:I'm not...

Anzu:Screw every single one of them.

Gamemaster:I'm not telling you not to cast the spell.

Gamemaster:I'm just telling you that it'll take some time

Gamemaster:if you want to go through

Gamemaster:there are three people from Solari Sub-surface

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Okay.

Johnny:you

Anzu:Yeah.

Gamemaster:there's Salvado and the

Gamemaster:two nappers in the car

Gamemaster:and then from

Gamemaster:Alcahast Freight

Gamemaster:I think it was four people

Gamemaster:including Kadou

Gamemaster:so all told

Gamemaster:just for the people that you recently brought in

Gamemaster:it's seven

Gamemaster:so that's a week's worth of casting

Gamemaster:if you wanted to start there

Gamemaster:yeah

Anzu:Well, we have plans for tomorrow.

Anzu:So, we have some time to think about it.

Benny:I don't think we can actually do this.

Argyle:No.

Johnny:Okay.

Benny:Because, like, okay, so...

Benny:Targets one creature of a level no greater than double the Gaea's Ritual.

Benny:Sure.

Benny:But it heightened to fifth.

Benny:Do we have fifth level spells yet?

Anzu:No.

Benny:Heightened to fifth says it lasts...

Benny:Oh, this is for unwilling.

Benny:Unwilling.

Benny:Okay, never mind.

Gamemaster:for a willing creature

Gamemaster:it lasts as long as

Gamemaster:you're all willing still

Gamemaster:effectively

Anzu:How do you go about learning rituals?

Benny:Oh, nice.

Benny:Okay.

Gamemaster:you read them

Benny:you

Argyle:Why don't you ask?

Johnny:It's more.

Argyle:We need to find the rituals, or you need to take an archetype.

Argyle:Do we know where...

Argyle:Can I, on our heart, send a message over in the morning

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Argyle:after we sleep to the other Scale people

Argyle:to ask if they have the ritual spells?

Anzu:you

Argyle:I still going to take the feat next level But if they have the ritual spells consecrate or oil slicked walls

Benny:you you

Johnny:you Thank you

Gamemaster:one second i need to read through these to make sure that i'm not giving you anything ridiculous

Anzu:I don't see that.

Benny:you

Argyle:One of them requires

Argyle:warfare lore, but I assume

Anzu:I don't see that.

Argyle:if there's someone on here that has warfare

Argyle:lore, it's going to be one of those people.

Benny:you

Gamemaster:ridiculous

Gamemaster:yeah i i know

Anzu:I don't even see it.

Argyle:They're uncommon.

Benny:you

Anzu:what level is oil slicked walls

Argyle:I know.

Gamemaster:oh not only is it uncommon

Benny:Okay.

Argyle:two

Johnny:That's what that means.

Anzu:oh

Argyle:which one

Gamemaster:it's banned in normal play

Gamemaster:oil slicked walls

Argyle:wait wait how do you find out a band

Gamemaster:do you see the X

Argyle:i was just looking

Anzu:oh

Gamemaster:next to the name

Gamemaster:that means Pathfinder Society

Gamemaster:restricted

Argyle:yeah but those are for nerds

Johnny:that

Anzu:That's

Johnny:the outer wall

Gamemaster:player core

Anzu:That's so good

Johnny:the surface

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:what were they using

Argyle:how did this break something

Anzu:Wait guys

Johnny:of the metal

Johnny:silly spell

Anzu:Is the core rulebook or the player core

Anzu:The remastered one

Anzu:Okay

Gamemaster:all of the

Anzu:Let's get rid of core rulebook

Anzu:I don't want to look at these

Anzu:Cool

Gamemaster:all of the blank core

Gamemaster:are the remastered ones

Argyle:I don't know why it's banned.

Anzu:you

Johnny:how long does it take to cast

Gamemaster:Eight hours.

Johnny:oh there it is

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:wow that's kind of funny though

Johnny:it'll last for one week

Johnny:that's pretty good

Gamemaster:All the surfaces, thin slippery sheen, okay.

Gamemaster:That's very goofy. Within 7 miles is funny because that's larger than the upper surface

Argyle:It seems so situational.

Argyle:you

Anzu:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Benny:you

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:We can make the striders slicked.

Johnny:Okay.

Gamemaster:of the strider.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:That's like 100% of the entirety

Johnny:That's great.

Gamemaster:of the strider.

Johnny:Okay.

Argyle:So people trying to catch up.

Johnny:All right.

Gamemaster:That's not quite how it works.

Argyle:Ha ha ha.

Gamemaster:No, all it really means

Johnny:All right.

Gamemaster:is that your walls would be slicked,

Johnny:All right.

Gamemaster:but if you critically fail,

Gamemaster:it doesn't matter where you are

Johnny:All right.

Gamemaster:on the strider,

Gamemaster:you'll have pools of oil

Gamemaster:underneath your feet

Gamemaster:for the next week.

Johnny:All right.

Gamemaster:Okay, so yeah,

Johnny:All right.

Gamemaster:I think oil-slicked walls is fine.

Argyle:Mm-hmm.

Benny:you

Argyle:great

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I don't see anything in it that's gonna...

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:I'm going to regret saying this out loud.

Gamemaster:I don't see anything in it that's outrageous.

Argyle:consecrate's actually I think less

Gamemaster:Let me look at consecrate.

Argyle:useful because we don't follow

Argyle:the same gods but

Argyle:it's mostly just for me

Gamemaster:That is fair.

Gamemaster:It would just...

Argyle:it's not on the top of my list so don't worry about that one

Gamemaster:Yeah, you can rope them into a three-day ritual

Gamemaster:so that you get a plus one status bonus

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:to attack, roll skill checks, and saving throws.

Argyle:do they have oil slicked walls though

Gamemaster:I'm gonna say no, they don't have this on hand.

Argyle:did you say yes to the slicked walls

Gamemaster:What?

Gamemaster:I said yes to the oil slicked walls.

Argyle:yes yes

Argyle:alright I'll remove the other

Gamemaster:Lance can help you out

Argyle:great

Gamemaster:and transcribe the instructions for oil slicked walls.

Argyle:great great great

Gamemaster:Radiant Arms said that they would agree to join in your alliance.

Argyle:alright guys

Argyle:are we going to dive into the

Benny:Good sub.

Johnny:To subsurface, sublevel, subbasement.

Anzu:you

Argyle:depths

Argyle:level 12

Argyle:well

Johnny:To the yellow submarine 12.

Argyle:well

Argyle:wait wait a second before we go

Argyle:um

Argyle:Raiding Arms. They said they were going to join with us.

Gamemaster:They did not say they were moving in with you Yeah you set up with them

Argyle:I know but there was a thing with the hearts that they can connect right Yeah so Oh I thought there was a separate thing because when we went to the

Benny:Thank you

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:you you

Argyle:that first heart that we killed, there was an option to just expand our territory and link it.

Argyle:Because I thought we were all paying the tithe together.

Gamemaster:you

Gamemaster:that's that's effectively what they've done you are all paying the tithe together you're

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:you're paying the tithe the the important bit is you are collectively paying the tithe with them

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:but the hearts don't get to mix energy

Benny:you

Argyle:Yeah, just double checking that they joined.

Johnny:Cool.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:so

Gamemaster:like if a

Gamemaster:third party were to

Benny:you

Gamemaster:come in and take the heart at

Gamemaster:radiant arms in space they would

Benny:you

Gamemaster:get all of the latent energy within it

Gamemaster:just as like a

Benny:you

Gamemaster:heads up but you are like one

Gamemaster:entity you already agreed to that

Gamemaster:like two sessions ago

Gamemaster:yep

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:that happened

Johnny:Nerds.

Argyle:Do they want to move into our place?

Gamemaster:they do not

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:They have their own base.

Benny:Mm-hmm.

Argyle:okay

Johnny:Now, what was our base?

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:They feel pretty comfortable in it.

Argyle:our base is only going to get cooler and they're going to feel jealous

Johnny:Super jealous.

Argyle:because

Johnny:Especially when we come back from sub level 12 with all this new knowledge.

Gamemaster:Okay, listen.

Argyle:yeah

Argyle:um what do you guys think about before we go giving radiant arms

Gamemaster:Sure.

Gamemaster:So...

Gamemaster:Okay, so you're giving Y'shael and Radiant Arms one of the weapons that Sable and Suns

Argyle:one of our laser weapons for them to start R&Ding on.

Benny:Okay.

Johnny:And lastly, any top beefey then,

Anzu:using it brick

Johnny:I will let you guys,

Anzu:you

Argyle:All right, we're not even...

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:lets make it up.

Benny:Okay.

Gamemaster:made.

Argyle:Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:We're saying, shh.

Gamemaster:Absolutely, you can do that.

Argyle:And here's the energy source.

Johnny:Here may be on a moment here,

Gamemaster:That works.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:Absolutely you can do that. That works.

Argyle:Hopefully that gets us some...

Argyle:If we were in, like, you know, like,

Argyle:out of Skyrim there be like a plus faction rating And they like Ooh Yeah Yeah Yeah

Benny:Radiant arms like that Radiant arms like that

Johnny:Thank you Oh no

Anzu:Thank you They one sons disliked that

Gamemaster:Your reputation has increased with radiant arms Yeah

Gamemaster:Sure, so you can hand it over.

Argyle:They don't know.

Gamemaster:You are literally doing corporate espionage.

Gamemaster:But yeah, you can hand that over.

Gamemaster:you're handing over

Argyle:That counts as scorpion espionage.

Benny:They weren't given to us in confidence.

Argyle:Yeah, but they tried to kill us with it.

Johnny:Yeah, but they tried to.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:trade secrets from one company to another

Gamemaster:that's

Johnny:So.

Gamemaster:that I

Gamemaster:I don't know if that's actually a requirement

Argyle:Yeah, yeah, they weren't given confidence.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:I think it's just theft.

Argyle:I think it's just grand larceny.

Gamemaster:sure

Argyle:I think it's different.

Gamemaster:sure it's not corporate espionage

Gamemaster:it's just theft

Gamemaster:that's better I suppose

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:um

Gamemaster:either way you hand it over they are definitely

Gamemaster:interested in the tech

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:even if Sable & Sons has a marginally different

Gamemaster:what's the term?

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:methodology

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Not psychology.

Gamemaster:Like, not motivation.

Gamemaster:Like, tact in how they approach making firearms.

Gamemaster:I can't think of the actual word that I would use there.

Argyle:they are

Gamemaster:Yes, thank you.

Gamemaster:That's it.

Gamemaster:Words are hard.

Gamemaster:But they'll look into it.

Gamemaster:They'll investigate.

Gamemaster:Could be interesting.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:end with that

Gamemaster:I believe it's actually the evening

Gamemaster:because you had waited until the middle

Benny:I know what you've been doing.

Argyle:I helped the guy medicate his sorrows,

Johnny:you

Anzu:Now we're going to sleep and then go underground in the morning.

Gamemaster:of the night to

Gamemaster:yoink the two hearts

Gamemaster:are you planning on doing anything else before

Gamemaster:resting up

Gamemaster:okay

Gamemaster:you did do that yes

Argyle:and then I'm like, you have to get straight after this.

Gamemaster:sorry what does he have to do

Gamemaster:Okay

Argyle:Don't be a drunkard, you know.

Argyle:We'll help out.

Argyle:Help out.

Gamemaster:Okay

Argyle:Not that DSM.

Benny:you got to be straight after it right here it right here in this book that a good call that a good culture

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:cleanse a fiction

Johnny:DSL hitting him with the d5

Anzu:Thank you you

Gamemaster:Okay You all get a night rest

Gamemaster:I'm not going to make you roll a will save or anything.

Gamemaster:Nobody tries to invade you in your sleep.

Gamemaster:And you wake up, well-rested,

Gamemaster:to begin the next day doing what you want to do.

Gamemaster:Which is?

Benny:you

Argyle:We'll be going to the garage.

Johnny:Get breakfast for the garage.

Gamemaster:Alrighty, you're going to the garage.

Anzu:We're going to the garage.

Gamemaster:You make it to the garage without issue.

Gamemaster:There's nothing blocking your way.

Gamemaster:You are in sub-level one, technically, by being in the garage, because it's one level

Gamemaster:underneath.

Gamemaster:There are elevators.

Gamemaster:You took a lift to get here.

Gamemaster:You can take a lift further down.

Gamemaster:You guys have not as of yet really explored the lower levels, the Undercroft of the Strider,

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:but it seems now is the time to do so.

Gamemaster:So you can call an elevator.

Gamemaster:This is the, like, above the Strider in the area where your base is, it is very open by

Gamemaster:virtue of the fact that there isn't a roof over your head or anything like that.

Gamemaster:It's just this open grassy area that you've all built your little forts on.

Gamemaster:Entering the garage feels a little bit like you'd all have been in parking garage structures,

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:where it's just a bunch of levels of spaces where cars can go.

Gamemaster:As we had established earlier in the campaign, nobody thought to charge for those, but they

Gamemaster:do exist in some form.

Gamemaster:So this is a little familiar to you.

Gamemaster:It's mostly concrete and empty vehicles.

Gamemaster:The lift itself, I think,

Gamemaster:given that this is your first time

Gamemaster:not moving around in the underbelly,

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:locked inside of a shipping container,

Gamemaster:which if you recall, that's how you got here,

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:It's your first view into a slightly less-kempt version of the Strider that you guys have interacted with.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:The elevator itself is not designed to be used by the people up on the surface,

Gamemaster:and as such, it doesn't have any frills or anything like that.

Gamemaster:It is a metal box with a lever that just has two positions, up and down,

Gamemaster:and then you manually kind of have to make it go down

Gamemaster:until you're at the floor that you want to go to

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:and then stop it from going down.

Gamemaster:It's not like you hit a button and it goes to a particular location.

Gamemaster:There is enough room for all four of you,

Gamemaster:or all five if you're counting Othello,

Gamemaster:but there is an audible groaning, creaking sound as you get in,

Gamemaster:as if it's just not been used very much,

Gamemaster:which is also generally the case.

Gamemaster:You haven't seen people from the Undercroft come up to the surface at all, so you gather that this elevator itself does not get much use.

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:We go.

Anzu:What levels does it have on its buttons?

Gamemaster:It doesn't have buttons. It has a lever that goes up and down, and you just manually control it as it goes up and down.

Anzu:Oh, you totally said that. That's my bad.

Gamemaster:I did say that, but it's fine.

Anzu:Shoot, let's head down.

Gamemaster:Absolutely. Benny seems to have taken control of the lever and pulls it down with a lurch, surprisingly slowly, if anything. The elevator starts to slowly lower itself down to the next few floors.

Benny:you

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:It's easy enough to mark where, like what floor you're on and headed to and the like,

Gamemaster:both because as you lower below the floor of this garage into sub level two,

Gamemaster:you can see that it for the most part it this generally open space You are not enclosed in this elevator shaft The elevator is just kind of being lifted and lowered within this open space that has platforms for each of the different floors headed out to it

Benny:you you

Argyle:you you

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:It's like this octangular column, effectively, that you're just floating in the middle of.

Gamemaster:And you can see directly in front of you there's a big 2 drawn in green paint on the side of this column,

Benny:All perceived.

Argyle:I'm making a yogurt bowl so someone can roll if they want.

Johnny:20.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:with like a girder that comes out.

Gamemaster:And as you continue to lower, you can see underneath it there is another girder that comes out,

Gamemaster:and a big 3 in paint there.

Gamemaster:And just as you continue down, roll a perception check, actually, as you look down below you.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Roll for yogurt bowl.

Benny:Uh, uh, wait, why do I have a minus one to this?

Argyle:you

Johnny:What?

Anzu:I think he's putting granola in there.

Gamemaster:You have a minus one to perception. Benny is blind.

Benny:No, but I have a two 16.

Gamemaster:Sixteen. Okay, um, with a 20 and a 16, looking down below you, you can see at

Benny:It was worth it, Jorge.

Gamemaster:at least to what looks to be floor 15.

Gamemaster:And then below that is just, it's just darkness.

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:You know that there's more below you

Gamemaster:because at some point you'd eventually hit the ground.

Gamemaster:So you can't go that far down,

Gamemaster:but at the very least there are 15 floors.

Gamemaster:That said, if you're just pulling the lever,

Gamemaster:waiting until you hit nine and then stopping it,

Gamemaster:you can absolutely do that.

Gamemaster:suspended in this column You slowly lower until you about level with the platform that extends off of the big number nine painted door And then you find yourselves just sat there You more than welcome to dismount if you like

Benny:you Was it nine or was it 12

Argyle:you I thought it was 12 but then I thought I just did a Jorge moment and got confused

Johnny:you I also thought as well

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:Sorry, 12.

Gamemaster:I don't know why I was saying nine.

Gamemaster:No, I didn't, Josh.

Gamemaster:I forgot what numbers are.

Gamemaster:You guys are correct.

Benny:I have it written down.

Argyle:Okay, cool.

Benny:I do. I have it written down as 12 on a physical piece of paper, which is why I asked.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I SSH'd into your computer and I changed the number that you have written down.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Unless you have it written down on a physical piece of paper, at which point I didn't do that.

Gamemaster:Darn.

Benny:Okay.

Gamemaster:Darn.

Gamemaster:Okay, sorry.

Gamemaster:Twelve, not nine.

Gamemaster:You lower yourself down at the platform.

Gamemaster:The actual platform itself doesn't have much machinery on it.

Gamemaster:there's just a cable that runs all the way up

Gamemaster:that you see that you could hit a button

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:I don't like that.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:to resummon this elevator back here.

Gamemaster:Just of note, if the elevator gets summoned away

Gamemaster:and then you have to resummon it,

Gamemaster:this trip took you like two-ish minutes

Gamemaster:from the garage all the way down here.

Gamemaster:Just something to keep in mind.

Gamemaster:Yes, Jorge.

Argyle:So did you say there's 55 floors?

Gamemaster:15, one five.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:No.

Argyle:General question.

Argyle:Is there like a trend in our world

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Anzu:Oh shoot, does that mean we can do one of each?

Argyle:with a certain number?

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:Actually, you know what?

Gamemaster:Roll a religion check.

Gamemaster:Religion or occultism.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:If you like.

Anzu:Sheep.

Argyle:Ooh,

Argyle:that was a good rolls.

Gamemaster:What did we get 34 religion Okay So the Like the easy answer to that question of

Anzu:Very competitive rolling here.

Argyle:36 34 34 Religion

Anzu:very competitive And a 36 occultism

Benny:you Thank you

Johnny:you Thank you

Gamemaster:is there a magic number on Færrin is no.

Gamemaster:The...

Gamemaster:With ridiculously high rolls that you got,

Gamemaster:the...

Gamemaster:Like, more correct answer is kind of.

Gamemaster:in that, like, obviously there's something going on with there are six outer gods, and, and now

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:you've seen that there are six of the other gods showing up, uh, but that doesn't quite match,

Gamemaster:because now there are four princes, um, and, uh, there are definitely more than six countries,

Gamemaster:but there aren't 12, so it's not a multiple there. I, I think the answer is, is that if you're

Gamemaster:looking for a magic number uh the answer is you can find it in some places it is not pervasive

Benny:you

Argyle:then does 15

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:so

Benny:you

Gamemaster:no i mean like the if you were really really like doing conspiracy theory leaping

Argyle:make me think of like are there 15 rings of hell or something

Argyle:is that how this works no right

Argyle:so

Gamemaster:the four hands and the eye is five and then you multiply that by three is 15

Benny:Oh.

Argyle:okay

Johnny:Right there.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:but i think argyle would think that a stretch

Argyle:but there's only 15 active

Gamemaster:no

Argyle:hearts now and maybe they knew

Argyle:before the first tithe

Argyle:this is just

Argyle:right in our faces guys anyway

Argyle:uh

Gamemaster:either way you stop at 12

Johnny:Right there.

Argyle:uh

Gamemaster:no perception check necessary

Gamemaster:as you've lowered yourself into the interior

Argyle:uh

Gamemaster:of this column

Gamemaster:you have been hit with

Benny:you

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:every

Gamemaster:6 seconds because that's how frequently

Gamemaster:the legs

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:move on the strider. You couldn't

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:hear it before while you were up on the surface,

Gamemaster:but now you definitely can.

Gamemaster:The sound of machinery, pneumatics

Gamemaster:and large

Gamemaster:motors spinning and

Gamemaster:gears clicking against each other, and

Gamemaster:every six seconds this massive

Gamemaster:boom as the sound of

Gamemaster:one of the strider's legs

Gamemaster:makes landfall

Gamemaster:and the

Gamemaster:percussive pressure just

Gamemaster:moves up the leg into the body

Gamemaster:itself.

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:You've only been here for a few minutes at this point,

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:and it's already starting to just fade into the background,

Gamemaster:given how regular it is.

Gamemaster:But there are definitely...

Gamemaster:There's more...

Gamemaster:It's less sanitized here.

Gamemaster:You get way more exposure to the interior of the Strider.

Gamemaster:That's on top of the fact that it smells of burnt oil

Gamemaster:and rusting metal.

Gamemaster:Actually, can I get a crafting check

Gamemaster:from anybody who would be interested?

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Oh, gosh.

Gamemaster:15.

Anzu:15

Gamemaster:Um, yeah, I mean, with a 15...

Gamemaster:Oh.

Gamemaster:And a 27 crit.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:The thing to point out there with a 27 crit is

Anzu:oh

Anzu:uh

Gamemaster:leaping off of that.

Benny:Thank you

Argyle:It not new Maybe this was from a different group

Johnny:Thank you Sorry Tanner what did you say

Anzu:This is some real shoddy work

Gamemaster:It does, it smells of, and it looks like there's rust.

Gamemaster:And that, that is, that strikes you as a bit interesting,

Gamemaster:just by virtue of the fact that this is supposedly a new construction,

Gamemaster:and you don't know why somebody would build a new vehicle out of rusty metal.

Gamemaster:Thank you Um

Anzu:Right, they bought a used Strider and then just did some adjustments to it.

Johnny:Is refinit.

Johnny:Where did they get the huge stride?

Johnny:Josh, is that a, I don't know, would this be a thing any of us know?

Johnny:Is there a big strider turnover?

Gamemaster:Um.

Gamemaster:What do I want you to roll for this?

Anzu:I've not really been to Istria.

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:We should ask our friends back.

Johnny:don't worry I'll get back

Gamemaster:Yeah, I need a society check and the DC is pretty high because none of you know a lot about Istria.

Anzu:Jeez.

Johnny:I did not get back

Argyle:Other question, Josh.

Argyle:The other group that we were aware of that tried to make it past the wall or make it to the wall the other time.

Argyle:And they took a while.

Argyle:because um someone from uh hildebrandt mentioned that this group

Gamemaster:Just in general, like, that people have explored out to the wall and it takes some time, yes.

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:like he mentioned a group that made it there um did they use a strider

Johnny:Roger.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:They were Istrian.

Gamemaster:They didn't use a strider.

Gamemaster:They were just like a regular caravan of vehicles with slides on them that traveled pretty far out.

Argyle:you

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:What did we get from society check?

Gamemaster:19 and 23.

Gamemaster:I think the answer is, like, you are not privy to the strider market, so to speak.

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you know, Johnny, these things depreciate and value so quickly that it's not even worth

Gamemaster:But very vaguely, you are aware that striders are these massive, high-population towns on legs.

Gamemaster:So I think you don't know if there's a lot of turnover necessarily, but if you had to guess, it's not very frequent.

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Thank you Takk for ating med

Benny:you you

Argyle:Didn't one of our one shots

Johnny:Yeah I heard the second they walk off the patch of land to the endless stillness of Istria they already worth half the value

Anzu:you know uh yep

Anzu:perhaps

Argyle:one of that strider die or blipped out?

Argyle:They stole it! They stole that

Argyle:fucking snide strider!

Johnny:Yeah.

Anzu:so okay

Anzu:we're here

Anzu:but it could be

Anzu:anywhere on this level

Anzu:so

Benny:Get cropped.

Argyle:and what are we looking for again

Johnny:We're going to get it back.

Gamemaster:Correct.

Anzu:there's an undercrofter

Anzu:that stole an ink ribbon

Anzu:from the curator

Anzu:I don't even know what an undercrofter is

Gamemaster:Correct.

Anzu:I presume it's a person who works

Anzu:slash exists down here

Anzu:but

Anzu:what is the immediate

Anzu:room that we're in upon exiting?

Benny:you

Argyle:Yes.

Johnny:Yeah.

Gamemaster:So, have you left the elevator out of this column into the actual interior of the Strider?

Anzu:Yeah, whatever's next.

Gamemaster:Absolutely.

Gamemaster:So, actually getting in requires opening up one of those big wheel iron doors, bulkheads.

Gamemaster:So you have to unscrew it, pull it open, and then walk into the rest of the undercroft beyond it.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:The direct interior that you're in is you're immediately put into a very cramped series of hallways.

Benny:you

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:The hallways themselves are like maybe seven feet across and like six feet tall.

Gamemaster:So if you're on the taller or larger side, you kind of have to duck and squeeze to get through.

Gamemaster:If anything, they seem more like particularly generous vents than anything else.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:But they extend both left right and forward from you They are lit with these softly blinking white panels You familiar with artificial light

Benny:you Thank you

Argyle:you you

Johnny:Thank you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:we're past the light bulb in this setting, but this doesn't have like the warm yellow glow that

Gamemaster:you would get from a light bulb, it's got a bit harsher of a like a white tone. And you can,

Gamemaster:no roll necessary, you hear the sounds of people. It sounds like directly in front of you, if you

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:were to continue kind of slanting upwards slightly from where you've exited into, you can hear what

Gamemaster:almost sounds like a sea shanty of some kind, something to keep the tune, with a particular

Gamemaster:note of it's not it's not very harmonic uh they're they're clearly not keeping key uh with whatever's

Gamemaster:going on you can hear quite a few voices and they're all very distinct from each other um but

Gamemaster:that seems like directly forward seems like immediate source of population uh separately

Benny:you

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:Like, from one tunnel into the other?

Gamemaster:looking left and right uh you can see that this area kind of branches off in those directions as

Gamemaster:well. There is a noticeable breeze cutting across the left and right panels,

Gamemaster:the left and right tunnels that you're currently in.

Gamemaster:From the left to the right, yes.

Anzu:Okay, yeah, yeah.

Anzu:Okay.

Benny:How so?

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Does anyone have a locate item?

Anzu:You know, guys, we're kind of in a tricky spot.

Anzu:I don't know.

Anzu:I've got no idea how to get us any closer to finding this than we are right now.

Gamemaster:Okay, so you head forward towards the sound of the shanty.

Benny:We go and ask around.

Benny:Okay.

Johnny:Yeah, if not, I can just start asking people.

Anzu:Yeah, I guess we might as well see what these folks are like.

Johnny:We approach the folks.

Benny:Mm-hmm.

Argyle:you

Johnny:I

Anzu:you

Johnny:Start with

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Johnny:what's that one wellerman whatever

Gamemaster:sure yep which is good because what you want to do when headed towards a bunch of people

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:uh who live underneath you is start whistling about the tax man that's what you got to do um

Gamemaster:you head down the tunnel in the direction of where you hear the the shanties um and uh you

Gamemaster:eventually exit, you have to kind of squeeze out past a grate into where the source of the

Johnny:you

Benny:Thank you.

Argyle:Yes.

Johnny:All present.

Anzu:Certainly not going to be me.

Gamemaster:singing, the harmonizing, is coming from. It is this larger circular room. There are,

Gamemaster:just at first glance, maybe 15 people in here. Can I get a perception check,

Gamemaster:both to see what they're doing and what they look like? Excuse me.

Johnny:All present.

Johnny:I have seen 26

Gamemaster:Yes, you're using your eyeballs to see what's going on.

Benny:Thank you you

Argyle:I assume this is a sight check, right?

Anzu:you

Johnny:worth of things

Johnny:...

Argyle:Sorry, this only works...

Argyle:I have an item that gives me plus one.

Argyle:That's why I was asking.

Gamemaster:32.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:32 for me.

Gamemaster:Okay, I think the most obvious thing looking around is the people in this room are definitely people, but they don't look quite correct.

Johnny:Thank you.

Argyle:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:They're all generally humanoid in make.

Gamemaster:You can see some are humans, some are elves, some are dwarves.

Gamemaster:There's like a good variety amidst them, but they all have something slightly off, and it takes a moment of looking at each one to figure it out.

Gamemaster:Like you can see that one of them this taller looking burlier human appears to have a third arm just kind of growing out of his neck at a slightly strange angle There another person with it looks like a number of these weird tumor lumps growing all along their arms

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Argyle:you you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:You see what looks to be an elf that's kind of covered in scales,

Gamemaster:but the Scale's look like they're starting to peel off a little bit.

Gamemaster:You see a dwarven man who has one particularly large foot

Benny:you

Gamemaster:and one particularly small foot,

Gamemaster:and it gives him this very lopsided gait.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:I'd like to aid him in this occultism trick.

Anzu:I feel like an occultism check's got to be able to tell me something about what's going on here.

Gamemaster:They all look changed, mutated in some way.

Gamemaster:None of them appear as you would expect to see like normally.

Gamemaster:Yes, Tanner.

Gamemaster:You can try an occultism check if you like.

Gamemaster:You may.

Benny:you you

Anzu:Like, have these people...

Anzu:And in my mind, I'm thinking about who's running this Strider to see if that's...

Gamemaster:Sure.

Gamemaster:I think the answer is no, but I will double check.

Argyle:you

Johnny:That's our DC level.

Anzu:Does his 23 help me at all?

Gamemaster:Yeah, no, you're right.

Benny:Thank you.

Johnny:Nice.

Gamemaster:That does.

Gamemaster:You get a plus one.

Anzu:Oh, wow.

Anzu:Wait.

Johnny:Just helps exactly.

Gamemaster:35. Okay.

Anzu:Okay.

Argyle:Thank you.

Anzu:Okay.

Anzu:35.

Johnny:you

Anzu:35.

Gamemaster:You've never experienced it yourself.

Gamemaster:You're going entirely off of literature you read while at Belvedere.

Benny:Thank you you

Gamemaster:There is a phenomenon known as warp exposure, sorry, slip exposure,

Johnny:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:which is

Gamemaster:like for the most part in common parlance it this thing of like watch out if you slip left or right too much You change You be different And that has very little like actual effect

Argyle:you Thank you

Anzu:you

Johnny:you you

Gamemaster:Like, people have been sliding from void to starward in their daily commute for, at this point, hundreds of years without issue.

Benny:you

Gamemaster:the concern is when you slide more than one at a time which is technically possible although

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:Hmm.

Gamemaster:usually it only happens through these things called shoots which are naturally occurring

Gamemaster:and just hop from one to the other uh but it can technically be forced if you put enough magic

Benny:Thank you.

Anzu:Hmm.

Gamemaster:energy into it and you want to skip one two or a lot um and if you do so in a way that isn't as

Anzu:Hmm.

Gamemaster:secure as possible. For instance, there is a spell, it's like a sixth rank spell, um,

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:planar teleport, which lets you jump from, like, across large distances of the horizon

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:with relative ease, but it's a sixth rank spell because of how much protection you have to layer

Benny:you

Gamemaster:on yourself to stop you from hitting the negative effects of making a large jump.

Gamemaster:If you make a large jump without that protection, then physical space becomes warped and people become jumbled, is the best way of putting it.

Gamemaster:The literature calls these slip-affected humanoids, but the common parlance is mongrel folk, where they are, it tends to be people that have mutated in some way due to exposure to long jumps on the slip.

Anzu:Is it...

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:Do I know if it's reversible at all?

Anzu:Or is it a pretty...

Gamemaster:It definitely isn't.

Gamemaster:Uh it it not reversible and also it kind of precludes you from having children with people who aren also mongrel folk which kind of helps to like reinforce the mongrel folk stay in the Undercroft otherwise people go up to the surface in Istria um and apparently here as well

Anzu:you

Argyle:you you

Johnny:you you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:but these folk are currently by the looks of it uh working on a kind of uh lubricant platform for

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:one of the arms you can see there's this constant flow of uh lubricant into this pipe and then

Gamemaster:there's a group of people that pull out this plunger and grab onto it with a chain and move

Gamemaster:it over to another area while another group comes in and fits in a new pipe. If you've ever seen

Gamemaster:people working on an oil rig, it's very similar in structure and in safety or lack thereof here.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:And the shanty is, it appears to keep time between different groups as they pass the

Gamemaster:pipe back and forth between them. Nobody immediately notices your presence. This is a

Gamemaster:particularly concentration-intensive activity,

Gamemaster:so they're not just looking up to see if people have entered and the like.

Gamemaster:So you have a good view of the...

Gamemaster:Effectively, it's two different work teams in this room

Gamemaster:working together to maintain whatever ligament

Argyle:You guys want to go check out?

Johnny:Hello?

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:of the Strider's legs are below.

Johnny:Hello, friends!

Gamemaster:With breaking into the sound of people working, you definitely knock one or two of

Gamemaster:them off their rhythm, and the one closest to you, this taller man, he looks like he

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Sorry, friend.

Gamemaster:He's based off of a human at this point,

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:but he's got these scraggly red and blue feathers

Gamemaster:kind of growing out of his head instead of hair,

Gamemaster:and he's got the beginnings of a beak,

Gamemaster:but not quite there on his face.

Gamemaster:He looks over at you and says,

Gamemaster:Whoa!

Gamemaster:What the fuck are you doing walking in while we're working here?

Gamemaster:What are you doing?

Gamemaster:Just jump in. Who are you?

Johnny:Uh, John.

Gamemaster:Where are you from? You don't look like you're from around here.

Argyle:you

Johnny:I'm not, my name is Johnny Skyfall. I'll get to the point so I can see you're busy.

Gamemaster:I ain't seen nothing like that

Anzu:you

Johnny:We're looking for a fancy ribbon that someone took a friend of ours looking for it back.

Gamemaster:you ought to look somewhere else

Gamemaster:and then he goes back to what he's doing

Gamemaster:he kinda

Johnny:I will pay you gold if you tell me where the ribbon is.

Gamemaster:it was probably meant to be a snort

Gamemaster:but because his nose is half beak

Gamemaster:it comes out as like this kind of

Gamemaster:shrill sound instead

Gamemaster:but he doesn't deign to respond to you.

Argyle:And we can bring fine wine and food.

Johnny:Okay, I pull up my coin purse and start counting out gold.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Roll a diplomacy check.

Johnny:One gold for...

Johnny:Try to get this done.

Argyle:That's better.

Gamemaster:Roll, you get to aid the diplomacy check, Argyle,

Gamemaster:with that comment.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:...

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:I am both cops

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:...

Johnny:I'll pay you money or I'll beat your

Gamemaster:Schizophrenic cop.

Gamemaster:Bipolar cop?

Gamemaster:...

Johnny:I'll break your kneecaps

Johnny:Are you aiding Jorge?

Gamemaster:...

Johnny:Okay

Gamemaster:Correct Correct Correct

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:Sorry 23 so it a plus one

Johnny:Thank you 25

Anzu:you you

Argyle:Argos like I can make like a barrel of wine for you.

Johnny:Okay.

Gamemaster:With the 25, the Birdman says,

Gamemaster:Listen, we ain't got no use for gold down here.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:And I can tell you're not around here, because you look like you do.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Listen, I don't know why you're here to stir up trouble or whatever.

Gamemaster:We're not looking to do anything, you know?

Johnny:I'm sorry.

Johnny:I put the gold away.

Johnny:What can we do to help you so you can help us?

Johnny:What do you need?

Johnny:Not at the moment, but I can maybe get it for you.

Gamemaster:You got a ticket out of here?

Argyle:Just you or?

Gamemaster:Well, I can't help you at the moment, but maybe I can get it for you.

Anzu:What is the nature of your employment?

Johnny:Okay, how soon can you get it?

Gamemaster:How soon can you get me out of here?

Johnny:Are you trying to get off the strider, or are you trying to get, where are you trying to get to?

Johnny:I can get your top

Gamemaster:Well, I'd like to be topside.

Gamemaster:But then afterwards, yeah, I'd like to be off the strider.

Gamemaster:Who wouldn't?

Gamemaster:You want to live down here? You want to trade spots?

Johnny:I can get your top side

Argyle:Yeah, like I.

Gamemaster:employment

Anzu:Well, I...

Gamemaster:I don't know what to tell you dude

Johnny:Hi friend

Johnny:Well we have

Johnny:Hi

Johnny:Team huddle

Anzu:Right, but we need to understand under what circumstances they're down here.

Johnny:Team huddle

Johnny:We could use a couple extra hands around the place.

Johnny:This guy seems like he knows what he's doing.

Anzu:Are they contracted?

Johnny:No one said we couldn Should we ask a

Anzu:Are they soul bound to be down here?

Anzu:you know

Anzu:well that what I tried to ask him and then he laughed at me

Argyle:Yeah are we allowed to do that

Gamemaster:you Thank you

Johnny:I don't want to alert anyone.

Johnny:I was going to say we'd ask Chuck, but...

Anzu:Well, no, we just asked these guys, like, what...

Argyle:I mean, I don't think Chuck gives a shit.

Argyle:Like, either he's going to tell us no or he's going to say yes.

Argyle:I don't think he's going to look at us any differently.

Johnny:Okay.

Argyle:I'm going to put it to you that way

Johnny:I turn back. I turn back at this guy.

Gamemaster:Uh, Marin?

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:laughing

Johnny:Sir, what's your name?

Gamemaster:Marin?

Johnny:All right. Marin, I...

Johnny:We can get you topside, but we need to know the circumstances we're working under.

Johnny:If it's as easy as getting you to the elevator, all right.

Johnny:But if there's more magic...

Gamemaster:Circumstances are I'm bound to work here by contract.

Gamemaster:the fulfillment clause is I pay off my debt

Johnny:What's the con... Is there a loophole in the contract?

Johnny:What's the... Is there a fulfillment clause?

Argyle:what does the contract look like

Johnny:Is your debt to the ring, Matt, the guy with the mask?

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:well when I started

Argyle:what's your debt

Gamemaster:I think it was 200 gold pieces

Gamemaster:I think I'm up to 18,000 at this point

Gamemaster:no

Argyle:oh

Gamemaster:no

Gamemaster:if you don't pay it off in time

Gamemaster:there's interest

Gamemaster:to a harlequin

Argyle:eloquence

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:yeah

Johnny:Which one? Is his name Chuck?

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:not to my knowledge

Gamemaster:I'm sure you do

Johnny:We have an in on what's named Chuck.

Gamemaster:I don't

Gamemaster:I don't know what their actual name is.

Johnny:Well, we can't get you out of here, but...

Johnny:I don't know. Do you need food?

Argyle:How about some How about 5 pounds of food or a gallon of fine wine

Johnny:We could bring you food every day make life a little more bearable down here

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:I take I take food

Gamemaster:What am I gonna do with a gallon of fine wine?

Johnny:get drunk

Argyle:Well, once a week I bring you down a gallon.

Gamemaster:No, it's get mugged.

Gamemaster:The answer is get mugged.

Argyle:All right, how about five pounds?

Gamemaster:I walk around with a gallon of fine wine

Argyle:yeah

Gamemaster:and I'm gonna wake up with a shank in my chest.

Gamemaster:listen you got a sandwich

Johnny:I pull out a sandwich I packed for lunch today.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:okay

Argyle:I assume like everyone besides

Johnny:This is my lunch.

Argyle:Argyle brings like actual edible

Argyle:food Argyle brings that like

Argyle:slop like nutritious slop

Argyle:that you can make even though

Argyle:the heart can make it the heart now makes

Argyle:him slop because he's like this is what I'm supposed to be

Argyle:any

Johnny:You just have, like, Huel in a shaker cup.

Gamemaster:sure

Gamemaster:he will

Johnny:Johnny pulls out his BLT that he prepped for lunch today.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:like the second it's out of your pocket

Gamemaster:he will attempt to grab it from you and scarf it down

Gamemaster:uh

Johnny:Do we have a deep?

Gamemaster:no

Johnny:No.

Gamemaster:actually I think I'm making an athletics check

Gamemaster:for him against your uh

Gamemaster:against your athletics to see if he can

Gamemaster:yank it out of your hand

Argyle:Betty grab it

Gamemaster:Benny can make a reflex save

Argyle:Can Argyle go for the guy to hold him back?

Johnny:No.

Johnny:My BLT.

Johnny:Are these reflex saves?

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:to see if he can go for it first

Gamemaster:you're not making anything

Johnny:How do I get the sandwich?

Gamemaster:this is Pathfinder

Gamemaster:he's making an athletics roll against your athletics DC

Johnny:Oh, no.

Johnny:Not my hat, DC.

Argyle:Well, he's probably not that high level, so...

Gamemaster:He got a 19.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:I don't know why it says Anzu got that.

Gamemaster:Ignore the fact that it says that Anzu ruled that 19.

Johnny:Uh,

Anzu:you

Argyle:it's 10 that's the little band you have at the bottom

Johnny:It's 17.

Gamemaster:What's your athletics DC?

Anzu:you

Johnny:It was so close.

Gamemaster:17.

Gamemaster:And then what was the reflex check you got, Benny,

Gamemaster:if you wanted to go for it as well?

Gamemaster:21 is higher.

Gamemaster:Okay, so you can choose.

Gamemaster:You make an athletics check

Gamemaster:to see if you could beat his...

Argyle:wait

Argyle:johnny do you have a negative dex or are you untrained

Gamemaster:Athletics is strength.

Johnny:No?

Argyle:oh oh it's an athletics

Johnny:I have untrained improvisation.

Gamemaster:32

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:yeah that was a reflex

Argyle:okay

Johnny:That's the only reason I have a seven in athletics.

Argyle:okay

Argyle:our cows could start reaching for his axe

Gamemaster:okay so

Gamemaster:Marin grabs the sandwich out of Johnny's hand

Gamemaster:and then Benny grabs the sandwich

Gamemaster:out of Marin's hand

Gamemaster:are we getting aggressive

Johnny:Hey.

Johnny:Hey, hey, hey, Benny, calm down, Benny.

Argyle:but not like actually grab it

Johnny:Hey, guys, calm down.

Argyle:but just be like

Johnny:Listen.

Anzu:Hell yeah.

Johnny:No, no.

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:you're not gonna get

Gamemaster:roll an intimidation check

Johnny:Benny, Benny, Benny, chill.

Johnny:Benny, watch.

Gamemaster:Benny. You have a plus three circumstance bonus for yoinking the sandwich. It's a sandwich yoink bonus.

Johnny:He's crazy.

Johnny:This guy's crazy.

Anzu:Yeah.

Anzu:Benny's very intimidating, I'm sure.

Gamemaster:19

Johnny:I don know you can have all the sandwiches We give you all the sandwiches you want Just tell us where the freaking ribbon is

Argyle:Thank you Oh I thought you were Bernie

Gamemaster:okay

Gamemaster:um

Gamemaster:Benny the nine year old

Gamemaster:grabs the sandwich out of this guy's hand

Gamemaster:and then starts getting

Gamemaster:in his face about it

Gamemaster:and the guy's like

Gamemaster:listen I asked for

Gamemaster:a sandwich he took one out I was taking it I don know what you want from me I don know why this all of a sudden turns into aggressive posturing

Anzu:Thank you you you

Johnny:We'll give you a sandwich.

Johnny:We'll give your best friend a sandwich.

Johnny:You have a family.

Johnny:We'll give them sandwiches.

Anzu:you

Johnny:I don't know why I'm Italian now.

Gamemaster:You sounded a little bit

Gamemaster:like Bernie as well. It was

Gamemaster:socialist.

Johnny:You don't need a sandwich.

Johnny:We'll give you a sandwich.

Johnny:You'll get sandwiches.

Johnny:Everyone in the Undercroft gets a sandwich.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:Uh...

Anzu:you

Johnny:The people deserve sandwiches.

Gamemaster:Yeah...

Gamemaster:Listen. I've got no fucking clue what an ink ribbon is. Uh, but

Gamemaster:if you- if you need something that isn't from around here, uh, there's...

Johnny:Thank you.

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:There's a forsaken sector, like an area we're not supposed to go,

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:kind of down the hall, make a right,

Gamemaster:past the acid vats, past the steam collection area.

Gamemaster:You'll see an area that's not lit.

Gamemaster:That's where you're going.

Gamemaster:And there's a group of people who hang out there

Gamemaster:and tend to collect stuff that's not supposed to be here.

Gamemaster:I don't know their names.

Gamemaster:I don't know what's going on with them.

Johnny:It's Maren.

Gamemaster:I stood clear.

Argyle:That was good.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:But if I were looking for something

Gamemaster:that doesn't sound like it's supposed to be here,

Gamemaster:which I, you know, I don't know what ribbons are doing,

Gamemaster:that's where I would go.

Argyle:I'm going to record his name.

Argyle:You don't have to give it to me,

Argyle:but just in case you want to meet him later.

Gamemaster:It's Maranthorn.

Argyle:All right, Thor.

Argyle:Okay.

Johnny:Listen, Maren, every day at dawn, I'll send down six sandwiches, send up a little note that has your name on it.

Johnny:So we know it you If the note doesn come back up then the sandwiches will stop and we assume you been shanked

Gamemaster:Okay I can do that I guess

Argyle:you that a crazy commitment

Anzu:you you

Argyle:yeah yeah but you're gonna get ganked in the later stages of this

Johnny:Johnny's an early riser.

Johnny:Six sandwiches? That's pretty easy.

Argyle:grayson's gonna be like oh every morning he walks down to the elevator to drop off sandwiches

Johnny:Awesome.

Johnny:That guy, no, he's going to get shanked.

Gamemaster:He's got a schedule.

Argyle:Does

Gamemaster:You're just betting that this guy is gonna die sooner rather than later because he starts

Anzu:you

Johnny:That's why when the day that the note doesn't come back up,

Johnny:John is going to stop making sandwiches.

Johnny:I'm assuming the day is going to be like a week.

Johnny:Yeah.

Gamemaster:showing up with food randomly.

Johnny:100%.

Johnny:Benny, where'd you get all those samples from?

Gamemaster:I think everybody here needs a quick little medicine,

Argyle:Argyle's also just going to do a look over of all the people here

Argyle:and if anyone needs a quick little

Anzu:you

Argyle:medicine, I can help out.

Gamemaster:but they're also, Argyle would understand,

Gamemaster:beyond his, beyond immediate treatment.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Like, the afflictions that affect the people here are from a literal lifetime spent under, under, like...

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:But no one's like

Argyle:bleeding or anything that can patch up.

Gamemaster:No.

Gamemaster:I will actually make a medicine check.

Argyle:Let me see what my medicine is.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Oh, is your medicine not good anymore?

Argyle:No, it is.

Argyle:Well, I got a fumble, so I'll take the hero point.

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:Wow. Wow. Yeah, no, just a bunch of people with, like, the scars of having worked underground for years.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:That was good.

Argyle:Am I able to update my

Argyle:proficiencies?

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:Yeah you should be able to If you go into your character sheet if you go to your character sheet and then you press the hand thing can you not click on any

Argyle:I don think it lets me update I clicked on a little hand thing Yeah the proficiencies

Argyle:No.

Gamemaster:of the boxes? Really? You should be the owner of that character, I'm surprised.

Argyle:No.

Argyle:That's fine.

Argyle:I'll do it later.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Anyway.

Argyle:But yes.

Gamemaster:Okay, you're more than welcome to follow the directions that he gave you.

Argyle:All right.

Argyle:Let's go venture forth.

Johnny:A lot of money.

Anzu:It's got a pretty predatory interest rate on his debt.

Argyle:Man, guys, I was really willing to try to buy that guy out,

Argyle:but that's a lot of money.

Argyle:That's a lot of dough.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:It would have been crazy

Argyle:if we summoned Chuck

Gamemaster:Yeah, I will say, you guys named Chuck, so you will literally never meet somebody who

Argyle:and he knew him

Johnny:That worked out great.

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:and he was the same one.

Argyle:I don't know if that would have worked, though.

Argyle:Chuck, I feel like it would still...

Argyle:No, I know. I know.

Gamemaster:knows him as Chuck.

Argyle:No, that's where we'd have to summon him.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Argyle:Be like, oh, yeah, man.

Argyle:My best shareholders.

Argyle:all right well that's concerning

Gamemaster:Okay.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Oh my god.

Gamemaster:Sure.

Argyle:Fair enough.

Gamemaster:Okay. You can follow the

Argyle:All right.

Johnny:Onwards.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:the general directions given to you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:It is, as Marin pointed out,

Gamemaster:the particular area that you're going to is pretty obvious.

Gamemaster:The tunnels that you kind of have to crawl through,

Gamemaster:half crawl, half walk through,

Gamemaster:as you move around the interior of the space,

Gamemaster:are for the most part lit with those white light panels.

Gamemaster:But at some point you emerge out into what is

Gamemaster:kind of scaffold hanging down above this seemingly endless pit, just fully down into the interior of

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:the Strider. And as you hug this scaffold around the exterior wall of whatever cavity inside the

Gamemaster:Strider that you've walked into, you can see that there is a doorway that is dark. It seems that the

Gamemaster:the lumens, the white panels in this area are off for whatever reason.

Gamemaster:There isn't really any signage that says don't come here.

Gamemaster:It's just giving general vibes of foreboding and the like

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:that I guess whoever turned off the lights figured that would be enough.

Gamemaster:But that, you know, that seems like the direction you were pushed towards.

Gamemaster:If you'd like to venture in, you can. I would just appreciate it if both I could

Gamemaster:know what your general solutions are for seeing in the dark and also a marching

Argyle:I can't.

Johnny:Who can see in the group I feel like we should light some torches because I also can see

Anzu:Like the dark dark, I don't think I can see.

Gamemaster:order.

Gamemaster:It is unlit in this particular tunnel.

Anzu:So, I mean, I could light a torch.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:I don't have any magical means of producing light.

Gamemaster:Assuming you're walking around with the torch in your hand, it's an action to light up.

Argyle:I can see a complete darkness but I be the only one who can see Should I look and then we just light a torch if we get jumped

Anzu:you Thank you

Johnny:I don't know because I feel like lighting the torch would be a full action probably.

Argyle:Probably one person needs to light it.

Argyle:Wait a little bit.

Johnny:I guess if two of us can see, maybe we can do buddy system.

Gamemaster:Can two of you see?

Anzu:I don't think low light is enough here.

Gamemaster:No, low light isn't enough.

Johnny:I thought the child said that he could see.

Johnny:Oh, never mind.

Johnny:We should light a torch then.

Johnny:I light a torch.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:You light a torch, which, for the record,

Gamemaster:it's a, you know, 1960s setting, lighting a torch is the British version of a torch.

Argyle:Are you going to make a perception check, Johnny?

Johnny:Is this bright?

Anzu:Yes.

Gamemaster:You flick a switch and your flashlight turns on.

Argyle:No.

Argyle:Because I was going to mythic it if I was going to be the only one looking,

Argyle:but since you are also looking, I will just leave it.

Gamemaster:Well, marching order.

Gamemaster:Okay, there is enough room if you guys want to walk side by side in this particular tunnel.

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:I'll mythic it.

Argyle:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Johnny:I'll be behind Argyle, holding the torch over his shoulder.

Anzu:Very well.

Johnny:argile in the front then space space space space space me on soon and benny Thank you NeonSoo and Benny

Gamemaster:You don't have to if you don't want to.

Gamemaster:But if you, yeah, if you'd rather a single file that's totally fine.

Gamemaster:So Argyle, Johnny, and then...

Argyle:Me and Benny in the front.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:There's two behind us.

Gamemaster:That's fine.

Argyle:Thank you well her girl doesn need it so

Anzu:you Thank you

Gamemaster:Sure So Johnny is pointing the flashlight from all the way in the back

Johnny:No, I'll just be

Gamemaster:Okay.

Johnny:right behind.

Argyle:you

Johnny:I'll be behind Benny and Argyle

Johnny:if they're taking point.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Absolutely.

Gamemaster:And is Othello with you, Anzu?

Gamemaster:I assume yes, but just to...

Argyle:There it is.

Johnny:Argyle's was the only one that mattered.

Gamemaster:To double check.

Anzu:Yeah, for sure.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:What were the perception checks that we got from the people either who can see you or who are leaving or whatever?

Gamemaster:What did our gal get?

Gamemaster:28.

Gamemaster:We have a 28.

Gamemaster:28.

Gamemaster:um the i think the first thing you notice as you're walking forward is that you are you're

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:still walking on like the that great scaffolding uh structure that you had been on before uh the

Gamemaster:only difference is is that once you've like only a few steps in where the light stops making it

Gamemaster:into the interior of this uh building you the floor becomes uneven um you can see uh because

Gamemaster:you have darkvision, so you can see that the floor beneath you is uneven because it looks like the

Gamemaster:grate almost got twisted and misshapen in some way, and then frozen in that misshapen form,

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:which makes this kind of uneven walking surface. It's like there was, it's not an impact necessarily,

Gamemaster:but some kind of great twisting force affected this part of the interior of the strider.

Gamemaster:As you continue forward with the 28, you'll also hear in the distance, it's in the far distance at this point because you're

Gamemaster:world pretty well you can see there is like little sparkles of light near maybe 300 feet down as you proceed into this interior bit of the strider

Argyle:you Thank you

Johnny:Thank you you you

Anzu:you Thank you

Gamemaster:like you were on close to the outer edge of the strider

Gamemaster:you're moving more in towards the heart

Gamemaster:there are little twinkles of light

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:and there is this very strong chemical scent

Gamemaster:associated with it

Gamemaster:I don't think you'd be able to place what chemical necessarily

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:but it's got this acrid acidic smell to it almost like if you had to imagine what battery

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:essence smelled like aerosolized um it's not particularly pleasant this doesn't seem like

Gamemaster:the kind of area where you would want to hang out necessarily um but uh beyond that you do

Gamemaster:also hear this kind of like the sound of voices um just on the edge of your hearing you can't

Gamemaster:make out any words or anything like that, but in the direction you're headed. The thing that stands

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:It isn't.

Gamemaster:out to you with the 28, as it's kind of pretty far away, is that there is this weird melodic,

Gamemaster:almost sing-songy quality to the sound. It doesn't sound like singing, but it sounds like there's

Gamemaster:this kind of tonal shifting in it that you would associate with some kind of melody or the like.

Gamemaster:It's almost percussive in a way, which is interesting.

Gamemaster:it doesn't

Anzu:Does it tingle at my Voidsong type melody, does it?

Argyle:you

Johnny:I speak Elven, Common, and Empyrean.

Gamemaster:it's not magical

Gamemaster:it's just a strange way of speaking

Gamemaster:actually

Gamemaster:what languages do you all speak

Gamemaster:you've all sent me a message

Anzu:I feel like I sent you a message about that.

Anzu:I don't know if I have it written down.

Gamemaster:I haven't recorded I just need to go through and double

Gamemaster:check what they are to see if it's relevant

Gamemaster:here

Gamemaster:Uh, no.

Anzu:Earthrum.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Yep.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:Uh-huh.

Anzu:to drink!

Gamemaster:Uh-huh.

Gamemaster:Anzu learned it in ancient languages.

Gamemaster:The, like, tonal shifts, the up and down, the kind of melodic quality to it,

Gamemaster:reminds you of Urthram, which is itself a tonal language,

Gamemaster:which isn't normal for most modern languages.

Gamemaster:You're way too far away to know if that's actually what they're speaking right now,

Gamemaster:but I think that's the immediate connection you would make there

Argyle:I think it's for undead or is it?

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:I forget what that is.

Gamemaster:if it pointed out there's this kind of melodic quality to it.

Gamemaster:Earthrum is a dead language.

Gamemaster:I will double check to make sure that I'm telling you the right one,

Gamemaster:but I'm pretty confident that's what it is.

Gamemaster:No, like, it is no longer spoken.

Gamemaster:yeah no that is that is a totally valid uh um question um but no it's it's like no longer

Argyle:OK, because this Pathfinder so I wasn't sure if it was Latin or

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:spoken and i was dumb so i didn't pin this particular message so i'm just going to scroll

Gamemaster:back a little bit so that i can repin it um because it does it does say also i'm dumb and

Gamemaster:It was a markdown, but I changed it to an image,

Gamemaster:so I can no longer search for it in Discord search.

Gamemaster:I've made mistakes.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you you Mm

Anzu:You should It sketchy down here

Gamemaster:Either way, that's the sound that you...

Gamemaster:That's what that tonal shift thing reminds you of.

Gamemaster:At which point, I guess I will ask,

Gamemaster:are you being stealthy?

Gamemaster:If you being stealthy you need to roll a stealth check I found it I found it and I pinned it

Argyle:you you

Anzu:Nice work Josh.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:I'm going to roll stealth. We'll do it in foundry. Why not?

Anzu:Do I have a thing for this?

Argyle:I'll check in myself as the same at Foundry.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Why did you?

Anzu:Please hold.

Anzu:Take a new .

Anzu:Okay.

Anzu:All right.

Anzu:I received a 29.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:Bye.

Johnny:What?

Gamemaster:29 that's good

Gamemaster:Argyle is not hidden

Gamemaster:from Ocelot

Gamemaster:which is good to know

Gamemaster:with the 22

Gamemaster:we got a 17 from Johnny

Gamemaster:and a 25 from Benny

Gamemaster:all together

Gamemaster:not amazing

Anzu:Guys, I'm trying my hardest out here.

Anzu:what's going on.

Argyle:I'm actually planning on...

Johnny:Johnny has his sunglasses on still and does not take them off.

Gamemaster:It's dark, so Chana's having trouble hearing.

Gamemaster:Uh.

Argyle:I can't listen to this music, so I don't know what it's saying.

Argyle:I'm going to put in my earplugs.

Gamemaster:What?

Argyle:I'll let the bird try to translate it.

Argyle:I don't know if this is some weird...

Gamemaster:Oh, okay.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:Just in case.

Anzu:Yeah, but he wasn't before.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Uh.

Gamemaster:yeah it doesn sound like it the right one though

Argyle:It says it the right one

Johnny:you sorry

Anzu:Oh.

Argyle:Let me try turning it on and off.

Gamemaster:Oh, that sounds way better.

Johnny:oh

Argyle:No, I didn't click anything.

Gamemaster:Okay, well, it's better now than it was three seconds ago.

Argyle:I just need to say that I'm trying to turn it on and off again.

Gamemaster:That's so strange.

Johnny:did this ikke

Anzu:He was like, wait, wait, wait.

Anzu:Don't turn me off, bro.

Argyle:What?

Argyle:Why, why, why, why, why?

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:You guys, not so stealthily stealthily,

Gamemaster:move up towards the edge of the hallway,

Gamemaster:towards the sound of the voices.

Gamemaster:As you get closer, there is one more layer

Gamemaster:that gets added onto the sound of the voices as it comes up.

Gamemaster:Which, by the way, as it gets closer,

Gamemaster:Anzu, it is not Earthrum.

Gamemaster:It's strange.

Gamemaster:It feels like a dialect of Earthrum.

Argyle:Oh, no.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Like, if you learned modern English, this to you sounds like old English.

Gamemaster:Like, you can tell that it's related to Earthrum in some way, but the grammatical constructs are strange and the sounds are a little bit strange.

Gamemaster:And there's a weird amount of chittering involved, like, underneath the voices.

Argyle:Oh.

Argyle:I was going to say, should we try to understand it?

Gamemaster:Either way, as you get closer, you hear that.

Argyle:But I think it's just...

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:It's almost as if they never stopped speaking this language and it's evolved for them.

Argyle:Yeah.

Anzu:Because I had to read some dusty books to learn this stuff.

Gamemaster:and you can come up to kind of the edge where you can see that there a stairway that descends down to the source of the sound As best you can tell you still hidden Can I get one more perception check just to look around as you coming up to this area and hearing this congress taking place

Argyle:you I unplug my earplugs

Johnny:you Johnny takes off his sunglasses and goes

Anzu:you you

Argyle:Oh!

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:If you want to do that.

Johnny:Oh shit, I could see the whole time.

Gamemaster:Oh, wow, 34.

Argyle:To be fair, he warned us.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Uh, okay.

Anzu:you

Argyle:That was sketchy.

Gamemaster:So, there are...

Gamemaster:This staircase heads down into another part of this weird, like, scaffolding over the edge of the world, effectively.

Gamemaster:There are a group of people here currently interacting with each other.

Gamemaster:they are like the mongrel folk in that they they clearly were at one point humanoid and are no

Gamemaster:longer but if these are mongrel folk they are much further gone than the mongrel folk that you had

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:seen elsewhere in the undercroft uh you can see some of them look like these almost stretched

Gamemaster:extended creatures with bluish reddish fur uh except instead of a face they've got almost like

Gamemaster:a whole anglerfish by the looks of it just put on top of the body uh you see another one where it

Gamemaster:seems that most of the face is kind of atrophied away uh and in that place uh one of their eyes

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:has just grown larger and more swollen to fill up the space uh you see another person that is

Gamemaster:seemingly completely covered in fur fur is the wrong term it's quills it looks like they're

Gamemaster:completely covered in like porcupine quills,

Gamemaster:just of general unpleasant sharpness make.

Gamemaster:And they are all conversing with each other

Gamemaster:in this strange earthrum-esque,

Gamemaster:chittering language.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:With a 34,

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I think the other, because it's specifically a 34 crit, the other thing of note is that one of the weird eyeball-extended, atrophied face creatures seems to have, like, a talisman around their neck that I don't know if you would immediately recognize.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:it looks to be of like a horn of some kind, carved out of the same metal that the rest of the Strider is built out of.

Argyle:Uh.

Johnny:Oh, no.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:And they're just kind of wearing it around their neck.

Gamemaster:If it helps, it looks like this.

Johnny:Oh, this is scary over here.

Johnny:What is happening?

Johnny:What?

Johnny:Oh, my gosh.

Gamemaster:This guy.

Argyle:you

Johnny:And which one has the horn around their neck?

Anzu:Thank you.

Johnny:Oh, it's mongrel

Johnny:full.

Johnny:Wow, that's

Johnny:horrifying.

Gamemaster:He's just a guy.

Johnny:This

Johnny:lamprey

Johnny:anglerfish thing? Terrifying.

Gamemaster:Also, why?

Johnny:Why has it got an anglerfish head?

Johnny:Why's it got fire inside? What's up with that?

Argyle:Can I make a religion check to see if I know what that pendant is

Anzu:Thank you

Gamemaster:Because that happens sometimes.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Johnny:You're right.

Johnny:Alright, should I...

Johnny:Can I say anything, or are we just jumping?

Gamemaster:Yeah go for it

Johnny:I will aid him

Gamemaster:he's making a religion check

Johnny:I think we as a group know it.

Argyle:28.

Gamemaster:uh with the 20 with the 28 i think like the most immediate connection you can make to is

Argyle:What is it again?

Gamemaster:you saw this stained glass mural in Tywelwyn's base

Gamemaster:of a guy with a horn.

Argyle:Hmm.

Johnny:yeah

Anzu:Jeez.

Gamemaster:That's the only religious iconography you can think of

Gamemaster:that involves a horn in some way.

Johnny:yeah

Johnny:that's pretty

Johnny:hey do you think these guys know

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Johnny:Anzu's sister

Argyle:I kind of think we should just jump them.

Johnny:Should I try and talk to them or are we just jumping?

Anzu:you

Johnny:Okay.

Argyle:OK.

Johnny:Okay.

Johnny:All right, hang on.

Johnny:Everyone start doing your stuff.

Johnny:Get ready.

Johnny:And then when we're all in place, I'll try and talk to them.

Johnny:And if it goes bad, we're already ready to jump.

Gamemaster:There isn't a corner to back up.

Johnny:Fine.

Anzu:you

Argyle:If we could back up like behind the corner,

Argyle:that might be great.

Argyle:So we can.

Argyle:OK.

Gamemaster:You can move further into the tunnel behind you, but that was a straightaway.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:You can jump off the side of this and see what awaits below you.

Gamemaster:that might be where the wine cellar is

Gamemaster:I don't know if that's preferable

Argyle:Do we just start Do I just start swinging No i know but like do i cast a spell

Johnny:Wait Wait let me get a few things

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:you Would that make them unholy

Argyle:hey anzu can you do you think they're unholy

Argyle:if they follow one of the signatures or six

Argyle:Is that something we can reason about?

Johnny:Oh, that was pretty good.

Gamemaster:Azu can attempt an occultism check

Anzu:I have no idea. I mean...

Gamemaster:and you can attempt a religion check if you like

Argyle:Alright, I'll make a religion check.

Gamemaster:also

Anzu:I don't really...

Gamemaster:it's entirely self-inflicted

Gamemaster:that you guys are calling them the sinister six

Gamemaster:but you've not met an NPC that knows

Gamemaster:what the group calls itself

Gamemaster:so we're just sticking with it

Gamemaster:with a 36

Gamemaster:with a 36 okay uh so there are two answers to this question uh the first from the occultism

Argyle:Oh.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:perspective holy and unholy are constructs like there is no global universal understanding of

Gamemaster:what is holy and what is unholy uh and it is better described as uh on the side of the worshipped

Gamemaster:deity and against the side of the worshipped deity. And to that answer, you think that it would

Argyle:Okay, great.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:probably be accurate to say that these things, if they worship one of the, like, usurpers, one of

Gamemaster:the sinister six that are antithesis, antithetical to your existing outer gods, that they probably

Gamemaster:fit in the unholy. That's the occultism check. The religion check is, these guys are obviously evil.

Gamemaster:yes, they're unholy.

Gamemaster:Those are the

Gamemaster:depending on which perspectives you're coming from.

Argyle:Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Argyle:Great.

Argyle:OK let me just see What is this spell 20 burst

Johnny:Thank you Oh I did

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:Oh Johnny cast a spell

Argyle:We're all going to cast a spell at the same time, right?

Johnny:Yeah, I thought we were all doing stuff.

Argyle:Or are you just?

Johnny:I was casting a bluff.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:What's going to happen here is actually pretty simple.

Gamemaster:I need all of you to make reflex checks.

Argyle:OK.

Gamemaster:Reflex saves, sorry.

Gamemaster:the reason for this being

Argyle:Hmm.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:you were not stealthy

Gamemaster:you were seen

Gamemaster:as you showed up

Gamemaster:and then you started casting a spell

Gamemaster:so we're going to see

Gamemaster:if you get your spell

Gamemaster:off

Gamemaster:it's entirely

Gamemaster:possible you all do this guy's

Gamemaster:role is pretty low

Gamemaster:24 okay uh i'm sorry only johnny gets his thing off um johnny gets his thing off and

Argyle:Okay.

Johnny:I dude

Anzu:Oh, yeah.

Gamemaster:then a fireball is going to be launched at you and then we're going to enter initiative

Gamemaster:um so i would love it if you could all roll initiative uh also i will be back in a moment

Johnny:I ate fire

Johnny:I think I've cast

Anzu:If we're actually getting hit by the fireball, I'll eat fire as well.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:But let me roll it.

Argyle:I mean, actually, are you going to counteract it?

Argyle:You're the one who's supposed to be able to counteract this stuff.

Johnny:Oh, that was a really good one.

Anzu:I don't have

Anzu:counterspell

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:Has Anzu ever thought about not becoming a psychic

Johnny:Okay, Argyle.

Johnny:I think there's like a mythic counterspell you can do where if you have, it's like a mythic feat where it's literally just 5e counterspell.

Johnny:I'm not sure what level it is.

Johnny:I'm curious.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:and just becoming a barbarian?

Argyle:That beaks people?

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Oh, Mythic, uh, level, it's a level 6 ability.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:No, he's kind of brittle.

Johnny:Uh, spend a Mythic point and expend a prepared spell slot, or expend a prepared spell or

Johnny:unexpended spell slot of the same rank as a triggering spell or higher.

Johnny:Um, then, oh, it used to be better.

Johnny:You attempt to counteract it.

Johnny:Well, now it's not as good.

Johnny:I think they remastered it or something.

Johnny:It used to be just, it works.

Argyle:Which one's the caster?

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:going on the move until josh gets back

Johnny:Do we see?

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Yeah, I'm guessing.

Johnny:Oh.

Anzu:you

Johnny:Oh, Tanner's on the move.

Argyle:i had a weird moment with like tanner so much space and then i'm like so does noah it's just

Gamemaster:You're stomping people into the drain?

Anzu:Hell yeah.

Johnny:He's on the move.

Anzu:Oh no.

Gamemaster:He's moving?

Anzu:I'm still on the move.

Gamemaster:Moving and grooving?

Johnny:He's on the move.

Anzu:I'm reclaiming my phone charger

Johnny:He's on the move.

Anzu:from...

Argyle:everyone who's not in an apartment

Argyle:has rooms.

Johnny:That was a cool effect.

Argyle:There's different rooms you can go to.

Gamemaster:You'll only need to attempt that reflex save.

Anzu:Hold on a second.

Argyle:There's a room

Argyle:for his kitchen. Like, it's crazy.

Anzu:What is all this stuff?

Argyle:There's, like, doorways.

Argyle:It's crazy.

Argyle:Oh, we all rolled.

Johnny:That was a really cool effect.

Gamemaster:Now you're on fire.

Johnny:Oh, I really like that.

Anzu:...

Gamemaster:What a good Okay your choice for music at this time um are uh willpower last surprise

Argyle:us Keeper of Lust

Johnny:I did eat butter

Anzu:Thank you I was just putting the cat on blast

Gamemaster:rivers in the desert and keeper of lust which one would you like okay

Anzu:I don't know.

Anzu:Josh, I'm so sorry.

Johnny:That last one.

Argyle:That last one, man.

Johnny:Oh, this is a pretty good choice.

Gamemaster:this is what it's called

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:I'm going to make my reflex check in just a moment.

Gamemaster:because it's the soundtrack

Gamemaster:have you played Persona?

Gamemaster:the most recent Persona game

Gamemaster:the most recent mainline Persona game

Gamemaster:each of the bosses is modeled

Gamemaster:after one of the seven sins

Gamemaster:and the first one

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:the gym teacher who

Gamemaster:rapes children

Gamemaster:is lust, and so his boss

Gamemaster:theme is Keeper of Lust.

Gamemaster:It's a weird game.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:A little bit, I guess.

Gamemaster:He looks like...

Gamemaster:Let me see if I can get an image of him.

Anzu:guys announce.

Gamemaster:Yes, he is.

Gamemaster:Uh, Japan.

Anzu:Rats.

Argyle:But anyway.

Johnny:Oh, what the heck?

Gamemaster:He looks like this.

Anzu:Hmm.

Anzu:Uh huh.

Johnny:Okay.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:True.

Gamemaster:Yeah okay so what did we I see a failure from Argyle two successes from Johnny and Anzu Oh and a failure from Benny Okay so those of you who failed are going to take full damage Those of you who succeeded are going to take half

Argyle:you you

Johnny:you you

Anzu:Oh, no.

Gamemaster:Except for Johnny, who's going to take half minus

Gamemaster:eat fire.

Johnny:test minus each fiber

Gamemaster:Oh, and Othello

Anzu:Oh, no.

Gamemaster:is also going to take the full 23 points of fire

Gamemaster:damage.

Anzu:I also, Ickfire, I clicked it earlier in the, like, before you sent the spell out.

Gamemaster:And then we're going to...

Gamemaster:Oh!

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:Who's cast this?

Johnny:Do you have the...

Gamemaster:Absolutely, then you both get to eat fire.

Anzu:So...

Johnny:Cool.

Argyle:Was it

Anzu:That really goes down to one damage?

Argyle:Oculum 1?

Gamemaster:The guy with the necklace.

Argyle:And which one's that?

Gamemaster:Oculum-1.

Argyle:Okay.

Johnny:How did that happen? Oh, does it go up?

Anzu:Oh, we're at fire 10 now, because we're higher level cantrip.

Johnny:Yeah! Oh! That's awesome. That's really good. Wow.

Anzu:Okay.

Gamemaster:Nice.

Johnny:This spell gets a lot better.

Argyle:alright great

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:It is Argyle's turn.

Anzu:I'm gonna have to hide Othello soon.

Argyle:guile

Argyle:didn't like that

Argyle:um

Argyle:so I will

Argyle:20 foot purse

Argyle:okay

Argyle:I will get this spell

Argyle:and I'm gonna pull out that holy water

Argyle:I made about almost a week ago

Argyle:and fling it

Argyle:um

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:and hit right there.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Nice.

Anzu:Oh my god.

Argyle:And all of them will need to make a reflex save.

Argyle:I think I also get to roll this

Gamemaster:Three successes and a failure.

Argyle:do I get to roll the spirit damage Great Great great great great

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:Let see One second Yes because they do have the unholy trait in the area

Anzu:you you

Argyle:So another 16.

Gamemaster:OK.

Gamemaster:So this guy takes that damage and that damage.

Argyle:29 total.

Gamemaster:And then these three guys take half damage and half damage.

Argyle:Yeah, yeah.

Johnny:That's fun.

Gamemaster:Okay, I have to give all of them some health back, because it applied the vulnerability

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:twice.

Gamemaster:I will do that.

Gamemaster:No, you can't.

Gamemaster:It's fine.

Gamemaster:I'll fix it.

Gamemaster:We'll have to update that spell in your spellbook so that it does both at the same time if they

Gamemaster:I have a holy so that you don't have to, or so that you can like pick so that I don't

Argyle:And then I will... sorry.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:have to apply it twice.

Gamemaster:Either way.

Anzu:you

Argyle:I need to do this skill thing.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Medicine...

Argyle:Treat wounds myself!

Gamemaster:His wounds, they're treated.

Argyle:And I get a Mythic Point!

Gamemaster:Is that the end of your turn?

Argyle:All right.

Argyle:I'm back to the foot house.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:It's the end of my turn.

Argyle:Wait, no.

Gamemaster:He's the monk.

Argyle:Raise my shield, because I have an extra action

Argyle:because of the flourish.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:That action no longer exists.

Argyle:OK.

Argyle:There we go.

Gamemaster:This guy's going to dimension door.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Oh, guy.

Anzu:you

Argyle:That's an at will spell.

Johnny:Uncool.

Gamemaster:I'm going to roll a d4.

Anzu:you

Anzu:they've spent so much time slipping around you know

Gamemaster:If it's even, he's going for Anzu.

Johnny:This guy doesn't know he just popped into the kill box.

Gamemaster:He doesn't know that.

Gamemaster:He's...

Gamemaster:That isn't at will.

Argyle:That's crazy.

Gamemaster:These guys just get to Dimension Door.

Johnny:I feel...

Gamemaster:Um...

Johnny:They're slippery.

Argyle:Ew.

Argyle:this song should be playing

Johnny:I parry

Gamemaster:Yes, correct.

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:ew

Gamemaster:Okay, so he's going to start with, I think, a spine attack, probably.

Gamemaster:Oh, no, it's going to be, we're calling it a glaive attack.

Gamemaster:It's his hands, but we're calling it a glaive attack.

Gamemaster:Oh, he misses. That's lame.

Johnny:I go

Gamemaster:he's gonna follow up with a beard attack

Johnny:AH!

Argyle:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:he makes a beard strike

Johnny:No, my beard!

Gamemaster:and it doesn't have map

Johnny:Well, it doesn't have map, no!

Gamemaster:I'm rolling poorly

Gamemaster:oh that still hits

Gamemaster:great

Gamemaster:his beard doesn't do nearly as much damage

Gamemaster:as his other stuff

Gamemaster:so you're gonna take 8 points of piercing

Gamemaster:and I need you to attempt this fortitude save.

Johnny:Against a beard?

Argyle:you

Anzu:You're sick.

Gamemaster:Against the disease that's been laced on the beard.

Gamemaster:You fail.

Johnny:I failed. I'm diseased.

Gamemaster:You're sick.

Gamemaster:Oh, no.

Johnny:Oh, no. I have a vernal fever.

Gamemaster:Now you have infernal fever.

Gamemaster:There we go.

Johnny:What does that mean oh good I have no ill effects for one day Benny would you like to drop your initiative to after me so I can buff you

Gamemaster:that needs to return Okay

Argyle:What is it

Anzu:Perfect Then it not a problem

Johnny:Cool.

Gamemaster:You have dropped your initiative.

Johnny:Are you going for this fella right here or are you going somewhere else?

Argyle:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:yeah you can

Johnny:Oh great, uh first I will cast

Johnny:First I will cast a Dirge of Doom

Gamemaster:That's a success.

Johnny:And a Lingering Performance Dirge of Doom

Johnny:27.

Johnny:He is now frightened.

Argyle:you

Anzu:Oh my god.

Johnny:Next, I will aid my young ward here.

Johnny:I will haste this man.

Gamemaster:Oh!

Gamemaster:He's casting Haste.

Gamemaster:this guy's making attack of opportunity

Gamemaster:that's true

Johnny:I should have stepped back first.

Johnny:What does that mean?

Gamemaster:that hits

Gamemaster:you're going to take 17 points

Anzu:So annoying.

Argyle:We had this before when we fought the...

Anzu:Oh my god.

Gamemaster:of damage as well as some persistent

Gamemaster:bleeding damage

Gamemaster:and it's an infernal wound

Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

Anzu:Oh my god.

Johnny:Oh, great.

Anzu:I think it's harder to recover from the blood or something like that.

Argyle:That's okay.

Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

Argyle:I'm actually good at stopping bleeding checks.

Argyle:Oh my god When the Harlequins summoned these guys for us to fight they were just summoning the minions from the ship

Johnny:oh yeah

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:you you

Argyle:Remember with the wheel?

Argyle:That makes sense.

Johnny:um and

Johnny:lastly

Johnny:what's my last name

Johnny:I don't want to

Johnny:uh

Argyle:...

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:I will...

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:you

Johnny:I'll create a distracting performance against this man for Benny.

Gamemaster:Distract him.

Johnny:Against this guy.

Johnny:24. Is he distracted?

Gamemaster:Um, what is it against?

Argyle:you

Johnny:Create a diversion.

Gamemaster:It is against his perception.

Anzu:It's create a diversion, whatever that...

Johnny:Oh, I thought.

Johnny:Topping up.

Johnny:It's against his perception, DC.

Anzu:Uh...

Johnny:It's against the perception.

Anzu:Uh...

Gamemaster:He rolled a 24.

Gamemaster:That does beat his perception DC,

Gamemaster:so Benny is considered hidden to him.

Anzu:Uh...

Gamemaster:Absolutely.

Johnny:That's my turn.

Johnny:Ow!

Argyle:you

Johnny:This is going to get bad real fast.

Anzu:Benny's about to ruin this guy's day.

Gamemaster:It is Benny's turn.

Gamemaster:Oh, well, first Johnny is going to take six points of bleed damage

Anzu:Ugh.

Gamemaster:and can attempt a recovery check.

Johnny:It doesn't get worse than a crit failure?

Gamemaster:You are still bleeding.

Gamemaster:It does not. You just continue to bleed.

Anzu:That would be so mean.

Gamemaster:Yes, it would.

Gamemaster:Given that the DC is 20.

Argyle:you I own the doctor bloody waistcoat so that actually pretty helpful for this

Johnny:Thank you Oh

Anzu:Thank you you

Gamemaster:Okay Benny you take one action to walk in front of the man and then you double slice him Absolutely

Gamemaster:I can.

Johnny:Oh, that is very nice.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Well, that's the way.

Gamemaster:That hits.

Anzu:The next hit's going to be crazy, Mike.

Gamemaster:You hit him.

Gamemaster:Good job.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Gamemaster:And you still hit him.

Anzu:The next hit's going to be crazy.

Gamemaster:16 points of damage.

Gamemaster:is also a hit.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Yeah, it is kind of crazy.

Gamemaster:That's crazy.

Gamemaster:That's pretty crazy.

Gamemaster:Nine.

Gamemaster:Let me double check that this is

Gamemaster:combine the damage and apply resistance

Gamemaster:and weakness is also almost once.

Gamemaster:You will note that this guy seems to take less damage

Gamemaster:than you would expect from your hit,

Gamemaster:but because you double sliced,

Gamemaster:it is more damage than the less damage

Gamemaster:you would normally expect to see.

Gamemaster:okay

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:absolutely

Gamemaster:he is bloodied

Gamemaster:okay

Gamemaster:You have one more action.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:That one did more damage than your double slice.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:You are hasted. You are hasted right now.

Anzu:Incredible.

Gamemaster:That hits.

Gamemaster:19.

Gamemaster:Minus some.

Gamemaster:It happens.

Argyle:I can't.

Gamemaster:It happens.

Gamemaster:he is still standing

Argyle:No, no, I can't.

Gamemaster:but he is bloodied

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Affirmed, he has blood.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:he's pretty bloodied

Gamemaster:he's got blood

Gamemaster:it's not in him

Gamemaster:anything else

Gamemaster:okay

Gamemaster:then we'll move on

Gamemaster:it is one of the

Gamemaster:oris's turns

Gamemaster:he was hit

Gamemaster:when he was bloodied

Gamemaster:okay

Gamemaster:Uh, plus six.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Anzu:It's Tuesday.

Gamemaster:Do you get an additional four from Barrow's Edge?

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Yes, sir.

Gamemaster:He's still standing.

Gamemaster:But he continues to be bloody.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:um

Gamemaster:okay uh it is the oris's turn the oris uh

Argyle:Yeah, I think there's an X.

Johnny:Yeah, yeah.

Anzu:That's not legal.

Gamemaster:doesn't that's crazy this guy has a fly speed

Gamemaster:how he doesn't have

Anzu:I'm pretty sure that the Pathfinder League doesn't allow that, Josh.

Gamemaster:one second

Anzu:There's probably a red X that you're missing.

Argyle:Yeah yeah you Thank you

Gamemaster:you think I'm

Gamemaster:you think I missing something one second I don actually I don remember what creature this guy is based off of

Johnny:you you

Anzu:Thank you

Gamemaster:Oh well, I'll look it up. I'm pretty sure he's fine.

Gamemaster:Oh, I know what he is.

Gamemaster:Uh?

Gamemaster:Oh, that's why.

Gamemaster:He is allowed in...

Gamemaster:I double-checked. He's allowed in

Gamemaster:Pathfinder Society.

Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Anyway, he's gonna...

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:It's not quite enough,

Gamemaster:but he's gonna scrabble over here.

Gamemaster:That's one action.

Gamemaster:I know it says three.

Gamemaster:It's because it used his walking speed,

Gamemaster:which is 10 feet,

Gamemaster:compared to his flying speed,

Gamemaster:which is 50.

Gamemaster:I guess he has to take one more step forward,

Gamemaster:and then he's gonna try and bite Argyle's head off.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Cool.

Gamemaster:Well, he has to stride anyway, so he'll make his second action to stride over here.

Anzu:Oh.

Gamemaster:Oh, yeah, that's a good point.

Gamemaster:He walked within range of Benny.

Gamemaster:That's a crit.

Gamemaster:That's it.

Gamemaster:You rolled a 20 on that die.

Anzu:Oh.

Anzu:Big kill.

Gamemaster:Hot damn.

Anzu:Oh.

Anzu:Oh, and it's Tuesday.

Gamemaster:Roll critical damage.

Johnny:Woof.

Gamemaster:47.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:not bad

Gamemaster:he is still standing

Gamemaster:but he's bloodied

Gamemaster:and then

Gamemaster:and it's

Gamemaster:what

Gamemaster:no it's not Tuesday

Gamemaster:it's not Tuesday

Anzu:I don think it worked Shout out to the steel shield

Gamemaster:he's gonna try and

Gamemaster:bite Argyle's head off

Gamemaster:he rolled bad and because he frightened It the oculum turn

Argyle:Yeah Yeah Woohoo

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:One action to see you.

Gamemaster:And then one action to.

Gamemaster:No, that doesn't work.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:I guess we'll do a Blazing Bolt.

Gamemaster:We'll do a Blazing Bolt.

Gamemaster:Targeting the three of you.

Gamemaster:He rolls a...

Gamemaster:Very well.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:So, is this fire?

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I rolled a 33.

Gamemaster:Which hits Argyle, hits Benny, and...

Gamemaster:Oh, just barely only hits Johnny.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Uh...

Gamemaster:Oops. I rolled the wrong button again.

Gamemaster:Ignore that.

Argyle:you

Johnny:I take no damage.

Anzu:What?

Gamemaster:I meant to roll damage and instead I rolled

Gamemaster:to attack again.

Gamemaster:I'm sorry. You all take

Gamemaster:17 points of damage.

Gamemaster:That's the end of his turn.

Gamemaster:It's this guy's turn.

Gamemaster:Ooh.

Gamemaster:Because you ate fire.

Anzu:That's crazy.

Gamemaster:This guy

Johnny:No.

Gamemaster:is gonna...

Johnny:I hit the wrong button.

Gamemaster:This guy gonna Dimension Door And then he going to attack Benny

Argyle:you Can I show allegiance

Johnny:We are in a sticky situation

Anzu:Oh my god Does this spell target my allies

Johnny:Can I kill my whole team right now?

Gamemaster:Benny, you take 21 points of damage and you start bleeding.

Johnny:Maybe.

Argyle:Oof.

Johnny:I'm on your side.

Gamemaster:And then he's...

Anzu:I start mimicking their song that they're singing.

Gamemaster:Oh, I rolled really poorly on the beard attack.

Johnny:La la la la la la la.

Gamemaster:It's Oris 2's turn.

Johnny:You're saying something wrong.

Gamemaster:That's one action.

Johnny:People who are disengaged.

Johnny:Hansu, kill this monorail for a cool go next.

Argyle:you

Johnny:No, sorry, not that one.

Gamemaster:He's gonna try and bite Argyle.

Anzu:One that's way out there.

Johnny:I meant mongrelfolk-2.

Gamemaster:He's gonna try and scratch Argyle.

Gamemaster:He's bad at all of this.

Gamemaster:On to it's your turn.

Gamemaster:It's time to kill your friends.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:Okay, so...

Anzu:I'm not gonna do the optimal thing because I need to save my bird.

Anzu:But I wanna use my bird before I save him.

Anzu:You know what I'm sayin'?

Gamemaster:I do.

Anzu:So, we're going to cast an Amped Frostbite on this Manu right in front of me.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Cast.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:He has to make a fort save ya?

Anzu:Yes, yeah, sorry.

Gamemaster:He rolled a success.

Gamemaster:Just barely.

Anzu:That's annoying.

Anzu:Well, then you get to half this damage.

Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

Gamemaster:Uh, okay.

Gamemaster:That kills him.

Gamemaster:He's dead.

Anzu:Now I have a question.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:Does it... so I get temp HP equal to half the damage it takes, so do I get 14 or did it take less than 28 damage?

Gamemaster:Uh, he took 14 damage.

Gamemaster:It doesn't get capped.

Anzu:Okay.

Gamemaster:Uh, so...

Anzu:So he took 28, so I'll get 14.

Gamemaster:Oh, sorry, he took...

Gamemaster:No, no, no, no, he took 14,

Gamemaster:because it was halved, because he succeeded.

Anzu:Oh, you're right. Okay, sorry. So I get 7. Very well.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Anzu:Sorry, sorry.

Anzu:and then I will

Anzu:have Othello

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:give me a focus point back

Anzu:with his

Anzu:familiar focus

Anzu:and then I'll use an action to put him in my

Gamemaster:Alright.

Anzu:empty sleeve

Anzu:and he can't be affected

Gamemaster:Alright.

Gamemaster:He's in your sleeve.

Gamemaster:Is that it?

Anzu:out there

Anzu:that's it those are three

Anzu:actions

Anzu:.

Gamemaster:It's the Occulums turn.

Argyle:you

Johnny:He's going to go for MongoPogHorse2.

Gamemaster:um he's gonna try this i don't know if it's gonna work he's going for benny nope i lied

Gamemaster:the range on this is not nearly what i thought it was okay so here's the thing

Gamemaster:how far away is he from you guys he just has to walk okay that one action still no that all of his second action

Anzu:you Thank you

Argyle:you Yes

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:literally five feet away

Gamemaster:now he's in range

Argyle:Yes.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:for oh wait

Gamemaster:now he's in range for next turn

Gamemaster:you watch out

Gamemaster:okay let's your turn

Argyle:Alright.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:I am going to

Argyle:treat wounds on Benster.

Argyle:Benster.

Gamemaster:that's reasonable

Gamemaster:you get 14 points of healing

Argyle:They're still grouped up.

Argyle:Do you mind, guys, and I'll heal you next round.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:All right, all right.

Johnny:Yeah, do what you gotta do.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Divine Wrath.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:I'm going to do here and skip that other one.

Argyle:And this only.

Gamemaster:Absolutely.

Gamemaster:All right.

Gamemaster:now do you see Benny as your enemy

Gamemaster:uh

Argyle:No!

Johnny:Yes.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:ouch

Gamemaster:that's crazy

Johnny:Cool.

Argyle:Yes!

Gamemaster:I rolled really poorly on those rolls

Argyle:OK, great.

Argyle:So the ones who failed are also sickened,

Gamemaster:so

Gamemaster:both oculent critically failed so they both die immediately That crazy

Argyle:and Critical Failed are Sickin' 2, Slowed 1.

Johnny:Wow Oh wow And he just ran all the way over here

Anzu:That insane

Argyle:Yes I fried them yes i fried him um

Gamemaster:Euphraim...

Argyle:uh

Gamemaster:Yeah, he just ran over here.

Argyle:i will then use the spell

Gamemaster:And that is enough to kill the bloodied Orus as well.

Gamemaster:That turned the fight so quickly.

Gamemaster:That's ridiculous.

Johnny:That was a great time.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:That was excellent.

Argyle:death's call as my reaction.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:What?

Anzu:you

Argyle:A living creature within

Argyle:20 feet of me dies, or an

Gamemaster:That is true.

Argyle:undead creature is destroyed.

Gamemaster:That is true.

Argyle:I should get

Argyle:temporary hit points equal to

Argyle:the creature's level plus your spellcasting

Argyle:ability modifier. If it's

Argyle:undead, it's doubled.

Gamemaster:Okay, sorry.

Gamemaster:So what do you get temporary hit points equal to?

Argyle:The creature's level plus my spellcasting

Argyle:modifier,

Argyle:which I believe

Argyle:my wisdom's plus four, so it's plus four, right?

Gamemaster:Is four.

Gamemaster:Yes.

Johnny:I will turn to

Gamemaster:So you get nine temporary hit points.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:Great.

Argyle:All right, so that's my turn.

Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.

Argyle:All right, I'm happy with that decision.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:That worked out well.

Gamemaster:Johnny, it's your turn.

Johnny:Oris 2 and I will say

Johnny:the Wellerman's coming!

Johnny:And I'll use invented vulnerability.

Argyle:oh my capital gains and all this illegal loot

Gamemaster:Okay.

Johnny:I'll attempt to deceive this man into thinking that he's vulnerable to stuff.

Gamemaster:attempt a deception check

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:that succeeds

Anzu:you

Argyle:yeah

Anzu:you

Argyle:Batman's one thing

Argyle:the IRS is no joke

Gamemaster:he got an invented vulnerability Bludgeoning piercing or slashing

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Okay Against slashing And then I will cast at third level little guys

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:Oh.

Gamemaster:I'm not placing the little guys.

Gamemaster:We know that they're around.

Johnny:They're all around him.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Argyle:you

Johnny:If I roll damage, will it roll for all of the individually?

Gamemaster:You just roll 6d4.

Anzu:you

Johnny:Let's see.

Johnny:Okay.

Johnny:One, two, three.

Gamemaster:Oh, wait, no. It's separate.

Gamemaster:Roll 1d4 six times.

Johnny:three four five six plus 36.

Argyle:30.

Gamemaster:Yeah, is the...

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Plus 36.

Gamemaster:Why plus 36? Is that from the weakness?

Johnny:yeah from i think it's 36 uh

Gamemaster:Weakness 5 to the selected damage.

Johnny:oh i was like the wrong one i'm sorry sorry weakness uh

Gamemaster:So...

Gamemaster:35.

Johnny:Oh, so he takes 30.

Gamemaster:Oh no, 30, 30, 30.

Johnny:He takes 30. Sorry, I'm just...

Johnny:So...

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:he is still standing

Anzu:Thank you.

Johnny:All of that, and then

Johnny:30 additional damage.

Gamemaster:he does not look good after that

Gamemaster:he's just barely hanging on

Johnny:I just turn around

Johnny:and say, I say, the Wellerman's coming!

Johnny:And then a bunch of versions

Johnny:of us, but in, like,

Johnny:little suits holding bags of money

Johnny:up here.

Gamemaster:of course

Johnny:and they just yell, give us your capital gains.

Gamemaster:these guys don't know what capital gains are

Gamemaster:okay

Argyle:you

Anzu:you

Johnny:That was my entire church

Johnny:because that entire combo is very difficult.

Argyle:I thought you could.

Johnny:pull off it takes one turn

Gamemaster:Absolutely. You take one point of bleed damage and may attempt to recover if you like.

Anzu:you

Johnny:I got halfway there

Gamemaster:Yeah, that doesn't help, unfortunately.

Gamemaster:Benny, it's your turn.

Gamemaster:Um, no. You can't.

Argyle:Oh, never mind.

Gamemaster:Because it says in requirements your last action.

Argyle:oh oh from your reaction attack no yeah

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Yeah, no.

Gamemaster:Not only can you not do it off a reaction, you also cannot do it off of the last action, the last round.

Gamemaster:It has to be in the same round. It can't be off a reaction.

Gamemaster:Yes.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:You don't want to go for the massive thing that's

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:bloodied?

Argyle:Because it'll waste your actions.

Argyle:Alright, these are going to hit me so hard.

Argyle:No, I know, it's all good.

Gamemaster:That's a crit.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:I mean, they're both pretty strong and they're both going next.

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Oh, shit.

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:You have won the gamble.

Gamemaster:You definitely have.

Gamemaster:Roll damage.

Gamemaster:he is still standing but you you took a chunk of health He bloodied now He wasn before

Argyle:You're blown out only wounds the creature,

Argyle:but also shatters its confidence.

Argyle:Thank you

Anzu:He frightened too

Gamemaster:He's frightened too.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:well sorry okay so first action was intimidating strike

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:second action

Gamemaster:oh it is

Gamemaster:okay and then third action was drink of my foes

Argyle:I was almost at 18.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:yeah your fourth action is just a regular attack

Gamemaster:uh you missed

Gamemaster:I'd call that a regular attack

Gamemaster:I'm sorry

Gamemaster:uh okay

Gamemaster:that brings us to

Gamemaster:oh sorry first Benny's bleeding

Gamemaster:you're going to take 5 points of bleed damage

Argyle:I think he should actually take a full movement action to just walk next to Benny.

Johnny:Yeah, he takes his full action,

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:you may make a recovery check if you like

Gamemaster:you are still bleeding

Gamemaster:it's the Manus' turn

Gamemaster:I mean he has to go for Benny

Gamemaster:like there's no one else to go for

Gamemaster:he is a feared

Gamemaster:why would he

Argyle:I think that's the best idea.

Gamemaster:why would he do that

Gamemaster:he He He gonna just try and stab him

Johnny:his full turn to monologue and walk menacingly around Benny

Argyle:laughing laughing laughing

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

Gamemaster:No monologuing.

Gamemaster:That hits!

Gamemaster:You are already infernally wounded,

Gamemaster:so you're just going to take 13 points of damage,

Gamemaster:and continue to be bleeding.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Does he get to do anything fun?

Gamemaster:I think his big thing is he gets a Dimension Door.

Gamemaster:He'll Wriggling Beard attack you

Gamemaster:so that he doesn't have map.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:That hits.

Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Are you going to take an additional

Gamemaster:10 points of damage and I need you to attempt

Gamemaster:that fortitude save.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:What took effect?

Gamemaster:Oh yeah, you're constructed.

Gamemaster:Which means it doesn't

Gamemaster:do anything to you.

Gamemaster:And I guess I'll follow up with a really

Gamemaster:wimpy claw attack. Yeah.

Gamemaster:I rolled a 19 and still

Gamemaster:missed because of map

Gamemaster:and frightened.

Gamemaster:okay

Argyle:Why?

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Our guy was so innocent.

Argyle:He didn't do anything.

Gamemaster:it's the oris's turn

Argyle:He's just a guy.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:the oris is going for argyle

Argyle:I'm gonna go back to the game.

Gamemaster:because i mean

Gamemaster:he's gotta

Gamemaster:uh i think he's gonna start

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:I'm gonna go back to the game.

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:i think he's gonna start by mocking

Argyle:I'm gonna go back to the game.

Gamemaster:cry at you

Gamemaster:um

Gamemaster:i need you

Gamemaster:oh i think he's

Gamemaster:It just a deception check to demoralize What is demoralize against It against your will DC

Argyle:you I assume it does

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:Does a 28

Gamemaster:beat your will, DC?

Argyle:Wait, let me check.

Argyle:He is slowed and feared, right?

Argyle:No, he's sickened and feared, right?

Gamemaster:He's sickened and feared, yes.

Argyle:Yeah, my will DC is 25, so that's it.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Uh, okay. Uh, so he, uh, mocks you, and it just, it really hurts. It's just very hurtful.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:And so you're frightened one. You're afraid of how he's mocking you.

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:Why is he only second one?

Gamemaster:Because he only failed the check?

Gamemaster:no the people that critically failed are dead now

Argyle:Oh, I thought he critical filled.

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:you killed them

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:alright he's going to attempt to bite your head off now

Argyle:No.

Gamemaster:he rolled low

Gamemaster:it still hits

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:damage

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:and attempt that fortitude save

Gamemaster:14 points of damage and attempt that fortitude save

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:you succeed

Argyle:Okay, great.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:I don't think that they're both close enough for me to kill both, but we're going to try.

Gamemaster:now we do a claw attack

Gamemaster:I rolled well, that hits

Argyle:Okay, okay.

Gamemaster:you are going to take another

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:10 points of piercing damage

Argyle:Alright.

Gamemaster:and that's it

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:on to the next round

Argyle:Oh, see, they're both bloodied.

Argyle:Do your thing.

Gamemaster:Okay, Hisaki.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:We're going to unleash Psyche, of course.

Argyle:I'd say Will, just because they seem nimble, at least the Manus.

Johnny:I would say Will

Gamemaster:it's unleashed

Anzu:Um, then I guess we'll start with a Psiburst and see where that gets us.

Gamemaster:sure on which

Anzu:Do I want to make them Reflex or Will?

Anzu:What do you guys think?

Anzu:Probably Will.

Anzu:Alright, we'll target the Manus.

Johnny:all of my stuff goes to Will

Argyle:Yes.

Anzu:We're going to Psiburst the Manus with the Mind Shift so that it's Will and Mental.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:I rolled quite well.

Gamemaster:He succeeds.

Anzu:Alright, he'll take half damage.

Anzu:I don't think that's going to do it.

Gamemaster:Unfortunately, half of seven is not enough to kill him.

Anzu:Okay, but he's mortal.

Gamemaster:He is mortal.

Anzu:Um, you guys are easily going to be able to finish one of these guys before my next turn.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:So we're just going to continue to target him.

Anzu:Um, with, I think we just send an unamped frostbite his way.

Anzu:So he can make this save here.

Anzu:Well, he'll take half of this.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:I rolled very very very well

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:he succeeds

Argyle:mock him Mock him

Gamemaster:but because he's frightened it didn't crit

Gamemaster:that will do it

Gamemaster:you freeze him

Anzu:Alright!

Gamemaster:and you've killed both of the manises

Anzu:Incredible.

Anzu:I have another action, and I don't really have much to do with it.

Anzu:Can I do something to aid uh like Argyle attack on this guy

Gamemaster:you can attack Johnny

Johnny:you Thank you

Gamemaster:I don't really think you can do, like, a ranged aid.

Anzu:Yeah.

Gamemaster:I'm sorry.

Gamemaster:Yeah, no raids.

Gamemaster:No raid shadow legends here.

Gamemaster:Is that still a thing?

Argyle:All right.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Do they still do ads?

Anzu:I haven't seen one in a while.

Gamemaster:What's the plan?

Anzu:Uh, I guess I'll just calculate threats.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Then that will bring us up to Argyle.

Gamemaster:Argyle, you're scared.

Argyle:Oh, yeah.

Argyle:does that go down at the start of my turn

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:at the end of your turn.

Anzu:Amazing.

Argyle:nah it's worth a shot

Argyle:alright

Argyle:I'll strike the guy

Gamemaster:You strike him.

Gamemaster:Because you're frightened, it's not a crit.

Gamemaster:You deal seven points of damage.

Gamemaster:But because he's vulnerable,

Argyle:yes

Gamemaster:because he's weak,

Gamemaster:to slashing

Argyle:Oh, hell yeah.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Perfect.

Gamemaster:from Johnny,

Gamemaster:he dies.

Anzu:yeah it kind of annoying there a couple things in the game that change the dcs but they like specifically call out what DC they change it from and to And I feel like it should not be like that

Argyle:Now, wait.

Argyle:Before, so I'm still, I just want to send, yeah.

Gamemaster:It's still your turn.

Argyle:So I have this thing.

Argyle:So what's the DC?

Argyle:Can I use this to change the DC?

Argyle:I assume yes, right?

Gamemaster:One second.

Gamemaster:Thank you this item change to dc overwrites any other changes to flat checks whether beneficial or

Argyle:Mm Yeah that what I wondering

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:It should just give you like...

Gamemaster:harmful to the wearer which i think uh means that it just like fully

Anzu:Oh.

Argyle:Oh.

Gamemaster:yeah it brings it down to 10

Argyle:Removes the 20 to 10.

Anzu:Brings it down to 10.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Wow.

Argyle:Great.

Argyle:Okay.

Anzu:I wonder if it has that same note for...

Argyle:Is this a...

Anzu:that, like, the orc skin.

Argyle:Sorry, so...

Argyle:Is this a treat wounds roll?

Argyle:What is this? What roll do I make?

Gamemaster:no it's oh actually maybe it is one second

Argyle:Oh, no, it's not.

Gamemaster:it is stabilized bleeding you're correct

Argyle:It's a Stabilized Bleeding.

Gamemaster:um which i think is part of the minister first aid uh uh 32 um is a success here

Argyle:That's 32.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:That was on...

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:uh so who are you doing that to to benny

Gamemaster:Okay, then Benny, your next check is going to be a DC 5 to stop bleeding.

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:And that is unfortunately all you can do, Argyle, so we're just going to loop all the

Gamemaster:way around.

Gamemaster:Johnny, you take some damage, roll a check to see if you can recover on your own.

Johnny:so

Gamemaster:You can't.

Gamemaster:And then Benny, you're going to take three points of bleed damage, and then make a flat

Argyle:I didn't do...

Argyle:I think I didn't do that on Johnny.

Argyle:He would have failed anyway.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:check and let see if you get a five or higher You do And then we loop back around to Argyle if you like to administer first aid again

Argyle:Okay yeah so same thing

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:you Thank you

Argyle:Skill, stop bleeding, it's time on.

Argyle:Am I still frightened?

Gamemaster:No, you're not.

Argyle:Okay, so that succeeds.

Gamemaster:Either way, yeah, that succeeds.

Gamemaster:I'm removed blessed by accident.

Argyle:And then I will...

Gamemaster:I'm so sorry.

Argyle:Yeah, wait, I still have one action, though.

Gamemaster:Johnny...

Argyle:So I'm going to battle medicine Johnny.

Johnny:My hero.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Johnny, you're going to gain 28 hit points and then lose 4 hit points

Gamemaster:and then attempt a recovery check with a DC 5 this time.

Gamemaster:No, you're still bleeding.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:We're just going to play this through because I think it's funny.

Gamemaster:um argyle uh we know that you can succeed but let's just roll another first aid check

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:no no you aid him in his check is what happens

Argyle:Because this is...

Argyle:I'm rolling the stop bleeding check,

Argyle:so I can't roll it for him.

Argyle:I have to...

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:um which you could tell because it says the target benefits from an assisted recovery with

Argyle:Oh, yeah, yeah, I can see.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:lower DC. Uh, 35

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:is fine. Johnny, you're

Gamemaster:going to take, uh, another one

Gamemaster:point of damage, and let's see

Argyle:the who

Johnny:I believe in myself.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:if you can get a five or higher this time.

Johnny:It almost was another one on my screen.

Gamemaster:He does!

Gamemaster:He is no longer bleeding.

Gamemaster:You did it.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Uh,

Gamemaster:So you're all standing there now on the edge of the staircase.

Gamemaster:You unfortunately didn't make it very far down the staircase.

Gamemaster:You actually made it no distance at all.

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:I don't think any of you moved in any direction that whole fight.

Argyle:damn it i forgot i have a thing now that if something damages me with piercing or slashing

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:they just came to you and you murdered them

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:as that happened

Gamemaster:and you find yourself

Argyle:that's weak to holy it takes spirit damage and i forgot on those things damn it

Argyle:I'm going to go take a look at that

Gamemaster:standing on the staircase above

Gamemaster:it's like landing where they were hanging out

Argyle:amulet that was on this thing

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Absolutely, roll a perception check.

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:may I do a religion?

Gamemaster:Oh yeah, if you're just trying to look at it short, do a religion check.

Argyle:great

Argyle:Where's the

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:amazing

Anzu:You know everything.

Gamemaster:so

Gamemaster:there is a bit of

Gamemaster:like the unfortunate case here of

Gamemaster:the amulet itself

Gamemaster:is not magical

Gamemaster:it is just like a rough hewn

Gamemaster:carving

Argyle:I don't know.

Gamemaster:of a horn

Gamemaster:that this thing is wearing around its neck

Gamemaster:so I guess

Gamemaster:what were you

Gamemaster:hoping to hear off of that

Gamemaster:crit 38 religion check like what were you looking for

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:yeah i i don't think you'd be able to get that information looking at this guy's necklace

Argyle:Find out why this group's here

Argyle:or something about, like,

Argyle:what does this mean,

Argyle:the Sinister Six involved here?

Gamemaster:unfortunately um what i will say is with that check just like looking at the necklace and i

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:Mm-hmm.

Gamemaster:generally at the person um the person in quotes because this thing is at this point pretty far removed from one of those uh you will find on his person um two uh like like a binder like two different little pamphlets

Argyle:Mm Mm Pass this over to the bird

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:you They like little booklets

Gamemaster:uh, that feel vaguely magical to you in some way.

Gamemaster:Yeah, they are. They're, they're like, they're each, they have about six pages, uh, they do have

Anzu:They got words on them.

Gamemaster:words, although it looks like the last

Argyle:I'm going to spend 11 minutes

Johnny:you

Anzu:Is there a title on the front?

Gamemaster:two to three pages

Gamemaster:of the booklet is completely blank.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Yes, the title on the front

Gamemaster:is Perfection's First Step.

Johnny:you

Anzu:And it's got some magicalness to it.

Gamemaster:It feels magic in some form.

Johnny:you

Anzu:Can I try to identify that with my quick identification?

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Gamemaster:You absolutely can.

Anzu:One minute.

Anzu:Oh, dude.

Gamemaster:It'd be an occultism check.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:so people could huddle around me.

Johnny:Hey, guys.

Argyle:And I'm going to cast Sacred Ground, which

Argyle:is going to kick off.

Argyle:And then I will also treat wounds for another 10 minutes.

Argyle:So at the end of it, one person will get treat wounds,

Argyle:and then everyone will get Sacred Ground.

Anzu:Hold on.

Anzu:I'm thinking about using a mythic point.

Johnny:I think I'm sick.

Anzu:I'm going to use a mythic point.

Argyle:I can fix that later.

Anzu:jeez

Argyle:We have until the end of day, right?

Johnny:Yeah, I think I got a little bit of time.

Johnny:I got the sniffles.

Anzu:I got a 28

Gamemaster:A 28 is a success, you know what these are.

Argyle:That's for Benny.

Johnny:An unbreaking wave advance is

Gamemaster:They are a manuscript that is a treatise about perfection.

Gamemaster:If you complete it it turns into a scroll of unbreaking wave advance Kind of Um yeah

Anzu:Uh huh.

Anzu:So it an incomplete spell scroll sort of Do I have any inkling of how it could be completed

Argyle:you you

Johnny:Thank you

Anzu:Like, am I capable of it?

Gamemaster:You are capable of it.

Gamemaster:It would take about ten minutes to do, but you are capable of it.

Anzu:Oh, that's much

Anzu:less time than I thought.

Anzu:Is there any catch?

Gamemaster:Not that you can tell.

Gamemaster:I will say you rolled high enough on your religion check

Anzu:Hmm.

Argyle:Thanks for joining.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Okay.

Gamemaster:you would know that the source of the energy

Gamemaster:is from like the patron

Gamemaster:that these people worshipped

Gamemaster:so if you don't mind that as the source of the

Gamemaster:like the spell that you're casting

Gamemaster:it doesn't seem like there's any overt catch there

Gamemaster:it's just you know the origin here

Gamemaster:of where the magic comes from

Argyle:and everyone's going to get a plus 14

Gamemaster:Yes.

Anzu:And the two manuscripts are the same.

Anzu:So I basically have two of these things.

Gamemaster:Correct.

Johnny:.

Gamemaster:And that is the spell that it lets you cast.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Do you guys want to see if any of these other folks are carrying something interesting?

Johnny:On.

Argyle:In addition to the two healing rolls,

Argyle:everyone else gets an additional 14.

Johnny:Hello.

Johnny:Here.

Argyle:Assuming we wait 22 minutes.

Johnny:Yeah.

Johnny:Let's see.

Argyle:All right.

Argyle:Cool.

Johnny:Yeah.

Argyle:Shall we go?

Johnny:Yeah.

Argyle:That's on you guys.

Gamemaster:That a perception check

Johnny:Yeah.

Johnny:Yeah let see To investigate them Will perceive

Anzu:Go for it Johnny

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:No, we're getting I want to know what's on these guys.

Johnny:I'll use my mythic point.

Johnny:Why not?

Johnny:I got 26.

Gamemaster:The 26, looking through the rest of these guys,

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:see if they have anything interesting on them.

Gamemaster:They have quite a few odds and ends,

Gamemaster:like a random spanner that they picked up from somewhere,

Gamemaster:or shavings of metal in a little tin and the like.

Gamemaster:The only thing that really stands out to you

Gamemaster:is that one of the Manises has a vial of liquid

Gamemaster:tucked away in one of his pockets.

Gamemaster:It's this weird, gritty, it almost looks like a bunch of dirt suspended in some liquid, but it appears alchemical in nature to you.

Argyle:Would we be able to dump that fake scroll thing into a heart for energy, or is that

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:I'll take a look at this as well.

Gamemaster:it's a consumable but

Argyle:a consumable?

Gamemaster:given that it isn't like a

Gamemaster:spell scroll yet you think you probably

Gamemaster:could

Gamemaster:and it's an arcana check

Argyle:Okay, cool.

Gamemaster:for this alchemical mixture

Argyle:I have medical researcher.

Johnny:We're on it.

Anzu:Not my specialty, but still pretty good.

Gamemaster:Uh huh.

Argyle:Can I try to...

Anzu:Nailed it. Absolutely nailed it.

Argyle:Never mind.

Argyle:Good.

Johnny:We're crushing it.

Argyle:Good, good, good.

Anzu:I drink these every week.

Argyle:Good, good.

Argyle:Good, good, good.

Gamemaster:This is a mongrelfolk tincture.

Gamemaster:For the ten minutes after you drink this potion, you will grow an additional finger

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:on each hand, which gives you a plus two item bonus to your reflex DC and a climb speed

Anzu:That's insane.

Gamemaster:of 20 feet.

Anzu:Does anyone want this?

Gamemaster:It is also gritty and spicy.

Anzu:Okay.

Gamemaster:I don't know if that helps.

Anzu:Do you like spicy things, Benny?

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Wow.

Anzu:No, it sounds kind of unpleasant.

Anzu:All right, so we have to proceed from here in some fashion.

Gamemaster:Um, but, uh, unfortunately

Gamemaster:with the rules you got looking around, that's

Gamemaster:all that you, um,

Gamemaster:you see on the bodies of particular

Gamemaster:use.

Argyle:I can...

Johnny:There appears to be a hallway over here and some stairs over there.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Argyle:Wait a second.

Johnny:Once we're all healed up and ready to go, of course.

Anzu:Do you have a locate object?

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:I can cast

Argyle:this spell.

Argyle:no that i didn't take it because it was only 500 feet

Anzu:Do you have a locate object?

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:so the thing about show the way is it's that given a destination

Anzu:Whoa.

Argyle:does this work it's kind of vague

Anzu:Hmm.

Gamemaster:it helps you avoid obstacles getting to that destination

Argyle:Is it No but that Wayfinder That the Wayfinder one That what that one says this one specifically says you and your allies gain pre uh it doesn say anything

Anzu:you

Johnny:Thank you

Argyle:about knowing the destination the other spell does does it uh yeah there's another spell

Gamemaster:No, it says...

Gamemaster:Okay, what spell are you talking about?

Gamemaster:Wayfinder?

Gamemaster:What?

Argyle:that's called uh wanderer's guide that's a different spell and i use that to get us to

Argyle:the Strider in the first place,

Argyle:but this one's a different one.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Yeah, is that it helps you travel through difficult terrain.

Anzu:Yeah, but the mechanical advantage here...

Gamemaster:Honestly, show the way and Wanderer's Guide feel like very similar spells.

Argyle:Yeah, but

Argyle:Watcher's Guide specifically says

Argyle:to your destiny. That's the only reason I didn't

Argyle:prepare it for this day.

Argyle:Because when we woke up, I was like, we don't know the way.

Argyle:Allowing you to intuit the best way forward.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Yeah, but I'm reading what

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:show the way does, and

Gamemaster:it makes it so that you don't have...

Gamemaster:you're not as affected by difficult

Gamemaster:terrain. So that's true.

Gamemaster:You won't be as...

Gamemaster:No, it doesn't prevent you from falling

Gamemaster:into traps.

Argyle:All right.

Gamemaster:Correct.

Gamemaster:Yeah. So if you're trying to go forward, it will tell you the best way to get there.

Argyle:So no, like the...

Argyle:So it says it would intuit the best way forward and avoid potential obstacles.

Argyle:So it would help me left or right.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:It's not telling you the direction. That's not what the spell says it does.

Argyle:I thought forward was like forward to your goal.

Gamemaster:No, it doesn't tell you the direction that you're supposed to go.

Argyle:Can I change the spell since this isn't?

Argyle:can I change my

Gamemaster:Yeah, you could swap out the spell.

Argyle:prepared

Argyle:I didn lead with it guys alright I didn lead with it

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:yeah the the difference is is that wanderer's guide you pick a destination

Anzu:you you

Argyle:I was hoping for a lead

Argyle:you guys don't have a lead

Gamemaster:and it tells you how to get there effectively,

Argyle:mhm

Argyle:yeah

Argyle:Which is why...

Gamemaster:assuming you have a route.

Johnny:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:So the way is you don't know where you're going,

Gamemaster:but you want to make sure that you don't have difficult terrain

Gamemaster:as you go where you don't know where you're going.

Gamemaster:But it doesn't show you the correct way forward.

Argyle:But unless...

Argyle:No, it lets you

Argyle:intuit the best way forward.

Gamemaster:It, it, yes.

Argyle:You said it doesn't show you

Argyle:the best way forward,

Argyle:but it literally says

Argyle:it lets you intuit.

Argyle:I understand that I can't just...

Gamemaster:Yeah, to avoid potential obstacles like difficult and confusing terrain.

Argyle:No, no, it's and. It doesn't say to.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:It says and. And devoid.

Argyle:But I understand that a third level spell

Gamemaster:Yeah, it's...

Argyle:shouldn't just let us access to anything.

Argyle:I get it. But I think

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:the wording shows that it

Argyle:should, but I understand it

Gamemaster:I...

Argyle:doesn't track. So I'm

Gamemaster:From where you are right now, there appear to be two exits from the room.

Argyle:not going to fight it.

Gamemaster:There's the one on your ground floor, that's the staircase directly forward, and then it also looks like there's one further up if you could climb up there as another doorway that proceeds further in on a slightly higher level.

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:I do too.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:How high up is this ledge over here to get there?

Gamemaster:About 20 feet.

Anzu:Oh, I think your boy can fly that distance.

Anzu:Let me check.

Gamemaster:I know the perspective is a little strange here.

Gamemaster:This is a screenshot from a video game No because that not how Detect Magic works in this setting

Anzu:Do I have detect magic?

Anzu:I believe so.

Anzu:Yes.

Argyle:Thank you Locate wouldn have been a

Johnny:Thank you

Anzu:you No he

Anzu:Oh, right, it doesn't tell you...

Anzu:...a type of magic.

Gamemaster:It...

Anzu:No.

Gamemaster:You learn presence or absence.

Gamemaster:If you cast it at third level, you learn the rank of the most powerful magical effect.

Argyle:Should I swap my third level instead of show the way for locate?

Johnny:you

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:And then if you cast it heightened at four, you get the source, as in imprecise sense.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Which is partially because, like, there aren't types of magic in Pathfinder in the same way that there were in 5e.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Like, you don't have evocation spells.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:It's 500 feet, 10 minutes.

Gamemaster:I will allow you to swap out Show the Way because I don't think...

Argyle:I thought it was a long shot

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:I mean, I think that would be useful, but.

Anzu:Yeah, that's.

Anzu:Okay.

Gamemaster:I think there was some confusion on what it does.

Anzu:Okay.

Argyle:thank you

Anzu:Okay.

Argyle:okay

Argyle:well

Gamemaster:Sure. Yeah, I can see how you would have approached that from a direction where it would have been more useful.

Argyle:A ribbon thing.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:This isn't locate object. He's just casting locate. Just locate.

Gamemaster:The direction to a target or the nearest target if you pick a type of object.

Gamemaster:So what are you picking?

Gamemaster:An ink ribbon is what you're looking for

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Okay

Gamemaster:It is

Argyle:We go north, gentlemen.

Johnny:Oh.

Gamemaster:From where you are right now, it is north.

Anzu:Both of our routes take us north.

Gamemaster:Do you learn the distance?

Johnny:Oh.

Anzu:So, before we go through this door, I'm going to briefly fly up to this platform here, walk

Johnny:So we go.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Anzu:up to here and take a just a gander at what's in that direction through the upper path.

Anzu:I jumped back down

Argyle:Is the direction like flat axis or do I also have like if it's up or down?

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Absolutely.

Gamemaster:I would allow it to be in three-dimensional space.

Argyle:Okay, do I think it's the upper flat path?

Gamemaster:It's level with you.

Argyle:Okay, so we got to go left guys.

Argyle:You can still fly.

Anzu:well let me just

Anzu:tell me just what it looks like down the hall

Anzu:before we continue

Gamemaster:All right, roll a perception check.

Anzu:While I'm up here.

Argyle:Oh!

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:nice uh okay with a 33 crit uh it looks like uh almost an art installation of some kind somebody

Gamemaster:has taken to drawing on the walls and the floor and the ceiling uh of this area um in hues of

Anzu:Mm-hmm.

Gamemaster:red and brown

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:and like this like rust

Gamemaster:color. These

Gamemaster:swirls and what

Gamemaster:look to be music notes

Gamemaster:on sheet music, although not

Gamemaster:quite following the standard for how you'd

Gamemaster:expect sheet music to be written.

Gamemaster:And poems

Gamemaster:talking about

Gamemaster:perfection and apotheosis

Gamemaster:and ascension

Gamemaster:and deliverance and some some pretty crude drawings of what look to be stick figures dancing around an

Anzu:you you

Argyle:you you

Johnny:you Thank you

Gamemaster:orb, and a lot of horn iconography. Not a lot of coherence there, but clearly somebody spent a lot,

Gamemaster:or more than one person has spent a lot of time drawing up in this hallway. It extends, like,

Gamemaster:out into the distance when the light of this particular area fades,

Argyle:Do not like that.

Johnny:Not long.

Anzu:Okay, so it's not just an isolated room with drawings.

Gamemaster:just continuing into the hallway beyond.

Gamemaster:No.

Anzu:Well, I'll explain that to everybody and drop down.

Argyle:Let's go forward, gentlemen, to this floor room.

Gamemaster:The floor room.

Gamemaster:Okay, you can start heading through the hallway on forward.

Argyle:Oh!

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:I thought the spell only lasted 10 minutes,

Argyle:but that's the cast time.

Argyle:I could just sustain it. That's much nicer.

Gamemaster:Yes, yes.

Gamemaster:It takes ten minutes to start casting it,

Gamemaster:but once you're casting it,

Gamemaster:so long as you keep thinking about it every six seconds,

Gamemaster:you can keep it going.

Gamemaster:so you start heading forward into the hallway the arrow is pointing you basically straight forward

Argyle:Great.

Gamemaster:it gets dark quickly because you've moved out of the light this particular platform

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:so you are back to dark vision and flashlight although you don't have very far to walk

Gamemaster:after like maybe a hundred feet or so into this hallway it opens up into another one of those

Gamemaster:bulkheads that you have to turn the, the handle, uh, like the valve-like thing out front to open

Gamemaster:up and enter into what appears to have at one time uh been a kind of um barracks or dorm or or sleeping area of that kind There are a number of these metallic beds stacked up very tightly across the interior of this room

Argyle:you you

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:Thank you

Gamemaster:They are situated such that the beds themselves

Gamemaster:only have like a foot, maybe a foot and a half of clearance between them,

Gamemaster:so you can fit five or six people in one column of beds.

Gamemaster:There may have been mattresses in the frames at one time,

Gamemaster:but those have long since rotted away or been torn away.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:There are bits of the metal that have been twisted

Gamemaster:because these beds appear to be relatively cheaply made,

Gamemaster:and whatever creatures were sleeping in them did not fit anymore

Gamemaster:and kind of put additional pressure on them in that way.

Gamemaster:But there are what look to be some old packs

Gamemaster:that have kind of been stuffed in areas.

Gamemaster:There are more, although not as many,

Gamemaster:of the drawings that Anzu described in this room as well, and this appears to have been the place

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:that those creatures that you interacted with outside were sleeping. I will also note that it

Gamemaster:stinks in here. That smell that you got earlier of the volatile battery acid smell seems to have

Gamemaster:gotten stronger and stronger as you get closer to this area, to the point that it is overwhelming.

Gamemaster:It is...

Gamemaster:Given how strong it is, you're pretty confident it'd be detrimental to your health

Argyle:I will wrap some cloth around my face.

Johnny:All right.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:to stay here for any extended period of time.

Gamemaster:It's just like breathing in pure acid.

Argyle:I know it's not going to do much, but...

Gamemaster:Nine.

Gamemaster:The pointer is going to one of the packs just at the base of one of the beds What levels do you detect magic Four

Argyle:And do we...

Johnny:Yeah.

Argyle:Where's the pointer going?

Argyle:Can you do a detect magic?

Argyle:Thank you

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:Oh yeah sure I cast that A four

Gamemaster:And Benny has a level 15 detect magic.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Luckily, those are both equally effective.

Gamemaster:So on to...

Gamemaster:There is a...

Gamemaster:The highest rank magic.

Gamemaster:Do you learn...

Gamemaster:Oh, you do learn what the rank is.

Argyle:Is there anything else in the room that's magical?

Johnny:Oh.

Anzu:Just grab the pack.

Gamemaster:There is a level 5 magic object in that pack.

Johnny:Thank you.

Argyle:For our hearts.

Anzu:Well, can I recast it ignoring that?

Argyle:Okay.

Gamemaster:If you...

Gamemaster:You can.

Anzu:Is that how that works?

Gamemaster:There is no more magic item.

Gamemaster:in this room.

Argyle:Do we bring the stank with us as we grab the pack?

Anzu:But there are a couple other packs.

Gamemaster:It seems that was the one.

Gamemaster:There are a couple of other packs.

Anzu:I'm just going to grab another pack just to see what's in it.

Gamemaster:Sure.

Johnny:Can we spell that now?

Gamemaster:You like another pack?

Anzu:Let's open this stuff like maybe outside the room because it's stanky in here.

Anzu:Making me sick.

Gamemaster:As you walk out,

Gamemaster:It appears that some of the acid smell has permeated into the bags that you take with you.

Argyle:Okay.

Anzu:The one that had the magic in it.

Gamemaster:Those don't smell great. They do not appear to be the source of the acidic smell, though, as you remove them.

Argyle:Open the tickets.

Johnny:Thank you.

Argyle:No, the ribbon.

Gamemaster:So as you back out, you can open up one of the packs.

Gamemaster:the one that you got

Gamemaster:the one that had the magic in it

Gamemaster:in the interior

Gamemaster:there is a

Argyle:you

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:almost like a film reel

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:looking container that you gather is probably the ink ridden.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:It is a deep red coloration in the reel itself.

Gamemaster:Beyond that, there are some rags.

Gamemaster:There's what looks to be a bar of lye.

Gamemaster:and there's a small

Gamemaster:looking key

Gamemaster:with a skull emblazoned

Gamemaster:on the

Gamemaster:outer edge of it

Argyle:Did we see anything that had that symbol on it?

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Jorge, do you mean did we see something else in the room that had that same thing?

Gamemaster:further away from the tines of the key

Gamemaster:a skull

Gamemaster:you can roll a religion check

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:okay

Argyle:OK.

Argyle:I can say no to a check.

Gamemaster:You did not, and with a 32 you don't recognize skull iconography as being something.

Argyle:Yeah, or like, did we see some door or anything?

Argyle:Yeah, 32.

Argyle:Okay.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:This other random pack that I grabbed.

Gamemaster:In the other random pack you grab, roll a perception check.

Anzu:All right, 27.

Gamemaster:With a 27, looking through it, there is another set of rags, another bar of lie, and what

Anzu:And if I unfold it...

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:looks to be a... at first you think it's another one of those pamphlets on perfection, but

Gamemaster:This is instead, it just looks like a piece of parchment that's been folded over.

Gamemaster:There are strange runic markings in it that you would recognize as being related to but not quite earth from

Anzu:Fascinating I leave the pack but I keep the paper

Argyle:Well tomorrow we can translate these

Johnny:you you

Gamemaster:okay absolutely

Argyle:Should we go drop this off with the head honcho,

Argyle:or should we look for more magic items?

Argyle:I'm down to drop it off.

Argyle:I don't think there's anything else.

Argyle:But we could go down the weird hallway.

Argyle:I do have this spell

Johnny:Is it a bad idea to push forward?

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:I am curious.

Argyle:if we want to try to

Argyle:we could ask

Anzu:I mean, I'm not against it.

Argyle:I don't know what to ask in the augury though

Anzu:I'm just kidding.

Johnny:Would we be in imminent danger of dying?

Argyle:well we're definitely going to be in danger

Argyle:should we ask if there's magic items in there

Johnny:I mean, this does seem kind of interesting.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Like, let me think about it.

Argyle:because I think we either want magical items

Johnny:Like, super powerful magical items.

Johnny:Make us...

Johnny:Yeah, maybe...

Argyle:or some information about the sinister

Argyle:six or this voyage

Argyle:one of those three things

Johnny:Maybe, like...

Johnny:Yeah.

Argyle:I got some

Johnny:I kind of say we just push forward if everyone's healed up and looking okay on spells.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:Not much of anything.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Argyle:okay

Argyle:I got some juice left

Argyle:my big

Argyle:my big hitters are gone

Argyle:but I fried those people

Argyle:so that was cool

Argyle:okay

Johnny:I got all my big hitters still, so I'm...

Argyle:yeah

Anzu:All right.

Anzu:So I'll fly back up to the platform, get some rope, tie it off.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:It is acrobatics or athletics Let climb up a rope It not a very high DC No that illegal

Argyle:you

Johnny:What do you mean You can just do this

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:That's illegal.

Johnny:See, Betty?

Gamemaster:You can't do that.

Johnny:To climb a rope?

Johnny:Oh, no.

Argyle:I was the only one who clicked the climb feature, and I did the worst, so that's bad luck.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:That's how that works, yeah?

Anzu:Josh!

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Gamemaster:uh what do we oh i am 27 22 19 where's the where's the oh chris anzu doesn't need to roll

Anzu:That we do, Josh.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:This is the

Anzu:Isn't this kind of crazy stuff, guys?

Gamemaster:uh you're all fine uh the the rule is just to make sure that nothing catastrophic happened

Gamemaster:um you had the rope it was easy enough to climb up you uh make your way back up there and you

Gamemaster:in front of the hallway that Anzu saw before with all of the Heart in it.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Josh, one of the things you mentioned was some music notes.

Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

Anzu:I take out my void paper, which does have some music written on it, I believe,

Gamemaster:It does?

Anzu:and I compare the notes.

Gamemaster:they're pretty similar.

Gamemaster:Like it's using a different musical Scale,

Gamemaster:like the comparison of the normal octet version versus the pentatonic Scale and all that kind of stuff But if you ignore the notation and you look at the actual tones that it describing

Argyle:you Well the Sennelier 6 have been trying to emulate that

Johnny:Thank you Got pretty close

Anzu:Thank you Yikes

Gamemaster:that's a pretty good match.

Argyle:That's what we know of, right?

Anzu:Yeah.

Anzu:That's kind of where they're at now.

Anzu:They've kind of figured out how to...

Argyle:So do you think this is connected to Grayson?

Anzu:I don't.

Argyle:Let's push forward.

Johnny:Yeah, I actually think that...

Gamemaster:Absolutely.

Anzu:Thank you.

Johnny:I mean, like, in a roundabout way,

Argyle:All right.

Johnny:in the fact that all the sims are sticks,

Argyle:Bung in.

Johnny:but I don't think he is doing this.

Argyle:Yes.

Johnny:We push forward.

Argyle:All right.

Gamemaster:Same marching orders before, I assume.

Argyle:You see more than I see.

Gamemaster:It's going to get dark again, so.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:As you proceed into the Heart hallway,

Johnny:I see some things.

Gamemaster:I would love it if I could get perception checks.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:Well, a 29 is good.

Gamemaster:In this particular instance,

Argyle:Thank you.

Gamemaster:as you proceed into the darkness or flashlight to light the way,

Gamemaster:you can see that those weird physical disturbances in the ground

Gamemaster:that you had seen earlier where bits of the great

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:had been pulled up and moved

Gamemaster:are getting much worse

Gamemaster:as you go into this part of the Shrider.

Gamemaster:It seems you're getting closer to the epicenter

Gamemaster:of whatever the

Gamemaster:issue was that caused

Gamemaster:these kind of weird

Gamemaster:physical

Gamemaster:movements.

Gamemaster:That said,

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:there is something else that

Gamemaster:kind of

Gamemaster:peeks your ear more than your eyes

Gamemaster:as you move into this darkness.

Gamemaster:There is ever present in the Strider the sounds of the machinery, of the legs of

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:Oh.

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:the striders stomping on the ground,

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:and all of the other stuff that goes into supporting that.

Gamemaster:There is an irregularity that's the faintest sound where you are

Gamemaster:of scrabbling, almost,

Gamemaster:of lots of little things moving along the walls or under the floors.

Gamemaster:It is very quiet, like it's trying to be quiet,

Gamemaster:but because you rolled quite well with that 29, you do catch a little bit of it.

Argyle:I didn't know bugs could paint.

Johnny:I'll just say very quietly to my companions,

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Just on the edges of your hearing and the distance and through the walls and around you.

Gamemaster:to that note

Johnny:there's bugs!

Johnny:There's bugs!

Johnny:I hear bugs!

Gamemaster:with a 29

Argyle:you

Johnny:I do this to kind of catch the light on it.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:there is

Gamemaster:the faintest

Gamemaster:gossamer shimmer

Gamemaster:a little ahead of you in the hallway

Gamemaster:that catches the flashlight.

Johnny:I think these spiders know Morse code.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Gamemaster:You can point it out.

Argyle:it's just Charlotte's Web

Anzu:you

Johnny:Oh, sorry, I'm flashing back.

Johnny:They make a web real fast.

Gamemaster:Okay.

Johnny:It says, I see you.

Gamemaster:Morse code existing in the setting I think means that France does, which I don't...

Argyle:it's just Charlotte's Web

Argyle:it's biblically accurate Pathfinder

Gamemaster:Is Morse English or French?

Argyle:it's biblically accurate Pathfinder

Gamemaster:Oh he was American I take it back That fine America can be real Morse code existing means that Boston is canon

Johnny:They make another one that says some pig.

Johnny:Oh, no.

Argyle:Yes Yes Space Boston

Anzu:you you

Johnny:Oh no Oh no

Johnny:Only Boston.

Johnny:Face Boston.

Gamemaster:It's Boston.

Argyle:So we're going to go forward.

Johnny:Yeah.

Johnny:We duck around the...

Johnny:Is the spider web covering the whole hall?

Johnny:Or is it...

Gamemaster:No, it's just like a little bit up the top.

Gamemaster:If you hadn't noticed it, you would have walked face first into it.

Argyle:We look up, do we see spiders?

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:But it doesn't, like, cover the entirety of the hallway.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:It is, though.

Argyle:We look up, do we see spiders?

Argyle:Ugh.

Gamemaster:You don't see spiders.

Gamemaster:This hallway itself, like most of the hallways you've been in in the Strider, is cramped.

Gamemaster:They were not building for these large, open hallways.

Gamemaster:It's really making the use of the space.

Gamemaster:You have to duck around it.

Gamemaster:Notably, as you guys are proceeding forward, ducking around this one just puts you in the way of another one.

Gamemaster:I'm going to need acrobatics checks to maneuver past them without disturbing the webs.

Argyle:Why don't you see this?

Johnny:I back flipped through them.

Anzu:Yikes.

Anzu:It doesn't change it for me.

Gamemaster:I would allow a stealth check in place of the acrobatics check, I think.

Anzu:Oh, geez.

Gamemaster:I don't know if that actually changes the calculus at all for any of you.

Anzu:Sorry, guys.

Argyle:It changes it for me.

Argyle:Definitely changes it for me.

Gamemaster:A 32 crit, nice.

Argyle:You know, it's

Johnny:I avoid every spider web. I see all spider webs.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Okay, a 31, a 29, a 32 crit, and then Anzu got a 19.

Argyle:our mythic too.

Johnny:I have spider web sense.

Johnny:I know where spiders are at all times.

Gamemaster:because Johnny got a crit here

Gamemaster:that will cancel out Anzu's

Gamemaster:failure

Gamemaster:so the four of you teamwork makes the dream work maneuver your way diving under and stepping over various spots that spider webs have been uh

Argyle:Anzu like touches part of the web but Johnny back

Johnny:Thank you This is the gift I just sent is Johnny getting through these lasers

Anzu:you Thank you

Argyle:flipping and cuts the string

Argyle:so it doesn't send the vibrations through

Argyle:laughs

Gamemaster:absolutely

Argyle:laughs

Gamemaster:yeah basically just doing a little jig through the spider web all the while

Argyle:laughs

Gamemaster:as you're maneuvering through.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:The walls are covered with increasingly dense art, quote-unquote.

Gamemaster:The smell of acid is starting to get stronger again

Gamemaster:as you move further into the strider,

Gamemaster:and the sounds of scampering, of skittering beneath the walls

Gamemaster:intensifies the closer you get.

Gamemaster:Before it was once or twice every few often.

Gamemaster:now it's frequent

Argyle:I was going to turn and go.

Johnny:I turn to Argyle at some point as we're shimmying through these spiderwebs and I go, there's

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:there are things moving around you

Gamemaster:you are moving closer to

Gamemaster:what you gather is a nest of some kind

Johnny:going to be a big bug at the end of this.

Johnny:There's going to be a really big bug.

Johnny:It's going to be a big bug.

Argyle:I don't know what ghoul is like from where you're from,

Argyle:but spiders are not bugs.

Argyle:They're arachnids.

Gamemaster:Also, aren't arachnids bugs?

Argyle:No!

Johnny:I turned to the others.

Anzu:I feel like bug is a general enough term.

Johnny:Our guy's a fucking nerd.

Gamemaster:They're not insects, they are bugs.

Argyle:They're not.

Argyle:Colloquially, yes, spiders are often called bugs.

Argyle:Scientifically, no.

Argyle:A spider is not a bug or an insect.

Gamemaster:What's the scientific definition of a bug?

Anzu:Right, what's a bug?

Argyle:Pfft.

Gamemaster:What's a bug?

Argyle:Yeah Yeah

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:And spiders are definitely bugs According to Mike definition

Gamemaster:Either way as you moving around these spiderwebs and the hallway that you in starts to become more gnarled and bumped and twisted

Gamemaster:there is a moment after about 15 minutes of very careful maneuvering around these spiderwebs

Gamemaster:that you all feel this kind of

Gamemaster:tingle

Gamemaster:as if you've passed through an air

Argyle:oh spider pain not good guys but that means we can kill another heart

Johnny:Yes.

Anzu:We don't want this festering down here.

Gamemaster:curtain, as if you've entered

Gamemaster:a Fane. And I think that's

Gamemaster:where we'll end it.

Argyle:spider heart spider heart uh we should so so just a note we made an agreement that we're going to pay

Anzu:Yeah.

Gamemaster:We'll see if you kill it next time.

Gamemaster:Spider heart.

Johnny:you

Anzu:Prime Meridian is not going to tell you that.

Argyle:um two different factions for each i want to double check to see if they have those like

Argyle:modifiers that add plus two, because if they do, they're getting two pieces.

Argyle:They're getting plus twos.

Argyle:Yeah, but we could see from their, if we look at their

Argyle:housing.

Gamemaster:Sorry, I wasn't listening.

Anzu:Oh, would it have the antenna?

Anzu:Is that what does that?

Argyle:Well, you can, I think.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Oh, yeah, the siphon array.

Argyle:can we look at other

Gamemaster:I was looking up what a bug is.

Gamemaster:What were you saying?

Argyle:places on the strider and see what upgrades they have

Gamemaster:Yes.

Gamemaster:Yeah, that is like, you can't hide what upgrades you have.

Gamemaster:It is obvious from outside observation what you've chosen.

Argyle:yeah so if prime meridian

Argyle:we'd said we'd give them four if they have that array we're giving them two and they're getting the four

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Argyle:because that's four to them

Argyle:but that's also if we can get two if the smallest thing we can get to three or four we still give

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:them the

Argyle:yeah

Johnny:Line around.

Gamemaster:It's the first item I found that acts as a scroll that lets you cast a focus spell.

Anzu:Yeah, maybe this pamphlet will count.

Argyle:we're not giving that to our heart

Anzu:Who knows?

Argyle:they can take that

Johnny:Hello.

Anzu:Oh, fascinating.

Gamemaster:It's weird.

Anzu:I didn't realize it was a focus spell.

Gamemaster:Unbreaking Wave Advance is a focus spell.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:It's legacy content.

Gamemaster:It is legacy content.

Gamemaster:It's legacy content because

Gamemaster:the World Guide came out in 2021

Gamemaster:and I guess they never felt like

Gamemaster:remastering it.

Gamemaster:Because it's fine.

Gamemaster:But it comes...

Anzu:You don't think they're going to release World Guide Remastered at some point?

Gamemaster:I don't think so.

Gamemaster:It would be called World Core.

Gamemaster:if they did. I have, so, I have the subscription service for getting, like, new rulebooks from

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Paizo when they come out, because I like getting the PDFs ahead of time, um, and when they updated

Gamemaster:the site, they changed the, like, set of things that the subscription service will give you,

Gamemaster:because it used to be that I just get the rulebooks, but my most recent things have been

Gamemaster:NPC Core 2,

Gamemaster:which is just a whole book filled with stat

Gamemaster:blocks of NPCs, and it's not

Gamemaster:particularly useful.

Gamemaster:But the thing I got after that

Gamemaster:was the Beginner's Box.

Argyle:Wait for Necromancer.

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:Yes or anything interesting on the near horizon you horizon

Gamemaster:Because they apparently remastered

Gamemaster:the Beginner's Box, and that's included as a

Gamemaster:rule set. So, if any of you

Gamemaster:want a Pathfinder

Gamemaster:2-y Beginner's Box, I have

Gamemaster:one. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it.

Gamemaster:It's

Gamemaster:very strange.

Gamemaster:I just want the new

Gamemaster:stuff I want Necromancer

Gamemaster:when it comes out

Gamemaster:the next one I think is going to be the Necromancer whatever the book that comes

Argyle:you I feel like they going to nerf the runesmith

Johnny:you The Necromancer and Runesmith they both look pretty cool

Gamemaster:from, I forget what it's called.

Gamemaster:I know Paizo is actually having some trouble right now

Johnny:They're cool.

Argyle:Every time I've been reading it, I'm like, ah, it's going to get nerfed and nerfed.

Anzu:okay

Argyle:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:because they got stuck in a really bad contract

Gamemaster:with some supplier for their rulebooks

Gamemaster:that like now they're just being held hostage in a warehouse

Gamemaster:but because of the contract

Gamemaster:they're not allowed to print more with a different publisher

Gamemaster:it's a weird deal

Gamemaster:but

Gamemaster:so I don't know if there will be delays

Gamemaster:for

Gamemaster:Impossible Magic which I think is

Gamemaster:yes, Impossible Magic

Gamemaster:has remasters for the Magus and the

Gamemaster:Summoner and then introduces

Gamemaster:the Necromancer and the Runesmith

Argyle:Ooh.

Johnny:Very excited for the...

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:and also

Gamemaster:240 new spells

Gamemaster:which is the real fun thing

Johnny:I'm very excited for the RuneSmith.

Gamemaster:yeah

Argyle:That is fun.

Gamemaster:so

Johnny:I heard that they might be doing stuff with, like, true name magic, which would be very cool.

Gamemaster:That's fun.

Argyle:Oh!

Johnny:Thank you.

Argyle:That'll be cool.

Argyle:Oh, one other fun ritual spell I wanted to show

Argyle:that we should use if we're going to turn into evil people.

Argyle:Army of Shadows.

Argyle:uh it cast cast time is four hours but then you basically just like swarm a location within a

Anzu:Bye.

Argyle:thousand foot with just an army of shadows that just snuff out all the light i don't know

Gamemaster:I...

Gamemaster:I feel like Divex cast that in your Heist of the Soul Cage last campaign.

Argyle:you

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:Or maybe it was a similar spell?

Argyle:Thank you Getting shallows

Gamemaster:Shadow Army.

Anzu:you An elemental sentinel might be fun to have

Argyle:Is this a ritual?

Anzu:It's a level 1 ritual.

Argyle:Oh.

Johnny:I think we should get.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:from secrets of magic

Anzu:it's a little dick guy that this is that can be a lookout

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:Next level, I'm going to be taking a,

Argyle:I want to take the archetype for ritual caster.

Anzu:mm-hmm

Argyle:So if you see something, let me know.

Anzu:Yeah.

Argyle:Ritualist dedication.

Anzu:How many do you get?

Anzu:Hmm.

Argyle:I get two...

Johnny:A revival tool for sure.

Gamemaster:Do you know which one is the best?

Argyle:Sorry, go ahead.

Johnny:That's really cool.

Argyle:Yeah, so I get two...

Argyle:I get two level...

Argyle:I get two rituals from one to two.

Argyle:And then at eighth level, which I'll be taking at eighth level,

Argyle:I will also get two more rituals

Argyle:with half my max rank.

Argyle:So that'll be four.

Anzu:Epic.

Argyle:So I can get up to four.

Argyle:so

Gamemaster:you want to get.

Argyle:I have to be trained in the main thing

Johnny:Let's see here.

Argyle:so I could take butterfly bender

Argyle:yeah

Gamemaster:Sure.

Gamemaster:Which does seem like a very fun

Gamemaster:generally ritual.

Argyle:yeah

Argyle:I don't know if there's

Argyle:what other good ones are good

Argyle:reincarnate

Gamemaster:You could

Johnny:Okay.

Argyle:probably

Gamemaster:you can get heart bond and just marry some people.

Argyle:no I can do that as a cleric

Anzu:Oh Oh

Johnny:Lucky month, could we get?

Argyle:That true That true Rest eternal

Gamemaster:Yeah but it not as cool as if you do it with magic

Johnny:Okay Lucky month that could be cool

Argyle:What the hell is that now?

Gamemaster:If you want the baby version, you could get Army of Shadows.

Gamemaster:If you wanted to conjure the Squadron of Shadows to search for it, then plunge your enemies into darkness.

Argyle:Yeah.

Gamemaster:That's always fun.

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:I don't know when we'd use that.

Argyle:It's very fun, but...

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:You can make a...

Anzu:Rest eternal

Argyle:Yeah.

Argyle:That would be...

Anzu:with our

Anzu:necromancers nearby.

Anzu:It's not the worst thing.

Anzu:Very, um,

Anzu:situational, but

Anzu:basically if someone dies that we don't want them to be able to

Argyle:What do I do?

Argyle:No, no, no, no.

Johnny:That's pretty cool.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:turn into a zombie you could do this ritual i think

Argyle:Because if I have reincarnate,

Argyle:if someone dies that we like, they're coming back.

Argyle:They don't get to rest peacefully.

Argyle:They're coming back.

Johnny:They're coming back.

Johnny:This NPC dies when I say they die.

Argyle:Yeah.

Anzu:They don't like that kind of long distance communication.

Argyle:There must be some weird...

Johnny:We would do that.

Gamemaster:Why is contact friends banned?

Gamemaster:I think that probably is it.

Argyle:

Argyle:...

Gamemaster:You get to ask a friend a single question.

Gamemaster:The friend...

Gamemaster:I don't think there's any limit on the range of how far away the friend can be.

Anzu:you

Argyle:you

Johnny:you

Argyle:you guys

Johnny:so we just some guy we're friends with out of the blue halfway across the world

Gamemaster:You can ask your friend a single question.

Anzu:you

Johnny:hey man do you know anything about bone demons

Argyle:do you guys

Gamemaster:These friends aren't compelled to answer you honestly or answer at all.

Argyle:what about

Argyle:Yeah.

Johnny:Oh, weren't we working on making a group name?

Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

Anzu:Thank you.

Johnny:Do we...

Johnny:What happened with that?

Argyle:Oh, wait, quick question.

Argyle:Mike, what were you going to say about the whale walls?

Argyle:yeah

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:Yeah, that one looks pretty good too.

Argyle:oh

Argyle:I think I wanted rune trap

Argyle:yes

Argyle:I was just gonna litter our fucking

Argyle:uh no

Argyle:it's basically just uh from 5e

Argyle:like when you get glyph warding

Argyle:or you can just put a spell into a rune

Argyle:yeah and I was gonna litter

Argyle:our base with runes

Argyle:yeah yeah

Johnny:Thank you

Gamemaster:You're not proficient in it.

Anzu:you

Argyle:that

Argyle:unseen

Argyle:custodians or heralds what are those do

Argyle:I can't cast those

Argyle:I have to be

Argyle:I have to be trained in the primary check

Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.

Argyle:but uh turns out

Argyle:uh oh the other one too was a

Gamemaster:Which is also banned

Argyle:secure siege weapons do you think we going to be making siege weapons do you think we have the means to make siege weapons

Anzu:you you

Argyle:a mortar

Gamemaster:Each allied siege weapon in the area

Gamemaster:gains an increase to its hardness.

Gamemaster:So first you have to make all the trebuchets,

Gamemaster:and then once you've done that

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:well okay wait what is

Gamemaster:a modern day siege weapon

Gamemaster:is it artillery

Gamemaster:yeah is it if you have a bunch of

Argyle:yeah

Gamemaster:mortars set up

Argyle:what are siege engines that exist

Argyle:what are

Argyle:what siege

Gamemaster:no

Gamemaster:in Pathfinder.

Argyle:engines are there even

Johnny:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:yeah

Gamemaster:You've got Light Mortar.

Gamemaster:You've got Flame Bellows.

Gamemaster:You've got Crossbow Catapult.

Argyle:A lot of these are probably banned.

Gamemaster:You've got Huacha.

Gamemaster:You've got Rebaldaquin.

Gamemaster:You've got a Falconet,

Gamemaster:a Bombard, a Wolf Fang,

Gamemaster:a Ballista, Steam Artillery,

Gamemaster:a marking powder cannon, a pheromone sprayer, a catapult, a harpoon cannon.

Johnny:What was that?

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:What? You want me to go back?

Gamemaster:It's a 12-foot long, 6-foot wide, 4-foot high mounted gun.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:It requires a crew of two to four to operate.

Gamemaster:It fires mass amounts of alchemical animal pheromones.

Gamemaster:to attract animals to their location.

Gamemaster:An 80-foot line or a 40-foot cone.

Argyle:Thank you.

Johnny:you Thank you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:Affected creatures are stunned too at low dilution fascinated by the scent of the pheromones and off guard at medium dilution or slowed one for a minute at high dilution

Gamemaster:Basically.

Gamemaster:Sprinkled, Mortar, Web Launcher, Bolt Emitter, Cannon, Heavy Ballista, Fire Drake, Shatterpult, Heavy Bombard, Lashtail, Blessed Onager, Sonic Horn, Nullifier Sling, Fiend's Mouth, Seed Pod, Station Sled,

Argyle:so

Johnny:We're getting weirder.

Anzu:you

Argyle:imagine

Johnny:what happened to Steelhearts

Gamemaster:alchemical

Gamemaster:sprinkled

Gamemaster:anesthetizing jaws

Argyle:imagine we

Gamemaster:mud maker

Gamemaster:steelheart 21

Gamemaster:cyclonic

Gamemaster:cannon

Gamemaster:yeah steelheart 21

Argyle:I guess we should just make a bunch of mortars.

Anzu:you

Johnny:what happened to Steelhearts 1 through 20

Gamemaster:uh

Gamemaster:I think they were

Gamemaster:destroyed

Gamemaster:okay what's the highest level siege weapon one second uh oh of course

Johnny:oh no

Johnny:you

Argyle:Mortars?

Argyle:We just make a courtyard, we fill it with mortars,

Gamemaster:the fists of divinity are a level 20 siege weapon

Argyle:and we just rain down.

Argyle:Oh.

Anzu:you

Gamemaster:um let's see they're a relatively small mass driver that can propel an object at incredible

Argyle:Okay.

Argyle:Speak more.

Gamemaster:and deadly speeds uh the force of a fired item's impact overrides any properties it might have so

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:crews tend to use easily accessible stones or debris um let's see uh okay so it's a crew of

Gamemaster:It proficiency simple It a one action launch for a range increment of 1 feet It does 20d6 bludgeoning in the 150 line with a DC 39 reflex

Argyle:you That crazy

Johnny:you

Anzu:you you

Gamemaster:If you add something that is 6 to 10 bulk instead, it deals 24d6.

Argyle:we could

Gamemaster:Yeah, like a medium creature.

Argyle:we could

Argyle:get a mortar and then

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:you

Argyle:we'll need three people

Argyle:loading it and then

Argyle:it will do

Argyle:5d10 slashing in a 20 foot

Argyle:burst

Argyle:dc21 and then we just

Argyle:bring a bunch of them we need three

Argyle:people to load two action

Argyle:manipulates two action to

Argyle:aim two action to launch

Argyle:But if we have a team of four or five, we can get a bunch.

Argyle:So we just need like 20 people and we can have four going nonstop.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Just to arm your mortars.

Anzu:you

Argyle:So we start recruiting other company.

Argyle:Other arts just for mortars.

Argyle:We first use the shadow army.

Argyle:They plunge them into darkness.

Argyle:Then we just have a barrage.

Argyle:Every six seconds.

Argyle:they get it

Argyle:four different mortars

Gamemaster:What's funny is

Gamemaster:how do you know your enemies

Johnny:We're going to get attacked by rage, Shadow Legends.

Anzu:Thank you.

Gamemaster:aren't going to do a shadow army

Gamemaster:raid on you and then

Gamemaster:shoot mortars from their

Gamemaster:area it could happen

Gamemaster:you're going to get attacked by raid shadow legends

Gamemaster:it'll happen

Argyle:I think our next room

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Johnny:you

Anzu:you

Argyle:should be a vault

Argyle:or fortification around the heart.

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:Probably.

Anzu:Theoretically, the Fane is allowed to adjust itself, can it?

Argyle:I think that should be our next room that we add.

Gamemaster:Probably.

Anzu:The Vault.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Gamemaster:I'd probably allow it.

Argyle:And then we'll start stacking once we get level 8.

Anzu:The Vault.

Argyle:We're going to stack, we're going to grease our walls,

Argyle:and then we're going to start stacking a bunch of runes everywhere.

Argyle:no no no this is different there's different things to the runes they could be a passphrase

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Thank you.

Anzu:It's gonna be a nightmare to exist in this place.

Anzu:Salvado, if you go to the kitchen, you must take two paces forward, one pace to the left,

Argyle:or just like some action so we can have like different tiers of access just tell like that

Argyle:you guys like do not walk into this room you guys do not walk into this room

Argyle:What is this?

Johnny:Thank you.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Anzu:two paces forward again, then three paces to the right.

Argyle:Uh-huh.

Argyle:Uh Mm Mm

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:you Thank you

Anzu:you you

Argyle:Mm-hmm.

Argyle:Should we do that?

Johnny:you

Gamemaster:That's what you're going to have to do whenever you go into the kitchen.

Anzu:you

Argyle:No, that's why we have a separate vault room,

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Argyle:which is next to the kitchen.

Argyle:And then what's also cool is I can put Divine Wrath

Argyle:as a spell, which should only affect enemies,

Argyle:which is nice.

Argyle:it is weaker if they're not like unholy

Argyle:but it's still something

Argyle:so

Johnny:Yeah, let's do it.

Argyle:yeah

Gamemaster:I'm down.

Anzu:You guys want to play on Monday next week?

Argyle:alright well

Johnny:Yeah.

Anzu:Amazing.

Argyle:adios muchachos

Johnny:Yeah, we'll fight this big bug.

Gamemaster:Yeah.

Johnny:Adios.

Johnny:Peace.

Anzu:Gonna kill that bug.

Gamemaster:Spider-fame.

Anzu:Peace.

Argyle:you

Gamemaster:Bye-bye.

Gamemaster:you

Anzu:you