Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:you Stop Tanner
Anzu:you You
Johnny:you you
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:I was changing the laundry
Anzu:You
Anzu:You
Anzu:from the laundry
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:yeah then my hands got wet
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:yeah yeah
Argyle:turned up bed sheets
Argyle:that well
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:that makes sense
Argyle:how's it feel to be a homeowner
Anzu:well yesterday I spent
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:approximately four hours working on the lawn and
Anzu:the yard so it's like
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:it's got its pluses and its minuses.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:You know what I'm saying?
Anzu:Because you got to mow the grass.
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:You got to keep the weeds at bay.
Anzu:We've got all these bushes
Anzu:that are growing out of control, so you got to trim
Argyle:Would you...
Anzu:the bushes.
Argyle:Would you, um, would you replace your grass with turf?
Anzu:We actually
Anzu:have a little bit of turf.
Johnny:Hey everybody.
Anzu:hello noah i i like having grass um so yeah i don't know i mean there's
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:I mean to wash AstroTurf though you have to spray it down so I guess it's not as much
Anzu:obviously some perks to that it's probably a little better well i don't know is it better
Anzu:environmentally to have turf like you don't have to water it but yeah
Argyle:Then you have a bunch of plastic.
Argyle:Yeah, I don't know.
Anzu:you
Argyle:I am...
Argyle:Yeah I will be doing grass They were trying to get me to do turf and I was like no
Johnny:water but you still have to wash it Oh thank God I thought you were going to do turf Don do turf man
Anzu:We have, most of our yard is side yard because we're a corner house.
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:you you
Johnny:It never looked good.
Argyle:No! It's also just like,
Argyle:I'm not a boring old person.
Argyle:I don't need turf.
Argyle:Mm-hmm.
Anzu:What is behind the house is like maybe six feet.
Argyle:Mm-hmm.
Argyle:Makes sense.
Anzu:know by you know whatever the length of the house so there's a strip back there that no one can see
Johnny:Yeah, that that makes sense.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Anzu:that is turf which kind of makes sense because it's annoying to maneuver back there and it also
Anzu:doesn't really get a lot of sun so i don't think grass would do well anyway
Argyle:And it's a dog run if you ever...
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:yeah
Anzu:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah.
Johnny:I don't know.
Anzu:No, the neighbors.
Johnny:I have a couple of neighbors, I guess not anymore.
Johnny:I moved, but I used to have neighbors who replaced all their grass with turf.
Argyle:You moved?
Johnny:I mean, my local.
Anzu:Oh.
Argyle:Yeah.
Johnny:When I lived with my parents, they had neighbors who replaced all their grass with turf, and they had like pretty big yards, and it just kind of looked weird.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Anzu:Yeah, I hear that especially in places like Bayou where it's very dry, the whole non-grass
Johnny:I think, I mean, if you don't want to do grass, you can also do like a xeroscape or you can put some clover in.
Johnny:Also turf.
Anzu:movement is relatively strong.
Johnny:There's a lot of like, 0 escape.
Argyle:yeah
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:Yards around me, but turf also gets really hot. It doesn't have the same cooling as grass.
Anzu:...
Anzu:...
Argyle:yeah
Johnny:Especially if you have dogs and they, they want to lay outside.
Argyle:I am
Anzu:Right.
Argyle:I might be having a pool
Anzu:...
Johnny:What What Did he give you a reason they didn get used to their tube
Argyle:I might be getting a pool which will be fun
Argyle:but the uh we'll see
Anzu:Whoa!
Anzu:...
Argyle:we'll see on costs and the builders
Anzu:...
Argyle:trying to
Argyle:it tells us that we should do a pool that's only
Argyle:six feet deep
Argyle:and when I tried to ask for a deeper pool he like well we found that if people have deeper pools they don get used And I was just like what kind of weenie huts are you hanging out with
Anzu:Mhm you You want people to swim
Benny:Thank you Yeah you don want to hear anything from those tall people
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:I have family members who are 6'5".
Argyle:They could stand in the pool and have a conversation with me.
Argyle:I don't want that.
Argyle:I want...
Argyle:No, no, I've been calling it...
Argyle:want uh i call it the wemby where i want wemby to be unable to stand and talk to me in the pool
Anzu:That's quite a pool.
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:that's what i want i mean it's i i know a good amount yeah um well i figured if we're gonna do
Anzu:So this is an in-ground pool.
Anzu:Right.
Argyle:it might as well try to do it while they're digging everything up so they don't need to
Anzu:All right.
Argyle:it'll be more expensive later but uh yeah we'll see but like i don't know at least in
Argyle:Massachusetts, everyone's pool is at least eight feet so you can dive.
Anzu:Like the whole pool or is there like a...
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:And I'm not talking about... No, just the deep end.
Anzu:Right.
Argyle:I don't even mean there needs to be a full fancy diving board.
Argyle:There's just always going to be some person that's going to dive into your pool, I feel like.
Anzu:Right.
Anzu:So you need a depth that's not going to be dangerous for them.
Argyle:Yeah, and you're supposed to have eight feet, but...
Argyle:What's the... I don't know.
Argyle:I feel like... Why would I...
Anzu:I don't know how tall Wemby is.
Argyle:you know why would i dig a whole pool if it's not going to be diveable
Argyle:but he the original pools
Anzu:I mean, people with above-ground pools,
Johnny:Maybe you're all really short.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:Everyone in your family is really short.
Argyle:yeah but like if you're gonna go through the work of getting
Anzu:you know, those are, you know,
Anzu:under six feet, most of them.
Argyle:an earth mover back there just dig a couple extra feet you know what i mean like
Anzu:Yeah, for sure.
Argyle:uh
Argyle:Yeah, above ground pools are also like, they're nice, but like I would just get in a ground bound pool if I don't.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:I feel like the whole point also when you get in a below ground.
Argyle:or an in-ground pool is that uh that pool's gonna be there for like ever so like you don't just get
Anzu:Right.
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:a new one in a couple of seasons or something so it's like what's the point uh and i think i think
Anzu:Right.
Anzu:
Anzu:Right.
Argyle:bailey's family's uh above ground pool i think it's like six and a half feet deep
Argyle:which is like deeper than this pool that this guy wants me to spend money on
Argyle:no no
Anzu:you
Johnny:That was pretty easy.
Benny:You can always dig it deep enough and then just add more concrete in case you want to make it deep later.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:yeah that's the easy part actually just pre-digging the dirt and then filling it
Argyle:with stronger concrete and rebar that'll future proof it yeah
Benny:Yeah.
Argyle:yeah
Benny:And then you just drain it and you go in there with a jackhammer and...
Argyle:yeah but then you need to re uh yeah yeah
Anzu:you just break it all up yeah
Johnny:I think you're on.
Anzu:Okay.
Benny:You don't need to re-anything.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:have you ever seen people you gotta you gotta put the plaster gun night thing
Argyle:on the outside if you're doing gun or reline it
Argyle:leo stop stop
Benny:It's concrete.
Benny:That stuff holds like the Hoover Dam back.
Argyle:yeah and um our builder tried to we're like oh we want a pad we want like a little like
Benny:It's not permeable.
Johnny:That's a crazy first thing to pull out.
Argyle:i don't know like a little patio and they're like oh so do you want an 1100 square foot
Anzu:This guy is on one
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:bluestone patio for 70 000 and we're like no we want concrete and we want
Argyle:we want like a third of that and we want concrete so
Argyle:it was crazy we're like what who are you selling these houses to
Johnny:That's a funny straight go-to right off the bat.
Argyle:yeah no and then it was the designer and then even the builder turned to her was just like bluestone he was just like why would you spend your money on that
Johnny:Who is behind that you world
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:yeah yeah let's just blow all of our money everything let's go let's just spend so much
Argyle:we can go into debt so we get bluestone 11 square 11,000 1100 square feet is also more than our
Johnny:all right
Argyle:apartment
Argyle:i mean
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:You could have a patio, a really cool looking patio the size of your apartment.
Benny:Yeah, so...
Gamemaster:you
Benny:No, see, you're right.
Benny:You have to have them divide up the patio
Argyle:yeah yeah
Benny:into a couple of
Benny:bathrooms, a couple of rooms,
Benny:put a kitchen out there.
Argyle:they're like oh we could do a kitchen and a fire pit and we're like
Argyle:we're gonna have a kitchen inside i don't know who you're trying to
Argyle:trick on this yeah outside kitchens are dope but like
Johnny:What if you had one outside, though?
Johnny:What if you had one outside, though?
Johnny:What if you had one outside, though?
Argyle:I feel like there are a lot
Benny:That would be pretty sick.
Benny:they have a sink outside
Anzu:Okay.
Johnny:All right.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:yeah
Benny:because like grills are whatever
Argyle:yeah it is
Benny:but if you have a sink outside
Benny:they're just like oh we gotta go inside
Argyle:it is cool but it's like
Benny:nah
Benny:yeah
Argyle:let's first buy the house
Argyle:and then we can save
Argyle:and then if we really need
Argyle:and also the backyard's right next to the kitchen
Argyle:so it's like it'll just save us like
Argyle:ten more feet of walking
Argyle:and it's like alright guys let's not
Johnny:All right.
Johnny:I'm gonna be bummed when we all come see your new house and there's no
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:how many how many is this is this 400 square feet you could fit like 1100 back here
Anzu:You know I'm getting a measuring tape and getting the depth of that pool.
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:$70,000 bluestone patio
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:you
Argyle:It's all soon.
Johnny:the first thing you do is show someone's house measure the square footage and be like
Johnny:I don't know, man. Seems like a bad use of space.
Argyle:yeah and the crazy thing about some of that too is like bluestone i think it like 37 a square foot for like generic not even high one and it like or we could spend like five
Benny:Thank you I went over to their house
Anzu:Thank you you
Johnny:So, people would know, everyone would know, the whole neighborhood would know.
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:and just get some concrete stamped we could get imitation bluestone for like a fifth the price
Argyle:it's also in the back of the house
Benny:and they have
Benny:imitation bluestone.
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Benny:People like driving by
Argyle:yeah no it's just
Benny:weird angles to try to see if...
Benny:I dropped my
Argyle:it is funny
Benny:keys. You dropped
Argyle:yeah no it's uh
Benny:your keys in my side yard?
Benny:What were you doing in my side
Benny:yard?
Argyle:but it's so funny because even the builder
Benny:...
Argyle:who's building the entire house is just like
Argyle:what are you doing Bethlehem
Argyle:you need that
Benny:you
Argyle:yeah so we'll see the um
Anzu:How often are you in communication with this guy?
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:i just wanted some i just wanted to try to do the pool first and i just like i don't need an
Argyle:entire apartment out there
Argyle:it's a so it's a spec house so most of the house is already done we basically
Anzu:Is this like a constant back and forth as he's doing stuff?
Argyle:can just ask for additional stuff um which we're not really doing that much the moon things were
Benny:you
Anzu:Yeah.
Johnny:You know what to do.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:like hey maybe how much would a pool cost things like that um but like they showed us the plans
Anzu:Yeah.
Argyle:and we're like yeah these look good and also you build houses so you know like and we saw one of
Anzu:Right.
Anzu:He should know.
Johnny:You know what to do.
Anzu:He would hope.
Argyle:his houses we're like it's a really beautiful house and like i'm sure you know how to organize
Argyle:has a kitchen better than I do.
Anzu:Hmm.
Argyle:Yeah, so we're not really making any
Benny:Thank you
Argyle:changes.
Anzu:you This man
Johnny:Thank you you
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:It was funny though because when he was showing us the spec he was mentioning something about the bathroom then he just like oh and then obviously in the primary bedroom you should have a tv area
Argyle:like a tv mount he's like unless you guys are the people that don't like tvs and we're like
Argyle:we we don't have a tv in the bedroom and he's just like if you have kids you're gonna want one it's
Argyle:gonna be your only safety it's in your room you can pretend you're not awake yet and you guys can
Johnny:you
Argyle:watch tv i was like
Argyle:for the uh yeah for the basement too our real estate agent was just like you guys should get
Anzu:This man.
Anzu:this man has seen some shit.
Johnny:That's forward thinking.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Hello?
Anzu:He's got some crazy kids.
Johnny:Hello.
Gamemaster:Hello?
Gamemaster:I can't hear it.
Argyle:like a full because by law you need the egress but they were like you should get a full like
Argyle:entrance to the basement um and the builder when we mentioned it to him was just like no
Johnny:Thank you.
Argyle:you're like what and he's like let me tell you everyone wants full stairs no one uses it then
Anzu:This guy has seen some shit.
Benny:you're going to get a crazy survey in like five years being like,
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:there's a drain down there and then if you don't clear it up in rainstorms it floods you know it's
Argyle:the only people who use the entrance teenagers sneaking in when you don't know they're there
Argyle:to drink okay don't get it we're like all right you know what you kind of sold us
Argyle:he's like make the teenagers climb through a window you know they gotta earn it i was like
Anzu:He's been through it all.
Johnny:Thank you.
Argyle:gay man no they do that they literally yeah
Anzu:you
Benny:did you like this part of the kitchen?
Gamemaster:you
Benny:Did you like this part of the bathroom?
Benny:And he's just going to crunch the numbers
Argyle:yeah they literally they literally follow up and the last house he built he was talking about how
Benny:and be like, no, no, no.
Benny:You don't want this kind of sink.
Benny:After four years, it starts spraying people in the eyes
Benny:and it causes injuries.
Benny:What the fuck?
Benny:I follow up on my houses.
Johnny:The world will never know.
Argyle:they haven't responded and it pissed him off and the designer is like yeah we tried something
Argyle:slightly different in the bedroom but we don't know if they liked it or not they're like okay
Argyle:um but yeah so other than that he's he's a good designer
Anzu:you
Benny:Why would you not
Gamemaster:you
Benny:Why would you not
Argyle:so when we saw his first house that was actually the first house we put an offer in
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:They forgot? I don't know.
Gamemaster:you
Benny:I feel like if you get a house that is from
Benny:a builder that is like a guy
Benny:at some point
Benny:you're like, we want to upsize.
Benny:Do you got a lot? Do you got some shit for us?
Benny:Because we like the first house you made us.
Argyle:uh we saw a different house from him those people were selling their house after five years because
Argyle:they bought a larger lot down the street and then they had him build the next house
Benny:...
Anzu:you
Johnny:Wow, that's a good sign.
Benny:It's like having a relationship with a tailor.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:yeah and yeah no it is and this was the only house we waived inspection on because we're like
Argyle:we're just going to waive inspection it's a beautiful house and then everyone also did so
Argyle:it didn't matter and we didn't get the house anyway but that's fine and then we brought up
Benny:Could you...
Benny:Jorge, what if they
Argyle:that house and then he's just like you liked that one and i was like that was i like the house that
Johnny:You built the house, guy! What do you mean we liked it? It was your house!
Argyle:much yeah yeah he's grown as a builder
Anzu:Right. That house is so 2020.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:House five years ago, though. He's grown as a builder since then.
Argyle:uh
Argyle:uh they also said they also said that they keep good relationships with their clients so if we
Benny:what if they let you
Benny:impose inspection on other houses?
Benny:You're like, we've waived it. They waived it too.
Benny:Can I make them have an
Benny:inspection so that mine is worth
Benny:something?
Benny:I think
Benny:Can they pay the tithe for us?
Argyle:want other clients will just let us into their house and i was like that's crazy but like
Argyle:honestly i would kind of do it if this guy was so cool and he has new clients i'm like come look
Anzu:Yeah, yeah.
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:Thank you you you
Argyle:it's beautiful
Argyle:yes
Anzu:Are you getting a gas stovetop?
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:Yeah.
Argyle:you have gas right
Anzu:I'm all about that.
Argyle:yeah yeah no gas
Anzu:Yeah.
Benny:Is this like a real passion of yours Tanner well you like you like asking like good fucking good
Anzu:Yeah.
Anzu:I don know if it a passion but it a preference
Argyle:gas the way all the way
Argyle:but yeah that'll be
Argyle:he new yorker yeah no know it so much better well because they trying to push i so i knew someone at google that his wife worked for the
Johnny:Like a guest
Anzu:Well, I'm just curious.
Argyle:gates foundation um no no the obama foundation um but she what bill gates does and this really
Benny:you
Benny:you
Argyle:pisses me off his way of offsetting his carbon for when he flies private is he takes how much
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Isn't that him getting attacked right off too?
Benny:That's amazing.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:cost that would be monetary donates it to one of his charities that he owns that goes to
Argyle:inner city people's apartments and replaces their gas stoves with electric stoves
Argyle:it's also the most
Johnny:Wait a second.
Argyle:dickhead way of doing that
Argyle:I can't think of a more
Johnny:What?
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:You
Benny:that's amazing if i'm ever if i'm ever a billionaire you guys will see a scandal in the
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:dickhead way to be like well
Benny:news that in order to power my sauna to claim electricity neutral i pay people in ski masks
Benny:to go around and cut people's power for the evening to office
Johnny:You
Benny:you're just making people's life worse yeah we just installed we just
Argyle:that is like
Benny:go into government housing. They don't have
Benny:any say. We yank out their nice gas
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:And get a tax cut off for that.
Gamemaster:you
Benny:stove. We put in some electric bullshit
Benny:and I get to fly private because of it.
Argyle:and he gets the he gets the tax write-off for moving to electric like there's in other places
Johnny:It's his charity.
Johnny:He's technically donating to the charity.
Benny:I'm
Benny:carbon neutral.
Argyle:when i found that out for the first time in my life i was literally just like
Johnny:What a dick.
Argyle:there is no ethical billionaires like not that i ever thought bill gates was one of them
Benny:if I ever a billionaire I be like actually you know what Cutting people power is kind of inefficient because it only for a night The biggest impact a person can have to lower their carbon footprint is not to exist
Argyle:but like that really was just late stage anger that I got
Anzu:Uh Okay
Johnny:What Yes Is there a problem with your life
Gamemaster:you you
Johnny:Yes.
Benny:This is why I am funding medically assisted death, medical assistance in death in Canada.
Johnny:I am happy for the life I want.
Benny:I've pumped the numbers up by 5,000 a year that sets off, that allows me to fly private twice.
Benny:Twice per year and I kill 5,000 Canadians.
Argyle:So.
Argyle:well well first of all the fastest medical service you can get access to in canada
Anzu:you
Johnny:I mean, of course, like, it's a pretty easy medical procedure.
Benny:To be fair,
Gamemaster:It's true.
Argyle:is self-assisted euthanasia
Argyle:yeah um but yep yep so the um but yeah no it's actually crazy the i also another fun statistic
Benny:to be fair,
Benny:the cheapest medical stuff
Johnny:...
Johnny:...
Benny:you can get in the US is the same thing,
Benny:except it's not medically assisted.
Johnny:...
Benny:We have a lot of guns.
Benny:...
Benny:...
Johnny:...
Johnny:...
Johnny:...
Gamemaster:faster.
Argyle:Europe has more deaths
Argyle:from heat related
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:I saw this argued at the beginning of the summer,
Argyle:because they just don't have AC
Argyle:than the US has from gun crimes
Argyle:and keep in mind most gun crime
Argyle:violence in the US is either
Argyle:suicide or gangs
Argyle:and there is like
Argyle:five times the number of deaths in Europe
Argyle:just because they don't have AC
Benny:and a lot of Euros and anti-gun people were posting effective life years removed,
Gamemaster:Ooh.
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:being like, actually, the people that die in Europe
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:are worth less because they have less years to live
Benny:and the gun crimes in the US.
Benny:So the US actually has more human years lost per year
Benny:due to guns than heat.
Benny:And I was looking at it.
Benny:I was just like, I knew this would come up
Benny:because people are going to point out
Benny:that heat kills old people.
Benny:And then I was like, wait a minute.
Benny:That's how they're trying to reform their pension system.
Benny:Because in France, if you try to move the retirement age
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:I saw a clip from someone in China that like Europeans
Benny:up a year, they start executing
Benny:fucking legislators So they just going to force AC to not be installed so they kill old people that way
Anzu:you Thank you
Johnny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:even our pigs have AC
Argyle:and it just shows like
Argyle:this shitty big bed
Argyle:but there's still like central air
Argyle:wall unit on the top
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:I'm from
Benny:They posted
Benny:surgeons in Germany
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:yeah
Benny:being like,
Benny:we're wearing like vests of like
Argyle:with ice
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:What's the cutoff to be low ranking enough that you lose AC?
Gamemaster:you
Benny:ice packs be like we got the surgery
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:I saw a place in the UK
Benny:done despite it being 100 degrees
Benny:Fahrenheit in the room and it's like how about you
Benny:fucking monsters just install a damn
Benny:AC unit in the hospital
Benny:why is the operating room 100 degrees
Argyle:they cut off AC
Argyle:in the government buildings for
Argyle:low ranking officials
Argyle:all the high ranking officials
Argyle:got the AC
Argyle:yeah
Benny:I guess you have to...
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Not having the power to yell at somebody to turn the AC back on.
Benny:Yes.
Argyle:yeah what a
Argyle:what a funny type but uh
Benny:People from London come to my office and they're like,
Benny:it's just so cold in here.
Benny:It's just so cold.
Benny:And it's like, dog, it's like 68 degrees.
Benny:It's not that bad.
Benny:It's suit AC.
Benny:And one guy that came in from London took a bunch of stacks,
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:like reams of paper and put it over the vent near him because he's like, I complained and
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Benny:I complained and I complained to the building and like the floor managers and they didn't
Benny:turn it down.
Benny:And I'm like, yeah, dude, it's suit AC.
Benny:It's so that people in suits don't get hot and so that they're cold enough when they
Benny:walk outside, they have like five minutes in 80 degrees or 90 degrees before they actually
Benny:overheat.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:What a crazy time.
Argyle:Crazy, crazy time.
Argyle:So don't make fun of my backyard if there's just some concrete papers.
Benny:Yeah, Georgia's cheaping out.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I'm sure it's getting a lot better.
Gamemaster:What?
Argyle:and the original the original design was also gonna have like the pool in the right middle of it
Anzu:you
Johnny:and he's not doing it because he doesn't want his backyard to look good
Benny:sell them on a $70,000 patio
Gamemaster:What?
Benny:and he said no.
Gamemaster:You're not doing it?
Benny:It was 1,100 square feet
Benny:and they were going to use bluefin
Benny:tuna for the material or something.
Gamemaster:Ooh.
Gamemaster:I've never seen a tuna porch before.
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:That could be good.
Argyle:and then like turf and i was like this is made for old people tall old people that can just
Argyle:stand in the pool
Anzu:you
Johnny:I think I heard of it.
Benny:Yeah, you can hear him complain about all the black rubber balls in the pool.
Gamemaster:What?
Argyle:and talk to each other.
Argyle:Man, I don't know.
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:The turf is synthetic.
Gamemaster:Turf?
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:You don't feel good touching it.
Argyle:No.
Gamemaster:Turf?
Benny:Turf, yeah.
Benny:Have you ever been on turf?
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:you mean the one in your apartment
Gamemaster:My porch outside is turf.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:you
Benny:Yeah, but...
Gamemaster:yeah
Argyle:yeah that's pretty high up you don't
Gamemaster:I
Benny:You know about the black balls.
Argyle:really have an irrigation system
Gamemaster:I don't know
Gamemaster:my irrigation system is
Gamemaster:sometimes when it rains
Gamemaster:I would not plant
Benny:You could order grass.
Benny:Put a frame on that side.
Gamemaster:like grass
Gamemaster:real turf
Gamemaster:in on my what is it
Argyle:well there's
Gamemaster:a balcony a terrace
Gamemaster:a porch whatever it's called
Gamemaster:I wouldn't do that.
Anzu:Do container gardening.
Johnny:You're welcome.
Benny:Why not?
Anzu:Plant some grass in a container so you could have some.
Gamemaster:I do have containers.
Anzu:And then you could stand in the container if you wanted to touch grass.
Gamemaster:Why?
Gamemaster:No.
Argyle:well they they sell them with a subscription model in case you want your dog to go outside
Gamemaster:No.
Argyle:on real grass i swear to god
Anzu:Oh so they come and bring like new sod every couple months or something
Gamemaster:I don you you could pick it up and put it in compost it your grass i assume they don take the grass back
Argyle:yeah I guess I think I don know the intervals but I saw someone He just threw it out
Johnny:Thank you
Benny:What do they expect you to do with the oven Do they expect you to eat it Like fucking
Benny:fill my shit with dirt
Argyle:Oh, is that...
Benny:and dog shit.
Argyle:Did you think the subscription model for grass is wasteful?
Benny:I thought they would pick it up and
Argyle:Fuck.
Benny:use it to compost or something, but it
Anzu:okay
Benny:probably is cheaper to just huck
Benny:it.
Benny:But then the compost will get too big.
Argyle:Fuck.
Argyle:That was the original plan.
Anzu:There's a chance they take the grass back.
Johnny:You know, you got a lot of lawn.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:This is the one you said no to?
Argyle:Maybe they do.
Argyle:That was the original plan.
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:Okay, so only the blue part of what Mike said was correct.
Gamemaster:Where does the tuna go?
Anzu:The rest of it is just stone instead of fin tuna.
Gamemaster:Mmm.
Gamemaster:That makes sense.
Argyle:Blue stone.
Johnny:You could cover that regular lawn in Bluestone too.
Johnny:It just makes the whole thing match.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Also.
Gamemaster:Bluestone to...
Gamemaster:Nah?
Argyle:So basically.
Argyle:We're going to push the pool over to the side.
Argyle:so we have actual yard on most of it.
Anzu:Right.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Now you can't put him on grass
Argyle:But also what's funny is
Argyle:they were really insistent on that cutoff
Argyle:for the pool chairs.
Argyle:And we're like, we really?
Anzu:Right.
Argyle:This isn't a hotel.
Anzu:Right.
Anzu:Who's lounging?
Argyle:Who are you?
Anzu:Yeah.
Argyle:And if you want them, put them on grass.
Argyle:You know what I mean?
Gamemaster:because then you might get dirt in your feet
Argyle:Like...
Gamemaster:when you walk from the pool to the chair.
Argyle:it's just crazy
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:All this will be.
Benny:also is bluestone
Gamemaster:If it's like muddy or something after it rained,
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:it needs to be on...
Argyle:it gets hot to the touch
Benny:like cold to the touch even in heat
Benny:what the fuck
Gamemaster:That sounds bad for a place that you're walking.
Benny:they make concretes that they put around
Benny:they've had that for years
Benny:like cool concrete
Benny:I was gonna make
Argyle:oh yeah yeah yeah
Argyle:but no no but don't you're gonna have concrete what are you poor
Gamemaster:It doesn't look good.
Benny:I was gonna make a joke
Argyle:no no no and you need you need space for like five lawn pool chairs
Johnny:They won't be hard.
Benny:that the bluestone would be colder
Benny:than the fucking turf
Gamemaster:you
Benny:that eating up but it not
Anzu:you you
Johnny:I didn want it to be warm
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:what the fuck's happening in this house you're gonna have five people at once
Johnny:I'm at your house, you tell us.
Argyle:yeah no we're like no i was like i'll just i don't need an ingrat or built-in grill and fire
Benny:Yeah.
Argyle:pit, I'll just buy one at Costco.
Anzu:you
Johnny:What do you mean, look thin tuna?
Benny:I like it.
Gamemaster:What?
Argyle:It's not that big of a deal.
Argyle:Yeah, so
Argyle:we're going to
Argyle:save a lot of money by just
Argyle:not spending it on their stupid plan.
Johnny:Where are you going to get it?
Argyle:Oh, and
Benny:Get a...
Argyle:the trees in this diagram
Johnny:Well, of course, yeah, they can figure out trees in the diagram.
Argyle:are all
Argyle:fake trees.
Benny:What?
Argyle:They scoped out, like, oh,
Argyle:you should get...
Argyle:Why would you want a real tree?
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Yeah, because the real trees would mess with the turf.
Gamemaster:Wait, okay, sorry, so fake tree also fake grass?
Argyle:They could grow and stuff.
Argyle:Yeah, yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:True, that is true.
Argyle:They would get in the way of your six-foot pool.
Gamemaster:That's fair.
Benny:We also think that you should put a opaque dome over your backyard and have a large spotlight,
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:because otherwise the sun might be cloudy one day
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:i also don't know what is like the fascination with the blue stone because we toured one house
Benny:or you might want to swim at nighttime.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I'm going to take a look at the list now.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:in garden city it was like pretty small but it went up four hundred thousand dollars in two years
Argyle:and then everyone's like but they added a little bit of blue stone outside
Argyle:and bailey and i were like this is four hundred thousand dollars
Benny:laughs
Argyle:of bluestone
Argyle:they like it bluestone and it was like this much bluestone I don know what grit Bluestone has
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Unless I good at Bluestone I don know
Benny:Wait, that's actually so funny.
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:We're like, we'll pass.
Benny:So when they drew up the Bluestone for you,
Benny:they're like, this stuff is really hot right now.
Benny:People like Bluestone.
Benny:You're like, listen, I understand.
Argyle:They probably think we're just like
Argyle:uncultured poor people. They're like,
Benny:Yeah.
Argyle:they can't afford $80,000
Argyle:on bluestone patios
Anzu:you
Johnny:Uncultured swine.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:it was also so funny having to explain to like our real estate agent like
Argyle:how mortgages work because she's just so used to people paying in cash we're like no you know
Argyle:he just we'd mentioned in a couple of things she'd kind of say something i'm like i don't
Argyle:really think you understand more but she's like one of the most prolific sellers in the area
Argyle:we just got her from a reference from one of our friends
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:That's crazy that she...
Benny:that is very crazy
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:yeah
Johnny:That took a second to register that she only works with people who pay cash.
Argyle:well we got her because that's my jeweler and uh i found out from her that they live in like
Johnny:Yeah.
Argyle:a 9 000 square foot house and i was like this is a very good jeweler but uh yeah so
Argyle:she um she also is telling us that uh so her license plate a real estate agent her name is
Benny:like
Benny:it's just
Benny:oh I don't know when you want to buy a house you just go and buy a house right
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Yeah, that's how that works.
Benny:like you just transfer the money to them and then you get the house
Benny:like what
Benny:you
Argyle:marianne literally says great mom like that's gr8 mom and we talked about tyler once she's like
Argyle:his mom's a horrible mom she had a 9 000 square foot house with two kitchens and she didn't cook
Benny:you
Argyle:for any of the kids she didn't raise them i was all nannies and i was like okay okay
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:no no no no no she's very nice though and so long island
Anzu:Hell yeah.
Johnny:Just
Benny:Great mom, not world's best mom.
Gamemaster:Sounds like a bad mom.
Gamemaster:Yeah, that doesn't fit on a license plate.
Gamemaster:I mean I can imagine
Argyle:i can tell this is also i think the first house she's ever worked with clients
Argyle:on the south shore south side of she's a north shore person
Argyle:which is so funny
Anzu:We're a different breed down here on the South Shore.
Argyle:and Bailey's like
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:I heard that they...
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:Hampton's
Gamemaster:like if she's normally
Gamemaster:selling it to people who buy in cash
Gamemaster:she's sticking around in like the Hamptons area.
Argyle:she lives in Syosset though
Argyle:she says Syosset has the best schools
Gamemaster:Oh, that's fun.
Argyle:so she's really trying to push us to Syosset
Argyle:funny enough
Argyle:two out of her three kids don't go to Syosset schools
Argyle:they go to private schools
Argyle:um
Gamemaster:I know many, many people who went to sci-asset schools.
Argyle:oh yeah no i know but um actually all three of her kids went to private schools but uh
Gamemaster:They're fine.
Anzu:Fingerless gloves.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:you know it's very uh she's a character and bailey thought it was so funny that she hated south
Gamemaster:fingerless
Argyle:she didn't hate him but she's like she's like oh south shore bailey's like she has the thickest
Argyle:long island accent she's literally like a gaudy italian she had fur um gloves with like a uh
Argyle:Yeah, you know the fur gloves?
Argyle:Sorry, gloves.
Argyle:What's the ones without the fingertips?
Gamemaster:in case she gets cold.
Anzu:Hey actually so am I you Oh my
Argyle:Figureless gloves.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Argyle:She had the fur ones, and we're like,
Argyle:you are the most Long Island person I have ever met.
Argyle:Aside.
Gamemaster:It makes sense she didn't like the
Gamemaster:South Shore people. They are
Gamemaster:to the one terrible people.
Argyle:I'm married to one of them, so watch your mouth.
Gamemaster:I stand by what I said.
Argyle:so but that being said tanner if i ever do have a kid i drive him north shore i can let them say that i kidding yeah yeah
Gamemaster:Laughter Thank you that true
Johnny:you Thank you
Benny:you Yeah well we haven told you about when we caught you sleepwalking those 15 times
Anzu:Oh my god!
Gamemaster:no that's fair that's the best thing you could do for him
Anzu:I'm very well adjusted, as you guys can clearly tell.
Argyle:there's
Argyle:there's an episode of 30 rock where jack donaghy and his wife like she's super pregnant and they
Gamemaster:that's
Anzu:I can't have my kid on the South Shore.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:listen i was
Argyle:were taking a little vacation to canada and then it's like oh no this baby's coming early and then
Argyle:both of them are like they will not be canadian they're like i will run across this border if i
Argyle:need to that'll be this case they will not be
Argyle:Oh!
Anzu:I think I'm going to St. Joseph's Hospital.
Gamemaster:I was born on the South Shore, I believe.
Gamemaster:And then I left and I never came back.
Anzu:I lived my first year on the North Shore.
Johnny:Southside.
Benny:upwardly mobile
Gamemaster:So.
Benny:and cartographically
Gamemaster:Literally.
Gamemaster:Literally.
Gamemaster:Oh.
Argyle:Oh!
Anzu:Because my mom is from the North Shore, but my dad is from the South Shore.
Johnny:Southside.
Argyle:Bailey's mom is from the north
Benny:that explains why you're so buttoned down
Argyle:dad's south
Benny:you know I could tell you were lying
Argyle:it makes sense that Tanner
Anzu:Mm-hmm.
Gamemaster:I take it back. I looked up where the hospital was. It's the North Shore. I didn't know where this town was.
Anzu:I was born in Plainview Hospital.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:just because of the way that you are
Benny:but I didn't want to
Gamemaster:Oh, sure. Wow.
Benny:yeah
Argyle:was born in the Noah Shore that's why I like him
Argyle:yeah that's why he's so well adjusted
Gamemaster:Yeah, that's it.
Gamemaster:Plainview?
Gamemaster:No, Plainview's North Shore.
Argyle:Oh, that sounds like South Shore.
Anzu:That's the hospital I was born in.
Argyle:There's nothing plain about the North.
Gamemaster:Plainview's North Shore.
Argyle:Oh!
Benny:you
Argyle:Oh!
Gamemaster:It's also colloquially known as Plain Jew.
Anzu:Plainview Hospital is very much...
Anzu:Plainview Hospital is very much central but did you call it What did you call Plainview
Gamemaster:Sorry.
Argyle:Okay.
Johnny:you Thank you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It considered North Shore Nothing I don know what you talking about
Anzu:Because Liz's Jewish cousins do live there.
Anzu:I can ask them if they're familiar with that term
Gamemaster:I don't know if the demographics
Gamemaster:break down to be as heavily skewed Jewish
Gamemaster:as it was like a decade ago,
Gamemaster:but plain Jew was relatively common
Gamemaster:in reference to the town.
Argyle:my uh one of the google co-workers when i was originally looking at towns just like
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Unfortunately, very funny.
Gamemaster:Sure. I'm sure they will be. I would be very surprised if they weren't.
Gamemaster:Wow.
Argyle:i lived in uh great neck don't go there it's all it's all asian people he's asian and then he was
Anzu:Thank you.
Argyle:just like put it to you this way there used to be a football team now there's a badminton team
Gamemaster:Wow.
Argyle:instead. And I was like, again?
Gamemaster:Crazy.
Argyle:And he's like so Chinese, like a thick accent
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:it sounds slow
Gamemaster:Do we
Argyle:and everything. Same with his wife.
Gamemaster:want to play some Pathfinder?
Anzu:Only if it's happening on the South Shore.
Argyle:Yes.
Anzu:Indeed.
Gamemaster:Then I guess we're going home.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:three three people on this call are currently situated geographically on long island
Gamemaster:What's next?
Johnny:I'm all three of them
Benny:And one of us is cool.
Gamemaster:That's true
Argyle:yeah i was gonna say it's really nice of you mike to compliment
Anzu:That's Noah.
Gamemaster:That's fair
Argyle:you
Johnny:I
Johnny:I
Johnny:I hopped on discord on Saturday
Johnny:I didn't mention it in the chat
Johnny:and I just saw all of you guys
Johnny:in the Secrets channel and I thought you guys were having a secret meeting I was like
Anzu:We're gaming.
Benny:we just opened foundry and started taking shots
Gamemaster:Yeah we were We were
Argyle:you I told Noah it was for Marvel rivals
Benny:at you like wait wait wait
Benny:I was joking
Johnny:I was like out and about, and I got a message, and I opened it up and clicked on this one by accident, and I was like, oh, everyone's in the Secrets channel.
Gamemaster:Doing secrets.
Gamemaster:Now,
Benny:you
Gamemaster:oh, okay.
Gamemaster:I was going to say, it was just Tanner carrying us in Marvel Rivals.
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:I did text Jorge.
Benny:Yeah, but I had an evolution the last time that we played.
Argyle:and I do
Johnny:I was like, what are you guys meeting about?
Argyle:want the record to state
Argyle:on that call I said
Argyle:we should get Noah here
Argyle:and then everyone's like I don't think Noah
Argyle:likes Marvel Rivals and I was like it doesn't seem
Argyle:like a Noah game
Gamemaster:That's, well, okay.
Argyle:yeah that's what you guys said
Gamemaster:So I don't think Noah likes Marvel Rivals is not what any of us said.
Johnny:I don't know.
Johnny:I don't know.
Johnny:I don't know.
Johnny:I don't know.
Johnny:I don't know.
Gamemaster:What we said was, would Noah enjoy this game?
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Listen, Craig doesn't generate in that chat.
Johnny:Was it you, Mike?
Benny:I will say when that was brought up,
Gamemaster:Which is a completely different statement than how you're representing it.
Benny:someone just said, fuck him.
Benny:And they didn't contribute to the rest of the conversation.
Benny:I'm not going to say who it was.
Benny:I'm not going to say what kind of person it was.
Benny:It was a bird person.
Johnny:I can't believe you would say that.
Gamemaster:That's true.
Anzu:so
Anzu:I
Argyle:Yeah.
Johnny:I don't know how Marvel Rivals work.
Benny:Well, hold on.
Gamemaster:That's why it was in the Secrets channel and not the regular one.
Gamemaster:Specifically because of that.
Anzu:that's where Jorge went
Anzu:you know I don't
Anzu:we don't have another
Anzu:discord that we share
Anzu:so this is where we ended up
Argyle:I can't...
Argyle:I will give you a heads up next time.
Argyle:You're welcome to play with us.
Argyle:I will note, we're all bad.
Argyle:Besides Tanner.
Argyle:So, it really can't get worse.
Anzu:I'm
Anzu:kind of also bad
Gamemaster:Mike is a grandmaster, he told us himself.
Argyle:We lost a lot of games.
Benny:Well, hold on.
Johnny:I'll play it.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Benny:What was it?
Benny:the three games or four games we hopped on for,
Anzu:Thank you.
Argyle:you
Johnny:you
Benny:I was starting to do work as Cyclops.
Benny:I went like 22-5.
Argyle:oh yeah yeah yeah
Anzu:We did have some good games.
Johnny:I don't know how this game works, but...
Benny:27 and 4
Gamemaster:you know
Benny:yeah once we get into Tanner's Elo
Gamemaster:that's what happened
Argyle:yeah
Benny:I'm going to get shit on so that's just
Argyle:the first time i
Gamemaster:basically as soon as you left
Johnny:Oh.
Anzu:It's kind of like Overwatch.
Argyle:it's a free game as well and the first time i played it was just tanner and i before the other
Anzu:I don't know if you ever played Overwatch or are familiar with that.
Argyle:two hopped on i have never seen players this good like like i mean four people on our six-person
Anzu:Yeah, we got dunked on.
Benny:you
Argyle:team didn't get a single
Anzu:You've got to have all those skins, all the bathing suit skins.
Johnny:It looks fun.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:It's so large.
Argyle:kill.
Argyle:I just, they were
Argyle:amazing.
Argyle:But yeah,
Argyle:yeah, so, but it calibrates,
Argyle:you know, it's calibrated.
Argyle:Yeah, it's free. It just takes a lot of,
Argyle:it takes like 100 gigs or 200 gigs.
Gamemaster:I don't understand why it's as large as it is.
Argyle:They don't compress anything.
Argyle:They don't compress a single
Gamemaster:It's crazy.
Argyle:shader.
Gamemaster:It's ridiculous.
Argyle:All this gooners
Gamemaster:I...
Gamemaster:There's a...
Argyle:games.
Anzu:I'm not sure if Devil Dinosaur has a bathing suit skin.
Johnny:For all the characters?
Benny:Yeah.
Gamemaster:There are so many bathing suit skins.
Benny:And they're pretty good too.
Argyle:It's a Chinese game.
Gamemaster:That's the...
Gamemaster:I don't know if it's for all of the characters.
Johnny:I'm looking at this game right now.
Benny:Only the hot ones.
Johnny:Does Venom get the same?
Johnny:Hmm.
Gamemaster:You...
Gamemaster:For...
Gamemaster:I, like, I would have no way of knowing how many of them have it,
Gamemaster:because you only ever see people running around with the women in the bathing suits.
Gamemaster:I've yet to see a man in a bathing suit.
Argyle:That's true.
Argyle:I saw Deadpool.
Gamemaster:I'm sure they have them.
Argyle:I saw Deadpool.
Gamemaster:Oh, Deadpool in a bathing suit.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay, there you go.
Argyle:Everyone has an ass.
Argyle:even the robot
Anzu:you
Johnny:Who made this game?
Benny:Well, then you have American games where they've removed the ass.
Gamemaster:Netties.
Argyle:they gave him an ass
Argyle:and I was like why
Argyle:a Chinese company
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:Netties.
Gamemaster:Netties.
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:I like that
Gamemaster:Fun fact.
Gamemaster:Netties is the only company that's actively developing a Destiny game right now.
Gamemaster:Which makes me sad.
Argyle:oh
Benny:And it the mobile one It the gotcha Nice
Gamemaster:It the mobile one It the mobile gotcha one yeah Pathfinder
Argyle:Pathfinder How my turn Yeah
Anzu:Tough That tough
Johnny:you yeah
Anzu:Yeah, we could play.
Anzu:Yeah.
Gamemaster:we can find some paths
Johnny:last time
Gamemaster:if we're gonna do that though
Gamemaster:then I would appreciate it if first we could have
Gamemaster:if somebody wanted to up Noah's hand
Gamemaster:up recap time
Gamemaster:sure
Johnny:on
Johnny:on Zoo and the Birds
Johnny:we
Johnny:We went into the undercroft.
Argyle:choir or the chronicle i say
Anzu:What the heck?
Benny:Duncan Sasquatch
Gamemaster:I'm doing that
Gamemaster:like
Gamemaster:I went to update the strider map
Gamemaster:with your alliance and I need to come up with a name
Gamemaster:for it I'm calling it Anzu and the birds
Gamemaster:if you guys don't give me a different name
Benny:The Heartbreakers
Argyle:can't do the heartbreakers
Johnny:I also like the heartbreakers.
Benny:The Tube Farters
Gamemaster:Yeah, it's been updated.
Argyle:that's too hostile
Johnny:Oh, that was cool.
Argyle:All right, Mike, how about we be productive?
Anzu:Oh, Josh, you've updated this.
Benny:that cog heartbreakers
Argyle:Choir?
Benny:there's an update
Anzu:That was so fun to watch.
Gamemaster:This was my excuse...
Anzu:There was a whole...
Anzu:There was like a...
Gamemaster:Whoops, sorry.
Anzu:Oh, Noah just saw it.
Gamemaster:Yeah, that was the tithe.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Sorry.
Johnny:I did just oh, man, the colors are changing.
Johnny:Team TBD!
Argyle:All right.
Anzu:You could just call it Team Anzu for now, Josh, and then we could change it in the future.
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:That sucks.
Gamemaster:I will...
Gamemaster:Okay, I will make a note to change it to T-Manzu.
Johnny:Team Anzu went to the Undercroft.
Johnny:We pretty immediately met Maranthorn,
Johnny:who was very happy with his job
Johnny:and was definitely there of his own free will
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:and not because of debt.
Johnny:We tried to negotiate with him for money,
Johnny:and he was like, that's useless.
Johnny:So instead, we paid him in sandwiches.
Johnny:which won get him killed I totally sure it be fine He was like yeah there some weird guys who hang out further down If you looking for weird stuff they probably have it
Argyle:Hm Thank you
Anzu:you you
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:ridiculous
Johnny:And we went, great.
Johnny:We walked down a little bit.
Johnny:Found the weird guys.
Johnny:Tried to jump the weird guys.
Johnny:It didn't work.
Johnny:But then we did get into combat.
Johnny:Argyle called down the divine light of the host.
Johnny:And obliterated them.
Johnny:really turned the tide in one turn.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you guys
Johnny:Turned it so fast, in fact,
Johnny:that after we looted them, we went,
Johnny:we can probably keep going, actually.
Johnny:So we all climbed a rope,
Johnny:which is something we all can do
Johnny:as level 7 characters.
Johnny:And then we're like,
Johnny:let's go down this...
Johnny:Oh, also very important note,
Johnny:one of the characters that we...
Johnny:one of the guys that we killed,
Johnny:one of the weirdos,
Johnny:had a little horn,
Johnny:which is definitely a symbol
Johnny:of one of the Sinister Six.
Johnny:Probably Doc Ock.
Gamemaster:you guys have like seen
Johnny:Herald.
Gamemaster:that symbol before. Like, as
Argyle:for the Sinister Six.
Anzu:One of the Sinister Six.
Benny:Herald.
Gamemaster:your characters.
Gamemaster:Just to clarify.
Argyle:Which one is that?
Gamemaster:For the Sinister Six.
Johnny:Herald.
Argyle:Herald.
Argyle:Herald!
Johnny:Also known as Scorpion.
Gamemaster:Do-do-do!
Johnny:We, yep.
Argyle:In the Sinister Six.
Gamemaster:Oh, right.
Gamemaster:Of course. Spider-Man.
Gamemaster:Sorry, continue.
Johnny:We, it's just Sinister Six.
Johnny:We are the Spider-Men.
Johnny:We are into the Spider-Verse.
Gamemaster:Yeah, sure.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Ooh, I'll be Toby.
Benny:Weird scrabbling in the walls.
Gamemaster:You found...
Johnny:We went down the hall.
Johnny:We were like, what's down this hall?
Johnny:Bugs.
Johnny:There's a lot of bugs.
Johnny:There's some spider webs or something similar.
Johnny:And that's where we left off, going down the hall.
Anzu:And we did get the ribbon that we were looking for.
Johnny:Oh, yes, we did find the ribbon and a couple other smaller things that were not the ribbon.
Gamemaster:Correct You found the ink ribbon you found a spicy and gritty potion that lets you grow some extra fingers you found a strange key with a skeleton emblazoned on it And you found one more thing that I trying to
Johnny:you
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you Oh there were the papers
Johnny:Great.
Benny:you uh the folded parchment yeah
Gamemaster:remember and I can't. Mike knows what it is. Oh right, the pamphlets! The
Anzu:The pamphlets.
Gamemaster:Perfection. The Perfection's first step.
Anzu:Does anyone have the potions written down?
Anzu:Because personally, I don't.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Did they make their way into the...
Johnny:Hello.
Benny:uh
Gamemaster:Yes.
Anzu:Did I even identify those?
Anzu:I don't...
Benny:mongrel folk tincture
Gamemaster:That's what it is, and you did identify it.
Anzu:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Because I remember explicitly telling you guys that they were gritty and spicy, which
Gamemaster:you only got on the identify check.
Anzu:Are they useful to us at all?
Anzu:I don't even...
Anzu:I didn't write anything down related to those.
Argyle:you
Johnny:The one that gives you extra fingers might be useful once you climb.
Benny:Yeah, it gives you a dex bonus too.
Gamemaster:But yeah, no, that's all correct.
Anzu:Oh, right.
Anzu:You get it climbing.
Anzu:Yeah, yeah.
Anzu:Okay.
Anzu:That's right.
Johnny:Climb stuff.
Anzu:All right.
Anzu:Somebody write that down.
Gamemaster:we will
Anzu:We need spider music, Josh.
Gamemaster:give Noah the mythic point there
Argyle:Thank you.
Johnny:Oh,
Benny:What if the bugs like this?
Gamemaster:and pick up today's
Gamemaster:session I need something less
Gamemaster:upbeat than this because you guys are in
Gamemaster:bug land
Gamemaster:and this is too happy for
Johnny:sit down.
Gamemaster:bug land
Gamemaster:but I don't
Gamemaster:let's see
Gamemaster:is this
Gamemaster:nope
Gamemaster:This isn't spider music. Is this spider music?
Anzu:No.
Argyle:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:it's pretty close
Anzu:Maybe something kind of like creepy and...
Benny:spiders would like that one
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:I don't...
Gamemaster:The sounds that I'm using, the game is never creepy at any point.
Gamemaster:And I only have one, like, game's worth of sounds set up in my sound player right now.
Gamemaster:So I'm trying to find the most creepy of a not-creepy game.
Gamemaster:See, like, this isn't creepy.
Gamemaster:You don't feel creeped out.
Gamemaster:Okay, we'll do this.
Gamemaster:You guys are...
Gamemaster:worming your way.
Gamemaster:that's probably the wrong term here
Argyle:you
Anzu:No, no, that's, that's.
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:through
Gamemaster:the hallway one of the branches
Gamemaster:off of the path that you saw
Gamemaster:all of those saw
Gamemaster:and fought those
Gamemaster:strange mongrel folk
Gamemaster:speaking a language that is close
Gamemaster:to but not quite something
Gamemaster:that Anzu the nerd of the group
Gamemaster:understands
Gamemaster:as you
Gamemaster:don't make that face
Gamemaster:it's objectively true
Gamemaster:as you pushed through this hallway you saw that the uh the sides of the hallway as well as the
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:ceiling and the roof in some places had these scrawlings on them uh in in like reddish and
Gamemaster:brownish uh paints by the looks of it uh and as you proceeded further in uh you started to see
Gamemaster:places where it appeared to be webbing that had been strewn across parts of the wall, the ceiling.
Gamemaster:You had done your best, and you guys had, as a group collectively, rolled very well,
Argyle:Thank you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you Thank you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:evening out some poor rolls with some really good rolls. And so you did a pretty good job
Gamemaster:navigating forward without touching any of those webs, because that seems like that
Gamemaster:might be cause for concern.
Gamemaster:We had just finished with a perception roll
Gamemaster:where you detected the sounds of skittering on the other side of the wall that you currently in The sounds of many small legs moving across the interior sorry the exterior of the surface that you pass through
Anzu:you you
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:It is dark.
Gamemaster:Just to clarify, are we using flashlights,
Gamemaster:or is it the blind being led by the slightly less blind?
Gamemaster:Also, what is the marching order?
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:Yeah, I would use the light.
Johnny:bugs, they probably have like a tremor sense. So the light might not, it might be fine to
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:use light. Yeah, I will be next to Anzu in the back.
Gamemaster:you
Gamemaster:you
Anzu:Um, I'm not in the front, but I'm happy to be anywhere else.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:So just me and Benny.
Argyle:Hopefully no one jumps us.
Argyle:jump to you guys I should say
Anzu:We're still close.
Johnny:Yeah, we're all, we're all bunched up.
Benny:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Benny:You'd think so.
Johnny:Oh.
Johnny:Thank you.
Anzu:Keeping it tight.
Benny:I mean, we'll try.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:The hallway that you're walking through at this point
Gamemaster:isn't quite wide enough for you to go, like, side by side.
Gamemaster:It's, like, maybe seven-ish feet across.
Gamemaster:So if you're trying to do your best to avoid the spider webs and stuff,
Gamemaster:you need to keep single file.
Gamemaster:but you can bunch up a little bit
Argyle:I guess our guy, the healer, can go in the front.
Gamemaster:you know just for safety
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:I think
Gamemaster:um
Gamemaster:so you do have a flashlight
Gamemaster:out uh as you're
Gamemaster:walking up okay absolutely
Johnny:Thank you you I also will go to the back
Gamemaster:um so then who is
Gamemaster:who is in front
Gamemaster:was it
Gamemaster:okay absolutely
Argyle:Oh, I could go wrong, right?
Gamemaster:um
Benny:Benny and Argyle have the same
Benny:perception
Gamemaster:Why do you have a plus 16
Argyle:I don know if that true I have plus 16 well it a plus 15 plus my item
Anzu:Thank you I go in the back
Benny:Oh never mind You beat me my two go ahead Mr Healer that what I said
Gamemaster:Oh.
Gamemaster:He's cheating.
Gamemaster:He's using an item.
Gamemaster:That's illegal.
Johnny:Ooh, what a nerd, using items.
Gamemaster:Um.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:So, uh.
Gamemaster:healer in front uh uh navigating forward there is
Argyle:I like the way you said that.
Anzu:you
Johnny:All right.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:no because you're both medium-sized creatures
Argyle:If Benny goes in front, can I see over him?
Argyle:Because he's so short.
Argyle:I know.
Argyle:I get it.
Gamemaster:like we are playing a game you can't just if if he were small then yes uh so if if benny were
Argyle:I get it.
Johnny:All right.
Argyle:That was a...
Argyle:I understand.
Argyle:No, I get it.
Argyle:I get it.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:I get it.
Argyle:I get it.
Gamemaster:a six-year-old, then this would be fine. Um, but then there would be other problems. Uh,
Argyle:Yeah, no, no.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:as you, uh, as you proceed forward, the, uh, you're starting to hit these points. You had
Gamemaster:seen it a little bit as you were navigating forward that the, uh, the hallway itself is,
Gamemaster:is marginally warped in places. Um, you had seen this earlier as you first entered the area. It's
Gamemaster:starting to get worse as you proceed forward. It's as... your finger is up.
Argyle:Mike has to detect magic
Argyle:and just see if these webs are magic.
Gamemaster:Okay, the webs are not magic. The only magic is magic that you're already aware of.
Argyle:Or anything around me.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:The distortion of the hallway is starting to get worse as you get in. It is ostensibly,
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:it had been a straight hallway
Gamemaster:moving through some part
Gamemaster:of the Strider.
Gamemaster:You are so far removed,
Gamemaster:I think. Actually, you know what?
Gamemaster:That's unfair.
Gamemaster:I'll take a survival check from anyone who wants
Gamemaster:to make it to know if you can place yourself somewhere within the body of the Strider relative to like where you entered from sure
Argyle:Yeah Yeah Thence direction I assume Oh Yeah If you add ours together we get 20 natural on the dice
Anzu:you Thank you
Johnny:I will survive I have survived I got a 30
Benny:you Did that work
Argyle:Just putting that out there.
Gamemaster:um
Johnny:Okay.
Gamemaster:Argyle knows
Gamemaster:that you are
Gamemaster:um
Gamemaster:below
Gamemaster:the surface
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:laughter
Benny:you
Gamemaster:of the strider
Gamemaster:uh
Gamemaster:confirmed
Gamemaster:um
Johnny:laughter
Johnny:laughter
Gamemaster:um
Gamemaster:With a 30, a 30 is a pretty good roll.
Gamemaster:So you had, you know from the map of the surface of the Strider, you know that your base is kind of like 8 o'clock-ish on the clock from the center.
Gamemaster:You had descended down there, you had made your way slightly more towards the edge, and then started to follow it clockwise, effectively, until you got to the hallway that starts to head in towards the center of the Strider.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:So at this point, you would guess you're probably below Hildebrandt's slice, about halfway towards the center of the Strider.
Gamemaster:You guys have been down here for a little bit of time.
Gamemaster:You've been walking for, like, all told, cumulatively, about an hour.
Argyle:What are the floors of the Strider made of?
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:You have not made it very far.
Gamemaster:You know that that wouldn't be the case if you were on the surface.
Gamemaster:It's just the pipes down here, the places for people to move,
Gamemaster:are almost labyrinthine in nature, which makes it much harder to navigate.
Gamemaster:Yes, Jorge, your hand was up for a split second.
Argyle:Like steel?
Gamemaster:They're made of metal.
Gamemaster:You're welcome to do some kind of...
Gamemaster:Are you trying to figure out the metallurgy of what the Strider's made out of?
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Argyle:No, I was just noting, if we got to attack another faction,
Anzu:Just put metal on the floor.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:go down and then go up.
Argyle:maybe we should just go down a level and then blow up.
Gamemaster:You know for a fact the undercroft is below every single one of the slices.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:It's also worth a note for us.
Argyle:I don't know what to do with that.
Anzu:Perfect. We're good.
Gamemaster:The floor is already made out of metal.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Great.
Gamemaster:um but you are starting to almost because of the way that this this part of the uh the strider has
Argyle:you
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:been malformed you're almost starting to like lean rightward as the whole way kind of just
Gamemaster:twists rightward um i would i would also note like at this point you guys without any role
Gamemaster:necessary are uh positive that this is not a new construction as was originally sold to you
Gamemaster:there's just no way to get to the state
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:that the Strider is in
Gamemaster:that you have seen it in in the Undercroft
Gamemaster:if it were built within the past six months
Gamemaster:that said
Gamemaster:as you move forward
Gamemaster:can I get a perception check from Argyle
Gamemaster:since he's in front
Gamemaster:this is using your sight
Gamemaster:it is also using your hearing
Gamemaster:I don't know what you get bonuses for
Gamemaster:so
Argyle:I get it from my set.
Gamemaster:okay
Gamemaster:33
Argyle:Obsidian Googles.
Argyle:Thirty-three.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you Thank you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:okay
Gamemaster:um
Gamemaster:with the 33
Gamemaster:your sight
Gamemaster:uh not much to go off here
Gamemaster:you're still in this weird twisting hallway thing
Gamemaster:but you can see what you feel like
Gamemaster:it's not really light
Gamemaster:there isn't a source of light further down
Gamemaster:from beyond where you are
Gamemaster:but it more that you can see this glinting as if something is moving and it catching the light of the flashlight behind you It got this kind of metal quality to it
Argyle:Oh Oh
Anzu:you you
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:And as you see it, you hear with that roll,
Gamemaster:the sound of the Strider's machinery moving is omnipresent
Gamemaster:as you walk around in the Undercroft,
Gamemaster:but different parts of it have different bits
Gamemaster:machinery making sound,
Gamemaster:there is in front of you definitely
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:plus 14
Gamemaster:an active piece
Gamemaster:of something
Gamemaster:big and heavy moving.
Gamemaster:You can't, like, I don't think Argyle
Gamemaster:is
Gamemaster:knowledgeable enough about
Gamemaster:the inner workings of the Strider
Gamemaster:to be able to identify what the thing is,
Gamemaster:but it's definitely some kind of machinery
Gamemaster:is moving about in front.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:Benny, what's your perception?
Argyle:can you see in the dark
Gamemaster:So no.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:I can see in the low light.
Argyle:so no
Argyle:I
Argyle:how do you feel about temporarily having my
Argyle:my obsidian goggles
Argyle:but you have to go in front
Argyle:alright I gave the goggles
Benny:Sure.
Argyle:get the little gold miner
Argyle:and ready
Argyle:and then he can go with his axes
Argyle:So you get a plus one on perception checks for sight.
Benny:Do I get a hard hat too?
Benny:I yearn
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:We paint Benny up yellow like a canary.
Benny:Benny will say I yearn
Benny:and then we'll turn and start marching
Benny:nice
Anzu:you
Anzu:you
Argyle:And then once a day, you can activate for one action
Argyle:and then get dark vision for an hour.
Benny:I activate
Benny:should I activate or
Benny:we have a flashlight
Argyle:We're probably not going to be here.
Benny:okay
Argyle:We have a flashlight on, but.
Johnny:Yeah.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you do activate You don activate Okay
Benny:just in case I don activate I keep it in case yeah it one action activate perfect
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Just.
Argyle:Yeah That way at least two of us have dark vision yeah
Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely.
Gamemaster:Benny the Miner the Miner
Gamemaster:goes in front.
Argyle:the miner
Argyle:minor Benny with the pickaxe
Argyle:goes to the front
Gamemaster:He's a Miner Miner.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:I imagine while you're having this kerfuffle,
Argyle:Hmm.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you're being a bit careful as you swap positions
Gamemaster:not to touch any of the webs and stuff around you.
Gamemaster:You are still, at this point, about 100 feet out
Gamemaster:from whatever that machinery in the distance is.
Gamemaster:You can hear the sounds at this point.
Gamemaster:You're close enough.
Gamemaster:It's both heavy machinery moving in a regular motion
Gamemaster:as well as what sounds like some kind of gas or fluid
Gamemaster:moving in regular pace with the sound of the machinery.
Argyle:I should have brought anti-construct spells.
Anzu:Josh, can I...
Johnny:you
Benny:Could be anything.
Argyle:I don't have any, but I should have.
Anzu:I don't know if this really does anything,
Anzu:but can I make a crafting check
Anzu:to try to discern
Anzu:if this sounds like something
Anzu:that should be happening or not?
Gamemaster:Yeah, you could make a crafting check.
Argyle:I don't know.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you take some archetype that's like compass
Gamemaster:What is this?
Gamemaster:Sorry, I just seen the modifier on Jorge's survival check.
Gamemaster:Why do you have this no-compass-minus-two circumstance penalty to your survival check?
Gamemaster:Thank you Oh
Benny:neater and it's just like
Benny:you gain a plus one bonus to survival checks unless you don have a compass then it minus two
Argyle:yeah i don i don know it an item i don know i i click sensor oh
Anzu:That crazy Is that part of sense direction
Johnny:Thank you Councillor Hansel races
Anzu:Without a compass, you take a minus two item penalty to sense direction.
Gamemaster:Oh.
Gamemaster:That is true.
Gamemaster:So, honestly, there should have been minus twos to all of the survival checks that we've made so far,
Benny:Sure.
Gamemaster:and Jorge is just the only one with it properly being used.
Johnny:Oh.
Johnny:Which was really up to 15.
Argyle:you
Anzu:So we got a 15.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Also, that's silly, and we're just not gonna do that.
Gamemaster:We're going to assume that you guys have a compass on you.
Anzu:15.
Gamemaster:So he got a 15.
Johnny:Great.
Gamemaster:Good to know.
Gamemaster:Sorry, what did you give for your crafting?
Gamemaster:28.
Gamemaster:Um, the sound is regular.
Gamemaster:You don't hear anything that would indicate...
Gamemaster:Like you're still working off of having not seen the thing, you're only just hearing it.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Yeah.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:Yeah.
Gamemaster:It sounds regular, you don't hear any like weird clanking, you don't hear any the sound
Gamemaster:of metal grinding on metal.
Gamemaster:As best you can tell, it appears to be operating as it's meant to.
Gamemaster:To that end, unclear.
Anzu:Yeah.
Gamemaster:You don't know what it's meant to do, but it doesn't appear to be broken or anything
Gamemaster:of that nature.
Johnny:I can eat fire.
Anzu:It could just be part of the strider, guys.
Anzu:I mean, you know, these, it's got massive legs that move, so it's got to have a lot of moving parts.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:Do any of you guys have fire spells prepared?
Benny:Huh?
Johnny:Is that what you're looking for?
Anzu:Yeah, me too.
Anzu:They don't really do that on the occult spell list.
Argyle:Okay, maybe I should start preparing it.
Anzu:Not really a lot of fire.
Johnny:Yeah, we're not really the bang-bang sort of spellcasters.
Argyle:This is the closest I got.
Johnny:like bang bang spell casters or more like that kind of ooga booga spell casters
Argyle:Does this do fire?
Argyle:Oh, this does fire.
Anzu:Thank you.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:you
Benny:you
Argyle:Should I start in the future?
Argyle:OK, so I luckily prepared that.
Argyle:Do these shake?
Argyle:in general keep like elemental magic prepared for counters probably not worth it unless we now right
Anzu:I have one cantrip that I can amp that does cold damage.
Johnny:Hello.
Benny:How many spell slots do you have?
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:good so i will not prep gold
Anzu:Besides that...
Anzu:How many...
Benny:Jorge?
Anzu:Oh, Jorge.
Argyle:me uh three first three second three third two fourths yeah
Benny:Yeah.
Benny:Your full caster?
Argyle:Okay. Well, I'm not going to keep cold.
Benny:Yeah, I would keep a variety.
Argyle:First of all, they don't really make cold for clerics.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I got like two or three spells that do damage.
Benny:I'll keep elemental damage in mind
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:It's not really the style, unless you're undead.
Argyle:I'll be the warm and light guy.
Argyle:You guys keep...
Argyle:It's more you keep the cold and...
Johnny:So...
Johnny:My biggest spell that does damage is
Benny:next time I do something with my weapon.
Benny:Can my weapon get a thing?
Benny:I do spirit.
Argyle:Well, continue.
Johnny:pushing Benny forward and yelling,
Johnny:go get him.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:And it does a lot of damage.
Gamemaster:It does do a lot of damage, that's true.
Argyle:Continue.
Gamemaster:Okay, so you move forward.
Gamemaster:As you continue forward, there is actually...
Gamemaster:Yay!
Gamemaster:One second.
Gamemaster:What's... Benny's in front?
Benny:Mm-hmm.
Gamemaster:Is passive perception a thing in this game?
Argyle:I got
Gamemaster:It isn't.
Gamemaster:what did you roll for your perception Benny before
Anzu:Oh, Josh, do a secret roll.
Johnny:Oh,
Benny:Yeah, keep in mind, Benny sees everything.
Gamemaster:oh you didn't because Argyle did it
Gamemaster:Benny's in front Benny has to roll perception
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:oh that's fun
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:yeah
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:I'll do a secret roll
Argyle:my Benny has goggles
Argyle:they give him a plus one
Argyle:to his perception
Argyle:Thank you look what you did tanner we gonna tpk now
Benny:if somebody if he got a consola crying woman
Gamemaster:okay
Gamemaster:when do I turn on this emotionally
Johnny:you you Oh no
Gamemaster:unaware toggle mic for Benny Can you roll a perception check for me
Anzu:you Oh boy
Gamemaster:and then just send it to
Gamemaster:private GM roll?
Anzu:I thought it might be fun to use some of the other mechanics of the game.
Argyle:we're gonna all
Johnny:Oh, no.
Johnny:The other material...
Argyle:betty's gonna stop talking we're gonna go let's step forward
Gamemaster:...
Benny:uh
Argyle:and then all fall down
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Oh, well, so I can't see it.
Benny:Wait, am I supposed to see this?
Gamemaster:Can you see it?
Benny:Yeah.
Gamemaster:What number did you get?
Benny:27?
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Why does it say GM only, then?
Benny:I don't...
Benny:GM only.
Benny:Okay.
Gamemaster:That's crazy.
Argyle:Yeah, I can't see it.
Johnny:So maybe just you wouldn't.
Benny:Is Benny the GM now?
Gamemaster:Oh.
Gamemaster:Okay, so I guess...
Gamemaster:Let me see something.
Argyle:Yeah, it lets me see the private ones, which is goofy.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:We'll do it blind
Gamemaster:if I roll
Gamemaster:what happens if you do blind GM
Gamemaster:roll
Gamemaster:that's what it is
Argyle:I can't see that.
Argyle:That's the blind one.
Gamemaster:you did very well
Gamemaster:that time
Benny:Fuck it, we'll do it blind
Benny:That time I got a
Argyle:can you see my uh latest role
Benny:22
Benny:No, I'm joking, I can't see it
Gamemaster:you got a 22
Gamemaster:okay
Gamemaster:wait
Anzu:A self-roll.
Johnny:What is a selfie?
Benny:Maybe.
Gamemaster:Jorge how did you do that I can't see
Argyle:i don't know the use case
Gamemaster:what Jorge just rolled
Gamemaster:I'm the GM I should be able
Anzu:Wow.
Gamemaster:to see it
Johnny:Wait, wait, wait.
Argyle:I guess it's if you're role playing
Johnny:Oh, I can see.
Johnny:Okay, that's fun.
Argyle:and I want to be like do I like this guy
Argyle:I don't know
Gamemaster:wait
Gamemaster:one second
Gamemaster:I can tell what you rolled
Argyle:I don't know
Johnny:Why did I just take two damage?
Gamemaster:Johnny
Gamemaster:because I can take whatever number you rolled and apply it as damage to a token I can see the number but I can apply it as damage
Argyle:I deleted it
Anzu:What have you done Boo
Johnny:Thank you Howard
Benny:Wait wait do that with Jorge do that with Jorge do that with Jorge
Benny:oh
Gamemaster:Jorge deleted his.
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:do my wait do my secret roll
Gamemaster:Now we'll never know.
Argyle:my hidden roll yeah
Johnny:Howard
Argyle:my blind roll
Gamemaster:Yeah, sure.
Argyle:aha
Gamemaster:Sure.
Gamemaster:I can't.
Argyle:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It's literally not an option.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:That's so strange.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Either way.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:As you, the four of you in your line,
Gamemaster:continue moving towards the machinery,
Gamemaster:you get closer, like within ten-ish feet of the entrance here,
Gamemaster:that you can actually make out with the flashlight
Gamemaster:what the sound, excuse me, is.
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:It is, by the looks of it,
Gamemaster:an array of what looks to be eight pistons arranged crisscross like this, actively moving
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:back and forth into ports in the ceiling, by the looks of it, of this particular room.
Gamemaster:They're still being powered. They're still in motion. The sound of gas is them seemingly
Gamemaster:compressing something, some kind of gas, in the interior chambers that the pistons are moving.
Gamemaster:The room itself is about 50 feet across.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It is 100 feet wide.
Gamemaster:That is enough room for a little balcony that you're on.
Gamemaster:The eight pistons and then what looks to be another balcony twisted at an odd angle,
Gamemaster:as well as another door that extends out past this room.
Gamemaster:Above you, the ceiling of this room, besides the cavities that the pistons are pushing into,
Gamemaster:is just a curved roof.
Gamemaster:The walls and the roof are covered in webs,
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:leading along the sides of it up towards passing through the whole top Unfortunately you don get to see what below the little balcony you on because Benny in front
Argyle:Hit you to grab.
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you Thank you
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:and Benny's foot just full-on pushes right through where there should have been floor,
Gamemaster:but it appears the hallway had been disconnected slightly from the balcony itself,
Gamemaster:and he starts to just plummet down through the hole.
Gamemaster:Benny, I need a check from Benny first to see if he can catch a ledge.
Argyle:Chewbacca doesn't have grub gloves.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Oh, no.
Benny:I do have grab gloves.
Gamemaster:Sorry, not catch a ledge.
Argyle:Unless you do.
Argyle:Do you have grub gloves?
Gamemaster:Grab an edge.
Gamemaster:It's completely different than what I said.
Argyle:Oh, yeah, yeah.
Benny:Um.
Gamemaster:And for the record, just so everybody can see the result of the secret check.
Benny:Oh, nice.
Johnny:Oh, no.
Johnny:We get a hero point.
Benny:Oh, perfect.
Gamemaster:You do get a hero point.
Argyle:I don't want to unveil what you got
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:...
Gamemaster:Wow.
Johnny:Oh!
Argyle:but you get a hero point
Benny:...
Argyle:they give it and they take it
Gamemaster:The...
Argyle:they take it and they give it
Gamemaster:Yeah, the crit makes up for it.
Johnny:...
Gamemaster:You grab the edge.
Gamemaster:Whether or not you have a hand free,
Benny:...
Johnny:...
Gamemaster:you take damage from the distance
Johnny:...
Gamemaster:fallen so far,
Gamemaster:but you treat it as if it were 30 feet shorter.
Benny:...
Gamemaster:So Benny fell, for damage purposes,
Johnny:...
Gamemaster:negative 30 feet.
Johnny:...
Benny:...
Gamemaster:Um...
Benny:...
Gamemaster:so the three of you walking see benny just drop uh but he manages to catch himself like arms on
Benny:...
Benny:...
Benny:But he gets spooked like a cat.
Argyle:after that.
Johnny:...
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:it
Benny:If you spook a cat, it's just fucking
Benny:shut up. Oh, the floor!
Benny:The floor went out a little bit.
Argyle:THAT'S ANOTHER Creature.
Argyle:ihm.
Gamemaster:the side of the uh the floor in front of him and so he luckily does not plunge down into the depths
Gamemaster:below, and he can scrabble to get himself back up into the interior. And you can all
Benny:...
Benny:you
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:see now that there is a bit where there's no floor between the hallway that you're in
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Argyle:How far is the other room?
Anzu:You did what in your room?
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Shut the fuck up
Gamemaster:and the piston room that you're outside of.
Benny:Yeah
Gamemaster:I'm gonna have to call it something,
Gamemaster:and like, that's what it's called.
Anzu:I was just making a chorus reference.
Gamemaster:God damn it.
Anzu:I didn't mean to ruin the room.
Benny:It's a cars reference
Anzu:Okay.
Gamemaster:Oh, is that what that is, that's a Cars reference?
Benny:Yeah
Benny:He won three piston cups
Gamemaster:Okay, great.
Benny:He did one this cup
Argyle:We just have to go down five feet, but we'd have to go through webs.
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:So, sorry, how far is the room from where Benny fell?
Gamemaster:Like, five feet.
Gamemaster:Like, he fell, it's, the threshold where this hallway connected to the room with the piston in it is what disconnected.
Gamemaster:So him falling is on the threshold.
Anzu:Well, there's just a gap that he happened to step in.
Gamemaster:No, you just have to, there's just a, you just have to walk over it.
Gamemaster:like hallway
Gamemaster:room nothing in the middle
Benny:Okay.
Argyle:Can I do a look-see up to make sure we're not getting
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:he happened to fall through
Gamemaster:uh
Gamemaster:yeah absolutely
Argyle:stalked by something now that we've touched webs?
Gamemaster:roll a perception check
Gamemaster:god i can't remember what it's called what's the name for um the thing
Argyle:Not adding my goggles.
Argyle:27.
Anzu:you
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah.
Benny:An axis, an axle.
Argyle:A lever.
Johnny:Thank you you you
Gamemaster:that rotates, that's like a long stick that transfers mechanical energy from one part of
Gamemaster:the system to another. No. It, it's not an axle. I want to call it like a link mint or something,
Argyle:A seesaw.
Benny:An axle.
Gamemaster:but that not what it called I don know Axle fine Axle close enough Uh looking around just to see if you currently being stalked means that you actually do get to see first off in the hallway itself it doesn look like anybody following you or anything like that
Anzu:you
Anzu:you
Benny:you you
Argyle:you you
Gamemaster:You don't see anybody directly in front of you in the piston room either.
Gamemaster:You do take a quick look-see down the gap that Benny fell through,
Gamemaster:and you can see that the thing that the hallway has been winding through,
Gamemaster:the majority of the body of the interior of the Strider is linkages.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:They're called linkages.
Gamemaster:Are these massive linkages that are hooked up to cogs and cams and gears
Gamemaster:spread throughout the interior of the Strider.
Gamemaster:All of the machinery required to keep this thing moving for years and years and years
Gamemaster:that are exposed.
Gamemaster:now that the bit that the people is made for walking through is kind of disconnected a little
Argyle:Moving.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:bit. Some of these linkages are not moving because they have been gummed up by webbing,
Gamemaster:but a lot of them are still pushing through as they're supposed to. With that roll looking around,
Gamemaster:it doesn't look like there was anything directly around to see Benny like fall through the floor
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:and give away your position that way.
Gamemaster:But, like, you've definitely hit the webbing.
Argyle:They might have felt it.
Anzu:And.
Johnny:Yeah, I mean, this seems bad, but over here.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:Oh.
Gamemaster:They might have felt it somewhere.
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:.
Argyle:All right.
Argyle:Should we go forward?
Anzu:.
Anzu:.
Anzu:.
Anzu:.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Should we start burning webbing down?
Anzu:.
Anzu:.
Johnny:I'm worried that's going to call the bugs to us faster.
Anzu:.
Anzu:.
Gamemaster:okay um I did mention that you entered a thing
Anzu:.
Argyle:I'd be fine with that,
Johnny:Oh yeah I think I let do it on the way out Mm fighter fame
Argyle:but my main worry is that it might fill up with too much smoke.
Anzu:.
Argyle:I don't know if this webbing is smoky.
Anzu:.
Anzu:.
Argyle:She was just on her way out
Anzu:Yeah we definitely don want to suffocate That would be bad Josh did you mention last time that we entered a feign
Benny:Mm Mm
Anzu:And we're still within that.
Gamemaster:You haven't felt yourself leave?
Anzu:Right.
Anzu:Fascinating.
Johnny:
Argyle:Yeah, it's not great, guys.
Gamemaster:Spider-Man.
Gamemaster:Spider-Man.
Argyle:Two things.
Argyle:One, faints.
Argyle:every time you pull the heart out it collapses so i don't know what that's going to be like if
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Yeah, I'm looking out for a heart.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay, you can step over the threshold as you like.
Argyle:we kill the heart second i wonder if it's a void heart three let's go on
Gamemaster:You are now within this piston room.
Gamemaster:You can see down below the...
Gamemaster:This takes up what would be the equivalent of multiple floors.
Gamemaster:You just happen to be near the top of it.
Gamemaster:You would guess that it is from where you are 12 all the way down to either 14 or 15.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Just looking at it, it's this large cylindrical chamber that you're near the top of.
Gamemaster:The pistons themselves are moving quite quickly,
Gamemaster:in that it would be rather painful if one were to make contact with you.
Gamemaster:that said
Gamemaster:you are, from where you are
Gamemaster:you have about a 5 foot
Gamemaster:wide ledge near the
Gamemaster:top of this area seemingly for
Argyle:them
Gamemaster:some kind of maintenance at some
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:point in its lifetime
Gamemaster:then there's about
Gamemaster:5 feet separation off of this
Gamemaster:ledge before you get to the first piston
Gamemaster:each piston
Gamemaster:is about 10 feet long
Gamemaster:and then
Gamemaster:like, it just goes that way for the full 80 feet of the eight pistons. And then there is that ledge on the other side.
Gamemaster:Below is a drop down until you can see that there is a very similar looking ledge maybe two stories below where you are But there are no other exits from the ledge that you currently on The only exits that you can see is that there one all the way across the way
Argyle:you
Argyle:All right.
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you Okay Okay
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:on the other side of the pistons, and there might be one below you,
Gamemaster:although you're at a bad vantage point to see if that's the case.
Argyle:So we have a ledge, and then there's eight pistons each 10 feet in diameter.
Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.
Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.
Argyle:Are they moving?
Gamemaster:they are actively moving
Argyle:Should we have to, like...
Johnny:Okay.
Johnny:Can we have a comment?
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:they are also offset
Johnny:Josh, what's the distance from where we're standing to the end of the Pistons?
Gamemaster:like there's one coming from the bottom right
Gamemaster:going up to the top left
Gamemaster:and then the one next to it is from the bottom left
Gamemaster:going up to the top right
Gamemaster:and then it's offset in that way
Gamemaster:you couldn't stand directly on top of the pistons
Gamemaster:as they are right now
Gamemaster:five feet
Gamemaster:ledge, five feet, piston, piston, piston, piston, piston, piston, piston, five feet gap, ledge.
Argyle:really quick pistons.
Anzu:you
Benny:you
Johnny:Oh, I mean like from where we are, all the pistons and then to the other side where it's
Johnny:safe again.
Gamemaster:100 feet. 100 feet to, like, the other edge of the room.
Argyle:Damn it.
Argyle:Snow.
Johnny:That is further than I can...
Argyle:Rainbows then.
Argyle:I could Dimension Door.
Johnny:I can get myself to be a...
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Johnny:I can Dimension Door too.
Argyle:I could Dimension Door
Argyle:if I had that spell prepared.
Argyle:And I have the spell slots.
Anzu:So I could fly for 20 feet and then fall.
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:I...
Argyle:But I can't.
Johnny:I get to bet your door.
Argyle:So...
Johnny:Anzu, can you...
Johnny:Can you fly?
Anzu:Alternatively, I can use my one fourth rank spell to cast fly on somebody.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:I could fly and carry you.
Anzu:That would.
Benny:you
Johnny:Can you cast flyers?
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:Give five minutes of flight to somebody.
Johnny:Yeah.
Benny:it's 100 feet
Gamemaster:It's 100 feet.
Benny:so in order for Benny to jump that
Gamemaster:It's 100 feet.
Gamemaster:It's 100 feet.
Benny:he just needs to roll
Benny:120
Argyle:Do you have long jump?
Benny:on a die on a d20 on his athletics
Benny:uh maybe
Johnny:You can make that.
Argyle:How far does your
Anzu:you
Johnny:Oh, you like quick jump?
Gamemaster:He also doesn't have the rune to run for the jump.
Benny:no
Benny:are the rocket boots 60 feet
Gamemaster:You didn't stride at least 10 feet, you automatically fail.
Argyle:rocket boots take you?
Benny:no
Johnny:Josh.
Gamemaster:That's me.
Johnny:How far does the grappling gun attach?
Benny:is it like is it 150 or is it 60
Argyle:Probably says, right?
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Alternatively, I can cast Levitate and let somebody levitate for five minutes, and then
Johnny:It's 100 feet
Gamemaster:I think it's a hundred. I think it's a hundred. You can fire a grappling hook up to a hundred feet.
Johnny:So all we have to do is fire it
Gamemaster:the uh
Johnny:And then Benny can just jump off the side
Johnny:And swing across
Anzu:you could pull yourself along on something.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:walls and ceiling are covered in webs
Argyle:So, what rank spell is your levitate?
Anzu:The Levitate is third, which is better than fourth.
Johnny:Yeah, because I still have both my fourth ranks.
Gamemaster:Thank you But in general blast boots what did you have moderate
Argyle:No, no, I think you might have to do both.
Argyle:I fly, I bring you, I hold rope out,
Argyle:Benny gets levitated, and he's just following us.
Argyle:We're just pulling him along.
Anzu:And Johnny Dimension Doors.
Argyle:How far is your rocket boots How far can they go Ah okay
Benny:you you
Anzu:you You said there also something below us
Johnny:Me I already blew my rocket boots Yeah they a single use
Johnny:Yeah, the moderate ones.
Gamemaster:So that increases the distance of your long jump by 45 feet.
Gamemaster:The room that you're in, it doesn't have a floor at your level.
Argyle:So Benny would only have to roll an 80.
Argyle:there might be a bridge or something i think we might just unfortunately you burn a fourth
Anzu:Is that helpful at all, guys?
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It is itself a multi-story cavity within the interior of the Strider.
Gamemaster:There is a ledge that looks very similar to yours directly below you about two stories.
Argyle:and a third i think that might be the best and then johnny burns a four
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:question though how would that get us back
Anzu:There's got to be something else we can do.
Johnny:We sleep over there.
Benny:Can you craft a 100-foot bridge?
Argyle:we rest in
Johnny:We sleep over there.
Argyle:you
Anzu:No.
Gamemaster:Heartlight Bridge was, I think, the least balanced spell I ever made.
Argyle:Josh took away hard light bridge two campaigns ago.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Great for us.
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:So I'll get there.
Gamemaster:It's ridiculous.
Argyle:Oh, I should have taken a wall spell.
Argyle:Oh, I think my only wall is like wall of virtue or something.
Argyle:You can't walk on it.
Johnny:Can't walk on virtue.
Johnny:I can summon a horde of underlings and have them run across with the rope and kind of do like a hop thing And see if they make it
Gamemaster:Maybe you can't.
Argyle:No.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:could we climb on the side of the webbing And just
Anzu:you Thank you
Benny:Thank you you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:Yeah, no, I mean on the way back.
Johnny:I mean, I think we can. I feel like Josh just implied we could.
Johnny:But I feel as though it may summon spiders.
Johnny:Oh.
Johnny:That's not a bad idea.
Johnny:I feel like I'd much rather face
Benny:do we want to face betters on the way back around the way there
Argyle:Oh, the Facebook.
Johnny:fathers on the web
Argyle:How far was this hallway that we came from?
Anzu:you
Benny:That's true.
Gamemaster:What?
Johnny:I mean if we go there
Johnny:take care of whatever is over there
Johnny:it might be safe to rest
Benny:So...
Argyle:How far of the hallway have we gone?
Gamemaster:You were walking for about a quarter of a mile.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:Oh, so also if we go out and pull out some Thane,
Johnny:Josh, is it possible for a Fane to
Argyle:there's no way we're making it out of here.
Argyle:We're not going to be able to do a quarter of a mile
Argyle:before the heart collapses.
Anzu:Well, what I find interesting about this Fane that we're in is a lot of it looks like how
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:So if there's some thing that we're about to go,
Argyle:or some heart we're about to go kill,
Argyle:the back distance doesn't really matter.
Anzu:the Strider should look around here.
Johnny:Is it possible for a Fane to get corrupted by a stronger creature?
Johnny:Like, if there's a Fane that's like, heart of the Strider, and then there's Big Bug, and Big Bug is stronger than heart of the Strider, can Big Bug come in and goop it all up?
Argyle:and our guy was going to think about this from a religious point of view and not roll a check
Anzu:Johnny, let me think about this for a minute.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:roll an occultism check
Gamemaster:yeah absolutely you can ask this question to Anzu and then I will let you roll an
Johnny:Can I ask this question to Anzu and have him do it with some...
Johnny:It's definitely the age of man.
Gamemaster:aid check if you like for this
Gamemaster:that's fine
Argyle:I don't know, philosophically
Gamemaster:I mean
Argyle:maybe huh okay I just didn expect you to be able to let me have it alright
Gamemaster:if he wants he can also roll a religion check if you don want to roll you don have to but you can Yeah no that fine
Anzu:Thank you wow
Johnny:I think you had a plus three.
Benny:Hm Thank you
Argyle:alright
Anzu:holy crap
Argyle:oh
Anzu:I got a 35
Gamemaster:What did we get?
Gamemaster:I had tabbed away for a second.
Gamemaster:I don't know what we rolled.
Gamemaster:Which is a crit.
Anzu:but Johnny got a 41
Anzu:to help
Anzu:which
Anzu:so that brings me to
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Anzu:with 38, which could also be a crit, who knows?
Argyle:it's a level based secret
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:uh 38 i certainly don't one second uh that is a crit that's crazy um
Gamemaster:um okay all right so can a heart get uh can a heart get corrupted is is like two questions in
Gamemaster:itself. The first is, is it reasonable that there is a heart in the interior of the Strider here,
Anzu:you
Argyle:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:especially one that, like, looks just like the Strider, as best you can tell? And then the second
Gamemaster:is, is can it be co-opted by something else? The answer to the second is a resounding yes.
Gamemaster:If a heart exists and something with more force behind it, for lack of a better term,
Gamemaster:comes they can certainly co-opt it uh to do something else uh the the like asterisk there
Anzu:you
Argyle:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:is is that you can't technically force a heart to do anything like they are beings with their
Gamemaster:own volition um so they can't be they're actually like even more so than people you can't force them
Gamemaster:to do things because things like mind control magic,
Gamemaster:like suggestion and the like, do not work on hearts.
Gamemaster:That said, hearts,
Anzu:you
Argyle:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:while they don't technically have pain receptors,
Argyle:you
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:can be gifted the equivalent therein.
Gamemaster:So while you can't force it against its will, quote-unquote,
Gamemaster:you can definitely get a heart to do something you want
Gamemaster:if you know the correct levers to push.
Gamemaster:It's not a particularly pleasant process, but it is possible.
Gamemaster:Usually in the context that you would be familiar with,
Gamemaster:it's like for gathering information.
Argyle:Or for the gloves.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:and stuff like that is the best way, is the way that anybody at Belvedere would put that kind of
Gamemaster:stuff to use, or you might have run into it. That said, it's not a, sure, uh, it's just not a
Gamemaster:particularly large leap to go from, well, if I can do that, I can get the heart to do other things,
Gamemaster:so to speak. Um, but once the heart's Fane is set, the structure of it is set, it's much,
Gamemaster:much harder to get it to change that. You're never going to like go in and get a heart to be
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:your heart and do what you want necessarily. It's still going to produce the feign in the
Gamemaster:image that it has and the like. So I think with that role, the logical conclusion here
Gamemaster:is that the heart's feign looks like the strider because it is related to the strider in some form
Gamemaster:or function, but it isn't necessarily still doing stuff on behalf of the strider. If something
Gamemaster:bigger came along and is coercing it to do something. Something else. Perhaps Big Bug.
Argyle:Thank you Thank you We can kill it
Anzu:Big bug.
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:Okay.
Anzu:And I have...
Gamemaster:I will also, sorry, because you crit and you guys were talking about this earlier,
Gamemaster:I will also note, this is something that Anzu would be able to put together,
Gamemaster:the feigns that you have been in that have disappeared as soon as the heart is dead
Gamemaster:is because the feign was 100 constructed out of what the heart produced If For instance if you are in an area that already existed and then a heart grew within it if the heart goes away the qualities of the Fane will go away but the
Anzu:This you I was nervous to ask this question but I was wondering if you could just kind of graft
Johnny:Thank you Okay
Benny:you you
Johnny:Okay.
Gamemaster:structure itself isn't made out of the Fane, so it will continue to stay.
Gamemaster:the answer is yes
Anzu:pain on top of existing structure like that.
Gamemaster:and you guys have experienced something like that before
Gamemaster:the Sin and Tonic is a tavern
Argyle:Yeah!
Anzu:Okay.
Johnny:Listen,
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:because Illmari told you that he bought it
Gamemaster:and then had Ginny
Gamemaster:installed into it
Gamemaster:or brought into existence inside it
Gamemaster:it exists as a tavern separate from Ginny
Gamemaster:but now it is Ginny's fame
Gamemaster:so
Gamemaster:Just to clarify.
Argyle:Art's back on the menu, boys!
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:The Heart Eaters!
Anzu:Okay.
Argyle:If we get this art, maybe we should become the Heartbreakers.
Johnny:it's just another one
Argyle:I'd say we burn our spells, we go in
Anzu:Now, I have an annoying question.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:I'm having trouble visualizing the space that we're in and the tasks that we need to accomplish.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Let me attempt to draw it. I'm gonna just make a map.
Gamemaster:Are you... you're in Foundry, right?
Argyle:try to
Anzu:We need to reach a ledge across the chasm.
Argyle:I
Anzu:Is that correct?
Johnny:Is there an off button?
Gamemaster:Basically, yes. Let me see.
Argyle:do we see like a lever on the other side that just like
Anzu:And we have to dodge pistons while doing so?
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Effectively, yeah. Let me... what is the...
Gamemaster:Is that... no, I can count.
Gamemaster:This is going to be...
Argyle:that we think might we just open up and turn off all the pistons and extend a bridge
Argyle:yeah like so johnny just dimension doors can you just bling a lever
Anzu:Once you finish this part of the level, it's easier to traverse back, yeah.
Johnny:No.
Johnny:Is there an off button over there Bummer Should I do I could Dimension Door over there Bummer Should I I can Dimension Door over there first see if there is a big red off button and then we can go over there
Argyle:No you have two dimension doors
Anzu:Thank you Well he just be over there and then he wouldn have to come back
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:You did not see a big red off button on the other side Not to say that there isn one just that you didn see it
Argyle:oh
Johnny:I do, but it'd be both my 4th level spells.
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:We'd just have to get there.
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:I got a new creatine that's actually kind of yummy.
Anzu:And you're having it now.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Yummy Creatine, what's the brand?
Gamemaster:Let me see if I can with this up.
Gamemaster:Ledge.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:What?
Gamemaster:This?
Argyle:It's
Argyle:Transparent Labs.
Benny:you
Argyle:It's their H1B1, or HMB1.
Johnny:I've heard good things about that.
Gamemaster:Creatine always just tasted like nothing to me.
Gamemaster:I don't...
Gamemaster:Because you have it in such small quantities.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah, well, this one is a blue raspberry.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:This can't be right.
Argyle:it's a compound that's supposed to reduce muscle loss
Gamemaster:I got the dimensions of this thing wildly off.
Gamemaster:One second.
Benny:What the hell is HMB?
Gamemaster:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Benny:Hmm.
Argyle:but
Anzu:.
Johnny:There we go.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:It mostly is useful if you're basically in a deep cut.
Anzu:.
Argyle:I didn't actually order this one.
Anzu:.
Argyle:I just got it because I get my protein from them,
Argyle:and they're running a deal.
Argyle:They're like, you've bought a lot from us.
Benny:You can see the screen free a team
Argyle:Here's a free creatine.
Argyle:I'm probably going to go back to the normal creatine that's a lot cheaper,
Anzu:.
Argyle:but I got this one for free.
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:Thank you you
Johnny:Oh for your team
Gamemaster:you How your brain feel
Argyle:Yeah Pretty Cretins really yeah creatine creatine really good for your brain
Argyle:yeah
Johnny:Does your brain feel good right now?
Argyle:it's also really good for women that are about to enter menopause
Gamemaster:
Argyle:it helps
Johnny:What's up?
Johnny:What's up?
Benny:helps me get jacked
Argyle:it helps regulate hormones
Argyle:well for women in general
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Your body's going through some changes.
Gamemaster:I messed up.
Benny:It's getting fucking shredded!
Gamemaster:I don't understand.
Gamemaster:Can I not count?
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Each...
Benny:Josh is just, like, drawing tallies,
Gamemaster:Each square is 100 pixels.
Benny:and he's like,
Benny:how did this go?
Gamemaster:I want to make the scene a hundred squares long.
Argyle:You gotta bring us.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:10,000.
Gamemaster:How many pixels is that?
Gamemaster:10,000, right?
Benny:Uh-huh.
Gamemaster:This is 10,000.
Gamemaster:This is not a hundred squares long, is it?
Benny:We can't see.
Gamemaster:You can't see?
Gamemaster:Oh my god.
Argyle:Bring us.
Gamemaster:Oh, I figured out why I'm wrong.
Benny:Let me get my measuring tool out.
Gamemaster:I don't want it to be 100 squares long, because each square is 5 feet.
Argyle:You're back to Rector Ashmont.
Anzu:you
Johnny:That's crazy.
Benny:Oh.
Gamemaster:I'm stupid.
Benny:Because I opened it, I was like, this is way longer than...
Gamemaster:Yeah, yeah.
Benny:This is 500 V.
Gamemaster:It felt way longer than the 100 feet it was supposed to be.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Benny:This is the effective range of Fireball.
Benny:Yeah.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:I was just like, I'm totally going to fireball your friend.
Anzu:What the hell is happening now?
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Argyle:There's a protractor.
Anzu:There's like a shadow, Josh.
Johnny:Oh, now it's ultra angular.
Benny:Yeah, we're just seeing a slash.
Gamemaster:Okay, so I made it the right size, but all of the party has disappeared.
Gamemaster:So one second.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:Let's see.
Argyle:We're in the
Johnny:Can we move up?
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:preliminal space.
Johnny:Oh, gosh.
Gamemaster:One second.
Johnny:Ah!
Benny:Okay, okay.
Johnny:Okay.
Johnny:Okay, I see us and I see some circles.
Johnny:Ouí!
Benny:Pistons.
Gamemaster:So I'm gonna take you guys.
Gamemaster:I'm going to put you over here for now because that should be safe.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Nobody puts Benny in a corner.
Benny:We claw across.
Benny:I was saying.
Gamemaster:I'm just going to chuck you all in this corner.
Gamemaster:And then hopefully when I shrink everything, it's all fine.
Gamemaster:It's all great.
Johnny:Oh, we're there.
Gamemaster:We're going to do that.
Gamemaster:And then I'm going to go back and I'm going to change the size of the scene again.
Anzu:Oh, great.
Anzu:We're all dead to a piston.
Gamemaster:And then when I do that, why did it do that?
Argyle:I tried to move myself
Anzu:Oh, we're so close.
Benny:you
Anzu:Hold on, let me come on in.
Johnny:We made it.
Anzu:Someone didn't make it.
Gamemaster:I can't move Argyle.
Gamemaster:I've killed Argyle.
Anzu:Someone didn't make it.
Argyle:and I just went to black.
Gamemaster:There you go.
Johnny:Argyle has died.
Johnny:We have lost our out.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:Yes!
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:Yes!
Gamemaster:And then can I...
Gamemaster:Oops.
Gamemaster:There we go.
Gamemaster:Okay, okay, we're finally getting somewhere.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:I wonder if Benny could just run and jump from the moving pistons
Anzu:Josh, I'm so sorry I made you do this.
Benny:Totally believe it.
Anzu:I didn't know when I said annoying question, I didn't know it would be this annoying.
Gamemaster:No, I should have had this map ready.
Gamemaster:Would you believe me if I said that finding maps for the increasingly more
Gamemaster:strange environments that we're getting to is getting harder?
Johnny:Thank you That a good pull
Gamemaster:Because it is.
Gamemaster:Thank you
Anzu:Oh Oh like in Wipeout
Benny:I jump from piston to piston
Benny:i feel like the fact that it's called wipe out
Argyle:Yeah, yeah.
Argyle:Yeah.
Johnny:That was a great show.
Benny:oh the movie slip and fall and die he could do that that like the final scene of the movie
Benny:slip and fall and die.
Anzu:Well, can we go to the sides of these pistons?
Johnny:We need a final destination.
Gamemaster:Does this make more sense about the environment that you're currently in?
Benny:I will actually say this is incredibly clarifying.
Gamemaster:Okay, great. Awesome.
Argyle:So I think levitating and flying and pulling someone across might be very dangerous.
Argyle:We could try it.
Gamemaster:Let me see if I can...
Gamemaster:One second. You can, but, he says, do I have a way to draw an arrow? I could draw a scribble.
Benny:you
Anzu:Jesus.
Johnny:Hmm.
Gamemaster:So each piston moves as it pumps. So I'm just going to indicate that here.
Argyle:Is there anything below?
Argyle:Sorry, do these pistons, do any of them get like...
Argyle:So I imagine there's like an invisible floor from here to the other side.
Gamemaster:So the pistons themselves are about two stories tall.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:They're all-encompassing.
Johnny:Thank you.
Argyle:Is there anything below that floor of pistons moving and firing?
Gamemaster:The base of them is all the way at the bottom of this large column,
Gamemaster:and then they push all the way up towards the ceiling on the level that you're at,
Argyle:Oh, so they're coming all the way from the ground up to the ceiling.
Gamemaster:if that makes sense.
Gamemaster:Correct.
Argyle:Do-do-do-do-do-do.
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:Yes.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:It like you inside a very strange engine effectively No no no no
Benny:Thank you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Thank you
Argyle:Okay Okay And you said some of them weren working because of web stuff
Gamemaster:The linkages in the exterior of the room
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:in other parts of the Strider have been gummed up.
Gamemaster:These appear to still be functioning.
Gamemaster:You don't know if that's for lack of trying
Gamemaster:or if they left him going for whatever reason.
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:but all of eight of the pistons in this room
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:And then, last question, are those squiggly lines, what are those again?
Anzu:So it would be.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:do appear to be firing currently.
Argyle:Are those webs on the right?
Gamemaster:That's the, the squiggly lines are the direction
Gamemaster:that the piston is moving.
Gamemaster:So the piston closest to you at its most retracted
Gamemaster:is where that circle is.
Gamemaster:At its most extended, it follows those squiggly lines
Gamemaster:up into the ceiling.
Gamemaster:Yes.
Argyle:Oh, but they all start in the middle.
Argyle:So we could totally run across that.
Anzu:Well, they're moving quite rapidly, I believe.
Johnny:you
Benny:they form a V so it's like
Gamemaster:They start along the center line and then push out towards the edges.
Gamemaster:They form a kind of V.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Yes.
Gamemaster:I'm not sure if I'm doing this right.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:I think we have to climb along the walls.
Argyle:Okay.
Benny:it's like this Josh
Gamemaster:Yes, you could feasibly, like you're talking about flying and teleporting and all of that kind of stuff,
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:it's but if we wanted if we wanted to we could run down the middle if we time it correctly
Gamemaster:you could feasibly go straight down the middle between the pistons.
Gamemaster:It'd probably be a little tight, but it is doable.
Benny:like the quad steps
Gamemaster:Yes, yes, except that the pistons are moving quite quickly, so it'll be difficult.
Gamemaster:It is technically possible, but...
Benny:I mean, the quad steps are kind of hard, too.
Gamemaster:Okay well listen if you want to treat this as American Ninja Warrior it is something you can do Like that is within the realm of possibility I not saying no Or you could fly around it If you chose to fly you could
Argyle:Or we could just fly around it right If we have a fly there a path
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:definitely find a path that doesn't involve you taking any danger. If you're trying to not fly,
Gamemaster:it looks to be, like, without rolls here, it looks to be your options are you could climb,
Gamemaster:but then you'd be touching the webs. You could attempt to run down the center line. The pistons
Gamemaster:are moving quickly, so that will be difficult, but it is possible. Or perhaps if you could find a way
Argyle:yeah i don't want to guys i don't want to check the other floor i think we should just fly across
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Okay.
Gamemaster:to stop the pistons, that would make running down the center line substantially easier.
Argyle:i don't think we should try to turn these off because you know
Argyle:why should we why shouldn't we just go headfirst into it and kill some shit you know because what
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Argyle:what are we going to find down there?
Argyle:We might find a switch,
Argyle:but it's never just a switch.
Anzu:you
Johnny:All right.
Benny:Yeah, I think we fly across.
Argyle:We're going to find someone who loves the switch and then we're going to
Argyle:have to fight that.
Argyle:It's never that easy,
Argyle:right guys?
Argyle:We're not just going to stroll down there and be a switch.
Argyle:We should just fly across and then we should go kill the fucking thing.
Argyle:And then we'll sleep over there.
Argyle:And then we come back.
Argyle:We need to.
Johnny:I'll pull out my little notebook of poems
Benny:Yes.
Johnny:and I will
Johnny:just draw a square and then tear out
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Johnny:the page and toss it into the air
Argyle:All of you to go first.
Johnny:and it multiplies into a whole bunch of pages
Anzu:We need someone to scout it out because maybe there is a button over there.
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:and then forms a door and I go
Johnny:I'll see you guys on the other side and I step through
Johnny:and I
Johnny:dimension door cross
Gamemaster:Johnny dimension doors across.
Gamemaster:Johnny, yeah, now that you're on the other side, Johnny, would you like to make a perception
Gamemaster:check?
Johnny:Yes, let me cast the spell first.
Gamemaster:Yeah, sure.
Johnny:Uh, I would love to make a perception check.
Johnny:I love seeing things.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:I took the torch.
Argyle:you
Johnny:I'm calling that out right now.
Gamemaster:A 31.
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:There are no obvious buttons on the other side that it looks like you could press and shuts the whole thing down, unfortunately.
Gamemaster:You rolled a 31, which is good, but isn't amazing.
Gamemaster:Can you...
Gamemaster:We're just literally going to leave this to a coin flip.
Gamemaster:Can you roll a d2 for me?
Johnny:I don't like...
Argyle:Well.
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:I got a one. Is that good?
Gamemaster:Yeah, so you're on the other side.
Gamemaster:You don't see any button or anything like that.
Johnny:No!
Johnny:No, that's the bad option!
Johnny:That's the bad one!
Gamemaster:There is a doorway that extends past, like, further into this part of the strider.
Gamemaster:If you like, you can peek your head in and take a look around.
Johnny:I'll just wave the flashlight around and I'll... I think I have message.
Gamemaster:but at the moment I assume you're staying in the room with your friends.
Argyle:so you said we could fly safely across using a route that's that means we could just we
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Yes.
Johnny:Do I have the message cantrip? I'm pretty sure I do.
Johnny:I do! I will cast message in each of their heads. I'll go, it's good, we're clear, we're
Johnny:clear, we're clear.
Gamemaster:Correct.
Argyle:i whoever's the main flyer pulling other people wouldn't need to make an acrobatic check or would
Gamemaster:correct yeah if you can fly like the person flying does not need to to acrobatics at all
Argyle:there. All right, so should I fly onto my back and we pull Benny? Yeah.
Johnny:Thank you you you
Anzu:A levitated Benny.
Benny:Works for me.
Gamemaster:okay how are you how are you flying
Gamemaster:okay so Anzu is casting the fly spell on Argyle
Anzu:I'll have to cast Fly.
Argyle:Yes Yes
Anzu:Correct Correct Correct
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:And then also the levitate spell on Benny.
Anzu:Correct.
Gamemaster:Okay, mark those two spells off.
Gamemaster:Argyle is flying, Benny is floating.
Argyle:And some rope to Benny.
Argyle:Short leash.
Argyle:Ons you can climb on the back.
Argyle:And then we're just going to fly safely across.
Anzu:incredibly lightweight.
Johnny:That is.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:It's part of my character.
Argyle:It's actually part of your backstory.
Johnny:He's a very lightweight guy.
Gamemaster:That's true.
Gamemaster:Um, okay. Great.
Gamemaster:Yeah, I mean, there aren't any rules really for like...
Gamemaster:One second. You could just use both of your hands.
Gamemaster:Yeah, no, this is fine. It's 50 feet per minute.
Argyle:Cool.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Technically, you'd be moving slowly, but he's levitating, so I don't even know if that applies.
Gamemaster:I think I'm just not going to make you make any checks.
Gamemaster:If you're flying and Benny's levitating and you're carrying a bird who famously have hollow bones,
Gamemaster:I think it's fine for you all to make your way across and meet up with Johnny on the other side.
Argyle:All right.
Argyle:Let's open the door.
Gamemaster:Absolutely. To clarify, there's no, like, door to open. It is a doorway. It's open in the same way that your entrance in, but nobody has, like, peeked their head out or gone further in.
Argyle:Benny
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:Benny
Argyle:Yeah, Benny Argyle
Gamemaster:Are you resuming the marching order that you had previously?
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:I don't know who's behind us
Argyle:Well, I know who, I don't know what order
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:I don't know who they are. They've just been following us.
Argyle:bye
Gamemaster:Okay so just for me let the front then Argyle then Johnny then Ozziel
Argyle:Ha ha ha.
Anzu:Back Back
Johnny:Thank you cool
Benny:Thank you Okay
Gamemaster:You're ordered.
Johnny:all right
Gamemaster:Okay, Benny, if you're taking the plunders, then you have to go first.
Gamemaster:And that means you have to roll a perception check.
Benny:Okay.
Benny:Well, I don't know.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Come back around.
Benny:I define, I mean, 33.
Gamemaster:33. You guys have been getting some good rolls so far.
Gamemaster:Um.
Johnny:The Heartbreakers are on it.
Gamemaster:Mm.
Gamemaster:Uh.
Johnny:Team Onze.
Gamemaster:It appears that this room is connected to another cylindrical shaft,
Gamemaster:very similar to the one that you had seen
Gamemaster:when you had first taken the elevator down into the undercroft.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:If anything, it looks like this might have been at one time one of those elevator shafts,
Gamemaster:albeit it has been commandeered somewhat.
Gamemaster:There are girders here, not girders, rafters here that extend from where you are across
Gamemaster:to another part of this particular area.
Gamemaster:but you can see between this particular rafter and another rafter a story up
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:and another rafter a story up beyond that.
Gamemaster:There's a very clear cylindrical bit in the middle where an elevator might have passed,
Gamemaster:but you can see that the top of this particular cylindrical shaft room area
Gamemaster:is about three stories above you, about where nine would be,
Gamemaster:and it extends all the way down past where you can see below,
Gamemaster:which you would gather is to the bottom of the strider, the 15th floor.
Gamemaster:I
Gamemaster:you rolled really high so I will say that you saw them perhaps before they saw you As you like look out you can see that there is among these rafters that pass between the different parts of the cylinder
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you you
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:there are quite a few hanging bits of silk, of spider silk, coming from the roof of the area and extending downward.
Gamemaster:Not a lot of them actually go over the walkway that you're on itself.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:That is, for the most part, relatively clear.
Gamemaster:But there are thousands and thousands of these strands of silk almost being formed like ropes from the ceiling that extend down, making full use of the height of this particular room.
Gamemaster:And there is some movement amidst the ropes.
Gamemaster:You can see that there are areas suspended within...
Gamemaster:within, it's not a web so much, because the threads themselves don't actually connect at many points.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Instead, it's more like a curtain of spider silk that extends from the ceiling all the way down.
Gamemaster:You can see that there are black and blue figures, mostly obscured by the silk,
Gamemaster:but you can see bits of them as they climb their way across the thread.
Gamemaster:you can also see
Gamemaster:nodules of what seems to be
Gamemaster:silk that had been wrapped around
Gamemaster:a spherical or
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:ovular shape
Gamemaster:in quite a few places also hanging
Gamemaster:suspended within this curtain
Gamemaster:of silk
Gamemaster:that said
Gamemaster:because you rolled really high
Gamemaster:you noticed all of this first
Gamemaster:you guys have the chance to attempt to be stealthy
Gamemaster:in some way if you like
Gamemaster:But in terms of entrances and exits into this room, the entrance that you're walking into
Gamemaster:is directly connected via a walkway to an exit at the other end of this particular cylinder,
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Argyle:I think there's
Anzu:you
Johnny:So the, sorry, just to recap, there's like the regular bugs, then there's also figures
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:There are similar constructions up a story and below a story,
Gamemaster:but they are separated from yours by this kind of wall of silk curtain.
Gamemaster:It's possible to get to them, you just have to clear it.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:in black and blue, just like.
Gamemaster:So you don't see any of the, like, regular bugs here.
Gamemaster:The only things moving besides you are there are these blackish-bluish blobs.
Argyle:I think the
Anzu:you
Johnny:Got you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:It is difficult to make out physical characteristics of those blobs,
Gamemaster:because they're moving among the silk hanging from the ceiling, among those threads.
Gamemaster:It's not a particularly large leap to take to think that they might be spiders of some kind,
Argyle:I think the other thing that Josh described
Gamemaster:because they're walking around spider silk, but, you know.
Gamemaster:there are
Argyle:were things that are orbs that might be like
Argyle:egg sacs
Argyle:...
Gamemaster:nodules of some kind suspended
Gamemaster:in the thread that are, it just looks like silk
Argyle:Is there like
Anzu:you
Johnny:I misunderstood
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:in like a 5x5
Gamemaster:ish foot
Gamemaster:spherical shape
Gamemaster:suspended by the thread throughout this cavern
Gamemaster:no actually
Johnny:where's the map Josh
Argyle:some
Argyle:way for us to visualize this better?
Argyle:Or
Argyle:Oh damn it, okay
Gamemaster:I don't have a map ready
Gamemaster:I could
Gamemaster:I could draw it on
Johnny:we know it's coming
Gamemaster:on the little
Gamemaster:play area that we have right now
Gamemaster:but I don't have
Argyle:Thank you you you
Anzu:Well we have to pass through this curtain
Johnny:Everything I have.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:if that would be
Gamemaster:useful I can quickly draw it
Gamemaster:I figured out how to do this now
Gamemaster:so
Gamemaster:So let me just, I'm going to copy you guys so that if changing the dimensions breaks
Gamemaster:everything.
Johnny:I can't make us invisible, but I can make a big distraction if we want something that's
Johnny:over there while we run that way you Okay
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:You don directly have to pass through the curtain
Gamemaster:The curtain falls alongside the walkway that you're on.
Gamemaster:It does not directly intersect with the walkway.
Anzu:So we could sneak.
Gamemaster:Which see, this is...
Gamemaster:Yes, you're pretty confident that if you aren't stealthy, the things crawling around will
Gamemaster:likely notice you.
Gamemaster:But like on its own, you do not have to directly pass through the curtain at all in order to
Argyle:you
Anzu:I feel like
Johnny:you
Benny:I would have to agree.
Gamemaster:get from one side to the other.
Anzu:create a diversion plus some stealth checks
Anzu:might be
Anzu:pretty solid here
Gamemaster:I don't know how to represent curtains of silk descending from the ceiling.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:.
Johnny:Let me know when you guys are ready because when it goes, it's going to be big.
Benny:I see him.
Johnny:Classic.
Gamemaster:So we're going with the tried and true.
Gamemaster:There are scribbles.
Anzu:.
Gamemaster:And now imagine that this is a cross-section of one floor, and then take this thing and
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:then stack it on top of itself, rotate it about 45 degrees, and that's another version,
Gamemaster:and then stack it on top, rotate it another 45 degrees, and then similarly down.
Gamemaster:You are within this large cylindrical shaft with walkways moving at various angles through
Gamemaster:it.
Gamemaster:You're on one of them, but there are more.
Gamemaster:If you wanted to get from where you currently are to any of the other walkways then you would have to pass through the curtain and also like make a jump of 10 feet at least uh but you know that like
Argyle:you you
Anzu:Bye Bye
Benny:you you
Johnny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:just, just calling that out. There is also, at your level, there's about one of those five by five foot,
Benny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:uh, nodules of, um, of silk. Can I, if I make this white, will that,
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:I roll to attack
Johnny:Cool.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Does that look like something to you?
Gamemaster:Okay, great.
Gamemaster:There's one of those hanging over there.
Anzu:I think we created
Johnny:I can put it up to 60 feet.
Argyle:Should we just start fighting?
Argyle:Or... Nah, we should probably try to sneak, huh?
Anzu:a version sneak and see what happens
Anzu:yes
Argyle:Okay, where are we going to put the diversion?
Gamemaster:That's a good question.
Anzu:I would put it up and to the side
Argyle:Oh.
Johnny:Oh, I'm so sorry.
Benny:You
Gamemaster:What spell are we talking about?
Anzu:either side
Johnny:Not 60 feet.
Johnny:I was looking at the wrong spell.
Johnny:500 feet.
Benny:You
Johnny:Illusory creature.
Benny:You
Gamemaster:Too many things called illusory. Illusory creature.
Anzu:you
Gamemaster:Sounds, smells, and feels. That's fun. Okay.
Argyle:Yeah, that's dope.
Johnny:Yes.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:The fact that you can make it feel real to the touch means that you can have it actually
Gamemaster:interact with the silk, which is interesting.
Johnny:So I would like to have it.
Gamemaster:Uh, 20 feet.
Anzu:you
Johnny:What's the height distance do we think between us and the next walkway up?
Gamemaster:20.
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Okay Then I do it I want to get a lot of them around us We say 6 of the walkways up
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:uh okay 120 feet above you okay absolutely
Johnny:Yeah.
Johnny:And when everyone is ready, I will, I'll cast illusory image and it's going to be, I think it's, it's, yeah, it's just sustained.
Argyle:What's it last?
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:until he stops
Gamemaster:there are
Johnny:So it's until it takes damage or until it's sustained, until it stops.
Argyle:And are there things below us?
Johnny:It's the crazy.
Argyle:Are there levels below us?
Gamemaster:there are from where you are
Argyle:So if you...
Gamemaster:you're on 12 so
Gamemaster:there are three stories below you
Johnny:My thought is that I'm going to do it just high enough above us that it still kind of gets things below us.
Gamemaster:as well
Johnny:But the thought is that it will distract things that are below us enough to start running up there.
Argyle:I agree. I'm just saying that if we put something up there,
Anzu:But if you do it down, then the same thing happens from above.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:things below us might be coming up and running to us.
Argyle:That's the only thing I was going to say.
Johnny:I can do it below.
Johnny:I can do it.
Johnny:yeah
Argyle:No, no. I don't think there's a solution.
Argyle:I think you're doing the correct thing. I'm just flagging.
Argyle:Maybe we should try not to touch the ground and float.
Johnny:I mean I can
Argyle:Oh, no. Johnny can't float. Yeah, we'll be fine. Johnny's stealthy.
Johnny:ride on Benny's back
Johnny:do you want to see me piggyback ride
Johnny:I don't weigh a lot
Argyle:it lasts for five minutes
Anzu:Are we referring to the fly and the levitate?
Benny:Sure.
Gamemaster:It lasts for five minutes.
Johnny:okay I'll piggyback on Benny
Anzu:Levitate?
Gamemaster:I, like, if you're doing this,
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:it is very close to the end of those spells.
Gamemaster:I would allow it.
Gamemaster:I don't know if Levitate actually gives you the strength
Gamemaster:to lift
Gamemaster:lift a creature
Gamemaster:off the ground though
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:if you're already
Gamemaster:like if you're floating
Gamemaster:I don't think you could
Gamemaster:pick somebody else up
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:We put a building on Benny while he's levitating.
Gamemaster:I guess it doesn't say that you can't.
Gamemaster:So I'd allow it.
Gamemaster:Right, like, it has to be of the amount that you can lift just as Benny.
Gamemaster:So if Benny can lift a building, then Benny can levitate a building, I suppose is the answer.
Gamemaster:and
Benny:Okay.
Benny:Benny can definitely lift Johnny then.
Gamemaster:Betty can definitely lift Johnny up
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:I'll clamber onto Benny's back and then I'll pull my little notebook of poems and I'll scribble in it.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:okay
Johnny:I'll just make a big undead looking guy.
Johnny:And it's...
Johnny:I'll put it up and it's just gonna look like it trips and gets caught in the web.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Johnny:And pull on the web and just start going...
Johnny:And start screaming as loud as possible.
Argyle:Are we waiting six seconds before we make our move or we just gonna go?
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Johnny:And it is large.
Johnny:Because I'm casting...
Johnny:I don't want to blow up Expo.
Johnny:I'm casting this at second level.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Okay, I need you to make a performance check.
Johnny:I think once it starts screaming, we've got to go.
Argyle:All right.
Johnny:Because if this thing gets hit, then it disappears.
Argyle:That's okay.
Johnny:I can cast it again, but...
Argyle:Oh man, that's the one he doesn't want to do.
Johnny:Ugh.
Johnny:The one thing.
Argyle:Oh, uh...
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you you you
Gamemaster:I can make you, if you want, you could do deception check instead.
Johnny:I mean, I'm not bad at those, but I am better at these.
Gamemaster:That's the other thing the spell calls out.
Gamemaster:40, 5, oh, 35.
Johnny:35.
Argyle:Oh!
Johnny:35.
Johnny:Josh could I make this a distracting performance
Gamemaster:Okay, that makes more sense.
Gamemaster:I heard 45, and I was like,
Gamemaster:how did you even roll that high Okay Um um yeah
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:And could I bend this a little bit to cover the whole group?
Gamemaster:like that's already bending it
Gamemaster:in that this is two separate actions
Gamemaster:this is casting the spell and then doing
Gamemaster:distracting performance and you're trying to merge
Gamemaster:them
Gamemaster:I will say
Gamemaster:yes
Gamemaster:like, you're clearly using
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:the illusory creature to distract other
Gamemaster:things, which would help with stealth.
Gamemaster:So we can say that this is a distracting
Gamemaster:performance, and like, you just
Gamemaster:you, I think you critically
Gamemaster:succeeded the distracting performance.
Gamemaster:Let me just
Gamemaster:double check with, does creative
Gamemaster:diversion even give you anything there?
Gamemaster:Diversion
Gamemaster:I can spell.
Gamemaster:no crit doesn't even actually give you anything
Argyle:Great.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Dallas.
Gamemaster:yeah okay
Gamemaster:so yeah I think that would just work
Gamemaster:and everybody is starting hidden
Gamemaster:which means
Argyle:Oops.
Gamemaster:that's crazy
Argyle:Oh!
Gamemaster:I was going to tell you you get to add
Gamemaster:stuff to your roll but
Gamemaster:it seems like you don't need it
Benny:He doesn't.
Benny:Wait, what did we get to add?
Gamemaster:yeah he doesn't
Gamemaster:Instead of increasing the perception DC, I'm just going to have you guys add an additional two to this roll.
Argyle:31.
Anzu:you
Johnny:We get asked.
Gamemaster:And it is technically an untyped bonus, because it's a proxy for actually making a different number go down.
Argyle:Great.
Benny:It just Uh My ad only slightly better
Gamemaster:Thank you You don want to keep that one
Argyle:you Yeah
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you Wow
Gamemaster:You get a hero point if you keep it.
Benny:Jesus Christ I've never seen more there's never a larger discrepancy than
Gamemaster:Ouch.
Benny:in stealth roles
Benny:the one time
Benny:Argyle crits we all shit the bed
Benny:oh okay Johnny Rearold
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Yeah, I used a mythic.
Gamemaster:he still rolled a five he just got saved by the fact that the mythic adds a ton
Benny:did well
Johnny:I used one of my mythic points.
Gamemaster:um okay 29 crit or sorry 31 crit a 23 a crazy illusion 20 and a 27 okay
Benny:so
Gamemaster:that is
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:three successes and a failure
Gamemaster:but because we have a crit
Gamemaster:I'm going to have the crit and the failure
Argyle:you can get it
Anzu:You're welcome.
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:cancel each other out
Gamemaster:that makes it four
Gamemaster:regular successes
Gamemaster:I think with the
Anzu:I balanced it out.
Gamemaster:yeah that's true
Gamemaster:he did balance it out
Gamemaster:I think with the ridiculous
Gamemaster:diversion that Johnny is creating.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Like, I don't know if there's much more for you guys to do in this room.
Gamemaster:You're all being pretty stealthy.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It's not a particularly large distance that you have to cover here, given that you're
Gamemaster:not actively attacking anything.
Gamemaster:I think with the rolls that you have, you can quietly creep along this walkway between
Gamemaster:the curtain of silk.
Gamemaster:Sorry, two of you will creep along.
Gamemaster:one of you will piggyback on a levitating 12-year-old.
Argyle:the other ones are flying the other ones are flying
Benny:Thank you you
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:Argyle's flying.
Gamemaster:Oh sorry so you all like slightly above the walkway gliding along Okay Absolutely Uh but because
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:it actually funny that Argyle and Argyle and Anzu are together one was super stealthy and one was bad
Anzu:you Thank you
Johnny:Johnny is just like this murmuring to himself my menorah
Gamemaster:none of you failed,
Gamemaster:none of you make contact with the
Gamemaster:silk curtain on the sides
Argyle:Yes.
Gamemaster:of the, uh, the thing, so you
Gamemaster:can successfully navigate
Gamemaster:through this room, uh, without
Gamemaster:uh, raising the
Gamemaster:alarm of, uh, which
Gamemaster:by the way, the undead
Gamemaster:flailing about 120 feet above you has attracted quite a few of those blue and black blobs moving
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:very rapidly through that silk as they converge on its location. You guys only have to move
Gamemaster:the like 100 feet that is the interior of this room. By the time you make it to the other end,
Gamemaster:some of those creatures
Gamemaster:have already made it to and
Gamemaster:destroyed the
Gamemaster:distraction that you've made. It did not last
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:That was awesome.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:very long.
Gamemaster:Enough for you to do what you're doing, but
Gamemaster:not much longer than that. And you
Gamemaster:make it to the other end of this room.
Gamemaster:I imagine
Gamemaster:you leave this room and you continue
Gamemaster:forward into the hallway
Gamemaster:beyond.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:um you are like you have clearly entered a part of the strider that has
Gamemaster:fallen into disuse um so to speak uh taken over by spider creatures is a better way of putting it
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:um but you can at least tell a little bit what the the room that you were behind the room behind
Gamemaster:you was for uh and the the room before that like you could see that they had some kind of mechanical
Gamemaster:attachment to the Strider in some form or used for some kind of transport once upon a time.
Gamemaster:The room that you entered
Gamemaster:seems almost
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:religious in nature coming out of this, especially given the mechanical structure.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:of everything beyond.
Gamemaster:I would love a religion check
Gamemaster:as you kind of peek into
Gamemaster:what looks to be this large stairway
Gamemaster:that extends up maybe half a story
Gamemaster:from the base where you are,
Gamemaster:as well as connecting to a number of hallways
Gamemaster:branching left and right
Gamemaster:that is adorned with, like,
Gamemaster:stones that you wouldn't expect to see here
Gamemaster:given the more metal construction,
Gamemaster:as well as statues and the like.
Gamemaster:um a 37 religion check uh it's not bluestone uh i'm sorry uh it looks closer to like a granite
Argyle:Is this Bluestone?
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:of some kind uh or a marble perhaps um with a 37 uh the iconography here is familiar to you um
Gamemaster:it is
Gamemaster:so there are a number of statues here
Gamemaster:uh one of the statues
Gamemaster:strikes you very quickly as perhaps
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:being uh
Gamemaster:similar in
Gamemaster:uh similar in design
Gamemaster:to what a lot of the Scale
Gamemaster:wears um if perhaps
Gamemaster:a bit uh
Gamemaster:outdated if that
Gamemaster:makes sense there's a statue there are
Gamemaster:six statues here one of them appears to be somebody
Gamemaster:wearing like older Scale armor um but there are uh there are other statues that uh appear to be
Gamemaster:wearing other uh like not quite familiar but rhymes with uh things that you would expect from
Argyle:Amen.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:other organizations you can see uh somebody that is wearing something that is um honestly would be
Gamemaster:the most familiar to Johnny. It looks like they're wearing what would appear to be the vestments of
Gamemaster:what was at one time the Church of the Compelled in Raelion Not much religious practice of that going around Uh the church itself doesn really exist in any form Uh but the the clothing that they wore uh is is familiar to you
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you you
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:uh, in that way. Um, there are two people, uh, two of these statues that appear to be wearing
Gamemaster:something very similar to the academic robes that you would see at Belvedere, um, that are
Gamemaster:familiar to the two of you from, Belvedere. And there is two people wearing, oh sorry,
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:there's one person that is wearing what almost seems to be, for lack of a better term, they're
Gamemaster:wearing clothes made out of leaves. It's almost like vines and the like have grown around the
Gamemaster:person in some form. Um, and then there is, uh, someone that is very, very clearly wearing what
Gamemaster:looks to be, uh, the vestments of the Iridescent Church. Uh, this is a face that all of you would
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:have seen at some point just by virtue of being in Hallia. It appears to be a rendition of Aurelia
Gamemaster:the First, uh, of the original Pontifex. Um, with your... that's a really good religion check.
Gamemaster:So I don't know if I'm going to make you make a society check here as well.
Gamemaster:I think you would just get it.
Gamemaster:You would understand that the depiction of the people here are the depiction of, to put it in adventuring terms, Aurelia's party.
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:The group of people that she led her first crusade against, the civilizations from the Dark Ages.
Gamemaster:you don't see a lot of representations of the party in in modern day just because
Gamemaster:everybody in the party swore to a different one of the outer gods um and so after the party broke
Gamemaster:up and they went their separate ways they formed their own kind of religions and organizations and the like and so it doesn it doesn really do well narrative wise to to talk all that much
Argyle:Thank you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Thank you
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:about the fact of like how everybody used to be one big group um but the fact that they are
Gamemaster:represented in this way speaks to this being at one time a much older site of worship for the
Gamemaster:for the six outer gods collectively.
Gamemaster:Yes.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Can I make an academia check and try to date this?
Johnny:I aid.
Benny:Whoa.
Gamemaster:Mm-hmm.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:He's gonna date the six statues at the same time.
Anzu:Can I riz him up?
Johnny:
Anzu:Hell yeah.
Anzu:Get on in here, Johnny.
Johnny:Oh, yeah, that's pretty old.
Gamemaster:A 33 is a success, so you'll get a plus one to this, a 29.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Of course.
Johnny:Yeah.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay, so with the 29, there are two things to point out here.
Gamemaster:First, you can't actually walk around from statue to statue to figure out the area here,
Gamemaster:because with a 29, I would say you would notice there are things in this room besides you.
Gamemaster:They haven't noticed you because you guys are being stealthy,
Gamemaster:but there are creatures moving about this room.
Gamemaster:Besides the statues and the religious import and all that kind of stuff, there are quite a number of spider webs spread throughout this area.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:And some creatures moving about the spider webs.
Gamemaster:But as you're, like, peeking around a corner at the staircase, hiding from those creatures as they move about and looking at the statues themselves, you don't have tools.
Gamemaster:So it's not easy to put an exact date on it.
Gamemaster:If you had to guess, you would guess that this is probably before...
Gamemaster:These statues were probably minted before the time of Aurelia II because that was around the time that they started like the church started separating its image
Argyle:Thank you One
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you you
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:from the remaining people,
Gamemaster:which would mean,
Gamemaster:when was Aurelia II born?
Gamemaster:She was born 101 AG.
Gamemaster:So this comes from probably the first century
Gamemaster:after the firmament broke.
Gamemaster:you can't know
Gamemaster:like what year specifically
Argyle:was the last campaign
Anzu:And that's
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:or anything like that but that gives you a rough timeline
Gamemaster:it is
Anzu:like 600 years ago. What year is it?
Gamemaster:863 right now
Anzu:It's like 700 years ago.
Argyle:670 or 600 something was our last campaign
Gamemaster:hmm
Argyle:yeah so what can you describe these figures yeah
Anzu:The date.
Anzu:All right. Yeah, yeah.
Gamemaster:Oh, right. Okay. I thought you were saying that that year in this time system is when your campaign last happened, which, to clarify, you guys have not confirmed temporally where Campaign 2 happens related to Campaign 3.
Argyle:oh no no no
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:oh yeah yeah
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:can you describe these figures that are around us that don't see us
Gamemaster:yes they are these large arachnid like figures each of them perhaps
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:you know they fill up a five by five square certainly they actually fill up considerably
Argyle:Oh no
Anzu:you
Johnny:Oh, no.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:more than that you'd consider these large or perhaps larger than large
Argyle:Oh no
Gamemaster:they are
Gamemaster:blue and black spider-like
Gamemaster:creatures
Gamemaster:I say spider-like, they're spiders
Gamemaster:they're massive
Gamemaster:massive spiders
Gamemaster:one second
Gamemaster:this I do have a visualization for
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:sometimes
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:It's just a roll of dice, I guess.
Gamemaster:sometimes
Benny:Like sometimes you get a good visualization.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Oh, oh, it's all this.
Benny:Sometimes, you know.
Gamemaster:sometimes I have a good visualization, sometimes I don't.
Gamemaster:The only thing I would note,
Gamemaster:like, I know in the image that these spiders are eating
Gamemaster:what appears to be, like, a bird of some kind,
Gamemaster:or perhaps a deer with wings.
Gamemaster:I would note something that is not portrayed by the image,
Gamemaster:but is true of the creatures,
Gamemaster:is that their front two arms are sides.
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:That's just wrong, Josh.
Johnny:Thanks, Gary Spiders.
Benny:Oh, Jesus.
Gamemaster:I'm just making that known.
Gamemaster:The back, six legs, normal spider legs.
Gamemaster:First two arms, sides.
Anzu:I mean, what the hell?
Gamemaster:I just needed to clarify that.
Benny:And they each have their own, like,
Johnny:It's not Michael Ford arms.
Anzu:That's f'ed up.
Anzu:I think it's a pegasus
Johnny:It's Spider sword arms.
Benny:they each have their own Gryphon that they're eating,
Benny:or what is that?
Gamemaster:Yeah, I don't know what kind of animal
Gamemaster:they're supposed to be eating there,
Benny:We walked in on dinner.
Gamemaster:I will also note, while we're talking about incongruencies with what the map represents,
Argyle:Anzu, do you want to swap with Benny?
Johnny:We'd like to paddle up the steps.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:I'm getting on the boat
Gamemaster:you'd be surprised it was hard for me to find a map.
Gamemaster:Ignore the boats.
Gamemaster:There are no boats.
Anzu:I paddle
Gamemaster:There are no boats.
Anzu:My bird is in my sleeve, so I'm just going to put him over here for now, but he might
Johnny:Yes.
Johnny:this has got bigger things to do
Gamemaster:I promise, no boats.
Gamemaster:Anzu's on a boat.
Argyle:Thank you.
Benny:measuring
Johnny:he's got a paddle
Benny:that works
Benny:the long sleeve
Anzu:come out of my sleeve, so I'll leave him over here.
Anzu:If I could drag them into relevance.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:Thank you
Benny:those are our exit distraction god what up
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:Othello is caught in a web
Argyle:you If you want I can cast Augury
Anzu:Oh I think it going to be fine
Argyle:See if these guys are friendly.
Anzu:We just got to get a good opening round on them.
Anzu:Soften them up.
Argyle:So, I would like to cast...
Anzu:I wish I still had my fourth.
Argyle:I would like to cast...
Argyle:I wish I had my fourths as well.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Yeah, what are things, how much can we get off before things kick off?
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Uh, let's see.
Argyle:I'd like to cast a Benediction,
Argyle:and I would like to get off Blazing Armory.
Argyle:I assume I might not be able to get both.
Argyle:So...
Gamemaster:Well, okay, so each of you get to do one thing first, and then we're gonna roll a stealth check.
Gamemaster:And if you guys collectively roll well enough, you won't have alerted anybody, and then you'll get to do another thing.
Gamemaster:If that makes sense.
Gamemaster:also just because I think it's very funny
Johnny:Okay.
Johnny:Okay.
Johnny:What is this?
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:to see the four of you like in a circle
Anzu:you
Johnny:And the spiders, they don't have any webs or anything, right?
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:going three two one and then casting
Gamemaster:a spell and then three two one
Gamemaster:cast another spell to make sure it's all lined
Gamemaster:up correctly
Gamemaster:the spiders themselves
Gamemaster:were walking along the webs and the like but are not
Gamemaster:actively extruding them if that's the question
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Johnny:Okay.
Johnny:Do I do silence?
Johnny:Do we think silence would help us here?
Argyle:All right.
Anzu:I don't think so.
Johnny:Yeah.
Benny:I've tremor sense right we get noticed and then no one can caught it can cast
Johnny:Yeah.
Benny:somatic spells
Johnny:Okay.
Benny:you
Benny:Sure Sure
Johnny:I'll do a Duras of Doom then.
Johnny:Lingering composition.
Argyle:I think I should go off Benediction first, huh?
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:And then if not, I'll cast a spiritual weapon.
Anzu:Okay The only useful spells I can do are attacking them
Johnny:Thank you you you you you
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:I thought Blazing Armory just gave a d6 to Mike Turns out it replaces one of his weapons so it probably not worth it I just replace one of mine if I need it
Argyle:Unless, would this be, would a simple plus one striking sword
Argyle:but that you get changes the type to fire, do you think that'd be worth it?
Johnny:you
Argyle:Yeah.
Johnny:you
Benny:We'd have to see.
Benny:I don't know what their weakness is to fire.
Argyle:If they are, it'll be worth it, maybe.
Johnny:I thought we might want to move.
Benny:maybe
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:Just give me a holler if you want it.
Benny:yeah
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:All right.
Argyle:So I did my spell.
Argyle:yeah they'll definitely know they'll definitely though
Anzu:So I guess I wait if we want another chance at stuff.
Johnny:Oh, I didn't even cast that spell.
Benny:Of course, of course.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:I do nothing.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Have we done the things
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:that we'd like to do for our first action?
Argyle:Oh, it was almost a 15 on my screen.
Gamemaster:All right.
Gamemaster:Then I would love it if...
Johnny:That was an accident.
Anzu:you
Gamemaster:The people who did things just now
Gamemaster:need to roll stealth checks.
Johnny:I'm into myself.
Benny:It's almost a one on my screen.
Argyle:This was fun.
Argyle:Oh, well, this was a fun first round, guys.
Argyle:We're not going to get another.
Argyle:Oh, John did well.
Gamemaster:A 29 is very good.
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:Unfortunately, a 16 is not.
Anzu:you
Gamemaster:And a 29 is not good enough to save a 16.
Gamemaster:So unfortunately your first spell going off Does why are the two of you overlapping The sound of your spells of preparation going off
Argyle:I was trying to reposition and I can't move under Benny.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you
Benny:Thank you you you
Gamemaster:does unfortunately alert these creatures,
Gamemaster:and they will start...
Argyle:I now can't click myself.
Argyle:There we go.
Argyle:Thank you.
Argyle:No.
Gamemaster:I move Penny off,
Argyle:All right.
Benny:I I try to move to the left I don't know if it like had left right
Gamemaster:and Mike immediately moves Penny back on top.
Argyle:I hadn't had it selected
Anzu:Yeah, you have to be selected.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:For the record, you should be able to use your arrow keys to move as well, if you can.
Benny:Accepted both.
Argyle:so I couldn't
Gamemaster:Ah, of course.
Gamemaster:Okay, well then I would love it if you could all roll either stealth or perception for your initiative. It is your choice.
Gamemaster:A natural 20.
Argyle:I don't like that I rolled a 31 and I'm behind two of them.
Anzu:This guy is always clicking the regular perceptions.
Johnny:Good.
Gamemaster:I'm not sure.
Benny:Step for Benny.
Johnny:It's like a lot of...
Argyle:I'm behind everyone!
Johnny:Because you rolled a...
Johnny:Because you just rolled a perception check.
Johnny:You didn't roll an actual...
Argyle:Oh, can you put me in there? Sorry.
Gamemaster:What did you get?
Argyle:31.
Johnny:That's always...
Gamemaster:He is always doing that.
Argyle:I am.
Johnny:It's always seeing stuff.
Gamemaster:What did you get?
Argyle:31.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:Thank you.
Argyle:Benny, you're going to stay close to us, or are you going to run at him?
Anzu:Oh, like crap.
Johnny:I was going to do a bless and then I was also, I can't do both of those.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Benny:I better for you let them walk up one by one
Argyle:He sounds good.
Anzu:Keep those scythes away.
Argyle:Now, Johnny, are you going to raise...
Argyle:Are you going to do a spell that's going to increase Benny's two hit?
Johnny:I was going to do a bless.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:Okay, good to know.
Argyle:So I will not cast Bless.
Johnny:Unless, Benny, would you prefer a haste?
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Okay, I'll get off of less then.
Benny:Thanks.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:My benediction should be centered around me.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:well they might be friendly
Gamemaster:Okay, are we ready to go?
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Yes.
Gamemaster:Let me get some battle music.
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:Some good battle music.
Johnny:you
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:I didn't label which of these have voices in them and which of them don't, so I'm just
Gamemaster:gonna hope that I find one that doesn't.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Yes, I will cast Bless, and I will bless us all.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay, sure. We will begin with Johnny.
Gamemaster:Nope, voices. I knew that was happening.
Johnny:Be blessed.
Johnny:That was one action.
Johnny:Second action, I will...
Johnny:I don't know what these spiders do.
Johnny:Where are they?
Johnny:How far away are these guys?
Johnny:I don't want to get any closer to these fellows.
Johnny:60 feet? That's far away.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Sorry?
Johnny:Not many of my things are that far...
Johnny:I'll do a distracting performance!
Johnny:I will attempt to distract...
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay, attempt to distract the spider.
Johnny:Close it. I'll attempt to distract the spider.
Johnny:Does a creative diversion affect only one person or many people?
Johnny:Sorry, one moment.
Gamemaster:One person.
Johnny:Okay, then I will attempt to...
Gamemaster:So creative diversion only works for you.
Johnny:I meant against like one enemy or against multiple enemies
Gamemaster:Distracting performance lets you use it on an ally Oh um I don know That a good question
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Benny:Thank you you
Johnny:Attempt a single check and compare it to the perception DCs of the creatures whose attention you're trying to divert.
Johnny:Okay, cool.
Johnny:There's no range on this.
Johnny:So I'm just going to...
Gamemaster:It's, yeah, it's anything that could see you, I believe.
Johnny:All right, I'll just start yelling out poetry.
Johnny:as I try to distract all these guys for young Benjamin.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:Perfect.
Gamemaster:All right, roll a performance check.
Johnny:38.
Gamemaster:38.
Gamemaster:Yeah, no, that's absolutely a success.
Gamemaster:Benny, you are hidden.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:Two actions for my third action.
Johnny:Can't get close to any of these guys.
Johnny:I will...
Johnny:Step back.
Argyle:Yes.
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:Oh, wait, no.
Johnny:I'll stay there.
Johnny:For my third action, I will stay.
Gamemaster:Excellent.
Johnny:Nothing.
Gamemaster:Okay, next up is Argo.
Argyle:Bang!
Gamemaster:Sorry, oh, did Johnny just leave?
Johnny:Still here.
Argyle:Sorry. Is Benny invisible?
Anzu:He's muted.
Benny:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay, well if you're here you should roll a perception check when you have a chance,
Johnny:I'm just on the move.
Johnny:Oh.
Johnny:23.
Johnny:23.
Gamemaster:Johnny.
Gamemaster:Great, Argyle, continue.
Gamemaster:Uh, he's hidden.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:But I guessed...
Argyle:Oh, I did not mean to guess that. No!
Gamemaster:Argyle successfully rolls the flat check to target Benny
Johnny:you
Argyle:Yeah I cast I have Bane running as well And then I going to you know I don really have anything else
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you
Argyle:I'll raise my shield.
Argyle:I raise my shield.
Gamemaster:Wait, sorry.
Gamemaster:You have Bane running, like, on yourself?
Argyle:It's an area, right?
Gamemaster:Yeah, you have to choose an area.
Gamemaster:Just right now, you are baned, and you have...
Gamemaster:It's just you're baned.
Argyle:Oh, OK.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Argyle:Can I undo that?
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Yeah, so you have to choose a 10-foot...
Gamemaster:Let's see, it's a 10-foot emanation.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Is it... Oh, it's aura!
Argyle:Yeah, I think it's just around me.
Argyle:Yeah, it's just like, so I have Benediction and Bane running.
Gamemaster:Okay, so then...
Gamemaster:Gotcha. Okay, so reapply it.
Argyle:So if they fail to check, there's a, yeah.
Gamemaster:I misunderstood. I didn't see the aura tag.
Gamemaster:I apologize.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Which I should have remembered, because I know what Bless does.
Argyle:I don't know if I attached the Bane.
Gamemaster:There it is.
Argyle:Yeah, but it might now Bane'd.
Anzu:Nice.
Johnny:you
Benny:All part of the plan.
Gamemaster:We'll see...
Gamemaster:It says you have Bane, but
Gamemaster:we'll see what happens when you go to
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:make an attack roll if it has a minus one.
Argyle:Okay, sounds good.
Argyle:And then I'm just going to raise my shield.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:That's the end of your turn.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Excellent.
Gamemaster:You
Gamemaster:targeted your raise a shield on
Gamemaster:Benny, but you were successfully able to
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:raise your shield next to him.
Gamemaster:Make a perception check.
Argyle:Great, great.
Argyle:26.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Let's see.
Gamemaster:26. Is that enough?
Gamemaster:No.
Gamemaster:Benny, it's your turn.
Gamemaster:You're hidden.
Benny:i don think i have much interesting to do uh what are these auras what i lose if i go here oh jesus everything um can i just drop an initiative until after anzu
Gamemaster:Thank you Yeah
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Thank you I think that the big one is the dirge of doom
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Easy.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Let's move up to the swarms.
Gamemaster:It is the left swarms turn.
Gamemaster:This is two actions.
Gamemaster:Two actions.
Gamemaster:Two actions.
Gamemaster:And two actions.
Gamemaster:And then I think it will shoot a web at Benny.
Argyle:Thanks, Johnny.
Anzu:You wouldn't like that, Jorge.
Johnny:Wait, is it, can you see, Benny?
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:No, it doesn't.
Gamemaster:It'll shoot a web at Argyle.
Gamemaster:Cannot reach Argyle.
Gamemaster:Argyle is 30 feet away.
Gamemaster:It can shoot a web at Argyle.
Gamemaster:Attempt this reflex save, please, Argyle.
Argyle:It's so much worse than an AC.
Gamemaster:That is just barely a success.
Argyle:Oh.
Anzu:Oh.
Johnny:Hello.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:They attempt to shoot a web at you.
Gamemaster:And effectually, you kind of just slap the web out of the air before it gets to you.
Gamemaster:And that is all three actions for the left swarm.
Gamemaster:It'll be the right swarm's turn now.
Argyle:And if you move up, I'll move up with.
Argyle:Oh.
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:you
Anzu:He can kill. He can kill, Josh.
Johnny:Oh, God.
Benny:you
Johnny:He's killing.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Oh
Benny:uh i almost used the weaker thing
Gamemaster:Yeah, I can see that.
Benny:kill kill kill kill kill
Gamemaster:That's a crit.
Johnny:Oh
Gamemaster:Hot damn.
Benny:that's enough time dice
Johnny:Oh
Benny:kill kill kill
Gamemaster:62 points of damage, absolutely.
Gamemaster:One second.
Argyle:I should have taken
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:That's okay.
Gamemaster:That's enough to tear through these two guys.
Argyle:Malediction, not Bane.
Argyle:That's what I should have done.
Argyle:Yes.
Argyle:Die.
Gamemaster:Which means that this guy will use, these guys will use their third action to kind of
Gamemaster:get up in your face.
Gamemaster:But that is the end of the turn.
Gamemaster:Anzu, it's your turn.
Gamemaster:You're no longer hidden, by the way, Benny.
Argyle:you
Anzu:All right.
Johnny:There's the fighter that moves.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:Let's do a, what's it called?
Anzu:Recall knowledge on one of these sick bastards.
Anzu:Yes, of course, we do occultism.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:Occultism or nature would be the recall knowledge to use here
Argyle:Damn it I should have taken different spells why didn I know this earlier divine wrath would have been great
Johnny:Thank you There we go They weak to rain
Benny:Thank you you Hmm
Anzu:Big number, 32.
Anzu:32.
Anzu:I would like the
Gamemaster:A 32
Gamemaster:A 32 I believe is a success
Gamemaster:It is a success
Gamemaster:What do you want to learn?
Anzu:resistances, weaknesses, immunities
Anzu:fascinating very fascinating Fascinating Very fascinating
Gamemaster:They are weak to area damage and splash damage Okay
Johnny:I think my rainbow is an AoE.
Benny:Okay.
Johnny:That's all I got.
Anzu:All right, I guess we will create an animated assault in that case.
Anzu:just loose objects in the area
Anzu:pretty much directly in front of Bennix
Argyle:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Kill him kill him.
Gamemaster:I apologize.
Anzu:just start
Benny:Okay.
Anzu:freaking hawking around
Anzu:go ahead
Gamemaster:You can do that, that's absolutely true.
Anzu:very well
Gamemaster:I deleted one too many spiders.
Gamemaster:So I'm gonna undo some actions to make the spider spawn back into existence.
Anzu:oh
Gamemaster:Nope, I'm not, it's actually not going to...
Anzu:Oh, okay.
Gamemaster:Oh, it is going to let me do it, great.
Gamemaster:This spider's dead.
Gamemaster:That one's over there.
Anzu:And then put him...
Anzu:Yep.
Gamemaster:one's over there, that one's over there. Now you can animate an assault, but if
Argyle:you
Johnny:What?
Benny:More to kill.
Anzu:Okay.
Anzu:Okay.
Anzu:We're going to place the assault here.
Gamemaster:you wanted to do something different because the spider is closer to you than
Gamemaster:was before, you may choose to do something else.
Gamemaster:Okay, absolutely. There are three spiders in the area. What do I have to do, reflex
Anzu:There are three spiders in the area.
Anzu:Yeah.
Gamemaster:saves?
Benny:That animation is so goofy, but it's great.
Anzu:Yeah.
Benny:Wow.
Benny:Wow.
Gamemaster:That is a failure and a success.
Argyle:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:I'm going to roll damage.
Anzu:It's not a ton, but they're weak to it.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Anzu:You did say they're vulnerable.
Anzu:to area right not resistant okay i got scared for a second that i flipped them
Gamemaster:They are vulnerable to area, yes.
Gamemaster:That is...
Argyle:you you
Johnny:Thank you
Benny:you you
Gamemaster:Note that deals 20 damage total to the swarm on the right and fully kills that guy This time correctly I am deleting this token
Gamemaster:And then this guy takes half damage, and so he takes 13 points of damage.
Gamemaster:They are still okay, but definitely did some damage.
Anzu:And I guess it's time to
Anzu:find out if these guys have
Anzu:reactive strikes
Argyle:Well, they didn't hit you on a manipulate, so...
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Okay, when you stride, the spider kind of clicks at you, but it doesn't...
Anzu:unless I just step.
Anzu:No.
Anzu:That would be foolish.
Argyle:It might only be on movement, but...
Anzu:I'm going to stride.
Anzu:Very well.
Anzu:I stride
Anzu:15 feet this way
Anzu:and five feet this way.
Argyle:Your movespeed is only 20.
Johnny:I think the two little circles are Bless and Bane.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Anzu, can you roll a perception check for me?
Anzu:No, I've got another five if I wanted.
Argyle:Okay.
Argyle:Sorry for deading.
Anzu:Just staying within these circles, I'm not sure which is which, but
Anzu:generally I like them.
Johnny:The big circle is Dirge of Doom.
Argyle:Like this.
Anzu:Happy to.
Anzu:I'm hoping that I do a little better than my compatriots
Anzu:because something is afoot
Argyle:Someone's actually flanking Betty
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:I would like to solve the puzzle.
Gamemaster:Okay, Benny's return.
Anzu:but all I see is a hand
Gamemaster:Okay, solved the puzzle.
Gamemaster:I don't know what that means in this context.
Benny:Who does?
Argyle:Can he finally pull off?
Gamemaster:Benny is being flanked.
Benny:I think I swapped that out.
Anzu:Thank you
Argyle:Oh
Benny:Yeah.
Argyle:you I never seen Benny click that button before
Johnny:you Thank you
Benny:I think we just going to do a standard strike um because I think it going to kill some of them
Gamemaster:you you That hits
Benny:standard strike
Benny:where's the strike
Benny:got him
Benny:Oh, he's bloodied.
Argyle:it's crazy the dice at 11 but he does 24
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:the standard strike hits
Gamemaster:he is bloodied
Benny:24.
Gamemaster:24 points of damage
Gamemaster:absolutely
Gamemaster:he gets to add a lot of stuff
Argyle:24
Argyle:Thank you.
Benny:Yeah.
Benny:That's weapon mastery for you.
Benny:And exemplar.
Anzu:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Anything else you'd like to do?
Benny:Oh, I didn't solve the puzzle.
Gamemaster:No.
Benny:I'd like to solve the puzzle again.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:That's it.
Argyle:Thank you.
Benny:24.
Gamemaster:I think that will solve the puzzle.
Anzu:Nice.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:yeah absolutely
Gamemaster:that actually kills both spiders
Benny:Nice.
Benny:And then I will twin my parry.
Benny:And remove my off-card condition.
Argyle:you
Benny:Mm-hmm.
Gamemaster:okay
Gamemaster:is that the end of your turn?
Anzu:you
Johnny:Yes.
Gamemaster:Johnny, it's your turn.
Gamemaster:Benny, actually.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Good.
Benny:Hell yeah.
Gamemaster:you do, if you like, you can make a perception check because you are no longer flat-footed.
Benny:I always lose it.
Gamemaster:Excellent. Johnny, it's your turn.
Johnny:Good.
Johnny:I don't know what this
Benny:Yes.
Johnny:thing is.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:I will cast Sure Strike through my Drum of War to give myself Sure Strike.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Johnny:on this spider over yonder.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:He's being needle darts-es.
Johnny:I will...
Johnny:Needle darts him.
Johnny:Attack.
Gamemaster:Roll an attack.
Johnny:Attack.
Johnny:Wow.
Johnny:Stunning.
Gamemaster:That hits.
Johnny:Still hit.
Johnny:Yes.
Johnny:21 points of piercing
Gamemaster:Because of the bless, it hits.
Gamemaster:Well, because of the bless and the advantage you gave yourself on the roll.
Argyle:Alright.
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you Oh that the guy that we been trying to perceive
Gamemaster:21 points of piercing is not bad.
Johnny:that's all I got
Gamemaster:That's a pretty good hit.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Johnny:that's my turn
Gamemaster:Next up.
Gamemaster:Because of benediction I miss That crazy That crazy
Johnny:Thank you.
Argyle:Oh no.
Johnny:What is this?
Argyle:Yeah you Did he also fail a DC for Bane
Anzu:you Thank you
Benny:Oh.
Gamemaster:Oh, the second time it crit, though.
Argyle:Is he baned?
Benny:Oh.
Argyle:Will that make sense?
Gamemaster:He wasn't baned, so clearly that didn't apply.
Argyle:So if he's within my area.
Argyle:Yeah, so if he's with the mayor.
Gamemaster:he should have minus one
Anzu:Ooh.
Johnny:No, it wasn't.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:um
Argyle:No, no, only if he fails the DC.
Gamemaster:oh
Argyle:But still, I don't think that's...
Gamemaster:either way that was a crit
Gamemaster:that's fun
Gamemaster:okay we get to try
Gamemaster:again
Gamemaster:a 28
Johnny:Stop critting on me.
Gamemaster:oh I didn't have you target it does 28 hit
Gamemaster:okay
Johnny:It does hit, but that's just a regular hit.
Gamemaster:absolutely
Gamemaster:one second
Gamemaster:Um, can you do me a favor and roll a d8 for me?
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I would prefer not to.
Benny:you
Johnny:Was that good?
Gamemaster:Um, a seven. No.
Gamemaster:Uh, okay. Now I need you to make a fortitude save, please, as you feel two very sharp puncture wounds
Gamemaster:in your neck as an apothecary bug,
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:which is a little spider,
Anzu:Oh my god.
Johnny:Is a 27 good?
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:has jumped onto you and bitten down.
Gamemaster:It's also gonna do some damage.
Anzu:Oh boy.
Johnny:Good.
Gamemaster:A 27 is a success here.
Gamemaster:So the sloughing toxin only hits stage one.
Gamemaster:So you're going to take 16 points of damage there, and you're going to have stage one
Johnny:Ouch.
Gamemaster:Sloughing Toxin which I don even know if that a thing in Foundry Oh it is a thing in Foundry That awesome Sloughing toxin
Argyle:you
Argyle:you
Anzu:Thank you Oh my gosh
Johnny:What is this This is horrible Josh
Benny:Thank you you
Johnny:Oh, my God.
Gamemaster:It's a good time, isn't it?
Johnny:you think
Gamemaster:So each time you take an action
Gamemaster:with the attack or move trait,
Gamemaster:you are going to take 1d6 poison damage
Gamemaster:as your muscles start to separate themselves
Gamemaster:from your bones.
Johnny:things with the attack trait
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:You.
Gamemaster:You rolled the seven! It's random! It's an apothecary bug! It's got poisons in it!
Johnny:wrong guy Josh
Johnny:gotcha
Johnny:I've killed like
Gamemaster:Uh, absolutely. Okay, so you have the... do I have a way of, like, giving this to you?
Johnny:two people this campaign
Johnny:Wrong guy
Gamemaster:I don't think I do
Gamemaster:I wish that
Gamemaster:it like doesn't have an effect
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:The skeleton's trying to get out.
Gamemaster:that I can just
Gamemaster:give to you
Gamemaster:unfortunately
Gamemaster:um
Gamemaster:so I don't know how to like
Gamemaster:force it to apply to you
Gamemaster:so we're just gonna have to remember
Gamemaster:that this has happened
Gamemaster:promise to remember
Gamemaster:that your muscles are
Gamemaster:sloughing off of your bones
Gamemaster:um
Johnny:we'll try to remember oh no you just see my skeleton pushing out my chest
Gamemaster:in this case
Gamemaster:uh
Benny:Give me a...
Gamemaster:and then I get
Benny:...
Gamemaster:one more attack
Gamemaster:with the stinger
Gamemaster:with this Apothecary Bug on Anzu.
Argyle:Can I target the apothecary bug on Johnny?
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:But I rolled bad, so that one misses too.
Gamemaster:Anzu is saved from the Apothecary Bug.
Gamemaster:Our guy, let's return.
Johnny:I would prefer you go Yeah if you can get these These bugs are kind of nasty
Argyle:Or, I'll do it.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:So the bugs are on the characters right now.
Gamemaster:I just don't have the tokens overlapping
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:because that would be annoying.
Gamemaster:But yes, you can target the apothecary bug if you like.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Should I go for them or the big guys What do you think All right so I going to target the one
Anzu:you you
Benny:I got that big guys
Gamemaster:you
Argyle:I assume Johnny's kind of like,
Argyle:there's a spider on me!
Johnny:Ew, gross.
Johnny:Ah, ah, ah.
Johnny:Yeah, pretty much.
Argyle:And Argyle's going to say,
Argyle:hold still, hold still!
Argyle:And he's going to kind of drop his axe a little bit
Argyle:and then put a glowing hand up to the side of Johnny's head
Argyle:and then cast Holy Light
Anzu:you
Johnny:This thing's nasty looking.
Benny:I didn't blast.
Gamemaster:Oh boy.
Argyle:and try to blast this thing off.
Argyle:So Bane is
Argyle:infecting me.
Argyle:So all the other creatures within Bane
Gamemaster:Yeah, okay, so...
Argyle:need to make a
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:against my spell to save DC.
Argyle:You know what?
Gamemaster:I will have...
Gamemaster:What kind of save does he have to make?
Gamemaster:A will save, I assume?
Argyle:It's a will.
Argyle:are you kidding?
Anzu:Brutal.
Johnny:The target's right now.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:The apothecary bug got a 25.
Argyle:That's awful.
Anzu:It worked.
Argyle:Why am I frightened?
Anzu:No, the bug is frightened, so it got a penalty.
Argyle:Ah.
Gamemaster:The target is right.
Gamemaster:The bug is frightened because Johnny is playing a very scary song.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:I see.
Johnny:Right now it's me.
Gamemaster:And so it hits.
Gamemaster:Does a 25 beat your spell DC?
Argyle:Great.
Gamemaster:I believe it does.
Argyle:It does.
Gamemaster:So he's not baned.
Argyle:I think mine's 23.
Argyle:Um.
Argyle:this isn't unholy right
Argyle:okay
Anzu:you
Johnny:That's okay.
Benny:Oh.
Gamemaster:The bug is not unholy. Actually, I think that's an oversight on my part. The bug should be unholy. It is of an unholy guy. I'm going to give him the unholy trait because he should count as unholy.
Argyle:okay dope
Argyle:all right so he does uh
Gamemaster:okay absolutely is this a biden blast oh no it's not but i know what it is
Argyle:14 fire and 20 holy spirit
Argyle:And then.
Benny:Oh.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:laughter
Argyle:And then I guess I'll take a strike?
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay, he takes the 34 point damage.
Argyle:Yeah, I guess I'll take a strike.
Gamemaster:That hits.
Argyle:Great.
Argyle:That mod...
Argyle:Oh, wait. No, no, no, no, no. Sorry.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:33 minus 5?
Argyle:That's doing two-hand.
Argyle:Change group.
Argyle:Wait, would 33 minus 5 have hit?
Gamemaster:Yes, it would happen.
Argyle:28.
Argyle:Okay. I fucked everything
Gamemaster:It would happen.
Argyle:every part of this up.
Gamemaster:Okay, well, it still hits.
Argyle:No, no, no, no, no, no.
Argyle:Apparently I was...
Argyle:What the fuck's happening?
Gamemaster:You just rolled two-hand again.
Argyle:I just...
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Oh no, the first time was one-handed.
Argyle:Oh, never mind.
Gamemaster:It was 2d8 plus 3.
Argyle:D8s were such a high number, so we'll keep the first one.
Argyle:Undo the second one.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:I take 6 points of damage
Gamemaster:from your slashing.
Argyle:Sorry.
Argyle:It shows change grip, and then it shows two-hand,
Argyle:so I thought that's what I was on.
Gamemaster:Hmm.
Argyle:But really, when you click it, it turns it into two-hand.
Argyle:All right, that's my turn.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Okay, then next that brings us to the swarm.
Argyle:Thank you Thank you you
Anzu:Basically, it only damages when I activate, so right now all the debris is on the ground,
Johnny:Thank you Seems like i missing out ah
Benny:Thank you Thank you attack kill kill kill
Gamemaster:Buddy, stop eating that.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It is the swarm's turn.
Gamemaster:I don't think the swarm wants to stay in the whirling knife pit.
Gamemaster:Knife pit.
Anzu:but clattering.
Anzu:Yeah no that fair
Gamemaster:Yeah I still don think they want to stand in that That one action
Johnny:murder
Benny:murder murder
Gamemaster:How about that?
Gamemaster:Oh.
Anzu:Oh my gosh, it's on top of Bendy.
Gamemaster:I didn't mean to do that.
Gamemaster:That hits.
Gamemaster:Take your swipe, Benny.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:I'd like to kill the buzzle.
Gamemaster:Stop.
Benny:21.
Gamemaster:21 points of damage.
Gamemaster:Drops them below the threshold,
Gamemaster:and once again, the spider near Benny just drops dead.
Gamemaster:That said, they spent one action getting up close to you.
Gamemaster:We're going to use the second action
Gamemaster:to do a good old mandible frenzy.
Benny:Hmm.
Gamemaster:Um, so you are all within five feet of the spee-eaters, so please attempt this reflex save.
Benny:Of course.
Argyle:Did they make my bane?
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Basic refund.
Johnny:Basic refund.
Gamemaster:Um, oh probably not. Let me, let me roll a will save for them.
Gamemaster:Uh, they failed.
Benny:I use my reaction.
Gamemaster:Um, they failed the bait.
Argyle:Alright.
Argyle:Oh, that only affects attack rolls, so this doesn't even bother.
Gamemaster:Okay, that's good.
Benny:Bird.
Anzu:I received a critical success.
Johnny:I was distracted by the bug on my neck and I did fail.
Anzu:Yes.
Gamemaster:Johnny fails.
Gamemaster:Argyle fails.
Gamemaster:Benny succeeds.
Gamemaster:Benny is going to take half damage.
Gamemaster:Those of you who failed are going to take full damage.
Gamemaster:Anzu is unaffected.
Benny:Bird.
Anzu:Fighters have nothing on birds.
Gamemaster:So 17 points of damage or halved if you succeeded And then for those of you that failed I would love it if you could what is the DC on this one What do you even have to do here
Argyle:Thank you We just made one of those
Benny:you
Anzu:Oh gosh You going to give Johnny another disease
Johnny:you I getting out of here so diseased
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:Yes.
Gamemaster:Uh... no, you don't have to make it, it's not a disease, I need you to make a reflex
Gamemaster:save.
Gamemaster:Yeah, well, you have to make another one.
Gamemaster:That is how the game works.
Gamemaster:Once you're done making a save, you have to make another save.
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:disgusting
Johnny:26.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:26 is a success!
Gamemaster:Unfortunately a 20 is a failure, so 20.
Gamemaster:Argyle, you are ensnared by the spee-eyeders and you are grabbed.
Argyle:I need out of that.
Gamemaster:Anzu, it's your turn.
Anzu:disgusting
Anzu:okay
Anzu:Yes.
Argyle:Do you have a carry one?
Johnny:I hate these powers.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:You got a spider on your shoulder.
Gamemaster:You are beset on all sides by spiders.
Anzu:Yes.
Anzu:We unleash the psyche!
Gamemaster:Spiders.
Anzu:The...
Anzu:The bug?
Gamemaster:Your psyche, it's unleashed.
Anzu:Um, shoot.
Gamemaster:I'm gonna put this bug over here so that it's in the orders and stuff.
Anzu:How much damage was done to the one bug?
Anzu:Yeah, how much damage did you do to it?
Argyle:I think like 30-ish in total.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:34.
Gamemaster:Um...
Gamemaster:I...
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:I'm gonna put this bug over here so that it's in the orders and stuff.
Anzu:Okay.
Argyle:34 plus 6.
Anzu:Alright, then I'm going to target that bug, and I'm going to cast an Amped Frostbite.
Argyle:So 40.
Argyle:If it makes you feel any better,
Argyle:the big spiders have a slightly more reddish injured.
Gamemaster:Wait what did you just say Oh okay You going off the coloration of the
Argyle:So they look slightly more injured.
Anzu:the the The font the Yeah I still going for the apothecary bug on Johnny with you can make
Argyle:The big spiders look slightly more injured because they redder Yeah
Johnny:Thank you
Benny:Thank you
Gamemaster:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Argyle:
Argyle:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:this basic fortitude save.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:yes
Gamemaster:He rolled bad.
Anzu:Sing
Johnny:Yes.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:The bug rolled bad. It wasn't me. I was fine. It was the bug.
Argyle:oh
Johnny:Yes.
Johnny:Argo, can you fix disease and toxins?
Johnny:Am I like this forever?
Gamemaster:The bug takes 31 points of damage, and it is bloodied!
Anzu:Oh, God.
Argyle:you
Johnny:Why is this one bug stronger than all these big spiders?
Gamemaster:Johnny, I have a question for you.
Gamemaster:Do you have any potions on you?
Johnny:Do I have a minor healing potion, a potion of emergency escape, and an addiction suppressant?
Benny:Oh, nice.
Gamemaster:Awesome.
Johnny:Greater.
Gamemaster:I need you to make...
Gamemaster:We're only doing reflex saves this time.
Anzu:It's going to explode your potions.
Argyle:After drinking one of them.
Gamemaster:Do a reflex save for me, please.
Johnny:All my potions are...
Johnny:Seems like it.
Anzu:Oh no.
Argyle:Oh no.
Johnny:Okay.
Gamemaster:one, a critical failure. Sorry, what were the potions again?
Johnny:a healing potion, minor,
Benny:Oh, and he got a good roll.
Johnny:a potion of emergency escape,
Johnny:and an addiction suppressant, greater.
Gamemaster:The apothecary bug is going to climb into your bag and slurp up your healing potion.
Johnny:So, oh, just the healing potion?
Anzu:This is ridiculous.
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:Just the healing potion.
Johnny:Do you want me to roll the healing for it, Josh?
Gamemaster:Yes, please, roll the healing for it.
Johnny:So mad.
Johnny:it couldn't have taken the
Gamemaster:Awesome!
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:potion of urgency escape
Gamemaster:No, it would have been random had you
Argyle:Johnny's op.
Anzu:That's crazy, bro.
Johnny:I hate this bug.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:only regular failed.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Okay, sorry, Anzu,
Gamemaster:it's your turn still.
Johnny:Bug is my worst enemy.
Benny:you
Anzu:So...
Anzu:The next thing I want to do is send out a Psiburst, but I don't know who I want to hit.
Anzu:I guess we just keep going for the apothecary bug
Johnny:Most definitely the bug.
Argyle:Thank you.
Johnny:I hate this book.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Fun fact, the apothecary bug has potion sight. That's a real thing.
Anzu:so
Anzu:bro that's
Anzu:that should not be
Johnny:This book is my enemy.
Anzu:we're mind shifting this
Anzu:it's a will save
Anzu:yes also yes same guy
Gamemaster:Okay, which one is this? Is this Johnny's bug?
Anzu:alright we gotta cancel out
Gamemaster:Also bad.
Argyle:you
Johnny:Okay.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:You do more than cancel it out.
Anzu:the healing potion let's see
Anzu:yes we do better than the healing potion
Anzu:and with my final action
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:Knock that right back out of its system.
Gamemaster:Anything else?
Anzu:to calculate threats.
Anzu:There are spiders.
Gamemaster:There are indeed spiders.
Johnny:have such beef.
Argyle:Hell yeah Thank you Bye
Benny:Thank you I like to solve the puzzle
Gamemaster:Does this work if I select you?
Gamemaster:And I do that.
Gamemaster:Did that do anything?
Gamemaster:It didn't.
Gamemaster:There's a macro called Bane.
Anzu:you
Gamemaster:So I was curious to see what would happen.
Gamemaster:What if I do that?
Gamemaster:Oh, there we go.
Gamemaster:Bane All right that the end of your turn because you calculating threats and that brings us to Benny Benny you just lost the effect of parry
Anzu:you
Johnny:you non ho mai no
Gamemaster:yes
Gamemaster:double slice
Gamemaster:okay double slice
Benny:I'd like to solve the puzzle.
Gamemaster:it hits
Gamemaster:you hit him
Benny:These guys aren't bloodied.
Argyle:And since your attacks actually go as one,
Anzu:you
Johnny:Grazie.
Benny:correct
Gamemaster:No, they're just injured.
Argyle:it won't be bloodied by the second one.
Gamemaster:Um,
Benny:got him
Gamemaster:alright, so
Gamemaster:do a hit.
Gamemaster:Do attack hit.
Gamemaster:Hit attack.
Gamemaster:That's a crit.
Argyle:Ooh.
Gamemaster:Goddamn.
Gamemaster:Roll critical damage.
Argyle:is is
Anzu:you
Johnny:Grazie a tutti.
Benny:twin second attack hold on let me let me check something
Gamemaster:He's checking.
Benny:that's saying it's giving me two more damage
Gamemaster:uh he is caught up in webs and is he has the grabbed condition but he's grabbed by webs
Benny:uh hold on twin pf2e
Argyle:Argyle grabbed by a spider or just caught up in webs
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:you
Johnny:Grazie a tutti.
Benny:Oh, it's just crits.
Argyle:so if the spiders all miraculously died
Gamemaster:correct
Argyle:he's not freed that's what i'm asking
Argyle:yeah that's what i figured
Gamemaster:yes correct
Gamemaster:the webs don't disappear when the spiders
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:stop
Benny:Yeah, it's with a butterfly sword.
Benny:I thought this thing.
Benny:Like crazy.
Benny:I did more.
Benny:That's fine.
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Grazie a tutti Thank you
Benny:Oh because it Perry I see I thought this was one of the fatal or the deadly but it not because it has disarm finesse Perry 800 utility things
Gamemaster:you Absolutely that is enough to take out the spider near you
Benny:But it does 26 nonetheless.
Benny:Wait.
Benny:26.
Benny:26.
Benny:That should be...
Benny:that should be more hold on
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:Oh,
Gamemaster:um is your butterfly sword uh your barrow's edge weapon
Benny:I don't know why my Barrow's Edge
Benny:didn't proc that should have been
Benny:it's four more for Barrow's Edge
Benny:four more spirit
Benny:yes because I have twin stars
Gamemaster:interesting okay i think it it's just the the twin stars didn't update for
Benny:which makes my icon
Benny:twinned weapons
Benny:I can take one weapon and split into two
Johnny:okay.
Benny:I have to click it.
Gamemaster:whatever your
Argyle:That's cool that you have different ones.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:weapons are supposed to be.
Gamemaster:Okay, either way, how much more damage is that supposed to be?
Benny:Yeah, well, they're also shifting
Benny:for
Benny:Spirit.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Alright.
Gamemaster:Anything else?
Benny:Yes.
Gamemaster:He's parrying.
Gamemaster:Anything else after that?
Benny:Yes.
Benny:No.
Gamemaster:Johnny, it's your turn.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:absolutely
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:and then use bone mouth.
Gamemaster:roll a diplomacy check against his DC
Gamemaster:you've killed Tanner
Gamemaster:Tanner thought you were talking about him
Gamemaster:Sorry.
Johnny:Oh God, Tanner, I didn't mean you.
Johnny:Plus 14 diplomacy, that's whack.
Benny:Thank you you
Johnny:Oh, success, just a regular success.
Johnny:I hate this bug.
Gamemaster:Sorry.
Argyle:you you
Anzu:you you
Johnny:And because of my whatever that the feat where I a mythic person it takes seven
Gamemaster:Oh You get a mythic point
Johnny:points of psychic damage.
Gamemaster:Oh, seven points of psychic damage.
Johnny:One action.
Gamemaster:Absolutely, he's bloodied.
Gamemaster:He's been bloodied, but he continues to be bloodied.
Johnny:Second action.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Hate this guy.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:I like how I can see the target reticles of you guys because it looks like there are three
Johnny:Um...
Johnny:I need someone to go through attack crit.
Johnny:When does this bug go? Bug goes next?
Johnny:Oh my god.
Johnny:This bug is truly horrible.
Gamemaster:people targeting this teeny bug all at the same time.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:I think he's cute.
Gamemaster:I mean, not the actual picture.
Gamemaster:It's disgusting.
Gamemaster:But the idea of a little bug that goes around with like potions and stuff is kind of cute.
Johnny:I will, I'm going to Flourish Cast Fear on this bug.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:There's a spooky scary face on him.
Johnny:I'm just hoping it really fits.
Gamemaster:Oh, he rolled really well.
Gamemaster:He's a... he's frightened one.
Johnny:I have never, I've never hated an enemy like I hate this bug.
Gamemaster:He's already frightened one.
Gamemaster:Johnny's arch nemesis is just like a little guy.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:doctors
Johnny:I guess I'll just, I still, I have one action left.
Gamemaster:Anything else?
Gamemaster:Peck him.
Johnny:I'm going to use inventive vulnerability on this guy.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Nope, he doesn't fall for it.
Johnny:And try to inventive...
Johnny:I'm trying to deceive this guy into...
Johnny:I don't know.
Johnny:Flashing damage.
Johnny:I hate this bug.
Gamemaster:He knows he's not weak to slashing damage.
Johnny:This bug is my arch enemy.
Gamemaster:You can't fool this bug.
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:That's my turn.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:It's the bug's turn!
Johnny:I hate this bug.
Gamemaster:The bug is gonna try and bite you.
Gamemaster:Or sting you.
Gamemaster:He hits.
Gamemaster:I'm so sorry.
Gamemaster:Uh, can you do me a favor and roll a d8?
Gamemaster:Oh!
Gamemaster:We didn't resolve this last time.
Gamemaster:A six!
Gamemaster:so fun. Uh, okay. So, first, we need to, first you need to roll a fortitude save to see if you save
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:It's fast?
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:against the sloughing toxin. Um, which, what? Yeah, no, onset is one round. Um, uh, 28, you succeed.
Johnny:Oh, God.
Johnny:Okay.
Gamemaster:You're no longer affected by the sloughing toxin, which is great, because that's just in time for
Johnny:Cool.
Gamemaster:you to be affected by Clown Monarch.
Gamemaster:I need you to make another Fortitude save,
Gamemaster:this time for the poison getting injected this round.
Johnny:Okay.
Argyle:Ha ha ha ha.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Is this a real monster or did you make this up?
Benny:Wait, I missed what the effect was?
Gamemaster:What?
Gamemaster:No, this is a real guy.
Johnny:I hate this bug.
Gamemaster:28.
Gamemaster:28.
Benny:it forces you into the optimal
Gamemaster:So you've fallen
Gamemaster:just for stage 1, thankfully,
Gamemaster:of Clown Monarch,
Gamemaster:which means that you're going to
Gamemaster:fall prone, and you must make a
Gamemaster:DC 5 flat check if you want to try and stand up.
Gamemaster:As your legs fall out from underneath you.
Johnny:Well, now it's optimal, so...
Argyle:you
Anzu:you
Johnny:That 28 wasn't good enough to pass that?
Benny:optimal
Gamemaster:Great.
Gamemaster:That's the end of Fatbug's turn.
Gamemaster:The 20-in is a success, so you only go to stage one.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:If you had failed, you would have gone to stage two, which is worse.
Gamemaster:It ApolloCarriebug2 turn He is going to attack Anzu That a crit
Benny:you
Argyle:you you
Anzu:Ah That tough
Johnny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:Which is problems, because both are going to take double the damage from the Stinger,
Gamemaster:but also the roll that you have is going to be reduced by one stage.
Gamemaster:So I need you to roll a d8 for me, please.
Argyle:you
Anzu:Okay.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:A two! Oh, that's boring, it's just Spider Venom.
Gamemaster:Um, roll a Fortitude save, please.
Gamemaster:A 23 is a success, brought down to a failure because you were crit on.
Gamemaster:So you're gonna start with stage two of Spider Venom, which means you're going to take 1d12
Gamemaster:poison damage, you are sickened two, and you are clumsy one.
Argyle:you
Anzu:That sounds brutal.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Anzu:Um...
Anzu:I'm taking...
Anzu:You're going to roll damage?
Gamemaster:Uh, yes I am.
Gamemaster:I just need to find, there's the sickened.
Gamemaster:And...
Gamemaster:...
Gamemaster:...
Gamemaster:Take seven points of poison damage.
Gamemaster:Okay, that's our turn.
Argyle:What are my ways of, can I get out of this?
Anzu:That was tough.
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Gamemaster:You can.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:You're grabbed, so if you want, you can attempt to escape, I believe.
Argyle:Okay, what's the DC, do I know?
Gamemaster:It is an action.
Gamemaster:I don't tell you the DC, but you can either attempt an unarmed attack or an athletics check or a...
Benny:you
Argyle:Swift shut.
Gamemaster:No.
Argyle:Okay so my
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you you
Benny:you I think technically
Gamemaster:Acrobatics or athletics Unarmed acrobatics or athletics unarmed acrobatics or athletics uh where do you see this
Argyle:Is a striking gauntlet unarmed?
Argyle:Unarmed?
Gamemaster:oh I see
Gamemaster:uh no it is not
Argyle:It's freehand.
Gamemaster:It's a weapon. It's freehand, which means you can hold something in it, but it is not an unarmed attack.
Argyle:Okay.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:Oh.
Gamemaster:Do you want me to... like, do you not have the unarmed attack? Do you want me to add that to your character sheet?
Argyle:Yeah, that'd be great.
Gamemaster:Done.
Argyle:When you're not wielding anything
Argyle:not otherwise using the hand,
Argyle:you can use abilities that require you to have a free hand as well.
Argyle:Cool. Okay.
Argyle:Yes. Is it added to my? Yes. Strike, I'll do this.
Gamemaster:It is?
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you
Argyle:Some free. OK.
Gamemaster:That is a success. You are no longer grabbed.
Argyle:Skills. Treat wounds.
Argyle:On my boy.
Argyle:on my boy.
Argyle:It's a critical success.
Gamemaster:Does it also apply to the bug on them?
Argyle:You can apply that healing.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Thank you. Does that heal me of any of my diseases and poisons, by the way?
Benny:Oh, yes.
Argyle:And I get a mythic...
Argyle:Oh, no, no. That was for Johnny.
Benny:No, I know.
Argyle:Not till next level!
Argyle:No!
Argyle:This bug is a real pain in the booty.
Argyle:So I will cast...
Argyle:I need to spend that Cast my last third level Flourished
Gamemaster:Roll an attack roll That hits
Anzu:you you
Johnny:Thank you It knows exactly what it is
Benny:Thank you
Argyle:Dammit.
Gamemaster:Potions say there's a precise sense.
Gamemaster:29.
Argyle:29.
Gamemaster:That kills that bug, alright.
Argyle:I burn it off, Johnny.
Gamemaster:It perishes.
Argyle:As I'm patching him up, I just put a hand on the bug, and I'm like, not for you, and then I burn it off.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I hate bugs.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Argyle:And that is my turn.
Gamemaster:Excellent.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Next up is the swarm.
Gamemaster:The swarm is afeard because it is near Johnny
Gamemaster:and Johnny is still singing his scary song.
Gamemaster:They're just going to do a three-action mandible frenzy this time.
Gamemaster:So everybody but Benny needs to attempt this reflex save.
Argyle:Not nice.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:The basic reflex.
Benny:Oh, nice.
Argyle:Success.
Benny:Not nice.
Johnny:Nice.
Johnny:All right, Anzu, we get it.
Gamemaster:Two successes and a crit.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Johnny:You're not getting hit by the bugs.
Johnny:We get it.
Gamemaster:And I rolled low on this damage as well.
Gamemaster:14 halved to those who succeeded,
Gamemaster:and that is the end of the Swarm's turn.
Gamemaster:That brings us to Anzu.
Argyle:...
Anzu:sick.
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Argyle:...
Argyle:...
Argyle:...
Anzu:I think that...
Argyle:...
Argyle:...
Argyle:...
Anzu:Am I allowed to retch
Argyle:...
Anzu:for this sickened, or does the, like,
Argyle:...
Anzu:does anything else prevent me from reducing?
Argyle:...
Gamemaster:No, I think...
Argyle:...
Gamemaster:One second.
Gamemaster:Let me read...
Argyle:...
Argyle:...
Gamemaster:Uh, Spider Venom?
Argyle:Anji gets bit once and just starts puking.
Argyle:Hugh King.
Anzu:you
Johnny:Bye.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:So the answer is is that you can retch, uh, but if you
Argyle:you
Anzu:Oh, do I get to also save against the venom at some point?
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you, like, next round
Gamemaster:it'll come back.
Gamemaster:Because you still have the spider venom in you.
Gamemaster:I'm so sorry.
Gamemaster:At the end of your turn, you'll make a save against the venom.
Gamemaster:Like, that's...
Anzu:So there's a chance if I retch it might not come back.
Gamemaster:You are currently at stage two.
Gamemaster:So if you critically succeed, then it'll go away.
Argyle:you
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:Oh.
Anzu:Okay.
Anzu:I think?
Anzu:Right, I guess I won't retch.
Anzu:Um...
Gamemaster:Um, I don't think there's anything that stops you from doing that.
Argyle:Any attempt to not to separate himself from the bug?
Johnny:you
Benny:Thank you.
Anzu:This bug is
Anzu:on me.
Anzu:So I can't
Anzu:really target him with a
Anzu:telekinetic projectile, can I?
Anzu:Alright, shoot!
Gamemaster:Um, I mean, you'd have to, like, throw it.
Anzu:I don't want to do that just yet.
Gamemaster:That'd be the equivalent of a grapple.
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:Yeah.
Johnny:Thank you Right through the bug
Benny:Thank you you It crawls in his ear and he just aims a ball bearing it
Anzu:All right, we're going to cast SureStrike
Anzu:on Lemmy
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:and cast an Amped Telekinetic Projectile
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Anzu:on the bug.
Anzu:We call it bludgeoning goose squash bugs
Gamemaster:you That hits
Argyle:I got attempts to know on the attempts to blow his own brains out
Argyle:laughs
Argyle:laughs
Argyle:laughs
Anzu:I've hit...
Argyle:laughs
Gamemaster:That hits.
Gamemaster:that's a good amount of damage
Benny:Oh.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:Yes, I have one action remaining.
Johnny:Offensive defense.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:absolutely
Gamemaster:35 points of damage
Gamemaster:he's injured but that took a chunk
Gamemaster:anything else you'd like to do?
Anzu:Do I use it for offense or defense?
Gamemaster:Offensive defense.
Anzu:Probably with the state of things, defense.
Argyle:you
Anzu:We're going to calculate threats because it mostly offsets my sickened.
Johnny:Let's come.
Benny:1 plus 1.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:Ooh.
Gamemaster:Before we go to Benny,
Gamemaster:can you make a Fortitude save
Gamemaster:to see how you do against this
Gamemaster:Spider Venom?
Anzu:Okay.
Gamemaster:That is
Gamemaster:a success.
Gamemaster:So you drop down to stage one.
Gamemaster:You are now only second one
Anzu:Okay.
Gamemaster:and you are not clumsy.
Gamemaster:And you're going to take an additional
Gamemaster:D10 poison damage.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:What?
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Can I walk through this spider?
Anzu:I took damage for doing well?
Gamemaster:I'm going to take five points of poison damage.
Gamemaster:Yeah, it would have been worse if it went the other direction.
Anzu:That's fair.
Gamemaster:Benny, it's your turn.
Gamemaster:You can tumble through the spider.
Benny:Oh, that's a whole thing.
Argyle:a movement to go around it
Anzu:you you
Johnny:you you
Benny:year fifteen Yeah 15 5 25 uh I would like to oh
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Just to clarify, the bug is not adjacent to you right now.
Gamemaster:The bug is on Anzu, the apothecary bug.
Gamemaster:it's just separate because we um
Gamemaster:if you wanna okay
Argyle:Johnny
Anzu:you
Johnny:No.
Benny:he's moving away from me
Gamemaster:I'm gonna move him over here
Gamemaster:once again it's not a perfect representation
Gamemaster:it's just
Benny:um
Gamemaster:now you are considered adjacent to the apothecary bug
Argyle:He's going for Johnny
Gamemaster:he's going for Johnny
Argyle:He's going for Johnny
Argyle:Kill it
Johnny:
Johnny:No.
Gamemaster:he wants to give Johnny more clown monarch
Gamemaster:and sloughing toxin
Gamemaster:and antipode oil
Johnny:No.
Benny:um
Benny:yeah the apothecary bug does
Gamemaster:and midnight milk
Gamemaster:and just mustard powder
Gamemaster:Okay.
Benny:go next
Benny:in terms of enemies
Benny:I'd like to solve the puzzle
Argyle:Yes!
Anzu:you
Johnny:Is the puzzle solved yet?
Benny:yep
Benny:how about
Gamemaster:That hits.
Gamemaster:Roll your other attack.
Gamemaster:oh
Benny:I use one of my mythic points
Benny:and we kill
Gamemaster:he's going for it
Benny:the bug
Benny:big buddy no whammies
Johnny:Yes.
Argyle:Big money no whammies
Anzu:I try not to flinch.
Johnny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:a crit
Gamemaster:that's a
Gamemaster:that's a crit specifically because the target
Benny:47 actually wait i gotta make my second i gotta make my second attack
Gamemaster:is frightened and you are blessed
Gamemaster:47 points
Gamemaster:yeah make your second
Gamemaster:make your second attack
Gamemaster:okay
Benny:This one just a normal damage This twin second attack 12 on that one
Argyle:you
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:you Yes I looked into this and I have four potions on me
Johnny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:uh all right we will do all that together
Gamemaster:uh great the bug is bloodied azu do you have any potions on you
Benny:Nice.
Gamemaster:absolutely
Gamemaster:roll a reflex save for me please
Argyle:holy water
Anzu:I shall.
Johnny:But once the, if the bug drinks it, it explodes the potion, right?
Benny:you
Gamemaster:you're just carrying that around
Argyle:do it
Anzu:Oh my god!
Gamemaster:I'm so sorry
Anzu:Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Gamemaster:I'm so sorry
Anzu:I'm wondering if this is...
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:I might as well mythic point at this point.
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:Oh hey!
Gamemaster:Uh, that's a success!
Gamemaster:The bug does not get to drink any of your potions.
Argyle:you
Anzu:right
Johnny:I hate...
Benny:Oh, no, that's it.
Anzu:there was a healing potion in there
Gamemaster:Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Anzu:so
Anzu:yeah why would you
Gamemaster:Good to know, good to know.
Gamemaster:Uh,
Gamemaster:Benny, it's still your turn if you have anything else you'd
Gamemaster:like to do. Unless that was all your actions.
Benny:That was it, yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:Johnny, it's your turn.
Gamemaster:You're on the ground.
Johnny:I'm not getting up.
Gamemaster:And, uh...
Gamemaster:Okay.
Anzu:nah
Argyle:I don't think so.
Johnny:Yeah, why would I get up?
Benny:Thank you.
Johnny:God, do we think there are going to be more things to fight?
Anzu:this has gotta be it
Johnny:I cast Horde of Underlings on the bug!
Gamemaster:Okay.
Benny:you
Johnny:I'm so mad.
Johnny:I didn't even do the vulnerability thing.
Johnny:They're just going to town on it.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Gamemaster:They each do 1d4 slashing.
Anzu:you
Argyle:you
Johnny:you
Argyle:All these underlings just circle Anzu
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:Yep.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:So just roll 64 slashing.
Argyle:and they just start hacking at his neck.
Argyle:you
Gamemaster:Wait, sorry.
Gamemaster:Is this on the apothecary bug or on the big bugs?
Johnny:Apothecary bug.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:A swarm of six things appear round on you
Gamemaster:and start stabbing the bug on them.
Johnny:They're all just tiny Johnnies going, how do you like it?
Gamemaster:And they deal 14.
Gamemaster:The bug is mortal, but it is still alive.
Anzu:you
Johnny:I Flourish-casted that as my last action.
Benny:punch it
Johnny:I'm just gonna bone mow this guy.
Argyle:Hmm.
Benny:punch it
Benny:bite the bug
Gamemaster:Peck him!
Johnny:I will probably do more damage doing this than biting the bug.
Gamemaster:Peck him!
Benny:bite the bug
Gamemaster:It works for my bird.
Johnny:You know, I've won one million points.
Johnny:Fuck it.
Johnny:I'll attack the bug.
Johnny:I will strike the bug with this dagger.
Gamemaster:He's attacking the bug!
Gamemaster:He strikes the bug!
Anzu:you
Johnny:I hate this book.
Benny:Oh.
Gamemaster:He misses the bug!
Gamemaster:He uses a mythic point, and he crits on the bug!
Argyle:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Okay, sorry, before you roll damage, I don't know how much damage you do with this dagger.
Johnny:Not a lot.
Gamemaster:This bug has seven hit points.
Johnny:There's a chance I don't
Benny:Oh.
Johnny:read this book.
Benny:I thought
Benny:it gets more likely than not.
Gamemaster:There's seven hit points!
Benny:Is it? Oh no, it's 2D4.
Anzu:That should be good.
Johnny:Johnny is just like
Benny:Oh,
Gamemaster:The bug is dead!
Gamemaster:Dead!
Argyle:Thank you Yeah
Anzu:Johnny, get it.
Johnny:full Rambo
Johnny:just
Johnny:covered in bug guts
Gamemaster:And the bug
Gamemaster:explodes, leaving the remnants
Gamemaster:of whatever poisons in its system
Gamemaster:just spread throughout the floor Is that the end of your turn Okay make a Forged and save against the Clown Monarch in your system
Johnny:yeah that all I got
Anzu:you you
Benny:you Thank you
Gamemaster:That's a success! You are no longer affected by Clown Monarch. You may stand
Gamemaster:up if you like. Not right now, but just in general. That brings us to Argyle.
Johnny:Nope.
Johnny:I'm just saying.
Johnny:Just lay on the ground.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Argo's just, I guess, going to...
Anzu:you
Johnny:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:He's really injured.
Argyle:I'm just going to cast...
Argyle:I'm just going to swing at this guy.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Argyle:Swing!
Gamemaster:That's a hit.
Argyle:Great, great, great, great.
Argyle:You know what?
Argyle:I'll mythic it, because
Argyle:why not?
Argyle:go for the
Anzu:you
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Nine points of damage.
Argyle:no I'm going to take my next one
Argyle:alright I'll take this damage
Argyle:great
Argyle:oh shit okay
Gamemaster:It is mortal.
Argyle:I didn't know it was that close
Argyle:I'm sorry guys
Argyle:yeah I'll just strike it now
Argyle:strike
Argyle:minus 5
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:That's a crit.
Argyle:yeah
Anzu:Simply electric.
Johnny:Sh con Sa m
Benny:Get the bugs, get the bugs.
Gamemaster:That's a natural 20 crit.
Argyle:32
Gamemaster:32 points of damage takes out the bug!
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:yeah
Argyle:yeah
Gamemaster:And you guys have cleared out all of the arachnids that have come for you in your time in this
Johnny:I
Argyle:is there a heart in this room
Gamemaster:hallway.
Johnny:n
Argyle:before we go to commercial break?
Johnny:of respect
Anzu:Oh boo
Johnny:Okay.
Benny:Yeah you gotta
Gamemaster:we find out next time As we will end this session
Johnny:Okay, let's talk.
Argyle:Nah I won have to
Gamemaster:as you are at the foot of the steps
Gamemaster:of this strange room
Gamemaster:surrounded by the corpses of spiders of your foes.
Gamemaster:We'll find out next time if there's a heart in this room.
Gamemaster:Or perhaps in the room that is further up the stairs.
Gamemaster:Who knows?
Johnny:We walk in there and there's a big spider.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:We're a little low on resources.
Benny:Yeah, also, I mean, what a...
Gamemaster:Yeah, yeah that would suck.
Johnny:no Josh don't laugh like that
Johnny:don't laugh like that
Benny:What a pompous group of adventurers to make statues of themselves.
Johnny:excuse me
Gamemaster:That would be terrible if there was a big spider in this area with spiders in it. That would be crazy.
Johnny:you have big spider
Anzu:I don't know if they did it themselves.
Benny:I mean, come on.
Benny:Clearly this is their
Argyle:I hope we're going to be able to long rest in here.
Anzu:you
Gamemaster:That's... that must be it.
Benny:prior fortress where they
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:founded an organization and they put
Benny:statues of themselves in it.
Gamemaster:Yeah, of course.
Benny:Is there any other explanation?
Argyle:
Benny:Well, we can always just flip over one of the
Benny:boats and hide.
Gamemaster:The boats aren't there.
Gamemaster:There are no boats.
Benny:I feel like I'm being gaslit
Gamemaster:There's no boats and also I don't...
Argyle:There's just a.
Anzu:Is this a bunch of myrrh right here?
Benny:I'm being gaslit
Johnny:It's everywhere.
Benny:I'm hungry I ate the blue
Gamemaster:There's no boats and there are no blue frogs right over here.
Johnny:Okay.
Gamemaster:Don't look at those blue frogs.
Johnny:What about this ginger?
Gamemaster:They're not there.
Benny:Okay fine I eat the salamanders
Gamemaster:No.
Benny:Here then
Gamemaster:Stop it.
Johnny:Ginger?
Benny:Yeah the ginger
Johnny:These work?
Benny:I eat the bones over here
Gamemaster:Don't eat the bones.
Benny:Bye Honey or pee
Gamemaster:It is a weird...
Gamemaster:Yeah it might be It looks like they have bones ginger horseradish myrrh and I don know what the yellow blob is
Argyle:I smoke it
Anzu:you Oh from the piston room
Johnny:Thank you You only have two options
Gamemaster:Maybe mustard?
Benny:Yeah.
Benny:Yeah, from.
Gamemaster:Yes, pee from the piston room.
Gamemaster:Of course.
Argyle:Maybe it's gold.
Gamemaster:It just doesn't look like gold to me.
Benny:Golden piss.
Argyle:Thank you.
Anzu:This is like an outdoor area.
Johnny:Nothing enough water.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:I just, I didn't even see this before.
Gamemaster:I got so caught up on the boats, I didn't realize there were trees.
Gamemaster:There definitely aren't trees.
Gamemaster:Ignore the trees.
Johnny:What?
Johnny:Why are there boats and trees? Are we in a bog? Is that what...
Anzu:There's water down here.
Gamemaster:This is, yeah, this is an alternative map to, I just, I wanted, like, the map looked cool,
Gamemaster:and so I overlooked the bits of it that, um, weren't as, uh, like, just didn't fit as much,
Gamemaster:But the actual thing looks a whole lot different.
Argyle:Do you guys have any special ways of long resting?
Anzu:And I assume these are all like stairs.
Johnny:I like to lay on my side.
Benny:Thank you.
Gamemaster:Let me see if I can find a, like, the original.
Argyle:Okay.
Gamemaster:This is the original.
Anzu:I make a little make a little nest and I.
Johnny:I had a cool gingerbread house,
Anzu:Muscle up in there.
Johnny:but I sort of sacrificed it to a heart.
Gamemaster:Yeah, anybody got a
Argyle:you guys don't have like
Anzu:Thank you.
Benny:My way of...
Argyle:any special castles or
Argyle:inside ropes or anything
Argyle:rope trick would be great
Gamemaster:lemondiny hut?
Benny:Or a rope trick?
Argyle:it's not in the divine
Gamemaster:See,
Gamemaster:that's, you guys, I've made you
Gamemaster:too complacent that you've just
Gamemaster:not been in areas for long
Gamemaster:enough where you might have to rest with
Gamemaster:enemies nearby, so no one has
Johnny:you
Gamemaster:any spells for doing that.
Argyle:you
Anzu:This is the second.
Benny:you
Gamemaster:Wait, do you still have your
Gamemaster:gingerbread house?
Argyle:No.
Anzu:you
Johnny:No, I sacrificed it.
Benny:No.
Gamemaster:No.
Johnny:Because I thought, I was like, we're not going to be doing a dungeon crawl.
Johnny:We don't need it.
Johnny:Two sessions later.
Benny:Yeah.
Benny:Benny's a special,
Benny:uh,
Benny:Benny's special,
Benny:like a long rest thing is that he doesn't have to.
Benny:Benny has no resources to exhaust.
Benny:He is as fit to fight at the beginning of this as he is at the end.
Benny:So if you guys want a long rest
Argyle:Minus your HP.
Argyle:But I can heal that up at a given time.
Anzu:You have a first level spell slot, a second level spell slot, and a third level spell slot.
Johnny:I'm running low on spells.
Gamemaster:you
Benny:Uh
Benny:Well yeah I mean
Benny:But then I
Benny:That's true
Benny:I also only took 8 points of damage
Johnny:I got attacked by spiders.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:So I have zero fourth levels.
Argyle:I out of So I have two fourth levels all expended I have three of my three third levels expended I have two second ranks and I have two first ranks
Benny:Thank you you you
Anzu:I think this was the boss fight.
Johnny:Yeah, I got two second rank.
Gamemaster:you
Johnny:Yeah, there's no way there's another boss fight after this.
Johnny:There's no way.
Johnny:There's no way there's a bigger spider.
Anzu:Protectorate of the heart.
Anzu:Yeah, there's no way there's anything protecting the heart
Anzu:at the top of these stairs.
Johnny:I feel like we should stay here and watch out for spiders.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:Yeah, we should probably sleep here.
Anzu:Creepy crawly Creepy crawly creepy crawly
Argyle:that'd be good.
Johnny:you I mean we are the heartbreak
Gamemaster:you you
Argyle:And then we're totally going to try to kill this heart
Argyle:if we get it to it, right? We're not going to try to
Argyle:rehab it?
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:Unless it does something critical.
Argyle:No.
Benny:you
Argyle:It can't.
Anzu:Remember the piston room?
Argyle:No, no, it's
Argyle:definitely not doing anything critical because there's spiders
Argyle:running around everywhere.
Gamemaster:Thank you.
Anzu:running rampant you might say
Johnny:Does anyone bring any spider magic?
Benny:Um.
Argyle:Yeah.
Argyle:If it was doing something critical,
Argyle:it would not have that many webs blocking other pistons Yucky
Anzu:yucky
Johnny:Does anyone bring any raid?
Johnny:Does anyone have any raid?
Anzu:i
Argyle:I have spider
Benny:Okay.
Argyle:spray.
Argyle:Yeah.
Anzu:i can agitate the spiders
Argyle:It's a...
Argyle:No, no, no. It does
Argyle:100d10s
Argyle:damage.
Argyle:So.
Johnny:Great.
Gamemaster:To spiders?
Anzu:Nothing ever remains in the area of my animated assault Well I thought that Well here I guess there some utility in the fact
Johnny:Oh no.
Benny:Oops, all spiders.
Argyle:Only to spiders,
Argyle:yeah.
Gamemaster:Oh, that's interesting.
Argyle:But the spiders have to be smaller than 3000 square feet. So there you go.
Gamemaster:So it's not all spiders, is what you're saying.
Argyle:Not all spiders.
Gamemaster:You've just willed a spider that large into existence, Jorge.
Argyle:3001 square feet.
Gamemaster:I hope you're happy.
Johnny:Oh no.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Gamemaster:Why would they It filled with flying swords i i think it would have been like in this particular instance it wasn a particularly
Johnny:But But it
Benny:Thank you you you
Argyle:Ha ha ha ha Yeah
Johnny:It's a good point.
Anzu:that they had to use an action to get away
Anzu:from it.
Benny:you
Anzu:That has to mean something.
Gamemaster:hard choice for them to choose to leave because they were already trying to leave it to go
Benny:you
Anzu:Yeah.
Gamemaster:somewhere else. If it
Anzu:Right.
Gamemaster:had been cast when they were already
Johnny:Thank you.
Benny:Next week.
Gamemaster:where they wanted to be, I think it would have been
Gamemaster:more of a choice. Because then they would have had to
Anzu:Right.
Gamemaster:choose to stay and attack and get hit
Argyle:this was fun gentlemen
Gamemaster:or leave and not attack and
Gamemaster:not get hit. And at which point
Gamemaster:I think they would have just chosen to stay and get hit.
Anzu:Yeah, it's situational.
Gamemaster:But...
Anzu:I haven't found the right situation.
Argyle:next week
Anzu:Yes, of course.
Gamemaster:Next week?
Anzu:I'll be there.
Johnny:in spider place.
Benny:Yep.
Gamemaster:Absolutely.
Gamemaster:See you all then.
Argyle:it is 4th
Argyle:wait just so it is the fourth next weekend yeah happy early birthday
Anzu:On Saturday.
Gamemaster:It is...
Johnny:I'll be.
Anzu:Thank you.
Johnny:For happier.
Anzu:Appreciate that.
Gamemaster:Tanner Day.
Anzu:Yeah, I'll be older next Monday.
Johnny:The birth of the Tanner day.
Anzu:Okay.
Gamemaster:Does that mean I can't kill Anzu next time we play?
Anzu:Be.
Anzu:hmm Hmm
Benny:Older?
Gamemaster:It would be too rude?
Benny:Do you have to cross that out of your notes Someone said we leveled up No one said it
Johnny:Would be kind of rude I already levels up yeah he
Gamemaster:Darn It was on my to list no yeah from Jorge just now he was wrong
Gamemaster:uh the more people who say it the more likely it is you get demoted a level i'm gonna make you fight
Johnny:I heard a lot of people say it
Johnny:I think everyone's saying that
Gamemaster:an AD&D
Johnny:nope
Gamemaster:lich that can just
Gamemaster:take levels from you as one of its
Anzu:you
Gamemaster:attacks. It'll happen.
Johnny:Oh, no.
Benny:That sounds like it's more work for you
Gamemaster:Yeah.
Benny:than Foundry.
Gamemaster:Well, okay,
Gamemaster:so here's the thing.
Gamemaster:It actually
Gamemaster:doesn't take levels, it takes experience.
Gamemaster:And since
Gamemaster:we play with Milestone System,
Gamemaster:I don't know how that would work anyway.
Gamemaster:I guess you're immune.
Benny:It's like the...
Benny:What are they called?
Gamemaster:...
Benny:The quarries.
Gamemaster:Just, just jupe it.
Benny:They just take your milestone memories
Benny:so that you're no longer at that level.
Anzu:Not a holiday, but for me the holiday is Friday.
Johnny:You're on.
Benny:don't you guys remember when we defeated the Giant mushroom?
Benny:I'm losing it.
Gamemaster:Okay.
Benny:No, I'm losing abilities.
Gamemaster:Well, I will see you all Monday then, assuming that's okay, if everybody's around.
Anzu:Peace.
Gamemaster:great
Johnny:Spiders!
Gamemaster:see you then
Benny:Peace.
Anzu:you
Johnny:you
Benny:you