All right, well, welcome back to our show of campaign. We're so glad we got such warm receptions for our first episode, and we're so glad that you came back to check out our second one. So on last week's episode, we had our party, finally got to know each other. All of our four. Four characters came from different walks of life. Bellieth and Seven seem to know each other from before. Seems like Bellith kind of knows Seven's brother, who's gone missing. Seven's kind of closed up about it, but he's kind of determined to find out what happened with his brother as well. We also have our friend TR 33 tree, who is a war forge paladin. And he's kind of, kind of stumbled across this coffee shop. And then we also have Goldorf Firebeard, who also has had some experiences in his backstory with escaping a situation in a cave in a mine where things collapsed. And he found a different kind of way from his brethren of dwarves with his love of mushrooms and praying to a different deity. So these characters need to get themselves a writ if they're going to get themselves over to Cam Shimmerlake. And they finally found a way to do it. And even though they all have different reasons for it, that rid of experience will get them to where they need to be. So they decide to work together. And in this episode, they have discussed with glow Kindle what's required as a proprietor of the brewery. He knows he has to get this cleaned up. And our characters negotiated that if they get those rats taken care of and they come back upstairs alive, that they would get themselves a rid of experience to get themselves to camp Shimmer Lake. And that's what this episode's all about. Our characters going down to a deep, deep, nasty cellar and finding out what's down there and hopefully cleaning up the cause. If we're going to get through this one, we're going to have to do it together. Hope you guys enjoy it. And remember, our episodes release every two weeks, so this one's coming out on a Friday. We'll see you two weeks from now for the next episode. For episode three. Without further ado, let's do it. Welcome to campaign. In this podcast, we're a mix of friends who are here to have some fun and do dnd our way. If you're looking for something that's a little bit on the serious side, it is quite possible that this is not the podcast for you. We are here to have fun. Some of us are some seasoned players, others are kind of new to the game. But regardless, we hope you will enjoy hopping along with us as we set up in our adventure together. In our last episode, we figured out a way to maybe get ourselves a possible writ of assistance. Well, it's not going to be easy, but we're going to have to deal with some rats of unusual size. If we could pull it off, we might just get the writ of assistance that we need to get through to our ultimate destination, Camp Shimmer Lake, where just maybe seven will find out what happened to his brother. And the other characters will maybe figure out some of their mysteries as well. We'll see what happens on this episode of campaign. So just hang tight, gather your sword and board, and get ready for adventure, because it's time for pain campaign. Three, two, one. Let's roll.

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We welcome you back to our unmitigated disaster. A-D-D campaign. With friends, we ask the question of what happens when we combine a coming of age summer camp with D d and the dice of fate. Well, we are going to find that out here yet again. Let's get started. From the murky bottoms of time before time, following a rare mushroom instead of stone, we have Mike playing Goldor, Firebeard, the honest to goodness storm, and druid.

Good evening, everybody.

When this war forge lays its hands upon thee, you better hope for some divine intervention, because wood and metal still has pain and emotion, especially when there's little squirrels running by. Mike Levine is TR 33, the war forge Paladin.

Hello, my friends.

When tracking is needed across a path that seems lost or an arrow needs to find its target that seems too far away, we look no further than Bridget, our tiefling ranger, Bella, who hates plants but loves adventure, and who would rather pull out her bow than engage in pointless conversation.

Hi.

And I am Michael, height off key, ready to rock as always, whether I have my mandolin or my automatone. I play seven, the bard. But it's not about me. I'm going to pass it off to our good friend Liam, the DM. And he's about to get us back into action.

Okay. All right. So glow Kindle says. I can't thank you enough. Please follow me to the cellars. And glow Kindle leads you to a hatch on the floor in the main brewing area. He lifts it up and you can peer into the darkness below. Quick question, just in case you're not familiar with the mechanics or anything. Did anyone either choose to have torches as part of their starting equipment or have access to fire magic?

I have pressed digitation.

Okay, so there are disadvantages to trying to operate in. No. Or dim lighting with a candle, I will say throughout the walls are. What do you call the wall torch things?

Lanterns.

Yeah, sconces. So feel free to light those up as you go. And if you say you do it, I'll just assume you've been doing it. I won't ask you every time, but just, like, if you make mention of it once, that's fine.

Yeah.

I have dark vision.

Perfect.

I don't need to lights up, but I can light up.

I also have dark vision just in case any of you want to go forward and not use the torch.

Fantastic. All right, so do you all enter the cellar? Sure. Who's going in first?

I'm going first. I got this.

So the wooden stairs creak as you descend into the cool, dry air of the cellar, infused with the smell of beer, but also damp fur. Somewhere in the darkness, you hear scrabbling sounds of the claws on the floorboards and a faint squeaking noise, so it's difficult to make out the entire area at once. The floor is taken up by barrels of cask and beers. You can see from the light above that there are torches along the wall. Unlit torches along the wall. Does anyone light the torches?

Press the digitation.

Yeah, sure. So you're lighting them up just as a quick flavor question, does your fire take any certain color?

It has a little bit of green glow initially, and then it goes back to being orange.

Liam, I'm going to cast Shuley on my staff while I'm here.

Yes. Fantastic.

I'm anticipating a couple.

Can I give bardic inspiration to Mike Levine to tree. I'm going to turn to tr 33 holding my hands and say, you rock too hard for one hand.

Yes.

There you go.

So, Levine, I'll say you've probably walked only about this far by the time things happen. So the only clear area is towards the far side of the cellar, which has a dirt floor littered with stones and workman's tools. You're just able to make, even with the torches, just able to make out the hole in the wall mentioned by glow Kindle as well. And that is. I think this is my laser tool. Do you guys see where I'm pointing with the laser tool? Yeah.

So it's on the far side of the room there?

Yeah. Okay, everyone make me a deception check. Sorry, a perception check.

You got it.

Okay. 1520 Nanette.

922.

Wait, don't burn the bardic inspiration.

Do you want to use the bardic inspiration to.

No, he does not no, save that. Save that, my friend. You keep rocking. We certainly are the Benny's bears of adventuring.

All right, so those of you who rolled above a ten start noticing the scattering skittering sounds coming closer. Give me one moment. While you're doing that, all of you can roll for initiative. Except tree.

Wow, things are happening. Dice, we going for big ones?

16?

Silly question. Where is it on the character sheet. Sorry.

Right next to your armor class.

Top middle. Like armor class. Look at them.

Look at them.

Look.

I'm sorry. Top middle. Not that.

Like, right under your proficiency bonus.

Oh, I see that. Oh, armor class. Okay, so the initiative plus two. Okay, well, thank you. All right, so, 18.

Hold on 1 second. I'm sorry, I'm trying to figure out if Owl Bear's initiative tracker actually.

Oh, schnazle, those barrels have teeth.

Oh, that initial tracker.

See that? Okay, going to go over here, up the stairs. So you guys.

Or is it just like. Okay.

No, I'm still here.

Great place to stand.

Hey, how are you doing today?

Budy, not you over there. Good Lord. Mike's like, ooh, a friend. Do you have talked to animals?

I do not have talked to animals. That seems like one of those things might want to get when I level up.

I hope not. I got an 18.

I rolled an 18. We both rolled an 18. Me and height.

All right, who has the higher dexterity?

Plus 15. Plus 15.

I have a 16 deck.

Don't worry, tree, we're going to take care of them.

All right, so believe it or not, the rats roll the net. 20. I am not even kidding.

They're friendly. Tree, wait.

Yeah? Really?

Can I talk to them?

Sure.

So you will be able to. Unfortunately, tree, everyone but you has entered a surprise round. God damn. So basically, they get to jump on only you, but not everyone else. So basically everyone will go and then you go. Okay, so effectively, this only had put you last, which is the good news. I will say that if anyone, as an action wants to alert tree to the danger, you absolutely can. Okay? Otherwise, he'll remain out of the surprise round for now. All right, so the rats will act first.

I don't know if this matters. I have reactions. Opportunity, attack. I don't know if that matters.

Okay, so what that means is, I'll quickly explain that real quick. So let's say this rat was right next to you, right? An opportunity attacking up. Opportunity means if this rat tries to leave your attack range, your melee attack range, you get to do a free attack on it. Okay?

Okay.

All right. So they see the tree not doing anything, but this guy's going to come over here.

Friendly.

Guys.

Listen, we could always go with plan b, buddy.

Guys.

Talking is really working out.

Talking first, if not the rock.

So this rat to the right of tree is going to try to take a little bite out of his wooden leg there. Tree, what is your ac?

It's 19.

Okay. So it begins to start trying to nibble your leg, but it can't really actually break through to the wood. It's just like. And you don't notice at all. That's how ineffective it's like little gnawing is. Even though it's a huge rat, it's literally doing nothing to you.

Yeah.

Guys, I don't think we can talk.

To all three giant rats that you have failed to notice are literally gnawing at you and nothing is happening. In fact, Liam, did that rat just walk past me? That rat just walked right up to you. That one will get to, um.

All right, the other one that went up to Levina.

So, Levina, in fact, one of the rat's teeth chips on you and breaks.

Yeah.

None to your notice. Oh, boy. The rat next to Goldor is going to also try to make an attack here. Does a twelve hit?

Does a twelve hit? I doubt it, but it's possible. It does not.

Okay, so as this ratchet approaches you and tries to take a bite, what do you do? How do you notice this? Tell me your reaction.

I feel a weird scurrying up my leg. I'm going to give a little kick with my leg.

All right, so basically, this thing just tried to lunge at you. And it's not just like a little skewing up your leg. This thing is longer than your arm, especially so since you're a dwarf. Right?

I mean, I've got short arms, but, yeah.

This thing, if it were to stand up on its hind legs, would certainly reach above your waistline.

Well, in that case, I'll swing at it with my quarter staff opportunity.

Okay, so this wouldn't be an attack opportunity because it's not trying to leave. But what I'll say is you certainly notice. And with your nimble legs and using your shalay as a little bit of momentum, you definitely dodge out of the way. All right, the rest of the rats just kind of start gearing up and kind of like, encircling all of you. These rats over here by the barrels, I'll use my pointer real quick. The ones over here are kind of taking almost like a little bit of COVID They're peeking around the corner. And with that, we have, I believe Bellith is up first.

If I hit this rat, hypothetically, that's standing either next to or around tree, is that going to alert him that there's something on the ground? Or would I have to be like, yo, there's something on the ground?

I will say that if you want to be like, hey, watch out, tree, as, like, you're firing something, I think that would be adequate.

Okay, then I want to do that. If I click on a rat, will you be able to see it?

Yeah. Yes, I can.

Okay.

That one specifically.

So you go for a rat that's right below him, south of you.

Yeah. So I'm going to go at him with my long bow.

Go ahead.

15.

Absolutely. So tell me what you're doing here.

So I take my longbow off my back and with such ease that I think anybody who's looking at me is like, she knows how to do something besides sit there and look pretty or whatever. They wouldn't expect me to pull it out like I do, like Legolas styled. Like, pull out this bow and just get after it. And I'm just going to go straight for whatever I can hit. I don't care if it's the head, body, whatever.

Sure. Tell me how much damage you do.

Seven. 8910.

All right. So your arrow pierces through its beady yellow eyes. It also happens to be the one whose chip has fallen out. So its face basically falls absolutely flat as it hits the ground. Dead.

Someone's been involved in extracurricular activities.

Oh, the rat.

He's fine. He's fine.

He notices for the first time that there are rats here. The first one he notices is a dead rat with an arrow sticking out of them.

Rat on a stick.

As of this, you will now be able to act this round. Belt, is there anything else you want to do? Move. Any other bonus actions?

I just want to move, like, 5ft, not like quite half, like, halfway up.

Yeah. Okay.

She's going to slide down like Legolas.

I think I'll cast vicious mockery on the rat that seems to be bothering my new friend Goldor.

All right, click on the one that you're.

Pick up my mandolin, Gilstromon going and give this rat little taste of his own biting.

Go for it. Tell me how you're being vicious to this rat.

I've heard of big rats. This ain't it. Time for you to go down, budy.

Is vicious mockery a saving throw?

It is. All right, time to go back to your hole.

What's your saving throw.

It is an attack. Save is a wisdom 13. So it says you unleash a string of insults lace with subtle enhancements of the creature. It must succeed on a wisdom saving throw or take one d four psychic damage and have a disadvantage on the next attack roll before making the end of its next turn.

All right, so this rat failed at saving throw. So tell me what it looks like when a rat dies to your vicious mockery.

I think I could picture kind of like running in circles, kind of confused and then just screeching out loud and falling down on its back with it, drooling out with his tongue sticking out, looking over at, hypothetically, maybe looking over at a man made of rock and wood.

Very nice. Is there anything else you would like to do on your turn?

I would like to. Can I still make a movement?

Yeah, you can go anywhere yet. Let's see. You can move up to 30ft. So you could have done like 15ft before your attack and move another 15ft after your attack. You get up to 30ft of movement your entire turn.

So the range is 60ft. Right. So that I didn't actually have to move to do that.

Correct.

So I could kind of get into position or whatever.

Yes.

And you can't really ready in action.

Right.

And I feel like to get prepared in case a rat tries to jump at me.

Are able to ready in action. But since you use your action, you can no longer ready in action for the turn.

So I just could kind of move. That's about it, right?

Yep. You can move. Or if you have any other bonus actions or skills of that nature, you could.

I think I'm going to get next to Goldor and kind of get a little closer, maybe strengthen numbers.

Okay, where is everybody going? I'm just bump myself over here.

Don't worry. Maybe some of the rats will be nice.

With that.

If we walk away from this with a pet rat, I'm going to laugh.

So with that, it's going to be Goldor's turn. I'll say, try to get into the, for everyone. Try to get into the habit of trying to think about what you want to do on your turn while you're waiting. Have like a main plan a and then maybe have a backup plan. If you can't do that, then.

All right, I'm going to swing my shalily at the rider.

Go ahead, roll the hit.

That is not going to hit anything. I'm lucky that I didn't hit seven, so I rolled a four.

Okay, wait, this one is still alive. This one's dead. The one that was near gold. Or is he dead?

Oh, yes. I'm so sorry. That one is dead. Yes.

Goldor is just beating a dead rat. That's pretty wild.

That entire sequence still wasn't even moving.

So I'll say you can still roll for an attack and move whatever you want to do.

With nothing else to attack here, I'm going to move to here.

I don't know, how big are each one? 5ft.

Yeah. Each square is five.

No more than 20ft.

Okay. Yes. There's also squares.

That's why I'm. Oh, there are squares. Never mind, never mind. 1015. 20. Hang on. 25ft. 25ft is not going to be enough to get out of here. So I'm going to move here. Should I roll again or should I take my crappy roll?

You can roll again.

Oh, thank goodness. Because that last roll was pretty crappy.

Right? Well, I mean, he should have got a bonus for trying to kill dinner.

Now that I'm hit alive. Rat.

Better.

I got a four and five. I got a nine.

Nine does not hit. That's what I figured. After seeing the rat next to you collapse, you run up to the next nearest rat to tree slayly swinging, and it's a swing and a miss. This thing just clears its head and almost hits tree. At that point. Is there anything else you would like to do on your turn?

Nope, that's all I got.

Okay. Tree it is. Your turn.

Can I see the rats now?

Yes. You can notice the rats now. Yes.

All right, guys. These things keep biting me. I don't know what this is. I think we have to fight.

Plan B, buddy.

And I'm going to take care of them. Don't worry, I will defend you guys. I will take out this.

At this point, they're in between trying to lick your leg to soften it up and trying to nibble it and just still doing nothing.

I'm going to take this guy out and I'm going to do opportunity on him then.

No, attack of opportunity happens when they try to leave your melee attacking range.

Okay.

Does he get advantage because he's technically now flanking?

Yeah, I'll give you advantage for flanking. Good call. Yeah. Anytime you notice things like that and I miss it, just feel free to call it out.

I just roll a d 20.

You can roll with advantage. So that means you're going to roll twice and take the higher number.

I rolled a twelve and a four.

So twelve.

Okay. So did you roll a flat d 20 or did you roll it with an attack in mind just to make.

Sure.

I rolled it.

Like, did you click just like a D 20, or did you click an attack on your character, your page?

Oh, no, I just clicked the D 20.

Okay, so next time, click the attack next to your attack. Should be like a plus. Whatever. What do you get a plus on your roll?

Plus three.

Perfect. So, yeah, your higher roll absolutely hits this rat. What are you hitting it with? What are you doing?

All right, so I grab my war hammer from the back of my metal.

Stone, from being whatever animal to hitting an animal with a warhammer, and I.

Just take this hammer and I bring it down right on this thing's face. Crushing it.

Yeah, its brain bloods, everything gushes out, and like some of the others before flattens.

Listen, guys, I know I said I wanted to talk to the rats, and I did, but when I see evil, I just got to crush it.

Keep crushing, buddy. There's a lot more.

All right, anything else on your turn?

I'm just going to kind of position myself. I can take a.

That would not be an attack of opportunity because you're still within this melee range, so you can move around it. Okay.

All right, so I'm just going to kind of position myself more in front of everybody so maybe they come and attack me rather than you guys.

Okay. All right. With that, it becomes the rats turns.

Yes.

My plan is working.

We got four d twenty s here. Oh, jeez.

I'm about to get chewed up.

Oh, Jesus Christ. Okay.

That'S inspiring.

That is some terrible luck. Okay, so three of these on your Left here are going to attack or successfully attack. Your leg has been getting soft from all the other rats licking it, and now it's the time where the wood starts to splinter. We can talk to them anymore. Let me get my dice here. Okay, so don't worry. Okay, so altogether, that's going to be five damage, as they're all taking a little bit of clumps out of you.

Do I take that out of my hit points?

Yeah.

Right.

So you should be going from twelve to seven.

Okay.

Yes. And then the last one is going to try to attack gold, or here, 15 to hit gold, or that. I believe that hits. And that's going to be three damage to Goldor, who is pushing your shalei out of the way and biting your foot.

In walking stick.

All right.

With that, can we talk to each other while this is going on?

Or that doesn't really. Yes. So I'll clarify talking to each other, so you can absolutely on your turn. Say something quick. So, Bridget, correct me wrong. Each round of combat is roughly 6 seconds long. So all this is happening within the span of a handful of seconds. And it's supposed to be like each round or so is about like a minute or something like that altogether. So things are happening real time very fast. So you have limited time to say one quick thing, basically on your turn, and then you can take an action, but you can communicate with each other.

Guys, I want to get these guys to sleep. Can we keep them together?

Yeah, let's keep them together. I got them on me. They're chewing my leg up, man.

So Bell has performed me right.

Is it mine?

Bella's turn. Yes.

Okay. Is there a sound that these rats would be attracted to that I would know of that if they heard it, they'd all go to that area. These rats would be like, oh, I hear that. And I would go to that area, like, if they heard it, like a.

Bang or like a. I see, like.

A pied piper kind of situation.

Not even music, just like if they heard movement on the floor or something.

If they would just go that animal handling check.

Nat 20.

Okay.

The rolls from this great dice.

Yeah, you could make a. You could make like, almost like a hissing gas sound. If you could do that. You could probably scare these rats away.

Okay. I don't even want to scare them away, but I want to do is I want to cast tomaturgy and create that sound that they would be attracted to. I'm going to move my person there, but in this corner over here.

Okay.

I want them to all go to that corner.

Okay. So what I would imagine is that you kind of almost, like, create the sound maybe here and here. That way they're either going maybe like these directions. Oh, you can't see my cursor. Like these directions because there's still the hole here. So there is a possibility that they would just run through the hole.

Okay, then I want to do it over here.

So you want the sound to be from here?

From next to the stairs?

Next to the stairs.

And you're saying you want them to go to the sound. I see. Okay.

Like, if there's this sound.

I misunderstood. I thought you were saying, like, a sound that would, like they would fear.

Like scare and scatter.

No, that they'd, like, come either way with your role, I'll say you can make the sound anywhere and you want to be there. That's fine. So I will move all the rats there. However, Goldor, you will get an attack of opportunity on the rat nearest you and Bridget, do you happen to know off the top of your head, if tree gets an attack of opportunity on all four, does he get only one per round?

If they all move, he gets one on everyone that moves, yeah.

Okay.

Goldberg and tree, you can make your attack. Rolls right now.

Rolls at 1111.

Does not hit. So that one's going to run over here.

All right, again.

Do I click on roll? So with whatever attack you're using, click it four times. Yes.

Click it four times.

Every one of them.

Not me. Sorry.

I got a 23 on one, a nine on another.

I.

A 17 and an 18.

So you basically are like, playing like, croquet here and you knocked a bunch of rats together with your warhammer.

Your caring of animals knows no bounce.

I'm crying while I'm doing it. Your tears just. What's the word I'm looking for? Just disappear into the river of blood that you just created.

You know what, buddy? Maybe the cuter animals are the ones we'll take care of.

So the rats absolutely run to this area, and even though they hear a promising sound, they don't find what they're looking for. They see all of their dead little rat comrades around and they're going to start booking it for this hole here within. Oh, go ahead.

Yeah, I have a question. Can they move if it's not their turn?

So from what I understand from both the DMS guide and for added purposes, like, you could end the combat with a flea. Okay, I'm going to have them do a flea here since they were already mid run anyway.

Got.

After a few seconds, though, you hear a. And you hear something being rent in half. Guttural, like a body being cut in half.

Like rats that fail get chopped in half. Can we distinguish what it was that got cut in half? Is there a way to.

You're in this room. You have no idea right now. Are we out of combat? If you guys can just give me 1 second, you can talk amongst yourself and I'll answer any skill checks and things like that in just a moment. I just have to set something up for the next room.

Do you guys think we should follow them in there? What are you thinking?

I mean, I think I'm going to follow them in, but I want to know what's on this table and in.

These rooms and stuff first.

Yeah, I agree. Like, I'm investigating everything, see if there's any chance of. Yeah, I like that, too. Can I do an Arcana check? Is there anything going on here in this room that seems od or magical?

1 second. All right, so roll for Arcana.

I really like this big dice. Oh, hell yeah. 17.

As far as you can tell from this room, there's nothing of magical note. It appears to be what it is, a room of now dead giant rats mixed in with puddles of beer and tree tears.

And the rats seem like just regular rats that have just gotten. They're just much bigger.

No, they're giant rats. If you want to make a separate investigation of the body, you can, but as far as Arcana goes, you notice nothing magical.

Can I make an investigation check of the room itself? Like the stuff in the room?

Yeah, absolutely. And if anyone else wants to make a check, they're more than welcome to.

Yeah, sure.

13.

Is investigation the only skill that would give us insight into what this thing's in here? Something useful, something of interest.

That would be the main one, yeah.

Investigation.

Okay. I would say that's the one.

You would probably go for ten. Natural.

All natural.

Okay.

Much better.

1920. There we go.

Not a Nat 20, but a 20 dirty 20. Okay. I like the lava dice much better than the bulge gate dice.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

As soon as I switched the dice, I rolled the 19. I'll take that.

So across all checks. By all means. This room is very mundane. It is for its purpose of being a beer seller. All right.

By the tables and everything else, there's nothing.

Then you see some of the plans for expansion from the Crombie association. But there's nothing else of note here. Just really the plans, tools that we're going to be used for knocking down where you see the hole in the wall.

Can I take those?

Absolutely. Just make a note of it. All right.

I'm going to go and check out the hole in the wall then.

Okay.

Anything else here seems nice and mundane.

So what I'm going to do is just unfog something real quick.

Okay, nice. What would be the skill that we would be looking to do if we were like, trying to peer into the room without being seen or want to just see if we could see anything?

Investigation is usually like checking stuff out. If you wanted to not be seen, you would have to use stealth.

So stealth would be like, you could still kind of take a peek, but you're trying not to be noticed. Of stealth.

Yeah. If you wanted to not be noticed, you make a stealth check and they make an opposed perception.

Okay.

All right. So, Goldor, are you peeking around this wall?

Sure, I'll peek around the wall.

So with the help of seven and any other supplies, you've brought. You're quickly lighting up surrounding area here. Sure. So through the hole in the wall, you can see a dusty stone corridor, its floor lying around a foot below the cellar, where you stand over to the left, you can see the start of a staircase collapsed. Buried in collapsed masonry, earth and rubble that blocked the way completely. To the right, however, the passage heads around the corner, but on the wall, you can make out what appears to be writing in a clear but glowing gold script. And that's at the end of the wall to your right. To your right.

Can I make an arcana check on that?

I would say if you want to do that, you probably have to enter that corridor and get closer to the writing. I'll make a point right now where the. I will step in and the writing is over here.

Is anyone else going join him? Yeah, let's join him.

Checking along the way to see if there's anything trap like along the floor, though. I'm not just going to look around for traps while I'm going as well.

Yeah. Make me a perception check.

Perception check, sure.

And I'm going to wait till he gets to the other side without being killed.

Yeah. As far as you can tell, the stones were laid to be simply afar. There's no traps, there's no wires, there's nothing. Excellent.

You're like, here, take a bite of this.

Excellent.

By the way, if it's a stone cutting check. I get extra efficiency, too. It's a dwarf thing.

Oh, that's kind of interesting. Could you just point out how far down the hall is the writing?

It's down where I'm standing, basically.

Are we close to it?

The writing is right here, about 50ft from where Bellaf is. Because at this point you're still orlop. You're probably, what, 30ft ish away? 25 from the wall. Yeah. So I'll say you can probably make out the writing from there.

All right, I'll try to make out.

The writing from here.

I was going to say knowledge arcada. And then try to decipher the writing.

Also, when you get close. We'll do the arcana check. I'll read what it says for now. Right, though. So it says. Dawn breaks with stirring air as sun shines down on the new day fair. Midday blaze bakes earth and grass. The farmer waits for heat to pass. Evening cool brings water, wine, drink and laughter passing time. Night sea shining, roaring fire, as wood and coals burn on the pyre. And this is in gold, glowing writing. I'm going to post this in the discord as well?

Yeah, please. Okay.

And then, Bridget, do you mean to post it in just actually the text message chat? Would that be easier?

Yeah, if you can.

The power of technology.

Okay, please let me know when you've all received it. So the picture you don't see yet, but you do see the writing. So again, just pretend that your character reading this without having seen the picture.

I think I kind of just say into the group, like, what the hell does that mean?

Wind, sun, water, fire. Does that seem like the four elements to you guys? Air, then wind, then water, then fire?

Sure.

It does have a four elements sort of ring to it.

Liam, can I see that opening? That's, like, kind of. Okay.

Yeah. Sorry.

Never mind.

It's taking me some time to use the tech tools here.

Yeah.

Oh, wait. So is that something on the ground?

It was on the floor.

So, Bella, as you peek around the corner, you see on the floor a mosaic depicting a rural scene. Wait a minute. And then, goldward, you're doing an arcana check.

Wait, guys, don't step on it.

No, I'm not going to.

Yeah, I wasn't planning on it.

I got a twelve on my arcana check.

Okay, so you can tell that this writing that's keeping the script glowing is incredibly old. That's about as much as you can tell from your check. But you see on the second panel. Let me just make them visible here. The two rats that ran off split in half. Oh, hell, yeah. Right there.

Feels like Indiana Jones.

Are they, like, dead? Split in half?

And I'll say they're kind of right on top of each other here.

Are they dead?

They are dead. They are cut in half.

Okay, can I try blowing? I don't want to step on this, but can I blow air onto the first one? The first tile?

Use the pointer tool, which looks like a teardrop on the side, to show me exactly what you're doing.

So I want to stand, not touching this thing safely as ever a person has ever safely walked before. I would like to lean over, but not put my head on it, but know, kind of know as maybe a student in the United States might be in the chemistry class, and wap air onto this first tile.

Okay, so I need you to use the pointer tool and show me exactly where you're pinpointing your thing.

Okay, so wait, draw? No, not draw.

It's the teardrop.

No, not that. Teardrops, like we're about to have in our party. So I would like to blow air onto this tile safely, where I am sorry.

You blow air on it.

Does anything happen?

No.

Sorry guys. I got.

You were doing this with Preston agitation or something?

Yes. I'd like to give a little point and shoot.

Okay, read me the wording of the spell that describe for me how much force this error that you're making just in case.

Okay.

But I'm pretty sure it's not creating a force to do anything.

Okay, give me 1 second. So I'm going to spell. Okay. Oh, there it is. It's so funny that the window changes if you. All right, that means kind of ridiculous. Say that loud. But if the window changes dramatically, if you make a bit smaller, bigger. Suppressed is a puff of wind.

Yeah, nothing happens.

I'm going to make a guess and see if anybody agrees with me that we have to step on certain parts of them to get over it. And I'm assuming it's dawn breaks, it's stirring air. You got to step on the air, then the earth, then the water.

I was thinking the same thing.

And then fire.

Yes. And then fire is actually on the fire. Yeah, that's exactly what I was about to say.

I mean, I'm not going to be the first one to go step across it, but that's.

And then the land part and then.

The water part and then the water.

You reach out an object and poke it. I want to just say Chilele once because it's fun to say. Is that your Chilele shale?

I have a chile. I'll poke the air. Yeah, I'll poke the air in the first one here.

You're poking the air in the first one?

Yes. Oh, I got to make myself move instead of make a laser player move here outside. And I am going to poke the air.

How much force are you using in front of me?

I'll put a pretty decent amount of force.

Okay. Yeah, nothing happens.

Don't mind me.

If nothing happens, I'm going to step over being careful to step only on the air.

Nothing happens.

All right.

I'm following them.

And then once I'm here, I'm going to press here on the land.

Sure.

With a decent amount of force.

Nothing happens.

I'm going to step onto the land there.

Fantastic.

Then I'm going to press in the next panel. I'm going to press on the water.

Nothing happens.

And I'm going to move over onto that.

This feels like. Are we following suit?

Tricky part.

Actually. My show is probably not long enough to touch the fire here, is it? It's 5ft away, it looks like.

Is that coal easy? Can we walk on that.

Naturally, I will let you make your own determination.

Like, is that an acrobatics check to get to that fire or can we just get to it?

Able to do a jump movement.

You can actually do a jump movement.

I have skill in acrobat.

Acrobatics. Okay. So when you want to make a high jump into the air, number feet equal to three plus your strength modifier.

Strength three plus your strength modifier to go up in the air.

Right? Yes. And jump to a certain spot. Correct. Is the amount of.

You choose dexterity, but your distance is.

Longer than that, isn't it?

Oh, it might be longer. Yes, you're right. I'm thinking the air. Okay.

The vertical distance is. Yeah.

Yes, let me. Sorry. Jumping. Okay, the long jump. Yeah, make me an athletics check.

An athletics check.

Sorry, I'm looking at that jump. Go ahead.

Athletics check. Okay, sorry. All right, first I'm going to cast guidance on myself.

Okay.

What does that do?

Guidance gives me an extra one d four on an ability check of my choice.

That's kind of cool. All right, this seems like that would be handy.

I'm choosing my athletics check since I was going to plus zero. All right.

Minus one.

I have a minus two.

Oh, sweet 17.

Okay, you absolutely make it.

My d four.

Yeah, you absolutely make it.

Hooray. Excellent. So I'm going to be standing right there, and if nothing else happens, I'm going to try to jump over.

Does anything happen when he stands on this?

You made it over to here.

Excellent.

See?

Easy peasy.

Who wants to go next?

Not get chopped in half like a rat?

Did you walk over the green part or did you jump over the.

Jumped from the water? I stepped to the water down here, and then from the water I jumped up to the fire.

But did you. To get to the other side, did you just walk across the green part and not get jumped?

I jumped over the green part.

Damn it.

Can you do acrobatics instead of. Does that benefit you at all? Can you choose dexterity over.

I mean, if Liam will let me do acrobatics. That help.

So are you doing this in a more acrobatical show? Are you going to show off right now? Like, you absolutely can?

She already shot a rat across the room and killed it in one shot. So I'm going to say that.

I.

Mean, I might as well. I could do, like, a fancy leap.

Go for it. Yeah.

Okay. Like, I'm almost like a ballerina right now. That's what's happening. I got twelve.

Yeah, you absolutely make it to that fire space.

Thank God.

All right.

Can I jump again?

Yes, try. I'll say from that point, you can make a successful jump out.

Okay.

You're not trying to let anything function.

I think I'm going to follow suit. I'm going to go for acrobatics. My fancy schmanciness. Does Preston digitation take a turn? Can I cast presence digitization and clean up the rat, the rat guts off of Mike first?

Yeah, absolutely.

Feel better, buddy. Let's get rid of that cleanup on aisle five.

I do, buddy.

All right.

Always got my back.

All right, here we go. That would be eleven.

All right, so you.

Oh, no.

Land right here.

Oh, no.

Oh, no.

Please make me a dexterity saving throw. Rip.

Well, it had to happen to one of us, didn't it? Just remember the time I cleaned up the rack goods. All right.

Plus two was the DC of twelve then what?

Yeah, DC twelve.

DC of twelve.

But now I got plus two, x 30 sovereign roll. I add two to that or that's not a saving throw.

Plus two to your saving throw.

So you see a. Oh, saving throws. I got plus four to my saving throw.

There you go.

Plus four.

Look at you.

Rolls in that one.

Oh, my God.

Thank God.

I don't know if this helps or not. That's eight, nine to twelve.

Okay, so you basically land with 1ft on the fire and you're balancing back and forth, like going back and forth, and you swing your other foot round to land on the fire.

That's how we do it.

All right, guys, it's my turn.

And I'll say from there you can make the quick leap out.

I lean over to seven and I go, graceful.

I kind of was following your lead, so pretty good. It's like, it's like the opposite of arctic inspiration.

Yes.

On your next roll, you do a minus four burn. We're going to make a custom spell for you.

I'm sorry, Levin, did I miss what your role was?

I'm rolling, right.

You click on the modifier number next to your athletic skill. So you're going to go to the skills tab or page or the section, depending on the way you're viewing it, and click the number next to athletics.

Right.

There it is. You got it? Yeah.

21.

21. Yeah. You like, right onto the fire like you do, all fancy. And then you make it off.

I turn to seven and I go, that was graceful.

Did you expect that?

Did you honestly expect that out of him? I mean, come on, let's.

I mean, listen, guys, I'm here to surprise.

Well, listen, you did such a wonderful job with that. Maybe you keep on going with that.

He's beauty. He's tree.

All right, you're back to being called tree in our books.

So you guys can see the two doors, right? Just want to make sure there's. Okay, great. So you see two doors, one to your left, one in front of you.

Can I check to see if either of them are unlocked?

Sure. Which one are you going to first?

The one that's closest to me. I just want to know if it's unlocked. I don't want to open.

It's locked. However, the door is warm to the touch.

Hate that. Can I check if the other one's on the.

So how are you checking?

Definitely don't touch the warm door.

I just turn the handle to see if it turns.

Yeah. The knob is so old that you hear a very distinct creak. But it is unlocked.

Okay, no heat.

Well, one of these doors is unlocked. The other one's probably on fire. So that's your choice, guys.

I say we go for the fire door. Guys, let's make things interesting.

I mean, you just did some savingly, wonderfully jumping roundhouse kick onto the fire. So who are we to say?

Aren't you like made of wood?

Yeah. Really?

Yeah.

But I don't know really, because I'm.

Kind of half stoned.

I don't either.

I may be able to go through fire. Let's test it out.

So I think we're going to stop here for this episode. Please join us next time as our adventures jump into more chaos, dealing with traps and rats and maybe doors that seem a little hot to the touch. What's behind the door? Who am I to say? We'll find out next time. Campaign is produced by Mike Levine, Liam McManus, Mike Orla, Bridget Vestio and me, Michael Height. I edit and mix our show. Our intro voice recording was done by the one and only Coltrane. Music used in this podcast was sourced from Fanatical's 2023 music bundle feature. Dark Fantasy studio. If you like our show, we hope you will consider going to our show notes and supporting the show. Doing so helps us put out more shows like this one. Thanks for listening and we will see you next time.