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Gather your sword and board and get ready for adventure, because it's time for pain campaign. Three, two, one. Let's roll. We welcome you back to our unmitigated disaster of a DND campaign with friends. We ask the question of what happens when we combine a coming of age summer camp with DND 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 dwarven 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.

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And I am Michael height, off key raider rock. As always, whether I have my mandolin or my automatone, I play seven, the bard. So just hang tight. All right. Welcome back to another episode of campaign. We're so glad that you could join us. So far, this is our third episode. We've been getting some great feedback on our first two, and we hope that you'll stick around for some more. Now, as the bard in the group, it only feels right that seven the bard kind of gets you back into the flow of things. Maybe I don't grab at the loot, the automatone or the mandolin this time, but, hey, how about a little story? So our fine adventurers made their way out of their homes in an effort to go to camp Shimmerlake and get their rid of assistance to make sure that they can get into camp. But as it turns out, that wasn't as easy as they hoped. To get a rid of assistance, they need to assist. So they met a man named Glow Kindle at a fine, fine brewery with a rat problem. If we could take care of these rats, he'll give us a rid of assistance. Turns out the rats are not normal sized rats. They're rats of unusual size. So after one almost took off tree's leg. Fortunately, he's war forged, hard as can be, and it chipped the rat's tooth. But that wasn't the biggest problem. The problems got bigger and bigger as the rats moved on. And then we heard something die from another room, only to find out that they were booby traps. And these traps, as it turned out, were solved by no other than Belleth and Goldorf firebeard, who found a way to determine what the poem meant with the floor and got us to safety only with seven, myself almost falling back and getting sliced in half. Fortunately, through my acrobatically terrible stunts, I was able to make myself not die. But that isn't the biggest problem we have, because the biggest problem we have now is deciding which door we would enter. One is hot to the touch and one is locked. So it doesn't seem like either or is really a great option. So in this episode of campaign, we're going to make our way into these doors or one of the doors, find out what's behind, take care of this rat problem. Hopefully the problem stopped with the rats. We can go back upstairs, get our rid of assistance and move on with our lives. If we keep them, what's our party going to do? We're going to find out in this episode of campaign. Just hang tight.

I mean, let's be honest. Let's be honest. The open door is usually never the good door, right? So let's touch the warm door and see what happens.

Is there anything you can do to lean up against the door to hear if there's anything coming from the other side.

Of the warm door or the other?

Either or? Yeah, in general, like a door. Can you get close enough to listen in to see if.

Yeah, give me 1 second. Let me check my notes here.

I'm going to guess the warm door is probably not where we want to go.

I could see that it'll be a compelling argument.

Probably right.

I think you guys are wrong.

To be fair, I have some.

From the unlocked door, you hear the very faint sound of sloshing water.

Oh, you know what, treason.

All I'm looking for is a good cloud of water.

I like how you almost borderline have almost like an alcoholic problem, but it's really about water. So you have a little bit of sickness and you're like, I suddenly change everything I believe in because I hear it might be water that way. So ignore all prior conversations and arguments.

Liam, I have a question. So I have like a lock picking toolkit situation or like thieves tools, I guess you call it. So would I be able to unlock the door? But I want to do it subtly, sneakily. If I unlock the door, I don't want anything on the other side to know that I unlock the door.

Do you use that sound ability that you have to mask sound?

No, it just creates sound.

So I would make you do two separate checks. I would make you do the regular check with your lock picking set and then a slide of hand check to do it stealthily.

Okay. I'll see what everybody else wants to do first. We can't agree with door to go with picklocks.

That would be more like. Yeah. If you look under your character sheet, there should be like a page with, like, languages and proficiencies. Okay.

No, I don't.

Action spells.

Hey, do you guys think I should use divine sense to kind of sense what's behind the door?

Do you have a evil can? You have a limited number of times you could do that?

I was going to say you have a limited number of.

He gets, I think, three per.

Three per long rest.

Yeah.

Might not want to burn all your.

That's up to you.

They attempt it, but I got to read through to see if it would actually yield anything.

Where is it? Attunements? What's that called?

Would it yield anything? If I were to use.

I mean, I can't tell you that without you using it, right. Yeah.

I mean, listen, we're kind of nervous about the door. We want to know if there's good or evil behind that door, so why? I think the perfect opportunity is the other door.

Yeah. Wild and crazy idea. How about this? How about we open the other door? And if you're really inspired, later on we could come back to this door.

Spending an ability.

I feel like it's a trap.

Do I go through this door or not? We could just go through the other door.

Warm.

A lot less dangerous.

I just opened the other.

I'm just going to say, just go for it.

You open the other door. All right.

I throw it open.

Unfogging. Here, hold on.

Bellieth has zero patience.

Watches like Mephisto is behind this door.

Bellieth, move.

Oh, my God. At first I felt like I saw something far different. What is that? Monster.

All right, so you open the door. It creaks very loudly in the center of a small room ahead of you is a large stone well topped with a wooden handle and the rotten remnants of a heavily frayed rope that descends into the shaft. In the far right corner, the ceiling has collapsed slightly, and a narrow shaft of weak sunlight shines through the narrow hole. To the far left is a plain wooden table crusted with dirt, dust, and laden with old plates, buckets, and other strange pieces of tableware. So as the creak of the door finishes, you hear a noise coming up through the well. Everyone, please enter the room. I'll let you position yourself within the first four spaces and then roll for initiative.

Well, I mean, I would be in front, because I walked through this like I am the one that opened the door.

I kind of almost want to try. I don't even know if this is something I could even do. Can I try to make a.

What is that?

Is that an eyeball? God.

Hate that. For us, personally.

Eyeballs. Excellent.

So, Liam, when we come into this room, you said we could have choice of position a little bit. Is that an opportunity where we could try to stealth or not really within.

The first four spaces? I will say that because of the creaking door, it would be very hard to enter here stealthily.

Okay, I'm not going to bother. Okay, cool.

All right. Can you all please let me know your initiative numbers when you have a chance? And I'll tell you what's going on after that.

I rolled the two.

The 13.

Initiative is a straight roll, right?

Yes, but you have an initiative bonus.

Yours is plus two. Sorry, the only person that has more than two is Bella.

I roll the 920. None that.

I got 13.

Okay, so as you are stepping into the room here and you hear a scuttling sound from inside the well, when the well shatters, the first thing you see are antennas moving frankly from side to side, followed by a massive pincer like mouth as it exits. You count two. 4610, 20, 5100. Plus lakes skittering all about excitedly looking for its next meal. And these three giant centipedes are quite sure they found it.

I don't like bugs.

Are there any dead rats in the room?

There are, not surprisingly, rather the rats.

There's three of them.

So there are three of them. First, in initiative order is going to be height.

I am going to answer cast sleep or dissonant whispers. I'm going to go for sleep. I think I need to get a little bit closer.

Okay.

I think you have enough range from where you are. Do I? Okay, cool. So sleep. All right. I'm going to go for it. So it's going to burn. Slot. The spell sends creatures to a magical slumber roll. Five, D. Eight. The total number is how many hit points of creatures the spell can affect. Creatures with 20ft of you choose within range are affected in ascending order of their current hit points. So obviously not hitting my party, just hitting the yucky right.

You broke up there. You were saying numbers. Were you just reading the effect or did you roll sorry.

Yeah, it says I didn't roll anything yet. So do I roll the says? Okay, see, this is why I should have bought more dice. Five. D. Eight. All right, so got my eights. One of these. Fantastic. All right. Four. 5714. 22. Wait, how many? How many was it? Five. Okay, 22. And then 25. 27.

Okay, so all three giant centipedes, sort of like half fall over asleep out of the well. Half their body is in the well. Half their body is like leaning over the lip of the well and they're all asleep.

Is a Well. I guess we can't really tell from here. The well is really far down or not.

If you got closer, you'd certainly able to tell.

Is that kind of like my full turn?

You can still move. Let me just give you the official. Let's see here. Okay, so you have 1 minute. If the sleeper takes damage, the spell ends or someone uses an action to shake or slap the sleeper awake, then they wake up. Okay. All right, so we will now officially resume and you have 1 minute for you all to kind of decide what you're going to do.

All right, so basically three slugs are asleep. Nothing's been hurt yet, and now we're down here in the dungeon with three slugs.

I tend to think that even though it wakes them up, if we attack them, I think we can pretty much coup across them.

So for hitting them while asleep, you don't do extra damage. But if you do enough damage to kill them, then they just die. They don't wake up having an opportunity to attack it. If you do enough damage to actually kill them, then they would die. But if you don't kill them, they'll wake up.

I would suggest that we all take.

Trail before they all wake back up again.

Like go up and hit one hit.

Or maybe since I have a lot of armor, I can kind of position myself next to all of them and maybe kind of do the same thing we did to the rats before.

Yeah, like gang up on one. Yeah, because if you hit other ones and it wakes up, we're going to screw ourselves.

Hopefully they'll be dead after we don't hit them.

Well, how far down is it? Like, could you.

Oh, we could just push them down.

That's what I was thinking.

And then they die from the falling damage.

Yeah, they have no way to save themselves. They're just like, oh, I feel like.

Figure out how we could do that.

That's true. Well, maybe Mike could kind of warhammer them from the side, like playing a nice round of golf.

Who's up in it.

So height, if you're ending your turn, like I said.

Which one? Do we want to take turns hitting.

Them or do we want to push the well?

I'll follow your lead, guys, why don't.

You push the first one of the well and see what happens?

Okay, so, orlip, it is your turn anyway. So go right ahead.

I'm going to walk up and I'm going to push him into the well.

Okay, so a, you can see that as you approach the well. I'll tell you this before you knock him in, you can see that the well is 50ft deep with 10ft of water.

Oh, water.

They may not die with the water down there. I say hit him instead, then. So I'm going to whack my guy with that. I'm going to whack my guy with my chile.

Love that word.

Yeah, I'll just say roll for damage.

I roll eight points of damage.

Okay, wait, can we position ourselves to attack the same one?

Yeah, I don't think so.

So you hit this centipede so hard that its carapace just absolutely cracks and dies.

Excellent. I think we do the same thing with the other two.

Okay, well, that was your turn. So that is going to go to. Unless there's anything else you want to do or move. That'll be tree's turn.

I'm good to go from there.

All right, so I'm going to move position myself right here and go for this guy. Give him a nice whack.

Go ahead and roll for damage.

All right, rolling for damage.

I roll a eleven.

Okay, so just like the other one that Goldor hit, you take your warhammer and crack this thing like a lobster. All right. And then is there anything else you would like to do?

I'm going to look over to my buddies in the corner and be like, you're up, Bella.

That's you?

Yeah, I'm not getting near these things. I don't do bugs. I'm just going to take a shot at it from a distance with my bow. Roll. Right.

I will say a rolled hit since you're doing a distance.

Yeah, I'm good. I rolled an 18, so I assume that is fantastic.

Roll for damage.

Six, seven, eight.

Again. This thing pierced, actually, if you want to tell me, how does this arrow pierce through this giant centipede?

You know when you put, like, meat on a skewer? That's what it does. Just straight through, as if it's the last piece on the skewer that you're going to eat.

So you make a kebab out of. Yeah. So you make a kebab out of this thing and with that, the last centipede dies. Okay, so first tell me, is there anything else you want to do in this room? All three centipedes are dead. One or two of them fell back into the well.

I would think we'd search the room.

Yeah.

I mean, my health is still at seven. Can I heal myself with one of my spells?

We're going to talk about that in a second. So I would say do any investigating you want and then we'll take care of that.

Yeah, take a short rest, probably.

Yeah. And we're going to level up as well.

Wow.

Well, I'm going to do an investigation.

Yeah, I roll the twelve. Investigation twelve.

I roll the four, which is not going to find me very much. I probably don't even notice the dead.

Piece that we just.

All right, insight doesn't do anything. This is a straight up investigation, I guess, right? Eight.

And Bellas, what are you looking for?

I want to look for stuff on the tables that are on the corners and then tree.

What was your role?

Where's the investigation? Check again. It's just a regular role.

Right? On your skills page or area, you should see investigation in the plus number.

It's like in the long box in the middle.

I got a 17.

So, Orlip, you noticed nothing of note in this room to you, this is all a bunch of old malarkey. There's no mushrooms. Therefore it is not interesting or worth your time. That's. Christ. Seven. You have a likewise nature of thinking. Like, you don't see anything that's useful to your music career. You don't see anything historical. Here you are just like, this is like the most boring room in a wizard's freaking tower that I've ever seen.

Can I also look down the well? Is that something that is a separate.

Yeah, you can look down the know a couple dead centipede carcasses and water bellith with your role. Looking at the tables, you notice a set of silver plates that you realize from your experiences. So, Bellath, you notice a set of silver plates that have some value. From your experience and knowledge of lavish things, you would estimate these plates to be worth around 50 gold pieces. That's a lot of gold. Due to their age and pure silver.

Do I recognize anything about the plates? Or is it just like. They're expensive and I know they're expensive.

They're expensive and you know they're expensive, but there's also like a little sun symbol in the middle.

Okay, I'm going to take them.

Okay. Are you saying or do anything that would like. Are you letting the others know? Are you stealthily putting them away? Like your gear?

I think I'm going to take me. Bellis is going to take them to save for later, but I think I'm going to make it kind of known that I'm taking them. But in a way that's like, oh, these will match my ones at home. Like that type of vibe, but only to everybody else. You know what.

We do?

We know that we also see the symbol that she sees or no.

Yeah, you can see if you were close enough, you can see there's a symbol of the sonnet. But basically the way, if I'm interpreting this correctly, basically you're like, oh, how cute are these? These are going to go perfect with. You were saying my other set at home, these are nothing of.

Bella. Does the symbol look like the one outside from the fire painting?

No, but it looks like the ones that I have at home. I'm just taking them because they're pretty.

Can we tell that? Can we see if, I mean, I don't care if she keeps the plates. I'm just trying to figure out if they match the.

Normally we would say you wouldn't know, but. So Val, you're going to either make a persuasion or deception based on the one that you're actually doing, and then seven, you're going to roll an insight check against that.

Oh, like the dice of doom are we taking out. Wait, so I'm taking an insight way. I can't wait, can I do deception play?

You're rolling insight because you're trying to determine if she's like telling the truth is what you were saying. Right?

It's like a battle to the death of persuasion. All right, this is a plus three for insight. All right, here we go. I just want to know the simple keep the plates, man. Oh, I hit my hand. Sorry. One time. Nine plus twelve, deception.

Okay, so seven, as far as you know, these are just like deception jank old plates that belve has decided to collect.

Bellis, do those plates look strange to you in any way or, I mean.

Like I said, like three times now they just match my plates at home. I just want my plates. Okay.

Cool. You could probably have more people over the house now that you've got such a nice set of plates.

And I will say lastly, with trees 17, he notices in the glint of like the little ray of sunshine here. Little golden glint.

From where?

Hey, guys, right where I'm all right. I think there's something over here.

Wait, you see that coming up in the corner?

Yes.

Did we all see it or did just he see it?

He notices. Are you drawing attention to it now, tree? Sorry, I'm confused.

Oh, yeah, I'm trying to. Hey, guys, look. There's something over here. Let's go check it out.

Okay, so you all walk up to it. Tree, are you there first or you let other people check it out?

I'm there first because I notice it.

Okay. You see a golden key buried what would have been on top of a now collapsed table from the rubble. All right, so you discover this golden key that seemingly looks like it would match the door that was warmed to the touch. With that, I will say you all can a level up to level two. And if you so desire, you can take a short rest.

Short rest it is. You guys cool with that?

So luckily, d d beyond has a built in feature where you can select a short rest. And I believe you only have one right now. If you level up to two and then short rest, you'll have two hit die to refill your hit points with on the short rest.

It probably makes sense to level up first then, doesn't it?

Yeah.

If I don't need to take a short rest, do I have to take a short rest?

No.

All right.

Where do we do that?

Going to move myself up to hit manage next to your character portrait in the upper left.

Okay. Manage. Okay, cool.

Manage levels and whatnot.

Yeah.

Manage character level. Oh, where it says manage character levels. That makes sense. Okay. What a concept.

So you're going to put yourself to two. It's then going to present you with the new options that you get. A level two. Some of us spellcasters may get more spells you can add to your repertoire. A level two. So I'll say this, you can take whatever quick options look appealing to you and you could always change them later. I'll give you that freedom.

Yes.

If a creature has bark inspiration die from you and cast spell that restores hit points or deals damage, a creature can roll that die and choose a target affected by the spell. Magical inspiration. It says optional class feature that just automatically comes to me.

Yes, we have activated optional class feature. So you now have that feature.

You can add half your proficiency bonus rounded down to an ability check. What insanity song of rest being a level. Second level. You can use soothing music or auration to help revitalize your wounded Alice. So I could use. I could take my. I could take our rest and then use music to heal them.

What ability is that that you're reading?

Song of rest, second level, beginning of second level. You can use soothing music or auration to help revitalize your wounded allies during a short rest.

Yeah.

If you or any friendly creature who can hear your performance regains hit points at the end of the short rest by spinning one or more hit dice, each of those creatures regains an extra one. D six hit points.

Yeah, absolutely.

You basically get extra hit points.

Basically, I'll say everyone gets the full hp and it looks like it's some sort of feature or trade of your class. So I think it's probably going to be like an ability you can use a certain amount of times a day. It's not like, necessarily a spell. Doesn't look like it. Okay. We'll find out once you save. Do me a favor. Go up, click where it says known.

Known. Okay. Add spells.

Yeah. Go to add spells. Okay. So now see how it says known spells. Four out of five of them, you could add one new spell from the list. So ones that say learn, you could add.

Okay.

And I'll let anyone change any of their spells because we're doing the leveling on the fly here.

Oh, I think I like it. I might go for hideous.

Laughter Liam, I also have a question for you.

What's up?

Your personal opinion, DM opinion on taking good grace as a spell? Because I know people ban that spell because it's.

A. I'm not banning it.

Okay.

I loved that spell as a druid early on when I played a druid. It could be so good, especially if you abuse it. I absolutely don't mind. As of right now, I'm not banning anything unless you become, like, a clear DPS engine that's outshining everyone. Then I'll either bring everyone up to that field or tweak some things.

What does that spell do?

Basically a good berry. Like, when you cast it, you get like ten berries in your hand, and if you give them to somebody, they regain one hit point per berry. Yeah.

Really?

Do you think based on all of you guys'good english knowledge, should I go for an Aoe? Like, would it be smarter to take thunderwave versus taking Latasha City's? LAUGHtER.

I don't know.

Do we have any? I don't really think we have a lot of aoe action.

You don't?

Just to put it in a different way for you, you kind of did work.

That was nice.

Yeah. You have, like, a pseudo aoe.

Might be nice if we get ambush right. So aoes do, like, a little bit less damage, but it's more spread out.

Right.

And then, like, a more direct hit, because I kind of see Bridget as, like, kicking butt with, like, one snap of an attack versus, like, I think I'm gonna. Because Tasha City's left or would take somebody out of combat, right?

Yeah, pretty much.

And then, man, you know what? I'm gonna.

Mike, I can take thunderwave to be.

Oh, you can too?

I'm not sure I can take thunderwave.

What do you think still matters with spell slots, right?

Yeah, it's definitely worth it for me to take.

All right. I don't want to take six years in a day. I'm going to go for. Oh, featherfall. We could just jump down the well. I think I'm going to go with.

Yeah, I'll go for it. I got it.

All right, cool. Let's do that.

Levine, were you good? Leveling up? Fantastic. That's what I like to hear.

Mike or Bridget, do you guys get any new abilities or spells? Is that what the berry thing got?

Yeah, I get two spells.

I'm quite happy everyone can set themselves to full HP. Don't do a long rest because that will reset your spell slots. But absolutely reset yourself to full HP.

What do you click?

What's next between heights? Song of healing goodness. Song of rest. Okay. Oh, yeah, that just happens anytime you do a short rest. There's no limit. No limit.

Well, in that case, enjoy the soothing sound of your hit points coming back.

All right, so you guys are in this room right now. Are you heading out?

Yeah, I think we have to head into the hot roof, into the fire.

Room, out of the cauldron.

Into the fire?

Yes. All right, I'll walk the other door. And even though it's warm. Yeah, I'll open the door. What the hell? Okay, so we're something that happens. I'll die a horrible death.

Do we want to send somebody? You want to go first?

Okay, sure. It looks very warm. It looks pretty.

Don't turn the lights off.

My bad. Hold on. What the heck did I just do?

It was like one of those things where you got to remember everything you saw.

There we go.

There we go.

We're Gucci.

Okay, we're good.

All right, so the door opens onto what might once been a lab or workroom. To your left sits a moldering desk and then the shattered remnants of alchemical glassware, while the center of the room is dominated by a set of tall bookcases arranged back to back. All around, however, are scorch marks and signs of countless small fires. The air is filled with the smell of smoke and burned meat. The wooden furniture is blackened and burned in places, while what may have once been a pile of books has been reduced to ash, singed traces of what may be webbing hanging from the ceiling. As you enter, you feel something crunched beneath your feet. Glancing down, you realize it's the charred hindquarters of a giant rat.

Yay.

Toasty.

Well, that's Delightful.

All right, so feel free to enter the room. Yeah.

I was going to say we do a check, we look around a little bit.

Yeah. Everyone make me a perception check.

1424.

Someone rolled a 24.

Yeah, that's me.

And then what was the next highest?

I think I'm good.

17.

I think.

Then maybe me for 14.

Okay, so as you all peer around, attempting to find what could have caused all this damage, you begin to hear a scuttling sound just above you. Who rolled the lowest? I'm sorry, tell me one more time. Okay.

Tree rolled the four.

All right, so, Levine, you feel something drip on you and burn your skin, your wooden skin. You look up to see what, and as you do, the entirety of the ceiling begins to glow. No, not the ceiling. The creature itself. What appears to be magma, like blood, courses through its veins. Of its eight legged abomination that's latched onto the ceiling, the tip of its abdomen glows brighter and brighter as it releases an onslaught of burning webs at you. So while I just roll for this quick damage against Levine, everyone, please roll for initiative.

Can we? I got a nasty plan. I don't think it's gonna work, though. Oh, it's big. Well, imagine if we run into the hallway, skip across those paintings and let the thing fall.

Oh, Jesus. Okay, Levine, take three damage. Levine. I am sorry, but you are also restrained, my friend.

Why did it have to be bugs?

Okay, so, Levine, you are restrained. As an action on your turn, you can make a strength check to break out of this burning webbing around you. Okay, again, because this is our first session, and you're also still learning. I'll say. Just the strength check is not the only solution to getting rid of that webbing that binds you. But you could certainly take a strength check on your turn.

I rolled a four.

Can everyone please give me their initiative order?

I got a seven, so I'm going.

I also got a seven.

What's the initiative? Initiative 1417.

It. Okay, and then we roll for.

Burning death.

Oh, wow. Okay. All right, so that's going to be seven. Up first. But before it does, I'm going to make a quick roll here. All right. The spider leaps up to the webbing. So all over the ceiling is webbing. It leaps up here. It looks like it's trying to almost blend in with the webbing here, but it doesn't quite succeed. So you can see it quite clearly on the ceiling right over here and height. It is your turn.

Is there any way to quickly tell if that's like fire or poison or if this thing is fiery?

This thing is fiery. Its blood is like magma.

Okay, I'm going to go right for it. I'm going for Tasha's hideous laughter.

Okay, how's that work? Bring me the effect.

Creature choice that you see within range perceives everything as hilariously funny. Blah, blah, blah. The target must succeed on a wisdom saving throw or fall prone, becoming incapacitated and unable to stand up for the duration. A creature with an intelligence score of four or less isn't affected. Please, God. At the end of the turn, its turn. And each time it takes damage, the target can make another wisdom saving throw. The target has advantage on the saving throw. If it's triggered by damage on a success, the spell ends.

Go ahead and try to cast it if you wish.

And it does. So I just roll d 20.

Is it roll or is it just a DC saving throw?

It looks like it's a DC saving throw.

What's the flavor of you casting the spell?

So I grab my loot, I stare at it and my eyes glow green and kind of like wavy. Energy kind of comes out in front of me like a blur.

So the energy reaches the spider, but nothing happens, burning almost like liquid webbing continues to drip down its mouth and its pinchers. Go.

Heard the good ones lately?

Yoink. And is there anything else you want to do on your turn? You can still move.

I'm just going to kind of move behind this bookshelf over here.

Okay. All right. That means tree is up next to tree. Do you intend to make a strength check to get out of these restraints or do you want to take a different tact? Or you can speak to someone. Livian, we can't hear you. Oh, there you're.

Quickly throw Bridget and Bardig inspiration before. I'm sorry about that.

Is that a bonus action?

Yeah.

Then yes.

All right. I have two hands in the air. You rock too hard for one hand.

One before.

1D. Where is that? Zero. All.

Sorry.

Where the heck did it go? I'm so sorry. Actions.

Bonus action.

The spells.

Right.

Oh, there it is. As a bonus action, I got a 16.

All right, so, Levine, you were saying?

I'm going to ask Belle because she's a ranger. Maybe she knows how to get me out of this.

So, just to describe again what's happening to you, you are essentially webbed up like Spider man will web up a villain. Right. You're wrapped in burning webs. You are restrained.

Okay, I'm burning, and I'm restrained.

Good for a tree.

I don't like fire.

All right, so then I'll just use a strength check, and I'll try to break out of it.

Yeah, go for it. So you can click on the strength button on your character sheet or the modifier for it, I believe.

Oh, God, I rolled a seven.

Okay, so you try to push out of the webbing, but because of the fire, it hurts too much to try to push out of it. So, as a restrained creature, your speed becomes zero, and you can't benefit from any bonus to your speed attacks. Attack rolls against. You have advantage, and your attacks have disadvantage. And you have disadvantage on dexterity saving throws. Okay.

Wow.

So I will say that if you still want to say something before your turn ends, you absolutely can.

Can I heal myself?

You use your main action to try to break out of the thing. But if you would like to ask someone for assistance on their turn, you can state those desires.

Now.

Can anybody heal me? Guys, I'm burning here.

How much healing do you need?

I'm down to half.

Health.

Almost eleven. And I have 20.

Wait, did you heal at the beginning of the. After the short rest?

I thought I did.

Yeah, you should be at 17. Health.

Yeah, you should be at full hit points, I think. Unless he hits you again.

No, I only hit him for three damage. He should be at 17.

Then I'll be at 17. I'm sorry.

Yeah, no worries. Okay. Just making sure.

Okay, so then in that case, then we will continue. I will end my turn.

All right, up next is. I know this one. It is Bellis.

I want to move to the corner of the room. So items, I think 25.

Awesome.

Then I'm going to cast Hunter's mark on it.

Okay. How does that work again?

Yeah. So it's concentration, first of all. And I get an extra one d six damage if I hit it.

Fantastic. Go for it.

And then that's it.

Make another skewer.

Oh, that's a bonus action. Didn't even realize. So I could still make an action, right?

Yeah, you can still try to attack it.

I'm going to take my longbow and try and snipe this thing. 815 does it.

15 does hit.

Yes. Three. 8910, 1112 points of damage.

Oh, wait, what is this? Magical inspiration? Is that something that, sorry, it just came up in my list. It says if a creature has bardock inspiration die from you and cast a spell that restores hit points or deals damage. The creature can roll that die and choose a target affected by the spell, add the number rolled as a bonus to the hit, points gained or damage dealt. So she could choose if she wants to use that for extra damage. Is that how that works?

I think if I choose to use.

Bardic like you burn it basically, yeah.

Which I didn't.

So you can use the bardic inspiration.

Yeah, but I didn't.

Yeah, you could use the bardic inspiration in a different way.

Yeah.

You're giving your allies the option to do that.

Okay.

So you could roll it to additional damage.

That up to you.

Yeah. First tell me that and then we'll go to the descriptions of actions.

Wait, what? Say that again.

Are you using the bardic inspiration?

No, just twelve points.

Okay, great. So yeah, one of your arrows, or your arrow rather goes through the joint of one of its legs and also starts cutting the webbing that as it passes through the leg. And now you have this. Basically the arrow shaft basically went like three quarters of the way through. So only about a quarter of the arrow is showing and the rest of it pierced right through the leg. And you hear this thing make a high pitch, almost like a scream. But instead of a scream, it's like the steam that you hear from like a teapot going off and it.

To, we need to get out of this room. Like, is this going to blow?

Bellus, would you like to do anything else?

So what check would we want to, is there a check that we could do on an external that could dictate if this thing seems to be a possible threat, like it might blow up.

Or you could do like an investigation. That would be an action.

That's an action. Okay. Let's just be the exterminators and take care of this. This is interesting. This wasn't actually originally in the agreement with master bartender.

All it was look behind the hole, see what's there. Turns out there's something else.

Okay.

I really want to drag this thing back to the room and throw something on the ground.

So Bell, if there's nothing else you want to do, then that'll be Golder's turn.

Yeah, I'm good.

Yeah, we haven't really seen Golder, like really do his thing yet. This is kind of excited.

There we go. Now, thunderwave.

Thunderwave. Okay, awesome. Go for it.

Thunderwave is he gets a constitution save.

Constitution save. All right.

My save DC is 13 and I roll.

Yeah. This spider failed that save. So what's happening?

13 points of damage and he gets pushed away 10ft.

All right, so that's like that much because he's a big boy. Okay. He is on the ceiling. I'll say. Even with the pushback of the forest he's still like clinging onto the webbing. But he was pushed back. Okay. All right. Anything else on your turn?

Actually, you know what? I only moved 15ft. I'm going to move up closer to him.

Sure.

If I move here. Yeah, I'm going to move up to there.

All right.

Okay, sounds good. All right, that's going to be the spider's turn. Okay.

When he starts his turn within 10ft of I get a reaction.

Okay.

It's one of my new abilities, actually. So I have a halo of around me. This is true. Within 10ft of me, it gets a tuition saving throw, DC 13. And if it fails, you take four points damage.

Sick.

Okay, I think I caught all that. I'm making a DC saving through with 13. I failed and I'm taking. How much damage?

Three points of damage.

Three points of damage. Okay. All right, so this thing falls to the ground. It's alive, but it looks like it's on. It's like its last legs here. This thing is like wobbling. But it is going to make its way over to seven here. I will say it probably took the most secured route possible. So it's probably going to avoid an opportunity of attack here, Goler. But it's going to hop on this table and it's going to try to bite seven.

Whoa.

Does 13 hit?

That's basically my armor class.

Yes.

So 13 armor class.

If you have a 13 armor class.

13 armor class.

If 13 is your armor class, then meets beats. So that attack would succeed.

And then for my legendary action, I would like to not do anything.

Okay, you're going to take four damage and then you're going to make me a constitution saving throw.

So first do the four damage. Do that. So just type it in. I guess that works.

Yes.

Okay. And then, WHOOP. Don't do that. What is that? Okay, and then what was the constitution?

Constitution saving throw.

Constitution saving throw. All right, guys, been a pleasure. That would be a natural four.

So as its pincers sink into your body, part of its fire essence from inside its body leaps out and starts scorching you around the skin where its pincers have entered, and you're going to take an additional three points of damage.

All right, for the record, taking care of bugs was never part of the agreement.

So this thing again is wobly. It's on the table. It's literally on its last legs here, it looks like. And with that, seven, it is going to be your turn. But I think we should wait for bridge to come back. Did she leave? She get disconnected? There she is.

All right, I think. Should I burn my last spell slot? I'm going to do dissonant whispers.

What are you going to do?

Dissonant whispers I've had enough of this big bug.

Read me the description of that spell.

It says you get into a rock position, you kick ass, you take names, you whisper a discordant melody that only the creature of your choice can range, can hear, racking with terrible pain. The target must make a wisdom saving throw on a failed save. It takes three d, six psychic damage and must immediately use its reaction, if available, to move as far as its speed allows, away from you. The creature doesn't move into an obvious, dangerous ground, such as fire or a pit. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage and doesn't have to move away. A deafened creature automatically succeeds on the save.

All right, I'm going to wait for Oralip to rejoin us before I tell you the results of the role I just made from your spell.

You cast a spell using a spell slot of a second level. I only have first level spell slots. Right.

Okay, we have Corlette back. Awesome. All right.

Yes, I am back.

So first, tell me the flavor of your spell seven.

I stare out into it and play some of the most terrible notes that my instrument can muster and just have a kind of a little bit of a smiley grin on my face as my eyes glow with a little bit of green.

So this abominable creature, after hearing your dissonant chords, its body starts contorting in the most odd shapes, and from within, the steam starts pouring out and it burst and dies.

All right.

I was really hoping you were going to say this thing. Explode and explode. Whoever's standing within 50ft of it, yeah.

Okay, so let me delete this off the board. All right.

Anything in the room.

Investigate the room and see if we find anything here.

Sure, Moly.

Everyone make me an investigation check real quick.

Oh, I don't see anything. I don't even notice the giant dead spider. I rolled a three.

I got a 1417 nice.

19.

Okay, so anyone who rolled above a 15 will notice that as you take a look around, most of the books and equipment are charred, falling apart, and completely unusable. However, there's an undamaged, completely intact book right here. So anyone who rolled above a 15 can come over here.

If you rolled under, you can't do an Arcana check.

You'll be able to if you want to.

Okay.

After. So it's a book. Do you guys do anything with it? Yeah, absolutely.

Can I open it? Yeah, like, see what it is.

You open the book.

Do I still have the restraints on me?

Liam, imagine he's, like, left him like that.

No, they fizzled away with the death of the spider. So you open the book, and the same symbol of the sun is in the upper right hand corner. And you see listed here instructions on how to detect magic, how to identify, and how to arcane lock. This is a wizard spell book. And so even if I would say those of you who cast spells, even though you know, you would be able to learn spells from this, you know this has value. Okay. Other than that, there's nothing else of use of this room as it is all charred and burned. With that, there is one more room left.

We should probably bring that book with us.

We should grab the book and take it with us. I'm going to walk over and I'm going to investigate the door and see.

How Mike's like, let's just go.

Let's go see if there's anything unusual, anything trap, like, around this door before I try to open it.

Just hope that's with your perceptions.

There is nothing unusual.

Excellent. Then I'll open the door and take a look at what's behind the door.

So you enter this room. The rear wall of this room is lined with sturdy looking wooden shelves. Clearly, these were once laden with bottles and glass vials, but some of them, over the years, have been reduced to glittering shards and glass. On the floor, there is a flicker of movement among the wreckage, and you see a small black rat drinking some liquid on the floor. It's drinking out of a dark blue bottle. Does anyone want to take a closer look? Sure.

I'll take a closer look.

Yeah.

Can I make an animal like handling check? See if I can like you make me an animal handling gold or you.

Want them to do some sort of check?

I'm sorry?

You want them to do a check, Goldor.

Yeah, I was going to.

You're going to do an arcana check?

Yeah, I'm going to see if I can't figure out what he's drinking.

Great.

I got a 20. Okay, not nat, but kind of check.

Is a nine, so not really terribly good.

All right. Is anyone else doing anything else?

I guess double downing on arc animal handling isn't.

I would say, yeah.

I'm going to investigate the room.

Search the room.

Okay, so roll me the investigation, and then I'll resolve all the skills right at that point.

It's a great day. Nice. That would be a three.

Okay, so, Goldor, as you're approaching, I'll say that you can clearly detect that the liquid is drinking is of magic, but you don't quite know what. However, as you look closer and as Bella also approaches to grab the rat, which she does very successfully, very calmingly, the rat stops drinking and cuddles up in her hand. You notice that the broken bottle the rat is drinking from has the torn remains of a white label affixed to it. The writing on it reads shin of enlargement. You also see another bottle next to it that says essence of fire elk. And the rest of the label is ripped off. The rest of the label gets cut off.

So a spider and a rat walk into a room larger and get fiery.

Okay.

That explains a lot.

Levine, did you want to do any checks?

I guess investigation.

Go ahead. Go for it. And I'll say, bella, if you still want to make an investigation, since you haven't yet, you can.

I got a 20.

Whoa. Hey. Now.

14.

Okay, so you both notice that there are still three. Sorry. Four intact bottles on the shelf. One is labeled potion of healing. Another is labeled potion of invisibility. One last one. A potion of vitality. The last bottle, really a jar is different. It instead contains a fungus. It's labeled present for everyone from Gnarl Tooth island. Dangerous. Do not handle with care. Or rather, handle with care.

Do not handle with care.

Carelessness. You found the right party.

That's my favorite. Fuck out of fungus. All right.

Invisibility, vitality. And what was the other one?

Healing. Invisibility.

And I want to take the invisibility one.

I think I know which one is invisibility.

Take a closer look at the jar of fungus. Can I take a medicine check to see if it's useful for any kind of healing?

I would say you could probably make me more of a nature check. Sure. Are you doing that?

Check.

Go ahead.

Not going to do as well. I get a twelve.

The only thing that you would know from your experience is that any other fungi, fungi that you've seen that resembles the way this looked. This is like, almost like a tentacle looking red fungus. You would note that this isn't used typically for medicinal purposes. This is used for harmful, nefarious purposes.

Even better.

Okay.

I'm going to hold on to that while I can investigate it a little bit more.

Yeah, absolutely. Okay, so I'll say again for the potions, we can make note of them and decide who can add what to what inventory next time. I'm going to put it on pause there and we'll circle back with Kindle next session and go from there with the ridiculous all that.

Plus, Bridget is going to need another half an hour to put her dice away. Listen, I respect that. Listen, my little pile here, I want it to grow. So I think we're going to stop here for this episode. Please join us next time as our adventures jump into more chaos. So our episodes come out in Fridays every two weeks. So we'll see you in a couple of weeks for episode four. So we're having a lot of fun. Thank you for the warm reception. We've gotten some emails, we've gotten some comments, and it's all awesome. We really, really appreciate it. We hope you'll enjoy episode three and we'll see you in a few weeks for episode four. Campaign is produced by Mike Levine, Liam McManus, Mike Orala, Bridget Vesio and me, Michael Height. I edit and mix our show. Our intro voice recording was done by the one and only Coltrane. Music views in this podcast was sourced from Fanatical's 2023 music bundle featuring 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. Bye.