Levers and Switches

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I'm Jason, I'm the Dungeon Master. Going around the table, starting with Michael. - Hey, I'm Michael, and I play Fenris Masura, the Human Warlock. - And James. - Hey, it's James, and I play Dig on the Eladrin Endurance. - And Valerie. - Hello, I'm Valerie, my pronouns are she/her, and I play Matilda Wolfram, the Human Rogue. - And Ian. - Hi, I'm Ian. I'm swallowing my spit here one second. - Oh, I thought you were signing. It's like, that's the video, they're not seeing it. They're not. (laughing) - I'm Ian. (laughing) No, I'm Ian, my pronouns are he/him. I play Bittersweet, the Thaidin Endurance.

He/they. - And last and certainly not least, yes, they are the reason we only get to play like every three months or so, but we still love them. It's Kelsey. I'm joking, obviously. Kelsey's never been the problem, and Kelsey suffers with the patience of a saint. - Hi, I'm Kelsey. I use they/them pronouns, and I play Calypso Lovelace, the half-elf bard. - Well, we split the party successfully. That's going great. In one corner, in the basement, if you want to call this a basement, it's pretty wacky and elaborate for being a basement. I picture like Rubbermaid tubs full of Christmas decorations when I think basement.

This is not that. So we've got four of you down there, and we got Calypso. Yeah, we got Calypso Fenris, Bittersweet, and Matilda down here in this basement. Last time we played, there was a little mishap where Matilda disappeared and was put inside a box with a bunch of switches and flips and levers and such. And in the meantime, you guys are exploring this space and just trying to figure out, just basically trying to get a handle on this house. Meanwhile, in the upside down, in the back rooms, we've got Dagon and Tani, and they are just beginning to explore this space and scrawled along the wall in deep speech was essentially a threat, I guess you could interpret that as a threat, it is coming.

- I'd say maybe a warning. - Maybe just informative. Like it's like, oh, expect showers. You know what I mean? Like it's like, it is coming. - Maybe McDonald's is coming to Brayport, you know? I don't know. - Oh man, I'd rather have showers. - Sewage showers, yeah. - Let's start the back rooms. Let's start back there. So you see this scrawled on the wall. What's your reaction to that? Okay, how does Dagon interpret it, I guess? - So he's the one who read it, right? He's got the... - Yeah. - Did he tell Tani what it says? I don't recall. - I don't recall either. Let's say you didn't.

I don't remember you doing it. - Okay. Well, he'll just be looking at it quizzically then, sort of scratching his chin. He'll look at Tani. Can you read this? - You say it that tone of voice? - I don't know, I've been all over the place with him, but yeah, for now. - No, no, no, no, I'm trying to like, I'm trying to climb back into the skin of Tani here. So like, I'm trying to like, 'cause it comes off like... - We're warming up. - Yeah, no, no, I feel like it's a little bit of a... - Are you as smart as me? - Right, it's a little flexy, right? It's a little, it's like, do you read French?

Like it's very, you know what I mean? And again, like there's so many distracting elements to this place that I think it's fully possible that someone just doesn't see this scrawled on the wall because it's like, hey, that staircase is horizontal. What the fuck is that? Like it's, you know what I mean? Like it's just weird stuff. And if you point it out, she'd probably look at it. I didn't even know that was words. You can read that? - Of course I can read this. I don't know what it means. - Okay, wait, you can read it, but you don't understand it? - Well, I understand the words, I just don't.

- Okay, this says it is coming. - What is? - I don't know. - Well, that's not very helpful. - It's not. I don't know if I should be afraid or, I think it could be anything, couldn't it? - It's also a little lewd to write on the wall. Like it's, you know, I don't know why you do that. So, okay, hold on. So someone lives back here. Maybe, well, someone had to write that. - Well, it could have been me, uncle. I mean, I don't know. - So why, okay, wait, why would he write that in a different language though? Also, what language is that? - It's a demon dialect. - She's okay, she's gonna kind of look around conspiratorily.

Why do you know how to speak demon? - I know several languages. It's standard learning of back in Odysseus. - Give me a charisma check. Just like, just give me, she's already into you, but like, it's like, we have these languages, blah, blah, blah. Like it's, you know, 'cause again, in this world, it's like speaking like, I'd say it's one notch above speaking language. In Latin fluently, you're like, it's like, why would you need that? Like, you know what I mean? - It's Esperanto. - Is that a- - Or Sanskrit or some shit. Like it's like, why would you need this?

- Is that a saving throw? - There's a mob threatening tone to writing, it is coming in a demon language, but Dagon speaks several languages. Ooh, like that's, you know, that's pretty hot. Like that's, you know, two thoughts occurred to her. One, where did you find time to just learn extra languages? Like, I haven't learned all the words in this one, but like you just got extras. And the other thought that occurs to her, it's like, you have never had to work a day in your life, have you? Like ever, like never, ever, ever. She doesn't voice either one of them, but she does kind of like, grab your arm.

It's like, all right, let's look around a little bit more and then we can go back to the door and just like, if we see anyone, then like, we could say hi. (chuckles) - Sure, yeah. Is there, before they move on, he would probably like scan around. Is there anything else around this thing or is it just by itself written on the wall? - It's, so it's on the wall and the way it appeared, it kind of scrolled on, almost like a news ticker and then just like, it's part of the wall. And if you look around every once in a while, images will appear in the wall, almost as if it's a wallpaper pattern that's like being put up.

So it's like, here's duckies. And then they just go away, but it's not in a sheet. It's like ducks are appearing and flying off. Like it's a weird little place and it seems to always be fluid. Like things are changing constantly. Like that staircase will appear and then maybe later a door will be next to it kind of blocking it off. - So this is happening everywhere or just in this one little area? - It's sparse, but it's happening everywhere. Like you guys walk down a corridor and you're noticing odd bits and, like there's so many things we take for granted in construction.

It's like the baseboards will be in the baseboard area. And like, the joints should be square, not in our house, but like in most places, like most physical locations, like it's like, oh yeah, that's 90 degree angle. That's very standard. There's nails that, okay, yeah. But like things are askew and off kilter and it's very uncanny valley. Like as you're walking down a hallway, it might be tilted just like five degrees, but you can feel it in your steps. And you're like, that's not right. It kind of makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, like it's just wrong.

But I'm sure it's fine. - Yeah. - Could I get you to do me, I'm assuming Dagon's leading the way 'cause she's very much like, look man, you speak extra languages. Like I'm following you, like this is great. Plus in her mind, you guys have some time alone. Like, you know what I mean? Like you guys, like this is that, it's like, hey, let's share stories. Let's talk about ourselves. Like we don't have to worry about the other four people, like just hanging out. Like, you know, this is nice. Can I get you to give me a survival check? What's Dagon's survival like?

- Let us see. It's a zero. - That adds up. Okay. You just left home for the first time. That makes sense. Like that's not bad at all. A 10. Okay. We're gonna come back to that. - I was just gonna ask, just back to the changing landscape in that, is it worth mapping everything out or is it changing too much to even bother? - I would say for the most part, the general shape of things stay the same. It's like this corridor is still a corridor, but things are changing that it makes it very difficult to have a landmark. Do you know what I mean? Like, it's like, okay, it's next to the big double doors.

Where'd the big double doors go? Like, you know what I mean? If you've ever been lost in a parking garage, it's that feeling where everything kind of looks the same. You swear it was on this level and you just kind of like stumble around and you're like, oh, everything, it's just, there are no landmarks to go off. - Okay. So he may have started, but then stopped when it just became absurd to keep going with it. But he would definitely write down, it is coming in his book before they continue. - Let's cut back to the rest of the party. So my understanding is Matilda has elected to go back in the box.

- Yes. (laughing) And I would like to explain myself a little bit more. - Please. - So, you know, the whole thing with this group of people is that they are influencing events that happen in Brightport, right? Now in this secret dungeon basement area, there is a room specifically of like switches and knobs that to Matilda, like this is a control room, obviously. - Obviously. - So I have to figure out what it's controlling. Is this like, and then I was thinking about the map that we got with all the little red keys on it. Like if there's some sort of doorway or something, there's all these different switches in here.

Maybe each one goes to a different doorway, like where that key was on the map. So I want to do a little bit more investigating in this room. - Sure. I'm gonna have you make a couple of checks in just a little bit. The rest of you guys, the other three. What, okay, you know what Matilda's doing. Matilda explained herself and I was like, okay, I'm gonna figure this out. The rest of you guys, like what's the general vibe so far being here? Because, okay, would you call your exploration so far a success? - I'd say so because Matilda disappeared and then came back.

- Yeah, that's true. - So if she didn't come back it wouldn't be a success. - That is a definite negative, you're right. You're right. - The cat came back the very next day. - I guess the next thing to do is just keep on exploring. I mean, we have the next room, which has the slurry bats, which is- - You wanna check them out? - I- - Check out that slurry? - Not, I mean, yes, I guess. - So if you walk into this next space, as discussed, there are vats of various color and it is a pulpy kind of, there's bits of it that almost look like oil and water where it just didn't mix very well, but the rest of it is pretty, you know, I'd say almost a Slurpee.

If you're looking for a little wetter than a Slurpee, a partially melted Slurpee, you know what I mean? Like it's got little chunks of things in it, but in the end, there are a few of these tanks where you're gonna see silhouettes inside. It is not a pulpy concoction and the lights are pretty poor in here though. And I would say there are three in the back, that are not pulped up. And there are five that are. - Can I cast light? See if I can. - You sure can. Yeah. - Cool. - So this room is obviously some kind of laboratory. And when, you know, obviously the light kind of gives a hell of a lot more insight into what's going on.

I'm guessing everyone's coming in just to kind of like slowly look around, like, you know. So let's say everybody's in here. Let's say. - I'm guessing that the pulp is what used to be whatever those bodies are. - That's a pretty good guess. And a people smoothie. - Yeah. - Yeah. - They're humanoid silhouettes, but it's very difficult because of the tint of the water. It's very difficult to kind of see what it is exactly. They look tall and slender, like maybe seven, seven feet tall or so, like very slender though. It looks like they weigh no more than like 150 pounds, like rail thin.

Kinda, but again, just like suspended, kind of like floating in this concoction, not animated in any way, just like floating there. - So was he trying to build bodies or do we think these are kidnap victims? What are our thoughts here? - I go and tap on the glass. - Excellent. (laughing) So just kind of, this is like thick glass, like thunk thunk, like it's, you know, and nothing reacts inside or anything like that. But when you touch the glass, have you ever put your finger on like a flat screen TV and like pushed in a little bit, you can kind of see like kind of like an indentation of where the two screens are touching each other.

That's kind of what happens here. You're gonna put your finger on here and it's just kind of a, it almost looks like the glass bends inward. That's a bit of an optical illusion, but it's reacting to your touch, definitely. Just sort of point that out. Just probably put my hand, I put my whole hand on the side, just sort of like demonstrate what it's doing. - Just lean right in. - Yeah. Guys, it's delicious, get in here. Like just, like. - I mean, honestly, that's, my first thought was like, is this meat? Like, is the thetan hungry? Like that was my initial thought.

- Almost one of the medium whatevers in there. - I mean, probably not, but sometimes the intrusive thoughts win, Kelsey. I just keep it. (laughing) - So you put your hand on there, you pointed out, it's like, guys, I mean, obviously you're not speaking, but like kind of a, hmm, like you're just kind of motioning towards that. And from in the, inside the tube, a hand is gonna reach out and like, like kind of like plop up exactly where your hand is and match it. But the fingers are much like longer, kind of like, like almost webbed. Like they're, you know, very pruney.

Been in here for a while. - The shape of water jump scare. Okay, I jump back a little bit. - Less sexy, less sexy. Like it's, yeah. - Well, I don't know. - It depends on who you are. If I ask my wife, very, like it's, you know, it's. - Us monster fuckers. - I know you guys should start a club. I still, I. - Is it like, it's unconscious or like not aware presumably. - Well, you can't really see a face or anything like that, but it did move. It definitely reacted to that, but then like nothing. It's just gonna stop. - Was it a violent slap or more of a, like how hard was the hit?

The hand reach? - Well, it's submerged. Yeah, it's submerged. So like, it's not a bam. It's like a, but there is a bit of force. Like it's like, it's like, it was very fast. It's like, you know, to meet that, that touch. - Yeah, I mean, Culp's will probably like jumps back a bit. - Benris gets closer. Cause of course. - Just like to check it out, like, is there an intent or? - So seeing that mimicked the hand, it's kind of like wanting to start and like, basically face it and then put one hand on to see if the hand comes back. If it's like, if it's mirroring or to like copy what I'm doing, or is it just like reaching out?

So first starting with one hand and seeing if the hand comes back to meet with mine, bittersweet. - Is bittersweet's hand still on the thing? - Oh no, I've, when it little jumpscare, I step back. Woo, woo. - Kiss my pulsar. - Yeah, it'll like disengage, right? And then if Fenris does it, like, boop, like it's gonna do the same thing. It's gonna meet whatever hand it is, right or left, it's going to use that hand and kind of, yeah. - He'll put his other hand on the, like next to it. - Okay. - Everybody else. - Oh no. - Actually, you know what? No, no, no, no, everybody give me.

(all laughing) Everybody in this room, could you give me a perception check, please? If you're trained in perception, give it to me with advantage. - No, well, I just rolled. - Oh, these are terrible guys. Oh, wait. - I have a trained in it, so hold on. - Okay, okay. There's a redo. - That was an 11. - 11's not bad. - Roll, it's a 12. - 12, way better, okay, so. - I almost got an 18, but I guess he doesn't count. - I don't know if you want to know. - No, no, no, no, no, he's gonna see something, he's too close to the situation. So looking around this room, you're gonna see a few things.

One, your eyes have adjusted a bit more and you can, it's like, okay, you're taking in stuff. You're gonna see that there are a number of different toggles and switches for each one of these little tubes. They're pretty large tubes, actually. There's also a desk. It looks like there was some record keeping going on here. There was, you know, journals and stuff. Fenris is gonna, like, as you're kind of touching it, the hands are kind of like tensing, like they're kind of like, this looks like Honka Honka. That's not what it's, it's more like trying to like kind of paw at it, like a little bit.

(laughing) But you get what I'm saying. So you're also gonna see, conservatively, a four inch thick, three foot- - You cannot pause. You can't pause. - I know, I know, I know. - Say more, say more. (laughing) It is coming. So it's, like a four inch thick, three foot tongue is gonna slap the bottom and then just like lick up. And as it does, it's gonna kind of like part some of the, like there's obviously, like they should have put snails in here to like get rid of some of the, you know, the algae, but like, this is going to like part that and like, you're gonna be able to kind of see in a bit.

Also, could you do me a favor and give me a constitution saving throw? - Absolutely. - Give me a throw up? - Constitution saving. - That's a good one for you, huh, huh, Warlock? - Ooh. - Ooh, no. - Ooh. - Ooh. - And I have a plus two and everything. - That's four. - Okay, so. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to, I know, I want you to roll a D4 with disadvantage. Just give me two D4s and we'll take the lowest one. We're looking for low rolls. Okay. - That's a three and a four. (laughing) - It's like you're not even listening to me. I don't feel heard at all.

So your hands are like locked onto this tube all of the sudden, and you're, again, you're gonna see that distortion around your hands and you're gonna feel this sucking. Let me put it differently. Let me put it differently. You're gonna feel a pull of energy, basically. I need you to give yourself three levels of exhaustion. It's bad. It's real, real bad. - That's not good at all. - And that energy is going to transfer into this tube and you're gonna start to see these hands like boom, boom, but like kind of pounding against the glass. It's not doing anything yet, but this thing is riled.

- What did you do? - I'm stuck. Is my hand still? - After the sucking, you're done. - Okay. - And you can let go. - So just for everyone, I'm checking. Exhaustion level three is disadvantage on attack rolls and safety throws. So that's, that's good. - Doing great. I'm gonna like fall down and like, as if I just ran a mile, I assume that's what it feels like. And just fall, collapse on the floor. Cause that's like feeling completely and utterly exhausted. - Okay. The first thing Calypso wants to do is like quickly look at the like control panel to see if anything is labeled.

Like just like, are there labels here? Yes, no. - Like kill switch. - In case of sucking. (laughing) - Could you give me a flat D 20? And here's the thing on a one through 10, no. On 11 through 20, it is, it is all labeled. Excellent five. Okay. So nothing is labeled, but there are a plethora of switches and toggles. That seems to be the order of the day. Like, okay. I don't want to call myself out like this, but your uncle appeared to have the Jason Massey put post-it notes on everything. And I have a system. So if any, if I die and any human being tries to rummage through what I've done, they'll never fucking piece it together.

It is lost. - Okay. Then Calypso's gonna like yell like for Matilda to get anything. (laughing) - Ooh, Matilda. - Yes. - So let me ask you a question. While this is happening. - Specifically, Calypso's, Matilda, something is happening. And also if there are some journals in here, I need your help to look through, please quick. (laughing) - Ooh, the alluring siren sound. (laughing) - You throw it in the bait. - There's some words, you can read them. - So, okay. Let's tackle the five minutes before everything got fucky-wucky, right? Let's go back to the blissful time of the world's largest fidget toy.

How are you going about this? Like, what's your, so again, if you've ever looked at a tour box or a loop deck or something like that, something like a video auditing thing, it's just flips and toggles and switches and radial dials and all kinds of stuff, right? All over it. And that's this thing all over the surface. Is there a method? Is there like, it's like, okay, all the dials first, then all the toggles, all the levers. Like, how are you going about this? - So I think what I wanna do is go, it's actually really funny because I ended up doing an escape room and a door opened to this new room.

And then there's all of these bells on the wall. And I did immediately go over and hit all of the bells. - Sure. - So I'm going like left to right, up to down. - So just methodically, just, yeah. - Yeah, see, like, you know, taking a break every now and then to like see if anything happened, hoping I don't like drop a nuke on Brightport accidentally. - A few things are gonna happen, okay? So this place is just riddled with magic. We've been over that, right? And everything in this house has a rhyme and reason. Everything from the candles still perpetually being lit to, you know, like the house cleaning itself and all that.

And I'm gonna give you, I'm gonna give you a couple of choices here soon. The first thing that's going, so, okay. We're gonna load up three things actually. Now, in front of you, like as you're, you know, as you're kind of like sorting through this, you know those awful light puzzles where like you flip a switch and like four of the six lights come on. And then they, I hate those. I've never been good at them. I've never done one and understood how I did it. I just keep flipping stuff. - You just keep flipping it off until it gets to, yeah. - I have never done one of those successfully.

There was one in Baldur's Gate, I fucking hated it. Like I thought we were above that in 2023, but no, so. - Oh God, the fucking brain thing, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And you can't click on it 'cause you keep accidentally clicking to walk away from the thing and it turns it off. - Yeah, so many games have that, yeah. - Don't know why. So that's happening in here. Now, not only are you gonna get a chance to try and solve this, I'm not gonna put one in front of you for real. I'm not that mean and we don't have that much time. So we're not gonna do that, but we're gonna do some saving throws, right?

We're gonna do a little skill check challenge. And whether you pass or fail skill checks, I'm gonna present you with different options and those options are gonna control different things in this house. - Okay, I'm very excited. - Okay, so. This is gonna be basic problem solving. And I feel like this is Matilda's jam, right? Okay, so we're gonna be using investigation. I think that's one of your biggens. - Yes. - Okay. - Yes. So give me an investigation check and we're trying to beat a 12. And we're trying to get four successes before three failures. - Okay, and that's just a normal?

- Just a normal investigation check. - Okay. 21. - 21. So as you're in here flipping levers, there's a sense it's like, I don't know if this does anything. Like you're waiting for someone to go, oh, the light's turned on or something like that. You're hoping for some kind of validation. And then the light thing is gonna start. You're like, oh, oh, oh, oh. And you're kind of backtracking a little bit. You're like, okay, okay. Okay, okay. And you're figuring this out. And what's gonna happen is you light up more than half of these lights, right? And a console is going to open up and three levers are gonna be presented to you.

These look identical and as we've established, nothing is labeled. So. - Sorry. - Would you like to pull one, two or three? Or none of them? - Oh man, I thought I was about to solve the whole problem because the whole, the key with the four, two, three, if there was four levers, then you obviously do the four one first, but there's only three levers. Okay. - Maybe we're not there yet. - I will pull number two. - Okay. I'm just gonna mark that down. Just gonna mark that down. - As he writes a post-it note and puts it. (laughing) - Underneath 11 years of post-it notes.

(laughing) - Yeah. - I was cleaning the office and legit found eight-year-old post-its. And I have no idea what I'm trying to say. I have no idea. - You've been in theory years ago. - I know, but I took all my files and folders and like I have, I found a lot of touching notes and letters from listeners and that's great. And then I found stuff in my handwriting and I'm like, what the fuck does that mean? Like it's like, might as well be alternate universe Jason. It's like, beware the fourth Dawn. And I'm like, what? Like, what do I do? Like. (laughing) - Is this you trying to come up with like a, part of a story where you're like, all right, this is the good thing.

And then you're just like, oh crap. - It is coming. Like it feels like a warning. So gonna write that down. Give me another investigation check. We're trying to beat a 14. Oh my God. - Ooh. - Wow. - A crit, okay. I'm gonna give you a big one. Ooh, Thomas the Tank Engine. - Motherfuckers. (laughing) - I forgot that happens. So I'm gonna give you a big one 'cause that's a crit, right? So these lights are kind of scattered everywhere and the way some of these are lighting up, it looks very familiar. And no matter what you flipped, you can't seem to get all of them to light up, but it seems like weird patterns are emerging.

And something you've seen recently reminds you of the way these lights are lighting up. Like it's so, it's like right on the tip of your brain. Like you just, it's so, there's some pattern you've seen recently that like, man, I know what this is, but I can't place it. Can I get another investigation check please? - Yes. - 12. That's gonna be a failure, but that's okay. We've got, you know, so that lever that you pulled is gonna like pop back. It's just gonna, you know, and these lights are gonna like change orientation. And in the next room, you're gonna hear someone yell kind of like, ugh, and then like, it sounds like someone fell over.

You're like, okay, that's weird. That's okay. But like you're focused, that has nothing to do with you. You're fine. Can I get an investigation check please? - Yes. - We're looking for 16 or higher. Oh, 20. - 20. - My God. Can't stop Matilda. Can't stop, won't stop. Okay. You realize that the key markers on the map line up with these lights. Like there is a big plethora of lights, but when you step back, it's like, wait a minute, that's like in the shape of Brightport. Like that looks like, and the way that you're not supposed to light up all the lights, just where the key markers are on that map you have already.

And you've been playing a little game of memory and you are sure that with one more toggle, you can light this up. And I'm even gonna give you a chance right now. Okay. Five levers are going to appear. Those three are gonna go away and five are gonna come up. Okay. One of these levers solves the entire thing. And you're gonna get a big old prize, just a big old gold star. Four of these. Four of these are going to do not great things. The trick is all of these levers look different. They're different colors and shapes. And you're allowed to ask me three questions.

- Oh my God. - To kind of hone in on what you should be doing here. It'd be anything you want. - Are these, is this a game of like 20 questions where you can only say yes or no? - No, I'll give you detailed answers. I mean, without giving you the answer answer. - Right. Okay, so there's five levers and... Can you describe like what each one is shaped like? - So these are all like kurchunk kurchunk levers, right? Think like a slot machine type of thing. Though they're all different lengths. There are some shorter ones, a couple of long ones, and then one really like, it's really kind of exaggerated.

And each one of them have a different shaped knob on top of them. One's like just a sphere, like a little ball. One's kind of like a pyramid shape. One's kind of like a gear. And they're all different, but yeah, that's pretty much what you're presented with. (soft music) - You said that that only, that like basically not all of the lights are on right now. - Right. - Is there any pattern to which ones are on and which ones are off? - I also do have the map that we took off of the wall. I have that with me. And I do want to take that out and like compare the two.

- That's very wise. So you're noticing that the only pattern you can see is that there seems to be a light off in each of the districts. One light off. - How many districts are there? - You tell me. - There's four. - Good job, Valerie. - Four districts of four. - Good job. - Okay, so they're all different lengths. They're different shapes, but you only told me three out of the five shapes. - I did. I can give you the last two. I realized that after. So one of them is kind of like a clunky, like brick rectangle shape. And then one of them is almost a blade. Like it's not sharpened, but it's almost like a claw or something on top of it.

- So I'm thinking about the houses of Brightport, right? We got Hammerhand, maybe that rectangle one, Silverclaw, the claw thing. And then Dragonkeep, which, no, that was always the name. No, it would change too later. So it was Hammerhand, Silverclaw, and, does anyone else have any ideas on questions? - Bruh, I don't know. - I do think color is a good one, I don't know. - I don't know how color would play into it, but it may surprisingly play into it. I don't know. - I mean, if we're just asking about the physical characteristics of the levers. - Sure. - It seems like a pretty big one.

- I mean, maybe if there's one that looks like it's been used more than the others? Is it more wear and tear or something? - A little more polished on top. - Yeah, like it's got more hand touch, a little more-- - Which one has the most fingerprints? - Do you have something to dust for prints? - I take out my UV light that I keep with me. - And invented. - Turn it off in horror. - The whole basement glows. - They call it a Jackson Pollock painting. - It's like, oh, he was a lonely old man. Oh. So I wouldn't, okay, if you're really looking at these intently, I wouldn't say that like any of them are worn down or anything.

I would say, you know what, give me a perception check. You know what, give me, the higher it is, the more like the better a clue you're gonna get here. - Okay. Come on. 16, not too bad. - That's not bad at all. There is one of them that is missing a fleck of paint. - Misleading clues. - Misleading clues. Maybe. (laughing) - But you're not gonna tell me which one is missing the fleck? - Oh, I didn't know you were curious. No, the fourth one is colored red and that is missing, like there's a little chip out of it. - Yeah. - Yeah. And so, but so it sounds like the other levers are not red then.

- No, oh no, they're all different colors. Going from left to right, it's blue, yellow, orange, red, and then green. - Bjorn. - Is red significant to us in any way? - Well, the keys and stuff on the map, those are all red. So that was-- - The lights that are lighting up are red too, if that helps. - Ooh, maybe that's a red herring. A red herring. - It's in the name. - Okay, then yeah, because the thing I was looking for was like, if there was different colors, which one was the red one? And I've already been leaning towards the gear. That's the one that has the paint chipped off.

I will pull the gear lever. And it's number four, four, two, three. Very exciting. - So when you pull that fourth lever, the four lights that weren't lit up, the one in each district are going to light up. The console is going to disappear. All the levers and switches beyond one is going to just like slowly retract. And this room is going to kind of push you out a bit. And the console is going to be flush with the wall. So you're kind of in, and that's about the time you hear yelling from the other room. (clears throat) - So is that a good thing or a bad thing?

- It's not done yet. Everybody in the room with a weird fish man, the suck room. So you're going to hear a really loud noise. It sounds like gears turning and grinding, but it's coming, it sounds like it's coming from around the corner and down the hall. Like it's one of those things that's like that, that's something to, that's okay. But like fish man is kind of like, like still banging on the glass. That tongue is just kind of like, oh, like it's just kind of like almost slashing at the thing, but like dully. - Bittersweet, can you pull him away from the take?

- I do. I grab Fenris immediately, pull him up. Calypso is like walking to the, well not jogging to the desk. - You know what? You give me an investigation. Like you just kind of like, just kind of like perusing things really quickly. It's like, hey, look at that. Oh my God, 22. So very quickly, there's been a number of experiments in this room, but what these are, what these were supposed to be were like underwater workers that can work at the docks of Brightport and repair holes in ships and things like that. The problem is- - I have questions. - The problem is he had a hard time getting them to not be feral.

And he's used a lot of animals in his study to kind of, so these are- - Oh, so this is like small like Dr. Moreau shit. - A little bit, but these were never, like it's very explicit that like he used to do human or humanoid experiments. And now it's more just like, well, it takes longer, I'm just gonna grow some stuff in this vat and then kind of mix animals with it. And he's tried different things, but this latest batch, he ended up pureeing five of them. And he said he was gonna continue experiments, but like he just never got around to it. And yeah, turns out they can siphon energy.

So that's crazy. - Yeah, is that in there? Was that an intended thing or? - It's probably in there somewhere. But like, yeah. - Like what animals did he eat? - There's a whole breakdown of different stuff, but you don't have time to go over all of it. - Yeah, I'm just like, this is me just like, what? But okay, so like anything on like the button that puts them back to sleep or something. - Imagine the raw hubris it takes to just like, I guess I'll just create life and just start. You know what I mean? Like it's like the man wore many hats and not all of them fit.

That's all like it's, you know. - Yeah, okay. - Even Einstein struck out a few times, you know. - Yeah, so is there anything I'll let you out, like put the thing back to sleep or like reinforce the tape so it doesn't break out or like anything that would be helpful in this situation. Though presumably if it's underwater, if it does break out, it might not do so well in the air, but I don't wanna, you know. - Why test it, right? - Yeah, like. - Mostly he was quick to just kind of throw up his hands and like, ah, failed. So one of the radial things, if you take it and spin it down really fast, it'll puree this thing real quick.

- So I found the puree button, I know which one that is. I don't see anything else at the moment that would be helpful. That doesn't look like the thing is like making any. - Oh, it's trying to get out. It's definitely. - Like succeeding at all? Is it making any progress? - You know what, that's a damn fine question. - It's like if it is still stuck in there, we're fine. But if it's actually like starting to crack the glass or something, then maybe we need to, it's a little under. Let's say the AC of the glass is 15. It's reinforced, but it's glass. And this thing's got a D20 plus six strength modifier.

- Oh, Calypso hits the very top. - Yeah, so 16, it's starting to crack. Like you can see where it's like hairline. - Calypso looks up, sees that, does not wait for an answer, just runs over and does the. - Nope, nope, nope, nope, just kind of, yeah, yeah, yeah. And you're gonna see these tongs kind of like, kind of come up and just start whirring around and this thing is gonna like, like there's, there is like bubbles and froth and everything like that. And you're also going to see this weird, it almost looks like demonic energy being let loose into the tank.

And it looks like several spells are being fired off in there. And it's just kind of like, and what that was, that was Fenris's, you know, latent energy just in there, just. So it's kind of out, like it's, you know, but like, it's not, it's in the slurry. It's really just kind of ethereal. You can't really, you know, but. - So yeah, it also just like, like just pulls kind of like a disgusted face and just, well, I don't feel great about that, but. - I mean, better safe than another giant spider incident. They will kind of like wait to make sure like it is dead.

- It takes a bit, like longer than you thought it would because like. - We feel better about the decision. - Yeah, like it's, it's, it's like these things, like they look sharp and it's like, you'll, you'll see it like a leg get caught and like kind of that tongue is whirring around and it's, it's like mad scrambling as like this, this, this, this bog churn of, of blood and gore is just like, and it to the end, like it's lower half is gone and it's still like going and eventually it will cease and stop. - Okay, so no more touching the vats. - Pretty good roll.

Did Matilda come to like that room or like? - Did Matilda walk in to see me to commit what is probably a war crime? (laughing) - I think you're okay. - I don't know, I think, I think if, if Matilda heard Calypso be like, "Uh, can you get in here?" Um, I, I feel like Matilda would say like, can it wait like two minutes? (laughing) - All I keep hearing in my head is, "In a minute." - I'll be down in a second. - Can, can, can Matilda hear the noise of the blender? Like, like. - I, I would, either Matilda would have to openly be ignoring you or be extremely focused.

Like there's no way you don't hear that, right? - Vroom, sounds like you got it covered. - So, Calypso probably didn't hear Matilda over that either. It's just like. - I mean, but like, I'm about to do a thing and it's, it's, it's, I'm unlocking a clue. (laughing) - I think you guys are making daiquiris. - I don't hear any screaming yet. So, I'll listen, I'll come if I hear some screams. - Wow. - One of us can't scream, just so you know. (laughing) - That's a good point. That's a very good point. (laughing) - So, Valerie. - Yes. - Right in front of you is a single red button that is just kind of like pulsate, like on, off.

On, off. Just over and over and over again. - And there's no like, writing or? - Nope. Nope. - Are all of the lights of like on the map still lit up? - Everything kind of retracted. It is a flat panel now. There's nothing there except for that one button. - There's no like TV screen? - Nope. - Hmm. - Where are we in the timeline? - You guys as a party? - Yeah, like could we feasibly nuke Brightport and it wouldn't affect any other group? - Well, I mean, no one else, well, no one else is in Brightport right now, but that doesn't mean like- - So, we're at the same point as the other groups though, as far as generally, timelies?

- Well, look, I love you guys, but you don't play as often as anyone else. - Well, I know that's the thing, right? So, what I'm saying is this button could be fairly safe to press. - We have pot arm, the button has pot armor. - Yes. - I'd like to think that you know. - Yeah, I- - I don't think that would affect anyone else at this point. - I live by the philosophy of anybody can get it. So, if it's gonna do something, the fact that you guys don't play as much as everyone else isn't gonna save anybody. - Jason will still find a way to pick. - We're fine. - Group in vain sends their regards.

- Yeah. - Canonically would not make sense. Go for it. - You don't have to do anything. - Oh, yes you do. - You've come this far. - Well, if it was a nuke, the responsible thing is to have a two person key system, right? So, not just one person can do it. And because me, myself was able to figure it out, it must be a very good, happy, fun secret button and not a big, bad secret button. - I like the way you're thinking. - Would anyone be mad at me, Valerie, if I pushed the button? - No. - In this world, no. - I want you to push the button. - I'm all about chaos.

- What a bunch of bad influences. - This is great. - I mean, no, don't do it. - I mean, she figured it out. I think she's riding the high of solving the puzzle. - You can't just leave it. - Let's press this big, bad button. TPK. - Okay. - I mean, I'm in some other dimension right now. Let's cut back to Dagon and Tani. You gave me a survival check earlier and that was a 10. Basically that's, I mean, yeah, it's tough though, right? - It's middle of the road. - It's not like you were in a forest and you're like, "Oh, moss grows on this one." You can't do that here.

- It's on park in Dagon. - Right. - He's going on whatever he read in the book. - Here's the thing, while you guys are exploring, the longer you're here, the more you're noticing that things are just happening randomly. Things will pop up, things will change, things will, it's almost like it's getting more unstable the longer you're here. You know what I mean? And I would say 10, 15 minutes later, 10 minutes are gonna go by and you're gonna see a bunch of different things. And there's doors all over the place, right? There's sometimes doors at 45 degree angles.

And I don't know how, I could speak for Tani, I can't speak for Dagon. She's gonna be poking stuff, touching stuff, opening things, you know? Can I get you to give me a D20 please? - No. - Beaudiful, love it. - Okay. - Those are good, right? - One's usually. - Yeah, one's are real good. - In my case, it's always a good thing. (laughing) - Which Dagon are we on now too? So, okay. Do you have a three? No, no. Okay. (soft music) It is coming. - Tani is going to open a door and step through it because, so, okay, here's the thing. Some of these doors have been walled off or brick or just like they kind of open and like there's a weird kind of bendy hallway and it's like, I don't know.

But this one, the initial is not welcoming. When she opens this door, there is going to be a very wet, organic, dark pink undulating tube. But at the end of the tube, you're gonna see a room that just, it looks like any of this, it looks like unused office space basically, but it's a big room. But in that room is a golden door. Like, I mean, made of gold, pure gold, metallic, like it's gleaming. And Tani without thinking, it's like, oh, and she's going to like get on all fours and kind of like start getting down in this hallway because it's a tight space.

But like, as she gets in, it's kind of like, you know, squishing and undulating. So like she's she's kind of like, oh, like it's it's gross. So there's no chance to grab her before she does that. She's just trying to grab her now. But like she's in the she's in the McDonald's play place. You can reach in and grab her and pull her back. That's fine. Like, it'd be kind of easy. It's like I'm so sorry that the teens are going to get eaten by a demon. This is like there's nothing we can do. Golden door. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely. Does it sound like a thing a demon would be?

Because I kind of picture Dagon like. I think Dagon was just like sort of looking at his book, looking at the words, it is coming and just repeating it back and forth and looking and looking at the walls and how like these patterns are changing and all that. I don't know if he's really focused on Tani right now. That's fair. You know, the more you're in here. It's. It's almost as if someone's fucking with the place like that. Yeah, well, what do you think? Too is like, oh, my God, is this Matilda? Because all this stuff, it's almost like someone's just flipping switches and buttons and dials and things are happening.

Like it's a lot like it's you know what I mean? Well, without that knowledge, he definitely thinks you think someone's watching them. Mm hmm. Because of the way things are randomly changing and appearing around them and how these words suddenly appeared. Right. When it has to be a plan. Yeah. No, this wouldn't just happen. So he has that feeling somebody is watching them and he's trying to like. I don't know. He's probably overthinking things or not. Not enough, but he's definitely not paying attention to Tani who has just inserted herself into the inside of a sausage.

That's true. She's doing so like halfway into the sausage. She's going to call. She's going to make sure they get like, Dagon, like she's like, it's a little shrill and it's coming from the inside of a meat tube. So like it's kind of like muffled trill is like, get here. It's gold. Like she's like it's getting more distant and more frantic as she's like. Yeah. If it's I mean, it's if it's loud enough, he would break his concentration and and look over. And if you can see it from where he's standing. You probably run up to it and just like, oh, like I'm sure she's like halfway down already.

Yeah. Buyer beware. There seems to be a large like molars all along the sides of this thing. OK, not like chomping or anything, but they're just there. There doesn't appear to be molars up top. So these are just exposed teeth lining the sides of this thing. OK, so he'll he'll notice that. Do you suppose this is the safest thing for you to be doing right now? What? You realize there's teeth in there, don't you? Yeah, there's meat, lots of it. Come on. Teeth. What? Teeth. Where? You can't feel them. And you're going to watch your stop. What about my teeth? How far away is she from him?

She's probably she's probably like 10 feet in front. Oh, but there's a lot of like wet, slappy noises in here. So like. And like as she she's kind of turning around, she's going to bump into the teeth like there's teeth in here. She's going to like. Oh, that's great. And she's going to like shuffle back like it's it's very awkward because it's a tight space. So like instead of turning around, she's just going to like like backwards baby crawl and like kind of like try to reach back for Dagon's hands. Like, come on, come on. She's coming back to me. Yeah. If she's close enough, I'm going to pull her out of there.

I'm going to try to. OK, give me an athletics check. Do better than a one. Yeah. It's not bad. That's an eight. Oh, God, you haven't taken a photo for God to take on. I'm sorry. Oh, God, you haven't taken a photo for God to take on. So like again, though, it's it's kind of slippery. So like, what are you grabbing her by like the boot or something and pulling her back? I think. His thought is that this thing is is going to chop down or it's going to constrict or, you know, or not knowing anything about it, he definitely wouldn't have gotten in there himself.

So whatever he whatever is there, when he reaches out, that's what he's grabbing. OK, so again, probably boot, something like that, because she's like backwards crawling. So if you grab her like she's going to be a little like it's like, what, what, you know, that that type of thing. And if you start pulling, it's an eight. And it's not like Tanny's a powerhouse, but like more confused than anything. So what are you doing? I want to see that door. Come on, just got to be something good in there. It's gold. Fine. But you just walked into a mouth. I crawled in that like that's a defense.

Like she's got it without hesitation. Just like, no, like that. Are you completely oblivious to danger? I. OK, the way I thought of it is I've never had a wet tube attack me before, so I had no reason to think that it's going to do anything like, you know. Have you ever had been in a room with patterns changing on the walls, staircases appearing and disappearing, walls on the doors, on the ceiling, anything like that? I have not. No. Hmm. Yet here we are. But nothing's hurt us yet. No one's attacked us or like fell on us or nothing. I just figured me too was like the new thing.

Like, you know, it's just, you know, just standard hallway in the house of Bizarro. I figured it could have been worse. They could have been incisors. There you go. See, you're getting it. It's mostly tongue. I think it's tongue. And she's going to like reach down and like, like kind of like open hand, slap it and the hallway is going to be like, oh, like it's going to like react like a really awful waterbed. She's like, yeah, I think that's tongue. But but not in a negative way. It won't. It doesn't react in a negative way. I mean, it just kind of like pulsates.

It's just like a little pulsates. That's the comforting word. I would you rather undulate? I can go back to undulate like I I'm not sure that's a positive way. I look, I am just trying to mix it up. I'll use different terminology. Don't worry. OK. Dagon. Oh, my God. He's going to look at this thing with extreme disgust. It's like, fuck me. It's just kind of like poke at it. Just to see if it reacts. Well, the tongue. And again and again, it's like if you if you just kind of poke it, it's like a little like that type of like it's very like it's a it's it's like dropping a coin in a pole type of thing, you know what I mean?

Like it'll it'll kind of like ripple out and then stop. After. Oh, go ahead. Sorry. No, no, no. Maybe you go first. Well, my mind might change after you say what you have to say. You know what? That's fair. I'll show my cards first. So I want to cut back really quickly to the gang and Matilda. Right. So this button is clicked with a satisfying like like it like, you know, and where the button was kind of like, you know, pulsing off on red, it's just going to be solid red. And. One of those recordings is going to start to play. And it's this really sad, like almost a dirge, like like like in theory, it'd be like hearing closing time or something like that, you know what I mean?

It's like, oh, that's, you know, and cutting back to Dagon and Tani. Things are going to start disappearing. Slowly, but surely, patterns on walls are going to start to like glitch and then blink out and then walls are going to start to like fold and strip away. And then that tongue, you guys are like just kind of like it's going to start to like dry and crack and then crumble. And that gold door. Is going to start to like dematerialize, and these very long gnarled fingers are going to start to reach out from the door. And it it's like five feet of arm, but you don't see a body attached to it.

But what it looks like it's doing is like you're going to see a leg come through, same thing like it's reaching. It's it's leaving that. It's leaving that room and things are around it are also going to start to disappear. This place is dematerializing. Essentially, a self-destruct button has been activated. And from the back of the back rooms, all the way back to that door, it's going to start to fall away and just become nothing. Are we like falling into the void of eyeballs? Not yet. But the void of eyeballs is coming along with that thing. And I would say common sense kicks in.

I'm not going to have you roll a check. I'm not going to like in a. In a carnival of this isn't right, this sticks out. It's like, OK, hold up, hold up, hold up. But that type of thing like this is wrong. Right about the time the tongue starts crumbling in the dust and then you you see something otherworldly start to peer out like it looks like shadow, like raw shadow is is reaching out and you're going to see the hedgehog. It is. He's got guns and he's fucking coming. And we're going to get that for audience and the shadow of the hedgehog audience. That's why I've been courting all these years.

Don't make me look up for. Don't don't you dare. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah. James, if you haven't. I mean, it's what it says on the tin. Like if you haven't stumbled upon it by now, you're not into it. I'm too old for that shit. Just OK. That's what it says on the tin. You know, it's just to be honest when I first send you some links, James, don't open anything and send you ever. That's a good little thumb story. You should already know that. It has to do with like sexual tooth sausage tubes and like I think I have an idea of what you're on the right track. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

OK. So we need you at home. Are we back? Yes, she is. OK, I would say at this point, Tanny's like. When the tongue starts to sing, it's like, look at what you do, like just kind of like you're the last one to like poke it, and then it just starts like like it's going to it's like, like, what you do to it? I didn't do that. What to do with me? But I don't know. But look what's coming out that door that you wanted to go to. I love that. And I told you so takes precedence over running. I love this relationship. So she's going to look and like see that and frantically like try to get up out of this deflated beanbag chair.

That is a desiccated tongue and just like eventually just kind of like asking for upsies. Like it's like, help me like it's like this thing, like because it's sunk in. So like her butt is down and like her knees are up. So like she's it's like I can't get purchase. So like she's going to be like grasping at Dagon. OK. He will absolutely help her. And thus the running begins. Where are we running, though? We don't know how to get back to the door. You rolled a 10. You rolled ink on the carpet. Oh, I rolled a 10. So here's what we're going to do. Yeah, we did. It's very ink on the carpet.

Yeah. So. There's two things we have to deal with. Lots of life. Yeah, well, one is for Dagon and Tani and one is for the party because a fail safe was activated in the room. Thanks. Thanks to Matilda. That's remember you chose number two and pulled it down. So we're going to deal with that. But we're also going to deal with Dagon and Tani trying to escape. And we could deal with that in any order you like. I heard go back to the party. Let's go back to the party. So I was going to say no, ours is more pressing. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll save that for the end.

You guys, though. So in this room full of experiments, there's so obviously the fail safe with the like the blurring motor love of like Blender Blenderina and you're in that that's good. But like there's also like a like a fail fail fail safe. And it's never it's never active because it was terrible. It was a terrible idea. And it was birthed from hey, wouldn't it be neat if there was some sort of alarm or extinguisher that can do everything? It can put out fires. It can, you know, whatever emergency was happening. It can step in and kind of go, hey, I've got just the thing and I can handle this.

But the problem is he sort of used wild magic to create it and he could never stabilize it. So there's essentially a large crystal charged with all kinds of magics floating above the place that never turns on until Matilda crank that second lever way back when. So what I need you to do, Valerie, is roll on the Rot of Wonder table. And we are going to activate that right now in this room. Whoa. And that is a D. That is a D 100. D 100. OK. OK. I don't know what that adds up to. It's 29. Can I have you roll a D 10 for me, please? Yeah, we love a second roll on the phone.

You love it. Yeah. For ten of clams. So. You so Matilda is kind of like is with the party, but not right. You're not. Oh, wait, you're not in that room, are you? Oh, OK. Well, three of you. Obviously, Fenris is going to the ringer and he's feeling like completely drained. But you guys are going to notice this this crystal kind of like almost flashbang. And right after that, you're going to feel kind of like tired, too. It's like, oh, God, just just a little bit. Just like it's like, oh, OK. And you're all going to age by four years. Not crazy, terrible, but one of you is a rat.

No, no, no, no. Don't you think so? Because I'm not magic in him. I know I didn't forget. And I'm going to like calm down. It's OK, guys. I got to protect the rat at all costs. Pets and DNR have traditionally gone poorly. I understand the trepidation. So choose these next words very carefully, Jason. The longest living rat live to be seven years old. We're OK. So do you remember how I said that Dumpy is just super strong, like way stronger than a rat should be? And that's like he just started a workout regimen. So for Dumpy, four years are going to go by with this strength magic coursing through him, and we're going to get some liver king action.

Like he's just going to be fucking veiny and ripped freakishly so still rat shaped, still. But like like just disturbingly muscular. Like, oh, my gosh, like like the double muscled animals. Yes. Yes. I know what that is. But like just freakish, like everyone else feels. I found I found a rat. Wherever he is perched on my body, it just like goes it like dips down a little bit. Like, God, it's the invasion. Like it looks like Dumpy went to prison. Like he's done nothing but lift weights and you know, like that's it. But yeah, no, everyone else is going to like.

I don't even know if it would be obvious to everybody. Right. But like, I mean, yeah, like I'm a half elf, so it's probably not anything different at all. I think that needs feel worse. It's like, oh, oh, my God. What are Satan life spans like? I mean, they're they're a little less on par with humans like they're, you know, you know. OK, so yeah, so YouTube might. That was a valuable time. Valuable to. That's the things we're in here. Yeah, I was just thinking, I got a good hair and weird places. Oh, God. So what? That sums up tonight, so what like that is a perfect encapsulation.

Is that what you know? That could have been way worse. It could have been way, way worse. Like, OK, to give you guys an example, that was twenty nine. Twenty eight is the target ages by one d one hundred years. Thirty is the target explodes into five d one hundred gold coins. Well, could be way, way worse. I don't know. A hundred gold coins. Five hundred potentially like five. It'd be a sacrifice, but you know, I'll miss bittersweet. But that's what everyone. Rich baby. Let's come power bittersweet, but we're going shopping. Is that all what the crystal does?

Like it doesn't do its fire extinguisher. Does it keep going? Are we good? No, it just stops. Like it's just that's that's why he never used it. It was like, ah, this isn't very reliable. Sometimes people just explode like I can't use this like, you know, I'm very confused. Feel like I'm so pissed. You I mean, I think we all are. What the fuck is a lot of weird shit has happened in the small amount of time we've been playing tonight. All right. Here's how we're closing things out. OK. I need. An alternating combination of athletics checks and survival checks because you so because you rolled in three.

Yeah. OK. We are again shooting for four successes before three failures. Can't believe the teenagers are going to die. They might not. So we might just be displaced. You mean Tani has to roll to see anything if you all get dragged to hell? We're not coming for you. Yeah, I get to join the other group. Yeah, exactly. You might get to play more often. Look at you. Well, OK, so each one of you are going to have to, you know, you're going to have to roll and we're going to start real slow. But the thing is, every other survival check is going to be with disadvantage because you rolled a 10 earlier.

So what's your survival score, Dagon? What's your what's your bonus there? Survival zero athletics is minus one. Oh, man. OK, so the good news is my only minus one. Look, this is going to happen kind of. It's going to start slow, right? So these checks are going to be pretty easy until the end. The end is going to be like it's going to ramp up. But let's start. Let's get to four right off the bat. That's it's going to be it's going to be amazing. You'll see. So can I get an athletics check, please? And Tani's got to do one, too. Oh, this is just straight up, right?

Yep. Just straight up. What are we going? What are we shooting for here? We were shooting for an eight. So that's not amazing. You almost had it, but then I couldn't find it. God. So Tani rolled an 18. You got a seven. I will say that if one of you scores double what what is supposed to be the thing, you can kind of like assist a little bit. Could she just like making that up right now? Can Tani just like pick him up? I don't think she's she's pretty small. But like just that much. Yeah, just kind of like a come on like. So just that, you know. So I'm going to give this one to you, but realize that's not going to happen again, probably.

But yeah. OK. I appreciate survival check. You are merciful. Survival. We're shooting for a 10. Oh, so this time, Tani rolled a nine and Dagon rolled a 16. So the thing is. You need to make a decision. So. You can choose to break away from Tani and run forward. Oh, my God. Or you can choose to stay. And that means you both fail. This counts as a failure for both of you. So we're about to find out what kind of guy Dagon is. Oh, you guys are going to have such cute kids. So you might be a failure. Yeah, yeah. That's good. OK, so that's and that's him once I'm pretty sure, didn't she?

Yeah, yeah. One success, one failure. And this would be a good time for her to use some blood magic, but she's down to eight hit points because it just never took the time to like, you know, so we're back to athletics and we need a 10. That's it. And this one's with disadvantage. No, this one's just regular. Your next survival is going to be with disadvantage. Well, it's already with this event. Well, not disadvantage, but a negative one. Oh, my God. 20 from Tani and 10 from Dagon. Oh, that negative one. Oh, my God. Oh, two successes, one failure. Now I need a survival and you have to roll with disadvantage.

And she's following you. So and this we're shooting for a 10 as well. This yeah, 10. Oh, my God. Oh, OK. You're going to roll a 12. She's going to roll a three. Now, that's that's real, real bad. And I'm going to be hated if Tani dies here. So I'm going to be hated. Yeah. Valerie almost killed Dumpy. So this is so you guys are it's a combination of running frantically and like scrambling. It's like, ah, like just trying to figure out it's like, wait, just trying to navigate your way back. And it makes sense. It makes sense. You're going to hear this terrible like a rusty sheet metal scratching against a car door sound.

And it. It sounds like something is gaining on you like it that sound it it it it's getting louder. It sounds like a train trying to stop or but like also with a boom, boom, boom. Like there is a it's it's not rhythmic. It's not like someone's walking. It's like. If you're to conjure an image, something is large enough that it can touch the floor and ceiling, and it is just like a pop up, like just crawling down the corridor here. And at the same time, this whole place is dematerializing around us. Yes, it is. Oh, that's like, that'd be a great horror movie.

So are we one success and two failures? Two successes, two failures. Two successes, two failures. All right. Fuck. What as you guys are. What about sorry. One more failure and we're done, right? We both have to succeed on this next one and we're fine. Well, the good news is. Tanny's going to kind of like grab the dagger that's on the side of her and. She's I she's got like your hand held like the entire time, but. She's she's she's going to say, OK, this is going to hurt like hell, but it's it's going to help us a bit, OK? But she's not asking. She's informing.

And she is going to plunge this dagger into her hand and through your hand. OK, he would have looked as she said that, and then as she did, that is eyes would have gotten like four times the size they normally do. And he's he's going to go into some form of early shock. That's fair. That's fair. Now, good news, bad news. This is going to do one D8 damage because of the power of this spell. Now, if she rolls an eight, she's unconscious. I don't know what Dagon's at. Six, dude. OK, well, OK. We are looking for a low roll. How can I die from a hand wound? Roll a big hand.

Much blood. You're very small. Now, the good news is if you live through this, it's going to give you advantage on your next three rolls, whatever those rolls would be. So that's blood magic, baby. That's that's handy. It's just not usually worth the trade off. But you're looking at pretty long odds. And I think looking around, you're going to see things. It's like, oh, fuck, like you hear whatever this is anyway. So I mean, OK, I'm going to roll this damage. OK, as long as it's five or under. What are the oh, God. OK. Oh, God. OK, I'm not ready. Not like this.

Oh, man, I don't want to click this button. This is going to fucking suck. And what does she have? She has eight. She has eight. You have six. She was like, oh, we're both. Oh, yeah, both dead. Yeah. Or yeah, or just like unconscious, not dead. But yeah. Jesus Christ. OK, here we go. And then drag me my dead body back and figure out a way to. Yeah, maybe she seemed the type who would do that. Here we go. Eight. So if we're painting a picture, this this screeching thumping is going to intensify and intensify to the point where you can't hear anything else. It's just boom, boom, boom, like just this grinding like it is intense.

It's in your eardrum. You can feel it pulsating and things are going to start to blink out of existence. And I would just cut back to the the party. And I think that's a good time for us to stop for the night. To be fair. Aren't you glad you played is a tremendously poor idea to go into those that I get it like it is bad. It's a bad idea. To want to go in there in the first place. Yeah, like it's. Yeah. Yeah. It's fine. It's so, so OK. I I OK, I need to inform you of a couple of things. Don't reroll a character yet. But you may want to in the future, we'll see.