Brothel DnD - Out of the Abyss 120

[00:00:00] Presents A Dungeons & Dragons Campaign

[00:00:30] Okay, last time you guys escaped from Mensa Baronson. You wind walked back to Arraj and

[00:00:42] delivered the last of the required items. The Zarin takes it all, starts working

[00:00:50] says he needs 10 days. You have 10 days to do whatever prep you want to do before

[00:00:55] you head off to set off the ritual. Hookers in blow, 9 days of hookers in blow.

[00:01:02] I mean, the Zarin's got a ton of unseen servants floating around. I'm sure you could

[00:01:06] work something out with them but...

[00:01:08] Yeah, hookers and blow. Scary movie reenactment. I must not be remembering scary movie

[00:01:16] two and it's Tory spelling. We get fucked by the ghost. Oh, yeah. So we're totally

[00:01:26] taking this spell and setting it off in Luskin, right? Fuck you, Grump. It's all your fault

[00:01:33] to begin with and just blow the whole thing. I'd be honest, I never cared for Luskin.

[00:01:38] I mean, it's basically a dead city anyway. So why not just...

[00:01:45] Cuda Grah. Sorry Jeff. We got 10 days to level up and just like, I don't fucking know

[00:01:51] if I'm preparing for Luskin. God damn it, Trotter, you told me you guys are totally

[00:01:55] gonna go to hell. Fuck it. We'll do it live. Remotations. Let's finish it up.

[00:02:03] I have nothing. I was going to have some things prepared for this situation but I have nothing.

[00:02:09] Ooh, what if we tried to travel to Avernus and set it off there? How do we get there?

[00:02:16] Well, I can plane ship now. Oh, what's his name? We'll tell you that that would not work.

[00:02:21] Because Jeff doesn't want to do it. I don't think so. No, because they have been

[00:02:26] trapped here on the prime material plane and it can summon them through the prime material

[00:02:31] plane. They couldn't cross plane. Gotcha. No, cross-mojinization. Something like that,

[00:02:38] sure. You have a ton of people that you've started out with and that you collected along the way.

[00:02:49] You could work to arm them and prepare all of them for the fight. You can go gather

[00:02:56] other allies. You could whatever you want to do. You know where you want to do this. I'm assuming

[00:03:05] we've talked about the maze engine. That's where you guys said you wanted to do it but if you want

[00:03:11] to do somewhere else, that's up to you. You could scout the site. You could figure out what is going on there.

[00:03:20] You still haven't even seen the maze engine. Yeah, we do have a little time to go figure out what's going on

[00:03:24] with the maze engine before we do this thing. I'm okay with going to do that if anybody else

[00:03:28] would like to. There are a couple of characters that I need to know where they're at.

[00:03:34] You had a mojron, at least one mojron. I can't remember if you found more. It was just one.

[00:03:39] Okay. No matter how many times you say mojron, all I can picture is fugitoid.

[00:03:44] He was from the planet mojron, wasn't he?

[00:03:50] Who is fugitoid? I don't actually. Pretty sure he was from like mojron or something very similar.

[00:03:57] It's the robot from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The one from like the 2011 series.

[00:04:05] Oh, I was going to say the only robot I remember is me. That isn't it? Huh? He's older than that, isn't he?

[00:04:12] Oh, no. I do remember a robot even from the 80s series but yeah, either way.

[00:04:19] I don't remember what his name was fugitoid. I don't think that was the name of the one in the original series.

[00:04:26] At least it from the action figures. But that is neither here nor there.

[00:04:31] You're not talking about cranks robot, are you? No. It was a gold, it was a gold-bodied robot and I can't remember.

[00:04:39] Yeah. So what do you guys want to do or we just skip it ahead?

[00:04:44] The fugitoid. That is actually the shape of the character that I'm thinking of.

[00:04:49] Yeah, because it's the character that you're thinking of.

[00:04:52] I didn't know that that was its name. It's the fugitoid.

[00:04:58] None of us have anything planned so sure of all armed people. I don't know. Let's just push forward.

[00:05:04] I got nothing else. Some of us have things planned. Thank you.

[00:05:07] Hookers and blow. I mean beyond that. Well then speak up.

[00:05:12] Well, I know. I want to call some of my best friends. What?

[00:05:17] I think we would be calling Bruno.

[00:05:21] One of his soldiers. I'd like to borrow some guys.

[00:05:25] Okay. I don't know if Thibble Dwarf is still alive at this point or not.

[00:05:30] No. All right. He's not. But somebody's in charge of the brigade.

[00:05:35] Yeah. I'd like them please.

[00:05:38] It's all I want. You don't remember the character that it was?

[00:05:41] No, I don't remember which character it was. It's one of the many characters that are in that goddamn series.

[00:05:46] No, it's not. It was Mal and Brass Rocks.

[00:05:50] Oh, Jeff being a fuckface. So yes. No. I'm going to call 20 of my favorite Dwarf friends

[00:05:58] to come do hookers and blow until we're ready to go face crying at the techno drum or whatever we're doing.

[00:06:05] I'm just stuck on fugitive references.

[00:06:07] You're going to have a hard time getting well, no, you could go back and forth and pick people up.

[00:06:13] I could. So yeah. If you want to if you want the gut, the gut, the gut, the gut, the usger brigade than yes.

[00:06:19] Yes. They would be all about this.

[00:06:22] Yes, I know they would which is why I wanted them here.

[00:06:25] Yes. No, I mean that's a thing. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:06:28] I am that is if I am going to make one value charge in this game as this character.

[00:06:34] I'm going to with permission of King Brewer or lead the gut buster brigade into battle against all the fucking, you know, awful stuff like how else am I going to go out?

[00:06:44] Yeah.

[00:06:45] So hookers and blow with the gut buster brigade.

[00:06:48] That would be an interesting. Oh, I mean they're going to party hard. Yeah until we have to walk to

[00:06:54] we don't have to walk. Well, we have to get there.

[00:06:58] You're going to have some walking because you can get back to like I think it was right it was near the angels.

[00:07:05] Yeah, the angels was where you set something up to get back to that's what they look like.

[00:07:10] That I mean, that's what I assumed that they were. Yeah.

[00:07:14] He played one. I did. It was in a game that you weren't in but that's what I played.

[00:07:20] God love the gut buster brigade. It also references in here. I don't know them, but others if there are other battle rage or brigades, I would absolutely call in those those chips if I have them to play.

[00:07:31] Yeah, you've got some but not all of them.

[00:07:33] Fugitoid Hells from the planet Duhunib.

[00:07:37] Oh, well, thank you for clarifying that.

[00:07:40] I know it was on everybody's mind.

[00:07:42] Thank people in the cars were screaming the whole time.

[00:07:45] Do you want to take the mode on to the orary before we and like scout out what we're going to do here before we do it?

[00:07:54] I assume that's probably a pretty good idea instead of just walking into it blind.

[00:07:59] Yeah, sure. It's a good idea.

[00:08:03] Then I guess that's what we're doing. Okay.

[00:08:08] So you're taking a couple days. You're making your way to go into Grimm and back.

[00:08:13] You're getting everybody ready. Are you taking everybody with you or what's the plan?

[00:08:19] Do we want to set up there for a while and just base camp there? Anybody not staring at stuff?

[00:08:26] I'm listening. I think that we're going to have to travel there.

[00:08:29] So, and did we decide how many days it was after the angels? Like is it close or...

[00:08:35] What was the guys? What was the no old's name?

[00:08:38] That was the other one that I was going to ask you about.

[00:08:40] What did you do with the no that was guiding you?

[00:08:44] Oh, no, Galagher. I don't know.

[00:08:46] I think you left him at a rush.

[00:08:49] But...

[00:08:50] I think we did too.

[00:08:51] Because you went back there before you left for Lusket.

[00:08:54] And we brought him back. We didn't let him just die.

[00:08:56] Right. Okay. He could tell you that it...

[00:09:00] Within a day and a half from the angels.

[00:09:04] Okay. So, if we're looking at things...

[00:09:09] It's a travel to Gontalgrim, bare minimum arrest and back.

[00:09:13] However long it takes to get our people to come back with us.

[00:09:18] So I'm assuming bare minimum that's two days, maybe three,

[00:09:22] to convince Brynner to let us have them.

[00:09:24] So then if we're going to travel the other day,

[00:09:27] and it's another day and a half,

[00:09:29] we're looking at best to be a day six or seven of the nine days before he's ready.

[00:09:33] Okay.

[00:09:34] To be able to even get there if we don't run into anything.

[00:09:37] And my understanding is he's just giving us the stuff,

[00:09:41] or isn't he giving us like a talisman or something to set it off?

[00:09:44] Correct.

[00:09:45] Which won't be done until ten days are up.

[00:09:47] Okay. So I would have to travel back.

[00:09:49] We would have to travel back and get it.

[00:09:51] Correct.

[00:09:52] Okay.

[00:09:53] So you can either wait it out or...

[00:09:55] And then go or...

[00:09:56] We go the way first.

[00:09:58] Yeah.

[00:09:59] I don't think it's a bad idea to take a party and scout and everything else.

[00:10:02] We could pop a whole bunch of people through there and have them scout ahead

[00:10:07] and look around and get the battle ragers in place.

[00:10:10] Yeah.

[00:10:11] I guess let's go and see if it's all been cleared out because they're...

[00:10:14] How far away from where the Nol guided us through?

[00:10:19] To the maze engine, about a day and a half.

[00:10:21] No, no, sorry.

[00:10:23] I'm forgetting.

[00:10:24] The place where we saw all of his Nol buddies and everything else.

[00:10:30] Because like the logistics of where everything at confuses me.

[00:10:34] Oh, I guess the question is, is it close?

[00:10:38] Are we popping back into the check?

[00:10:40] No.

[00:10:41] No.

[00:10:43] You saw...

[00:10:46] Oh, sorry.

[00:10:48] You saw all the Nol's and Yenigu somewhere back around the spiral over the horned king.

[00:10:55] I can't talk.

[00:10:56] Correct.

[00:10:57] Here is the filth riddance.

[00:10:59] That's where you ran into the cannibals.

[00:11:02] Okay.

[00:11:03] And here is the gallery of angels.

[00:11:05] So pretty...

[00:11:06] Okay.

[00:11:07] Yeah, this is Miles apart.

[00:11:09] Okay.

[00:11:10] That's just what I wanted to clarify.

[00:11:11] You know, D&D miles go by in 10 seconds.

[00:11:14] So we can bring people in and set up a base camp and like secure the area without knowingly causing a ruckus.

[00:11:21] We can also always set up our fortresses solitude as well.

[00:11:23] From the gallery of angels, it's one hex to get to the maze engine.

[00:11:30] So 12 miles?

[00:11:31] Yeah, 20...

[00:11:32] Did I say...

[00:11:33] Pretty sure it's 12.

[00:11:34] I guess it would be half a hex because of this 12 miles.

[00:11:37] Okay.

[00:11:38] Okay.

[00:11:39] Cool.

[00:11:40] I mean, I don't see why we wouldn't set up our fortress.

[00:11:43] Correct.

[00:11:44] I think that's the thing.

[00:11:45] Because then you could theoretically, we could get so that we're right next to it.

[00:11:49] Set up the fortress, establish a base camp, prep everything.

[00:11:53] Have outriders, make sure nobody's going to try and fuck with us.

[00:11:56] Get the battle ragers in place and then take a force.

[00:12:00] How many does the tower sleep?

[00:12:02] There's three floors.

[00:12:03] I don't know.

[00:12:04] Probably fine.

[00:12:05] That was at least three floors.

[00:12:06] You remember what we're talking about?

[00:12:08] Yeah.

[00:12:09] This fortress?

[00:12:10] It's two floors and a roof.

[00:12:12] Oh, okay.

[00:12:13] Yeah, I mean, I would assume we could all cramp in there if we need to.

[00:12:18] Yeah, I think it was like 40 by 40 square?

[00:12:21] Yeah.

[00:12:22] Two floors.

[00:12:23] Okay.

[00:12:24] Let's do that then.

[00:12:25] Cool, cool.

[00:12:26] No, I think I did make it three floors because it was the lab sleeping quarters and then like the living area down below.

[00:12:31] Where he was on a table.

[00:12:33] That is not correct.

[00:12:34] That isn't it, man.

[00:12:36] Yeah.

[00:12:37] So then we'll go to scout the area and set up our fortress and do the stuff.

[00:12:41] Okay.

[00:12:42] So you're going to, you're going to travel back to the gallery of angels.

[00:12:47] Correct.

[00:12:48] With how much of your crew?

[00:12:50] I would assume the battle raiders.

[00:12:53] And probably some of this, at least the scouts.

[00:12:57] Yep.

[00:12:58] And the future toy.

[00:13:00] Correct.

[00:13:01] The Maudron.

[00:13:02] Yep.

[00:13:03] And probably the Noldelidas.

[00:13:05] Yep.

[00:13:06] So I don't know how many would be in the group of battle raiders.

[00:13:09] I don't know how many that it is.

[00:13:11] 20.

[00:13:12] Okay.

[00:13:13] Yeah.

[00:13:14] 20.

[00:13:15] 6.

[00:13:16] Not including us if we're not adding anybody else.

[00:13:18] All right.

[00:13:19] You get back to the gallery of angels.

[00:13:22] At least three of your guys go nuts when they brush up against an angel.

[00:13:28] You guys head out, you can get there in a day.

[00:13:32] That's, that's fine.

[00:13:34] I think it was one hex is one day's travel.

[00:13:38] So I was calculating wrong.

[00:13:40] Yeah.

[00:13:41] Let's say 12 hours travel.

[00:13:44] Who's going where?

[00:13:47] Are you splitting off the scouts?

[00:13:49] Are you all going as a clump of people?

[00:13:52] What's going on?

[00:13:53] Because I need to know how things are going to react.

[00:13:57] Do we send some scout?

[00:13:59] I would send, I would send depending on how many scouts we have left.

[00:14:02] I think we had four or five of them.

[00:14:04] I would send everyone a statement.

[00:14:06] We hadn't actually lost any because the ones that we had lost were petriots.

[00:14:10] Yeah, you found them.

[00:14:11] That's right.

[00:14:12] So I mean, I would send them in cardinal directions, you know what I mean?

[00:14:16] In like pairs of two.

[00:14:18] So I know we're three dimensional here, but essentially two to the north, two to the south, two to the east and two to the west.

[00:14:25] Right.

[00:14:26] So they would be ahead.

[00:14:28] The main force is going to be led by the null and would contain the battle ragers in us.

[00:14:35] Okay.

[00:14:36] Are you guys heading straight for the maze engine?

[00:14:40] Is there some other way to go?

[00:14:42] I mean, no, I mean are you letting the scouts go out, come back and you guys forge ahead after that or what?

[00:14:50] No, it's time.

[00:14:51] I mean, the scouts would go out.

[00:14:54] We would go but we're traveling slower as a group.

[00:14:57] Okay.

[00:14:58] I'm just trying to get check, check test test.

[00:15:02] Sorry, this looks like it's just some space between us.

[00:15:05] Seems like it's picking me up.

[00:15:06] Yes.

[00:15:07] Okay.

[00:15:08] Okay.

[00:15:09] Okay.

[00:15:10] So give me somebody, give me some survival checks for your scouts in the labyrinth.

[00:15:18] Well based off of there's stuff right?

[00:15:22] Do you have scouts?

[00:15:25] Okay.

[00:15:26] I've kept them since they don't have a specific wisdom is that's weird that they would not have any kind of proficiency in it.

[00:15:39] Yeah, and there was the 20 looking at oh, I'm an idiot plus five.

[00:15:43] I didn't see the skills line.

[00:15:44] Yeah, we're good.

[00:15:45] It was a 10.

[00:15:46] Okay.

[00:15:47] You're saying you I'm sorry, is a nine.

[00:15:49] How many how many scouts did you have?

[00:15:51] We had four parties, didn't we?

[00:15:53] Sure.

[00:15:54] Yeah, give me four rolls.

[00:15:57] That's a 21.

[00:15:59] It was a 22 or the 23 actually and then a 14 because you're at a 16.

[00:16:05] I rolled a 16 another 18 on the first one.

[00:16:08] It's a 14.

[00:16:12] That is a 22.

[00:16:14] Okay.

[00:16:15] So you guys move ahead.

[00:16:20] The null is able to take you on clear paths.

[00:16:25] That's not an issue.

[00:16:30] Okay, are you waiting for the spout the scouts to come back before you go?

[00:16:34] No, I think that they're just traveling faster.

[00:16:36] You'll get there.

[00:16:39] You basically find a huge cavern.

[00:16:44] It looks like there was some kind of a structure here.

[00:16:47] Like some kind of a shrine, a temple, something.

[00:16:51] There are marble stairs going up to a platform, not really a platform,

[00:16:59] like a raised building, like an old Greek temple.

[00:17:03] You know the stairs go up and there's a big flat area and columns.

[00:17:07] It's a launch pad, the Akunaki.

[00:17:09] Right.

[00:17:11] At least what's left of it?

[00:17:13] It looks like the back half of this cavern has collapsed, including most of the building.

[00:17:19] The maze engine sits on what's left of this huge stone platform up these marble stairs.

[00:17:27] You can see that you can see the top of it as you're approaching.

[00:17:31] And it's got its warm in here.

[00:17:34] Okay.

[00:17:35] Any sign of where the heat is coming from?

[00:17:39] There's a red globe coming from behind the maze engine.

[00:17:44] Reception checks from everybody, please.

[00:17:47] I'm assuming you're going to get at least somebody will.

[00:17:52] Not with that role, I probably won't.

[00:17:55] I got a 16.

[00:17:56] Perfect 10.

[00:17:58] Big old 10.

[00:18:00] He wins.

[00:18:01] Oh wow.

[00:18:03] See what happens when you assume?

[00:18:05] We'll see.

[00:18:07] Love a monster.

[00:18:08] Uh, no, you see, you see a misshapen creature?

[00:18:14] You don't know.

[00:18:15] You didn't roll high enough to know what it is.

[00:18:18] It's a big damn creature.

[00:18:20] It turns and it sees you and poof.

[00:18:23] It's gone.

[00:18:25] Okay.

[00:18:26] Neat.

[00:18:27] Like, first off, how big?

[00:18:30] Is there an arcana or like a history role I could make to know of a big damn creature that can do what it just did?

[00:18:36] To Rosk.

[00:18:37] Please know.

[00:18:38] That's real big damn big.

[00:18:40] Well, he said it's a huge cavity.

[00:18:43] It's large.

[00:18:44] Mechanically large sized.

[00:18:46] Okay.

[00:18:47] So then how far away was it?

[00:18:49] It's where this lava area that we're looking at or this red door down around the base of the stairs.

[00:18:57] Okay.

[00:18:58] And it poofed like smoke of brimstone or like invisibility cloak or teleported to the start track.

[00:19:09] You had no idea you're a barbarian.

[00:19:12] That's why I was asking if I was able to make like an arcana or a history role.

[00:19:16] Make me an arcana check.

[00:19:17] Hey, don't assume barbarians.

[00:19:19] What happened?

[00:19:20] Because you didn't notice it.

[00:19:22] You didn't see it happen.

[00:19:23] You wouldn't be able to analyze it.

[00:19:25] A few jatoid.

[00:19:26] That's a 23.

[00:19:29] That was definitely a teleportation.

[00:19:32] Okay.

[00:19:33] Scotty beamed it up.

[00:19:35] Well, I will inform them of what I saw.

[00:19:37] Yep.

[00:19:38] We can expect a barrage of photon torpedoes at any point.

[00:19:41] Sure.

[00:19:42] Cool.

[00:19:44] So it was...what did the creature look like?

[00:19:48] It was a big huge ass blob that was red.

[00:19:53] Do you think it's rolling in a tack on us right now?

[00:19:55] Potentially.

[00:19:56] Okay, just curious.

[00:19:57] I don't know.

[00:19:58] How do we get down or up or...

[00:20:02] Of his description and a roll of 21 in animal handling.

[00:20:07] Will that give me more insight into what this creature might be?

[00:20:14] With animal handling?

[00:20:15] No.

[00:20:16] No.

[00:20:17] No.

[00:20:18] It was definitely more like bipedal and I won't say humanoid but it was two legs and

[00:20:29] two arms.

[00:20:30] But it was like in a more fist blob like creature?

[00:20:32] You're pretty sure you saw wings too.

[00:20:34] Okay.

[00:20:35] Then I'll say that I'm pretty sure I also saw wings.

[00:20:38] This doesn't sound like it's getting to be any better of a description.

[00:20:41] How do we get up or down or relative...

[00:20:43] I don't know where we came into this cavern hat.

[00:20:45] From above, from below, to the side.

[00:20:48] Kind of laterally.

[00:20:49] Okay.

[00:20:50] To the base of the stairs.

[00:20:51] Okay.

[00:20:52] So we theoretically have a level-ish path to go over to the stairs then?

[00:20:57] Yes.

[00:20:58] And how high is the cavern up?

[00:21:00] I know you said it was a good sized cavern so...

[00:21:03] It is.

[00:21:04] I don't want to draw every...

[00:21:09] What day is it 16th?

[00:21:13] Friday.

[00:21:14] Saturday is the 16th because that's the button for blocking the Cori Invite.

[00:21:18] Oh, it is.

[00:21:19] I have...

[00:21:21] Josh's...

[00:21:22] Just as I say what happens between now and then?

[00:21:24] Not uninterested but just gotta see.

[00:21:26] Okay.

[00:21:27] Here's the main gist of the cavern that you're entering.

[00:21:30] You're entering down here.

[00:21:32] Okay.

[00:21:33] There you see large pillars going up into the darkness beyond where you guys can see.

[00:21:40] You don't...

[00:21:41] You can figure out how tall it is but you can't see it from down here.

[00:21:45] These are the stairs and then what is left of the temple building type thing and the maze engine are up here.

[00:21:54] What are the columns made out of?

[00:21:56] Worked stone.

[00:21:58] Any aesthetic that they have?

[00:22:02] Give me a history check.

[00:22:03] Hey, or anybody?

[00:22:05] Anybody who wants to inspect them?

[00:22:08] I'm just assuming because I'm a barbarian.

[00:22:10] I don't know history.

[00:22:11] Correct.

[00:22:12] Or I just assume that I'm the one who specifically aimed at certain skills.

[00:22:17] Total of 30.

[00:22:19] I do not beat 30.

[00:22:21] Okay.

[00:22:22] Um...

[00:22:25] Same card you always get.

[00:22:28] For two to circumstance.

[00:22:32] Okay.

[00:22:33] For two to signal what these columns are for.

[00:22:36] Like you have a lot of information about the current gods, the...

[00:22:43] Even some old dead civilizations and things like that.

[00:22:47] You can tell that this is a some kind of worship of law.

[00:22:52] Like the ideal of law.

[00:22:55] I am the law.

[00:22:57] Yeah, that's on there.

[00:23:00] It's just a big red helmet at the top.

[00:23:02] No, it's just so vester Stallone.

[00:23:05] Um...

[00:23:08] There's not one...

[00:23:10] There's not like one deity that you can pick out.

[00:23:13] It is...

[00:23:15] It's imagery that is centered around the idea of law and order.

[00:23:22] Dun dun.

[00:23:23] You can see...

[00:23:24] I mean, some of these pillars you find carvings of modrons.

[00:23:29] Some of them you find carvings of...

[00:23:32] Do anybody think that it's ironic that there's a...

[00:23:35] Basically a worship temple to law and the chaos of a labyrinth?

[00:23:40] It wasn't always a labyrinth.

[00:23:43] The labyrinth was created by minors.

[00:23:47] Um...

[00:23:48] Am I misremembering the words?

[00:23:49] I think that's illegal.

[00:23:51] I remember remembering that we were getting closer to like where Baphomet was supposed

[00:23:54] to be down here.

[00:23:55] I don't think that you are.

[00:23:57] Yeah, that's what I thought.

[00:23:59] Baphomet and you saw Yenigodown here.

[00:24:02] Yeah.

[00:24:03] They are both loosened in the labyrinth.

[00:24:05] So I wonder if we should maybe not pursue this too much further before Baphomet just pops

[00:24:10] a disgusting head up.

[00:24:12] Yeah, okay.

[00:24:13] It's like 30 of us versus him.

[00:24:15] Let's do it.

[00:24:16] One less god to worry about later.

[00:24:19] And I want to see how he does in the battle royal.

[00:24:21] You got money on Baphomet?

[00:24:24] No, I think that...

[00:24:27] Well, it is what it is.

[00:24:29] I feel pretty good with battle ragers.

[00:24:32] Pretty solid.

[00:24:34] You just see them scaling the demon lords?

[00:24:37] Oh, a thousand on their way up.

[00:24:39] With their fists by putting their fists into it.

[00:24:41] That's how they're going to do it.

[00:24:43] Yeah.

[00:24:44] Do we know much about Baphomet and the fuck?

[00:24:49] Sorry.

[00:24:50] A fucking murky Jeff?

[00:24:51] No, I shut it off earlier.

[00:24:53] I don't know why it's being stupid now.

[00:24:57] Darkfangled technology, remember?

[00:25:00] Yep.

[00:25:01] Well, I mean, whatever is going to happen when we go over there and start climbing the stairs

[00:25:05] if this were a film.

[00:25:06] I just shut the fucking thing off.

[00:25:11] Oh no, I shut off Wi-Fi going nuts out.

[00:25:13] God damn it.

[00:25:16] Kids in their newfangled technology.

[00:25:19] I just wish I could make it just like fuck with you.

[00:25:24] I mean, we could probably find that audio clip somewhere.

[00:25:27] Oh, absolutely good.

[00:25:28] I could just have a Bluetooth speaker nearby.

[00:25:31] Yeah.

[00:25:32] What do we know about Baphomet?

[00:25:34] Something we got to kill.

[00:25:35] Let's kill it.

[00:25:36] I don't know.

[00:25:37] Other than that.

[00:25:38] I mean, you rolled for all this before.

[00:25:41] Baphomet is the demon lord of Minotars.

[00:25:46] His domain in the abyss is a labyrinth.

[00:25:51] That's why he settled here.

[00:25:54] It kind of looks like that.

[00:25:55] Like this?

[00:25:56] Do you agree, yes?

[00:25:59] Is there more that you're wanting to know or anything specific?

[00:26:03] Which ones that one?

[00:26:04] Red.

[00:26:05] That would be Orcas.

[00:26:07] Oh, that was okay.

[00:26:09] Yeah.

[00:26:10] Um, hey, um, uh, dot matrix.

[00:26:17] Um, I remember that show.

[00:26:20] It's because it's old Jeff.

[00:26:22] I know.

[00:26:23] You know what a dot matrix is.

[00:26:25] I do know what a dot matrix is.

[00:26:27] It's probably what you wrote your first term paper on.

[00:26:30] It's typewriter.

[00:26:33] You know, I never took the typing classes that were on typewriters.

[00:26:38] They did have them at my high school.

[00:26:41] But in the 1950s,

[00:26:44] and quite that far back.

[00:26:46] Sorry, 1968 group of people who used to watch Jag.

[00:26:50] Now I never watched that.

[00:26:52] Remember the 40s?

[00:26:54] What?

[00:26:55] What are you babbling about now?

[00:26:56] Yeah, it's a matter of thing.

[00:26:58] Anyway, um, so is this like a temple to your people then?

[00:27:04] It's not a temple to my people.

[00:27:06] It's a temple to law.

[00:27:08] I'm assuming you're talking to the Mojron.

[00:27:10] Yeah, it's poor roleplay.

[00:27:12] You should go bon, bon, zero.

[00:27:14] No, no, no.

[00:27:16] I mean, presumably, no, because if he's communicating with him,

[00:27:19] he somehow got the helm of telepathy because the Mojron doesn't speak common.

[00:27:23] It doesn't have to respond.

[00:27:25] I can, I'm just asking questions.

[00:27:27] No, I'm assuming you guys have figured out some way to communicate with it.

[00:27:31] Well, we had already figured it out.

[00:27:32] One of somebody's got tongues.

[00:27:33] It couldn't remember a little.

[00:27:34] Tick-our-tap just starts spitting out of his chest.

[00:27:38] It's just graded scantron papers?

[00:27:42] Avocaba.

[00:27:43] Now the...

[00:27:46] It'll explain to you that this was a site

[00:27:52] that was devoted to law and order.

[00:27:56] the natural order of the planes and keeping everything working. Did it run off

[00:28:05] of lava or no that's new. Do devils have wings? Probably some of them.

[00:28:13] Point decent assumption. Okay. Let's go take a look gang.

[00:28:18] Marrow. Going up to the maze engine. Yeah okay you climb 30 feet worth of

[00:28:25] stairs. You see before you a 40 foot contraption composed of gold or brass

[00:28:41] rings like kind of like a gyroscope there are there there is a platform in the

[00:28:48] middle there are spheres all around the platform and then the rings that circle

[00:28:54] around the outside. Around the outside. Around the outside. So this would be

[00:29:01] I'm too busy wrapping in my head now to come up with it. Just say this looks

[00:29:09] like a job for me. Well I was gonna say Jeff created some monsters. Sure did.

[00:29:15] And I was like where do I go from there? I hate this place.

[00:29:20] I hate you good. So this orary anybody with some book learned and gonna say

[00:29:32] like this is probably like the orientation of the planes and the astro bodies

[00:29:37] and everything else. I assume that we'd already kind of covered that. Right but

[00:29:41] like that shit moves right it does like the stars in the sky. So is this position

[00:29:47] relative to fuck all anything? I don't know what I'm rolling but I've rolled.

[00:29:52] Would it be arcana would it be history would it be arcana would be a good one. Okay then

[00:29:56] it's a 20. It's 20. 26. It doesn't it doesn't look like it's representing

[00:30:06] anything at the moment. I mean you you can find markings on the rings. I mean the rings

[00:30:11] are the rings are 40 feet across. You can see details that like indicate which planes

[00:30:19] they apply to and things like that. The rings represent the outer planes. Okay.

[00:30:26] The way the the way the planes are laid out. You have the prime material plane in the

[00:30:29] middle. You have I think it's four planes that are adjacent to the prime

[00:30:35] material plane. You have the shadow fell you have the Feywilds and two others

[00:30:39] I can't remember. I have to look at the main over planes book. I've got yes they're

[00:30:45] what there is a book. Well no I mean there's a there's a picture of it in

[00:30:52] the the DMG but the outer planes include the I believe they include the elemental

[00:31:00] planes fire water air earth. Thank you. Yes. Plane shadow with the area of

[00:31:10] plane Astro plane. Plane of shadows is the one I'm thinking of. I can't read that.

[00:31:15] The transit of planes are the ethereal plane the plane of shadow and the astro plane.

[00:31:19] There we go. There it is. Okay so no the the Feywild and the shadow fell are

[00:31:26] surrounding the material are adjacent to the material plane and then it's the elemental

[00:31:31] planes and then the outer planes or upper planes things like alysium and

[00:31:38] celestial the abyss of various. The beach lands pandemonium or no a furnace is not

[00:31:45] the name of the planes it's the nine hells a furnace is one of the nine hells.

[00:31:50] Mechanis is one of the outer planes which is where the mode run is from. Hey Ray waste.

[00:32:00] Hey K9. Does this do anything? Can you fix this? Is it broken? Does it work? I have lots

[00:32:12] of questions about it. It'll you see it just hop right up jumping between the

[00:32:19] between the rings up onto the platform. Should he be doing that? How am I supposed to know?

[00:32:25] He knows more than I do. How big is this true? How big is the maze engine? It's like a 40

[00:32:34] foot sphere. Okay. It's telling me that you have it smoked a joint in the ethereal plane.

[00:32:40] That would be gargantuan. I haven't found that mushroom yet. That's why I was down here

[00:32:45] in the first couple of the size of gargantuan 20 by 20 is gargantuan. So it's

[00:32:49] dumb but there's a lot of open space in between there. I just like that there's an

[00:32:59] outer plane called limbo. Yeah. I just imagine that's where the slods are from.

[00:33:03] Death slots. I made my asshole go like that.

[00:33:08] There are worse things than slods. I mean you ran into one. Yeah they're not that bad.

[00:33:14] You didn't fight it. It's a Viseran's bodyguard. Yeah we could have fought it.

[00:33:21] It could have. It was a death slot wasn't it? Yes. We had time. Go ahead.

[00:33:26] It's not that bad. It's not good. It's not that bad. No so what's the mode

[00:33:34] we're on doing? I envision a robotic Yoda in just clowns and around 20 feet up above you guys.

[00:33:42] Are you guys going to follow him up there to see what he's doing? Is it possible to follow him up there?

[00:33:46] Sure. He got up there. He's smaller than you. Yeah but I imagine like a jet set radio thing going

[00:33:52] on here where he's actually sliding on discs that are moving and no nothing is moving.

[00:33:58] Okay. Yeah that's why I meant like I was seeing like Yoda fighting like Palpatine.

[00:34:03] Right. He's just, I mean he is scaling it pretty, pretty droidly.

[00:34:09] Is there a set of stairs or a ladder nearby? Is there like an observation deck for this?

[00:34:15] Yes right in the middle. But there's no easy way to get to the observation desk.

[00:34:19] Like there's not a grappling hook. Sure.

[00:34:24] Just trying to find a way to climb up there without like touching all the shinies.

[00:34:29] Because I feel like you get on the observation deck and you would look at the thing.

[00:34:32] How far away is it? How far away is what? Is he at the observation deck? Yeah he climbed up into it.

[00:34:39] How far off is it? 20 feet up, 20 feet up. Yep.

[00:34:44] Yep. Misty step? It's a druid spell. Really? I didn't realize that.

[00:34:48] I could actually face that. It's the same idea. Yeah, I know.

[00:34:52] It just smells super dank and you get hungry for cheetos when he when he missed these steps.

[00:35:00] Like the shit that rolls out in the mystery machine and they open the door.

[00:35:03] Yeah. This is dust on the road.

[00:35:05] You get up there and you basically see a ton of controls that you have no idea what any of them do

[00:35:12] or what any of them mean. Okay.

[00:35:17] The Mojoron is not pulling levers or anything. He's kind of looking around trying to figure out

[00:35:25] what's what? Gotcha. He's not going all old school sylon on us up there, is he?

[00:35:30] I think you still trying to figure out what's what and what's a sylon?

[00:35:34] Let me guess. He's got a lot of buttons and knobs and shit up there, huh?

[00:35:39] Yeah. The Mojoron will tell you that this has definitely not been used in a very long time.

[00:35:47] He's not sure what shape it's going to be on when you turn it on if you can get it turned on.

[00:35:53] Do we want to turn it on and what does it do anyway? It restores order.

[00:35:58] I mean, in some ways, that sounds appealing. And in what, in your cult, does restore order mean?

[00:36:04] He sets things right. All things?

[00:36:09] For those at home, the mechanical man shrugged non-committal.

[00:36:15] Okay. The mechanical man, there's like three tiers of Mojorons. This is the lowest

[00:36:24] barely above a chatbot. I mean, there's not much brain power behind this one. There's a second tier

[00:36:33] which is much more efficient. And then there's the top tier that is above that.

[00:36:41] I'm sure that this thing has heard of devices like this. There are legends among his people

[00:36:49] about what these do. Of the great device that restores order. Yeah, I mean, Mojorons are all

[00:36:56] about order. It names. It names things. It starts spitting out a label maker. It provides order.

[00:37:05] And these legends, does it say how they're powered? How we turn it on? Yeah, we can figure out how

[00:37:10] to turn it on. And he just comes out of him and clicks into it. I have been chosen.

[00:37:17] Oh no, I'm assuming that you've explained to him what your idea is to set off this ritual and

[00:37:23] everything like that. We don't want to turn this on before we're ready. That makes sense. Got you.

[00:37:29] Let's make sure we make sure we leave it off then. Yeah, like I'm not sure. I'm not even sure

[00:37:34] how well this is going to work or what it's going to do when we turn it on or how long it's going to

[00:37:40] run. So yeah, this is more like option a us like stabby stabby option b. Right? That makes

[00:37:47] sense. Yeah, okay. What's option C? We throw you at whatever it is and hope that you cast something

[00:37:53] that's useful. And once you get up to the or burn yourself out where the amazing engine is.

[00:37:58] Figure it out. Yeah, you can see that the back half you can see that the back half of whatever

[00:38:03] structure this was has crumbled down into a crevasse and down at the down about 60 feet you can

[00:38:10] see lava. So it looked like it fell actually no, I'm sorry. It is a hundred feet down.

[00:38:17] I'm thinking of something else and this foot hidden trap that he's got somewhere some bitch. No,

[00:38:25] this is written very differently in the book. The maze engine is just like stuck halfway

[00:38:32] down at crevasse. Oh, and I didn't like it. Yeah, he's he's final boss battling this. I mean,

[00:38:38] it's a giant like fucking like he's literally inviting us into the end of the level. Like,

[00:38:44] please walk through the columns to the giant platform of the thing that says touch me. Yes, like

[00:38:50] I'm sorry. I gave you the chance to see whatever this fucking hidden thing is. But it transported

[00:38:54] out and you really still don't know what it is. What do I mean? Like he couldn't fucking like put

[00:38:58] you know, it couldn't be more inviting if he had literally put Scotch on top of it.

[00:39:03] Speaking of which. So is that where the lava glow is coming from down there? Is there other lava

[00:39:13] glow? Nope, that's it. So it's lava glow that's that's that's glowing up. Correct. And so we

[00:39:21] I just so happened to catch a glance of a creature. It wasn't like something that was glowing

[00:39:25] the same colors the lot. No, absolutely not. So I told you the only light that is in here is coming

[00:39:31] from the lava back behind. Gotcha. You caught in the dark further away than you would have had

[00:39:37] dark vision a creature turn and look and disappear. That's good because I don't have dark vision.

[00:39:44] Yeah, okay. Um, okay. Yeah, the ones with dark vision and everything like that just happened

[00:39:52] to roll lower than you. I will ask Commander brass rocks. If he mines splitting the battle

[00:40:00] ragers and kind of checking out both sides of the cavern to make sure we're alone. Sure. And if I

[00:40:06] didn't reiterate that creature that I saw, I would let him know as well. Mm hmm. It's got some kind

[00:40:12] of magic damn thing teleported. Yep, they catch on catch on catch off. Ding ding ding ding ding ding ding

[00:40:19] Yeah, no. The the ding ding song would be way more metal for battle ragers. Ding ding ding ding ding

[00:40:29] I am a dwarf and I'm killing some dolls. Killing killing those killing the

[00:40:35] dolls. It's pretty much like that but you just substitute whatever you know, whatever you need

[00:40:40] there. So what would you guys like to do now? Do you want to go back and get our talisman before

[00:40:47] we fight baffinate or do you want to fight baffinate? And do we want to set up our fortress right here

[00:40:54] or no? I mean, why like if we think we can defend this area. So that's the thing. Let's survey

[00:41:01] the area for the next couple of hours. How tall are these guys actually? Like we saw Yinegu how tall is he?

[00:41:08] He's like 15 20 feet tall. Okay. So like how big is demigorgan compared to that? Because I didn't see

[00:41:14] demigorgan somebody else did. How tall is demigorgan? Are we shooting this thing in the face by being

[00:41:19] on the roof of a fortress? Are we still shooting up? Like, I like the idea that like you see the thing

[00:41:28] and you're like shit and you throw the fortress down and then run to the top of it in order to look

[00:41:33] at it like in the in the naval. Okay. No, it would be probably closer to eye to eye. Okay, so like

[00:41:43] yeah in my head is like is demigorgan 40 feet tall? Is he a hundred feet tall? What are we talking about

[00:41:48] scale wise? I honestly don't know. Are there any clips around here? Like 20 some feet. Gotcha.

[00:41:56] You like you have to go up to like the tarosk to start getting like I can't really like this

[00:42:01] high-due type. There's the fortress have to be on the ground to open. Yes, yes. It's like can we

[00:42:06] throw this one of a bitch at one of these things? But it can be inside someone. No, it can't.

[00:42:11] Fuck you. It can't. It's not an ant man. It's in him right now. We're right up the anus.

[00:42:18] What's the past? Where was the word? Where's the word?

[00:42:23] Okay, just like this. Let's figure out what the word is. He's gonna go just like his hero Mr. Hands.

[00:42:30] Yeah, that's right. Brillig. Okay, cool. So we're gonna capture the cavern first.

[00:42:39] I think that's goal number one. Yeah, they're spreading out to check out the rest of the cavern.

[00:42:44] That's a real down there. Mimsy opens a door. I don't remember what door it opened.

[00:42:47] The front door of the Mimsy is the lock. That's right. That's the lock down code.

[00:42:53] Yeah, cool. Well, that's a lot. I will help in securing but I think we put the fortress up right here

[00:42:59] and can you create a teleporty spot nearby? I mean, I can try. I don't. I mean, if you

[00:43:05] yeah, no, I figured out that that didn't work. Did you did you bring a nice succulent with you?

[00:43:10] I've always got uh, uh, what?

[00:43:14] We named it nest search was an F. I'm pretty sure not camera.

[00:43:19] Must, oh, Zerquad is what I was carrying with me. Yeah, not an F. It was E. Pretty close.

[00:43:25] Tree tokens. Yes, that's what they were. Yeah. I was catching it as a ritual to enrich the land.

[00:43:32] Yes, I know. For a year. Yeah. We just played it like we could do.

[00:43:36] I will help with the clearing of the cavern. I'll go out with the boundaries.

[00:43:40] You find that it's a giant cavern. I mean, multiple entrances. Single entrants?

[00:43:47] No, uh, single entrants. Okay. The one we came in. Yeah, Lee, I mean ground level single

[00:43:53] entrance up above if you want to go fly around and find out what's up higher than you can see,

[00:43:59] that's fine, but I mean, I could, but kind of a scouts with the riding lizards maybe climb the wall.

[00:44:06] They could. It seems like a good idea. Uh, pair two pair come back. Two pair come back. Yes.

[00:44:14] pair the scouts with a battle rager. Scouts in battle rager run into something up there. Yeah,

[00:44:21] they can just dive at it. Exactly. Yeah. We had pair of scouting a battle rager on the back of a

[00:44:26] riding lizard. I was going to say, have you ever tried to sit somebody and raise your armor on the back

[00:44:30] of a mount every day? Every got him. Why do you think Lucas is so crabby? His ex is just a little

[00:44:38] spikes. I don't know real rough. A couple of weeks. You make a good point. Uh, that's fair.

[00:44:44] Yeah, they can go scout around. I mean, there's there's cracks and crevices all over the place.

[00:44:48] Sure, but we're not not like here's a whole, there's a whole big enough for

[00:44:54] demagoguering in the fit through or something like that. Gotcha. Yeah, there's no dick at dick head

[00:44:58] worm things at the bottom underneath the bridge coming up and grabbing shit. Nope, not that you found

[00:45:03] okay. What about fat red dragons? You know where one of those is right but it's not here. Nope.

[00:45:10] Good. Cool. Uh alarm. Anybody cast a alarm? Ted, that's it. I can't. I don't have it. I turn looking

[00:45:22] to some of the spell gasters. No, I don't know how well. All right, Jeff, we go to sleep in the tower

[00:45:28] to hold Ali. Uh, I can't see people that take watches, right? It locks, doesn't it? Oh no,

[00:45:36] it's Gugera. Yeah, you rest. Okay. Technically, I don't sleep so I can stay

[00:45:44] for the early sleep for just sitting on the top like a gargle wheel. No.

[00:45:49] No. That's sitting outside. Not on the roof? No. Change it. Remains eerily quiet. Cool. All right.

[00:45:59] Um, I guess the question is do we want to fuck with the ori? Do you want to go down and check out

[00:46:06] the lava? Well, mold drum, but he said not to turn it on until we're ready to do at this point

[00:46:13] what we would consider the thing. None of us know what the thing is. Um, fuck it. It's a new thing,

[00:46:18] but we would also, we also need to be sure that we know how to turn it on.

[00:46:22] The mode on sure he knows how to turn it on. Okay. Yeah. Okay. And I believe at least sure to

[00:46:28] roll high enough on our counter. Yeah. You guys can figure out how to turn it on. I did. I wrote

[00:46:33] 26 and you're, you're pretty sure that once you turn it on somebody is going to have to stay up

[00:46:39] there and keep it running mechanically, it will be like concentrating to maintain keeping the thing

[00:46:46] running. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Um, maybe get some idea. Maybe get some picks and ropes and if it's

[00:46:57] safe to do so, investigate that lava flow, it was a hundred feet down, right? Yes. Yeah, which is

[00:47:03] why I'm saying picks and ropes and grapples and just swing down over the ledge and go down 20,

[00:47:10] 30, 40 feet. Let me just take a look at it. You know, we just hid you with spider climb. Well,

[00:47:14] I didn't notice so that I was going, but I suppose I can. Whoever we're sending. I just

[00:47:18] met in general. I feel like looking at it a little bit more closely would not be a bad idea. Uh- you

[00:47:22] can see, you can see damage going down where things have collapsed. Um, it looks like the, the

[00:47:31] riff down here has opened more and more gradually more and more. Okay. Um, that's probably why the

[00:47:40] structure above collapsed. Um, so it looks like something opened up underneath and you know,

[00:47:46] sort of like a sinkhole basically. Yes. Yes. But it appears natural as best as, you know,

[00:47:53] as best you can tell. Yes. Okay. It doesn't show signs of magic or fairs res or, uh, you know,

[00:48:01] magic worm tunneling monsters. This place is soaked in fairs res.

[00:48:07] Just all over in general or like this particular area. You've noticed it as you've gone through

[00:48:12] the labyrinth, but it is way stronger here. Okay. Excellent. I mean, I guess at this point we're

[00:48:21] securing the location. So when you roll your, when you roll to grow your, your trees or whatever

[00:48:28] or when, when you grow your trees, you're going to roll. Okay. Roll trees. Anything else that you

[00:48:34] guys want to do? Cause like, to me, I think that that you know, the battle ragers we hold the location.

[00:48:41] We send the scouts out on patrol and then have them come back, you know, every two hours. You've

[00:48:49] still got two pair that have not shown back up yet. Yeah. That's disconcerting. I imagine they're

[00:48:55] not coming back at this point. You did roll pretty shit for them. I did. It is a labyrinth. They

[00:49:01] will make it out some point. Just go to the opening and yell hello. We're down here. Hello.

[00:49:08] It's all you get back. I'm an idiot. I would understand that. Stay in the

[00:49:16] fuck away. Come this way, we have cookies. I think we said it was six or seven days. So by the time

[00:49:23] you get everything checked out, you rest. It's going to be about time to start getting ready to

[00:49:30] head back. Yeah. Well then I will grow my zirke wood. Are you letting onto the zarin about your plan?

[00:49:39] I don't think we intended to. Okay. Just curious. Yeah. Roll D20. That's probably a good result.

[00:49:48] That's actually a one. Sweet. Man, I'm in it. I'm in it. I'm in it. I'm in it.

[00:50:02] Fairs, raise effects. I thought it was like a 5% chance. Yeah. If you roll a one.

[00:50:10] Yeah. No. There were 19 other options around that. I just remember having a roll of D100 before.

[00:50:18] No, you roll a D100 to see what it does. Yeah. Roll D100.

[00:50:27] Don't worry guys. I got this. You're just fucking like implodes. Just get sucked up into a small space.

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