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What? I see the room that we're standing in.

Yeah, we're just like walking up the spiral staircase and checking rooms, deciding if we want to exit on that level.

This is where that armor was, right?

The armor that likes to kill pets...

Did we not go upstairs?

No, we're going upstairs. I was downstairs in the dungeon room.

No, I wasn't downstairs in the dungeon room.

So this room with a table in the center is the top of the stairs that we are headed to? Question mark?

That's the day that.

Okay, I see everybody in a stairwell. Have I seen the same thing?

Yep.

Okay, so you are in a tiny room.

Castle 35.

You guys are in a room. Dusty scrolls and tomes are lining the walls. You see a bunch scattered on the floor. In the center of all this clutter stands this huge accounting desk. There's a figure crouching atop a tall stool, scratching a seamlessly endless scroll of paper with a dry quill pen. The rope hangs next to this creature from a hole in the ceiling.

He's chained to the desk.

Is he making any noise?

He's kind of just like muttering to himself. And he's... Yeah. He's muttering to himself and he's scratching into the paper. You got to think?

I offer him some ink. I offer him, yeah.

He thanks you for the ink and he takes it and he starts trying to open the bottle of ink. And let me see how well he does.

He opens the bottle and starts scratching and scrawling on the paper and starts like he's breathing really heavily and his spittle is coming out of his mouth and like spinning onto the page as he's like drawing. And the ink is like he overfilled the quill. So it's like as he's writing, you can't really tell what it's saying. And it's like mixing with his spit on the paper and like turning into like Rorschach looking things. And it's a it's a mess.

Hehehehe.

Small victories, little buddy. Look at you. Party 36, right?

Roll me a...

me a perception and Romy a whatever do they still have a praise or is that gone now

I think it's gone.

Yeah, they do. They got it.

and appraise

The praise is still here.

Isn't it?

On a 15, Wu, you see that... you see a shitload of books that you identify as extremely rare counting books. They've got to be worth a shitload of money. And then, Rich, you see just money underneath the desk under some papers.

All right. And with, sure.

the money

Alright, so you're picking up the money. It's just like scattered gold coins.

Did you say really?

Do you say rare accounting books?

rare accounting books. Todd, you fucking recognize these accounting books from your time in college or whatever you call the time you spent like, what would your character do for school?

He calls it secondary.

Did you go to school? Yeah.

School. A military school?

Yeah. Yeah. You've heard of accounting before. You've heard of accounting before and you're pretty damn sure it deals with money. And these books are probably worth money.

I don't think there's any books involved.

about money equal money makes sense

They probably have money inside of them. Like they're filled and hollowed out, like secret money-holding books.

And does my 21 praise tell me anything different?

Year 21 appraised the gold coins you found as money. I mean, you good, dog. You're not even...

How many, by the way?

Todd and fucking Romeo D1000.

You heard the man.

415 gold coins. It'll take you like 10-15 minutes to pick them all up.

I am in the room, right? Even though my token isn't here?

Even though.

You're in the room.

Your token's in the stairs there.

So I'm just going to ask them, like, what you writing? Oh, rad. Cool. Thank you. It was in the darkness.

start to freak the test of picking up gold.

I need to document all of the locations of the valuables of the castle. I am an accountant of the castle, and I need to document it. I need to. And this is my job, and I'm good at my job. That's what he's saying.

Does he... Is...

There's also a bunch of old plates and rotting food in the corners.

Does he look undead? Like, does he look sickly?

Maybe you could help. Maybe we could help you if you listed those valuables out loud to us as kind of a normal place.

He doesn't allow me to know about all of them, though. Every time I find more, he beats me.

We'll just start with the most valuable and work down from there.

I mean, the holy symbol and the sword, he doesn't ever want anyone to know about the sword or the symbol. So I don't know where those are. But...

I pull back to Nutty and I pull back and I do the little samurai check with the blade real quick because I have that sword that he's talking about on me. And so I just give him a little click-click.

Wait, what do you mean click? You pointing that thing at me and clicking something?

No. Like I'm just, I'm unsheathing it and sheathing it really quick.

What does that sword do?

Why is the sword so valuable?

He doesn't want me to know. He doesn't want anyone to know.

What's with...

Anybody got a candle? I'd light a candle next to this guy. He looks pretty weak-minded. I'm saying this openly.

I mean, look, when it shows someone's name and underneath them their class and it's human accountant, you know it's not going to be a very strong NBC block. I mean...

I'm just saying it's not going to be that.

They look crazy. So there's a...

I do have a

Yeah, how's this going?

I don't know if I want to waste my candle on this guy, though.

There's a rope next to him and he starts like caressing the rope with his fingertips while you talk and the rope leads up into the ceiling.

That could be an alarm. I say, hi, I'm Steve from a couple doors over. I was wondering if you could give me your keys because I locked myself out of my office.

Roll me bluff.

He says, third drawer on the bottom. And he starts scratching the paper.

I go, thanks, Captain. I go, thanks, Captain. And then I just open the third drawer from the bottom.

It's just full of chicken bones.

Cool. I've grabbed some chicken bones and I put them in my pocket.

Bone keys. You're going to be real upset later on if you didn't take those and you find a bone-chipped e-hole. Real upset.

What do you guys do? You've collected all the gold off of the ground. You've talked to this guy who you don't know his name.

Names are important.

What does the rope do? I just ask.

The rope makes the hag come, and sometimes she feeds me, and sometimes she beats me as he's caressing the rope.

He's crushing the rope when he gets beaten from? All right.

Yeah, exactly. I said, I, shit.

He's caressing.

I say, you forgot to write down the magical scepter. And I point to the, I point to the paper on the table and then I immediately fucking unarmed strike him to chop him in the neck.

He's chained to the table. He can't defend himself. Whatever you want to do to him.

He's holding the rope, dog.

Wow. Wow. We could just offer him poop as though he doesn't call the hag. We could have jumped him slightly above his head.

He's caressing the rope.

We could have just cut the rope slightly above his head.

Pull the rope and then summon a hag.

It was a real damage. I know it's some duel, but good.

He goes unconscious. Slumps down the table. Chains go, clunk, and his head hits the fucking table. Pen drops out of his hand. Ink spills. It's dribbling down, and the ink starts dribbling into the drawer that's still open of chicken bones.

Jake, you have a sudden urge to start writing.

Oh, shit. Oh, shit. In the accountant office, I must wait until my papers are finite, dude. No. I look at everybody and go, whew, that was close. I really should stop hitting people before telling you guys. And I'm really sorry about that. But I am scared because I have been in this dungeon with you for a long time.

I will pick up his stuff.

What's that?

I hurriedly start picking up all of his stuff on his table.

You take all the stuff on the table, all the papers and comes a lot of papers.

Okay, well then I want to secure the rope up high on the ceiling where he can't touch it.

You've only been in the castle for like an hour or two.

Yeah, look at him. Look what happens.

I look at everybody, hands on my hips, like a right. No one's here, he's about to crack, huh? We're all together.

This guy sure didn't fucking lose his marbles.

Certainly not.

I've only got a couple of attack spells left, though, just so everybody knows. It might not be too useful after the next engagement.

That's why I'm here. To save your spell slots. Knocking out little guys in one neck chop feels pretty good, I must admit.

So far you've just beaten up harmless people. I'm pretty good at what I do.

They don't even see it coming. I've always been acting first a lot too. I've just been knocking about cold. Wow, I'm pretty strong. Sorry. Oh fuck, that got me. That got me, sorry.

I can get him too.

You guys hear a scratching noise coming from the other side of the door.

They're all

my gloves and check what's on the other side

You see dim light inside this room, broken glass and iron frames, large window on the west wall, hundreds of thick, dusty cobwebs drape the room. Directly across, you see ornate door carvings, more obscured from the layer of dust, and you also see a door leading to the east wall. That's what you see. A huge throne stands atop a raised platform. The back of the throne is turned towards the room. Staircases at both ends of the north wall lead down. That's what you see.

I didn't see anything bad in there, but... It might be bad. I don't know.

Can you not see the scratching?

You know, there's a hag sitting there. I didn't say...

Do you hear scratching again?

Do we all hear Scratching collectively?

perception

I put my ear against the door. I give her a listen to see.

Scratching sounds like it's coming from somewhere else.

Scratching sounds like it's coming from the north wall in this room.

They're coming.

I think...

I'm pretty sure I can phase through walls and I can look around all four of this.

I'd like to look through...

I'd like to look through the

I'd like to look through the top wall too, if it's under five feet of thickness.

The ceiling?

You do not. It's over five feet of thickness.

I got nothing.

You want me to punch a hole in it?

Or we can just leave him and go up a floor to where that harpy is and get the drop on her. Or we can ring that bell and get the drop on her when she enters the room.

Wait, there's a... You mean the Hague?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's what I was saying. We should just summon the hag or whatever, the jumper.

and get some information.

Heggs love to spill the beans.

Do they?

Do we want to pick a fight?

Well, I mean, we're not going to pick a fight. It depends on if she wants to give the information or not.

Look at that guy.

Well, let her make the decision.

uh...

And once she's defenseless, trust me, I'll do the thing. Yeah, I'll get a nice little neck chop.

Hey, what level is everybody?

We're all still level five, right?

Four or five.

You guys level five? All right.

Four out of five, you know. Three.

5 times 4 is 20, so...

Well, now I want to ring the bell even more. Like...

I just want to stack up piles of books on the side of the doors. And when the head comes in, we just knock him down and punch her.

Yeah, I heard her with numbers.

Click everyone hide.

Knowledge is power, bitch.

Hegs hate accounting.

Is this door unlocked?

Not yet.

Not you. You're beautiful! As I rub my hand against his bumpy face.

check the store for traps

Not trapped.

I'm still getting the fuck out of the way.

Can I stand where I'm basically standing and just crack this door?

Mm-hmm. You crack her open?

Ozon said he's following Jake.

He's going to be FK for a little bit.

What a fool. What?

It's not a...

That's not particularly wise, but I respect the man. Y'all are never there, actually. You know what? Ozon's my buddy. Back to back.

He follows your direction, so if you want him to check the doors for you.

Okay.

I whispered to the team. I said, coast looks pretty clear.

Right? That's what I was saying. It looks empty, but that looks like bait empty.

I kicked the door open.

I'm going to stay right here.

Kya

So if Jake turns into a demon, I can stab him.

Throw the torch?

I throw a torch, yeah. Great sound effects, aren't they?

Roman perception nut.

All right, I'm going to peak more than a six eventually.

I lost the torch. All I see is Jake.

I think you see something in the corner.

Where are you?

I'm right in front of you.

She's on the bottom right, the drow looking chick.

I point in the corner, Jake. With, you know, the whole eye thing and corner. Two eyes, two fingers.

We'll flank the chair.

Combat rule.

The room is clear.

Room's cleared, guys.

I saw myself doing a run and physically jumping over the chair doing rolling with two shields.

Yes, but my vision now has a weird green hue after a certain radius.

You guys see in the corner some ghostly arms coming through the windows. Roll me initiative.

Oh, shit. Rules are not clear.

Okay, never mind. You don't see anything then. We're all going to do that.

Oh, those windows.

I could see it. I mean, what?

Nuddy, just start making skill checks, bro. Just burn this out.

That's what's happened. I rolled a two, a two, I think another two, and a three.

Where is my initiative?

Way early.

There's mine. That's a nat 20.

Roll initiative, apartment.

So we got John...

And that's it. Initiative from SSX Monkey.

Nice.

Raven, you go first. What are you doing?

I don't know where I'm at for spells for the day anymore.

So it goes, Nutty goes first, Woo-Woo goes second.

How does that work? I rolled like a six.

What is happening? What is happening behind you? Are you in...

than Nat 20.

Okay, so you guys see ghostly arms coming through the windows.

where are the windows?

Okay, as I was saying, I don't know where I'm at in spells for the day. Can we assume that we rested in our four weeks off, or you want me to just roll with it? I know I used at least one remove curse in the last session.

He didn't rest. Never rested.

Because

Uhm?

I know I used remove curse, I know I used my Fly.

I'm going to move...

There were some air bubbles casted, I think, if I recall correctly.

Affect one storm a spider.

Camden Report.

Engineering report.

Shields down, Captain.

Oh, let me fucking guess, Geordi, the shields are down.

Okay, I am going to...

It's an important job, Jake, okay?

Now getting them working is also important. Jordy, you ever think about doing that?

Yeah, so it was making the scientists clone your bitch while you figure out the ship together.

She becomes sentient in the holodeck, yeah.

I'm going to move up. See what we're working with here along the wall.

I love that Todd rolled initiative twice, or the second time you rolled, and this is also a three.

Wait, what? That's perception.

I'm gonna cast mage armor on myself.

And that's a turn.

So I'm closer to the windows, right? I drew red circles because I didn't know where the windows were.

Those aren't windows. That's a wall.

You can't see because you don't have enough dark vision.

Mostly arms.

Can you see them?

I'm gonna guess these are incorporeal.

Fucking ghost shit, bro.

Which means I'll be kind of useless. Sorry, gang.

Well they have damage reduction.

I mean, I'm still going to try.

I'm about to curse the fuck out of him though, okay?

I throw the fuck out of these guys.

You heard it, folks. Standing behind Richard. So is Ozan. Ozan's behind me.

All right, who got close enough to him was this.

That was me. I moved up.

You got close enough that you could do a knowledge arcana or knowledge nature to get a better understanding of who's behind this window.

He used mage armor.

Got it. We're going to roll that knowledge. Arcana.

13.

Not sure what kind of ghost they are.

Can I also roll in knowledge nature?

am i close enough like i can see them i'm assuming because i can see them can i give that a roll

Knowledge Arcana.

Nope, you gotta be able to see more than just their fingertips coming through the windows.

Go up here...

Fireball that pillar right there.

Cutting it close.

This guy right here.

aircraft rule.

place it yeah

All right. Place it where you want.

Blast this pillar right here.

And I'm safe.

All right, so you hit that pillar.

A fireball explodes. So where is it exactly?

You shooting it outside or in between the pillar?

at the base right here on the, like, yeah, I guess right on the outside corner.

of this pillar.

No damage.

18? Not great, but...

That's not bad. A six and two fours?

average-ish.

Three of them take full damage. One of them takes nine. This one takes nine. It's over here on the corner.

These ones take 18.

Fireball goes fucking boom. Lights up the whole area. momentarily. You can see that there are truly only four of them outside because you can kind of see past them when that illuminates them.

It's the...

It's a ghost turn. And all of a sudden, a wailing moan starts emanating from four of them. I need four will saves from each person. And the DC 18. Each person roll four apiece.

That's what I'm good at.

Oh. Four apiece.

Holy shit.

One of them gets you. Two of them get, yeah. You got. Next person. You got to hit over 18 four times.

All right, here we go.

out on the third one.

Over 18?

18 four times.

Fuck.

So I rolled like a bunch of threes. So I just need to roll three, four, 15s in a row. I think I got this. It's about time. Here we go. Here we go.

Here we go. Save the party, Nutty. Bam. One.

Oh, yeah. Let's do it, baby. Oh, yeah.

Three. Four, baby. That's what's up. That's what's up.

What the fuck? How does that work?

90 passes. Does anyone else need to roll?

We weren't.

Okay, so we got

One.

And four, I got three times, and then my familiar needs to roll, I'm assuming.

And he's gone.

And so does Ozon. Ozon.

Is that everyone who needs to roll? Okay. I'll roll for Ozone.

As an aside, depending on what type of spell it is, I have plus four against mind effects, which doesn't save me, but I can't be hit with sleep.

in case they're putting us down.

It's not sleep.

Ozone's not in this room, I don't think. Does that matter at all? He's still on the stairway.

What's your exact ability to say? Because it's similar.

Ozone's not in this room. Does that matter, Pep?

He's mine, Jake.

There he is. He's behind me.

And that is the exact wording of it.

They're immune to disease and sleep effects.

And I am not subject to fatigue or exhaustion.

Unconsciousness is not sleep.

It's just not different abilities. Everyone goes unconscious except Todd.

Fucking, I run.

Wait. You guys are unconscious. You don't see me running. Pat, take it to see your room.

That's true. Secret room, Nutty.

Wow.

down the stairs.

Come back, son of a bitch.

to find a new party.

shit another one god damn it

This is going to run into the hag in the next room.

like y'all dead y'all dead as fuck

try to slap one of us awake.

No, absolutely not. Turns out he could have just shooken him away.

I'll kick one of you on the way out the door. Ha.

It's not my turn yet, though, right?

Everyone else skips there, so now it's yours.

They don't get any saves.

They had four.

Okay, well,

Pick up your torch, bro.

move...

Here. Who has the best will saves?

got plus five.

your closest. I'm just going to come over here and I'm going to...

Love me.

I'd lay down in the chair just in case you pass out at it.

I just... Me and Rich probably have the best will saves because we're fucking mages.

Yeah, but I'm a little capped out on my damage. I've got another fireball on a scroll, but... Or I can echo it. Yeah, you'd have to get a little closer into the shit.

You guys are all over there too.

I'm going to move here and shake Jacob.

You over there and shake Jake?

going to

Pancho.

I'm just going to work them over real quick.

I can take it. You son of a bitch, kick me in the ribs and then dip.

What the fuck's going on? I punched Jake in the face.

You can slap.

Can I slap?

Can you slap him? Do whatever you want. It's D&D. Think we're going to draw the line slapping people?

Yeah, but I'd have to drop my shield to hit him, right? Or can I just kick him? Non-lethal kick him?

Fucking hit it with your shield. I don't give a shit.

Damn it, buddy.

I don't want to hurt the man.

He just walks over and breaks a chair over me. He's like, ah, you're up. Yeah, exactly.

knocks a couple teeth out. Huh.

I kick him while he's down with my foot. You had this coming.

World damage. He's helpless, dude. You can coot-a-grow the motherfucker if you want.

basic mini attack rule.

simply kills me. He's like, Jake, dude, you okay? Snap. He's like, rest peacefully.

Rest in peace. Todd loves you, man.

Yeah.

So I'm assuming that hits.

That got me.

Yeah, it hits. Roll damage.

And then what's damage for a kick?

You want an armor?

Yeah, I'm wearing armor. I have to be wearing armor. It's me.

You got a metal foot and you kick him? Where do you kick him?

I got a breastplate.

Will you kick him?

Well, I got to do a little damage. Put the real paint into him.

You can choose what, like, okay, you can either do one point of damage up to four points of damage depending on how hard you kick.

I just kick him in the leg.

I don't want to kick him hard. I give him a two damage kick.

roll it. Run it down, Jiggy. You got two damage. Boom! That swift kick. Roll me a new saving throw.

Sonka, you dead?

Yeah, new saving throw there, Jiggy.

Don't wake up.

You are unconscious. Not sleeping.

Should have kicked him harder.

Yeah, move, action, yeah.

else skips their action. I take one round off the count and we are it's back to the ghosts.

Oh.

Damn ghost.

The ghosts go into the room.

And they go towards...

Yep. Oh, God.

Their chilling touch begins to lift your body up. You're floating.

Oh shit

You are floating above their ghostly arms. His skin looks really fucking cold. They begin to start stepping away from you, Nutty. That's their turn. Just like a move and lift.

He's been chosen.

I'm being abducted. Someone save me.

Everyone else skips their turn.

I don't think I can fight ghosts.

you know, he's running.

He has been chosen.

He's drifting off. He's like, good, they got rich. Everybody run.

Thank God it wasn't me.

I go now?

Yeah, it's your girl. It's just you, Mrs. The Ghost, my dude.

Just you out here, Doc.

I kick Jake one more time for two damage.

why do you keep you say one you can save one damage nutty

You get a saving throw, Greg.

What? What? What damage? I thought you could take it. I'll...

One's not enough for a saving throw. Next.

I was going to go to four.

I'm just kidding. You kick him. Just kick him. He gets a saving throw.

Also, he said two first to write it down.

I don't kill you guys. You guys kill each other. I'll let you know that.

Sometimes you just got to let nature take its course.

And Jake wakes. Wait, you got two? Okay. No, you got one. Jake wakes up.

You're conscious.

Rich is being taken. I just shaked Jake. They're taking Rich!

My ribs. We're just being taken.

Now your turn.

And anyone else you know?

Who's this? That's Donnie.

Planning on do it.

I'm going to use

Are they going to feed me to something? Am I loot?

It used my movement.

And then that's all I got.

Did you wake me up?

No, I can't. I use my action to wake Jake up, and then I use my movement to get you next turn.

All the ghosts drop rich on the floor and scream again. Everyone roll me four will saves. Who's awake?

So far, watch.

What about those of us who are already asleep?

They don't get a new ability to wake up. They're already asleep. They're already unconscious.

I'm not making this one, guys.

Does the dropping of me give me a chance to wake up? Yes.

Yes, it does, Rick. It absolutely does.

So four? Four saves? Is that what I'm hearing?

Four well-saves.

is it, is it, is it, hold on. Is it a,

What?

It says right here. Is it an enchantment?

it mind affecting?

Enchantment spells and effects. I'm also immune to... Immune to all diseases including supernatural and magic.

It's my...

Show me what it says. Are you immune?

Still mined. All right, should be here.

You get, oh, Rich, you also get plus four on that. Plus four racial bonus on saving throws against mind affecting effects. It's not a sleep effect, but it is a mind affecting effect.

Yes, I just, the last time the 12 would have been made a 16, still wouldn't have cleared it, so I went down anyways.

Do I have to beat one roll because that's what put me down, or do I have to do four rolls? How does this work?

They're all screaming again. I think you got to do four.

And Jake, you said you gained plus two against... It's not an enchantment spell. or enchantment effect.

Okay, then there you go.

Well, does Rich hit the ground after the scream or before the scream?

It's a supernatural mind effect, but it's not entertainment.

long enough in free fall? Is it long enough that I would be waking up after screams? Thank you, Nutty. These are questions.

When does Rich wake up? Is he wake up to get hit by the screen or do they scream first and then drop him?

They're screaming while they're dropping you.

So, yeah. So he's not conscious. Yeah.

You're not conscious during the scream. You wake up while they're screaming.

So he doesn't need to make four world saves.

Yeah, and that's as good as it's going to get.

How far?

And I'm down. No need to continue here.

Yeah, you were going to wait for a second.

I don't think that's enough time to ready an action, is it?

Yeah, you woke me up, bro.

Act of heroism. I should have gotten the fuck out of there.

That's what you get. That's what you get, dummy.

Did everyone go dark?

I think we're all down.

Yeah.

Please don't put us back in those fucking cages.

unlocked all of them. It's fine.

It's just a whole different set of cages.

They're gonna change the locks on us.

Motherfucker, they're built into the door. They are not changing the locks on the...

Magic exists, okay?

Show me one bit of evidence of these ghosts carrying us around a magic castle where magic might exist.

We're getting raped, right?

100%.

No, man.

Maybe these are nice ghosts.

Did he give you one of these? Blah.

shit they're not killing us what the fuck are they doing

No, that's a... Yeah, exactly.

There's something worse than death.

What was that?

Negative levels. No!

Just fucking kill me, man.

You're level one now. Fucking no!

They're draining our levels. It's not looking good.

punch myself you do minus one damage god damn it

What the fuck is this?

You catch little glimpses of this shit as you're coming up. Because your mind's starting to like, oh, like rolling around. So it's okay. But no, you're not supposed to be this.

Looking away.

Now, can you not see it anymore?

Look, the way I look back,

It should be gone now, right?

Yeah, let's go.

How much of it do you remember?

I just remember the general layout of the circle things. on the bottom left, right.

That's all you, that's, yeah, that makes, that makes sense. That's kind of about what you see.

Oh, God. I'm still alive.

Isn't that a good thing?

Nah, we're just over here. We're just watching Ozone get fucking handjobbed out. He's in Bukkake Village population. Him, man. It's fucking...

Getting these ghosts off. Selling a soul.

So when you gave me the vision, or when you gave me whatever power to move Jess's icon around, it gave me kind of a green vision, and I can see parts of the map over.

That's okay.

there goes another torch.

You got Jess Vision.

Damn, Jess has great vision. She can see...

Super dark vision.

yeah she's got double regular dark vision

That double dark vision.

So you're just looking through Jess's eyes. Just pretend you didn't see that.

All right. You guys start to wake up.

I didn't die

Would you say I'm at the healthiest end of a human centipede?

Yeah, then you're getting fed.

Yeah, the front. It's really no shame at all if you think about it.

Comparatively, my life.

Yeah. Compared to you're just being captured by a weirdo in the front.

Hey Pat, are these rooms closed? Or are we on a rooftop of some kind?

Okay, so you're like in the top, tippy-tippy-topmost spire of the whole castle, and I didn't set up the boundary boxes for vision here. So basically you can see through these little slits, and you can see down, and you see Barovia, Misty Cliffs, Castle lights that you guys like torches you might have let lit, like things like that. You're basically at the top spire. The top spire, you feel the wind blowing. You're like hundreds of feet up. And there's a gigantic hole right next to you. And then some weird fucking horse shit that's like right over the staircase where the ghosts brought you up. And that's it.

Did the mages by chance get their spells back?

No. You have a rest soundly for eight hours.

Yeah, I'd like to stop and rest soon. This has all been rough.

That would be nice.

You guys rest?

I want to, you know, gauge the room first, but...

Yeah, let's go inside perhaps and then do that.

do that

We can also do watch. Like, I don't need to rest for any spells, so I can volunteer.

Anybody got a silver mirror?

What are you guys doing?

Is this just like a pit that they were planning for us to be thrown down?

Looks like they gave you the choice there, bud.

That's what, yeah.

Does anybody have a silver mirror on them? Empty your pockets.

Didn't Donnie have someone out of the mirror, right?

Have a mirror.

I do. I do.

Pat, can I get my torch back, man?

Excuse me? Oh, you need another torch? I need to just give you the ability to generate a torch.

Can I get my...

I'd like my Zug back as well.

I got three left.

Let's check ourselves out, man. No free rides in this dungeon.

check everybody through the mirror to see if there's anybody being a vampire.

I take roll call.

Does vampirism count as a disease in this universe?

Pat, you gave me like a vision, but no torch.

I'm not sure how that works.

I mean magic.

Magic, though.

I can see more than I could see before without the torch, though.

Yeah, because, okay, hold on.

Mazzouk has pretty good night vision.

So I could see to hear. without my torch.

Me too.

like seeing here oh I'm not sure like if he did something

Haha, a fucking light show.

All right, Nettie, what are you saying? Is it you can see shit you shouldn't be able to see?

That's the vibe of the room. That's what you feel like. You're in this little tiny room and then there's this fucking really long fucking whole deep max to you.

It's cold.

Wait, where are the deep holes that this thing?

That's a deep asshole.

Wait, does it go to like the next floor?

Can I not see down it?

I don't know.

You can't see the end of it, no.

Do you have a way to measure it?

We got a rope, don't we? Or do we leave that?

I got a torch.

My 200 or my 200 foot rope back.

Do you have it? Didn't you split it in half?

Oh, you're right. Plus I can tie it back together.

I, too, have a rope.

Well, hand it over.

Can I fit through this hole, Pip?

Yeah, the big one or the little one?

Out of the window.

Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Before anybody does anything, me and Richard walk around and we flash everybody with the silver mirror to see...

No.

if we've been possessed or not.

Take your swords missing.

Fucking damn it.

My sword.

Is that the only thing that's missing?

Was it always anything?

Any items you guys took from the castle? The journal's gone, too?

No.

Any items that you took from the castle, what am I saying from you?

Not my chicken bone key.

Where did we... Are the chickabons there?

Chicken bones are still in your pocket, Jake.

Damn it.

Oh, damn. So I can throw out the keys to the prison.

Where did you find that sword again?

We're a bone-shaped lockhole. What's up?

Jake, where'd you find that sword?

It told me not to tell you. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. No, I,

Should we go and try and find our way back to the location? Do you think this place is somewhere else?

Sure, I think it's down this hole, doesn't it? Why don't you run away from it like you almost did us?

Ladies first. You didn't know about that. Those were jokes.

Like, you know, just push up against this force field thing and see what happens.

Does anyone got a...

Push up against the force field.

Does anyone got a torsion drop?

Yeah, like with my hand, not like my body, because, you know, if it's like a shock force field...

It feels like smooth glass.

It's cold to the touch.

I hit it with my sword.

Your sword makes no sound as it stops dead the moment that it hits the force field.

Wait, where is this force field?

Over the stairs.

It's worth trying.

Oh fuck, it's on the stairs?

This is another prison.

Ha.

Yes. Yes, it is.

Well, good honor for having multiple prisons.

We've gotten there.

Uh,

Can we actually... put stuff down the hole. I throw a piece of chalk down the hole.

False.

All right, that's the way out, guys. Follow me.

I knew it. I knew it.

Should we toss like a candle down there or something? I have a candle. Okay.

Donovan, you have a lovely companion with you who could fly, I assume.

No, it cannot, and it's not going down there.

Who can fly, I assume.

I could fly if I rested.

Yeah, if we all rest, we can, you know, be a little bit more effective in this area.

Can you

I sleep on Richard.

Can you teleport your pet at all, Donnie?

I look for it, hell no.

I'm not sure if it got out of 100 feet of you, if it pops back to you or something.

Doesn't every familiar come stock like that?

Wait, does no one have torches?

You throw out all of them and half of them had bad decisions.

Whoa, that one was a great decision.

I have a torch. Hang on, I'm looking through my...

I have. Hang on, I'm going to.

I got three torches left, but I feel like we should drop...

Once I rest, I can use Dancing Lights, but...

Once I read

Oh my god, I have fairy lights. I'm such an idiot. I can do fairy lights. Or dancing lights. Sorry. Not fairy lights. I have both. I have fairy fire and dancing lights.

What's the range?

to the bottom of this hole.

Yeah, sure, I can cast Dancing Lights down to the bottom of the hole. It has a 100-foot range, plus 10 feet per level, so 150.

What's the...

Nice.

You cast it.

It's a spell-like ability.

You cast it, and 150 feet down the hole, you see Dancing Lights.

Okay, cool.

Nothing else?

not bottom.

It's just a giant cylinder.

All right, looks like magic failed us. I threw a torch in.

Yeah.

You see the torch go. It goes past the dancing lights. It keeps going, it keeps going, it keeps going, it keeps going. You see the torch light eventually go out.

No, dude, that can't be that far. I can see 600 feet.

Especially Torchlight. Straight down?

I'm the Usain Bolt of seeing fire, bro.

Straight down.

I just want torch.

Did we hear anything? Did it make a click?

and make a click.

well, I'm getting a little claustrophobic in here, guys.

Yeah, plenty of states below you.

No, I only have one. That's not too hasty here.

Do the mages want to rest though?

I do. My Zug has spell sight. Do I see anything in here?

Yes, we do.

What do you think?

I do.

Is this whole magical, Donnie?

Do I see anything, Pat?

Spell site.

so he can see magic. No, it's just a big old hole, dude.

What the fuck?

Anything over here in this vicinity with all these weird little circles?

the circles are magic. You see a giant sheen of thick magical glass looking structure.

Okay. And Spellside doesn't reveal Spelltype, just that it is magic, essentially.

I sit and meditate and rest in that position with my back on Richard's back and or leg.

All right.

What's

I'm also, I don't have to sleep, so you're just sitting on me while I'm fully conscious.

Exactly. So if you wake up, I wake up.

I just have to commune with my zoog for a while. I don't have to sleep.

I'm not actually sleeping.

I know, but if you move, I wake up.

As they're sleeping, resting for the spells, I put in chalk on the floor, pick them first, and I put the arrow towards the wizard's

Wow.

And then I go over here.

Cold-blooded.

Oh, blah.

You know, I might fall asleep during a watch. You never know.

Never know.

Now he just wakes up in a pile of shields.

I just put a circle around me and said, not this guy.

So what, you guys need eight hours?

Are you also doing watch with me and do we want to trade off so that we each get like four hours or something?

Yeah, I was going to say, we can do four piece.

No, the Android will sound the alarm.

Indeed.

All right, yeah, I'll go sleep then.

I don't think I need eight hours.

Everyone roll me a Will Simmons as you're going to sleep.

Not 20.

Amazug is a nat one.

Oh shit.

Whoever got the net.

I was going to say, what is it?

Whoever got the Nat 20 succeeded on the save. Ray Parker, you succeeded on the save as well, but with the Nat 20, you immediately realize it's a scrying spell. Whoever got the Nat 20, who's...

Son of a bitch, that was me.

Donnie. You identify it as a scry attempt.

I bet I do.

Anyway, you guys go to bed.

Do you let us know, Donnie?

Oh yeah, guys, somebody is fucking scrying us.

And since I'm awake, do I notice anything?

Nothing out of the night.

I forgot about the truth slugs when we met the accountant. I'm an idiot. Could have forced them some slugs.

No.

It's all your fault, Jess.

Mm-hmm. That's how we're here. That's why we're here.

It's all your fault.

Now we have all this time to think about our past actions. Damn it, Jess.

Alright, who's keeping watch?

Time for regret.

Just keep in watch.

Just keep them watch.

Rich?

I stayed awake and Rich stayed awake.

Well, Rich doesn't sleep, so I guess we don't need anyone else.

Yeah, but like also, I don't.

Yeah, but like also I don't really trust this guy.

Hey Rich.

Mm-hmm.

Who the fuck knows if this Android's up to?

Secret room.

Sorry about this guy.

See you, Rue.

Blink twice. Everything's okay, guys.

I stayed awake.

watching this for a while.

All right.

As the night goes, it's been a couple hours. Only perception check the two that are awake.

Fine, I'm working on it, I'm working on it. To the.

This is why two is a good idea.

So.

It's part of the rules. Oh, they're still here? Shit.

But does it, Donnie have to fly, right?

Yeah.

Wait, does anyone have Dispel?

No.

have removed curse.

Well, I mean... Shit. I mean, if we can't get past this barrier...

I do have Dispel Magic, but that means I won't have Fly and I won't have Fireball. And we can just cast Fly and carry each other down.

I can. I can...

Well, I mean, it's assuming down is the way out.

Not if they scream at us.

I can go through the floor. I can...

Who would leave a giant pit that is, you know, a way out, though?

Well, it's so that you eventually kill yourself, but, you know, I guess it's to kill low-level fucks that don't have fly.

Oh, God, just roll the wheel safe.

Oh, man, it's not good. It's not a good will save either.

You know?

So then I look and he went to

We got a killer.

Yeah. Yeah. She sealed her fate now.

at that fucking feather fall

No, there's...

Oh, I'm apparently wanted in the secret room.

Okay, well, I guess I'll find out soon enough. Wish me luck.

He's an android. Maybe he doesn't have to.

Because androids can't become vampires, okay?

Well, I just don't know if my attempt worked. So let's see.

We'll see. We shall see.

All right. What do you guys do?

That is a...

So it worked.

Wait for Richard to wake me up.

Oh, I whistled really loud, apparently, because it worked.

Was that the alarm?

That was just me waking everybody up without moving because I was, you know, I'm paranoid. Immediately waking everybody up. Alarm.

I imagine like a train with

I get up and I fucking, I get, I get my, I get my pose back to the wall. Yep. Hands out.

And now I go look out the window.

You see down here at the bottom of the...

Bottom of the like spire the next like layer down there the thing You see a well-dressed man. Very sharp-dressed man.

Looking straight up at you.

Well, fuck.

I wave.

And I use my sleeves to make my suit slightly finer to match his garb.

He turns...

he smiles and waves and turns to mist and floats away.

Can you let us out?

Whoa, bud. Damn, that's dope. We just got cold shoulder. Pretty hard.

I mean, at least he waved back. He seems friendly, right?

He smiled, though. That's like a ha-ha, fuck you wave. And then turned to mist. We got ghosted. Literally ghosted.

Alright. Well, that's all.

That's all. I also would like to look out the window. Just look longingly out the window.

What do you guys do?

He.

How long did we sleep for?

Pat Mazouk doesn't seem to have any of a...

Two hours.

his dark vision active.

Or maybe it does.

Should I be able to see out the windows if I approach it?

I'll be looking for it.

Yeah, you got like one little line.

He don't got any vision on that, Zouk?

He's got dark vision, 60 feet, low light vision.

I guess let's resume resting.

One thing we know for sure is This guy's not scared of us at all. We have not been stealthily going through the castle.

No, but that wasn't, we weren't going to be able to.

Are you sure?

I'm with Rich on this one.

How's that, Donnie?

Sneaking as a team.

better I can see.

Now you haven't really gotten an I'm scared of you at all.

He like made you dinner and like laughed a bunch.

fake dinner not full at all

He set up a mannequin.

How big are those windows?

I'm going to have breakfast.

Oh, they're six-inch slits.

I didn't want to get rested.

Six inch slits.

Is everyone rested now?

You're used to that or something?

No one has rested. It was two hours.

So...

No one's resting. It's one in the morning right now, everybody.

When we eventually do get, like, rested, we have a few options. We can shrink somebody and send them out the window. We can cast fly and ferry people up and down, or we can cast Dispel Magic on the stairway.

can we shrink somebody that small six inch slits

six inches isn't like huge or isn't like tiny if you're already like medium to small.

Alright, but let's get real though. You trick someone, you set them out the window. How is he going to help our predicament? Is he going to go get help?

They would also have fly and that's possible.

It's like he's going to go to the door, like open a latch, let us in.

I mean, my... My familiar is already a tiny creature.

Dispel magic seems like a solid move to try.

I mean, I feel like that's the only way.

No, we got backups, but it's the best way to get everybody out safely with the minimal cost.

But that can't be a low DC, though.

Running out of choices

How many times can he cast a spell of magic?

Y plus a bunch of ferrying, or it's one casting of... Potentially one casting of Dispel Magic. If it's strong enough. Because...

Rich, you're the only one with the spell, right?

Maybe.

Yes.

Can I teach anyone else it?

Then how about we have Donnie cast Fly and then check out the hole. If that doesn't work out, then we go with Dispel part.

Yeah, because my fly doesn't use a spell, but I can only use it once a day.

and nudged Duniaff into the hole.

I know, it's fine. I'll cast fly and fly down there and check it out.

You haven't gotten your spells back yet, Donnie.

I'm trying to look up how long I could I just need to commune with my familiar for a couple hours.

Yeah, it's only been two though, so.

Trying to find where it says how long that is.

which must commune with the familiar each day to prepare her spells familiar store all spells that are which knows

It doesn't say

Yeah, because those I was going to say no. I was like, those are called wizards. Male wizards. Yeah, I don't know about that. Those are better sorcerers.

They're called warlocks, bro.

The character decides to take a nap while everyone's strategizing.

I'm doing an obnoxious karate in the corner.

It doesn't specify how long I have to commune with my familiar.

Jeff, you have, Jess, you have some weird dreams about like the landscape that you rolled in on while you're dreaming.

Like I see it better from both

Like you're dreaming about how, like you're dreaming of Barovia before it turned like evil and dark.

Fascinating.

All right, what do you guys do?

Yep.

Yeah, I will be communing with my familiar.

You continue commuting until 2 in the morning, 3, 4, 5, that's four more hours. That's been six total. You do until 7 a.m. and take full eight.

Is Ada Kors a full night's sleep?

Sure. We can do it till the eight hours, whatever.

I mean, no, I'm asking, like...

Eight hours go by.

Okay. I guess, yes, eight hours. I was saying, like, what is a full night's sleep, like, as far as, like, getting all the spells back for a mage? Isn't it, like, six hours, or is it eight?

Wait, what were you asking?

Oh, it's eight continuous. Okay, cool. Then yes, eight.

I believe it's eight, unless you're like an elf.

Chris, I've got some old D&D rules on this bitch. I don't even know any new shit. Trust you blindly.

Eight hours passed. The sun is up.

I congratulate everybody. We made a night in a haunted, a haunted castle. It's not, it's not,

Oh man, does that mean we get to keep the castle?

Donnie, what kind of...

I looked out the windows.

What classes your spells resemble? And you pretty much copy whatever that is. So if it's like wizard, cleric, or sorcerer,

to kind of go off that.

So like, Arcane creates me.

My spells are comparable to wizard spells.

Okay.

I have most wizard spells with the exceptional fireball.

There's a few others, and then you add in a bunch of weird curse shit, so...

Then it's still wizard. It's not divine casting, right?

Correct, yeah.

What is it? Isn't Ozon our cleric? No, he's an inspector gadget, isn't he? despite

So you prepare your spells. Sorcerers know their spells, right?

Yeah.

Correct. So my familiar is the equivalent to a wizard's tome.

So my just like a wizard stores all of its spells in a book, I store all my spells in my familiar.

You probably have to do whatever a wizard does.

Probably the same rules. Well, I have to commune with my familiar for eight hours.