Uh, yeah. So you make your way into the, uh,
house just in time to see coil poke his head into a fireplace.
Did you find our target inside the fireplace?
Yeah. The, you, you didn't hear them actually come in.
As soon as I hear Mera, like I,
I jump and like smack my head on the chimney.
Okay.
You jump and you smack your head on the chimney and it hits against something
that you feel shift,
and the floor of the fireplace falls out from underneath of you and
you fall down a staircase.
What do I see.
You encounter A slight hall that enters into a
circular room that has an ascending natural rock staircase
on the opposite side.
And there is a podium in the middle of the circular room
with a couple pools of, uh,
like a couple puddles of water in the room as well.
Strangers, you know, there's no danger
playing games with strangers.
With strangers.
Yeah. I'm just gonna approach the podium, see if there's anything on it.
It looks like there used to be some instructions that were carved into this
podium and some buttons, but they have since been scraped off.
The buttons were scraped.
Off. No, the instructions.
Okay.
Are they colored buttons?
No.
I'm gonna turn around. I'm gonna go back to the staircase and,
uh, I don't,
looks like maybe he had a secret escape route or something like that. If you,
do you want to come down here?
Affirmative.
I'm gonna check the other room before I go down the stairs.
Which other room?
The one that would've been on the other side of the fireplace.
Nobody in there. It doesn't look like it's been used for years.
Thick coating of dust, but C and, uh,
Mayra.
You guys dis while you guys are up in that kitchen area,
you guys discover a piece of paper that's been wadded up on the floor as well.
I immediately unravel it and look at it.
You kind of glaze over it. This, this note has been here for a long time.
It's not written to you. Uh, it says something to the effect of,
you've spoiled my plans that I have for this place,
and that is going to cost you.
And it's signed by somebody named Damien Methodist.
Well as allows no bearing on our mission whatsoever.
Does not appear. So.
I didn't go to the other room.
You're okay. So you're going to the opposite side of the fireplace. Uh, yeah.
Again, it's, it's like a large front room or a sit or a sitting room,
but there's no furniture in there and it hasn't been used for years. Also,
thick coating of dust.
That was the room I was looking at the first time.
So then I'm going to the bedroom and see what I find in there.
Before you go back, I will also say this, uh,
being as you went into that room and got a better look when you saw through the
front window, you also noticed that it is dark outside when it should be
midday. And when you look out the front window,
you see a destroyed city through that window.
Hmm. This doest seem to be the same house that we saw from the front.
So I'm going into the bedroom to see if there's anything in there.
Uh, you see a bed and,
and a closet and a,
uh, dresser that has the top drawer pulled out.
That's how look in the drawer.
And as that drawer looks like it's been sitting out for a while, but,
but it doesn't have the same amount of dust inside of it as everything else
does. Like someone had been in here previously, opened the,
and opened that drawer and left it open. When you look into that drawer, uh,
you see kind of like a wire that's got a ring to end on it
that someone had pulled out and broken, like it was a switch for something.
And it's not attached to anything. It's just a broken piece.
Yeah, it, it, it's a broken, it's broken now,
but it looked like it was a part of a lock, a latching mechanism that was, uh,
built into the dresser.
So,
would I be able to tell if there's any sort of false backing or bottom to the
dresser if I'm looking for it?
Uh, make an investigation check.
it's intent.
Uh, unfortunately, uh,
you know, you're kind of hearing people rummage around. You're, and it's,
it's dark in here because none of the natural light's really making its way.
Seeing, making too much noise. can't concentrate.
It's So, if I were to open any of the other drawers,
would I see anything in there?
You open some more drawers,
you don't really notice anything inside them. Not like that top drawer.
Okay. Once I finish looking through the room, I'll head back to the staircase.
Satisfied that the rest of the house has been taken care of. All.
Right, Ash shall follow you down the stairs.
Would you like me to make less noise?
Yes. I remember saying, um, zero .
Noise. I turned down my volume to zero, but it seemed unaffected.
You seems to not understand. I.
I'm already walking down the stairs.
All right. Uh, so a couple minutes set later after you called them down coil,
uh, you, they, they finally arrived down at the bottom of the stairs.
Glad you can make it. I no idea what's going.
Onsie is actively avoiding the puddles. He's unsure if he's waterproofed or not.
There's podium, there's buttons on the podium. That's all I know.
I am smart enough to know not to touch the buttons.
So what have you done down here for the past few.
Minutes?
I was waiting on you cuz I thought maybe one of you would done want to touch the
buttons.
Would you like me to touch one of the buttons?
Do the stairs go anywhere?
Yeah, the stairs. The stairs ascend upwards about three feet.
And then there's a hallway at the.
Top. So you didn't think to go check up the stairs?
I was just waiting on you. I can go if you want.
You could stay here if you'd like.
Scene's. Just gonna walk up the stairs.
Which set the natural stairs or the stairs that you guys just came down.
The natural stairs. Okay.
You start to head up those stairs and you see a,
this room basically enters into a natural cavern
style hallway.
So it's like you're walking into a almost a cave system that's underneath the,
uh, house.
And it goes straight for a little bit and then it curves off
to the left.
I stand there and do a really like,
poor impression of somebody who's like, trying to be like, come on guys,
we've got this. He's just like, we can do this. Come up. We,
we should stay focused on the mission. We'll get that money.
Yay. I also need to know who has dark vision?
The cat in the elf.
Mm-hmm.
. Uh, I.
Have fire bolt as a cat trip,
so I can continuously cast that and use the light of flame, but that sounds.
I prefer that tedious.
Yeah. Uh, because everything is gonna get dark down here.
It's going to just now, or it was this whole time.
The only lighting down in that circular room is what's the,
the natural light coming from that back window down into the staircase.
It's, it's dim already. And going into that hallway area is going to,
uh, put you in complete darkness.
I also have blind senses, so if I'm able to here,
I'm aware of the location of any hidden or invisible creature within 10 feet of
me.
Okay.
Also me, same thing.
Dark vision's gonna be able to take care of most of what's going on, so.
Okay. Mm-hmm.
. I I also have blind sense, so that.
Might help. Sounds like an assassin thing.
Are you guys gonna go up in that hallway area?
I wanna look at the buttons.
They are kind of a brass colored buttons.
Do any of them look more worn than the other ones?
They all look pretty fairly worn.
Huh? And there's how many buttons?
Man, I don't remember.
Don't give me buttons. And then just.
All right. Enjoy your buttons. I'm gonna go follow short stuff here.
Yeah. I don't, I honestly don't remember how many buttons are there.
They have letters written on them that I do know, but I don't remember what the,
what the letters were.
How am I supposed to solve it if I don't have any of the.
Clues? You don't have the instructions to solve it. There's just letters.
I don't even know what letters or what language.
I, I or.
How many buttons.
I will, I will say that by this time, uh,
the buttons have taken some damage and the tops of some of them have been pulled
off.
So you don't even have all the information to do this.
And there's nothing on the pedestal. It's just an empty pedestal.
An empty pedestal that has had its instructions worn down.
Like you can tell that there were letters on there at some point,
but they're illegible.
All right.
So after I've stared at the whole thing for a while and decided that it's too
much work, I didn't go up the.
Stairs. Thank you.
. You're welcome.
That puzzle was solved like two and a half years ago, so.
You told me nuts to medic game. Here I am trying to solve.
The question. I I get it. But Anyway, so yeah, this,
this hallway goes, goes on for a while and it curves off to the left.
And as you follow this h this hallway,
it empties into the bottom of a much larger oblong
shaped room that has, uh,
three portals of entry off to the le off to the, uh,
west side of the room.
And because you're coming in on the east side of the room and just
north of you on the east side of the room as well, there's a,
another,
another slightly elevated staircase that leads up to a more
civilized looking doorway.
But you hear noise coming from the entry
area, uh,
at the southernmost western entry point.
And also in this room there is a series of pits,
dark pits that run along the center.
So there's walkways between the pits, but there are pits.
Seeing you are leading the way. So .
That's right. Make the blind guy lead the way.
He went up first.
Oh yeah, that's right.
I am going to toss some ball bearings across the room to make sure it's safe.
Okay.
Does anything explode or just like
dissolve?
No, but uh, you do hear,
you do hear them click clack across the floor, and some of them you hear,
they don't come to a normal rest.
It's like they fall down into the pits and you don't hear them land.
It appears that these pits go down quite a long way.
I thought you were referring to like, pits that you find inside fruit.
So that makes a lot more sense now. Oh.
No, no, no, no. Sure.
Just, just laying everywhere. .
I was so confused.
Yeah, I have one pile of avocados and another one of peaches.
That makes a lot more sense too.
And for Steve, uh, this place is the pits.
Yeah. Yep. I, I I think that is actually what he said when we went in the,
this room the first time.
Up. Sounds good. I'm gonna walk over to the staircase.
Uh,
you head north towards the staircase on the northeastern side
of the room. Are the other two of you following,
or.
I will do whatever he does.
There's multiple pits with walkways over them through the center of the.
Room between them, not over them.
Okay.
I collect the ball bearings that I, that are not in the pits.
Okay.
And then I follow Dave. I mean, not Dave. Um, coil.
I just hear sounds like, is it voices.
Or someone rummaging.
Okay, I'm gonna sneak that.
Way. Okay.
So two of you are heading towards the northeastern side of the room and
Amanda is heading towards the other direction entirely.
Um, let's go with the two of you heading to the northeastern side first.
You approach these steps that are,
that have been carved into the rock and they are professionally
well made. And as you get to the top of these steps,
there is a door.
I open the door.
. Do you now? Okay.
Well I can't, I can't retract that. That's meta.
. I know. I just was shocked, but, okay. Uh,
before, before you can do anything about it, uh, um,
coil, uh, cn uh,
crabs the door knob and pulls on it and you hear a
twang and cn you have a dart sprout from your,
uh, chassis. Are you immune to poison? I'm assuming being as you're construct.
Uh, resistant. Resistant.
Okay.
So you are going to take eight points.
That's after your resistance, uh, of poison damage.
A as, uh, you get struck with this poison dart.
No regrets.
That it was you.
Not me. Yeah. No regrets.
Uh, you know, maybe I don't want to go through this door. You go right ahead.
I feel like you're gonna get me in trouble. I can do that myself.
Affirmative.
And I'm just gonna leave him .
All right. So Mira,
you approach the cave opening on, uh,
the opposite side of the room from where you came in. Um,
and as you peek around the corner,
you see the mark as he is tending to several plants that are being
held in this corridor and he has his back to you.
He's trying to decide how I wanna do this cuz I have options and that's a
problem. So because I took my lovely shore rests,
I have misty step again. Okay.
I would like to have drawn both DERs
get within the 30 foot and use misty step,
and actually used the ability that I had the last time I used it that I did not
use.
And it's because I am an allergen elf and I am in my winter
season during my face,
step one creature of my choice that I can see within five feet of me before I
teleport. So I guess I have to get into five feet, so I'll have to sneak there.
Mm-hmm.
must make a wisdom saving tr throw or be frightened until the end
of my next turn.
So you're not gonna go for the kill shot, you're just trying to scare 'em.
No, I'm gonna do both, but if I don't succeed, I have that.
Okay.
It just happens.
All right. So how are you making the strike though?
I'd both daggers to the neck.
Okay. Roll, roll. Two attacks with advantage please.
Okay. 26 and 26.
So go ahead and roll damage on that first hit and roll crit. Just roll,
roll regular damage and double it. That's the way I do grits.
18. Okay.
And then roll that set. 10.
And a nine again.
So you rolled a total of 21. Mm-hmm. . He's not dead,
but good golly. Does he look like he's close? And he, and like I said, the, the,
this, the mark is a font tar.
I don't need to describe that in detail because all of you know what a font tar
looks like. Uh,
and he is ging blood from the neck as he's gurgling and looking up at you and
terrified eyes.
So he did his wisdom saving through.
Oh no, I didn't do that. Um.
You said he was terrified, so I thought that he was already frightened.
Well, I mean, you just stabbed a bro in the neck. Pardon?
Mean he rolled a 12.
If the effect requires a saving throw,
the DC equals eight plus your proficiency. Bonus plus your charisma modifier.
Ah, okay.
So 13.
Yeah. He's, he's afraid.
I.
Did things as a reaction.
He reaches into his pocket and pulls out a handful of something and blows it in
your general direction and great.
You smell this overwhelming smell of warming spices. Again,
make another constitution safe, please.
Not one.
You just get really mellow.
.
And you just kind of sit down and you're just kind of zen out and be like, yeah,
man. So getting back to coil,
you said you were coming back down to see where, uh, Mayra went, right?
Uh, you went down this hallway, you see a guy who,
who's got his hand pressed up against his neck.
Like he's trying to hold something in this kind of laying on the floor and
hyperventilating with wide eyes.
And then you see Mayra standing next to him just kind of staring off,
being like, Hey, little dude.
What the most chilled out you've ever seen her?
Well, that's probably for the best sweetheart. Um,
but I guess I could handle it from here.
I'm gonna walk around and like get in front of him and just look at him.
Switch my, my whiskers a little bit. Y you gonna be all right buddy?
You gonna be okay?
He, he kind of gurgles at you as he's holding his neck shut.
Oh, right. You're busy. Sorry. Let me help you with that.
And I'm going to use my claws and probably maybe
one of the most violent things I've ever done on this game. And,
and I'm gonna tear out his throat.
All right.
That's a 17.
That's gonna hit rule damage.
Could have been gentle, but No.
It's only a one.
You only ruled one point of damage.
Yeah, I'm really, I'm really good cuz I'm not very strong.
Uh, you clawed the back of his hand as he's holding his neck together.
Ah, you're not supposed to move.
And he, he just, he just gurgles the word. Ouch. at you.
. Uh, he's still alive. All, all,
all he did was all he did was give him a paper cut
while he's trying to keep his life force in his neck. Neck.
No, no coil. You have to do it quickly,
quietly, deficiently.
I look over it Marra.
Like I.
Did. You know, I'm really hoping you forget this happened.
Okay. All right. I wasn't jazzed up enough. All right. All right. Uh.
Let's, I like jazz. Jazz is really jazzy.
It's great. Yeah. Okay, let's try this again. Uh, I'm going to.
As you, I'm gonna, he pulls up. You,
you look down at him as he with his other hand,
he's holding up a fist to his mouth mm-hmm. .
And he blows the powder at you. And it's,
it gets this overwhelming smell of warming spices. Mm-hmm. Um,
I need you to make a con safe, please.
That's a 12.
You also just kind of start to see things from mayor's perspective,
and you just kind of sit down and get really chill.
Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. All right. Cool dude. Cool dude.
. All right. Uh, see, what are you doing?
After looking at the door for quite some time,
I have realized that potentially it needs a key.
I'm going to go and search for a key throughout the area. I have been.
There's three openings on the opposite side of the cavern that you're in,
and then there's another one towards the south on the same side that you're on.
Uh, but that's the one that you came in through.
I will go through, how many of the doors have I been in through already?
Uh, well,
you got the one that you're standing at and you got the one that you came in on.
They're both on the eastern side of the room, on the western side of the room.
There's three openings. There's, uh,
the two other assassins you're there with.
Went into the one that's on the southern side of the western wall,
and you hear a noise coming from that opening that they went through.
I shall investigate the noise. Okay?
You go in there and you see again,
a font tar holding it, trying to hold its neck together.
And it's got a pretty nasty looking paper cut on the back of that hand that he's
holding his neck together with. And then you see, uh,
Mayra and, uh, coil,
just super mellow sitting on the floor.
I bet this guy plays some great jazz. Just press a button and it is just.
You heard that lady in the tavern plays the loot.
So good. I thought it was a flute. Was it a flute? I don't know.
Does the flute have strings? ? What's that? Robo boy?
Is this not the target?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's a target. I.
Got him. Yeah, he's like, I got him too. He's fine. Just let him bleed out.
Then.
I shall also got him see enters like full terminator mode.
The blue sensor that access his eye turns red.
Okay.
And he just walks up to, we all know it's eighth Ethan ,
and I'm going to roll to attack.
Okay.
My rape here. So that's a 15 to hit.
Uh, 15 just hits.
And then I'm assuming at this point, after being attacked multiple times,
he's not surprised.
No.
Okay,
so then you would take 11 points of piercing damage. All.
Right. How do you wanna do this.
Quickly and efficiently? , I,
I don't know what ways quickly are efficiently,
but I just know I wanna do it that way. All.
Right, so here's what happens. Uh,
the two of you who are blessed out suddenly ha have your mellow harshed in a
big way as, uh, your robot friend comes in,
pulls out a rapier, and just summarily, not flinching, and without any emotion,
just stabs the guy through his left eye as he kind of
gets the death rattles on the end of his set, on the end of his saber,
as he just kind of pulls the sword out and turns at you. Like, now what?
Ah, bro. . Alright. Right. Alright. All right.
Get it because the eye the thing.
No.
Nevermind.
Just.
No. Cool.
I guess that's it then. Don't we have something else to do?
Uh, we gotta we gotta take a trophy home.
Oh.
Hey, uh, shortstop, uh,
take his other eye. Ugh, I'd not carrying a whole head.
Do you know how heavy a head is? Man?
We could, we could do a finger. Ugh,
I'm not putting my hands in. Nope, nope.
Without flinching, without emotion. I just reach in, take the eye out.
Yeah, he, he goes,
he goes full on the bride from Kill bill part two and just .
It's.
Nice. You, you can have it, buddy. I don't touch. Nope.
Nice.
I turn to Mara and Coil. Do you two need a recharge?
You seem quite low on battery.
S snakes neck. Oh.
No, I'm, I'm good. Yeah, about, I feel.
Great about this time. It starts to wear off and you've got a bogus headache.
Just gnarly.
Okay. All right. Next up, let's go. Uh, oh, shoot.
All right. That's one down, right?
Right. I think, yeah, just two
one's done. Okay, we should go to the next one. Ugh.
I'm not leading the way this time. My head is killing me, man.
Ah, you're telling me. Does, doesn't anyone know how to get out?
I don't even remember. .
Gosh, follow me.
Cool, dude, that's fine.
See?
And takes you up the stairs and you are in the
top layer of the house. Again. I, I do need to ask, how are you,
how are you leaving the house?
Yeah, that's a good question.
Like, discreetly, .
Discreet. No, no. Like,
which entry point are we leaving from?
CN will march out the front doors. That's the only way,
easily possible to go without like,
stepping on a bunch of annoying cliffs and whatnot.
I'm just gonna go out the same way I came in.
Same. Okay. So you guys climb up the rope back to the, the roof of the house.
Uh,
cn you go out the front door and you witness just a
post-apocalyptic ruin of a city out this front door and it's
nighttime. You look up and you see a dark
starless sky that is covered in clouds that seem to
contain fire.
Every so often you see a stray dog or cat cross the
road, but there a lot of these cities are decimated, not decimated.
Steve warned me against using that word, .
A a lot of the city is destroyed.
And you look down the block and you see a
sign for a bakery that you swear
you are familiar with. It says only on Tuesdays,
but this isn't TowerFall as you know it, so it,
it's weird that you're seeing that here.
All right. C is going to stand there for a few minutes.
Just processing error. Does not compute.
Error does not compute. He's just gonna like, turn around and seek help.
Go the back.
All right. Uh, you get there just in time to watch, uh,
Mara climb up the rope to the top of the house,
and I'm assuming you follow them out that window. It's daytime outside,
and you go up to the roof of the house and
I'm assuming drop down onto the front porch and use the walkway to the road.
Chair.
It appears that spices may have affected my sensor.
Yeah, my sensor's pretty blitz too, man. Wow.
Let's just get out of here.
Affirmative.
Where's the next location?
Looks like the next person on the list's name is, uh, Taya.
And you are given an address,
which takes you to a, uh,
seamstress shop in Central Northern Tower fall.
There's a door sign on the door that says working at Castle
LER will not be in today. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Hmm. So much for reliable intel.
Well, this.
Is the wrong address.
I've heard some things about the Baie guy, but you know,
I'm not gonna turn down money. Maybe it's worth a shot.
I'm going to investigate the front door to see if it
could potentially be trapped.
Roll that investigation check for me, please.
That's a five.
Seems okay.
I'm gonna pick the lock.
As you get down to try to pick the lock, you kind of push the door open.
Like it wasn't even locked. It was just.
Yeah, but you couldn't do that either.
I'm gonna open it all the way and walk in. Good job.
Good job. All right. You walk in and you are in an empty seamstress shop.
No, it's not empty. I mean, there's like clothes and whatnot.
Uh, I did see the sign on the door, which was open.
Totally didn't be any here. Uh, is anybody home?
I need my pants brought in. Is that a thing? ?
I'm not searching. I do not wear clothes.
There's no response.
She's clearly not here. It clearly says that she's at Castle Stir.
Clerk. Ah, you can't be too careful.
You might as well head over to Castle Steerer.
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stir clear.
Strickler.
I've heard it both ways.
I leave.
I'm assuming the other two of you guys are leaving too. Yeah.
Yes.
Affirmative.
Are you guys heading Toler? I'm, I'm not trying to railroad you guys,
but you guys are. Yeah. Okay. We.
Have a bounty. We need to kill it. I'm going there .
Anybody else wants to join me? Whatever. I'm getting the money. .
You guys get to the castle,
which is just a shell of its former self. Uh, you don't,
there's not really any guards circling the grounds or anything.
They're, you know, you see people walking around the outside, uh,
a little bit like the occasional armed individual, but, uh,
from your trained eyes,
you know that these are just people filling roles and not so much trained
professionals.
I'm going to go up to the nearest one that kind of looks like they have an idea
of what's going on. Mm-hmm. , I, um, looking for a,
I can't pronounce this kitty kit.
I do. You, does this person,
is this person here looking for some work to be.
Done? Taya.
Sure. If that's Yeah.
The seamstress. Yeah. She's, she's, uh, she's making the,
the military outfits for us, for the,
the new King's Guard for of the unified tower fall.
Um, she should be in the basement in the, in the castle.
Um, who are you?
Uh, I'm, I'm sure I'm on her list. I was here to get fitted, uh,
that my Oh.
Oh, you're, you're make a, make a deception check real quick. This is gonna.
Go so well. It's a 12.
Um, he kind of side eyes you and he is like, um, on her list.
I, I, I've not seen you around.
Can I have your name real quick? And I'll
find your rank and file to see if yours is ready,
and I will bring out your outfit if it is.
Oh, sure. Well, I, I have mine with me.
I was g it was issued previously and I have to have it
brought in. I, I don't, I thought this was.
Like a, can I see your uniform?
Uh.
Sure. I mean, try, try to understand the situation I'm in. I, I have,
I have somebody who's saying that they're an official for the
government, yet I've not seen you before.
I not call it an abundance of caution.
Sure. Absolutely. Um, just one second.
And I'm going to turn my back to this person and
take my,
my pack off and open it and look at,
uh,
c n n Mera and try and
signal to them that they need to help me distract. It's kind of a,
a wink and a nod.
I, I walk nearby and then I say, oh, no,
I think I have sprung a leak and I'm gonna cast grease.
.
Can somebody please help?
He, he looks at you and then he looks at that coil.
Um, what, what .
Gosh, excuse me, sir. I think I require maintenance.
Hey, kitty, you might want to fix your robot.
He's leaking all over the royal grounds.
Uh, not mine. Uh,
belongs to her. I think I saw them. Gosh. They like,
they were coming in when I was coming in and, you know, I don't have my,
my uniform. Um,
I'm gonna have to leave and come back. So, um, yeah.
Yeah. Uh, I don't help this guy out. Um, lady,
your robots leak in. I'm gonna pack my stuff up and try and walk away.
That's.
Fine.
So I will grab the robot around this shoulders and kinda like,
usher him in towards the, the door will get you to the maintenance right away.
We need to take this care of getting this taken care of before it gets any
worse.
I make a deception roll with advantage because, uh,
c is helping you.
It's still a 10.
Okay.
Sage, sage's portal, dice.
Ba ba ba. You, you should have a, uh,
a fe that allows you to make your dice roll that,
that exchanges your dice. Roll for 10 if your dice comes in under 10,
so then you would have a minimum of 15 for that stat,
so you succeed.
I've never been this high a level before. .
, that's fine. You, you, you succeeded. So yeah, you may, you get in.
Okay. You get into the castle. Um.
Cool. All right. Uh, so I got the robot in.
Yeah, just trying to figure out the tobacco. Now.
That's fine. He can stay outside.
He, uh, so the, this, uh,
quote guard looks at you coil, and he's like, so, so,
uh, the uniform then,
or any other form of identification you can show me.
Yeah. I wrong pack or something. I'll, I'll leave. I'll,
I didn't mean to take up your time. Definitely not.
Why don't you come with me, sir?
I mean, okay, so first you don't wanna let me in Now you do wanna let me in,
but only if you're escorting me. The little, a little,
little rude little confusing. You're.
Acting, you're acting very suspicious, sir. Um, why don't,
why don't you come with me?
Sure, sure. Fine, fine.
As he begins to pull out a pair of manacles.
Oh, we're going to, we're gonna do this.
We're gonna do this. Really? I would've gladly followed you.
I'm not even being aggressive. This is from smoking for the last 35 years.
Can I see your hands, sir?
I just show him the palms of my hands. I don't,
I don't put them out for him to cuff me. I just put them up in front of my face.
He leans forward to start cuffing your hands together.
Uh, you know what I'm not gonna get yelled at for resisting arrest. So,
you know what? You do your job. Uh, I'd actually like to see your credentials.
If I could, that would actually be great because, um,
I don't know. I, I, there's not really any like,
permanently established government over here. So, you know,
I'll show you my credentials. You show me yours.
That's probably the better way to do this. Instead of getting aggressive.
Uh, he puts the manacle around one hand,
lashes, it starts clapping the other one around the other hand.
Okay, fine, fine.
He goes, come with me, sir.
And he grabs the chain in the middle and starts pulling you along towards the.
Barracks. As he starts pulling me away, I,
I start looking around at all the other people that are around, and I'm like,
you see this? I come here to volunteer,
and now he is gonna take me off to the brig. This is,
is this the kind of government we would want here in TowerFall?
This is ridiculous.
Everyone just kind of looks at you, shrugs,
and then goes back about their business.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Meanwhile, in the castle,
Mayra and Sea, seeing,
where are you heading in the castle?
Well, we went in there under the guise of going for maintenance,
but since we don't know where the maintenance room is,
we can just wander the halls until we find something.
We are looking for the seamstresses. We can ask around.
I'm gonna start walking down one of the hallways and, um,
look for what looks like kind of the,
I would assume like towards the barracks area,
where there'd be a lot of military personnel that would need to get their
uniforms repaired or made. Just looking for a,
a general direction that makes sense.
You notice one soldier walking through
a hall, one of the hallways, uh, who has a uniform on, uh,
it looks like he's going about his business. And, uh,
he had been coming from the opposite direction that he was walking
naturally as you do, uh, . .
Uh, he doesn't seem to be paying you any, any mind.
Okay? We just casually walk towards wherever it was he came from. Okay? Like,
we're totally part of this castle.
All right? So as you go that direction, it, it, it kind of, you,
you end up coming across two different options. You can go,
you can continue to go straight,
or there is kind of a gated entry point that goes down into
lower levels.
What do you think? C Have you ever been in a castle before?
No, I have not. However, I have studied schematics and blueprints of castles.
Is down the stairs. Generally where a seamstress would work.
I'm not.
Certain. Mayra, make a history check please,
because you seem to have forgotten something about a conversation you literally
just heard.
That's fine. Uh, 17.
All right. You remember that The guy literally told coil,
she's the seamstress working in the basement.
I thought the word basement came up. It was in my brain, and I was like,
I don't know why that's there. . . All right,
so down the stairs we go. It's, you said it's gated.
Uh, it, there's a gate on it, but it's not closed.
Oh, okay. Well, we'll just go down.
All right.
As the two of you go down the stairs and get to the bottom,
it becomes unnaturally quiet and you can't hear your own
footsteps, and you follow this hallway down until you get to this,
what feels like a central room. That,
aside from the doorway you come in,
there is a door on every single wall.
So there's four doors total in this room that's inclusive of the one that you
came in through. So all the other doors are closed.
But one thing I wanna do I can't do because I can't hear anything,
well see in anything helpful to.
Give, uh, as you open your mouth to ask that question, your lips move,
but nothing comes out of your mouth.
C looks to see if there's like a volume button,
realizes that there's not one and just is very confused.
So I just, I'll just pat see's shoulder and point at the doors,
then shrug and look to him for anything helpful that he has to help with this
operation.
CN walks up to the middle door and tries to open.
It. Okay? As you open this door, you see a long,
dark hallway that you don't see an end to.
See him closes the door, okay? Seems,
goes to the left door and opens that
door too. I.
Don't know. All right? Right. You open that door and you find a broom closet.
Oh, I forgot to mention, in the middle of this room,
there is also a fairly bloody table question mark.
Oh, great.
I don't wanna metagame. So since C'S methodically going through these doors,
I guess I have to open the right one too. Okay. Full knowledge of what?
All right, you,
you opened this door and as you look into this room,
you see a red room with a depressed floor.
I'm gonna cheer up the floor. .
You didn't do anything in the end of the rooms.
Floor's depressed a tear though.
Okay. Sorry that, that was the steadiest thing I've heard all night. Um, okay,
so at first it just seems like a red room, but then you get the,
then there's this,
there's the slight earth and smell of the blood that is on the air.
I do not breathe. I can't just smell. Okay.
Well, uh, mayors smell on it for sure.
Gross.
.
And then shadows start to come out
of that room.
Cn closes that door.
As you start to close that door,
a giant tentacle shoots through,
grabs the top of the door and rips it off its hinges,
and then pulls it into the room where it kind of de dematerializes as if
there's a portal of some sort in that room that's being
operated.
Let's do.
I would say something, but I can't.
More shadow figures begin to pour from this room.
See turns around,
starts walking and tries to convey what he saw to mayor.
I can see everything that's happening too.
So I would open the door with a long hallway and get in the hallway and close
the door. Okay. I'm not staying out for that.
See.
Him the door slams and see in's face, and he is very confused.
She runs into the hallway without him, so he's.
Gonna actually doesn't slam and makes them sound.
Right. Well, the motion very traumatic.
He's gonna open the door and sort of like
shimmy on down.
He's gonna eases on down. Ease on down a road.
Anybody the wiz? No.
All right. I only listen to video opening music.
So you are in a pitch dark hallway,
except it doesn't really matter to you guys, apparently. Uh,
so as you guys are going down this hallway,
seems like you're walking for a very long time,
but you finally start to see the end of this hallway,
and there is a slight light at the end of the hallway.
You come up on a retrofitted jail sale
that has been retrofitted to make a
seamstress shot, but there's no sound.
And you see another font tar
in this room going about her business.
I think I'd lose my mind if I had so in silence.
Can't listen to your favorite podcast book, moon stuff.
Is the font tar facing us where we would obviously be in view
as we enter the area, or facing away from.
Us? Not really either. I mean, she's not really holding still. Like she,
she's standing up. She's preoccupied. Uh,
she's like holding up some material and then kind of drying down some
designs and walking across the wound, the grab, you know,
just kind of going about her business.
Okay.
Sien turns to Mera and mimes,
like sneaking motion. That's like stereotypical, like solid snake.
And then he takes out his rapier and pretends to like stab the air.
In the most robotic motions. Like.
Oh yeah, so robotic. It looks very unnatural, very weird.
And then he turns this motionless face towards the onar and
just starts walking very robotically.
You do have the silent spell going right now.
So go ahead and roll. Uh, stealth with advantage.
I got 30, 24.
All right. Yeah, you both are pretty darn sneaky.
I don't even bother rolling against that. So yeah,
you guys get behind her quickly.
Who's gonna go for the assassination strike?
Seeing is unflinching. He's ready to do it at a moment's notice,
so I think he would try to do it first.
Okay. Uh, do you get two attacks in an attacker? One?
I think just one.
Okay.
So I am going to attack with my rape here.
That would be a 17 to.
Hit that's gonna hit.
So go ahead and consider that as a crit as you
with your assassination feet.
And assassins at level five. Get to roll.
Like how many D sixes?
Oh, crap. You have sneak attack. I forgot all about sneak attack. Yeah, so Yeah,
you're dope.
It's eight D six s.
Oh, yeah. I don't even have that many.
D six Es. Yeah, so you're going, you're gonna be.
Probably could have.
Vin. Yeah, I didn't even think about that. That's my bad. That's my bad, Amanda.
I didn't think about the.
All right. There's so much, many words to read.
Uh.
All right. I do have that many D six s,
so I will roll the damages. Just.
Roll 'em all one at once.
Roll 'em all and done. Oh yeah.
Okay. So that is.
Do you need a calculator? I have 1 76.
Okay. Yeah. I'm not.
That poor lady.
Yeah. Uh,
CSAN just walks up behind this lady as she's just going about her
business and just,
you see the rotors in his back turn on as he just turned sideways with his
sword, and then all of a sudden just with one pneumatic move,
swings around and literally cuts her in half vertically.
Sorry, horizontally. Actually, you know what? No. Nope, nope. I said it,
I said it. You, you cut her in half vertically from top down.
Man. She was almost half.
Deer, half tar. I . So,
so this is quite defeat too, being as she's a font tar.
So you're literally transversing a human and a deer at the same
time. This was quite the shot. It, it was, it was a one.
Edita that question of where the anatomy is. You just solved it.
Simple math.
Now you have two half font tars.
We're not taking that with us. .
She is now. Alright. And all left?
Yeah. Uh, you guys can't hear each other, cuz again, silence. Spell,
take a prize.
Okay. Tradition. I guess I'll take an eye.
Oh, no. Okay. It's.
Fine. All right.
Wait, do they have differently colored eyes or no?
Is the eye the same color as the one I've already taken? It.
Is. It's almost like they're related.
Okay.
I'm not gonna take both those eyes because then I could have just taken two eyes
from one guy and have no proof. Okay?
So I'm gonna walk up and cut off a large lock of her hair. All.
Right, you all, you guys also notice that, uh, coil's not there.
So I turn around and head back up cuz job's done. Goodbye.
So you make your way up the stairs. Um, there are,
there are still shadows coming out of that doorway, but they're not,
they're not really doing anything outside of just standing outside of that
doorway for the moment. It's like they're waiting. It's like they're,
it's like they're waiting for something.
Wait, are the shadows like 2D or are they kind of like 3D ish,
like standing vertically, not just projected against walls?
No, there's, they're, they're occupying a space. It's, they're,
it's almost like they're, wow.
It's almost like they're physical beings that are completely void of any sort of
light.
Yeah, I'm just leaving job's done.
I'm done. Goodbye. But head back up the stairs.
Seeans order of like waves at the shadow figures.
No response.
And then he heads up.
All right, you guys make your way back out to the courtyard and you hear,
you can hear, uh,
you can hear coil ranting about,
look at the oppression being put down upon our people from the
barracks towards the front of the courtyard.
He's just on the gallows about to be hung. No.
No, no, no. He, he, they,
they just have him detained for questioning is all it is.
I don't know. Should we bother?
We could return and say that he died and get more money.
It's true.
It's also easier. Just money. My two instead of by three.
Oh, it's an uneven number. Yes. I hate uneven numbers.
CN starts walking off.
. Okay.
If you say otherwise, CN does. Otherwise he's built to listen to people.
I haven't decided, and I'm very selfish.
In true Clemens fashion.
He awaits your response.
Well, but do I care? That's the question.
That's your decision. I can't make that choice for.
You. I know it's hard. Okay, so, um,
he's arguing, been detained for questioning, he's in shackles.
How many guards are around him?
Not many. But you, you can tell that,
that this isn't a very well-funded operation that's in this castle at the
moment.
Okay. .
I would wave for c to just to just head out so he can get away because
I, I don't want him near me. Mm. Just be like, see and go, go that way. I,
I've got this.
Affirmative. Okay. And see like,
passionately heads in the direction he was told to go in.
So I'm gonna storm up to the group, hands on my hips.
What do you think you're doing out here?
What did I tell you about leaving the house?
You know how it gets when you're drunk and the things you say to people and
trying to enter the castle without permission as usual.
Like you're some sort of someone in the army like you pretend to be.
You get back home, march your butt back there right now, young man.
How do you respond to this coil?
See, I, I told you it was a mistake.
I should have just gone home and you won't let me go home and never just let me
be. I used to be part of the city watch, but no, you guys don't care.
You're all up here thinking, oh no, I'm.
In a carer. I need you to make a deception. Check with advantage please.
15.
Okay. The guards kind of look at each other confused and they're like, oh, um,
kay, you're you're gonna take him away from here.
I'm taking him home.
And he is not leaving there until he sits down and he sobers up. Okay?
Uh, they, they unlock your, uh, they unlock coil's, manacles, and they go,
you take soft kitty home and uh, make sure this doesn't happen again. Wait.
Did he? I just whack him on the backside of the head. Ow. Now get home.
Start pointing out the door or out the.
Gate. That's not fair. He just called me Soft kitty.
I'm gonna punch him in his face.
You deserve it. Don't touch him.
I'm shoving him away. Go. Go.
So you guys make your way out and I'm assuming you're heading back
to the tavern viewers.
Affirmatives.
So you make your way back to the tavern and you wait until nightfall and the
miniature never shows up.
You wait a little bit longer and then suddenly a much younger font
tar walks into the establishment.
Looks like she's around the age of 16.
And upon further inspection, she's got quite a bit of blood on her hands.
She looks at the three of you and Cause she goes, have you finished the job?
Affirmative.
Yeah.
Where's the minute are we spoke to before?
Hmm? He will not be. Uh, how do you say, uh,
[inaudible] not to be be is talking to anybody ever again.
Uh, so where's our money?
Oh, I, I have your money. Uh,
he and she pulls out a giant sack and it drops on the table with a
heavy clank. Would you like to make a bonus
on top of this?
I do not see why not?
I'm listening.
I'd like some details.
Oh, it is just a me Neil task. Really? Uh,
I just need you to dispose of an item for me. Sure.
What item?
She pulls out a elongated,
almost amethyst looking crystal,
if you don't mind, um,
I would very much appreciate it if you could throw this off into the,
uh, grimsley for me. Yeah. I.
What kind of bonus are we talking about?
I will give you another 5,000 gold hate up front.
I'll just do it myself. I mean, I kind of carry this whole situation anyway,
so.
I don't think so.
I mean, we could fight about it, but it's not worth it.
I am the one who murdered both targets. If anything, I should get the bonus.
You wouldn't even know what to do with it. Yeah, I'll take it off your hands.
It does not matter to me.
I will pay all three of you if that's get to make sure that this is taken can
cut.
Her off. Sure, sure.
Okay then.
And she pulls out three more smaller bags and drops minute before you and,
uh, you never saw me.
Of course.
Before you leave, I have something for you proof.
And I drop the eye in her hand or she's holding it out.
Uh, she look, she looks at him and she goes, very good.
Take your money. Here's the crystal and go.
All right. Pleasure doing business.
Affirmative.
Who's taking the crystal?
I'll take it.
As you take this crystal. You feel the presence of a being within it?
That is, it's,
it's that of a very sad and lonely girl.
Okay.
And she walks out of the establishment. What are you,
are you guys gonna go finish the job? Yeah.
So I'm gonna make sure we split the first sack of gold,
make sure I have everything that I was owed and I'm just gonna leave.
As soon as I have my gold. I'm following hot on our heels.
I have nothing better. I should do so See you follows as well. All right.
So yeah, as soon as you leave, uh, Mera, you're being followed by the other two.
What are you doing? Your jobs are done. Nope.
Completing my mission.
We're all doing this together.
You're already paid. Just go.
I do not do it for the money. I do it for purpose.
I just don't have anything better.
To do. You could do like a thousand other jobs for purpose.
It must complete every task is what I am programmed to do.
I have literally nothing else going on. I could just drink myself,
but no thanks.
Yeah, I was told not to drink anything in that tavern,
so I would definitely not recommend that to you either.
Yeah.
I've done it before, but our job is done. There's no reason to continue.
Ah, I just wanna make sure you follow up with the deal.
I like to be honest about the money that I earn.
I'm sorry. You like to be honest.
About the money that I earn. Go ahead. I'm, I'm following.
I have no idea where I'm actually going or what the place is that I'm supposed
to dispose of this at.
Little background notice.
The Grimsley is a part of the ocean that surrounds the, uh,
island of TowerFall.
It's off the eastern coast.
It is where traditionally the people of TowerFall would
put their dead on a raft and send it out to the
grimsley,
which is occupied by something that
is not great.
How far away would that be?
Uh, you're gonna, you're gonna walk.
Basically all you have to do is just walk to the eastern side of the island and
throw it into the ocean.
Hmm. So I just are walking, um, north.
North.
Are we in North TowerFall or South.
TowerFall? You're in northern TowerFall. Everything's taken.
Okay. So I'm walking, I'm walking South.
Says they're just gonna follow me. Okay.
Yeah. The, the other two of you, because you are TowerFall natives,
you know where Grimsley is at. So mm-hmm. .
This does not seem like the most direct route.
I've got the crystal. I go where I want.
I've already been paid. I don't have to do it anytime soon.
I'm literally just following her to the Grimsley.
I have nothing to say,
nothing to convince her about just following her out there.
Great. I'm gonna stop at an inn and pay for a room. .
This is the most uncomfortable I've seen.
I've seen Amanda and I've made some dead horse jokes in front of her .
I wanna take a long rest and they can do what they want.
But the crystals sleeping in bed with me.
I stand directly outside the room.
Using centuries rest means that I don't have to actually fall asleep. I just.
Only needs to be be four, four hour trance.
A as an elf does.
As an elf does.
It's gonna make myself comfortable at a table and chairs and knot off if need
me.
Cool. ,
I'm gonna turn invisible and leave out the window. Goodbye. Oh.
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