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1:20:00

he rolled real bad. No pass

1:20:02

without a trace, or with pass? With pass. Oh yeah,

1:20:04

38. Not

1:20:07

20. Boom. 20,

1:20:09

tell me if it's not 20, because that's actually worth two,

1:20:12

no, not 20. What'd you get again, sorry? Great.

1:20:20

Oof. Whoa. Wow.

1:20:23

All right. As you all clamber

1:20:25

up in the tower and hold down

1:20:27

as quiet as you can, obscuring yourself here in

1:20:29

the shaded space of this stone tower. And as

1:20:32

you all get in there, too, there

1:20:34

are parts of the floor that shift under your feet and go

1:20:36

like, bits of stone

1:20:38

floor fall out from the ruin. And you worry for a brief

1:20:40

moment at this tower. It's maybe not as sound as you thought

1:20:42

it would be, but not to the point where it feels like

1:20:45

it's about to collapse. Yet.

1:20:49

You all slowly sit there, and as you wait. Perimeter,

1:20:53

I'm just going to look less on just above

1:20:55

you. Yep. Mm-hmm. Perception

1:20:58

check. That

1:21:01

is a 28. Looking

1:21:05

past, you see, the first thing you

1:21:08

see. 30, excuse me. You

1:21:11

see this small pack of three

1:21:13

hound-like creatures that are leaping

1:21:16

over rocks, and of clamoring and

1:21:18

circling around. It's hard to

1:21:21

make up much detail. Beyond there are

1:21:23

quadrupedal and have these large tails as

1:21:25

they step into the nearby bits of

1:21:27

the very, very subtle light.

1:21:30

Actually, you don't have your light source currently lit,

1:21:32

right? There's just the low inner lantern on the

1:21:34

inside of the tent. So you just see the

1:21:36

shadow as they begin to approach and sniff around

1:21:38

the tent. You look at one, they are much

1:21:40

larger than a standard dog, right? You can put

1:21:42

it as a wolf, but there's no fur. It

1:21:45

is just an odd, somewhat

1:21:47

turquoise-gray coloration, almost

1:21:51

like a blubber or a dolphin-like

1:21:53

exterior. But with a wolf-like snout, eyes,

1:21:55

ears, just fur-less. And you see on

1:21:58

the back of its tail looks in

1:22:00

there, at the end of this long,

1:22:02

strided muscular tail, a large eyeball is

1:22:04

fixed that is also looking separately within

1:22:07

the tent behind us. Mm-hmm. We said.

1:22:10

And they kind of like, one of

1:22:12

them kind of lumbers inside and you hear, and

1:22:14

it drags out one of the murdered bodies, and two of

1:22:16

them jump on it and start eating it, while the third

1:22:18

one drags off and the other side pulls another body out,

1:22:20

and they're just kind of feeding on

1:22:23

the remains of the murder scene at the

1:22:25

moment. This is good, you copied that symbol.

1:22:27

Yeah. Matt, do

1:22:29

these look or feel related at

1:22:32

all to the doggos on

1:22:35

the moon? What

1:22:38

are those called? I'm trying to find them.

1:22:40

To the doggo-like creatures? Oh, I

1:22:42

know you're trying to, yeah. No. These

1:22:46

are, I mean, like, other than looking

1:22:48

very strange. Avadons, right? Other

1:22:50

than looking very strange in their quadrupedal

1:22:52

form, like these have heads. There's

1:22:56

very little beyond the fact that they are canine-like,

1:23:01

but you don't see much else that really kind of

1:23:03

connects the tissue. And then kind of jumping

1:23:06

off of that, this monster

1:23:08

baddie that we fought, does

1:23:10

it feel related at all to the

1:23:12

type of genetic modification that they've been

1:23:15

doing on the moon? Like, has Luden

1:23:17

has been taking some of inspiration

1:23:19

from here to help them, or seems

1:23:22

like two totally different things? I

1:23:24

feel like they were doing that for a long time. Make

1:23:26

an intelligence check for me. I'm

1:23:28

looking at my little alien fetus in

1:23:30

the jar. Let's go, INT, let's go. Yeah, that would

1:23:32

be my question, is does it remind us of Ira's

1:23:34

X plus two? Plus two. It's

1:23:43

hard to see if there is any sort of connection

1:23:46

tissue here. This is also an ancient ruin. You're

1:23:50

not sure the source

1:23:52

of this creature. It could be, could not be. It's

1:23:55

kind of rough to pinpoint it. Orym once

1:23:57

over to the other side of the tower. That's

1:24:01

part of the 30 perception. I know we're close. I

1:24:03

don't know how close to the lip of the crate

1:24:05

or the hole. Can we, from this height, see over

1:24:08

the edge of it, or is it much higher up? MATT,

1:24:13

you can, at that height, can barely

1:24:15

see over the lip. It's maybe about

1:24:17

a couple hundred

1:24:20

feet from where you are

1:24:22

right now. You're not up against

1:24:24

it immediately, but you're not terribly far either. From where

1:24:26

your height is, everyone else is looking down at it

1:24:28

as feeding frenzy and the sounds of other calls and

1:24:31

other creatures. You do also hear something else down the

1:24:33

way, and the three dog creatures

1:24:37

look over. One of them goes back to

1:24:39

eating quickly, while the other two tear the

1:24:41

body in half that they're currently feeding on,

1:24:43

pick it up in their mouths, and start

1:24:45

leaping off to escape the ruin. You're

1:24:48

looking past the other direction. You can see just past

1:24:50

this part of the cavern where it's pitch

1:24:52

black. There is the faintest bit of light

1:24:54

now that you've really adjusted to the darkness

1:24:57

of the interior here. There's

1:24:59

a part of this cavern roof that

1:25:01

a faintest bit of sunlight

1:25:05

is coming through. You

1:25:07

look over, and it's looking

1:25:09

up in that direction. It's

1:25:12

not that there's

1:25:14

an opening, it's that part of

1:25:16

the ceiling here is just solid

1:25:18

glacier ice. It's thick enough where

1:25:23

most of the light is obscured entirely, but

1:25:27

just the faintest bit of light's coming through.

1:25:29

Most of it's rock, but this one area

1:25:32

ahead of you is just the faintest of

1:25:34

light. On

1:25:39

our sides, still occasional

1:25:41

little bottles of blue for

1:25:43

the people in stasis. As you look around,

1:25:45

the entire city is peppered with them. There's

1:25:48

the three you see on this battle map,

1:25:50

and there are hundreds that surround you all

1:25:52

around. Do they provide dim light? Very

1:25:55

dim light. Okay. But

1:25:58

yeah, I think. I think. I'm

2:10:00

seeing rows of glass cylinders.

2:10:04

Are they all still closed, or any

2:10:07

of them broken open?

2:10:09

The doors, can I have Pate

2:10:11

investigate further and see if, you

2:10:14

said one of the cylinders has crashed. One of them has fallen

2:10:16

over and it shattered, there's glass all over the ground, yeah. This

2:10:18

is the lab room on the right. It's

2:10:20

on the right, so it's storage first, on

2:10:23

the left, lab on the right. Can rule

2:10:25

out an investigation check for Pate, if you'd

2:10:27

like. Yeah. Okay. Dinos.

2:10:31

You're all right. You're good. 13,

2:10:35

Pate, if you'd like. No, that was a natural 19. I'm

2:10:38

sorry, I was hard to see in the

2:10:40

light. It's very dark in

2:10:42

here. You just add his intelligence modifier. Yes,

2:10:45

he's so smart. Oh, I've been adding his

2:10:47

wisdom modifier, but they're one

2:10:49

separate, so yeah, it's nothing. So

2:10:52

21. Glancing

2:10:56

about the inside of this room, most

2:10:58

of these containers are opaque or empty,

2:11:00

either they're being stored there, or he's

2:11:03

just looking around the space he

2:11:05

goes and looks up at some of the shelves up

2:11:07

there. Some of the light, they have

2:11:10

some objects in them. It

2:11:12

could be tools. It's hard to pull without yanking it

2:11:14

out. He's like, should I go ahead and pull it

2:11:16

out? What do you think? Wait, what?

2:11:19

See it? Do you want me to rummage through things for you?

2:11:22

No, no. Okay, okay.

2:11:26

He backs out and flies out of

2:11:28

the room as you

2:11:30

get within about 15 feet of him, and you

2:11:32

and you see him fly out and emerge in the

2:11:34

middle of the hall. So

2:11:37

he was. So he

2:11:39

said he didn't, what did you say again? I zoned out. He

2:11:41

didn't see anything, but he saw in some of the upper shelves

2:11:43

there was tools or materials in there, and he was asking if

2:11:45

he could rummage through it for you. Tools and materials. Costumes are

2:11:48

empty, right? That we know of. That's

2:11:50

what he said, yeah. Yeah. Any

2:11:52

build at 21? There could be more, there could be any. Yeah,

2:11:55

he, you brought pretty tight, guys. Is

2:11:58

that humming sound that Unsubtle did? and all of

2:12:00

us getting louder as we progress? Did you see

2:12:02

that huge yet? You just heard it

2:12:04

the one time. Oh, it was a single thing?

2:12:06

It wasn't an ongoing cool. I

2:12:09

know that makes it worse. You've been this far

2:12:11

before. Yeah, it's worse, yes, because it's not a

2:12:14

furnace or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's

2:12:16

just the pipes. What's that painting

2:12:18

noise is way better, yeah. So

2:12:22

I've been a bit further down this hall, but

2:12:24

the hall has been sealed at the end. Last

2:12:28

time we were here, this was about as far

2:12:30

as we got. There

2:12:33

should be one more chamber up here where we found

2:12:36

a notebook at the time that made mention of

2:12:38

the Thalamus, which is why I thought this chamber

2:12:40

is what might at least

2:12:43

allude to or give us information pointing to

2:12:45

what the Vanguard is doing. The

2:12:47

fact that we saw a abandoned,

2:12:50

if recently

2:12:53

used, Vanguard

2:12:55

waypoint into the entrance of here says that we're probably

2:12:57

on the right trail for now. This

2:13:00

one right here on the right? No, no.

2:13:02

Another one the third? So we can skip

2:13:04

these rooms and move down towards the end of

2:13:06

the hall. Yeah, because everything's been here before.

2:13:08

Probably a bit clean. Yeah,

2:13:11

I sent a pate, I had an essay

2:13:14

that notebook you found. Was

2:13:17

it a new notebook or

2:13:19

an old one mentioning

2:13:22

the cult? This

2:13:25

was remnants of

2:13:27

old papers that were recovered

2:13:30

from elements of these research

2:13:32

chambers. Some

2:13:35

of them had been already ransacked, so we

2:13:37

only had shreds to go off of, and

2:13:40

translating was its own challenge outside of magic

2:13:42

to aid our eyesight. But

2:13:45

this region here beneath Janesus

2:13:49

Ward it

2:13:55

seems to be central to a lot of

2:13:57

the magical research and technology. that

2:14:00

was being developed within the city. Which

2:14:03

also makes sense as to why it's been such a focus

2:14:06

of the assembly's

2:14:09

excavation and flag planting,

2:14:11

if you will. MATT and LAURA

2:14:13

make a CHEERING, CHEERING. MATT and LAURA make a CHEERING, CHEERING. TALIESIN

2:14:16

and LAURA make a CHEERING, CHEERING. LAURA and LAURA

2:14:19

make a CHEERING, CHEERING. MATT and LAURA

2:14:21

make a CHEERING, CHEERING. MATT and LAURA make a CHEERING,

2:14:23

CHEERING. MATT and LAURA

2:14:25

make a CHEERING, CHEERING. The Thalamus

2:14:28

means of a vin... It doesn't necessarily

2:14:30

mean cult. A cultist.

2:14:38

He's so old. Could very well be.

2:14:43

The Thalamus was referred to as being part

2:14:45

of this subterranean

2:14:47

region. Once

2:14:52

again, we were all so careful to not

2:14:54

touch everything we found. Did

2:14:57

your note say anything about Dominox? No.

2:15:01

Have you heard of anything like that? I

2:15:04

have not. That's

2:15:07

what they said took

2:15:10

up residence here? That's

2:15:12

why Ludinus came here in the first place. There

2:15:14

was a creature or something that

2:15:17

got unleashed. It

2:15:19

was taken up residence and it

2:15:22

was killing off the vanguard.

2:15:26

How far in here have you gone

2:15:28

before? I'll

2:15:30

show you the sealed door, or at least where

2:15:33

it might have been. This is the deepest you've

2:15:35

ever gone in? Is up ahead of us? Well,

2:15:38

level nine is the deepest you've ever...

2:15:40

There are flaws beneath this, but... But on this floor, this

2:15:43

is just a little bit further past the doorway in the

2:15:45

middle of the hole. But

2:15:47

you know me, you've reached the point. I have not...

2:15:51

Transgressed. You

2:15:57

came in here with just one other person? No

2:24:03

traps. It's not trapped, cover to push.

2:24:08

Did

2:24:12

you push in the stone? I

2:24:15

don't know because your waiter

2:24:17

said that. Just push it!

2:24:19

I'll push her. Okay. Push

2:24:21

the stone. The

2:24:24

door opens slightly. Nothing. Fuck.

2:24:27

It is like a chair.

2:24:29

Can we just peek our

2:24:31

heads? Does

2:24:36

it feel like if I touch

2:24:40

the stone that there could be anything that

2:24:42

once was carved into it? The

2:24:45

doors open. Yeah,

2:24:49

but maybe there's

2:24:52

used to be writing, but it broke. I don't know. It

2:24:55

just feels like flat stone. It looks

2:24:57

like flat stone, yeah. What does it mean?

2:25:00

Why is there a square? It's magic. It's all

2:25:02

magic. Yeah. Starting

2:25:04

to peek the head. There's

2:25:06

no light. You're going past the room? Square

2:25:08

room? Looking in. Or looking in the room?

2:25:11

Yes. Okay. You

2:25:13

glance in. On the opposite side of

2:25:15

the door is a matching piece of stone that

2:25:18

has a faintly glowing glyph on

2:25:20

it. Oh! It

2:25:24

looks like it's flat stone

2:25:26

is enchanted in some way. You

2:25:31

glance in the rest of the room. It's a

2:25:33

fairly wide room. It's about twice the largest other

2:25:35

ones you've seen. This has a number of tables

2:25:38

that are smashed to one side, like they've

2:25:40

all been shifted together into one space. And

2:25:43

there are half dozen

2:25:45

ancient corpses in here, not unlike the ones you

2:25:47

saw in the city above. Nearly

2:25:51

mummified in the lack of moisture that's

2:25:53

been in this chamber. The skin is still

2:25:55

paper thin, stretched against the skeleton, so they're

2:25:57

all on the ground. Jaws

2:26:00

open the gas. Are there any

2:26:02

Velociraptors hiding in here? What are

2:26:05

you looking for? Threats.

2:26:07

Threats. Okay. 27

2:26:10

in this room. You

2:26:14

don't see any creatures, but you hear

2:26:16

something. That's...

2:26:21

And you look across where these tables

2:26:23

are smashed together, there is

2:26:25

broken glass. There are long coils of

2:26:28

tubing. You can see other implements and

2:26:30

tools of

2:26:35

long thin pieces of metal with hooks in the end,

2:26:37

things you don't recognize. There

2:26:40

is one

2:26:42

of those similar glass containers you saw in

2:26:44

the previous chamber that's aloft and

2:26:46

in the far back corner. And as you hear the

2:26:48

sound, it's coming from it. And it

2:26:50

looks opaque, almost like something that's

2:26:53

stained or smeared the glass from

2:26:55

the inside.

2:26:59

Cool. It

2:27:05

seems like it has air on the inside of

2:27:07

it, or fluid, or cantile. You

2:27:11

glance in a little closer, and each

2:27:13

of those little happens. That

2:27:16

dark shape, that opaqueness of the

2:27:18

glass shifts,

2:27:20

it looks like boiling

2:27:22

tar. It's great.

2:27:25

It's great. I don't

2:27:27

think we can go fuck with that. Here's the thing,

2:27:30

I feel like any of these

2:27:32

rooms have been picked clean by the Assembly, and

2:27:35

maybe these squares are

2:27:37

warning signs, like hey, don't go in these

2:27:39

rooms. And

2:27:43

gently close the door, it's just gently,

2:27:45

it's just less asleep, they clearly want

2:27:47

their sleep. It's just... Yeah,

2:27:51

I'm gonna back, I'll take a second

2:27:53

just to look at the ancient

2:27:56

corpses on the floor. Maybe this is like your new thing,

2:27:58

you're gonna get Boba. Can Essek make anything of the glyph?

2:28:00

on the stone? MATT, as

2:28:02

it comes in, just the chamber looks at it.

2:28:09

Yes, this is for locking it

2:28:11

from the inside. If

2:28:13

you were to place your hand upon this glyph, it would

2:28:16

put an arcane lock on the door that

2:28:18

would only be able to be closed, opened by

2:28:20

the individual that had set it from the opposite side. So

2:28:23

this was for locking the interior, and glancing

2:28:25

around within here, this was an experimentation room

2:28:28

of some kind. And

2:28:30

he dips down and starts looking at the implements around here.

2:28:34

This was an enchantment room. A lot

2:28:36

of these here are used

2:28:38

for holding magical essences,

2:28:41

sometimes within various schools

2:28:44

of arcana. Here,

2:28:47

he puts into the, it was part of the rubble here, and pulls

2:28:49

up carefully, brushing off

2:28:52

what looks to be a sword

2:28:55

blank, like a short sword blank. As

2:28:57

you can see there, the beginnings of runic carvings

2:28:59

in here, looks like this might have been an

2:29:04

extension of an

2:29:06

experimental armory, or it

2:29:09

might have even just been a production house

2:29:12

for the aeorian military, I'm not certain. That's

2:29:16

a short blade, like without hilt? Correct, yeah,

2:29:18

it's a blank, and it looks like it's

2:29:20

partially carved. Takes it and looks

2:29:22

it over. It's not magical.

2:29:24

Looks like they began the process of preparing

2:29:26

it for enchantment, and it was discarded. You

2:29:28

can sense it on the ground. I

2:29:32

don't believe they got busy. We should keep

2:29:34

moving. Patay is ahead.

2:29:37

Okay. As you

2:29:39

back out and close the door. All

2:29:41

right. Close the door behind.

2:29:44

Close the door to the right. Do you continue

2:29:46

on forward? Yeah,

2:29:48

Patay didn't check those out. He kept

2:29:51

moving. Okay. At

2:29:53

least I don't. You

2:29:56

Push on, and...