Almost Heroes: Episode 1”Welcome to Tin Town”

this story is going to take place in the continent of Sekall and so call is a essentially it's it's it's pretty diverse region it's got a lot of different environments on this continent there is also a continent called Newarda that is kind of across the seas to theleft but this story is gonna be taking place in a small mining town called tin town and this town has really kind of come up from just you know it started as a mine basically finding a large supply of minerals and up there valuable metals and in a sense kind of grown and grown in this pit mine fashion where it's like gotten deeper and deeper and other paths like this tiered City has kind of grown around it and it's a you know it kind of as it as it goes down the city expands and it's all kind of run by this miningcompany called polar fist mining company and so actually that is where our story begins we kind of see after a long shift down in the mines it's we see cosmos Stoneheart we see this this kind of like probably pretty dirty and dusty after a day of you know hard work down the mines but coming out of the mines it's kind of dusk at this point it's basically the the day shift and the night shifts are changing so you can see you know you're constantly you can see your other fellow miners walking in passing by you andthen your other you know the your shift that you were with they're all kind of walking out and heading either home or to the bar and actually a couple of your your brethren your friends I guess you know other people that are working down the mine which is actually it's not all dwarves it's like a mix of races tint sounds a pretty diverse town but it's you know it's half-orcs it's you know there's some drow in there there's humans there's there's a lot of different folks but kind of in justseeing if you want to go get a beer with them over at the Matic hi let's get a bruit sweet so yeah you uh you kind of head over the mattock is there actually two bars in the town one of them's head up by its its head up by the actual boulderfist mining company so there's one like on site essentially so like kind of like where you would take your lunch breaks but down there in the middle section but the mattock is more of its kind of a local favorite it's where like the people who live in the town go to the other one it would bekind of like the the may like the the Applebee's or whatever and this is more of like the local bar Blatz is is the other one by the mining company by the mining company no no it's not yeah so the Applebee's no yeah the mattock is owned by you know a local but basically just you know someone who lived in this town grew up in and started this and started thematic um and so you you head up the tears into the mattock which is located on the map at number thirteen so kind of higher and tucked into the wallbut it's this it's it's kind of unique and obviously living in this town since you know being younger you you're familiar with thematic it's this really unique kind of outdoor bar area it's it's essentially like a tavern but there are no walls it's just kind of like a covered roof situation and then everything's kind of outside and then you know there's just like table spread all around and then there is a central bar in the kind of in the center that you can kind of go up to from any anglebut it's all kind of one big square bar in the middle just completely surrounded by tables and so as you walk up to this this level and you kind of see the mattock bar or tavern of what do you do so I walk up to the I walk up to the where am I did my homies follow me my yeah yeah so they kind of they kind of like walk they're like walking with you and they kind of like slap you on the back and then they kind of like go off and grab a table just kind of off to the side it there's it's probably about halffull with a smattering of a bunch of different races people that you know some people to work in the mind some people that run shops around town all of whom are relatively familiar to you you do notice kind of in towards towards the back you do notice a relatively lavishly dressed seeming like an Elvin Elvin figure sitting by themselves kind of off a little bit away from everyone else and they do seem to they seem to take notice of you walking in but there's you know there's no kind of outward hostilitywhat is he what does he see when he sees your character Brian oh he sees as you mentioned he's kind of lavishly dressed definitely would not necessarily immediately fit in you know in a mining community Scott it's a two male you know high elf bronzed skin really light like platinum blond almost blue hair and you just sit been on some you know dainty looking cocktail some it does not look like the average beer that everybody else is drinking definitely as an air about him of being maybe a little more highbrowthan he's used to but he also does look very comfortable in this setting doesn't look like he's you know nervous or anything he just is in his own world yes there is probably like a tables worth of space between him and the next group would be my guess yeah he's definitely there by himself just kind of mind his own business keep an eye on who walks in who walks out yeah who comes to him I think for Cosmo as the kind of local grown boy he always takes to the new people in town and but he would firstwalk up to the barkeep and they'll call I'll have the use and make so that with the bartender so the bartender you see a very large and of course you're familiar with him you know him so this is Tom tom is a Goliath and is just a be kind of slow speaking very honest individual and so you walk up to the bar and well hello there boy Tom oh oh good yeah I think I can serve lies with that and so he you know he pulls out your usual you actually did you do you bring your tankard with you or do you just like usethe one that they have like whatever he provides you you store yours they're like how much of a regular are you um no I think I would leave it there carry it with yes I like that so he has like a row a shelf like up above that he's like keeping like you know clearly being as big as he is he actually probably has a few you like higher shelves in this this this bar and so he has like storage of different people's mugs that like live here and then are you know kind of more regulars and so he pulls yours down itkind of washes it out and then fills it with some pretty good you know like a dwarven ale and just just slides it slides to across the counter and oh thanks Tom hey you say uh you know this uh new fella there motions over to Brian I've seen him around he he does he did order one of the strangest drinks I think he actually had to describe to me how to make it I mean I'm always open for learning new things but it was a I think it had about fourteen steps and just quite a little bit of a complicated one for me to remember I had to write itdown well what's its name what's the name of the cocktail that I asked for I'm putting on the spot The Flaming Lips perfect perfect I gotta be able to order it later so yeah yeah I like that actually too like when you the last step of it was actually lighting it on fire so right that's how he keeps that a little manly keep there you go yeah that's how people know tough and then Cosmo would look over to the park tom and say oh yeah I guess I'll reckon I'll go say hello and so I pick up my beer and I wanderover to the table and then I just kind of like motion to him with it just go with the man it's it's happening so Glyn looks to his looks to his left to an empty seat looks whose right to an empty seems like well I guess you're just the most perceptive teller out there ain't you while you take a seat I think the voice is Jason Statham we'll see hell yeah it'll evolve we'll see where it lands we're just we're throwing darts right now throw the spaghetti see what sticks well so you see Cosmo he takes his bigwar pick off and he sets it down and he sits down and you see this big fluff of dust just come off of his uh minor pants now as that big plume goes glints like wearing this big ornate like white cloak and he's like dusting even like the smallest particle is like no about that so my friend didn't mean to get any dirt on you it was a nice closed hey man got a got a dress to impress is this day Josh for the job you want not the one you had all right clearly you're impressing people cuz they're just flockuntil you might call it a slow burn no people can think I'm a little hard to approach but you don't seem to have that problem do you oh no come say hello well met man they like rolls his sleeve back because he's gonna do the four-hour extension and knows that it's gonna get grabbed so he extends it arm to shake your hand I'm glad nice to meet you brother Oh Cosmo cosmos doing hot there's a nice firm grasp so from the UH not from behind you I guess for like kind of walking up towards the bar you hear orlike you start figuring this like what sounds like metal being dragged across the ground but at the same time like it's almost like in a rhythmic pattern but it sounds like something heavy being dragged kind of across the ground it's behind us yeah so like where you guys this tables at it's kind of coming from like kind of behind you like wouldn't be directly in your line of sight Cosmo Cosmo Clint would definitely turn to look and see kind of where this random noise is coming from yes shoulder yes so I sure as you'relike turning around you actually get kind of like kind of like brush past a little bit and you see this very it's like almost not towering form they're not as tall as as Tom nikolayeva they're pretty big and pretty bulky and they're wearing this like tattered duster like leather like I guess long jacket but it you kind of just catch them on the corner I and you've seen them around but it it's their bodies entirely composed of metal they're a war forged and bald head likes that they're wearing this tatteredduster they honestly just look like they're eat to all [ __ ] like just absolutely rusted and looks like they've been kind of repaired but haphazardly sometimes and there's like newer shinier parts and like old beaten parts and then what you see is creating that kind of metal noise is actually like it looks like they're one of their legs is like damn near ripped off it's it's like twisted and torn and it's actually kind of partially sideways and it's being dragged across the ground and thenacross the back and their shoulder you can see a gouge that is actually torn like if it was on a human it would be torn past like down half way into the chest see a big V diagonal cut out of like their shoulder area and they just walked are it's Tom and yeah that's that's what you see I look to a glint looks over it cause I'm just kind of chuckles like a at least having a better day than that guy is the mall right so Cosmo you recognize this figure for sure you know it you recognize him and justfrom being in the town and you know his name to be Luthor but him this this condition he's in wall his condition does fluctuate from time to time he's definitely seems a little bit haphazard you like this is not a normal for him to be like his leg to be essentially broken and for him to have a big gash out of his shoulder you are not familiar with him enough to be like friendly you just know him from being in the town got it I know him enough to know like what he does for work so you know that his house is it's essentially kind oftucked away in one of the corners it's located at location 10 so pretty far away from your out right now but I do that it it essentially it does have a sign on it but that saw is extremely extremely faded and pretty pretty weathered and it does look like it was a shop at some point in time but it doesn't it's not like currently selling anything and he doesn't currently sell anything but that's you just know that he essentially comes back into town from time to time just beat all hell and thenit it's just kind of a cycle of repeating I just kind of leaned in close long as I'm in the business of create new friends might as well add another to list that I stand up and probably out the character for a bar I very like carefully push my chair in I like stand up and I like fix all my fancy robes and whatnot and I grabbed my Flaming Lips cocktail and I just wait for Cosmo to stand up and do the same as you guys are like standing up and doing all that you see him like pretty much down his Tancred like in one and it kind of justlike almost immediately starts running out the bottom of his leg and the bottom of his like his feet and essentially pools down at where he is is just you like where he's standing I you know it doesn't seem to have been you know actually digested in any way shape or form more than it was just passed directly from his mouth to the floor how close to me is he uh he's probably like maybe 10 10 10 15 feet not too far alright I might I say I say you sprung a leak might he he doesn't actually on theworld space he casts a gas powered and it's over and in cosmos dead so role new character he doesn't he doesn't respond in any way shape or form aside from just slamming the tankard back down and pushing it over to Tom who kind of startled refills it and he does seem to sip this one a little he does take another drink but he seems to sit this one a little bit Glenn walks over towards towards him and kind of like daintily steps over the puddle of beer that he just kind of poured on the ground what one thing I forgot todescribe he has on his back probably one of the biggest like two-handed swords like just a giant giant sword on his back ancient robot type I carry swords uh just like you a very like you know they're a very strong person would carry it's just a very big two-hand sword and it seems like it's beaten up as much as he is also does it okay so it's not like a like a fantasy epic sword is like he basically just has a giant chunk of metal with a handle attached to it sort of thing I mean if you want to do Idon't know how much knowledge you would have of like craftsmanship I'm an elf I'm a high oaf I'm the crafts minused and I'm pretty sure this is not I rolled it to butter knife battle so yeah Glen Glen steps over the puddle and walks up and goes hey yeah hey bud nice to meet you and I'm Glen seems the alcohol here just kind of runs right through you huh roll me a persuasion check that's not good that is a nine yeah he kind of just shrugs your shrugs your hand off and you have actually Cosmo where are you atright now I think I'm still at the table okay I kind of said my piece and that was it okay okay you see two more people enter into the bar and walk past your table and out like you you see a set like you do they basically pass right by you and go up to Glenn and you Glenn you pull someone's hand a pretty strong hand on your shoulder and they say you know it uh probably not the best thing to bother Luther right now I think turn Oh turn over to him and I kind of like give him a head nod like I get it makes sense that I look to lose doing Ilike get like a little bit of head nod I said Tom make me another flaming lip so yeah and I just down whatever's left of my little cocktail and step a little fluted glass in front of them Constitution check for sure yes please [Music] for the drink that is yes you're taking big it I got 16 plus 18 okay all right yeah you're good yeah you're able to to quaff that thing down it's you know it's it's a pretty it's a pretty good tasting drink so like it doesn't you don't haveany problem drinking it it's the fire the fire burned off all the alcohol it's just fruit that phased at this point at all if you know the things that has been fire yeah so you turn around and you see a very tall like probably about six feet tall even probably over that female half or extremely burly just like just ripped half work with black dreads running down and the arm actually when you kind of turn around and see the arm she grabs you with is actually made out of the same kind of metal construction asLuther is completely it's essentially that kind of same metal but she essentially has a metallic arm as one of her arms I got such a pedigree and her you see a a basically a kind of stouter also very beefy grey dwarf and Rand Graham if you'd like to describe yourself Mangrum would be in his general attire maybe wearing some I believe it's chainmail at this point with still with his Smith used robes on his face would be covered in soot as well as most of his body would even after just immediately leaving the forge they dojust like cleaning that off is not something he ever thinks about he looks like he might even like just sleep next to the forge he's like that covered in dirt some flux and yeah so are you what are you doing Glenn yeah so he kind of turned around and saw you know they'd been doing group approached him and said well I'm in the business of making why not add two more friends and I just extend an arm out to the orc first hey I'm glad nice to meet you yes I like pull up my sleeves and he'll make mysleeves all dirty yes so she extends her her nonmetallic can to shake your hand says I'm aged it's nice to meet you I don't mean to be rude but I think Luther needs my attention right now you don't mind Oh Matt mage you've been uh keeping keeping this man together uh.well myself in rank grim it's a full-time it's a full-time job keeping this this this guy from falling apart and she she kind of walks she kind of goes just excuse me excuse me she goes up to the Luther and starts kind of just she puts her hand around his shoulder and starts kind of talking to him into his ear quiet enough that you can't really hear what she's saying but you can just see him he kind of nodding and yeah that's what's going on so yeah Glenn would go one for sure just step out of the way definitely definitely read the socialcues on that one extent an arm to ran Graham says R and Graham was it I ran grim and your name elf hey you're perceptive too much process for people in this bar my name is Glenn nice to meet you Glenn yeah all right with match all right with me and he takes his dirty hand spits on it and extends his hand out Cosmo comes running in he says boy I like meeting new Dwarfs and he just like barrels in on that spitty handshake Cosmo Cosmo you're one of the - oh yeah right right ah good to me dwarfs on the dwarfs whatwas your name again grimace I close enough I don't expect you to be a married out he's new a baby's new he's new yep I just met him - all right then ray Grimm would kind of look around for a minute and say notice that match was over with Luther and make like a quick little beeline to kind of assess that situation as well - excuse me right yeah I'll follow rancor for a minute so ya rang Grimm you go over and you start talking with imagine and Luther and essentially Madge pretty much immediately come in contours he was likehey we got a we got to get him back to the forge his legs I yeah I think we have we might have some spare parts we might be able to use on him but that thing it looks pretty gnarly and especially since you've been seems like you've been pouring beer on it it's just gonna get worse oh yeah rusty he's sprung a leak huh I tried to tell him me just ignored rain room kind of looks over and just like oh by every dead [ __ ] god Luther one of these days you gonna tell me what's doing all this to you he wastedperfectly good made on the floor here's what he does all the time I was in his chest drinking Mead I got a cup out of his chest once awful awful I know well for three days that was amazing yeah so you kind of you kind of both of you get your arms around like Luther and kind of support him and start kind of walking him out and as that as you're doing that you hear a sound that you are all familiar with being it well maybe not Glenn because you're newer here but the rest of you are familiar with the soundand it is the sound of a loudly tolling Bell coming from down towards the mines and Kosmo for you this probably is a little bit more alarming because you know that when the bells toll essentially there is a attack of some sort or an issue down in the mines however there is a tiered system for how the alert goes if it's one Bell there if it's one Bell it means that they are at gate three which is the farthest gate if they and basically if it tolls twice it's at gate two and if it tolls three times it's a gate one gate one isessentially the last bastion before it would get into the city and so when you hear this you you hear it toll once and everyone goes quiet and they're all waiting to see if it's going to toll a second time and after about a minute or like that goes by extremely slowly you do not hear a second toll and you essentially know that it's whatever is happening down the mines is only at gate 1 or gate 3 which is essentially the farthest gate that is not guarded by the attendant like the the boulderfist mining companythey only patrol gate 2 and gate 1 so these these gates are to protect something from exiting the mine yes so essentially the main entrance into the mine is one large hallway and there are there are three the three like essentially gates to allow people to not nothing to come out to protect the city from things coming out of the mine I like that Glynn doesn't know what the sound of a bell is you may not know why you're like oh man it's 1 o'clock don't know yeah the bells so though the BellTolls yes and as the Bell Tolls Luther immediately tries to reacts and tries to move out of the arms of Madge and ran grim and steps forward and essentially puts his full weight on that leg and it pretty much twists and snaps off almost it breaks and he goes down to one knee and it's just [ __ ] and he's now he's like trying to pulls his sword off his back and he he kind of sticks into the ground and starts using it as a makeshift crutch and seems to be trying to go go forward like move away he'strying to like get out the building he's just he seems like this this Bell has alerted him to something or you know is something is he's heading somewhere because of this well in a Glyn takes a seat and starts sipping on his freshly poured cocktail and just kind of watching this whole thing yeah so Dan did you did you hear that I didn't I had a run to the bathroom quickly you're good you're good yeah so essentially when the bell tolled Luther like pulled free of your arms and tried stepping like essentially tried runningforward in reaction to this Bell and his leg gave out from underneath him and he essentially went down to one knee and then started using his sword as a makeshift kind of crutch to try to and it seems like he's trying to move like he's he's leaving the tavern go heading somewhere now very slowly but that's what's happening Luther gangster I feel like Cosmo would know what was going on which you would and then they'd be like boy let's get me ax off to the mines yeah and you actually did seethere were a couple people that they definitely seemed to like react and you can see that there are like from the top of the tier that you guys are at now you can see that there are people heading down into the mine it's not like a full fledge like militia heading down there but there are definitely some people that are heading that way towards the mine yeah and uh yeah no keep going oh yeah so what I would I would look over that I was a Oh or else you can you fight I mean I've been under dispatch ofFokker to need some help boy yeah I reckon we could use a friend all right it sounds good I got you and I down the rest of my flaming lips to a real Constitution again now you're good okay tight and I started to take off my robe and I like fold it up all nice that's neat little very like OCD little box and I hand it to Tom I said Tom well you take care of this and since everybody else is putting their mugs up well you take this too I handed my little fluted glass to go next to all the little cups he puts it into heat sois he is he putting are you giving him your robe too or is it just I'm giving him my robe and one thing and then like in the other hand I'm handing him like the little he puts them in this little cubby like very daintily he's just like like sliding it into this little cubby and like setting the glass down on top of it very nicely keep keep those safe more and I'd flip him a flip of a coin but underneath the robes you just notice like all black leather armor basically just like light just a form of like light armor and thenthis massive just dual bladed weapon on my back but it's it's kind of covered it's like wrapped by something like cloth or something like that just not really being weathered by the elements a big ole and then a sari at his hip but just a another like curved blade of some kind so well I mean it wouldn't be the first time that a nail has been called to clean up a Dwarfs mess let's do it and I start walking and he just like downs his beer and just puts it down over on the bar key Tom I'll be back tofill me tab Wrangler what are you doing boy yes hundred Rand room would go over to the other two gentlemen there's new new friends and he'd look over at them and look back is a match so actively trying to help Luther like walk or is he still she's so she's kind of she's moving over to him now like she she kind of was letting him go do his own thing but now is she's seeing him just like struggling to get over there she goes over to him and she's just says hey Luther you know you can't you knowyou can't go like this you're you're not gonna come at you can't do anything you the second that you lift that sword the fight you're gonna be on your knees again you we got to get you over to the forge we got to get you fixed up Rand Graham can you can you can you take care of this do you have Luther you can handle one yeah yeah yeah I can I can take care of Luther I I can I'll get them all patched up if yeah I hope this doesn't take you too long we can we can kind of get this but uh of course I I can take care of itit's only Gator it can't be anything that bad right listen he goes to slap Glynn on the back and it's just like he likes misses and it's like really really firms lower back Cosmo he's like all right let's do this we're in room just reaches to the bar and grabs the nearest ring that is there and just takes it from whatever patron it is drinks it and puts it back that is all right on whether then a very surprised gnome is just like hey hey excuse me okay never mind yeah never mind that's right come onboys off we go and we start to make our way towards the book the the door of the tavern okay yeah so yeah you you can see match leading Luther away she's actually just she's not he hasn't even actually moved he's just like kind of staying still at this point she seems to be kind of trying to talk him into going to get fixed but he is no longer walking forward so yes you guys are heading down to the mine and then Glenn's following awesome so yeah you make your way down through the tiers and head down to Imean this is this is normal stuff for Cosmo like this is day-to-day stuff head down into the main opening of the mine and your kind of like I said there aren't many people going in here but it's a huge huge opening with a like these giant metal doors that are in front of it they're complete they're open right now and as you go in you're essentially walking underneath these the the ceiling in this like in this mine is probably a good 30 feet up very very tall very high ceilings curved in kind of like a domefashion and you're walking underneath these actual like tassel like 20 foot tall castle walls like parapets that are built inside of this with these like steel drop bridge style gates and so as you approach them this first one they see Cosmo and they they raise the gate and you know they're allowing people to go through and so you get through this first gate and there are like essentially it's it's almost like a a barracks kind of setup behind here like there are people preparing essentiallyfor if it gets worse and whatever's in the farther gates to get deeper in so they're essentially preparing and so you pass out by all these people and you know they're all they're all kind of just like getting out your way so you can go through and you get to the second gate and this one they don't open for you right away and so what do you do I feel like Cosmo would probably shout out to the side like guards at the gate yeah so they're there about their kind of higher up on the wall like I saidthis is about a 20-foot parapet and you know the gate is in front of you and so like you're kind of looking up at them and so you're yelling up at them yeah yeah so I would yell do you know what's coming down the tunnels no they they're there haven't been any reports yet of what it is seems like something has scared them fierce though we you know that we we we've had reports of creatures running out of the mines we don't know we just there's there's there's there's people there's there'ssomething's coming out from from lower down so we we raised the alarm just to be safe nothing nothing for sure yet but there's been a couple people that have headed that way we can guys there's nothing to worry about we're good let's go you started drinking again uh he's uh do you want are you going through are you are you going to support yeah I Kozma would put his war pick on his shoulder like I reckon I might as well help all right let's uh let's let these guys through and you see it it raises upbut it only raises up about enough to be able to like duck underneath so maybe like three and a half feet something like that what else you might need to crawl you're gonna get your little Glen with a hundred percent need the duck so he just like as proudly as he can crouches and just like duck walks at the same height as his dwarven friends I don't think you guys really understand this whole friendship thing we were talking about earlier but we'll work on it just keeps going I'm also a smallblack bird that just kind of like has been keeping pace with us and it just kind of like swoops under her right as the the gate starts to closed yet just so you know there is actually room between the top essentially like there's about 10 feet of like domed roof between the top of the parapet and the actual ceiling Oh God so you can fly it over yeah but yeah so a little bit different when you pass by the second gate and this is nothing new for Cosmo and actually yeah it's nothing new for Cosmo but when youget past this gate uh it looks like like a very almost it's a stark contrast to what you saw before which was very like high level of protection and like you know barracks kind of thing with people defending this is almost more of like a refugee camp it's like tents and different ramshackle shelters that are all completely different and looks like they've just been kind of put together with the bare minimums of what people could find and there's like this clearly this path in the middle that actually is along theminecart track that goes right through the middle of it that has been cleared and you know they clearly start staying away from this but along the sides all the way up against and kind of up on to the sides of the walls you see these like very ramshackle shelters and you can see a lot of different races of underdark beings that seem to be living in these shelters and are all just kind of looking at you now as you are and taking like kind of hiding as you are walking past heading to gate 3 Oh how wide is this road that we're onit's pretty wide I would say that this between each of the gates it actually widens pretty substantially I would say it's it's around like I'm just gonna throw a number out there of like maybe a hundred feet like it's it's it's larger and I might change that after I look up how big a hundred feet actually is but I would say that it's it's it's a big enough to be like a you know you could probably fit you know 40 to 50 people in here if they're pretty close in prettyclose quarters are there any train tracks down so there there's minecart tracks that run run from the you know through all the gates but essentially you're just walking along those minecart tracks right now you're not actually there's no actual minecarts on this in this track area right now just look like there's any like semblance of organization of like a you know we could the the mining companies like who's running lists or is it just look like completely just shackled together just a bunch of buildings thathave been kind of put together to survive this does not this does not this does not look organized in any way if there is any semblance of organization it is minor at best its it's essentially looks like you know everyone has built whatever they could build with whatever they had so it's it's scrap pieces of metal it's piece of wood it's stones it's you know some of them depending on if they had like limited magic could be essentially like you know magically assembled but they're not like in anyway shape or form like the same kind of like standardized housing it's mostly tents and other kind of ramshackle shelters you do see kind of as you're passing through do we notice anybody else who's like making their way down so you don't see anyone else that is that's actually making their way back what probably what you the people that we're heading into the mine are probably back at the first after the first gate preparing with the rest of the folk just making sure that you know it's not gonnaget any farther but this what you do see is a very handsome Dark Elf figure that they don't seem to be hiding like the rest of them and he's just looking at the rest of you and God locks eyes with Glynn and and that's that's that's pretty much it but he's just kind of watching you guys from from kind of like one of the the corners and he's he's straight down the path no no no he's off to the side he's just kind of standing amongst the tents but he's not taking shelter like the rest so the people arebut the the gate in front of you is it's open there is no gate there essentially the the third gate does not have a gate that closes it is essentially a wall with an archway opening hey guys uh while you go ahead and continue on I'll catch up with you I just need to stop and talk to somebody I recognize real quick and I make my way towards that dark elf well well well what uh what brings you down here Glen oh we met before you look familiar well that's uh I I see you must be trying not to give away our actualrelationship that's uh that's fine I appreciate you coming down here to help bring your bring your friends by after this I think I I have a job that well they could probably help with and then in hunterco I can't do another comes over here and elvish I say yeah it sounds good I look forward to seeing you and be safe my friend and then I'd like jog along and try to catch up with the group nice yeah so are you guys heading out of the third gate do we see any kind of like making our way that way while Glen wentto talk to it yeah well yeah go do your thing and we were kind of walk-in like trying to listen me times yeah so you do see there are there are two people up on top of the gate that are Manning it and essentially they have a bear alert system they have their alert system up there which is their Bell and then that Bell would essentially ring the higher up and that's how the the alert system would work but there are two people up there then they're just kind of watching they are not looking at you tall they'rewatching out a way into the end essentially into the darkness of the of the actual mine but what species what are they are they dwarf a gnomes I'll say yeah there's a human and a dwarf up there they're wearing the garb of the mining company like essentially like steel armor but I'm blazing with like the crest of the boulderfist mining company hey Cosmo there's some of your friends maybe maybe they might have some more information for us so are we we essentially approach the gate at this point yeah if you guys arewalking are you guys if you guys are going to the gate then it's battle time I see little clay pots around you have to take them up and thrown bash the clay pots so as we so have we we're approaching the gate I think we know what's coming down the parks yet not yet they uh and then as he's yelling you actually see you actually see what look like three three figures are like running at you out of the depths of the mind and they're like they're getting they're kind of getting closer they'rethey're just kind of just in the in the range of your vision and you can see the one in the front is a dark elf and they're wearing like these tattered Rogues that are essentially emblazoned with the crest of the Spider Queen but they have seen way better days they are just like torn and and just just wrecked in like stained in multiple ways and she's running at you out of the mind and then behind her you see two gnomes there's a there's like a older looking them and then a younger smaller gnomeand the it's these are deep gnomes by the way so they're like a dark purple skin but they're kind of running towards you and yeah what do you guys do they're maybe 60 feet out I would show what are you running from so they're base so the the drow the the gnomes seem too scared and the the gnome seems way too preoccupied on like making sure that the younger gnome is able to get out and it's not falling behind but the drow is like it was it's huge it's it's got its got bladed arms it's and she's just kind oflike she's just like kind of huffing and puffing and isn't able to get out all of the all of the description but she's running towards you thank you behind us Glenn Glenn draws his bow and takes some kind of cover whatever would be maybe available but just kind of keep an eye on what's coming down the pipe take care of it so yeah the the the drought with her longer straw it makes it past you and it makes it through the gate and the the Nome seemingly like kind is like very focused on making sure the younger oneis able to get past it doesn't look where he's going and trips on the trips on the railroad tracks pretty much just just past where you can see that minecart in front of you and then just kind of trips and fumbles and then out of the darkness behind them you see a massive form appear of this like kind of it's it's it's kind of like this beat gnarly looking creature that lives deep deep down and you may not have actually encountered them before and guram you may have encountered one of these creatures before but they havethese long bladed arms that are ending these giant like bone hooks and this beaked face and it is absolutely terrifying and it is just pouring down on these gnomes what do you we can actually roll into initiative oh I just opened up a strobe saw that thing that is uh that's a whole thing I got a big old 12a me two best friends except social edition scene high-five great oh my god to Tulsa three oh that no MS dead I got a mite my initiatives got 13 so it makes me for 13 actually total awesome awesome so yeah Igot a fired 12 total so your first awesome yeah unfortunately the hook [ __ ] which is what this is is going to be going first and no googling guys you can better gaming I attack it with this weakness [Laughter] everyone knows throwing water on the were above the table yeah no yeah so it it essentially takes one of these hooks and Lambs it down onto this onto this gnome and as it does so he grabs the smaller gnome and just hooks it at you guys and this hook [ __ ] grabs the gnome that's been pierced by this hook andjust throws him against the wall and it now is looking directly at you guys is there any way to in my in the direction of the gnome to try and catch him he threw him against against the probably like this upper wall here so your to your guys's rights he would have thrown it directly right and I can actually put a figure on the map well wasn't there - yeah there's a younger one yeah the younger one got thrown through the air if someone wants to try to catch him just make a dexterity saving throw I would like to try so - one or twentyit's a 20 nice nice but no might live sitting at 21st day yeah so yeah see you at section one first NAT for me yeah so you snatched this young gnome out of the air and catch him and and just like yeah you haven't been safely in your arms what do you want to do I've got you a little fella yeah is this the old one for the young no this is this is the young one yes so he's a little fella but we're both little so I got him so I just want to like put him down and like hurry on go find a place to hide yeah so it's notlike any infant so they they just like look absolutely terrified and they kind of like are looking back at like towards where they're you know they're their caretaker had hit the wall and is like really wanting to go like doesn't want to leave and doesn't want like it's kind of staying but they're not if you want to roll persuasion role or intimidation or something to try to convince them oh sure sure I'll all assist in that - at least for the sake of advantage Glen with grabbing by the shoulder yeah looklittle buddy this is our situation not yours we'll we'll help him out you just need to get out of here [Music] whichever way you want to go about it if you want to persuade the nicely than yeah yeah so how do you persuade them so I say III got see you friends I'm gonna help him just take care of yourself out I'll help him checked yourself I'll help you friend yeah so this dome that's maybe maybe like a foot and a half to two feet tall just okay and then just kind of goes running running back andjust kind of goes literally right around the wall and it's just like looking like from right around the wall in the most adorable fashion ever but just like huge terrified eyes just watching this yeah so it is cosmos turn so Cosmo is going to keep good on this promise on his word on these 21 persuasion and is gonna make way for we agree on movement it's five actual one that's five feet yeah yeah yeah essentially no it's not the scale so I haven't set it like double scale right now so essentially like a square of 2 by 2is 1 is 5 feet okay can I get to the dwarf or can I get to the gnome I swear once we're two squares is 5 feet yeah you can get there yeah you can get there I get to him yeah he is really really really badly injured if you could see his HP he would be at one the law has less conscious whole yeah well he's not Connie just sitting against the wall and has like this literally his gory whole through him and it's just holding it like holding is pretty much a stomach [Music] so I'm going to pick ticket ticket makesure he's safe you're gonna be all right take care yeah and so I pick him up and I kind of like see so are you gonna burn are you gonna burn your action who try to go somewhere can I can I just pick him up and use my action to double it back yeah I mean you could definitely get back if you if you burn your burn your action as you use your movement at this point picking him up is is not it's he's small enough that it's not a big thing yeah okay okay so you're you're trying to bring it backand toss him back behind the game through the gate yeah I want to get him back to get him some medical attention okay are you gonna what are you doing once you get back there or into the camp an area once I there are no there are no other gnomes that like through with this person with this with this be there there's just the there's the the drow the kind of a tattered looking drought that came in and then there are the people that were already in that encampment but there no one that came with him wasn't there the other littlegnome that went behind there yeah there was the little kid like kid gnome but I don't know if they I mean you're essentially presenting like a child with their like bleeding there I thought it was maybe I had it in the reverse where the older one was the one that I caught and it was the younger one that got oh no no yeah sorry yeah you you caught the young one and then the the in the older I got hit against the wall okay okay all right so here's what well I'm not sure even because if he's got agaping hole but it's not like I can just like feel it throw some dirt I mean you could bust him off if you could bust off a heel on him I mean you go before it I mean that would definitely that could definitely stabilize him okay yeah then I'm going to so I want to do is so yeah I want to pick this gnome up I want to bring him back over to where we parks so if you pick him up and bring him back you're gonna burn your action which means you won't be able to do a heel you can heal them where he's at or you canmove them back my actions [Music] okay yeah so you're gonna bring it back over there okay yeah so are you just trying to get them back behind rain grim yes awesome so that is that is your go Glynn what are you doing I mean see a big big owe the guy I'm gonna move over to this rock right over here try to take a little bit of cover how is that rock tall enough about the Crouch is it a big ass folder no it's it's tall enough I would say that it's probably about your height at its tallest point all right soI'm gonna bonus action hide and then I'm gonna take a little little sneak attack you will just take a nice shot with my longbow try to keep some distance awesome let's do it natural 18 plus likes it yeah 25 to hit that who rolled terribly on that seven-day image and since I hid I get a sneak attack damage on that yes all right 7 plus G's another 3 so 10 damage total oh yeah yeah so you blast off this see where do ya tell me how tell me how youshot it what did you do yeah so it's big ugly I'm guessing like turtle looking thing it looks like it's got a big shell on it so I be aiming for like just the neck just ain't aiming for the big part that doesn't look like it's armored so I'm aiming the meat right yeah the squishy parts I just take a longbow shot to shoot it right there aim for what I'm guessing a jugular would be the glowing weak point yeah exactly our box it's the big red button yeah that's no that's yeah that's a that isdefinitely effective and it just roars out as this like bolt pierces it and it is you seem to be very much angering it hey guys mind helping out are we just gonna keep hold a bunch of little kids just hide I have to help me friends frankerz you're go do this thing just took a solid hit from glance hiding off down these rocks cosmo running back with this injured gnome in a is this is this creature like in scale like as large as it seems in comparison to last similarly yes this would be the scale that youwould be seeing that okay mom brand grimm is simply going to look back at cosmo with the engine dome give it a nod give him a nod and then move forward probably just like right here like right in his face and I'm gonna use my door ground magic to cast the enlarged action on myself yes yes it looks back kind of winks at Cosmo and says gave him safe and runs over to the hook hard and it says oh you big idiot and casts enlarge on himself and immediately I believe it's doubles in size yep give or take up yet doublesin all dimensions weight multiplied by eight basically he goes from medium to large that's sick you actually do it with the tokens that's cool oh he did it nice enjoyable yes let's go guys satisfying that is amazing so that's is that your action yes it is my action to cast it it's one of my dry magic so it does not require me to use a spell slot however it is my action for my turn okay and I don't have anything else that I can really do have some bonus action okay basically just gonna like walk outin front of them just like scream in his face I guess that's what we're that's a word imitation absolutely and so you scream into this hook horse face and it just looks like it does look like it takes it's taken aback for like a second and then it just like bellows into your face and it's going to it just starts swinging its its arms down at you one and then another and so that's going to be a 21-2 hit do that battle hit it's an 80 plus 6 so that is gonna be a 20 holy crap yes those DOS both hit there's only asmall part of Ren Graham though that regrets flexing on this thing yeah I imagine like the angel and devil that like sits on the shoulders the devil definitely has like more say like the olders you're gonna like rain grant that's that's 24 damage 24 damage moly does your HP devil on a scale of 1 to 33 yeah I mean ebrill real I will say he Broll dreary really well on both those yes I was really hoping my AC was gonna help me out on that one but uh not against 18 no yeah so you all see you see rain um just like whoa and then youjust see him take two gnarly slices across his shoulders and his chest from these big giant hook arms and fall back a little bit and it's just like like you smell like you can see like droplets of blood just kind of splashing to the ground from this enlarged rang rim and what do you do when you see that Cosmo when I see him take two big hits but I just see this happen over my shoulder and then I I cast lay on hands and I give him like five just yeah yeah so when you do that you see this hole in his chest kind of like or in stomachlike it's like stitches kind of together in a way that's probably kind of grotesque but it it essentially looks like it's still like very like raw and looks like the first couple layers of Skinner's still missing like it didn't fully heal this thing but it it seems like it's taking him out of like being off death's door and their breathing is like kind of gotten better now and yeah it seems like you have kept them from dying does he seem like he's at least yeah I mean there's a couple you got arank rim and a Cosmo and a Glen to get through before it gets too all right I know it's not much of a room but third a third of the room yeah yeah so so I just kind of whispered to us and then I turn up I turn around and I'm breaking out my pickaxe and I just let out like a massive dwarven board I just go run in towards what is this something [ __ ] a court it's a hook [ __ ] and I use my bonus action to cast hunter's mark onto this big fella I try not to get too yeah next time I'll scale the mapproperly so that it's to scale no you're fine I just I don't want to get too caught up in it but I also want now you're good put me in coach yeah I think you could actually move one more square if you wanted to but if you're happy we're yeah awesome Glynn what do you do when you see R and Graham take these hits in quietly shits himself but like a rogue a rogue [ __ ] himself yeah that would have killed you I think I would have think it would have actually I think you just let out moreblood than my body contains yeah so Glynn Clint sees it he's like oh man about to lose another set of friends this always happens and he yells out hey yeah big hook bastard wild neck matters are all neck matters want to do is settle down and just keep raising families and I cast Tasha's hideous laughter yes so wisdom saves oh man a wisdom st. from a hook [ __ ] I don't know about that that is an 11 oh wow hi melody see it's not high and that still works so he's knocked prone from laughing at my shitty jokes yeah so you see this very very probably disturbing visual of this this book more just like kind of so they're not prone yeah good choice you can see yeah it's not grown yeah so fall it kind of like it like starts making this like gurgling kind of wet noise and in like almost like mix with like a cackle and like a screech and it's like doing this repetitivenoise and it just kind of like it looks very confused it doesn't know what the hell is happening and it kind of falls backwards on its ass and it's just like making this noise in the screeching sickly noise and it yeah it is thoroughly incapacitated in this weird sickly version of laughter Glynn takes this bonus action hides and says himself we're gonna we're gonna have to go ahead and keep these friends alive at least for one more one more rebound and then it just hides takes full full hideaction awesome ran grim what are you doing other than bleeding so who Ben Grimm very much bleeding cops up some blood he goes yeah I think that's pretty funny he's gonna drop his Warhammer and place his hand on the back of the creatures head any gas in so I need to make a saver um it's a spell attack so because it's a pro and I have advantage my spell attack is sure does I'll attack my spot X plus 6 that is a natural so that's a metric but ton of second level that's so for d-10 yeahsupport it so that's 21 and how do you guys have Rule crits do you just double them and you want me to roll four more dice so double all the dice rolls and just don't double the actual like the added damage or whatever which is yeah that is that is 42 damage modifiers I roll though 21 with the 4d ten okay so it doesn't kill him it definitely bloody zit and how it please describe this horrifyingly brutal hit to me so random I said kind of thrown back from all the damage you just took seeing cosmo running up and glen henotices glen casting a spell on it and when you notice is the beast fall that's what he drops his Warhammer seeing this opportunity you think that's funny you're gonna [ __ ] love this and that's what he touches it by the back of the head and it just like searing pain just shoots through the creatures body and wounds open up just across it yes yeah his his head just like and and just body like you just see these like rifts and tears just start like opening up all over the body from just like it's almostlike seams opening up in like a bag of like meat and it just like starts bleeding everywhere like this kind of sprays outwards probably covering ran grim a little bit and also cosmo like just come to this rain of blood comes down off this creature has all these balloons like instantaneously pooping on it it's like every anime sword fight ever exactly yes yeah so the hook [ __ ] is going to who is just I mean completely like this still doing this like heinous Lasser and then also like now just like bleedingeverywhere is going to make I think I have to make another wisdom save right it's earlier so that's a 12 you still he still thinks my joke is hilarious just like this it just still continues to this laughter it's like trying to like like pull itself out of it and like get itself up but its body just won't abide by what it wants to do and yeah it is cosmo it is your go again done his paladin goodness and saved a friend he sees this like slew of just like blood like gushing out they like catches someof it with his shield like just like see it and and he just like swings his pickaxe down I guess you'd be hitting like his like I guess he's sitting actually so you could be you'd be getting like some chest and some meat in there what are you rolling what are you rolling well yeah what do you what do you got for your tab I have we have advantage too yeah any programs young male a cos Brown so yes that very much hits my wife just yes yes d6 that is a fat 12fat yeah so you you sink this pic are you just like trying to like sink this pic into his chest so he's sitting more than he's like actually on its back yeah so he's kind of just like he's kind of fallen into like a sitting position like kind of leaning back on one of his like hook arms and so he's like chest is kind of exposed to you on that side I think I think you'd be sitting I probably would actually also be aiming for ya like just because it'd be kind of more like an over-the-top like you'll have to get alittle bit of a jump in there but I think that you I think you're able to jump up a little bit and like and like sink this pickaxe into his neck and pull it out and kind of come back down I don't need to be thrown yeah he's he's looking pretty pretty rough do you have anything else you want to do are you gonna turn it over to Glenn I don't think that back-to-back down to my dear how uh how hurt does he look right now he looks like he is extremely covered in blood that's gross it's really gross I forgotabout my favorite spell my divine smite I was gonna say what are you gonna do like the best time I know all right Glenn's gonna kind of like peek his head around he sees just saw an explosion of blood and he sees this little dude just jumping and swinging kind of giggles thank you and five six I mean you could get yeah you can get there you can get within range I'm gonna go to this side of Ryan grim and as you see make me an act I want to just make me an acrobatics check just to like the idea of yourunning I think the only way you could get there would actually be running and jumping off the boulder so just want to see how what he do that I do it great I do it 19 good team good you pull yourself up under this rock and kind of just like flip over the other side and just go running across and are able to reach the court and as I'm running I pull out my scimitar just off my hip oh yeah a big can also bonus action - as a rogue I just saw that chat yeah that's right thanks Jesse thank you taking BK to school should I take a stabjust right across trying to go right across the head but as I'm doing that I casts green flame blade flexor damage and 60 days in Contra oh yeah 28 to 323 to hit no 20 times a hit yes yes six and since I have advantage I have sneak attack right one or two I think probably at least I don't even green flame doesn't do what I wanted it to now I think it right now does not matter all right it's two three T six total so nine plus five 14:36 so 19 damage onthat one yeah yeah yes who described this hit to me well I said I cast it so who gives [ __ ] as I'm running forward and I pull the Scimitar out like as it's coming out of the sheep the just green flame kind of starts to cover the whole scimitars blade and like as I get there just a big arcing slash right up the you know the soft part on Turtles but basically I try to do the inverse a turtle meat yeah I try to do the inverse of the gash that I saw on Luther I just go up its chest and just take a hugecleave out of it assume some revenge is happening so you you do this you you like jump up at it and like slice up it and as you do you kind of like it it starts falling back you see like the like the kind of the light start leaving its eyes and you like write it down to its falls backwards on its back with this light like shakes the mine a little bit as this thing way it lands on its back and essentially just goes limp and stops it's like [ __ ] an unholy cackle that it's been doing for the past 12 secondsas going down I like I'm wiping off the blade and I'd put it back in my sheath in my hip and I looked at the boys turn around like you guys wanna go grab those drinks or will we chosen looks over to Glenda goes that was wonderful and he's the same size as you right now and the same thing he goes to pat you on the back like square between the shoulders and it's like there's a lot more umph there because he's a he's a he's a big boy right now I'm happily gonna take damage on that one rolling a strike astroke I guess a strength check strength check alright yeah ouch that's only actually I was a 14 total with okay I'll say that I'll say you take two damage Glynn as you get this like very hefty hand in your back with this like metal mailed hand and like ooh ooh Glenn kind of chuckles he like takes on the back and like tries to play it off but like the second they turn away he just likes rubbing his back yeah so you guys have defeated this hook or and the UH the guards up on top are kind of like you can see them there therethey're like looking down and they're taking notice of this and they're calling back letting and you hear them like is there anything else coming down did you see anything else stand on top of the big ol the core to look further down yes you don't really see anything nor do you really you can roll perception check if you like I used me dog vision I could see really far uh he's a perception yeah 21 yeah so you you don't hear and you don't hear anything you don't see anything Cosmoeither it seems like all kind of is quiet now but this like echoing laughter from this creature is died off they go back look uh everything looks good bud thank for the help I should have a very sarcastic thumbs up and so yeah you they kind of send the word down the down the mind that everything has been taken care of and they essentially like come down and start like inspecting like inspecting the hook core and seems like everything's kind of calmed down a little bit now so what you guys want to do want to investigateso like the hooks themselves do they look natural or did they look like they were metal hooks like grafted onto this thing no they look super they're like they look they're so natural yeah they're made out of bones gotcha hmm yeah I mean I wouldn't know [ __ ] about this area anyway so I'm not gonna metagame so yeah so I so Cosmo comes up to investigate the record and looking for any sort of markings or clues as far as allegiance or anything really um yeah you you do you do see II like ithas it does have this like kind of it almost looks like it's it would be easy to like look past it but it does have this like very a kind of faint almost looks like a brand into the like not the center it's just not even centered a name way shape or form but there's this like kind of odd mark that doesn't look like it's natural of this like brand in this thing's chest the are we able to make out any kind of like a shape yeah so it kind of has this like it's almost like a hand but it has like like a holein the center of it and then there's a dot in the center of that hand a hand with a hole it's very rough it's it's it's been it seems like this has been it's it's it doesn't seem fresh it seems very old it's like I ranted into the leathery high head of this like creature cut it out chat should cut it out let the elf do it say yeah I don't know how you plan on cutting something out with a pickaxe but I'll go ahead and just start like carving into it yes you guys are tryingto take this thing trying to take this piece out yeah yeah Wow aunt grandma you still gigantic I don't know how many rounds of combat it was it was only there only last a minute definitely still last yeah you're still up I'm enormous and I'm gonna see what they're doing I'll try to just rip it free fruits Jess yeah do i yeah i mean you have you advanced on strength check so Romeo Romeo strength check it's prone to have advantage to hit to it's dead that is a 21 yeah so essentially this like pieceof this natural like carapace armor you're able to get your like hands underneath it and essentially tear this plate of this like off it comes off and it's essentially about like probably a solid foot by one foot of just like that's very bloody on the backside and like definitely has a meat on there still but you're you're holding this like tile sized piece of of this armor when you said it like looks like a hand as does it look like a brand like a handprint or is it like a branded on like theactual shape of a hand you can't tell it is indented I'm just like faded yeah it's it's it's it's been like there are cuts and scratches and everything over the top of this all you see is that there's like it almost looks like a hand in print like that's pressed into this maybe you like like a half inch and then it has this like in the centre of the hand there's like a area missing where it's still raised and then there's another circle indented in the middle of that so it's essentially a handprintwith the circle and then another dot in the middle okay Oh ringworm would rip that off and will you make this and he'd like smell it for no reason and I'm assuming that's like awful he's oh and he would like to throw it at Quinn Glenn what are you doing I dodge the [ __ ] out of it I do a dope-ass backflip off this dead body a dope-ass backflip indeed 12 oh my god yeah so uh I'll give you I'll give you the a choice here you can either fall while you're while you're doing this backflip but not get hit by the thing oryou can do your backflip but still get hit by the piece in air it's even better let's get like knocked off kilter in the air something to get hit by it that's just funny yeah so he whips this thing at you and you kind of do a backflip but you still like you don't go high enough and it kind of catches you in the chest as you're you're coming down from your backflip and it just kind of catches you in air and not to you and you kind of land on your ass skidding across the floor kind of like over here as I guessyou don't have the battle map anymore but it kind of like knocks you back a couple feet and you kind of slide across before and you're like holding essentially holding this like piece of gore at that same time oh I can't back no no we're good let's keep okay I guess since I'm just like covered in the gore already it's like all right I get it I killed it okay Ariat and he just picks it up and starts plate he's like Mary's I'm sorry it was in as a except I feel like he's the his largest force hisvoice is like oddly deep for some reason [Music] [Laughter] sloppy drunk so good yeah so you can see you get this this essentially tile sized piece of or off him so we got it we got the mark yeah you got it you got the mark with you essentially the these members of the the boulderfist mining company come down and they're like well I mean the nice thing is we have this can be turned into some good some good meat we'll just I bet you anything if we pass it on over we just pass the word down to the to thethe people here beyond this wall that they'll be able to make short work of this Vyasa they they see they kind of walk back and they're just kind of inspecting the hook or what do you guys want to do Glenn would start looked over at Glenn in Cosmo no Mike ignoring that but I imagine them like mid-sentence I go back to my normal size his lake voice like cracks yeah at least gloom would start walking back towards the back towards the gate towards the the small little shanty town yeah yeah I who has thepiece of the shell I peeled it off of Glenn I'm just holding it all right yeah yeah yeah I want boy boy brain drain could I see that yeah I just throw it at Cosmo his grouse is gooey yeah just wipe it in it off it's it's leather guys it'll be okay it's just gonna smell for a little bit I hope so you guys heading are you guys headingback what are you guys heading to what are you doing I mean I think I think for now I think we should head to losers okay that is I think that is my vote cuz Luther took damage or got attacked by this or thing and wanna go check on him I I feel like I don't know and maybe he knows something about this mark I got some of the people in town too I mean if they're he's tight-lipped that 100kb knows anything that he said it would be match so does he'd know better than I would does cosmo recognize thissymbol no all right I didn't think so cuz I mean I I would know if I knew and I didn't know so so yes so I think we should we should definitely go see page about this symbol that's my vote okay yeah so I could probably using nap and like off and like blood comes out I pull cigarette out of my baby oops say I think on exit I want I need to check up on our gnome friend yeah so as you're walking through you can see that that essentially that that handsome drow figure that Clinton was talking to earlier is kind of likeleaning down has his arm around there's like the shoulder of this this older gnome oh good and is seeming like seems to be like talking to them and then just kind of as you guys approach the gnome like sees you and like comes over and it's just like kind of like shakes your hand with with both hands Cosmo and just like say thank you so much I I thought I was a goner I thought I thought I was gonna lose my little one I thank you so much boy that's what paladin's do I here to help my friends be town and then thelittle the little gnome like peeks out from behind his he's like kind of his signs thank you and then just and just kind of like goes back and hides back behind his leg and he said it puts his hand back on and it's like I couldn't imagine if I'd lost Peter oh you gotta take care of your little Peter Peter Pan now that make sure you take care of you little Peter so the penis jokes entered right into him yeah so the dark elf kind of like uh like Pat's like puts his arm on this this gnome again and just kind of likekind of leads him off towards one of the the like they look like a couple of the other people that live down here actually building they seem like they're assembling some sort of a structure for the end he's kind of leading them towards this like construction of this like new shelter okay sorry as we're passing back by this this other guy that we had seen before the the Dark Elf guy that was there when we walked in yeah yeah can can I use my divine sense to detect any kind of good and evil yeah go for it it just does okay what Ineed to look at I need to look it up okay okay okay oh sure okay I do it just it just does it I do and I win it just okay here we go it says used you can sense anything affected by the holo spell or no it just says you can detect good and evil you sense anything affected by the hollows spell or know the location of any celestial fiend Undead uh okay so yeah no I mean I I think you don't detect any you don't detect anything from this figure um you do get this weird like tickling in the like it's not very strong but you do get somesort of like a feeling of evil from that that piece of essentially like the hookers body that you pulled off and like if you can see like some sort of like you you do get a sense from that and that's all I'm gonna give you there cheers to that I'm good with it I'll take it but actually as you guys were walking out the Dark Elf does he walks over to you and well that was uh that was quite impressive I will stay thanked might just doing what we do best I I can appreciate a man that's talented I'd like to introducemyself I assume Glenn from how he was being cagey before has not introduced me to you so my name is jor-el I well I'm kind of the unofficial leader of this little band of not so merry individuals that lived down here well nice to meet you I'm surprised we haven't met you I'd spend a lot of time in these mines I'm seen you I've seen you from time to time i i watch everything that happens in here i this is uh this is our first opportunity to meet but that doesn't mean that I haven't seen you plentytimes before all right pleasure to meet you thanks for being a part of me uh me town yeah one thing you'll notice Cosmo is Errol doesn't want to be seen he won't be seen you uh he might catch a glimpse here there but he's uh he's generally a sneaky little fella yeah I I think that Glenn and I have that in common I actually have a proposition for you that I spoke with Glenn about before you are so kind enough to help us keep that beast from getting through the walls I actually you know what just comeback to me another time too many prying eyes too many prying ears Glenn if you could bring them down and meet us at a time when maybe there's fewer people around we can discuss this further yeah I was know where to find you might just take me a little bit longer than usual got a got a couple doors got dragged around now anywhere I ran grim you muted you muted ran grim is your voice box broken indeed it was it's broke you're right you tell you something about me Georgia I'm sorry I think you two you took toobig of a hit there from that hole no I'm fine cop would say you're not fine wicked not okay yeah Joro just turns to Glenn is like let's just we'll meet the mill mean in our normal place let's say maybe tomorrow tomorrow evening sounds good although I'll bring the wine so you drink wine that's gross Ben that ethanol you fellas drink and I just walk what it makes it slowly trying to escort ran grim towards any semblance of medical aid yeah great so you guys are able to successfully like get back get back outof the mine you know all the gates are now essentially like open you do have to have them so actually this this is interesting the gate between be essentially like this group of people that live here in the mine and the so again the second gate is not open and you have to have them open it for you and they're watching there's actually like guards on the station on the outside that are like watching and making sure that like no one else is coming through with you it's just the three of you and there is actually likea pretty wide berth away from that doorway of the actual like people that have built up these structures down here so it does seem like there is like they are staying away from that and there are people keeping them away from that but you guys are able to get past that and get to the second gate are in back to the first gate the first gate is wide open you get some like you know slaps on the back and stuff from some of the other more militia people that had prepared themselves which it's now kind of disbanded a little bit this pointthere's probably only about half the amount of people there and they seem to be kind of like taking off their battle armor and are going back into more up there like a mining garb just kind of like getting ready to go back to work but you're able to successfully get out of the mine and as you walk out into like the I guess it's night now at this point it's not even dusk you see Luther is standing at just outside at the front of the gate and his leg is not repaired it seems like he has gotten a prettyquick patch from match and it is essentially like a metal post for his foot with like a flat metal base on it currently and he seems to still be kind of leaning on that leaning on that sword okay and he just kind of looks at you and he says well I guess you should probably follow me right well then you just talk to people does he not talk goddammit goddammit ran grim you just I I finally open up and start talking to human beings and you just give me [ __ ] about it immediately sorry edge I got blood loss I'm not sureif I'm delusional or view of speaking to me cuz normally you don't elf you're gonna take the lead on this one I got you buddy we will get there together and I just kind of like gently pat him on the back Mike lead the way mr. Luthor uh well he's he's looking at you guys you're like you're essentially like standing facing him as you're walking out and he's kind of looking looking at at you sore are you like did you move all the way up to him then ran grim would have wobbled towards him okayseeing him there and then seeing him and hearing him speak I think would have actually like jarred him to his interest a bit more knowing that Luthor is a bit more reclusive and wranger and has tried to like pull conversation from him and more he get he just gets the normal grunts ah groans are very just dismissive answers from Luthor y'all are making me regret talking to you already alright come on after me and so he kind of like starts stomping away slowly but he's making his way and starts headingback up towards his towards his house so that's located over at location ten on the map and so it's a little bit farther away you guys are walking out of kind of like just above where the one would be is where like the main mine entrance is right and so like that's the that's the main and to the north of it yeah to the north of that like middle section in that island area and so you guys are walking up and like you know you they're able to make your way over to Luther's place is there anything youwant to do along the way or you just kind of fall loser there I mean I'm just keeping rancor from falling over yeah so you eventually make it to this which it's I mean it's dark right now but there's a lantern on the front of it you know that it's like I said this this town is extremely humble and it's in its makings most of the buildings are either made out of wood from the surrounding you know forest or they're different kinds of like scrap metal so it's very like old mining town feel and so you getto his his his building which is a little bit bigger than the surrounding cabins it looks like it event at some point was more of a storefront I think like a general store and there is a there's a sign on the front of it that seems to have been like boarded over like it used to say like whatever this thing used to be there is like boards in metal kind of over the top of it now that are blocking whatever like the name of the store was or what this place used to be any kind of just like stumps up the stairs and grabs the lantern off ofthe door and he's like well that stumps as a verb he's upstairs he's very mad I'm moody right now we just watched that movie today oh nice hell yeah but yeah so he's like well I guess never thought I'd say this but guess you all better come inside and he he opens he opens up the door and walks in with the lantern and you just kind of like it's it's pretty dark in there actually and it's that's not extremely like welcoming and like sound like there's light inside he's just likeyou can see as he walks in the light just kind of follows him and the thing stays kind of dark what do you all I do Oh prank I'm in walk in like that rancor I'm just leaving a trail of blood everywhere it uh it seems a bit dim in here can we turn on the light well yeah I mean you're uh you did you bring another lantern with you I only have the one that's really the first thing you've just got it I let you into my house and the first thing you ask me is for something raised you right around heredon't worry we can see just fine won't you uh well you tell us what you're doing with that big ol hook friend of yours and we'll see if we can't oblige somehow you got a got some towels maybe we can see blood so he he goes over to so when you walk into this building you can see it's essentially set up to be what looks like it could have at one point in time been more of like a mead hall like are not like a meat hall but like uh it's a big long built like a structure that has like tables one biglong table going down the center of it and then there's like tables at the front that are kind of facing outwards so like think of like where you would have a lot of people over to like for meals and for dining and there's like some some tables at the front for like people that are like of hire it's kind of raised up and like people of note would be sitting up there but this building is like it is completely discussed lysa discussing like dirty like there's no food anywhere but this is like rundown there's dust everywherethere's like cobwebs everywhere like it looks like it I'm essentially almost an abandoned building except for the fact that like you can see like drag marks and stuff across the floor from like him moving in there but there's no like I mean this is a war forged like there's no bed there's no like any beds this man is way off yeah I mean he just I mean they don't have to sleep they don't have to sleep they don't have to eat they don't have any kind of like human needs so likethis person exists in this space but isn't interacting with it in any way shape or form and he walks over to the table and sets down the lantern and then just kind of like turns around and starts rummaging in this like old chest that like his kind of rusted and he has to like kind of really force the to hinge on it and pops it open and he rustles around in there and he pulls out this this really dusty looking red potion and he kind of just kind of just like without really looking just kind of Huck's it in Rangoon'sdirection I snatch it out of the air doink and I just hand it to ran grim tried to catch it yeah so are you you essentially you do you are you handing it over to him Glen or what are you doing yeah yeah yes you recognize it ran Graham as a potion of healing right down the hatch I think is that to d6 is to d6 plus something or is a thing it's like a d4 is there a lesser and greater uh yeah it's just a regular it's just gonna be a regular regular me when the chat knows it all I had to boy what is it like ad20 or something no it's super I want to say it's like it's like 2d for something like I like the action I like obviously it's a it's a deed 20 plus 20 so that is for ice that's better yeah your your your wounds stitch up a little bit so you're not bleeding as much on the floor you still got something it's like they're a day old at this point like I'm still coughing up blood but I'm not coughing up as much blood right there's a little bit of coffee one minute Silver Lining yeah you're onday two of healing essentially is what this has done for you yeah yeah so Luther like after doing this on a walk so it walks back over to the lantern just kind of sits on the tape I sits down at the table and just kind of like Pat's it doesn't say anything what is he Pat he passed the table you just like you like to kind of like sit down kind of thing Cosmo stares in confusion he might want the glass back Glenn then walks over is like oh man Cosmo I'm gonna I'm gonna teach you some finer things and I just take a seat atthe table are you sitting where are you sitting in relation to him are you saying next to him he's sitting across run what are you doing directly across from gonna say okay from the way that interaction took place I presumed he was sitting on the table it's essentially a long bench long benches like with this like extremely long table because that was I he sits across from you won't you want me to sit on the table just grab a bed I think I'll stand I appreciate it there's plenty of light it's great it'sgreat like great tables great company I'm great are you still I see you're sitting on the table no I know I understand okay you're standing what are you doing Reagan he's on after quaffing that potion of healing I'm like yeah I'm totally falling or just like white blood out of my beard sit at the table pull another cigarette while I reach into my B realizes no cigarettes and pull one out of my boot when I look over it and I just rub my thumb across like a piece of metal on the table a bunch of times like you eversee a crackhead light a cigarette that way in the internet yeah I'm fine thank you Luther as I like yeah he I mean luckily he's a he's a war for so he doesn't seem that bothered by it but yeah he just kind of is he's just kind of waits for a second and then yeah y'all did really well down there I I don't like to admit when I can't when I you know I've not been vested but I couldn't there's nothing I could do in that situation I I for a long time have been relying onjust myself to protect and help people and for a long time that's been enough but today I wasn't able to help people when I needed to and that's worth more than pride to me do you know what this place do you know what this place used to be this building Oh in town well I mean I guess if you want to just keep going bigger what did sakal used to be what did right you know this realm used to be know what he's kind of he's kind of looking at you like he's just kind of he's he's like second-guessing what he'sabout to say based on how dumb your response is and he he kind of stops for a second he's just kind of looking at you like are you [ __ ] kidding me and then he doesn't say that but he's just looking at you like kind of like oh god what a what have I done and then he continues and he's well in a time path a long time ago lifetimes ago for you of the mortal mortal folk this used to be a place of honor place of heroes and legends different kinds of people trying to do good things and I it's not beenthat for a long time I don't it's just been a place where you know place a sadness place of memories and regrets and I think that today when I couldn't help those people I think that it's a time that things change a little bit and maybe the old times need to come back and so he he's just kind of like looking around and kind of like looks kind of wistfully and is like is if he's like picturing something in his head of like what like you know looking around like he's like remembering what it used tolook like and and he kind of looks at you all and says how would you all like to be Luthor's legends I think we need a little more clarification about what that might mean but I feel like I'm picking up what you're putting down you need us to maybe deal with some of these these bigger beasts while you're you're hobbling about getting fixed up yeah I guess kind of looks at Luther a bit would this have ever even been a term or anything I might have overheard in your shot from his dealings with mash yeah soI think that Rand Graham you would you would have heard this term referenced before Luther's legends was a essentially a hero guilt that existed in this town like long ago like a very very long time ago and it has been essentially just defunct and has been ascent like what you know for a very long time and not functioning and what's crazy is it's much more it's it's like kind of long been lost from like the people that live in the town now it's not something that people think about but it is it's something that Madge hastalked about has mentioned and talked Luther about and he just in passing conversation you would refer to mentioned I heard you match I don't really know what it is but I'm pretty much in I just have to check with Matt and make sure she could spare me at the forge whatever this entails but she trusts you Luther I know that I uh I appreciate that it's uh it's not in my nature to trust other people or to entrust other people with the work that needs to be done and I don't want you to take in the wrong way I I don't wantanyone getting hurt I'd rather be able to help must help them myself but I think that I think that it's become a time it's gotten to the point where I need to you know expand this little this little thing and take it trust some more people other than myself and I from what I saw today I think I can trust you that that creature you said it was a did you mention it was a hook [ __ ] is what you were talking about it was some kind of [ __ ] that hooks it was a pretty loose hole yeah hi those are pretty nasty beasts I neverfaced one myself but this this injury I sustained today was actually from a Griffin it uh it got me it got me something fierce I it was attacking a small Caravan outside of town and I just I barely made it back and if you know if I were to fall if I you know if I had taken me out there'd be no one to pass on the legacy of what this place should be and I think that you know my pride is you know something some things are more important than pride boy and he kind of looks he kind of like like you see his eyes kind of like glance over to likethis side table I and just like really quick and and then he looks back at you guys and just kind of looking at you do I do I see anything on the side-table yeah you see what looks like a picture frame the picture frame is almost completely covered in dust it's almost if you wanna if you want a roll actually no what now it's it's almost a completely opaque I think you can't really see other than like maybe the outlines of a couple forms like probably several actually there's probably close to like like five peoplein this picture but you cannot see any more details than that clean kind of catches a glance and notices a little bit of like that sad tinge and he says look look old time I I can see you got a lot of sadness a lot of pain a lot of time you're those old bones of yours or rusty bones of yours on you let some of this ice younger focus Fried chicken's help you out with this maybe maybe we take care of a couple jobs for you here and there you take care of some of the finer things for us well I appreciate itbut I can any kind of like kind of looks at you and he's like like kind of a little bit because you're kind of saying that he essentially can't do it because he's old and he doesn't he kind of like looks at you like you know what I believe it or not I could still hold my own being an old-timer at all so why don't you just worry about you and I'll worry about me and we can worry about trying to rebuild this place together how about that what do you what'd you call us in here for well you you cut tothe chase at this point my boys just leaking out and trying to figure out what you need from us stop speaking in circles and get to the point yeah well I don't need anything from you tonight but you can go off and do whatever you need to I just wanted to I felt like I needed to talk to someone about this so I'm sure that the need will rise but I think that you've done plenty for the night to be proud of and I'm sure that we'll be running into each other very soon well I've thoroughly pissed him off Iwould assume that he is mildly distracted and with my mage hands I'm gonna try to lift the photo so are you trying to lift it up try to take the frame yeah okay do a slide and it'll ROK's 21 yeah what are you trying to do with it I'm gonna try to like first move it off the table out of line of sight slide it like underneath the long table just like keep bringing it closer and closer to me I'm gonna I'm a lift it I'm gonna take it yeah yes so you're able to get this thing into your bag by slidingin at the table and just kind of like sliding into your bag but yeah you do have this this frame and I start to stand up and I say very nice to meet you Luther I'm sure I'll I'll see you soon and Glenn walks out awesome um yeah so Luther just kind of stays at the table and he's just kind of like he's just kind of looking down at it seems like he's kind of uh in thought what do you guys want to bring room would stand from the table and look to Luther and extend out his hand to shake itI'm sorry no no go for it go for it and more or less just say that I I now match trust you William spoken much but I trust you uh yeah he um he actually like that seems to kind of snap him out of his contemplation and he just kind of like reaches a hand out and this is probably like the first time you've actually like straight up like shook his hand so it's a he doesn't say anything but he definitely looks at you and like that meant something to him yeah and just I just nodded slowly hobble my way behind Quinn as I'm notcoughing up as much blood so slowly slowly yeah specifically yeah he he doesn't really like respond in any way he just kind of nods at you and just kind of like like yeah like he he gets that he's a man that lives in the past like and so he understands that like longing to know like that connection to the past that you seem to have as well and so he he connects with you on thatlevel yeah so you guys go outside it's pretty late at this point I what do you or what are you guys planning on doing I think that like based on we can probably get pretty close to wrapping up here and so like I kind of want to just know what you guys want to do each individually and then we we can kind of wrap up ring room would be making his way to the the iron woman to bed down for the night they said he actually just sleeps like in the in the smithy shop like next to the Forge battle where his cot set up sothat's where he would just go to he it's been it's been real it's been fun but as no been real fun I'm going a bit and he would just like not as like bleeding to death so hopefully Quinn doesn't think he's gonna die on the way there it's some get some wrestling rancor and we'll see you in the morning we got a something guys rang grim dies in the other night and just dies off camera this is this is Dan grim rang Graham's brother I'm here to avenge my brother [Laughter]it's actually be better if you just call me rank rings I don't want to I don't want to really make it different for anybody so I'll change anything Cosmo what do you what are you doing very much standing seems kind of becoming cool just town and so as he kind of walk towards his book out of his back satchel anything to like investigate feeling looking for something yeah he's just he's trying to he's trying to like cross-reference and just see if fierce if there's anything that's using thebook essentially she's trying to research this mark yeah he's very concerned okay yeah that's uh yeah that's I think that's I think that's solid blame Jose I appreciate that uh I think I might take you up on that I'll follow you follow you where you're going awesome yeah so yeah I mean I guess essentially you go back to cosmos house what is what is your house like Cosmo like what does that describe that for me so uh so what you see - it's like old it's very like well settled and as we come up it's it'slate but you see this like kind of like a water water tower a small water tower that just kind of runs down water down towards the front and you see this like figure out on the front that's just running this water mill and and as it comes yo yo mom you still washing out the dirt and she doesn't really respond but she's like milling through like mine dirt and we just kind of come into this house and it's very much like a necessity driven only type place like you see a lot of like mining shoespickaxes and mining parts but it's a bare necessities type place very much it's like middle ground but um just motions past don't mind me mum she's not very talkative she just likes to work late and kind of takes her in takes him takes Glyn in to bunk down I guess yeah what is the yeah what is Glenn's what is the room that Glenn's going into or like space going into look like because I'm curious to hear how Glenn responds to this [ __ ] I made up it may not be up to your high standards but it's the bestfor skidoo is it a super short bed oh it's very yes I Glynn like ah diseases like man you know what I've I've definitely been worse and it's it's definitely the thought that counts I appreciate it I'll make do and I like close the door is like kind of politely but like a close the door like signal that I'm going to bed and then Glenn takes the takes the frame out that he just stole sets it on some small little table I imagine there's like a little bedside table for the candle or whatever might be don't Idon't touch the dust I leave it like basically completely preserved as like when I lifted it I'll see you soon Luther and I just like going on my elleven trance are you not you're not looking at the photo nope just leave it like completely how it is okay yeah damnit okay yeah that's fine [Laughter] you razzed me no it's fine I think that that's probably a good place to end does like a great place that was a lot of fun sweet [Music]