The Unwritten Favor Part 3: The Infiltration

0:02 This episode of Crit Happens is sponsored by Ever Con 2026. Ever Con is Wisconsin's premier table top gaming convention, bringing together role-playing games, board games, creators and community under one roof. Grab your badges now at Crit Happens dot show slash Ever Con and get ready to set sail for adventure. Last session, the agents of the Syndicate were ready to get back to business. They stood outside the complex, tied to the unwritten favor with a clear plan and a clear goal. Everything felt lined up. The kind of moments where a story is supposed to move forward. Instead, Savara drew from the deck of many things. The session came to a screeching halt. The card was Flames, and the session immediately went off the rails.

0:59 A powerful devil answered the draw in person. Not later, not as a looming threat. Right then. The message was blunt. Savara had earned the attention of something that enjoyed suffering and patience. One death would end the curse. Until then, ruin was promised. There was a beat at the table where everyone realized how serious this was. This was not flavor. This was not a slow consequence waiting for later sessions. This was an immediate problem standing in front of them. So the party did what they do best. They fought. The combat was rough. Not cinematic in a clean way, but stressful and unforgiving. The devil controlled space, punish mistakes and fought like something that assumed time was on its side. Resources vanished fast.

1:54 The plans unravelled even faster. This was supposed to be a quick stop before the real mission. It became the whole night. But the agents stayed upright. They adapted. They backed each other up. They took risks they probably should not have taken yet. Round by round, the fight shifted. The devil stopped feeling inevitable and started feeling threatened. When the final blow landed, it surprised everyone. The devil fell, the curse snapped, and the room went quiet. There was no cheering right away, no sense of triumph, just a strange stillness as everyone processed what had happened.

2:37 Devils are not meant to go down like that, especially not one's tied to fate and long term consequences. The party had solved the problem, but it did not feel clean. Savara survived, but something had clearly changed. The deck had been answered directly, and that kind of action does not disappear quietly. Killing a devil solves the moment, but it invites attention later. Eventually, the laughter came back. Nervous at 1st and then louder. The kind of laughter that only shows up after a close call. The group realized they had burned through a major crisis before even stepping into the complex they came for. By the end of the session, the agents were still standing outside the same doors, physically unchanged. Story wise, everything was different. The unwritten favor was still waiting. The night had just added scars before it even began. The plan did not fail, it was simply replaced. Let's.

3:40 Write this story. I don't need the allegory. Please just tell me what's real. But nothing ever seemed to be real. But she's in colors that don't exist. Painting my painting counterfeit bless every truth I knew just starts to twist camp from a calm in a world like this. I've been my tongue till the words went dry, warm, old like a chief disguise. I see the truth when I close my eyes. The hardest part was a great goodbye and fake. The 8 cares look the same but I don't see my face.

4:29 Face Well, stop. Welcome back to another episode of Crit Happens here on Spotify, iTunes, player.fmpoddirectory.com, stitcher.com and Crit happens dot show. We are back to continue on, hopefully with the unwritten Favor mini story arc here.

5:10 Let's go ahead and say hello to our players. Hello players. Hello. Hello. Tonight we are joined by Castea, Osisa, Slip and Zebulon. A nice little nice little small crew tonight to continue on with this mission. So all right as we left off we were in the exact same place that we started 2 episodes ago. So I mean at this point I'll really just kind of state the the floor is yours to do as you wish. Currently you are just outside of the area of the the Dominion High Administration Complex.

5:57 You haven't quite entered the, the surrounding area of the complex quite yet. You can, you know, you could see it, but it's probably, you know, we would say about we'll say 2-3 football fields away, you know, not with any sort of like detection distance or anything like that. So however you want to formulate a plan, things like that, we can go off of whatever you choose. I feel it'd be a lot easier to convince our way into the gates with a smaller group. That's, you know, that's not a bad, so that's not an incorrect statement. I mean, with just four of you tonight, you know, the, the, the chance of being detected, you know, by any sort of guard or, you know, other than being basically just kind of like a patron in this, in this complex, you know, you kind of think of it like that.

6:56 It'd be a lot easier to go remain undetected and undercover, if you will. Could still get us all over any wall if if we needed me to, I would do. That. So. I just go over it. OK, I was going to say I've got with the Ledger, I've got invisibility. Otherwise I've got a disguised self as an option. Disguised self might work. I think we talked about not using the ledger's abilities because we don't know if that triggers like location and send something back to the syndicate.

7:41 Although any magic use inside is probably going to set off something there too, so we got to keep that in mind. And they have the magic wards. Any magic we need to do needs to be done before we enter the gate. So like right here and now, right? Yeah, magic items are fine. Magic spells, I think with how they described it was like it's an, there's like like a detection, right? Like a, like a radar. It doesn't send off alarms or anything, but they get notified. It leaves a footprint or a trace. Yeah. OK.

8:27 So is there any magic that you would like to do currently before you enter the surrounding area of the complex? Well, are we trying to bargain our way in, or are we trying to sneak in? So yeah, I guess we can do it a couple of ways. We could bribe our way through. We could sneak our way through. Or we could, I'll say, convince our way through, right? Deceive our way through or persuade like, yeah, we're supposed to be here.

9:08 Just. Hey, Tim, we were here last night. Don't you remember? You know, that kind of thing. OK, so who's got good deception or persuasion? I've got excellent deception and with shape shifting I can look like somebody who is supposed to be here or somebody we pass as we are here. Spence, can I take a quick perception check to see if there's if they're checking anything at the gate, right? Like looking at documents or badges like the equivalent of like an access badge or an Insignia or something? Sure. Give me a yeah, give me a perception check. God, that 20 feasts. Christ. OK, so that means 34 Oh.

9:52 Dear God, yeah, with a 34. You hear their thoughts. Yeah, you can hear their blood running through there. No, you can get, you can absolutely see that the the two guards standing out front are, they seem to be checking people in, if you will, almost as if they think of it as like a like a nightclub. They have like a list of VIPs or people that can enter the club. You know, it's kind of like that where they're checking identifications or papers, if you will, against a list. One guard is checking IDs, the other guard is cross referencing those identifications papers with their entry list. We'll call it.

10:41 OK. Is there a Is there a decent flow of people going in and out? For the 34? Yeah, you. Well, I'll leave that too. Yeah, there. It's not so much a heavy flow. It's think of it as like. Looks like a regular, not a super. Yeah, yeah. It's, you know, people are coming and going and then you you can say that you've spent the last few hours kind of monitoring and with your scouting that you've done before. You do know that there are regular people that come in and out? They check in and out when they come in and leave. OK. Kind of relay all that information and say I can probably get us some credentials just off of a handful of other people.

11:33 Sounds like a good idea to me. Yeah, I can look like whatever credentials you get me. I'm pretty sure they don't have photography right now, so. I guess I don't know what details are involved in the credentials. Yeah, I suppose then Spencer, I'm, I'm going to how far? So there's obviously some sort of trailer path or Rd. leading up to the gate. Is there a bend at some point in that trail where the gate can't see around the bend?

12:15 Not really to be honest. I mean, it's it's a pretty open area outside of this complex, not so much like you think of a kind of like a open field. OK. Is there anything else? Is there any other people other like are there any? I'm going to say, is there any loitering right, where people aren't necessarily coming or going, but there's camps set up and they're just kind of housing themselves for the night outside of the whatever, you know, that kind of thing. Give me another perception check. Can I take my passive? What's your passive? 24 OH. Dear God, Yeah, yeah. I mean, there are, you know, kind of scattered about nothing within say, about 100 yards of the complex, which kind of seems to be that cut off area of where the the complex actually, we'll say, owns that land.

13:13 That's kind of like the no fly zone, if you will. But yeah, they're, they're, you know, it over your scouting, over the last, you know, day or so, you've noticed that campfires pop up every once in a while. You know, we'll say we know outside of about 100 yard area, not more than 300 yards away. But of course, you know, especially during the night time, the distinct light of a campfire. Is, is is probably more present, right? Yeah. OK. So what I'm going to do is kind of position myself at a point where I can like get onto the road, right? And what I'm looking for is coming out onto the road. I'll do so when I've identified like a group of a handful of people, right?

14:09 More. More than three, three, or I should say at least three. Or individuals, if there's singles. So either a group that's three people or individual people. And I'm sorry, you're going to be doing what? What was this? Again, I apologize. Well, first I want to wait till I identify somewhat like a target, we'll say a mark. And then at that point, I'm going to stumble my way out into the road and bump into them, OK? Yeah, we'll say a couple of hours pass before a group of you 3 or more begin to show their face. I guess we'll say, and they're just coming down the road. I'll kind of I'll saunter up to them, OK. And I'll just say making your way to the compound here. I I'm not sure that's any of your business, Sir. Ma'am.

15:26 Sorry, ma'am. Excuse you. Yeah, yeah. That was out of that was out of game. That was my bad, ma'am. Let's slide this time. Yeah, you're you're correct. It's not my business what you are doing. I'm just trying to save you the hassle I guess, but if I mean if you're not interested in hearing it, absolutely be on your way. What do you mean by hassle? Well, I guess if that would really depend, I mean, it seemed like you didn't really want to share any information with me. And I understand that I, I try to keep my information tight to my chest as well.

16:08 But I, I doubt you'd be willing to share the information that would be necessary for me to tell you if it would be worth the hassle or not. So I sorry for bothering you and I'll kind of start to walk like through the middle of them. OK, are. You going to? Bump into them or just kind of walk through them? Well, it's kind of like wiggle my way through, see if they, you know, be very, very careful about if they're going to turn. I want to see if they're going to turn and continue with conversation. So you you walk through the middle of them. How many are there? There's three of them, two females and A and a male.

16:49 Give me, I'm going to call this a persuasion check. Kind of as you begin to saunter between the, you know, the three of them kind of your body language, you're kind of giving off the, the, the, the feeling of I have more information, but I don't want to tell you because you're kind of being a Dick kind of thing. Give me, give me. Yeah. 16. OK. Yeah, the 16, you'll kind of make your way through the group and then you'll hear, you'll hear the male kind of go, wait, wait, let's not be too as. Soon, as soon as I hear the sigh, I know that they're going to turn. I'm going to turn at the same time and bump shoulders with whoever's closest to me, but be like, like, they turn left, I turn right, and we kind of hit each other's shoulders on accident. OK, You know what I mean.

17:41 Sure, but before they've turned around the whole way and I'd like to roll a sleight of hand, Sure. What are you? What are you specifically going for? Are you going for just through your pockets or? 1st, if I've seen anything that would call out credential, right, like identification, that's what I'm going for. If there isn't anything, I'm going to go for the typical kind of if they've got a belt pouch or if I can see a like a pocket inside the tunic or whatever the hell they're wearing, sure. Yeah, give me a side of hand. Check my. Dice Tower just broke.

18:23 That's. A That's a good sign. OK. That's a Nat 15, so 27, OK. Yeah, well, the 27 who? Which one of them are you bumping into? You bumping? Whichever one I would have been you, you tell me. Probably whichever one was nearest the back of them. Probably would have been the youngest of the of the three. You, you don't know for certain, but you kind of get the the feeling that this is maybe their daughter. But yeah, absolutely you can bump into them with your sleight of hand. You said 202427. 2727 OK.

19:04 Yeah, on the 27, yeah, you managed to locate a kind of a crude identification of sorts, almost appears kind of hastily done, but it does have the necessary Insignia confirming that it is authentic. But yeah, you're able to locate that from the from the the younger female. OK, I'll turn around. Oh yeah, you were going to say.

19:49 What kind of information are you looking for? Really, I, I know they always do this, but they're up there taking, you know, checking credentials and all that kind of stuff and getting names and making sure you're who you're supposed to be and you're there for a reason. But I've, it's just been a little odd. So I'm just curious who you're here to see so that I can let you know if they were in there or not. It just seems they've been a little bit more strict lately. Well, I mean with everything that the Dominion has gone through over the last few weeks in regards to kind of their power diminishing being. Oh you mean how so many people kind of abandoned shipped? Enjoying that That weird memory guy. Yeah, Nairos, I think his name is or something along those. Lines.

20:49 Yeah, yeah, they've, they've been pretty strict on who can enter the building kind of at will. Yeah, so, I mean, I was just trying to. I know you're nearly all the way up there already, but if I could save you the hassle of trying to convince your way through. But again, I understand information is precious and I'm just a girl wandering through. I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. I what? What you said about saving me the hassle.

21:29 The hassle of going the rest of the way and having to get negotiate your way through the guards, that's all. Well, I mean they're, they're expecting us. You know, we have, we have business at the complex today. All right. That's what I was saying. If, if I knew what that business was, I could let you know if the people you need to do that business with are here. Otherwise, maybe the 20 minutes of taking the walk the rest of the way up there and. But again, I understand precious information and. I'm going to have you give me a deception check because you wouldn't necessarily know the if the appropriate parties of this, this group is going to see you are actually in the building. Right, but I didn't tell them if they were or weren't yet. I'm going to have you make the check anyway because you're stating almost the fact that you you would know, even though you haven't said it yet, you've stated that you would be able to tell them.

22:36 That makes sense. Not Not Fantastic 18. 18 He kind of looks at you and he goes, how would you know who I'm going to see? How would you know if they are there? Like he's, he's not necessarily thinking that you're lying, but he's kind of questioning how you would know that information. Well, I wouldn't unless you told me who it was, but I was just over there.

23:20 That's where I came from. I was trying to do a favor for some folks that I'm passing on the road. Apologies for disruption. Have a good journey and I'll turn around again and start to walk. Give me another persuasion check 11. Yeah, they're going to, they're going to let you just keep walking. He's he's not so keen on giving any more information and they're just going to continue on walking towards the complex. Yeah, no, as as they start their their to continue their journey, I'll just I'll turn back around and I'll say, hey, I'm sorry, what you're I didn't catch your names. I'm slip he will turn around 1st. Names are fine, I don't need your surname. My name is.

24:53 My name is Pansha, and this is my wife and my daughter. Have a good day. And then he's going to turn around and they will all keep walking. And he's almost at this point now, kind of gesturing his wife and his daughter in front of him so he can be between you and his family. Yep. How far away are we from the gate? I get at this point you are about 250 yards away from there. They're they're starting to get closer, of course, but.

25:36 Yeah, I'm a lot faster than they are, though. I'll I'm going to I'm going to dash whatever I got to do right. I got a speed of 55 standard but what do I do to be out of sight and then right? I don't want you to see me run past them. OK, so you're going to get in front of them to get to the gate first? Yeah. OK, I have to. Start with the group first, I. Was going to say, yeah, what, what are you, what are the rest of you going to do that?

26:19 Am I close enough to have gotten to look at the people that he just took this documentation from? Can I shape shift to look like the guy? Well, keep in mind that he was only able to obtain the the papers of the of what? Well, I guess at this point he would know now, but are you sharing? Back to the group. Yet I was. Going to say, do you want to go back to the group? Yeah, that's what I just said. I want to get back to the. Party. I apologize. Yeah, go ahead. You can go back to the group. You can share what you have. Yeah. He only has the papers of the daughter. I'll say, hey, did you see what that girl looked like? The one in the back. Did I get a good enough look?

27:00 Give me a perception check. 18, yeah. It meets, it beats. Yep. Yeah, you did. You got a pretty good look at her. All right, here's the deal. Here's her papers. Make yourself look like her. Everybody get into my hole, including me and Zeb. You carry us in. All right. I'm going to open up my hole and jump in. OK, jumping in the hole. OK. Don't put your bag in here. Yes. Don't put me in your bag, yeah? Don't do it.

27:41 OK, I'll see. So what are you doing? Sorry to blow my nose. Yeah, I'm going to go in the bag as well, I guess. OK, has Daya. Whose bag are we going in? You're going. Into Jesse's hole. Or Jesse's I. Guess again. Yeah, I'm getting in the bag. That's fair. You were you were in the bag with with those CISA. No, I'm sorry. With Savara. So Kasdan's going to kind of walk up, look at slip and go. The same rule applies. If you don't let me out, I haunt you. And she'll jump in. I'm in here too.

28:22 You're getting in your own hole, and that's weird. Yeah, that's going to carry my hole. OK, well I'm in the bag now. I'm rifling. I'm still looking for shit. I'm digging around. OK. All right. So from there, I guess at this point I'll ask Zebulon, what are you doing? All right, I'm going to shape shift to look like the daughter of the approaching group. I'm going to fold the collapsible hole up and stick it in one of my pockets. Not. I will have shared her name too with him, just so it's clear from what the paper said. OK.

29:04 Perfect. So yeah, you you'd know her name, her her surname from her papers. Did did you give the papers to Zebulon? Yeah. OK. All right, so I think I'm going to hurriedly approach the guards and act like I'm late, like, oh geez, I'm in a rush, guys, can you help me out? And I got to get in there. Here's my papers. All right. My first question is going to be, did you just walk to the front doors? I mean, I would have been, we would have been doing this out of sight of the guards and then I would be walking up to these guards.

29:56 So I guess my question would be, would you have attempted to get there before the the trio? Yeah, absolutely. I'm in a rush. OK. That's why I ran as fast as I could, taking like quadruple dashes. Yeah, I will have you attempt to give me, I'm going to call this a stealth check because you're simultaneously attempting to get there quicker, but also not seem like you are like there's no funny business going on.

30:51 I guess is what I'm trying to say is, is you're you're just trying to get there before them, but it doesn't seem like you're doing it in an odd way that would alert the gods. That's, I think, would that be like a deception or a persuasion? Well, the problem is that it's, it's a, it's an action that he's doing. It's, it's a, it's a physical movement. I I tell you what, I'm going to have you give me just a straight. Charisma. I was going to call it dexterity check because he's, yeah, he's, he's simultaneously trying to get there quicker. I'm going to have you make 2 rolls. I think at this point, let's let's start with a I'm I'm going to get there folks, I promise. Give me an either an athletics or acrobatics check, whatever, whatever you want to do.

31:41 Acrobatics for sure. And then that 20 makes that 27. Dear Fucking. God, it's going to be one of those days. OK, then give me a give me a deception check. Well, yeah, we'll call that the second portion of deception. 18 + 9. M so yeah, yeah, you you get there. Yeah, just in time. So everyone, I'm going to send this to you on this porn wherever you may be. There you are. So I've sent you kind of roughly what would be on the paper. I mean just not a sign on the paper, but the your identity at this point.

32:35 Excellent. And then I will also before you, before we get too far, I will also generate, I will get you a kind of a rough idea what you look like. So, yeah, so you'll approach the guards and I mean at this point I'm going to hide of seasick as Daya and slip. You are the only one that's going to be basically at the door. All right. And then, yeah, I'm going to rush up to the guards and act like I'm in a hurry and like, oh, geez, oh, man, I was supposed to get here early and set up. They're going to be so mad. Probably going to start without me. I got to get through.

33:18 And they're going to kind of, you know, do that stereotypical thing with two guards at the front door, cross their cross their blades, you know, in the acts and say, please state your business. And do you have, do you have your, your papers? Oh yeah, papers here. And yeah, we've got business with the Dominion. We were supposed to be here earlier, I think. OK. And the the first Flame guard will kind of walk up to you and he will kind of put his hand out for your papers. Hand it over to him. OK, Second guard will kind of walk up as you hand them over and he'll go name please. Alyssa Grey Clay.

34:08 Give me a deception check please with advantage because you are are you are you shape shifting? I am. Shape OK, yeah give me give me with advantage please the. Advantage did not help, but it's a dirty 20 all. Right is a dirty 20/30/20. He'll he'll go OK, he'll kind of check you off and he'll go and and what kind of business did you have? I'm sorry you said you just were running late, but what business do you have inside the complex today? It's information related sort of thing we're not supposed to talk about at the front gate, you know? Give me a deception check.

34:50 I'm not going to have you give it to me with advantage this time because it's not so much as something about your identity, it's more of what you're doing. 16 + 9 so 25. OK, yeah, He kind of nods his head, looks at the other guard. They they nod each other in the head and they they go. Do you know how long you'll be here for? Probably just a few hours, if you could point me in the direction of Relvain. We're supposed to meet with him. They kind of look at each other and they go relvain, who's who's relvain? What do you mean?

35:36 Out of game? Are you talking about Magistrate? How with Corin? Oh hell with Corin, yes. OK, I was going to say, because things are about to explode because Relvain is one of the leaders of the syndicate. So you're right. I had the wrong game in my head. That's all right. I was just making sure I was Things were about to explode pretty quickly. OK, Yeah. They kind of look at each other and they go, Oh yes, Magistrate Corden, he's on the 3rd floor. You can't miss it. He's, he's got a very distinct chamber, if you will. So please make your way to the third floor. Stairs are going to be on the, on the east side of the of the complex. You can't miss it.

36:20 It's it's right off, right off the the dining hall. All right. Of course. Thank you. And they will, they will both kind of step back, they'll let you in and away we go. So from there, this is what you enter. You enter kind of into like a standard entrance hall there, there are guards kind of posted, and I'm just going to use these two again, just kind of posted and just kind of guard posts, if you will. And of course, they're not necessarily what's the word I'm looking for.

37:07 They're not interested, I guess we'll say, in you being there, you've already been waved through by the guards. So from there, what would you like to do? I guess I'd like to whisper to the fold it up bag and ask slip which direction was the office we're actually trying to get to give. Me a stuff check before he answers you and also Zebulon. Just so you know, you do have control of your character, so you can move freely as you wish. Excellent. OK. And what was your role again? I apologize, 18. OK, Yeah, the guards don't hear anything.

37:50 Flip. Which way are we supposed to go? Back in floor records office. Do we know the fastest way there? Otherwise I'm just gonna go left. OK, so into this room, in this room, going to the the left of the entrance hall. This is kind of your stereotypical weapon creating room. I would say more for you like arrows, things like that. This is a lot of those pieces you see sticks, you see you know the feathers, the the pointed ends. No arrows appeared to be finished. Those you could only assume give me a give me an insight check all.

38:39 Right nap 20, Jesus. Christ. Yeah, the there's no finished arrows, but you can only assume that those are transported to the Armory of of sorts. You don't necessarily know where the Armory is, but this room is specifically made for the making of ranged ammo. Sure, makes sense. Also, I think this is obviously the wrong way so I'm going to back out of here before the guards think I'm suspicious. OK and be like oops wrong way I'm going to go to the. Opposite side of them.

39:19 Give me a deception check. There's going to be a lot of deception checks here for you, my friend. Yeah, another 18. OK, Yep, there they are. No worries. And there you go. This way. Yep. OK, this room here appears to be of sorts A almost an art gallery. Give me another insight shack all. Right, that one's a gnat 3. That three, yeah, these, you've never seen these works before, but these were made by Dominion scribes artists.

40:01 You know, you can, you can see some sort of, you know, being a, you're a warlock, correct? Yes, OK. Yeah, you can see some. No, that's Sorcerer. That's what I meant. Yeah. I apologize. That's sorcerer magically inclined. Yeah. You, you notice that some of these pieces have, you know, magical sigils written on them. Not necessarily active sigils, but, you know, that's part of the art. It's just the the art of magic is is some of these portraits. All right. Do I see any other signs of life in this room or do we think this would be a good place to unpack the team? There are a couple people scattered. I mean, I'm not going to, I mean. OK, sure. There was just a couple, yeah, it's just a couple people scattered, if you will, so. All right, well, I think we'll carefully carry on to the next room trying not to bump into any of this art. Sure.

40:55 All right. This room here. Oops. This room here. Well, for God's sakes, here we go. This room here appears to be a almost like a dining hall of sorts, but as of right now there doesn't appear to be anybody in here. All right. Do we want to get out and explore as a team or should I just continue adventuring? How's everybody doing on air in there? As far as I remember we only get like 10 minutes so if you want to.

41:39 Divided by the number of. People. Yeah, yeah, We get like. We get like. 3 minutes, 3 minutes. So you guys are starting to slowly asphyxiate. Yeah, it's like probably time to get out of the hole. All we have to do though is open it and then reclose it and you get a fresh air supply there. OK, well, I would take a moment to do that here then. OK, so you'll open the bag and you'll hear as everybody takes a huge deep. How's it going in there? You're good. Stop me move faster.

42:22 I can get out and kind of sneak my way through so there's more time for air in there. I can also sneak. I am definitely not sneaky. I'll. Be in here if you need me, hey? Does the crew want to split up or do we just press on? So are you all still necessarily, But yeah, are you all still in the bag or who was getting out of the bag? I. Think it's better if we probably don't. We reduce the risk, you know. We're all in the bag.

43:03 Cuz if we need to get out of this, if we need to get out for any reason, it takes a strength 10 check. Yep. A strength check of 10 to force the bag open or the hole open. OK. It's good to know. OK. All right, so you're gonna press on. Yep, into the next room. This looks. Like there might be two doors here, but we're. Yeah, actually. This room's here appears to be almost like a Dominion bath house. This is your just kind of stereotypical washroom. We'll call it. There is a couple people in the the community bath, we'll call it just kind of relaxing after a hard day, we'll say, but this is almost like a a wash house or.

43:56 What's coming? Yes. But not what we're here for. Leave and go back to the other door. OK, this is what appears to be the staircase up. Hey, that's what we're here for. Up we go. Up you go. I'm going to go up. What's that? Listen for commotion. That family's still showing up, so you might want to drop your disguise at this point. That is a good call. I'm thinking guard form or. They don't. I mean, at this point it doesn't. I don't know if it matters.

44:37 Yeah, there's people in here all the time. Sneaky. OK, so are you dropping to your form? I think individually I stand out quite a bit, but I would just try to look like an average human. There's a of. Some sort? There's a a theory or a thought called like the Gray Man, right? Like when the world ends and the shit hits the fan, you want to be as inconspicuous as possible. You want to stand out? Not at all. He's going to be the Gray Man, OK? Yeah, I mean, you know, in your adventurous you've seen hundreds of thousands of of just normal looking people. So you can just take your pick of whoever you you have in your mind and, you know, anamorph your way to being a human.

45:23 So, so OK, so you're going to go up the stairs. That's the plan. All right, so you will arrive. Whoops. Coverall. Coverall. You didn't see that any of that? Where is Zebulon? There he is. So you will arrive at the top of the staircase right here.

46:20 It so we go. Oh, I apologize. Yeah, where you were was the top of the stairs. Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah, it looked like the door is right here, but. Yeah, I I couldn't quite tell. You might be right. Also, ignore the door that's to your left. I'm not quite sure why that's there. All right. All right. So where would you like to go from there? I think I'd like to double track one more time. Do we want the group to get out and proceed as though we're here with purpose, or continue on as a singular, nondescript person? Oh, know that it matters at this point. My concern is that at some point you guys are going to need air again and we need to be.

47:14 In a spot where that's possible to happen and we don't just force our way out of a bag in the middle of a group. Ideally. Yeah, that works for me. Yeah, you can Get Me Out. OK. So before we enter the next room while we're in the stairwell. Sure, you all get out of the bag. Yeah, 117. Year old girl turns into a party. Of for adults. All right, everybody getting out of the bag, give me a stealth check. What if you're not trying to be stealthy yet? Well, I'm basically making sure that you don't biff it and knock something over in the stairwell causing a commotion. I got an 18 + 12.

47:58 That's 30. Got 21. OK, well just say I need to roll with group check that succeeds all right. Vanny, Ben. It's funny fun. All right, so let me grab all of you here. Sisa Castea. How long has it been since slipped the fight with the devil dude? It's only been a few hours. We'll say it's been 3 hours. So what do we say in this room?

48:42 Oh, sorry, go ahead. No nothing, I was talking about the map, sorry. I it says 'cause they have XRP 2 point O. I'm just curious why it said two point O. Because we had to redo your your character sheet, remember? Oh OK, yeah you can delete this all. No, I'm, I'm specifically going to keep it in now. All right. Where would you like to go from there? Is there anything here or is this just an empty room like a hallway? No, there are many rooms in this on this floor. Great.

49:24 But what we can see, it looks like it's just a corridor. I'm sorry, I don't have much of the doors unblocked here. The doors are marked by the. There are door icons on the on them. Oh, OK, yeah. Yeah. Are there any like are they, are they solid doors? Are they half doors? Oh, they're solid. Doors. Are there any of them open? The only door that's open appears to be this one, right? Oh, come on. Right here to the east. OK, I want to look in it like from where I am. So you're does.

50:06 It look like there's records in there. No. In fact, if you're looking into this room and I can actually do this because you can see into it, I'll. Be like here. You see an individual that is flanked by that's that's sitting at a almost out of I guess we'll call it a throne and you know this to be magistrate held with Corin.

50:50 Guys, don't go in there. Casia, why are you standing right in the open? Get around the corner. Because caste is caste is person that is running is just trying out this map thing for the first time I. Don't like caste one? You're done. Say that. Zebulon. Give me an insight check please. 1.

51:34 OK. What do you guys want to do? I think I want to check out this room right next to us. OK, so if you go in the room, you see this to be like a. Look like records. Looks like records. Kind of a secretary's office, if you will. Nothing really, other than just a standard. It's called the humanoid human. You know, I am going to use this. It's not going to be Harkum, but I'm going to just use him as MPC tokens just so that you see that there's people in there. I.

52:43 Think I'm in a motion to slip and be like, is this the room we're looking for? Is that the room we're looking for? Give. Me an insight check. 25. 25 Absolutely not. This is not the room you're looking for. In fact, with the 25, even though you were in the bag, you can still hear everything that's happening outside, correct? Or in the whole. I think so, I don't know. We'll say for forsake of argument that you do you quick.

53:24 You quickly realize after seeing Magistrate Halve of Corin in the the East wing that you're on the third floor. This is the third floor. And is that? The guard told you Helvet was up here on the 3rd. Zebulon, as you enter this, this just kind of a standard office. The the woman seated at the the desk goes Hello, how may I help you? Looking for the second floor and I seem to have gotten myself turned around.

54:05 Did you point me in the right direction? The second floor that's give me one moment and she kind of goes directly by you, sees the three of you. Nope. As soon as I see, as soon as I see her getting out, I'm gonna and she comes out. I'm gonna. No, like a non lethal strike. You're gonna, you're gonna try to. I'm gonna knock her ass out. I was. Gonna say can I try to like trip her with my foot as she wants? No, I'm gonna knock her ass out as quietly as possible. Remember, I only use my hands and my head and my feet and.

54:50 OK, give me an attack roll. OK, all 5 or how much of how many points does she have? She's an old woman, so if you hit her maybe twice it's it's over. On the dice I got a 17-A13A12A9 and A6. OK, so I'm assuming you have a modifier. Modifier more than one? Oh yes, yeah, all five of those hit. OK, Did she get knocked out? Yeah, she comes around the corner and you just like Foosro da her right in the face and. As she's kind of going down, I'm not going to be like I'm. Sorry, are you catching her?

55:37 Oh yeah, I'll give you an acrobatics. Thank you, 23 Yep yeah, you're able to kind of you you pop this old woman in the face and then you're just like I'm sorry, I'm sorry is he just like baby glide her down to the floor I'm. Going to put her in my hole, no? Let's get her back in the chair and give her a pair of sunglasses. Hide her under the desk or in a closet. Aren't you a cleric? OK, so. How is that worse than the hole? She'll suffocate in the hole. I I guess you're right. I guess you're right.

56:18 I guess you're right. I'm sorry. I've never done this before. Is there closet in the the office space? Is. There a red stapler in the office. Definitely a desk. We can just put her asleep under the desk. I just put her to sleep under the desk. Yep. All right. So she will go. I guess we'll just call it night night under the desk and I'm. A quick look around the room, is there anything worth me taking? Yeah. Can we Snoop? Is there anything interesting? Looking for leverage or? Fancy things in in you talk. Oh, in this room, give me give me purse investigation check. Can I do one as well?

57:05 Sure. I took proficiency in that this time. Did I not? Take proficiency I don't have. I've got a -1 in intelligence, so I got a 0. 21. Hold the phone. There's a lot of paper in here. Our second zero of the campaign. All right. Yeah, Zebulon, in fact. You find anything, Zeb? You not only do you not work anything while you're attempting to look for stuff kind of back where you are in the in the back of the room here, you knock over a bunch of shit. Oh.

57:46 Geez, sorry guys. I was, I was going to say that he leaves his papers for that girl. Like he's like, oh wait, this looks like it belongs here. And as all the stuff clatters around, a guard enters and goes. Is everything OK in here? No, I just dropped a bunch of stuff. Does it look like it's OK? Dude it's clumsy. Then my mom. What's going on here? Who are you, God?

58:27 Hit him. Slip hit him. We don't have a reason to be in here. We're no it's a whole time play that all back for me now what just happened Card comes in. What are you doing? Does it look like we're OK? He's dropping shit. What are you doing in here? And then Zambia says hit him slip. That's about it. Yeah. All right, I suppose I don't have much other option. I'll hit him.

59:16 Wait, he's a guard? Yes, one guard. One guard. What's he wearing? What's his weapon? What's all that? So he is wearing a. Almost like male bikini. Yeah, he's wearing kind of a stereotypical kind of breastplate for a guard. He's got a long sword, he's got a crossbow on his back, so he's got the the helmet with the little layer thing as well. Almost thinking of almost kind of like a Roman guard if you will.

1:00:06 Yeah, OK. Yeah. If you don't want to hit him, I can take it back and say that we were here to get some papers and then I tripped. I'm afraid I can't knock him out in one action, but Dems the rules. Dems, the rules, everybody go ahead and roll me initiative. Do I get a surprise round 'cause he said hit him, hit him? No. In fact, you Zebulon announcing your plan doesn't go very well, So no. I disagree 'cause I have a + 12 two initiative, so. It's fine, but I have a question. What?

1:00:56 But about Kazdea, that is not in the room. You're still going to roll initiative, but you're going to have. Thanks. For letting us know you was coming, asshole. You're welcome, I'm around the corner, I didn't know. I'm not paying attention to anything y'all are doing. I'm trying to figure out how we went from floor 1 to floor 3 and past floor 2 completely. This is when I wish portable hole was actually like created a hole. All right, Kazdea, what did you roll? Full initiative. 10. Osisa, Six, slip 26.

1:01:37 Is that beyond? 22 OK. Let's begin. Slip you are first. Thank God. Thank God. Yeah, I'll, I'll, I'll just get all up in his business. So 510, we'll say that's 15 feet. I'll say it again. Go ahead. I'm going to start to attack. OK, So attack 1 is I'm going to not do math unless you tell me I should.

1:02:22 So over 20. OK. I don't even know what my class is over 20? OK, 17. That misses. Miss OK, I'm just gonna roll all of them. Over 20. OK. Over 20. OK OK, so four hits. Yep. OK, over here. So give me just a second. You're good. She just showed up. She wants to roll some dice.

1:03:03 OK, so four hits on the first one I'm going to I'll do my my damage and then so let's see damage detent fix 14 damage. I'm going to write these down so I can do the math 14 force magical. OK, we see you. Good job. And they'll attempt to grapple. So it's you just have to roll athletics or formatics to not be grappled. 22. Hold on, let's make it 813 plus.

1:03:55 Yep, fix seeds. OK, second attack, 16 damage and another grapple attempt. 19. Fails, he's grappled. Third one, another 16 damage. This is going well. So this is starting my flurry of blows now. So I did my 2 attacks and now I'm doing a flurry of blows.

1:04:40 I don't want to, I don't want to push him down, it's loud. I'll just hit him with the last one then. So another 15, OK. All right, so you come at him with four attacks and just dent his armor to the point where it's just cracking and you're able to catch the the weak points in his armor and catch him right in the just jab him right in the ABS and the sides and he's not looking too great. He's like and he's just kind of like wobbling at this point.

1:05:25 Anything else? +2 each magic call? I don't think so. OK, Zebulon. All right, so without spells I'm pretty limited. Is summoning Baxter or something that would trigger this alarm system? That's. That's not a spell, it's like a sword. It's an. Ability. I'm just for flavor and just for sake of time, I'm gonna say no.

1:06:06 You can summon Baxter if you wish. All right, so I'm gonna start by firing my crossbow with the guy. He's still standing. I'm gonna summon Baxter. Sure, go ahead and give me a arranged attack please. That is a Nat 20. Oh, for God's sakes. I'm not. Good without spells. I'm not good without spells. I think this is the first time I've fired the crossbow, like ever. OK, give me AD 12 please. That is a six.

1:06:58 A6 You will do normal critical damage, so you'll get Max dice plus roll the Max damage dice plus another roll of your damage dice. He will lose his reaction till the start of his of your next turn. All right. The roll was 5 + 3 and then D 8, so 8. On top of that you said 16 damage. Yes, 16. All right. Anything else?

1:07:38 If he's still standing, I would summon Baxter. OK, he's. Taken 77 damage so far. I'm just going to use this I guess for Baxter. All right, Baxter goes for the Dominion Flame Guard and unleashes a bite attack. OK, give me an attack roll please. Real quick, because he's grappled. Does Baxter have advantage? No, only I do. OK, gotcha. Gotcha. OK, cool. All right, give me a bite attack for Baxter playing this.

1:08:20 Roll to 19. I think he's got +5. This pink dice is crazy today. I, I, I apologize. What did he roll? After modifiers 24. What a good boy. All right, go ahead. Give your damage please. 86 + 3 One of them was a six. It was a six again. How does Baxter want to do this? Good. Boy, quietly as possible, I guess. But. So, yeah, I mean, what we could say is that he'll bite him into, you know, death, and because he's grappled by Slip, Slip will do the same thing as the poor old woman that you guys attacked and just kind of guide him to the ground.

1:09:07 Obviously costly, costly, costly. As he bleeds out from the neck slowly bleeding. Out from the neck and back. Cool, right? Anyways, other people wanted to investigate this room. This fucker's going in the hole. I put him in the hole, start stopping people. He doesn't need to breathe. Cool. All right, before we continue, let's take a quick break. Say hello to our sponsors. We'll be back here in just a moment with more If Crit happens, Ever Con 2026 is coming, and if tabletop games live in your bones, this is the weekend you should circle on your calendar. Ever Con is Wisconsin's premier tabletop gaming convention. 3 full days of role-playing games, board games, retro gaming, and community all under one roof.

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1:12:34 She's looking to make sure nobody's coming. Sure, Then she's going to go Doo Doo. I can't move my care, but she's going to go back into the room. She's kind of kind of peek her head in and go, what the song is wrong with all of you. We're up one level than we need to be. Let's go back down the stairs and find out where Zebulon went wrong. I'll look up as I'm shoving a body in my hole and I'm going to say I think. We don't have that. You say that again a little louder because the discord. Do you? Do you think we don't know that? No, I mean, I'm sure that you're well aware of it. So shove the man in the bag quicker and let's.

1:13:15 Go and she's going to turn around, she's going to walk back out and back towards the stairs. OK, Before Zebulon knocked everything down, I I rolled the 26. On your investigation. Investigation. Yeah, I have the loot table here somewhere. It's in one of these tabs. All right, roll me AD 20 please. 19 crap I got to hold on a SEC I got.

1:13:58 Delivery here. OK, I'll come back to you then for the for the 19. OK. Are the rest of you going to follow Kasdea? Yeah, I'm gonna like hastily shove some papers back in these drawers and just slam them shut and then head out, OK, down the hall. Flip your following as well. Yeah, OK. OK, Patty CC coming back to you with a 19, you find a what appears to be just a token in one of the drawers. You want me to like investigate on that or perception? Are you going to grab it or?

1:14:58 Well, I'm going to kind of look closer before I just go yoinking something out of this room. Yeah, give me an investigation check. Geez, that would be a sorry math 23. OK, with a 23 it's a dull metal, almost like a button the size of a coin. The side that is facing you is smooth, no?

1:15:42 You're you're getting me worried here, Spencer. You know I'm going to grab it. Sure, why not? I need you to roll me AD 6 please. Looks like our clerk has a case of the sticky fingers. 5. Five, you feel relief kind of waft over you, but you also feel, I will say, exhausted. Now don't worry about exhaustion. We're not talking about exhaustion. You, you get that feeling of exhaustion. You experience a memory echo.

1:16:27 You get the feeling you don't have any images in your head or no words that pop up. You just feel something. So for the next 10 minutes, and for just for flavor and for not having to keep track of time, the next time you make either a Wisdom or Charisma check, you get to make that with advantage. But that check must relate to either memory, truth, loss, or intent. Don't worry, I will send all of this to you. This is a basically a minor wondrous item that you've discovered. So I'll get that written up and sent over to you after session.

1:17:14 Cool. And then I assume then you will follow the others back down the stairs. Yep, I'm sneaking out. Cool. All right, everybody, then we'll take the staircase and you will arrive back to level 1. OK, before we go any further, who's going to be the one that talks if we run into anyone else? I don't know, I'm still trying to figure out how stairs. Work if we have some sort of a cover story for me to go with we're.

1:17:56 Filing a records request. So back into the dining hall area, OK? What? Why is Neros on the? Map My apologies, I grabbed the wrong token for you. Where did you go? Neros is always with us. This is a joke you've somehow spawned down here. I don't know how that happened. I'm going to, I'm going to roll a stealth here just and I'm going to, I'm going to keep to the edges, the shadows, all that kind of thing. Sure, sure, give me a stealth check. And and be slight, you know, a handful of paces behind everyone.

1:18:40 You know what I mean? Gotcha. Really high. Sure. Is it above a 20, 34? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're basically sting around. Don't be suspicious. Don't be suspicious. I'm just singing like Frosty the Snowman, but nobody can see me. Nobody. Can see me, Sure. Yeah, yeah, Yep. You can kind of be sneaky sneaky. Shit. Can Zebulon wait?

1:19:21 No. Well, crap. Anybody's welcome in my hole I was. Going to say the hole I think is our best bet, although now there's a body in there. You'll have company, he might have stuff on him. Yeah, Kaze is getting in the hole. Kaze is like, wait, he might have stuff. Hold on. Oh. Here to be in that bag, mind you, because I have a + 12 to sell, but she's getting in the bag. Yeah, she's like, hold on. That's right stuff. And I'm definitely searching that man. She comes out wearing his face.

1:20:09 I'm just a guard. What are you talking about? You so because they is getting in the bag of Sisa, are you getting in the hole? Doesn't Zebulon have a bag of holding? Yeah. So we could each have 10 minutes holding, or you could each have 10 minutes of breathing. Yeah, I was going to say that that might be a little easier, less, less bag opening. Spencer, give us a 7 1/2 minute mark in game time because if we get to that and we're at a. Half minutes in 2nd 450, all right. 450 / 6. In the bag.

1:20:58 What that? 'D be 75 turns, 75 rounds. I'm just going to set a real a real time for 7 1/2 minutes. Care about out of time, out of game time. All right, so Castaia is getting in the hole. Cease is getting in Zebulon's bag of folding. Yep. OK, well, let's see here. Castaia, you're going to get 10 minutes. There's just in the bag strictly to search this man. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry, is going to get straight 10 minutes tennis. Yep. Yeah. No, because there's a body in your hole. And it's dead.

1:21:43 Doesn't matter. It does matter if it doesn't have to breathe, it doesn't use the air. That doesn't make it any less gross. That's true all. Right. Yeah. Both of you have 10 minutes Mark. All right, go on. If we go ahead, Zab all hang out in the shadows. Yeah, if we don't need anybody to do any talking, I can become invisible with an item. I could activate my Onyx mask. Let's do that. So yeah, I go invisible and we sneak around. Sneaky sneaky. Is this a door over here on the left side?

1:22:23 It is not. Doors are marked but on the map by these wood icons here. OK, as I'm sneaking, if there's anything cool that I should take, I take it. It's really not. I mean, you're about to enter a room filled with art. Maybe there's people in this room. I'm aware. So there's guards here. How tall are the ceilings? They're about 10 feet 10 feet high, 1515 feet high do. The guards have the visors on the little visor helmet thingies. Yeah. OK, I'm going to from this point, I'm going to have to do it here. So from this point, I'm going to hit the wall here, run up the wall to the ceiling and run along the vertical surface on the ceiling through that, and then stop here and come back. Using using what?

1:23:28 Using my monk like abilities. Does that require any sort of check? No, it's like I just can't stop moving. OK, so you're going to come down through the door on the left? No, well on the other side. Oh wait, no, that's we have to go over here. Hold on, I got to count feet here, so if I start here 5101520253035 so I could get in there easily. Well, you know what? I'm just going to sneak. OK, so give me a stealth check then. 30.

1:24:12 OK, yeah, you sneak cross. I rolled a 13. I can't see my my marker anymore because they put it in the shade. OK, Zebulon, are you, what are you doing? Yeah, I'm invisible. So I'm just going to like quietly, slowly make my way into that other room. Are you are you entering at the same time as slip? Probably before slip so that I could open the door. OK, I'm going to have you give me a stealth check with advantage because you are invisible. That is, I don't know.

1:24:59 Let me check my modifier quick. That's a 30. 30 All right, you get through the door just fine. Both of you enter. And neither of us are. Rogues, both of you enter. We're going to call this like a Dojo like area. This is kind of like a training center. You see a lot of, you know, Marshall weapons, you know, practice. I don't know what they call those things, but practice like rapiers, catanas, things like that, swords with, you know, the, the tips have like a like a foam thing on the tip and on the sides to protect the the trainees. Cool, so I'm seeing markers Correct? There's just one door at the end of the hall. Oh no, there's a door on the left. 2 here. I think we should proceed across the hall. It looks like that would be the easiest way to stay away from everybody else.

1:26:19 For you, I have to keep the shadows in shape, so in this room I'll run on the ceiling and then go straight across to get over to the other side so I don't have to sneak past either of them, OK? Both of you, Zebulon, give me a stealth check with advantage. Jesse, I am going to have you make me a stealth check because you did enter the room through stealth. I'm going to say that you I want to have make me a stealth roll to. Finally. To, to, to be able to do that move that you're going to do with the monk a bill, right?

1:27:02 I mean, it would make sense to have to maintain myself, right? You know, and especially anytime I do something drastically different than what I was doing previously, right, 31. OK, that passes sub. 29. 29 all right you're both are sneaky, sneaky little boys so all right I'm. A woman. Sneaky little boys. All right, you find here a fucking Chapel. The Chapel. Cesar, we found your house.

1:27:49 Cesar, we found your house. That's what. Dude, do you want to investigate around here or just turn around? I'll do a quick perception, like like a thorough look before I move any further, any further into the room. Just like looking for what might appear to be trick doors, trap doors in the ceiling, things like that. Sure. Something that looks really shiny and precious and valuable, those kinds of deals.

1:28:32 So I got a 25. So you're looking to see. If there's anything of value, do I understand that correctly? Anything of value that I can see and and more importantly focusing on like trap doors, hidden doors, OK, anything like that, but from where I'm standing from. Where you are standing? What did you roll? 25. 25 From where you are standing, no. OK, I'm going to go back out, sneak my way around the corner here, wait till this guy goes somewhere else or does something different so I can get past him. Tap him on one side of the shoulder and then he looks one way and you can go the other way. Yeah, let's do that.

1:29:31 Yeah, both of you. Give me a self check please. Nat Nat 20 No. Way there's no shot both of you rolled in Nat 20 at the same time. 37. Oh, for God's sakes. All right, Yeah, you both sneak in. They're just fine. All right, so you sneak into this room here and this. We make the perfect infiltration team. This is the room of a captain. This is his office.

1:30:14 Man, it looks like there's treasure in here. And he immediately upon so is making sure Zebulon, you are invisible slip you are. What would following the previous, like, order of operations, Zebulon would have kind of nudged the door open or got the door open, and then once it was clear and apparent that I could slip in undetected, I would do that and get around a corner or something and, you know, hide him over here. I see what you did there, OK.

1:30:54 Oh boy. We both got Nat 20s, yeah. That's right. I rolled an 18 for a perception. Yeah, he comes. He still will stand up and kind of walk over and go. Who? Hello. Who opened my door? And he'll, he'll come up here, open the door. Hey, did you hear anything? That's what I thought too. I didn't see anybody go in. Well that's weird. The door just opened by itself. I'm taking as much stuff as I can find right now. Like rifling through this chest over here. Yeah, both while he's distracted and talking out the door. Yeah, both of you can give me a investigation shock. 23/5 I find more than you.

1:31:50 Yeah, Zeb, you're not going to find much. You'll find maybe 10 gold. OK From there before we go any further. Hey Osisa and Kasdea. I'm going to open the corner of my handkerchief too. What's the handkerchief? You're both starting. The handkerchief. The handkerchief is the part of the hole. Oh OK, yeah, you're both starting to suffocate. Well, not anymore. I opened the corner of the handkerchief. OK, so guys, day is no longer suffocating, right? You can open the bag of holding also.

1:32:32 OK, the Leto sees and die. Does that mean that's like ha ha. Fuck a shoulder smaller, the air will last longer. Sorry guys, my bad. Are you planning to kill me? Mean no. OK, because there's here and more fun ways to do it. I'm going to need both of you to give me a stealth Jack. Done. Amazing. I love that for me. I need to make a stealth check.

1:33:15 Nope just cause Diane and slip because I'm having a conversation quite literally next to the guard so. OK, well I just got an AD 20 + 12 is 32. Yeah, I got, I got 31, so. I think we're fine. I have a + 7. Starting to hate your dice. I really AM. Holy shit. OK yeah both of you are fine. Are you? Are both CSUN caste staying in the bags? For now for. Now, OK, all right, So Zebia, unfortunately, you're not going to find anything slip.

1:33:57 Give me AD 100 please. 71. You find a small gemstone appears to be red in nature, almost like red with black kind of streaks through it. Not necessarily cracks, but it gives off the appearance of cracks. Cool, I take it. OK. Put it in my pocket. Yeah, it's a small gemstone worth 50 gold. That's that's what it's worth. Cool. And specifically so at this point, I will, I will understand that we've been in every door.

1:34:47 Correct. And I'm so I'm looking. All doors that you have found. Yeah. Seeing that this is, you know, what appears to be a guard captain in his quarters, I'm going to pay special attention to any that I'm going to say use it Cardinal directions here, the north and the W wall looking for something just because I know that the east wall is where we came from and the South wall is is where that fletching room would have been. So while I'm doing my investigation, I'm paying a special close attention to those two walls.

1:35:31 Yeah. Real quick, that was the word I've been looking for for about two hours now. So thank you for that. I've been trying to figure out what the word was Fletching was the room I was looking for. So all right, cool. Go ahead and give me an investigation check. Is that if you want to assist, you can you can give them a help action or if you want to look by yourself, that's up to you. Does help give me advantage? Yes. OK, you also so. So go ahead and roll with advantage. But the good news or the bad news? I swear to God if you say that you rolled a natural 20, I'm going to lose my mind. I wrote the natural one and a natural 20. OK, Spencer died.

1:36:23 No, I'm about to. Yeah. There's a there's a secret door behind the behind kind of a painting that's just on the the W wall here. There's a there's locked. You can certainly try to open it if you want. Yeah, I will. OK, yeah, it opens. Give me a stuff check both of you when. Are you going to learn to stop asking me for that? I don't have other options. Fine, make me a nature check. What do you want from me?

1:37:05 19 well. Here's what you're going to be with advantage, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's, it succeeds anyway. So I mean. OK, I got I got 32 all. Right. So you rolled A-15. Good to know. All right. Yeah, Both of you going in this room. Yeah, and I'm closing the door behind me. OK. Putting the picture, putting the picture back, yeah, Then closing the. Door. Oh my, we're in the vault. Well shit, that's not a staircase.

1:37:49 I'm definitely going to inspect this chest, trapped or otherwise alarmed. Yeah, I'll, I'll try it for traps, OK. Give me a What is that in 5 E? Is that a sleight of hand check? I know. That's for. Like disabling traps. Yeah, disabling sleight of hand finding them is either perception if they're visible or probably investigation. Yeah, you can make me either perception or investigation, whichever you want. I rolled another 15, so 30.

1:38:29 It's definitely not a mimic. OK, 13. Right, but is it trapped? No, no. The trap does. It's, it's not trapped because you know, it's behind him in a secret door behind a painting, No. And is it locked? Is it locked? I mean you can. There appears to be a lock, a locking mechanism on it. OK, not trapped. OK, I'm going to open it. I'm going to be like, I think it's on. I think it's not trapped. I'll open it and take the hit if it needs to. It's locked, I'll unlock it. OK, being proficient with thieves tools and all do.

1:39:12 You have thieves tools do. You have bonus on it. Sure as hell do. Plus 12. OK, same here. Go ahead and. Roll. You want to do it? I'll assist you. We each have one lock pick in the thing. Yeah. Some weird kind of like crossing the streams moment with you too. I mean, who wants to make the roll? Go for it. All right, Zeb, go ahead and give me a hand check with advantage. With advantage. Advantage didn't help but I got a 21. So with the 21 the chest becomes unlocked, however as you are turning the locking mechanism on the last lock it unlocks it but it breaks your thieves tool.

1:40:07 All right, something to buy when we get back home. OK, boy, I'm. Going to open up my hole. OK. You stay, get some air in there, start time roller, sure. Yeah, good idea. OK, same. All right. Both of you can roll me AD 20 please. 19 I got an 18. Zebulon with an 18 you find a gem studded drinking cup and has a dedication etched on to the side that says captain some something. I don't have my random NPC book with me it it has the captain's name on it.

1:41:06 Give me an insight chat. That 20? Wow. This this cup is worth a lot. Noted. It goes into the bag of holding until I cease to be careful with that. Jesse, you slept with a 19. You find a map tube that contains a map inside. Cool, I don't wish I had a drinking cup. Yeah, I'll open it.

1:41:55 Pull a tank right out of my bag and hand it to slip. Here you go. I'll trade you, I'll have him. I'll hand him a pair of these tools. Oh, you have more than one? Oh I always take 5. With him opening the bag then does that reset the timer? Sure does. Awesome, yes. Oh, she says, and they're just counting on her hand, like making little marks in the wall. One second, two seconds. OK, what's this map? The map appears to be a showing the route to a hit site or an asset.

1:42:49 Of what? You're not quite sure, but it does say on the top of the map. It does say on the top of the map code name Starry Belt I. Want that? All. Right. I think we got to sneak back out of here now. I think we do. Do we want to? So at this point I feel like we got 2 two things that have to happen, so we need to get to this.

1:43:30 Before we move any further, do you guys want to take a run at the chest for the other two in the holes? I think that would be a great idea. I'll make it kind of Fair because right now all all those Caesar and Caste are doing is chilling. So either if either you guys want to roll or I'll let Osisa and Caste make the roll as well, whatever you want to do. I think we'd have everybody get out and search through the loot with us, sure. OK, thanks. And I'm not going. To you know why is this? Choice because wouldn't that mean more perception checks and and stealth? Yeah, there's nobody.

1:44:12 In this room so and the door is closed so I mean we can do something online so we know Slip and Zebby on they go. I'll, I'll keep, I'll put the so you actually have to open the portable hole, right And like unfold it and put it against the surface. Like if you've seen the new DND movie, they have a portable hole kind of that's not exactly it, but So what I'll do is I'll put it over the door that we came in. So even if somebody came in, the only thing they could go into is the hole I. AM. OK.

1:44:56 Yeah, go ahead. So, all right, so Sisa, go ahead and make the roll For what? Make AD 20? Nope, just AD 20. Roll. You're you're looting. You're looting the chest. Yeah. 20. Dear God. Yes. Alcisa, I'm going to come back to you. Castea Romo, D, Twos. OK. Alcisa you get a pet air elemental. 19 I'm going to make you also fine. Yeah, I'm going to make you roll again.

1:45:39 Nat 20. Oh my God. The dice are with us. Yeah, I'm going to say both of you find the captain's personal reserve in the in the chest, there's a little secret compartment that folds down and both of you find 1000 gold. That's that's how we're going to do it, girls. Nice. Did anybody find a map of this place? I feel like we're missing stairs.

1:46:22 Forsake of time slip, I'm going to feed you a little bit of Adm information from the heavens with your investigation check that you made in the Chapel. There was nothing that you could see, but you got the sense that there was something more to this room. Like based on where we've been so far, there has to be a door either to our north, now the north of the captains, or somewhere in that Chapel. Correct. You know, from taking the staircase to the third floor. You you can I tell you what? Give me an insight shack. I can do that.

1:47:04 I swear to Jesus if you say Nat 20 I'm going to lose my mind. They do the math. I don't know if I like you doing the math, it just makes it worse I think.

1:47:50 Are you doing fractions? What's happening here? All right, sorry, we've had to send a picture in the chat. Oh. God, nice. You said I couldn't say it, so I didn't. It's a 20 I love. Yep, look at that 20. Nice and shiny, all right? So I got a 30 total. Yeah. All right. You know that based on where you've been so far in this on the 1st floor that there's something between the staircase and the Chapel. You guys, there's something between the staircase and the Chapel. So in the Chapel, on the right wall, right side wall, I'm guessing there's something there, something to do up there you get. That mean I'm getting.

1:48:34 Back in the bag, Back in the bag. Can't say it's going to get back in the bag. OK, why don't we set in the mark for getting back in the bag right now? All right, then we begin our escape. Reactivate invisibility, nudge the painting out of the way. OK. I'm going to wait inside here until because I'm sure the guard is back in his chair by now. Yep, give me stealth checks, please, Zebulon. I'm going to make you have it with a normal rule because he is absolutely back in his chair, all right. So OK, I am going to the gas station after this just so you all know.

1:49:25 But I did roll another 20. I am buying lottery tickets. Yeah, you want to buy me a couple? Bring them over. Fantastic. It's going to be amazing. Holy hell I got a 19. Shit, I might as well put some money down on the freaking game tonight because apparently the luck is with everyone tonight. So all right, I'll. Go see the Doctor's library. I'm going Seahawks because it's like a the odds are worse, which means if I win, it's better. That's true. I should check the odds. But anyway, yeah, you both successfully make it out. So you guys are going to go to the Chapel. I'll just let you guys for the sake of time. We're running a little bit low on time. Can I kind of guard on the way through? Can you what?

1:50:06 Coup de grace when it was a 3A3O35 thing where if someone was completely on, like if they were asleep right, completely unsuspecting, you get an automatic set of crits. Yeah, we'll say you coup de grace. That's fine. All right, I'm going to create him five Times Now. OK, he will die. It's like getting fan of snapped. He just dies. I'm not going to say I did it. I'm going to wait till Zebulon's just like walking out the door. I'm going to do it and then I'm going to open my hole and throw him in too, and I'm just going to look at Kazdea in there and just kind of put my finger to my mouth and go.

1:50:49 Kazdea's eyes are going to light up and she's quite quietly clap. And then just go digging around this man's outfit looking for you've. Probably got a cool sword. I'm going to send it. You're not magical, but at least it looks cool. All right, and I'm going to. Well, not that one. Nope. Nothing over here. All right, We're investigating. OK. Do we have to deal with this priest, or are we sneaky enough to get past them? You think? I got to draw the line at killing a priest. This didn't stop you last week, Yeah. The priest?

1:51:37 Yeah, you guys won't. Just doing priestly things. Right, right, right. He's, he's busy doing all his stuff. Correct all. Right, all right, investigate this wall, I guess. All right. Give me investigation checks please. 17/9 Nat 17 Yeah, so whatever that is 24. OK. And nine you find in staircase. Yeah. All right, my. Door and creep in. Don't know why my contact couldn't have told me that there is no second floor to the public. OK.

1:52:25 It is pertinent information, but we're here now. We're here now and happy to be here. So all right, you guys arrive to a very, very dark, dark floor. Funny for that, I actually thrive in the darkness. Darkness Sorcerer does not mind one bit. Oh, what? You're a shadow sorcerer? I'm I'm I'm a Way of the Shadow monk. You could dump out the T fling and I have dark. All of a sudden the room is as bright as can be.

1:53:09 It's so bright, it's weird. It's so bright. It's like the sun is right there. Oh. Well, mostly for me, I have. I'm OK in fight. But there's like, I can't do anything right and I hate my life. Oh, no, this is this is the kind of thing I love. You guys think outside the box and yeah, yeah. So quick perception, right? So our markers aren't down there yet, but quick perception just to see what I can see or see what we can see. And mostly looking for signs of this, this floor being populated, right?

1:53:56 Is this a, is this a used floor or is it like a hidden archive that people don't go to often? Sure. And what what role were you going to do again for that? I'll do a quick perception first because I'm I'm just looking though I will be I guess. I don't know where the where we came up. Looks like there's 2 doors. You came up. I apologize. Let me get your tokens up here. Zebulon and Slip. You look really small. Yeah, I do have your small. Have you small because the I made this map with the a program I have that I got from a Kickstarter.

1:54:38 It's a module, A modular building thing. So it made you guys smaller because otherwise you'd be like on the map, you'd be like this big. So this is a door here, right? Are we pretending it's not a door? We are. Pretending that's not a door. OK. So then I'll go to like this location here to do like my first set of perception. And then here I'll do another one left, right down kind of thing. Yeah, you get the feeling I'm not going to make you roll. You can take a passive. You get the feeling that this floor, as far as you could tell without entering any of the rooms, is pretty much empty with within just the like the corridors itself, they appear to be empty.

1:55:29 I'm going to look at all the door handles to see which one's most heavily used and if I can get a feel of the last time that door was open. Yeah, sorry, which door you're going to? I'm going to go. I mean, if I can't see anybody or anything, I'm going to sneak my way through, check each one kind of individually. This one up here and this one and this one's all counterclockwise basically. We'll start with the top one, that room that the doorknob you said you're checking. Yep, and like the the the the entryway right? For if there's like dust in front of the door, then I know people haven't walked through here often. Yeah, it's pretty dusty. OK, go to the next one.

1:56:16 That room appears to be that seems to be a little bit more used. Can I get any feel for how like recent? Give me an investigation check. I don't know. With row one. I did. Yeah, you don't. You have no clue. Should we let the people in the bags out if there's nobody here? Yeah, that's kind of what I'm trying to get at. So I'll, I think we'll finish the quick, the quick rotation of all the doors.

1:56:59 Boom boom Zebulon look like you were kind of doing the same thing. Yeah, inspecting this area. But he got that one on the on the West wall or east wall? Yep. SE wall and then down the hallway probably. Zebulon, this room that you're looking at right here, what's your passive? I think 10 give. Me a perception check please. Sticks. Take your pass it. Not a good investigator guys. Yeah, this this room appears to to you to be not that used. Well, I think I should let my teammate out of the bag and. Yeah, if everything looks like mostly unused, but you know, a handful of things that are used, I'm going to crack the the portable hole open and be like, I think, I think you can come up at least for the most part.

1:58:00 We're alone, but we haven't gone in any of the doors yet. I say we'll we'll reconvene right here. OK. In the middle fine good. So I'll relate kind of what I saw that this top northwest door, not much traffic going in and out the South, the door South of that looks like there's a little bit more traffic coming to what happened on this other right here. Which one? This one. That door, same thing it appears to be.

1:58:42 Out of all the doors you've searched, that appears the one that's the most used. OK, this one's most used SO123 as far as sorry, one 2/3 as far as most used to least used. After that detailed explanation I'm going to just be like, I don't know, it looks pretty dusty to me too. Can I roll an insight on confidence in that statement? Yeah, go for. It 23. Not great. I'm gonna say, oh, OK, cool, cool, cool. And as you know, as they're kind of reconvening, I'm going to go check these doors again.

1:59:26 OK, give me what's your passive against 20? Some some ungodly number. Our passive investigation is 17, perceptions 25. Yeah, with the 17 on your investigation, this door right here. Yep. Is used quite a lot this one as well. OK, what about the one down the hall? This one. No, no, this hall. Oh, this one. Yeah, it looks like there's a door in the bottom left of that hallway. What door? Right here, The one you just covered up. Yeah. What door? There's no door in there. You're crazy.

2:00:07 There's actually no door there. I very. Oh, OK. I was like, bullshit, I'll come back and be like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, good, good call, good call. Except these two actually are used quite a bit. Really at? Least that's what I saw. Well, I trust your judgement. I don't know anything about it. Which one's the most heavily used out of a out of those two? They're used. They appear to be used almost in tandem. And we got a Anyway, I got some dice evens we go in the the top one odds we go in the bottom. Or we could split up I.

2:00:53 Think I've got some dice in my bag somewhere? OK, so you're going to roll dice on the wooden floor, correct? And roll in your hand. Rolling them in your hands. OK, give me a Dexterity check please, Dice. Over to Slip. I'll catch the the the dice. OK, 15. 17A Dexterity or Athletics? Dexterity or Acrobatics? Straight Dexterity. 17, OK, yeah. You're fine.

2:01:36 So you gotta catch the dice and then like flip it on the back of your other hand like it's. Yeah, that's what I did. Is it even or not? It's an odd. Then we go down to the bottom one. OK, so you're going in the door. Well, I'm gonna, I'm gonna check for traps. OK, give me either a perception investigation check. 27. It ain't trapped.

2:02:17 I'm gonna not open it but like turn the handle or whatever the the mechanism to see if it is unlocked. Yep, it's unlocked. Look back and be like it's unlocked. After you. Yeah, I'll, I'll crack it just enough to put my, you know, slip my body through, slip my body through and look for the first thing that I can like, hide in and get in there and start hiding, OK? Well, as you enter this room, this is a jail cell. Is there anybody in here?

2:03:06 No, not at the moment. There is, however, with your passives. There is the remnants of a struggle, we'll call it, in the West corner of the West, the wall of this room. Not my fight. I'm leaving, not staying in there. Yeah. OK. Do the same thing. Check for you know whatever, then then check the handle for it being locked or not. Give me a perception or investigation check please. A lot. OK.

2:03:47 How are you going in? Is it locked? No. Yeah, same thing, right? Open it just enough. Like quietly. I'll do like Dexterity or whatever to open it as quietly as possible, just enough to slip my body through and find the 1st place to hide in. OK? This is a torture chamber. This one's even worse than the last. Nope. Out. I'm out of here. Is there anything cool in here? It was just because they've had enough torture some knives. She's on now.

2:04:28 Yeah, I'll leave. That's a matter of opinion, I think. This is the next most used one over here. Yeah, let's let's all check a different door this time. OK, Zebia on. Are you checking that door? Yep, I'm going to activate my invisibility and then freak the door open and take a look around. All right, all right, Invisibility. You'll open the door. This is the Records office. Of course. Hey. Least use room out of all of them all. Right.

2:05:10 All right, Is anybody in here or does it look? Pretty nice. Nobody's in here yet. It's abandoned. All right, I'm going to motion to the rest of the team to come investigate with me. I want to say, OK, you guys, hang on now. We're looking for victim identities, where to find them, all that kind of stuff. But that's only half of our job here. We still got to get what's his? Fuck Corin. Is that his name? Corin. Yeah, Halvis Corin, correct. I can take Asda, sneak my way back to that room and then grab him and dip out if you all think you 2 can get out of here with what we need in time or not in time, just undetected I guess.

2:06:07 My track record with investigations thus far has not been great. I would not trust this job to just me. How you looking Aussiesa? I have AI have a + 6 on investigation. I could, I could give it a shot. It's up to you guys. Or we can flip the roles too, like I'm fine looking in here if someone else wants to try to go get them. Otherwise we can maintain together. But you know, we run the risk of all being caught then. I think I'd rather have the whole team together than split if something goes sideways. Yeah, I think in case he's harder to incapacitate than we expect.

2:06:57 It works for me. Best I have everybody. He probably has guards and other stuff like that so better safe than sorry. OK, so now I think looking around. Investigate this room. Yep. Yeah. All right. I need everybody to specifically point to me where they are investigating. So is everyone. You're in the top. Yeah, you're in the towards the top left corner of the room. Tasdea, you are. I don't know what you did there. You doodled. Yeah, you doodled. You're looking at the bookshelf on the South wall.

2:07:37 Slip here in the top right hand corner behind. The cover this area. And then I'll see, Sir, are you covering just kind of that entrance area there? Kasdea can do this whole box here. Yeah, that's. What I'm saying? See. So you're on mute. Did we lose her? Oh, there she is. I'm back, had some laptop issues. Quick for a second, what were you saying? We're all searching like a an area.

2:08:18 I'm doing top right, Zed's doing top left because dad's doing that middle bottom part. So if you want to take like where you are that bottom left or the bottom right, I'm. Right. Cool. OK, go ahead And everybody give me an investigation check. I got a 10 OK and. That'll be a 23. OK, Slip. Started doing math.

2:09:01 I didn't roll to this right now. Investigation 16 + 7. OK, Isaiah. 28. OK, Zebulon Slip and Osisa, give me AD 100 roll please. Oh boy, come. On Jeez. 26. OK, we'll start with I'm sorry, 26 for you, Zeb. You find just a couple of rusted buckles and old papers that really have no rhyme or reason slip. What did you roll again?

2:09:55 93. Jesus. You find a potion. You find a potion of greater healing. Oh, Sisa. Did did it not come through? I, I, I'm sorry, did you, did you put it somewhere? Yeah, it showed up on the map when I did it through Yeah, I. Was like it was 13. OK 13. You find a bunch of cracked lenses and glass like glasses, those kind of things. Nothing really of use to you as Daya.

2:10:40 You spend quite a lot of time rifling through these books and these papers. And as you're kind of going one by one through these books, you find a book and it clicks and behind you on the the shelf behind you, right about here, a small platform kind of raises up and inside this container you find a kind of a a Manila ish folder.

2:11:29 OK. I'm going to go over and I'm going to take it. OK, you find a classified dossier and in this folder, are you going to open it? Yes. OK. You find the images of some different people, we'll call them, and each one starting with #1 is a confidential Dominion record. Each one of these are the names and known whereabouts of the victims of held of corn.

2:12:53 OK. I'm going to share this information with the party. It's funny you mention that. So you're going to go through the list 1 by 1? Yeah. Well shit, I know what's going to happen. So, so the first photo that I shared, it is so all these will be in the chat, but we'll go through these one by one. The first one is her name is Tessa Marin. The claim to be charged is harboring unsanctioned spell work.

2:13:37 She was sentenced to indefinite labor. His status is alive. He is located within the Cinderfold query of the Action Belt in the Penal Detailed division. I apologize, I think I missed. Jude Yeah, you did. This is page 2. Yeah, yeah. So that's the second victim. My apologies. The first victim, if we revert just a bit, if you will, their name, his name is Aldrich Fenro. He was charged with seditious speech and unauthorized record keeping. He was publicly sentenced and his memory was seized. He was executed via sanctioned flames from the Dominion. And then again, the 2nd victim, Tessa Meron, The 3rd victim, It'll actually load here.

2:14:46 Oh come on, it's not that big of a file, for God's sake. I can hear you now. Hello everybody better everything's fine everything's not breaking everything's fine I. Think you're OK now? OK, cool. Let's try reloading that image again. There we go. OK Third victim is Garen Vore. He was charged with conspiracy with the syndicate. He was sentenced to death by Inquisition. He is located in an unmarked Dominion compound. The 4th victim no.

2:15:29 He's not. He's located in deceased. Yeah, but that's where his body is located. Oh, got it. The God sakes thing won't cooperate with me today. There we go, the 4th victim. Her name is Elra Vance. She was charged with forged travel writs and assistance to dissidents. She was sentenced to exile. She is known to be alive in the Vernet Rift, last located near the Thornville Crossing.

2:16:23 We literally did all of these things today. Forgery of documents. Slander. And as you turn the page to the 5th victim, this is a heavily, heavily redacted page. The image is not there. It has been removed by the order of the Dominion. At the time of sentence of this victim, he was known to have been about nine years old. He was charged with inherent liability and a future classified as a future sedition risk. His name?

2:17:10 Orion Vexhart, and that's where we're going to end. Tonight's episode of Crit happens. Mother. Oh, I got a little bit of my chin, a little tingle there. We'll have a little bit to talk about here on the net 20 and unwind. Thank you everybody so much for listening. You can follow us on our socials, which you can find all of those on our website crit happens dot show. So from everybody here at the P3 Podcast network, I am Spencer Hart and we will see you next time. Bye bye. Bye, bye, bye.

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