[Bonus] "That Thing We Found" Part 2/5

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Kipo 0:01

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Wylie 1:21

And we have that map brought up in our little service here. And I have the rooms are not numbered in any particular order other than one, two, and three are the first doors or would um presenting to you as you arrive. Um so it would make sense to either enter through one, two, or three, but you guys can choose which room you want to enter, and I will uncover them and I will put your little player characters out there now so we can move them around too.

Brad 1:49

Just for the record, um, all of the road snacks are gone. And Gordon has eaten every single one of them. Except for one macaron that he forced uh is it your character Alan to eat. To try and make him see that macarons are really good. Yep. Instead of him not thinking they're great. So uh so yeah, so yep.

Kipo 2:15

Okay. Yep, uh, yep, uh that's uh that's um that's about the same as it was the last time I had it. Thank you very much.

Brad 2:28

Gordon is very offended.

Wylie 2:30

When you get to be this age, everything just tastes like cardboard.

Mimir 2:34

Takes out his dentures. Um there any like tracks or anything in the snow?

Wylie 2:40

Um yeah. As you arrive, it looks there's definitely tracks. I mean, it's a research center and they've been walking around outside too, so there's um, you know, pr a pretty normal amount of tracks. How fresh. Looks like there's definitely some from today. Just you know.

Brad 2:57

Um can uh from looking at the buildings, can Gordon tell if any of them are the kitchen?

Wylie 3:03

Um so mainly you can see one, two, and three. If you want to walk around the entire exterior, um I would let you, you know, walk around the entire exterior and do a bit of an investigation check. And maybe you can determine the vents. Um but um I don't know if how Jared feels about that, if he's worried about offending the potential residents.

Mimir 3:24

I want you to see if you know anybody, and then we can just get a tour inside. So why don't you just go in and um knock on the door on number two, maybe?

Brad 3:35

Oh I guess that's okay. Maybe my my my uncle Boris will be here. I'll I'll I'll I'll check. I'll check and see. I'll just I'll knock on the door.

Wylie 3:48

Okay. Do you knock on the door of number two?

Brad 3:49

Yeah.

Wylie 3:50

Okay. You go up and you bang on this metal door and you hear loud metal banging echo. You know it's a pretty loud knock, but you don't hear any movement or anything inside. Nobody comes to the door.

Brad 4:05

Okay, I go walk around this time.

Mimir 4:08

Wait, wait, wait. You only tried one door. There's two other doors.

Brad 4:13

Um Gordon proceeds just to walk, doesn't care anymore. He's gonna find the kitchen. Okay.

Mimir 4:18

Uh yeah, we'll accompany uh accompanying him, I guess. Um, because I don't want to like split up. Um Okay.

Wylie 4:26

You march around the entire exterior and you you can roll an investigation check. You know what you're looking for.

Mimir 4:31

Can I give him the help action as a bonus action? Sure, yeah. Just in case. Using your skills, you're look- you ask them what to look for in a kitchen, what kind of air vents and about 10. And so with the help, you get to roll with advantage, so you can roll again. Take the highest one. Twenty! Let's go! Natural twenty.

Wylie 4:52

So you guys just walk to the back. And you can immediately tell that number ten is the kitchen. And just like your base, each individual room, you know, each individual little silo has doors to the exterior. So you'll you're able to um come over and go inside room ten. I assume you guys all head in there.

Mimir 5:15

Yep.

Wylie 5:16

Okay. Yes.

Mimir 5:17

This is where Gordon pointed us, and he knows everybody as ever existed, supposedly.

Wylie 5:23

So this is the kitchen. And I'm gonna make you guys a little smaller. Head on inside. Okay, and then I'll describe our scene. Okay, so as you enter room 10, the kitchen, um, you can tell that scattered on the floor are diced root vegetables. Um on the stove there is a skillet, and there's it there's fire cooking underneath it. It's gas stove, and you can see the flames, and so whatever was in this skillet is totally burnt to a crisp. There are singe and fire marks all around the stove. Um, give me an investigation check.

Mimir 6:12

All of us?

Wylie 6:13

Okay.

Brad 6:15

I got an eleven.

Kipo 6:16

Eleven? Eight. Eight.

Mimir 6:19

Uh thirteen.

Wylie 6:22

Thirteen. Okay. Um you don't notice it right away, but as you're walking, suddenly your foot kind of slips out from underneath you, and you look down and you notice there's this weird fuchsia jelly on the floor. Um, for anybody living in Alaska, it looks like fireweed jelly. So it has that same kind of bright fuchsia pinkish red color. Um, and so that's there's this kind of weird jelly on the floor. Um, and if you guys want to describe how else you're investigating the kitchen, I might give you more information.

Brad 6:58

Um Gordon actually just starts to eat what all was like burnt and all of the the food that's been out. Um, so he starts to eat it just to taste, you know, from another chef. Like how how how well is this person cooking, you know?

Wylie 7:15

And so um so you taste the the different raw vegetables that are on the floor and start to see how fresh his uh his produce guy is. Like does the produce guy get it in quickly or you can tell that they're I mean they're root vegetables, so it's kind of hard to detect some freshness, but um you do realize, oh, there's like some fresh mushrooms in here. Um and you I assume you go up onto the skillet that's on the stove.

Brad 7:42

Right. I I examine well, I I eat what's in there as well as examine how well is he taken care of his cast iron skillet.

Wylie 7:50

Um so you can tell that skillet there's not actually any food in there. And even though it's quite burnt, the food that was maybe in there was not burnt into that pan. So it's just the oil that was on the pan um that has burned. Um so there's vegetables scattered everywhere, and there's this burnt skillet without actually any food in it.

Brad 8:11

Uh also Gordon goes up to the uh the jelly. Uh is are there any crackers or anything around?

Wylie 8:19

Um, no crackers.

Brad 8:20

No crackers. Uh then he's gonna take a finger and just taste the jelly.

Wylie 8:24

Okay. Okay.

Brad 8:25

Yeah.

Wylie 8:25

Um give me a perception check to see if you figure out what this is saving through.

Mimir 8:31

I thought that's what it was going to be. I was like, he's dead.

Wylie 8:34

It's a two no um this jelly has really exciting flavors. You did not expect that. Um it honestly like it's a spice. It kind of sort of like hot honey, like it actually burns your mouth. Um and you think it might be a little sweet, but uh mostly a little bit of burning.

Gordon 8:58

Okay. Hey guys, this is quite spicy. You should you should try some of this jelly.

Jared 9:03

It's like gonna eat crown jelly there, Mr. Gordon.

Brad 9:09

It it's uh a whole new flavor concept here. Uh it's kind of burning.

Kipo 9:14

Yeah. Since we walked in, Alan is still struggling to get his coat off.

Jared 9:19

Don't take off your coat yet. We're only here for a little bit there.

Kipo 9:24

He starts putting it back on. He starts putting everything back on.

Mimir 9:32

You didn't even get the full coat off. How is it taking me longer to put it back on? Um, I'm gonna see if there's any signs of like struggle or like weapons that have been used. I'm gonna have a full security guard mode, so that's kind of what I'm looking for.

Wylie 9:46

Um yeah, like there are definitely knives thrown onto the floor. Okay. Um like you can't really tell if they were actually being used or they were knocked over. Um it definitely feels like something chaotic happened in here.

Brad 10:01

Yeah. Um while he's looking around, Gordon just gets a bowl and scoops all of the jelly into it and just proceeds to keep eating it with his finger. Uh and and weirdly enjoying the burns.

Mimir 10:20

Uh I'm gonna go up to door nine. I don't think there's anything in here for me. Um I know Gordon wanted to come in here, um, but yeah, I'm gonna go up to door nine and see if what's uh on the other side of door nine.

Wylie 10:31

Okay. So let's unlock door nine. Okay. So as you move, and you're going to move into that room by yourself.

Mimir 10:41

Uh yeah. I don't like how you said that, but yeah.

Wylie 10:47

I'm just seeing if anyone else wants me to move their tokens too.

Brad 10:50

Um I'll say, I'll I'll say this. Is there anything else to eat in the kitchen?

Wylie 10:55

I mean, you haven't checked the entire kitchen. You're just you're eating the stuff that's out. Like, did you look in the fridge or the freezer or the cupboards or anything like that?

Brad 11:02

Oh, I'm gonna well then yeah. I'm I'm not walking with him. I'm checking on the phone. You're looting in the kitchen. Uh yeah, I'm looking through. Actually, I'm checking for spice, most likely. Alan sits in a chair. No, he's kind of falls asleep.

Mimir 11:15

Can I ask Pyra to come with me, please?

Wylie 11:19

Pyra walks with you into the rec room. Um I'll just I'll tell uh Gordon what he else he finds in the kitchen and then I'll tell you what you guys find in the rec room. Um so as you go through the cupboards, you find some dehydrated meals. So um it kind of seems like maybe they were doing some dehydrated meals before like when they don't have fresh stuff. So that's something in there.

Brad 11:39

He takes them.

Wylie 11:40

And I assume you look in the fridge in the freezer as well.

Brad 11:42

Yep.

Wylie 11:43

And so in the freezer, you find containers with mushrooms and octopus tentacles.

Kipo 11:48

Ooh. He takes those two and a hand. Yeah.

Wylie 11:52

Um, and also you you were eating a lot of that jelly. Can you give me a constitution save?

Kipo 11:58

That's what I thought.

Brad 12:00

Okay. Which one is it? Check or save.

Wylie 12:07

Um, save and throw. Mm-hmm. Save.

Brad 12:10

Uh 21.

Wylie 12:11

Oh, okay. Um your stomach gurgles a little bit, and you have like, you know, like a little bit of like belching, like heartburn, indigestion, but that's after like three bites, and so you kind of get the idea like, mm, maybe I shouldn't, you know, eat this much. And also you guys were out in the cold, fresh air for a while. So um sickness effects that you may have been feeling are dissipating. Oh, so yeah, you're in a you know keep a sparse coat on.

Mimir 12:41

Yeah.

Wylie 12:42

As far as you know, um that you know, this place doesn't have an arcanium leak. So and you were out in the cold for a whole hour bringing breathing fresh air. So you're you're start you're all starting to feel a bit better on that front. Um okay, rec room.

Brad 12:55

Uh Gordon will take the mushroom the fresh mushrooms though. Okay. We'll pack those with him.

Wylie 12:59

Okay. Yeah, they're in the freezer and um they're they're in um the fantasy version of Ziploc bags. So paper bags. They're clear though, so you can see through them. Um okay, you went into the rec room. Oh, fine. Okay. Um, so it looks like a pretty normal rec room. Um, it is also chaotic in here, though. There's like some chairs that are pushed over. Um, it's a little messy. Um, you don't like there's more pink jelly on the floor. Um but then I have some cool stuff. Um, because you have a pretty good passive perception.

Mimir 13:40

Uh I have a 22 passive perception.

Wylie 13:42

Really good. Yeah. So you notice on the wall that there are pictures of the staff as well as a like a bulletin board for staff communications.

Mimir 13:53

Oh, that's so smart. We should do that. I take notes.

Wylie 13:59

Here um so I'm gonna pop those up on the screen. Oh. And I'll make it a little bigger so we can see it. Yes, you do you notice immediately, as you did, that um the guy who came to your base is here in the picture. And trying to um I could not get a really good image of the communications board.

Mimir 14:27

Oh, I was about to say I was reading the notes. I was trying to zoom in on the notes.

Wylie 14:30

Yeah, so I'll tell you what the notes do say. Um, so there's a section that says weather forecast. Okay. And for every day it says negative 30, which has been your guys' experience that is negative 30. And for anybody who hasn't experienced negative 30, that's quite cold. That's when the hairs in your nose freeze when you're outside, and you have to have a face mask on, and you'll even get um all the little ice crystals on your eyelashes. It is very cold.

Brad 14:58

Pro tip never squeeze your nose when you're out there and your nose hairs have frozen. They will stab the inside of your nose. It is not fun. Um yeah. Take it from someone who's done that.

Wylie 15:13

Um so there's the weather forecast, um, there's medical procedures. And so under medical procedures, you see like they're kind of like little packets with information. Yeah. So the heading is medical procedures, and you have treatment for frostbite, treatment for burns, treatment for acid burns, and major wound and wound and limb amputation is also listed there. Okay. Um, so that's just some stuff on there. Um you see the schedule for the center. Um, and actually I'll I'll send it to you, but you can see that it says 6 a.m. breakfast prep in the kitchen, 7 a.m. Um breakfast served in the kitchen, 8 a.m. normal duties begin, 12 p.m. lunch, and then you also see H O V E R as like initials, like H dot O. So it spells Hoover.

Mimir 16:05

Yeah.

Wylie 16:05

Um and so it says Hoover Crew Quarters and Dog Kennel. Um 6 p.m. dinner and daily team meeting, 10 p.m. quiet hours, 12 um PM, so at night, or I guess it'll be yeah, 12 p.m. or 12 a.m. probably to 3 a.m. Hoover services. Um and I'm gonna send you that sent I'll I'll post it, I'll send it to each of you so you guys can all see that schedule.

Brad 16:32

It's just got a vacuum out there.

Wylie 16:36

Um and you know what, I'll send okay, and then there's also a note under the maintenance heading. And on it, these are handwritten notes. So you can tell that people have kind of like written things to maintenance, and then maintenance might respond. Um, so like issues that they're having, right? So um you might consider something if it's like, hey, the heater's not working, right, in in the research lab. Um and so two notes that you notice under maintenance, um, one says, Hoover digested my boots last night, turn down the odor setting.

Mimir 17:09

Okay.

Wylie 17:09

And then the response to that is use a deodorant and bathe more.

Mimir 17:14

Makes sense.

Wylie 17:16

And um then another one says, Um, my terrarium was tipped over and the contents are missing. Please adjust the Hoover settings. We cannot have it digesting research samples. And then you also see a note that says, Stop leaving research samples in the sleeping quarters. They belong in the lab dash facilities. So I will put all of these in the chat so you guys can see them for reference.

Mimir 17:40

Also, um, since I'm a mastermind rogue, I have a thing called Master of Intrigue. Um, and so I I have a uh forgery kit that I can use, which I've used to uh write uh for Nar, uh so it's not just me making all the reports, but I've you know, I've seen gnarate. Um and so I want to memorize these uh like handwritings and uh just so if I ever see them again, I would know who wrote what.

Wylie 18:10

Okay.

Mimir 18:10

Um and things like that.

Wylie 18:11

You'd recognize them.

Mimir 18:12

Yeah. Okay. Um can I it the picture of this robot um thing, does it have initials on the side that says Hoover?

Wylie 18:23

Um so you have a robot at your base. Yes. Oh, wait, is there one in the picture six?

Mimir 18:28

There are I don't know if that's a robot. I don't know what the like there's a grandmother um with a bunch of dudes.

Wylie 18:37

Um oh, okay, I see which one you're looking at. Um that's like a excavation tool in the picture. Um so you guys have a robot at your base called Mops. And so that you're thinking it's probably kind of sounds like Mops. Yeah. You have experienced Mops and the chaos that Mops brings, and you're very frustrated by it. And so to you, this sounds a lot like Mops. So potentially um they have something that is similar.

Mimir 19:03

Okay. Um, and then this jelly, I'm gonna I'm gonna be like, I knew there was a reason that we brought you along there, uh Mr. Ram Shield. Um do you know what this jelly is? Do you know what what it what can be used for or anything? There's more in here.

Brad 19:20

How about I try it one more time? Just to see. You don't look so good. You look I I've just I'm I'm going to try one more time just to see if I can tell what it is. Okay. Can I get a perception check on that?

Wylie 19:34

Or would there be you could do nature if you wanted also, but perception perception or nature.

Mimir 19:40

Can I I don't know if I can help him in this?

Wylie 19:43

Probably not. No, unless you try it too.

Mimir 19:45

Okay, I will try it too, and I will I will help him in this.

Wylie 19:50

If you well, you can you can do your own check. Okay. So if you want to do I I'd let you do investigation potential.

Mimir 19:57

Are you sure about that, Dion? I'm just kidding.

Wylie 20:00

I'll let you do it.

Brad 20:03

I've got the unnatural 20.

Mimir 20:05

I've got a natural 20.

Wylie 20:06

Oh my goodness. Okay, so you both eat more.

Mimir 20:10

Um just so everybody that's listening, Kipo picked up the dice and looked really jealous and then threw it and rolled a seven. And rolled a seven. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

Wylie 20:22

Poor Alan is not.

Mimir 20:23

He's asleep, I'm pretty sure. I'm 90% sure he's asleep.

Wylie 20:28

Um so you guys taste it. And um both of you get that burning sensation in your mouth. It's very tingly. Um, and the flavors, as you're really focusing and thinking on it, the flavors, it definitely has like a depth and an earthiness that you weren't expecting in jelly. Um, and almost like an umami flavor, like a like almost a mushroomy flavor. Um, but there's also like a weird fishiness to it that was initially hidden by the spice. Um, but you're like, that's that's a little spice.

Mimir 21:09

Weird. There's a spice, yeah. Um, I I used to be a rascal, and there's a spice 100%. Um see here. So it's like fishy, gooey.

Wylie 21:24

Yeah, weirdly gooey. I mean weirdly fishy because it's a jelly.

Mimir 21:28

Yeah, I've never had it before though.

Wylie 21:29

No.

Mimir 21:30

Even with my nat 20 on it.

Wylie 21:31

No, you you've like, I have never eaten anything like this.

Mimir 21:35

Okay. I will take a sample and that's it. Yeah.

Wylie 21:39

Okay. What do you put that sample in?

Mimir 21:41

Um, I will be like Do you want to just take my bowl from the floor? Yeah, can I just pour out your bowl and you can have it. I'm I'm full. Uh oh, actually, I'll just take a jar from the kitchen. If there's a jar in the kitchen.

Wylie 21:53

Sure.

Mimir 21:53

Yeah.

Wylie 21:54

Yep, you're able to find a mason jar pretty easily. Um, and I'll say I'll say it also had like a weird metallic flavor in the smell blood though, right? It's not only blood.

Mimir 22:05

Oh, okay. All right. But it does, okay. Okay.

Wylie 22:10

Like it you feel like it has a little it has almost a more biological. So you got a nat 20. Yeah. So you feel it has more of a biological flavor than a preservative flavor.

Brad 22:22

But it it kind of reminds me of blood pudding. Yeah.

Mimir 22:26

Okay, so don't eat any more because we might be, it might be people. So just be it's people mixed with something else. So they may be cannibals here. So let's just watch. Do you recognize anybody on this board?

Brad 22:43

Uh no. Oh. Hold on. Does Gordon recognize anybody on the board other than the the guy that we No, no. Okay.

Wylie 22:52

You don't right you don't even have to go there.

Brad 22:55

I I I I don't see any of my family.

Wylie 22:56

You know your family pretty well, right? Yeah. Yes.

Mimir 22:59

Okay, I'm just gonna I'm gonna be honest with you. I don't think your family lives here.

Brad 23:04

Just gonna be honest. No, no, no. I well, we've gone an hour in a different direction. We we live in the opposite direction. Yeah, over the other hills.

Mimir 23:15

All right. Dr. Fizzard, are you awake?

Alan 23:19

Yeah.

Mimir 23:23

Sorry.

Kipo 23:25

Yeah, he's still sitting in the chair in the kitchen. Just like this, just like he was in the sled. Like, just waiting for you guys to tell him what to do. Or do he's Dr.

Mimir 23:36

Fizzard, we're gonna have to keep moving here. There might be somebody killing other people. He's like rocking himself up out of the chair, and then he gets up. Let me help you. I grab your leg because I can't. You're so tall. Come back.

Wylie 23:48

Okay, so I assume you're back in the kitchen helping Dr. Fizzard.

Mimir 23:51

Yeah. Well, I think we're gonna just continue on eventually to like number five. I think the middle of the facility is kind of where we want to go.

Wylie 24:01

Okay. While you're in the kitchen, you do hear a banging sound.

Mimir 24:04

From?

Wylie 24:05

Um you have a really high passive perception. It's coming from room number six.

Mimir 24:10

All right. Time to lock and load. Uh I take out my my uh my uh crossbow uh and I'll hand you a short sword because you're not armed, right? I have my frying pan. Oh, you do have your frying pan? Um okay. Uh I'll be like, all right, let's go. Here we go, guys. Uh, and we'll walk into number six.

Wylie 24:30

Okay, and Jared goes first.

Mimir 24:31

Yep, I'm locked in. I'm I'm the security guard, so I should go first.

Wylie 24:38

Followed by Gordon, I assume. Yeah. Okay. And uh Pyra helps up Alan and says, Come come with me. Come with. We should stay together. All right. So you guys are gonna go into the next room.

Jared 24:54

My name is Jared uh Vern Squirrel. I am a security guard uh lieutenant, um, and I am here to help.

Wylie 25:03

Okay. Um the first thing you notice is that this is appears to be a study room. So not a full-on research lab. There's desks, there's papers, there's things like that. Um, there is more pink jelly on the floor, and the thing that is banging around. I will bring that into view.

Kipo 25:22

It's another mops with a gun.

Wylie 25:28

It is in fact a robot. Oh it is very similar to your mops, but it is slightly different. Um, and so this thing is buzzing around, and you can see that there's pink jelly on the floor, but it seems to be vacuuming that up. Oh cool. Um, so do the rest of you enter the room? It's all clear. All clear. Okay. So everyone comes into the study room.

Mimir 25:55

And does our Okay, I have two questions for you. Does our mops speak? And is it a language in like binary or something?

Wylie 26:08

Um, so your mops does communicate, but it's pretty basic.

Mimir 26:12

Okay. Because I speak languages, and if our mops speaks, uh, I would have picked like binary or something because I use that. But I will try to communicate with this.

Wylie 26:22

Okay. What do you say?

Mimir 26:24

Um that's a great question. Um, where are the owners of this facility?

Wylie 26:34

Oh, where are they?

Mimir 26:35

Yeah, where are the owners of the facility?

Wylie 26:37

And is anybody around? Um, and so the robot goes,

H.O.V.E.R 26:42

I am Hoover. Handler of offensive vermin and excessive rubbish. Amen.

Alan 26:49

Did that thing just talk?

H.O.V.E.R 26:51

Yes. What are your cleaning needs?

Gordon 26:55

Um hold on a second. Do you make this jelly that I keep seeing?

H.O.V.E.R 27:00

I am cleaning.

Brad 27:02

Oh. So you clean up the jelly.

H.O.V.E.R 27:05

I am cleaning the excessive rubbish.

Wylie 27:08

Oh.

Mimir 27:09

Um, is there other human is around?

Wylie 27:15

Um, I don't think it would really be able to communicate that.

Mimir 27:20

Can you lead us to the other humans?

H.O.V.E.R 27:23

What are your cleaning needs?

Mimir 27:26

Uh clean uh towards the humans. I'm like in frustrated this, but I'm like,

H.O.V.E.R 27:32

uh my protocol um my protocol indicates to clean room by room. My normal hours of service are 12 to 3 a.m.

Jared 27:47

Uh well it's it's not 12 to 3 a.m., so you're kinda

H.O.V.E.R 27:53

excessive accumulation of rubbish has activated my cleaning services.

Jared 28:00

Um can I go up and like see if there's a malfunction to this robot thing? Yeah. I knew oh, actually, I'll be like, Pyra, you're uh you work with things. You wanna look at this? And I'll help her.

Wylie 28:16

Okay.

Mimir 28:16

Because she probably has a better bonus than me.

Wylie 28:18

Sure, yeah. Let's see what she's got.

Mimir 28:21

You want to take a look at it.

Wylie 28:23

Nope.

Mimir 28:23

Okay. Cool, cool, cool, cool.

Wylie 28:26

Yeah, she's gonna do an Arcana check. Cool.

Mimir 28:29

And I'll give her the help action so she has an advantage.

Wylie 28:32

Cool. Eighteen and four. So eighteen plus seven, she definitely does well.

Pyra 28:38

Um as far as I can tell, this thing operated just fine. It's supposed to clean it clean.

Mimir 28:44

Great. There's a lot there. Um I'm gonna need some help here.

Wylie 28:52

Uh and she's like, um the shys, uh,

Pyra 28:56

perhaps it is maybe a bit full, but it seems like it's not cleaning up so much.

Jared 29:03

But should we empty it?

Brad 29:07

Maybe the sp the jelly's too spicy for it.

Jared 29:11

It's the spice, I knew it. Blood spice. Um Okay. Uh I'm gonna check the desk and see if there's any notes that will be helpful.

Wylie 29:21

Okay. Um, your natural investigation's pretty high. Um I'm gonna say that you pretty easily find a book.

Mimir 29:37

Oh great. Love that for me.

Wylie 29:39

Put that up here.

Mimir 29:43

Boy. What is that? Seems bad.

Wylie 29:48

Um, I assume you open the book.

Mimir 29:50

Yeah. Uh yeah.

Wylie 29:53

As you open it, it appears to be a research journal. So someone like you likes to write down a lot of things, and so it Seems like someone has been detailing um their various insights and and studies as they've been here in the Arctic.

Mimir 30:08

I'll go to the very last pages that have been written in and start from there. I would love to read the whole book, uh, but it seems like we're running low on time out here because we have to go back to our sublime.

Wylie 30:20

Yeah, and you can always take it with you. Yeah. And that might be helpful for Java. Yeah. Um so the page that you're seeing is the most recent series of entries.

Mimir 30:29

Do uh is this a language I know?

Wylie 30:31

Um let's see.

Mimir 30:35

Uh I speak gnomish.

Wylie 30:40

So um in a couple of it may be a language that's familiar with to you, but it is a specific type of like scientific shorthand. Um so it's kind of like a code.

Mimir 30:53

I'll I'll show it to you and I'll be like, hey, do you understand anything like that's that's on here? Does he?

Wylie 31:00

Um yeah, you can you can give me an investigation check?

Mimir 31:05

Can I give advantage?

Alan 31:10

Five.

Wylie 31:11

I think the pictures are gonna be the most helpful part. I don't think you know. The the word the words seem to elude you exactly what they might be. You can recognize some really common words, uh, but they kind of just seem like the words that you recognize kind of coincide with what you're seeing in the pictures for the most part.

Gordon 31:26

So Yeah, look, it's mushrooms. Is this a cookbook?

Jared 31:33

Alright, so I see skeletons, I see artifact things. Um is there any oh well okay, mushrooms. Can I I'll be like, hey, can I look at those mushrooms that you got, those fresh mushrooms? Sure, but don't eat them. I won't, I'm not going to. Uh do they match to the picture in the book? Yes. Oh boy, are they glowing?

Wylie 31:54

And they're not glowing right now.

Mimir 31:56

Okay.

Wylie 31:57

Oh, great. All right, well You you can tell that this researcher potentially used like gel pens when he was good on him in his journal. So really giving those illustrations that extra pop. So that's why they have a really nice glowing effect tonight.

Mimir 32:12

How much uh time do you think we have in this facility before we have to leave before the storm?

Wylie 32:17

About two hours is what was estimated. It's an hour to get there, about two hours, hour back. And storm is roughly five hours away, so that should give you a little bit of a buffer, maybe two and a half hours, but um not a ton of time. And the longer you stay, the more risky it is to put you in a dangerous situation for coming back.

Mimir 32:35

We should probably do one more room. Or if yeah.

Wylie 32:40

Oh, I would say you guys have time to do the whole base. Oh, okay. Yeah.

Mimir 32:43

So let's go to number five. Let's clear this place out a little bit.

Brad 32:46

Uh, do you want to split up?

Mimir 32:48

Yeah, let's split up. I mean, just be careful, okay? Uh I'll go with Dr. Fizzard. Um, so I can take care of him. Um Pyra, please take care of the chef and make sure he doesn't eat any more of the jelly, okay?

Wylie 33:06

Okay. Um, so you seem to want to go towards the center before. Do you want to move towards the center room?

Kipo 33:11

Yeah, I'll go to Mr. Fizzard. Yeah, that sounds good. Yeah.

Wylie 33:14

And then I'll go to number three. Gordon and Pyra go to number three. Okay.

Mimir 33:18

Um I'll take the book and stuff if that wasn't clear.

Wylie 33:21

Yep, you got the book with you.

Mimir 33:23

Inventory. We'll meet up in two. Yeah. I think.

Wylie 33:31

Okay, so Jared and Alan are entering a ICE research lab.

Mimir 33:36

That's the worst place for you.

Wylie 33:39

Fortunately, I don't think Alan's taken off his coat. Yeah, that's true. So that's good. And Gordon and Pyra enter the sleeping quarters. Uh, which ones do you want description on first?

Mimir 33:50

I go sleeping quarters. Sure.

Wylie 33:52

Okay.

Brad 33:52

What can I see?

Wylie 33:54

The sleeping quarters. Um, the beds all look short and wide, which makes sense. This is a dwarven research center. But things are chaotic and upturned. Beds are shoved in the corner, um, stuff is scattered on the floor. Um, you do notice in the corner there's an overturned terrarium. Um, and you can give me an investigation check to see, and you can kind of describe to what you're if you're looking at anything in particular.

Kipo 34:21

I would re-roll that on your thing. Yeah.

Wylie 34:24

Yeah, use your dice tray. It was cocked.

Brad 34:27

Good stuff. Three. Hold on, hold on. Let me see. What would you say? Investigation.

Wylie 34:32

Mm-hmm.

Brad 34:32

Yeah, it's just a three.

Wylie 34:33

Okay. Um, and do you describe anything that you're doing and looking around beyond what I described?

Gordon 34:38

Uh I would probably be like, hello. Is anybody in here? It is Gordon.

Wylie 34:45

Thinking your family might still.

Brad 34:46

Yeah, yeah, just curious in my phone.

Jared 34:48

We already went over that.

Brad 34:50

Boris, are you in here? Uncle Boris.

Wylie 34:53

Uh nobody responds.

Brad 34:55

No response. Okay. Oh. Um, I would probably go check out the I guess the terantrium or whatever it's called. Terrarium? Terrarium, yeah.

Wylie 35:05

Sure.

Brad 35:06

Um see if there's any, you know, scary things about.

Wylie 35:11

So you see uh glass terrarium that has been tipped over on its side. Um it's the interior is rocky, moist, damp. Seems like there was a heat lamp that is now detached from the wall. It's not um keeping it warm. Um and oh, in all the rooms, it's colder than you would expect. Um so far, it's it's chilly. Um, seems like maybe the heat has been off for some time. And so um, you definitely noticed that in this room as well. It's chilly. Um, but this heat lamp that was with the terrarium is d disconnected. And then um you guys enter the ice lamp, and it is very cold in there. Um, interestingly, it does not seem to have any of the chaos that you've seen in the other rooms. Um, everything seems pretty orderly, um, pretty normal. Um, with your passive perception, you quickly detect that there's a thermostat on the wall that allows you to control the temperature of this room. So it seems like potentially when they've brought in things from the outside that they want to keep cold, they keep it cold, and other times they heat it up. So it's not exclusively an ice lab, but currently it's set to cold. In the center of the ice lab is a very large um greenish block of ice that has been carved down the center and something like removed from the center of this big ice block. Um, and if you want to investigate it further.

Mimir 36:40

Hmm. Um yeah, I'm gonna investigate this room and uh uh see if they're like what was in the center, if I can tell what it was. Do I make investigation?

Wylie 36:56

Yeah, I want to give me a roll.

Mimir 36:59

Oh, that's like 24.

Wylie 37:01

Oh, nice. Okay. Um so Alan, as you're walking in, you happen to step on something on the floor. And so um Jared would have found this pretty quickly. But I stepped over it. You stepped over it, you were really focused on the ice block. Um, but you just step on um what looks like a metal, it it's it's a knife um that has kind like it looks like it can be activated to have a fire blade. And um as he picks it up off the floor, Jared, you recognize that that is a monarch steampunk dragon knife, which is strangely the name of a real knife. Well that I found online. That's it. And I just thought it was such a cool name that I thought the monarch steampunk dragon knife um would be awesome. So um, Jared, with your experience with daggers and knives, you recognize that quickly. But you were focused on this ice block.

Mimir 37:55

Yeah.

Wylie 37:55

So you see this large greenish block of ice, and it looks about like a humanoid shape has been cut out of the middle. And as you get closer, you can tell that something is still stuck in the middle of this ice. And as you get really close, um, there's a shoe stuck in this ice, like a like a boot. And big is it a boot? Like a dwarvish-sized boot. Good, good boot. Um, and as you get closer, you can see that there is an ankle bone sticking out of this boot. So not only has someone left behind their boot, but their foot. Is it um cleanly torn off or like Yeah, it's it's pretty clean, but it there's actually weirdly like burn marks around it.

Jared 38:44

Mm-hmm. Cool, cool, cool. Uh I won't tell uh the doctor that um because I don't want him to panic or anything like that. I'm gonna be like, all right, um, cool. We're doing great out here. Uh everything is fine. Um great! What'd you find there, uh Doc?

Alan 39:07

I found a pretty fancy knife.

Jared 39:12

Cool. Can I see that uh for a second here?

Kipo 39:15

Alan, um, he still had his gloves on when he picked it up, so he just like he's still kinda stiff from all the layers that he's wearing. So he um two hands, like hands it to you like this.

Jared 39:32

Cool. Uh the not blade first, remember not blade first. Um and I will uh look at this knife.

Wylie 39:41

Um and Alan insists, cut your body, your buddy, not your body.

Mimir 39:49

Cool. Uh I will put this in like an evidence like pouch in my thing. Okay.

Wylie 39:55

Uh-huh.

Mimir 39:55

And just keep that to the side.

Wylie 39:57

Do you like wrap it up in anything to protect the blade or you just stick it in there?

Mimir 40:00

Uh no, I'll wrap it up. I'll take care of it.

Wylie 40:02

Okay.

Mimir 40:03

Um, I'll have like some cloth or something extra like scarf.

Wylie 40:06

I'm gonna make a little pile over here. So you've collected the journal, the journal um laser, and then um I don't have a picture of it, but you've collected the topperware with the mushrooms and the tentacles.

Mimir 40:17

Cool. Yep, yep, yep, yep. Okay. Uh okay. Um yeah. Let's go room seven, I think. I is there there's nothing else in this room, right? Yeah. Cool.

Wylie 40:31

Yeah. Unless you had questions about anything that you've already seen. So we'll move you guys to room seven. And then um, Gordon and Pyra, are you guys going anywhere else?

Brad 40:40

Yeah, I mean, it just looks like everything's kind of disarray and something got out, but we'll go to room two.

Wylie 40:47

Okay, you go to room two. All right, so Jared and Alan, you enter another research room, like a an I think that's another research lab. And um Gordon and Pyra, you enter a room that is weirdly circular. Um, it there's ice all around the outside. Like you came through a door, but the walls are made of ice. Um, and it looks like someone has dug or blown down, you know, to the dirt. Um, and then beyond the dirt, they've tunneled below that. So Pyra's a good person to bring. So as you step over, um, it's not actually blue light that's coming from it, it's actually more of a warm orange light. Um, and what else is in there? Um, so there's a ladder that goes down this um cavern, down into, you know, basically this straight ground, and you can feel heat rising up from it.

Pyra 41:45

And Pyra in particular observes, like, oh, looks like some pretty good explosives were used in here. Very precise to not blow up anything else. And so she's kind of investigating and fascinated by this great excavation that apparently has been done to go underground.

Wylie 42:06

Um, and you know what? Give me a nature check.

Brad 42:14

Fourteen.

Wylie 42:15

Fourteen. Um, you know what? Mushrooms grow underground. Okay. Interesting. Um, okay, and then you guys. You guys went to room seven, I think. Okay. So in this room, um, the windows are smashed. So it's really cold. Even though you you just came from a pretty cold room, but the windows of this one are smashed. It's letting in a lot of cold air. Um, and there is pink jelly on the floor of this room as well. Um, but because it's pretty cold, it seems to be kind of frozen. Um, so it's maybe retaining more shape. And so something else that you're able to see. This is just some of the jelly. Oh.

Mimir 43:02

Oh no.

Wylie 43:04

So what what are you what are you observing?

Mimir 43:06

Um, I just see a bunch of uh just uh like uh squid stuff, squiddy squid squids. Um not read it's not moving, right?

Wylie 43:18

No, it like the jelly's not moving. Great. Um and it I mean it's it's pretty frozen in this room because it's quite cold. You know, the windows are open and it's negative 30 outside. So this jelly is frozen into place and you can see these tracks essentially there in them.

Mimir 43:35

Okay, so there's tracks in them, not the jelly is that. Okay. Oh boy, so that's like a squid monster or something.

Wylie 43:45

Um you can also give me an investigation check.

Mimir 43:48

Yeah, I would love to do that and get some more information. Uh do you wanna wanna help me out here?

Kipo 43:55

Yeah. He'll look around.

Mimir 43:58

Oh, did you give me advantage or no?

Wylie 44:03

You can give him advantage if you want.

Kipo 44:05

I can give him advantage.

Wylie 44:07

If you're helping, but you gotta describe how you help.

Kipo 44:09

Oh well, how am I helping him look around?

Wylie 44:12

Yep.

Kipo 44:13

I don't think he is helping him look around. Oh, he's looking he Alan's looking around him himself.

Wylie 44:18

Alan's around in his own investigation. So what do we get?

Alan 44:22

I got a 22.

Wylie 44:24

Oh, nice.

Jared 44:25

Uh I got an 11.

Wylie 44:28

Okay. So you're focused on this jelly. Yeah. You're thinking of all the things that it could mean. Excuse me. Um, Alan finds something that has rolled into the corner. You know, he's kind of distracted. And so he finds this interesting item. And for those who can't see it, it sort of looks like a coaster, maybe. Mm-hmm. Um, with some kind of glowing runes on it. And so you find that in the corner.

Kipo 44:57

Alan uses mage hand to pick it up.

Wylie 45:00

Oh, smart. Mm-hmm.

Jared 45:02

That's where my mage hand went. Uh no, I'm just kidding.

Kipo 45:05

So he shows it to uh Jared.

Wylie 45:09

Okay. And you what did you get for that investigation? It was pretty high. It was 22. Um, so you recognize this type of device, actually. You don't you're you're not just wondering what it is. Um you realize that this is like a recording device. Oh. So potentially similar to, you know, like uh a CD or um, you know, a a recording, it it would be a storage device that you would store recordings and data. Hologram thing. Potentially.

Kipo 45:39

Oh, okay. Well, what uh what I know.

Wylie 45:41

Um yeah, you would know that um if you put this on the right kind of drive, it will project a hologram and present the information that way.

Jared 45:48

Okay. Cool. All right. So I have a couple options. So there's some things that I've been looking at, uh, and I have a couple that look at this thing!

Alan 45:58

It just floats it right now. This looks like one of the um these disc thingies that would we'd use to to do our logs. Oh, yep. Okay, that's great.

Jared 46:11

Um, how I had a bunch of drawing of squid people and things like that that I was gonna show you, but we'll we'll focus on that. That seems way more important than what I was gonna tell you. Is there a place uh oh sorry is there a place to um uh play that in here?

Wylie 46:32

Yeah, you guys are familiar with labs, particularly Alan with such a high investigation. So he observes the the um drive. The drive that you would normally set it on top of that would result in it projecting the information. So you can go try to use that.

Mimir 46:44

So are short uh wave radios working to each other?

Wylie 46:47

Yes.

Jared 46:48

Cool. I'm gonna be like, hey, um Pyra and uh uh Mr. Mr. Ramshield, um can you guys meet us uh up in room seven, please? Uh we got uh recording that we're gonna play here. Um so just let us know. Uh and I hope you guys are still alive.

Gordon 47:10

Sure, sure. We'll we we will be there soon.

Brad 47:14

But Gordon's telling himself after we get more mushrooms.

Wylie 47:17

After we get more mushrooms. So does Gordon head to the lab or what does he do?

Brad 47:23

Uh so I would assume he heads down the ladder to go find more mushrooms.

Wylie 47:27

Yarn heads down the ladder. We'll address that later.

Brad 47:30

Okay, yeah. I was gonna say he's like, Uncle Boris Uncle Boris. Really he's just looking for mushrooms.

Wylie 47:39

Pyra's a little more cautious and she says,

Pyra 47:41

Um, Veit, maybe maybe with the rest of the team. We don't know how structurally sound this excavation is. It looks pretty good, but perhaps we go all together.

Mimir 47:53

Uncle Boris.

Brad 47:57

Son. No.

Pyra 47:58

Does this look like your family's home?

Gordon 48:02

Uh probably not. Okay. Well, you say makes sense. I will go with you.

Wylie 48:09

Alright. Um, which way do you guys go? You don't know what you just know how see doors, you don't know which way they, you know, what's in their different rooms.

Brad 48:19

See. I I guess uh You said something about there's light, right, in this room that we're currently in.

Wylie 48:27

Yeah, there's the there's like glowing coming up from the cavern.

Brad 48:30

Coming out from the cavern, okay.

Wylie 48:31

And it's not like a put it's not a totally black room. There's windows, so there's light coming in and stuff.

Brad 48:36

Yeah, yeah. Um I feel like it would probably just keep going across. Okay. I mean, you know, walk around, but go to one.

Wylie 48:47

Okay. So you guys head to one, you guys put the holo coaster on the disc dry. Um, you attempt to activate it, but this room is so cold. And this equipment is not designed to function in this level of cold.

Kipo 49:03

Okay.

Wylie 49:04

And Gordon and Pyra, you enter the room.

Mimir 49:08

I was about to say fireball.

Wylie 49:10

Just fireball the whole room.

Mimir 49:12

I'll heat it up real quick.

Wylie 49:13

That won't damage the equipment. Um, so fortunately for you, you have Pyra with you. You have entered the utility room. Um, and so in this room, the windows are broken and it is very cold. So this room, the lab that the other guys were in, these are the coldest rooms because they have the broken windows. Um, you can see pink jelly on the floor that is frozen. And Pyra observes, um, a

Pyra 49:38

ah, see, this is our heating system, but it has been shut down for some reason. Everything seems functional. We could perhaps turn it back on.

Brad 49:50

Okay.

Wylie 49:54

So she she walkie-talkies.

Brad 49:55

Gordon's a long for the ride on this one. He's like more.

Pyra 49:58

She wonky talkies. They're on our way to the lab, but we have found the utility room. So we're gonna turn the heat on.

Jared 50:04

Uh one second. I think the heat is off for a reason. I'm not totally sure what that reason is, but I think I think we just be a little careful here. We don't know what's going on. So um I'd just be cautious until we explore everything.

Pyra 50:21

Okay, what'd you say, boss?

Wylie 50:23

Uh so would you move up towards room room four? Yeah. Okay, so we go up to room four.

Mimir 50:29

Nervous about turning on any kind of heat. It it seems to be cold for a reason.

Wylie 50:37

Um, so you head into room four, which is the dog kennels.

Mimir 50:40

Okay.

Wylie 50:41

Um, and you can see that this room is empty.

Kipo 50:43

Oh dogs.

Wylie 50:44

The windows are broken, it's very cold. A hole is dug under the wall of the corner of the kennel. Um That's where Finn got out. All the dogs are gone. Um, but some of the kennels are open, some are closed, and there's definitely pink jelly in here as well. But it was cold, so it's frozen pink jelly. Um, and that's that's what you see in this room. And do you guys want to move on to the lab or uh any questions?

Brad 51:17

No, I'd probably just head to the next then.

Wylie 51:20

Okay. So you guys regroup up in the lab. Um, you're all together again. And you guys have tried to play the holo coaster, but everything is too cold.

Mimir 51:29

Yeah, we've been waiting for them. Um I think we would have stepped into room eight too while we were waiting. Okay.

Wylie 51:36

Um I assume you pocket the holo coaster to take with you for later.

Kipo 51:40

Yep.

Wylie 51:41

And then we head on up to the final room of the base. Who goes in first?

Mimir 51:45

Uh, I'll go in first.

Wylie 51:46

Okay.

Mimir 51:47

I'm the leader.

Wylie 51:48

Jared's gonna open.

Mimir 51:49

I'm the strong and brave one that won't panic if we get under attack.

Wylie 51:58

Um, so this is our final research lab um that you see. And I have an image of what you find.

Mimir 52:08

Oh boy.

Wylie 52:09

This is what the room looks like. Oh no. It is complete chaos in here. Um, there's a combination of more fire burns in here, like you saw in the kitchen. Um, but then also green liquid and um large green, large burnt areas surrounded by this green foam. Um, with your high investigation, you're pretty sure this is acid.

Mimir 52:34

Okay, good. Nothing poisonous in here.

Wylie 52:37

Yeah, I mean acid smoke is not good. Yeah, it's not great, I guess. And the um windows are smashed open and it's really cold.

Alan 52:44

These lab cleanliness standards have just been going downhill ever since I retired.

Jared 52:50

You tell them, Doctor. Um, cool. Um, is there any notes or anything in this room?

Wylie 52:58

Um you you do a pretty good job of looking around as best you can.

Mimir 53:01

Yeah, I don't want to go in that.

Wylie 53:02

But there's total chaos. I mean, the types of notes you find are pretty basic research notes. There's nothing that really stands out to you as like my dying wishes.

Mimir 53:11

Yeah, yeah, that's kind of that's what I was looking for. Is like our last experiment made everything explode. And a zombie skeleton thingy came out. Um, cool. I'll be like, all right, nothing in here. Uh we'll we'll come back and we'll I think we just talk to the group and be like, all right.

Jared 53:30

So I think all this windows are smashed on purpose. I don't know what the reason is, but I also don't want to heat it up. Uh we can always play the disc at home. Um, my home, technically, because I live there, but your guys' uh your guys' research station. Do you guys find anything interesting, Mr. Ramsey?

Gordon 53:50

Well, we found this uh this circular room with a big hole exploded in the middle of it and with some light coming up out of it, an orange light. And heat? And heat.

Pyra 54:03

Pretty warm, pretty good uh excavation.

Gordon 54:06

I'm I'm fairly sure that there is mushrooms.

Mimir 54:11

Okay. Uh how much time do we have until uh we have to

Alan 54:15

Did anyone find the bathroom?

Pyra 54:23

I I think they could just go outside.

Gordon 54:27

Every body left because there's no bathroom.

Pyra 54:30

Maybe it's down in the hole. Oh yeah, let's go down the hole.

Gordon 54:36

Somebody just blew it up.

Jared 54:39

That's how they get rid of all the feces.

Wylie 54:42

Okay, and so I guess you guys will find out what is down that hole next time on Blunders and Dragons.

Gordon 55:08

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