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Episode 7: Hush

Last we left off: The group of adventureres, in seeking a warband of gnolls, which had attacked the city of Alfield they were passing through on their way to Zadash. Began to track them to where they had retrieved a number of bodies, both dead and living of the civilians of the town and taken them with them. You eventually track them to an abandoned mine a number of miles away from the city to the northeast. You entered, narrowly missed a trap or two, managed to recover a couple of interesting items, delved off to the left side during the first divide of pathways, and came upon what appeared to be some sort of small ritual with a number of gnolls and some humanoid figure wearing bits of gnoll as an armor or cloak…
Laura:“Like you do…”
…doing a ritual-- after he had left along with the previously armored that you had battled during the incursion at Alfield. You tore into a number of hyenas and the gnolls that remained within the chamber and, upon defeating them, took a moment to take a breath, kind of get your bearings before hearing a muffled boom in the distance, what seemed to be some sort of a low vocalization, some cackling, and eventually the scream of a woman saying,“No, my baby!” you began to run and give chase and that is where we’re picking up this week. Grabbing your weapons and keeping your mettle about you, you charge further down the tunnel. The shaft curves to the right…
{Sam reacting with melodramatic shock}
Laura:“The shaft curves to the right, y’all.”
Travis:“It’s usually to the left, but whatever.”
Sam:“Not from her perspective.”
…The tunnel continues in a wide spiral before eventually snaking a bit before sharply turning to the right. The tunnel straightens out before emerging into a chamber of mixed, natural rock walls and simple stone work. Two other tunnels mark this chamber as a Y intersection or, like a second common room. Similar to the one that you originally encountered when you entered the mine. Tables and stools are strewn about the area, with a pair of hyenas currently picking at junk for scraps. You can see bits of meat that are being dragged across the ground by them about 20 feet off to the left. Two thick natural pillars of rock currently stand as load-bearing portions of the chamber, breaking the open space, while a crumpled section of the floor drops into a pit below. Two closed doors, to the left of where you’re looking into it, are guarded by a skeletal gnoll and two standard gnoll warriors, one of which has apparently pulled a small child from one of the doors. The sound of muffled cries coming from beyond the closed door. Four other gnolls rush from within the chamber into the right tunnel exiting on the opposite side.


Previous Episode “The Howling Mines”

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    Nott the Best Detective Agency

    Opening a door

    Solving The Case of the Nott-So-Regular Gnoll

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    Sam’s Mug

    Nott to the Rescue

    Must feed the vanity

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    ♪Episode Song References♪

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    Highlights

    • 00:02:51 Liam references the musical Les Miserables where Sam got a big break playing the opening character, Gavrosh.
    • 00:26:00 Khary Payton joins the fray! Then he rolls a natural 1.
    • 00:29:05 Nott runs up to rescue a child without her mask and terrifies the kid.
    • 00:41:36 Marisha:“Thank god it wasn’t me this time.” (referring to an NPC child getting killed)
    • 01:35:18 Fjord:“Be cool”
    • 01:45:14 “Invoke Duplicity!”
    • 01:58:24 Khary:“Oh, gosh, what do I have back there?”
      Travis:“What don’t you have back there?”
      Nott:“It’s assless chaps!”
    • 02:07:02 The Snitch strikes again with a nat 20 against Beau being shoved towards a pit.
    • 02:08:28 Marisha:“Ok, I have to roll at least a 12.” (rolls) “That’s an 11. Please be better.” (rolls)
      Travis:“Two 11s! Two 11s!”
    • 02:17:35 Nott and Jester get the “How Do You Want To Do This?” a.k.a. Nott the Best Detective Agency and the Case of the Regular Gnoll.
    • 02:24:23 Liam:“Patrick Rothfuss again?!”
    • 03:23:35 Khary:“I would like to materialize the awe-inspiring sass of Estelle Getty.” (relevant Teen Titans Go! scene)
    • 02:19:00 “To Blathe” Princess Bride reference
    • 03:08:54 Manticore battle!
    • 03:23:40 Khary manifests a spiritual weapon in the form of Estelle Getty (from Golden Girls) as a tribute to his daughter, Mya.
    • 03:24:48 “That’s just right!” Mary Elizabeth McGlynn reference.
    • 03:25:42 Laura singing the theme to Golden Girls next to Taliesin speaking infernal to a Manticore. Good times.
    • 03:29:15 Nott the Brave goes straight for the Manticore’s helpless infant offspring.
    • 03:43:43 Nott:“What did the incontinent druid say on his surprise birthday party? I’m so excited, I wet my plants!”
    • 03:51:26 Caleb gets the “How Do You Want To Do This?” on the priest and has a ptsd experience.
    • 03:56:15 Khary gets the “How Do You Want To Do This?” on the manticore.
    • 04:11:34 Jester fulfills her promise to Thadeus Candleglow and whispers into the jar of gnoll ears, “Thadeus Candleglow says hello.”
    • 04:25:20 A Full Fan-Made Animated Intro for Campaign 1
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    Shakäste’s stats

    background

    Shakäste is a member of the Golden Grin. His exploits under the name “Hush” were recounted in a series of novellas titled Heroic Deeds of the Golden Grin, published anonymously out of Deastok. The Cobalt Soul had thought that Hush was a fictitious folk hero until, owing to the encounter with Beau at the Rill’s Mouth Mines, the Cobalt Soul was able to confirm his existence.
    He had a familiar named Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, whose nickname is “Stacy” (but that’s not her name) or “The Grand Duchess”. When the party first met her, she was in the form of an abrahum, a “dark, midnight” hummingbird.