Roll Models D&D: Episode 53 – Machinations of the Buried Door
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11/25/22 • 124 min
Our heroes have only been in the seaside chasm city Of Delnori for a matter of days, but already they have made their mark. They are acquaintances of Ripper, the pirate innkeeper, and rescuer of an old Tanner who was plagued by otherworldly creatures. It was these creatures they tracked from the Tanner’s to the burned-out headquarters of a once notorious guild of thieves. After rooting out the last of the monstrosities, they found a trap door beneath the nest, and it led down tunnels carved into the bedrock. Still following the tracks, our heroes moved through the dark tunnels, finding an ancient place. It was a temple, buried and fossilised and hollowed into a dark opal cast of what once was a church to Evraen, the Mother of Magic. The place, although clearly furnished and once used by the Thieves Guild, was now veiled in dust, the creatures’ tracks the only activity to have disturbed it — and they originated from a stack of rubble in a side room. Our heroes cleared the boulders and found another tunnel in the wall, this one burrowing steeply down and ending in a horizontal, circular borehole, 2 feet wide that was filled with water. After much debating, Ahmaya chose to scout ahead. They tied a rope about her ankle, she crawled down the borehole and then slid into the submerged tunnel. Moving hand over hand and kicking, Ahmaya could see nothing ahead but greyscale darkness...
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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!
We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.
Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.
Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.
To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!
Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!
And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/
Our heroes have only been in the seaside chasm city Of Delnori for a matter of days, but already they have made their mark. They are acquaintances of Ripper, the pirate innkeeper, and rescuer of an old Tanner who was plagued by otherworldly creatures. It was these creatures they tracked from the Tanner’s to the burned-out headquarters of a once notorious guild of thieves. After rooting out the last of the monstrosities, they found a trap door beneath the nest, and it led down tunnels carved into the bedrock. Still following the tracks, our heroes moved through the dark tunnels, finding an ancient place. It was a temple, buried and fossilised and hollowed into a dark opal cast of what once was a church to Evraen, the Mother of Magic. The place, although clearly furnished and once used by the Thieves Guild, was now veiled in dust, the creatures’ tracks the only activity to have disturbed it — and they originated from a stack of rubble in a side room. Our heroes cleared the boulders and found another tunnel in the wall, this one burrowing steeply down and ending in a horizontal, circular borehole, 2 feet wide that was filled with water. After much debating, Ahmaya chose to scout ahead. They tied a rope about her ankle, she crawled down the borehole and then slid into the submerged tunnel. Moving hand over hand and kicking, Ahmaya could see nothing ahead but greyscale darkness...
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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!
We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.
Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.
Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.
To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!
Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!
And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/
Previous Episode
Roll Models D&D: Episode 52 – Down Tunnels of Opal
Delnori, the city built into the chasms of the broken sea cliffs, hides many secrets. Old truths built and buried in the shattered bedrock beneath the city, sealed into permineralised nodules.
And new mysteries that were born in Delnori as it is now. Down Scure Street, the three fissures burrowing east into the bedrock of the Hazarli continent like the imprints of broken fingers.
It is down one of these Fissures our heroes find themselves.
After breaking into a tanner’s and fighting off a pair of hoofed canine monstrosities that could mimic voices, our heroes saved the trapped tanner and tracked the creatures to their nest, deeper down the fissure street.
The prints led them to the rumoured HQ of the Touch Lotus Thieves Guild. Abandoned and left to rot, the wooden bungalow and burned-out steeple jutted from the fog.
But a drop-box for gold and enquiries appeared to still be in use. It was eerily quiet, but our heroes were not alone.
Several more of the creatures attacked, the fight was brutal, knocking Sentinel unconscious, but together they gathered about what hid beneath the nest: a trap door, framed in brass with a symbol stamped at the lock.
A lotus flower in brass, and at its centre was an open-mouthed skull...
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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!
We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.
Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.
Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.
To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!
Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!
And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/
Next Episode
Roll Models D&D: Episode 54 – The Mysteries of the Maze Markets
Diving from the sand into sea, our heroes have already made waves in the shadowy, seaside chasm-city of Delnori.
Two jobs down and a homely inn as a temporary HQ, they took stock of the conflicts brewing in the streets...
The once powerful Thieves Guild was split, and in the ancient caves of its old hideout the new guild, renamed “the Touch Lotus”, plots with a mysterious employer called Crissaphaene.
On their last job, our heroes stumbled onto the Lotus repairing the opalised archway in the caves at the order of Crissaphaene and with the aim of exploring the “burrowing” world beyond it to retrieve relics and curiosities.
There is also the other half of the split Thieves Guild, the Lamoré family, who lie hidden in the city, and a philanthropic pirate crew of the Oddmium Trist who seem active.
There is also the onward questions of Xethir, The Disciple, who’s plot our heroes foiled in Dustmere, and who likely continues on his crusade to break the One Thousand Seals.
But before our heroes wade into the shady fissures, cobbled alleyways and teeming Maze Markets of Delnori, first they must eat, and drink and seek the guidance of gods...
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Welcome to Roll Models, an actual play DnD Video Podcast!
We are a group of old friends from the UK who come together around a table to roll dice, make bad choices & play Dungeons & Dragons.
Meet our full cast of characters - Sentinel, Moxie, Freya, Eugene, Ora & Ahmaya.
Roll Models is a UK-based D&D 5e campaign releasing new episodes every Friday.
To find out more about us and the people behind the voices, head to our social channels!
Just search Roll Models D&D on YouTube, Twitter, Instagram & TikTok!
And a big thanks to Feedspot for featuring us in the top 30 D&D Podcasts! – https://blog.feedspot.com/dnd_podcasts/
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