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Sorry, but all I can think of is:
"Guys, I found the source of the ticking. It's a pipe bomb!"
What's that from? I feel like I may have heard this somewhere.
@@DanteTorn It is from the Potter Puppet Pals.
@@DanteTorn It's from this: ruclips.net/video/Tx1XIm6q4r4/видео.html
Apologies for the poor quality as it's old.
God, the fact that I instantly understood this reference makes me feel so fucking old.
I personally hate that I understood reference.
"Do your ears ever feel empty? Do the sounds that go into them bore, annoy or scare you?" - at first I thought this was a patron making a pitch to a new warlock. Pact of the Raycon...
adam m we need someone to make a homebrew of that
@@dank_smirk2ndchannel200 Homebrewing weird warlock patrons is definitely fun :D :D
adam m ye
Any good direct sales agent would make for a great warlock
Some lore issues Will arise from an pact of the raycon, such as warlocks being expected to do their own occult research to learn New spells and invocations according to the lore for 5e, and a motive for raycon to aquire patrons in the first place, and an explanation as to why those earbuds hold so much occult lore for an warlock to gain (free audible subscription maybe?). People forget that warlocks are meant to be loreseekers, not just sugar babies
I think you forgot about the Doug Dimmidrone.
Owner of the Dimmsdale Dimmidrone.
Finally an actual clever comment
Doug DimmiDamnitall
Quality comments.
"Ah. I see you're a man/woman/other of culture," I say sitting in a office chair, wearing a fancy robe, and smoking a pipe.
One time during a lunch break at a session I asked my friend to “flip to the perv bot page” in the monster manual he was holding. I couldn’t remember the name modron. The funnier part was when he IMMEDIATELY flipped to the right page.
The most terrifying aspect of Mechanus is actually the Inevitables.
I speak from experience as someone who has had their ass clobbered by a Marut.
Agreement. Disappointed that they weren't mentioned.
Sadly, they're no longer canon in 5e, at least from what I've been told.
Luckily my friends and I don't care what's canon or not, and homebrew is the best brew.
@@smarmydude3019 In one adventure into Mechanus to rescue an Ally, we came to the cellblock where our GM's homebrewed mechanical monstrosity of a jailer would try to magically paralyze the party members and then teleport them into random jail cells where demons, slaad, githyanki or mindflayers already inside would attack them.
They are one of the only creatures that have an attack that ALWAYS HITS. And that attack does exactly 60 force damage every time. And it can use it twice every turn. And it can cast plane shift on itself at will, so you will NEVER ESCAPE IT.
@@smarmydude3019 They are canon now! They have official stats in Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes! And they are still friggin’ scary.
You’ve sounded depressed recently and I was getting worried for you, glad your moving forward.
You talking about the whole art contest thing or something else?
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What happened?
I'm confused- what happend?
@@ThatGuyIsACoolGuy runesmith did a fun little art contest and a bunch of people got really pissy about it and runesmith felt he needed to make an apology
You didn't mention that dropped items rearranged themselves neatly.
Even if it's like dust or water.
Is that real?
@@wedran9225 I think AJ Pickett mentioned it in his video on mechanus.
@@jeremysmith9291 Thats amazing, but also very, very dumb.
@@wedran9225 hey! But at least you have organised loot
OCD PC: *drops sand on the floor*
Sand: *arranges itself into a perfect checkerboard*
PC; "At last! Perfection!"
Honestly, my headcanon is that the gears of mechanus keep time moving forward, and I know that when my players inevitably decide to kill Primus and stop the gears bc they're murderhobos, I can go, "Congrats! You just destroyed time" and watch their faces.
This may be late but just throw an inevitable or 20 at them if they're misbehaving, tends to do the trick
Suggestion instead of stopping the gears stoping time, everything in every realm starts from the beginning because you destroyed time so everything just implodes. It is like rocks falling and everyone dies but on a universal scale.
The sad thing is that if you go off official 5e lore/stats this would be easy to do, at least the getting to Primus part. A 4th tier party could slaughter hordes of CR2 pentadrones with no trouble. Granted there are no official stats for Primus but there are also no stats for the 9 other higher ranking modrons in older editions, which are necessary to stop or at least challenge the party in Mechanus. Because otherwise your only option is the Marut and its really jarring to go from CR2 pentadrone to CR25 Marut inevitable
Nic the Dm converted them to 5e if you wanna take a look, they range from CR10 to 19, and give Mechanus a little more depth
@@agustinvenegas5238 "Melee Weapon Attack: *automatic hit*"
Legends say that if your party finds itself in lost in Mechanus, and someone rolls a natural 20 listening check, and your DM is fun, you'll be able to hear Doug Dimmadrone beatboxing about who he is and his ownership of the Mechanus Mechadome.
I'm going into this really hoping he points out Primus is also the name of the god who embodies planet Cybertron and created the transformers and sometimes Cybertron turns into Primus, so hasbro owns the rights to two gods of machines named primus.
edit: he didn't.
unicorn is a god I think? Too the earth one
Or the name of an alternative rock band that, according to many of their fans, sucks.
Not exactly. In the Transformers Prime cartoon he was a being defeated by Primus and the original 13 transformers. Earth forming around him was merely a coincidence. I think the same is true for the live-action film version.
In most of the other continuities he is a god and rival of Primus of some kind. I think the only one where he isn't a god was the original cartoon where he was created by scientist named Primacron.
@@lorekeeper685 Unicron you mean.
Holey fuck dnd is in everything
"Unlikely but possible" is exactly where DnD stories are supposed to come from. Wasn't there a defective modron NPC in Planescape Torment or something?
Nordom! He is easily in my top 5 PCRPG party members.
Nordom is voiced by the guy who does Homer Simpson.
Yes, a great character :)
Modron Rogues were among presented races in Planescape lineup. Nodrom technically breaks the rules, since he is counted as CN when all Modron Rogues were supposed to be still LN, but, exceptions.
@@user-qd8yy9lc4g that may have been the case in 2e but it is no longer the case, in fact the opposite is true in 5e, as the variant sidebar in the monster manual tells us quote "A rouge modron looses the axiomatic mind trait and can have any alignment other than lawful neutral. Otherwise, it has the same statistics as a modron of its rank"
THE EVERLASTING GLORY OF CLOCKWORK AND ORDER. NO, I CAN'T LOWER MY VOICE.
WHAT?? I CANT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE COGS!!
MİNE EARS!
FireStarter 76 *THE EVERLASTING GLORY OF CLOCKWORK AND ORDER IS WHAT I SAID. I THINK. I CANNOT HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF THE COGS!*
WHAT IF YOU GUYS WROTE ON SIGNS?
WHAT? IT'S HARD TO HEAR WITH ALL THIS YELLING AND COG NOISE!
I've always wanted to have my players beset on by Modrons who are mad at them for time traveling and breaking time laws and stuff.
"But we haven't travelled in?"
Adding time travel to a campaign is a good way to kill it
@@jonathanwells223 says you
my players split Lolth into the pure and innocent elven goddess of song and divination Araushnee and the Spider Queen of hate and chaos, and they took Araushnee home with them. They had her create a race to be interns for their acq inc franchise (yes yes, problematic, it's a game), she gifts them with song and is often sad.
Then one day a half dozen mercykillers with a Marut and 30 modrons popped into their town, heading for the goddess
they tried to stop the Marut
They're level 9
They did not stop the Marut
However they did do an asspull to keep their god friend around: they had her willingly erase her knowledge of divination, erasing that from her baby-god portfolio and changing her true name (this was a player's idea, and it's the kind of shit I am all about as a DM), so the Marut just scanned, found no valid target, and blooped away. The rest of them shrugged and left (walking over the broken party members back to their exfil point where a portal nabbed them up). One of the players kidnapped a Quadrone and is now using it as a barkeep/accountant/spy/chef
Mechanicus is still not happy with them but I have informed them that the bureacracy of the planes means they've probably bought another year or so
@@override367 a year? Within a bureaucracy of immortals? I would think centuries.
I was literally just writing a planar campaign for dnd, make every other plane now thanks... :)
One might even say a Camplain
There's a real cool bit of old lore for Mechanus, where some God (Orcus) dies, turns into another God (Tenebrous), and hijack's Primus's position. You should check it out.
I really want them to make a Planescape setting book for 5e, andd focus more on the upper planes, cause the lower ones have so much already.
Ricardo Silveira ruclips.net/video/KoeOIXuhtR8/видео.html
I did a campaign that was supposed to go to all the plains and involved facing every monster type. It was meant to act sorta like a starter campaign for players to learn about that stuff.
Ironically, despite meaning to be like a sample or first/prep experience, we never did adventures focused on any of those planes after.
"Does the lack of sound scare you even more?"
*Laughs in tinnitus*
*can't sleep without listening to chill ambient stuff with earbuds to drown out the damn ringing*
I've always loved the fact that the Modron March means every adult in the games worldspace has seen Modrons at least once in their lives. This by extension means almost every PC has to have a background note on how their culture/family/character responds to being invaded by nosy, incomprehensible, mechanical census takers every 17 years. Bonus points if you remember that in order for their census to be accurate, they have to break into every secret location in reality every time. You wanna know where something is? Ask a Modron, the Modrons know.
The Modrons always know.
I never thought of this, but it's legitimately so hype. Thanks for the idea! Honestly, that could be the best plothook for an interplanar campaign.
17 cycles, which is like 200 years
@@user-zo9ce9jp1q Fair, but I'll stand by it. That's what, 2-5 fantasy generations depending on race? It's the sort of thing that comes up is what I'm saying.
@@user-zo9ce9jp1q So almost every member of every race that can live over 200 years has a story about them then.
Problem is communicating. They only know modron.
Fun fact - Primus has been replaced at least once by non-modron being - Tenebrous, the shadowy vestige of Orcus, who enacted the Modrone March out of turn to scour the multiverse for his lost wand.
Also: INEVITABLES!!!
He lost something so bad he had to steal an infinite army to search the multiverse for it? Honestly relatable. Hope he found it under his bed or something.
I read it as the guide to the mechanicus and I couldn't help but just think
"Just bring enough toasters to bribe everyone with"
Makes me wonder if those disgusting flesh lips like eating toast.
Also imagine just sitting in that plane, bathing in the precise perfection of ultimate mechanical order, hearing the ambiance of innumerable gears ticking, metal creaky in the distance...pretty nice.
I'd definitely close my eyes to prevent this meditative mood from being utterly ruined by those horrible lips tho.
“modron march!” just looks like the patapon games but with more detail
I'm glad i'm not the only one who thought that.
Pata pata pata pon!
1:44 Actually most of the outer-planes are relatively self-governing. Literally the only one that has a specific god running the show is Hell. All of them play host to some gods though.
Celstia for example is known to host Moradin, Bahamut, Yondalla, etc. but the plane is run by the "Celestial Hebdomad" who are 7 badass celestials. Moradin has a sub-plane within the center of the mountain known as "Erackinor" or "The Dwarf Home" which also has an exit in Arcadia, with the parts that exit in Arcadia being run by Clanggedin due to his Lg (Capitalization matters, especially in Planescape) nature.
Any one else hear my brain implode
@@lillianbaldwin-dickey8728 INSOLENT FOOOOLS do not count. It is your own fault for being unaware of proper workings of the Outer Planes.
*Modron:* We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more-
*Party Paladin:* Shut up! I order you to shut up!
Wouldn’t anarchism basically be super anathema to beings from a plane of pure order?
I think the Folios, famous for the webcomic 'Girl Genius', and cornerstones of the Steampunk genre, were ripped off regarding the Modrons. Those look a helluva lot like Agatha's clanks.
@@jordanwhite8718 Not exactly; modrons don’t have a state, because due to their very nature they don’t need one. Modrons are beings of pure order, so a state isn’t needed to keep them in line. A lawless modron is a contradiction, like a peaceful demon or a selfless yugoloth.
@@gwest3644 Anarchism isn't just opposed to states, it's opposed to hierarchy, which is something the Modrons have baked into their very being
Every time someone brings up Mechanus, I remember the rogue Modron Nordom from Planescape: Torment. Pain in the butt to get, and not exactly the 'best' party addition but the way he annoys the other party members is fricking priceless.
You know the players being caught modron march would be an interesting idea for a game or at least an arch
Isn't there a Planescape module based around that?
It's practically designed for that.
You missed out the best part of the Mechanus: The Enforcers of the Law. Marut in particular.
instantaneous 60 force damage
I like to imagine that the Modron March is literally just Primus clearing his search history.
The front end alignment caught me off guard and had me laughing so hard.
Party: meets a modron
Dm: rolls 1d300,000,000
Also Dm: Yeah it's a defector
Runesmith: "Do the sounds that go into [your ears] bore, annoy or scare you?"
Me: yeah, adds do that...
Runesmith...
Me: this is an add isn't it?
"Ad" is usually only spelt with one "d", as "advertisement" (which it is short for) is only spelt with one "d".
The Modron March illustration is from the 5e DMG. No clue exactly who drew it, but it's gotta be ONE of the credited names in that book.
"[Something] that you can exhale sharply at."
Don't mind if I do.
I don’t even play DND but these videos are awesome
Same and agreed
You should play D&D. Seriously, just go do it. Maybe buy some fancy dice and pretend they're Modrons. Or build a dice tower. That's what I usually do when I'm waiting for my players to decide what they're going to do.
It's like watching national geographic for a planet that doesn't exist.
@@jackielinde7568 If only I had friends who wanted to play. I've got one friend who's super into it with me but our other friend just always says he's "not in the mood".
@@lemonicity4834 Yeah, I know the feeling. But there are websites that can help you and your friend find virtual tables. Reddit's even got a subreddit for that kind of thing.
1:29 the alignment chart of "do it"
lg: star trek do it
ng: do it for her
cg: shia labeouf do it
ln: the "rosie the riveter" wwii women's factory work campaign
n: you know i had to do it to em
cn: do it yourself
le: palpatine do it
ne: someone else do it
ce: nike just do it
"Exhale sharply"
Why? Why am I so predictable?
The way I run defecting modrons is that there are one per 17 cycles. therefore there is only ever one naturally defective modron
Logan’s expression of perpetually startled consternation gives me life
I like to think that the result of Mechanus is Primis himself. Like as in, the whole place is just a giant machine who’s whole purpose is to run Primus, and while the gears turn there he can do all the order stuff
The front end alignment jokes is so smooth i actually was caught surprised by it
Still want to find a way for a Warlock with Primus as their patron would work
I would say either celestial or great old one with some serious reflavoring, it’s still tough though. You could take some levels in the UA clockwork soul sorcerer that came out
i feel like primus is a god, not just a powerful being, so you would be a cleric or a paladin of primus not a warlock.
Eldritch Blast projectiles are now Magic Missiles.
It always makes me smile when I see that you've made a new "Basically" video to enjoy.
Why is nobody noticing the Jojo time stop sound when Primus stops the mecanus clock thing
The knives give it away.
I got the "Law & Order" reference with the sound effect. I hope this makes you happy
Finally someone acknowledges the objectively coolest plane of existence
I love the idea of Primus being like Moai in Moana: writing and running every law of physics and proudly seeking praise for allowing the chemistry that allow the mitochondria to be the powerhouse of the cell.
By all accounts and intuition, you seem like a nice and thoughtful person. You create great content and make people happy. Full steam ahead Runesmith!
"I got ear buds, and listen here buds!"
Runesmith? More like wordsmith!
Primus is a mega-nerd
Oh, I know that band!
This video gave me an idea for a campaign where mechanus becomes corrupted and primus and all the modrones become obsessed with musical harmony as the ultimate expression of harmony and the players have to fix it. Could be a nice one shot.
I still remember when I first discovered the Modrons in an old 1st edition monster book.
If you think they look awful nowadays, you need to dust some older tomes.
If they would have a fast food restaurant it would be called "McAnus"
Their burgers taste like ass, tho
"Juicy leather-flesh DSLs" ....iconic
I waited for an Omnissiah joke that never came, not even at the "gods of the machine" bit
*sad mechanicus noises*
Considering its 2020, all the Modrons are gonna defect.
I love how this came out around the same time as the Animated Spellbook: Health Potions by Zee Bashew, this video is so amazing, the way you seem to not care about anything is something I love, keep up these videos and don't hurt yourself.
So if they defect it’s like leaving Russia does that mean that they have there own spetsnaz fentanyl Problem in a movie theatre
Pretty much, actually. Since they contain a piece of the Source of Mechanus, a rogue modron effectively weakens the entire concept of order in the multiverse, as long as it's allowed to run around on its own. So when that happens, they typically get hunted down by modron hit squadrons, in order to return them to the Source so that their normally-functioning replacement can be born.
They aren't as developed in 5e, but there were these things called Inevitables that were like Mechanus secret agents; whenever someone messed with the laws of the universe real bad, an Inevitable was sent to take care of them. If a modron goes rogue, I'm guessing one of these angelic clockwork assassins would be the one to destroy it.
@@ZvelHaj I fear for my character, then. Because he got ahold of a defective Modron that is basically a Golden Snitch and is a familiar/pet.
Just an FYI there used to be a set of hierarch modrons in older editions above the pentadrone. They started out at 10 for the decadrone and worked there way down to 2 for the secundi, who serve Primus directly. Sadly they didn't make it to 5th edition but they form the upper echelon of modron society and kinda flush out the plane a little, since if you thought the pentadrones were the leaders of the race you'd be justifiably confused that a major outer plane is run by fodder constructs weaker then human soldiers
Idea dor a clockwork soul PC:
They are a Warforged with a single small brass gear in its center.
The brass gear was manufactured in Mechanus/Nirvana and it's infused with the elemental power of Lawfulness. This causes the Warforged to gain Clockworl magic, acting as the embodiment of Lawfulness in the plain it inhabits.
6:20
ZA WARUDO TOKI WO TOMARE!!!
Finally someone noticed
I always thought Primus was a circle because it has infinite sides.
No; a circle has one, curved side. The polygon with infinite sides is the apeirogon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apeirogon
Incorrect. Hierarch modrons scale from 10 to 1. After Pentadrones go Decatons (10), after Decatons Nonatons (9), and so way back to Primus (1).
honestly dude i forgot what you even 'did'. you had no malicious intent, you seem like a genuine dude.
Glad to hear you say you're fine and moving forward, king.
I hope you meant it and it's not one of those "I'm fine, really everything is shit, but I'm not telling"
"By the omnissiah."
Getting a defective modron is like winning a lottery where EVERYONE in the USA plays 1 ticket each.
I really like Marut’s cuz they’re terrifying, they always hit and always do the same damage, but they’re not in 5e and I hope they’re added to a book at some point
I’m glad you’re fine, and I hope things will be good for you, have good year and hope the next year will be better
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Glad to see lanky Jonny Depp has the same tree climbing capabilities as me
I'm glad you're doing well man.
I must say, though, I have never heard of Mechanus. Didn't know it existed. Maybe my world was already so ordered that it was there all along yet it never needed me to be aware of it. I didn't need those fatlip minion images clogging my mind tho.
Campaign idea: you serve a god who just realized the modrons are about to march and they need you to cover up everything they’ve done
Funny Dnd story: My Tiefling Bard/Warlock/Sorcerer is in a relationship with his patron. Both him and his patron have a mark, containing half the power of a deiety, which is transferred via reproduction.
“Oh f**k, c***dom broke”
..........
This bard acended beyond all other bards, and literary might destroy the universe in the future.
Sounds like a really awkward thing
Coolboy 99 yeah but it’s really fun and pretty funny, along with making a good story to tell
@@door5443 if you and your group is having fun then don't let yourself hold back
I’m sorry it’s called mech-WHAT?!
ROBO ANUS ACTIVATE
Ahn-Uss
I see what you did there
Clock, but hole.
"These Alice-in-Wonderland-looking-ass juicy leather-flesh DSLs"
I feel personally attacked
I misread this as "Basically the Mechanicus" and thought you had a 40k series I'd never seen before.
"here's a baby that you can exhale shaply at"
I felt that
"Nirvana" is the name given to the plane by clueless primes.
No, Nirvana is the name of Primus domain in Mechanus, there are other domains. Nirvana is withing Mechanus they are not the same thing.
Yeah, honestly mechanism doesn't sound like nirvana
@@gabcaires2 Primus's domain is Regulus. Nirvana is what the primes called Mechanus. The Primes got a lot of stuff wrong about the planes, like how they call Baator "The Nine Hells" or the Beastlands were called "Happy Hunting Grounds", or everybody in Dragonlance calls every lower plane the Abyss.
@@tentacledhorror I had to get the books out and try to find it again, and huh, you are 100% correct! I apologise
One of my teammates accidentally summoned a monodrone, which immediately killed a rat and then died
Love ya runesmith! The only youtuber who actually makes me enjoy inserted ads. Good to see ya back at it
Thx dude I'm playing a mechanus warlock warforged
Is he a clockwork Warforged? Those are always cool looking
@@unknownentityenthusiast6765 no Al (short for Agent of Law) was originally aan airship pilot made by the izzet (it's a ravnica campaign and we need players so hmu)
Video been out for 1 minute, has 20 views and 102 thumbs up. Runesmith, you the shit my dude.
LMAO "Juicy lips!"
Aww, no Inevitables?
One thing- Modrons can only talk to one above it or below it in complexity.
The only good thing to come out of Mechanus is Nordom.
HaH MeCh(AnUs)
I have achieved comedy
ecks dee.
Hope your feeling alright and the work is treating you better, love your content dude.
Thanks for making this man, it always makes me happy when I see a ping saying you have a new video.
Is the Decakismyraiakidrone a thing? I need to know.
yo
Glad you're making more content and as always your loved
Idea: Warforged Clockwork Soul Sorcerer that’s actually just a hyper-advanced Modron, built by Primus to travel the multiverse and establish order wherever possible.
I have autism and your voice helps me stim aka getting rid of overwhelming emotion to prevent an autistic breakdown
Modronussy
I'm glad you're doing better you bring joy to so many people we love your content but more importantly we care for you and your mental stability. Keep on trucking my dude follow your passions!
anyone's dyslexia make them think this was going to be a 40k video and get strangely excited
It ain't a true time video without a JoJo reference in it somewhere.
Yare yare daze
I'm getting closer to first. You've been warned, mortal.
The Raven Queen has been duly informed.
The last thing someone like you should do is draw attention to yourself
Proud of you for moving past all that. You actually are an inspiration to someone like me who's been afraid to put out any content. I hope you get your spark back in a way that's good for you. You deserve it.
This is some next level stuff i had no idea existed and i'm very glad i got to see~
6:19 Is that a motherfricking Jojo reference!
Bless you Logan, my party was plane shifted to Mechanus by a Marut last session so the info was necessary
Got me with that front end alignment gag. Absolute level 20 dad joke
Glad you are doing well. these videos are very relaxing to me and i might actually have to look into Raycon.