We return to our adventures down in the valley of the glass sea having defeated our two wizards.
One of whom who was incinerated by quite a giant laser before being shot in the head,
and the other one who was brutally brutally kidnapped.
Brutally brutally kidnapped.
We find our adventurers standing around looking at the scene of carnage that has just played out.
We are out of initiatives. What would you guys like to do?
I want Kelsier to like... he's currently slinking his way down the wall.
Once he gets to the bottom you're gonna hear a crazy like land.
He's gonna... he's gonna blob.
You see his hands stick up.
Okay cool.
And he'll like, squirt to the to his bones and then stand up.
Them all jumbled up.
And he's gonna start running over to them.
You seen this shit?
What is that?
I kind of wish I wasn't.
What is that?
Hi!
Oh I love this guy.
There's so much.
Shoot on sight!
No! I think he came with friends.
Hold on.
Oh wait I should open up...
Narayya's gonna stroll up behind him.
I should open his character sheet just in case he gets attacked.
Narayya's just gonna stroll up behind him.
It's like hey yeah this is the best I could do on short notice.
Robin's gonna offer up his health potions.
Because I don't know if people need health potions.
We're like oh you look pretty beaten up.
Don't you think we're?
Robin's gonna give you a few health potions.
Robin and Narayya you guys were part of the original adventuring party with Gray and Rolik and Vice.
How do you feel now that you're seeing your friends after this much time?
I know you guys were tired but you were given that big warning from that one guard over in
Greywater who realized airship never came back.
Rolik if you recall you talked to that one guard up in the bell tower who was ringing away.
Yeah.
Seamus.
He remembered that you guys were overdue.
He never saw your ship come back and together he has rallied Narayya and
all of your other friends on short notice and they were able to send out an expedition to look for you.
And they've actually been looking for you guys for the past three days all over the glass sea.
You guys shouldn't have.
How'd you even find us?
Yeah well how did you know about the outgird?
Well the beam of light helped out a lot.
We kind of we know chaos follows you so we kind of figured.
We well does it follow us or do we make it?
Both.
Yes.
So yes we followed they followed the chaos here.
We brought back up.
I would like them to back I would like that thing to back up.
Because there's like waving in the boat like because there's not a bone here so he's
waving his arms like going back.
Yeah he's waving.
And Chris is just gonna come out just like no no.
It's enough it's good.
All right we're done we're done we're done.
We're done here.
We went to the uh the adventuring guild and apparently the better ones were already out on a mission.
So you got the C team because I assume A and B were both gone.
I'll let you know.
Just to clarify I was up training with her at the time so.
Yeah this this one's not part of the guild.
No god I'm so lost.
Icarus Icarus Kaz nice to meet you.
Vice-Thyser nice to meet you.
That's not how you do handshake but all right.
He's doing both with the left hand oh my god.
You didn't tell me they were weird.
That should be common knowledge look at who you dealt with.
This is Kelsier and that's Penelope.
Hi everyone.
Are we allowed to go home now we found them.
Yeah we are taking people back with us if you need us.
Can I be on the first ship out?
I have shi-
Yeah it's the dragon.
No.
Are you going-
They're reversible pants so I only shit the front.
Oh.
I only shit the front.
That's gross.
Are they brown pants?
It's a keel.
It's a keel yeah.
Yeah I don't know why I didn't notice that before.
I feel like that's really inconvenient.
Gross.
It's a battle skirt.
What are you talking about?
It's a battle skirt.
My girlfriend really likes it.
He battles with like shit.
Again I had a date with her today.
Oh yeah.
And I was pulled away.
I'm sure she does.
On short notice.
Icarus while you guys were visiting Greywater and the guild you were actually given something
for one of the members of the party here from a certain blacksmith cyclops.
That's right.
Is there a D-drae or tix here?
Oh yeah.
Oh I got something for you.
Can I hand over the glasses?
And he hands over to you a pair of shimmering glasses.
They are large and circular and they look like part of the Aurora.
They look similar to that one side of your face that was sandblasted in the Aurora ages
ago during that storm.
And they look like they've been frosted over the glass so that they're basically just two
chunks of pure refined Aurora have been inlaid in between these two stylish gold and silver frames.
Thank you.
As much as I would love to be the one to put these on I feel like there's someone who
would want this more.
Let me see if I can go coax them out.
D-drae's gonna walk away.
All right then that's um I don't totally know what just happened there but.
I don't think anybody does.
They're gonna get tix out.
I know but Mondor doesn't fully understand.
Oh I guess Mondor wouldn't get that.
Mondor doesn't fully understand that so Mondor's gonna be like yeah so he's gonna walk away
for a little bit.
We're gonna turn back to the main group here and we're looking around at the carnage
of the destruction.
Mondor as you guys are standing here you feel your sending stone vibrate and you hear
Uris's Nazbeli's voice once more over the sending stone go Mondor we have managed to charge back
up the light of eblash.
Do you have another target for us?
No we are fine down here all enemies have been eliminated.
Understood.
This is a great moment of restraint.
Who is the great beast that has landed in front of you?
Apparently old friends so they are safe.
Understood.
We let your crew know about the coming battle.
Captain Mauser and the rest of them have rallied to your aid.
They should be arriving shortly.
Keep an eye out for them.
Thank you.
Kelser's watching you very intently.
I'm so sorry.
Cause he's very curious.
Well as much as you can see because there's currently a tibia amphibian where it's a
little bit slow for me.
In case you're wondering you don't get used to it.
It never gets better.
It's staring at me.
Does it know it's missing bones?
Can it hear?
Yeah what are you talking about?
No if I don't look at it it's not gonna talk to me.
I love this game so much.
I'm gonna go back a hot minute to I guess at the beginning of the battle when my mask
was glowing because I don't know if anyone really noticed that.
Did anyone else notice that or is that just kind of a me thing?
You definitely let people know that your mask was burning your hands.
So I don't think it was the wizard.
Who was up there?
I would think yeah especially because why would they need to scry on you?
What makes a mask burn?
Well mine in specific is because if someone with magical sight is trying to see me.
Trying to see me?
So I'm thinking it would be somebody who's looking for me.
Are you sure?
That's what I'm thinking.
But luckily he couldn't get a hold of me or at least he tried to.
I get to try real early.
Because of my mask.
So Tix is gonna walk back glasses thinks my face is going.
If you can explain them to me I can scry on them for you.
Hi Tix.
Hi.
That's the same person.
He said they were gonna get someone else.
What?
Yeah buddy it's Tix now not Dre.
Is this the elephant?
You've been here since.
Oh I thought you were Vice for some reason.
Sorry I just straight up thought you were.
I always thought you were Vice still.
Vice would also say.
They're gonna look at you like it's a long story.
If you're not gonna be here for a while it's a little longer story.
I'd prefer not to.
Go back to your girlfriend it's fine.
I can't.
If you give me knowledge on them I can scry on them for you.
Norena is also gonna speak up it's like hey I heard something about a crew.
I could probably load them onto the dragon.
That's what I'm thinking.
That would be great.
Almost killed the entire crew of our airship just trying to make a drop off.
We are awesome.
Shit went down.
Very fortunate everyone lived.
As you bring that up you do see on a ridge not too far in the distance Captain Mauser
and the rest of the crew of the airship that you originally rode out here on dressed very similar
to the Hishim in sort of their flowy robes not in the big triangular heavy leather that they wear
for deep desert travel but more sort of the ever roll coverings that they wear inside of Eblash
and they are brandishing scimitars in their hands and you hear Mauser's voice kind of on the the
wind go for gray water.
What?
Yeah we took care of it.
We appreciate you.
We lorded them hard.
Stop saying that.
I don't like what you're insinuating there.
I know what you mean but it doesn't sound right.
I don't know what I mean though.
All right never mind then I don't know what you mean.
It doesn't sound right.
Stop saying it.
You're gonna get us in trouble.
You're gonna get us demonetized.
You're gonna be like my cool one-liner now.
Like I'll get lorded on.
Grumbling all the way Captain Mauser and his crew make their way down the slopes and sort of
follow a little trail into the valley where you guys have been talking here and as they do Captain
Mauser walks up walks down at the dead wizard and throws his scimitar down onto the dirt and she
goes I can't believe you killed them all without even letting us have a go.
You can kick him if you want.
I am gonna kick him.
While he's down.
I got all worked up for this.
Me and the boys we got you look we got all kitted out.
We got our scimitars.
We got our clothes and you're just here lording it over us.
You didn't even fucking need us.
We didn't know you were coming.
Yeah of course our lords go out to do battle with great wizards in a mysterious land and
you don't think we're gonna come help.
Well ironically the other two lords are here.
Yeah there's someone of senses here to help.
Cause we're gonna do about everything going on here.
From what I understand the main adventuring party is going to stay and move on and do stuff
and apparently I think I will be taking you guys home.
Oh do you have enough room for us.
He's got it covered.
And they all as like one person go and turn the look back at the drake behind you who gives
them a big toothy grin and you can see that he's got ropes and basically essentially rigging
draped over his flanks that would allow folks to tie off to him and hold on for like long
flights he would definitely be able to hold this small group.
Are you boys comfortable with that?
If we weren't comfortable with flying in the air we'd find a different trade.
That's fair point.
My god you're a badass.
What?
What the fuck vice?
The spit.
Vice is kinkier and kinkier every single session we have.
See I feel like I always know where vice goes and then you just kind of like keep pushing
the envelope.
I mean the great part is I didn't think about that line before I said it.
I said it and then I thought.
Oh I know I know I know how vice works I know how you work I'm just saying it still surprises me.
You should not be surprised by the surprises anymore then.
You're just a surprising individual.
Is it a surprise if you learn to expect the surprise?
This is the constant battle I deal with every day.
Expect the unexpected.
Expect that bitch.
No but what color is my underwear?
I don't know is it blue?
No it's just dark blue.
This is the regular occurrence in and out of game.
Yeah pretty much.
Yeah it's the different element.
Is there anything else that you guys would like to do while you've got your crew here
you're surrounded by the dead bodies of these wizards and their bandits?
Oh let's loot.
Let's hunt down that one bandit that escaped and kill him.
Sorry no loot loot loot is a better option.
There are the two wizards here there's runs through fire and there's a hole on top of the hill.
Hole.
What would you guys like to do with these folks?
He's in a divot right now.
I'll get high.
Well I was gonna make Kelsier go up and get him but.
There is there are like a slope right there as you can see.
Yeah he's in a divot now.
But it's more fun that either have him fly or Kelsier slurp back up.
I'll fly over.
Rolik you fly up to the top of the ridge here and you see Hole laying in the vitrified
glassy crater that has been formed by the blast from the light of Eblash.
He is got an arrow through his forehead and he's got a hole in it.
Exactly.
He could be a priest he is Hole.
He's laying there sort of face up staring blankly into the blue sky.
What would you like to do?
I want to rummage through his things.
You want to rummage through his things?
Okay he is very badly burned so a lot of the things that he had on him have been kind of broken up.
I do need you to roll me investigation.
I go ahead and sort of like rummage through his pockets and as you do so the cloth and the thread
sort of like tears and like rips in your hand.
Seven.
Seven?
You look this guy over and you manage to find a small pouch on him that seems to be surprisingly
untouched by the blast from the light of Eblash.
As you pick it up and take a look at it it is pristine it's not all sooty and blackened like
everything else and you get a sort of sense that something is different about it.
Open it up.
Okay.
You open it up and look into a small meticulous room.
What?
It's a room in a bag.
Ten feet by ten feet by ten.
He has tiny hut in a pouch.
It appears you have found a very distinctive bag of meat.
Bro.
Whoa.
Bag of apartmenting.
You can put freaking furniture and shit in there.
It's only ten feet by ten feet by ten feet.
It's a ten foot keyway.
That's plenty of money.
That's plenty enough.
Looking down into it you see that there's several shelves most of which seem to have
been recently emptied out and a large chest in the corner of the room that catches your eye.
Can I hop into the bag?
Yeah you can climb into the bag.
That's such a weird thing to see outside.
The watch is really-
I'm like too mad to see it.
You guys are all looking at me.
And I can see it.
Yeah he can.
Oh my god what is he doing?
Just like-
As soon as both of your feet have lifted up above the ground, the bag drops down to the glass.
And you drop into the room.
I can see.
Cool.
Take a look at that chest.
You walk over to the chest.
It's about the size of a small cake.
I would say.
It's got sort of like gold and brass ornamentation on it.
It pops open.
Oh sick.
And inside is another room.
A small pile of gold.
Oh sick.
I'll take the gold.
Okay.
Well actually no.
I count the gold.
I was just going to tell you how much there is.
There is collectively 450 gold pieces in this small chest.
Nice.
Tix, just jumping back to you real quick.
Yeah.
When you put those glasses on when you went off by yourself, you became incredibly happy.
Because for the first time in quite a while since you lost your eyes, you can see again.
It's like having the aurora with you all the time.
You still have your blind sight out to 30 feet.
But past that it fades back into normal vision and you can just see.
You can see again.
And the world has opened up, your render distance was set up to far.
We're gonna go build an epic base.
It's time to party.
Yeah, they have a very emotional moment to themselves where they're like,
I can finally see again.
And they're gonna cry a little bit.
And once they're done, that's when they...
Okay.
And that's when they walk back and tell Mondor very happily that if he can tell them a good enough
description of this person, they can cry.
I will explain.
I mean, we'll look with no best.
Whoever can give me an accurate description of who this person is.
But he's up there right now, so I don't think he would be able to...
I was also imprisoned for like, you know, a couple months with him like,
you know, torturing me daily.
So what is your spell save?
Mine is a 15.
And if that plus five is to me, it would be a 20.
20?
Oh, go ahead and roll me Arcana, please.
Arcana.
I think that is a natural 20.
Hey!
Explain to us how you're looking for him.
How are you scrying?
So as you are explaining this to them,
it looks like they're zoning out looking into the distance
as they're picturing what he looks like in your head,
their head, and how you're describing them and all of that.
And then they will bring out their third blade and look through it
and try with this envisioning of whoever this man is.
I'm sure we've talked about him before, but in my head, I don't remember him.
And they are going to look through and envision him
and figure out, try to figure out where he is and what he's doing.
It's almost like a legless.
What do your elf and eyes see where you're peering through your blade
and your vision goes zooming across the landscape?
Last thing, you have no peripheral vision.
You are just like your consciousness, your sight is reaching out across the land
and it strikes against a solid slippery mental surface.
And as you peer across it and your vision strikes against that barrier
that we talked about ages ago that's preventing you guys from moving through it,
you manage to find a crack and you slip and wrap yourself around this barrier
and go through it kind of like a cell sucking up something inside of itself.
And as you poke through and your vision shoots out across what looks to be a dark forest
where the trees are twisted and gnarled, weird sort of mist floats through the air,
they seem transparent, almost something's off with this forest as you zoom across it
as if it's fading into and out of existence.
You see several other very similar looking forests.
It almost looks like the forest that you've seen when you've traveled through the Feywild
is sort of starting to superimpose itself on the forest here.
Something is very clearly off with the world inside of this space.
And as you zoom across you come to this castle and you fly up the spiraling tarot cards
over the walls and through a window to where you see a tall handsome figure
with his little black beard and his long flowing brown locks.
And he's got his back to you as he is working on something.
And you catch a faint glimmer of his hands moving and what looks to be a small set of models
set out before him on a table.
There are eight towers that look like small stone, almost obsidian obelisks with a hole
near the center, top of the tower and very complicated looking roofs that look like
complicated looking roofs forming a large circle.
And you hear Reacher say, this will do it at last.
And then he seems to stiffen and he spins around to look directly at you.
And he goes, and he swipes his hand and suddenly you are kicked back and you stumble backwards
into Mondor as a blast of psychic energy lashes into your mind.
And you're going to take nine psychic damage as you are kicked out of his domain.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
That doesn't seem like it should happen.
Good news.
I did find him.
He was working on the table.
There were obelisks things and he said,
oh, this will do nice.
Finally, this will do it.
And then he kicked me out.
He was past that area that we can't get past with the weird world thing.
There is crack.
Can I try to make a mental note on where that crack was?
Hold me inside.
14.
This was a weak area that you were able to sort of push your consciousness through.
It would not be a physical crack that you could explore.
But I was able to make it past that area and it's messed up where he's living and
it's like what's going on in that Feywilded area.
There's clearly something wrong, but I was able to see him.
That was fun.
I had a cool trip.
Ended with nine psychic damage, but I had a fun trip.
Rillick, you've got your chest full of goodies.
I'm not going to comment on the fact you've got a dice tray on your head.
It looks kind of cool.
You got 90 gold for each of your fellows essentially if you break it down.
If I should write easy math, right?
Something like that.
Okay.
So you crawled up out of the hole here and you see your longtime friend Robin,
who you have not hung out with or seen in quite some time.
And as you look up, you do see Captain Mouser is making his way.
Is Robin standing over the bag?
I don't know.
Is he?
What do you see Rillick go into this bag of-
You know what?
Maybe I would probably figure out what the fuck's happening.
Okay.
So sure.
Yeah.
So you come out of the bag on the ground and
boom, there is Robin looking down at you.
Captain Mouser is making his way back down to talk with his crew.
What'd you find?
It's a room.
Oh, huh?
It's a bagel.
He stole a bagel.
I never-
Okay.
Magic definitely has advanced I guess.
It's so cool, right?
Yeah.
You just kind of walked around in there?
Yeah, there's gold in there.
That's exactly what I thought.
Damn, all right.
Huh.
It's like, who needs Tiny Hut anymore?
Yeah, literally.
I can just hide in there.
Yeah.
What happens if something happens to the bag though?
Put Tiny Hut around the bag.
That's a move right there.
There you go.
I don't know.
That's a good question.
I'm looking at the bag.
What happens if something happens to the bag?
I don't know.
Hold on.
Let me open the bag and look at the room.
I'm looking.
Earthquake.
So you shake the bag viciously and the inside does absolutely nothing.
They've dirted up good foundation.
Damn.
Earthquake proof.
Damn.
Let's go.
Okay.
That's nice.
Yeah, you want to hide in here?
Like, don't tell anybody?
You just like never leave?
Let's go.
It's like a pocket robin.
It's like a third arm.
Pocket robin.
You just come with me on all your adventures.
You and Ry can just live in the bag.
Let's go.
Just go with you guys. Just make potions.
So if you guys need them, just out of the bag.
We need a health potion.
I need a potion.
Where are those five potions?
I'll poke a hole in this bag if you don't pay.
Well, I can't even threaten to shake it because you'd be like, do it.
I don't feel nothing.
Nothing's going to happen.
What are you going to do?
All right.
Yes.
So Rolik is out of said bag now.
Yeah.
What's his name?
Captain Mauser.
Mauser.
I can't look.
Mauser.
That's why I was like, yeah, that's all right.
That's a low-key word.
Oh, and Mauser.
Aye.
I have a husband, not a wife.
Oh, OK, cool.
Make sure he gives you a thumbs up.
Thanks.
Good job.
High five.
Thanks.
I didn't want him misgendering Ry like that, even though it's not his fault.
As this is going on, we have Rowan, who is investigating runs through fires,
stabbed, and mutilated corpse.
Please.
Go ahead and roll me investigation as you look at this guy.
He's been kicked.
He is kind of dusty.
He's not going to run through fire anymore.
No, he's dead in fire.
Aye.
Nat 20.
Aye.
You said I'm off at the beginning.
You get two rooms in a bag.
You look over the still not charred remains of runs through fire,
and you come across two strange-looking amulets.
One is in the shape of brass knuckles, and it was slid into his pockets,
and it's kind of got like a big sort of ruby-eyed skull on it.
And the other one is a very stylized and expensive-looking ankle bracelet
that he had around his right ankle, with a series of runes that you do not recognize.
You also find a small pouch on him containing yet more gold,
along with a couple of ingredients for spells,
which does include several small what look to be diamonds.
Yes, as you are not somebody who knows much about gems and appraising them,
you do not know how much they are.
There are 200 gold pieces in his belt,
and he sort of looks like he's magic them to make them very light.
Interesting.
So it's in a very small pouch.
It's not dragging his belt down in the rest of his pants,
because gold is heavy, I know.
It's kind of strange for someone to be walking around with their pants...
Pantaloons.
Their pantaloons are just gold-ing with gold.
Yeah, let's go for that.
He is a wizard, he has ways to deal with this.
But yes, those two objects that you found, those weird amulets, they do catch your eye.
Can I maybe look into them deeper to see maybe what they do, or...?
So they both seem to have the same sort of runes on them,
but you do not recognize the language.
But maybe somebody else might.
All right, I will bring them back to the group.
I'm like, yeah, I can't read this shit.
Anybody know what this means?
What language is this?
So anybody who looks at it, who recognizes giant, recognizes the language.
I know giant.
Does anyone know who's giant?
Oh, Nerea would.
Truth.
She's still around.
Yeah.
So one for Nerea and one for Mondor.
Go ahead and take your pick.
Which one you're looking at?
I'll take the bracelet thing.
Okay.
I'll take the other one.
You'll take the brass knuckles?
Go ahead and give me arcane checks on both of those.
As you try to decipher the runes here.
The anus.
Arcano.
What are arcana checks this round so far?
18.
18? Oh, Jesus Christ.
Let me cross.
I shit you not.
That's another nat 20.
Keep that die.
Keep it away from the rest of these buffoons dice.
You said it.
You got 18?
Yeah.
Okay, that's awesome.
So we're going to start with you then.
Then we'll go to the nat 20.
Mondor, you are looking at these brass knuckles here.
And it's got a very stylized depiction of death on it.
You do recognize him.
He's, you know, he's a big skeleton.
He's very familiar.
And his eyes have been set with red rubies.
Written across the brass knuckles in giant.
That seems to almost like smolder and shimmer as you look at it is the word rage.
Oh.
Rage.
Mine says rage.
And as you are holding it, you do feel sort of like a, almost like a pulse coming from the brass knuckles.
Got a heartbeat.
Of just like, of like heat kind of flowing down your, your, your arm and your wrist.
And I actually need a constitution saving throw from you.
Oh, shoot.
That's okay.
That's all right.
I should be okay.
Oh yeah, that's going to be 25.
That is more than enough.
I'm good.
Constitutions plus seven.
I couldn't even dream of rolling a 25.
You glare at the brass knuckles in your hand.
And as you do so, that's anger and rage that was sort of the flow down your hand into you.
Rises back up and it seems like almost like a cool water has just washed across you.
And you just force those brass knuckles to behave.
You're in my house, bitch.
These are weird.
So you seem to have brass knuckles that say rage on them in giant.
That seemed to make you very angry if you were to wear them.
Okay.
Thank you, Nerea.
These make you very mad when you wear them.
Barbarian rage.
That's where I was going.
So as a quick out of game for the player's own personal knowledge,
if you were to attune to this item, it would allow you to rage at level one,
but then you would gain three exhaustion at the end.
You don't get any of the other features from barbarians,
so you don't get like the resistances and things like that.
But you would be able to rage and go like berserk with these on.
Give it to the cat.
It's an elephant at the moment.
Give it to the shape.
Thing.
The shape thing.
Nerea!
Our big giant goliath who is...
You still have your big hammer on you?
Well, no, I lost the mace.
Oh, that's right.
We lost the mace.
Okay.
I threw it on the side of an-
I threw it on the side of a spaceship for a-
Yeah, I just threw it off the side.
That's so weird.
I don't think it was on purpose.
Swinging it barked it.
It was a nat one.
And rolled a natural one.
You were holding this ankle bracelet.
And if I pull up this handy dandy image that was given to me by one of you folks,
because I had asked for some help to make designs,
is covered in these giant runes.
It is made of cloth, some sort of like, sort of like inner woven leather.
And then it comes to a grassy gold clasp.
Where the runes are actually written.
And you clearly see that the runes for agility have been carved deeply into that metal.
If I see one, an ankle bracelet?
Tandy up.
With your hooves.
Nerea's gonna just clasp it around his ankle.
With his hooves.
His hooves.
You put the ankle bracelet around his hooves.
And there's a soft little click as you do.
You're now cursed.
No, Vice, you are feeling rather athletic.
You're feeling sort of invigorated.
Your calves kind of bulge a little bit.
That's what blood dumping's like.
Fuck, I can see why people want to do this.
And so while you are wearing this, go ahead and please add a plus three to your athletics.
Boom.
Fuck, I should have taken that.
I thought it was gonna be dexterity.
And I'm like, I've got a little bit of dexterity.
I've got nothing to stress.
Oh, and Rowan would have distributed all of the gold as well.
90?
Well, mine was 40.
Yours was 40.
Okay, yours was 40.
I didn't add Rolex because I don't know if he's not going to.
I'll split it.
As you guys are distributing your gold, the crew is going to finish their talk with Captain
Mauser and with Nerea, and they are starting over towards the drakes.
They can get ready to depart.
Vice, as the crew is heading out, you do notice that around those patches of glitter glass
seems to be growing lots of the theoga maru, those berries that the seahawks were using
when you first met them that they coated their blades with that have that very adverse reaction
to water.
If you'd like to collect some now, you are more than welcome to, but I would need a nature
check from you to go ahead and collect those.
Hey, Mauser, can I ask a little favor of you?
Aye, aye, sir.
What can I do you for?
Depending on this roll.
That'd be a seven.
Be a 14 with my plus seven.
Jesus!
My payload's beard!
Oh, why could I never roll double digits on a nature check though?
Anyway.
Apparently you don't need to.
I would like you to take some of these berries back to my greenhouse.
Perhaps in the future we could start selling them or we could just make ourselves our own
badasses even more badass.
Perhaps we make enough to arm a crew on a battleship.
Keep you guys safer.
As you wish, my lord.
I'll take some with me.
And he takes out his little belt pouch and he opens it up for you.
And with that 14, you get seven.
Enough to sustain an ecosystem, personally.
I think it'll be.
Thank you, my good man.
Lord, and he's gonna touch his forelock.
You do the same, okay?
Very aggressively.
Would you like to collect any more for the group?
For your travels here?
You might not get another chance.
Can I roll a check?
Yes, you may roll another check.
That's a 19.
Ooh!
26.
26?
Alright, so what I'm going to do, you roll that again on the floor.
And I don't know what that is because I don't read floor dice.
It's okay, he didn't roll it.
He didn't want to roll it.
He just dropped it.
He just tossed it up in the...
Oh, I know, I know.
I'm gonna give you this.
This is the Fiyogamaru card.
It's got all the stat blocks on it.
Give it to me!
Jesus!
Biscuits!
I need to roll to see how many you got.
Eight and five is 13?
Here you are.
You have 13 berries from the Fiyogamaru.
They shall go in my bag of hope.
Before the group parts, is there any last words you guys would like to say to them?
Anything else you'd like to do with your compatriots that you haven't seen in quite some time?
Rulik will say to the captain, she'll say,
Captain!
Aye!
I'll be bringing it back into the airship.
I'll drink to that, my lord!
Cheers!
Nerea's gonna go around and give the party, or at least three, a hug before departing.
Huggies!
Rulik, shut up!
But she will give him a hug.
And then Fix is gonna run over and give Robin a hug.
Robin won't say goodbye to everybody until the end of the party.
Goodbye to everybody too.
From both him and Rhy.
I'm gonna give Robin a hug.
I hope for something.
You can have a pouch.
I won't tell anybody.
I have to get back to Rhy though.
Tell your husband I said hi and that these, I haven't used it yet, but these spell potions are like top notch.
I'll tell Rhy to keep working on them.
In her hug with Vice, she's gonna whisper in his ear, it's like,
By the way, Red's been looking for ya.
Tell her I'm out of office.
I sent my Microsoft Teams tool away.
I don't wanna die, so I'm not gonna tell her that.
I'm not gonna do that though.
I hope you understand.
I'm not gonna do that.
Alright, tell her, I'll be back.
True love can't stay apart, all that bullshit I guess.
That bullshit?
That's the bullshit.
And on that note, Nerea, Zdrake, with the crew of your airship and Robin and Icarus and Nerea,
and I can't remember the Slimes' names!
Kelsier!
And Penelope!
And Penelope all rise up into the sky together.
And they're all waving at you, the crew hanging on, they've been tied off to the rigging.
I think a bone flies out.
Caught him.
He's all in the same part of the make up going.
Penelope is crying, Vakarys is just like, cry am I here?
Why do they leave in charge of the screening process for the guild?
They need to be fired!
Apparently your friend Nerea did say that the A and B teams were already out on missions.
So we're settling for Shits's pants and...
Slimes?
That was Shits's coat actually.
You're right, my apologies.
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
The broody looking dude seemed to be pretty competent.
Robin?
He's always brooding.
Oh, Kelsier?
That wasn't a dude, the one with the funny accent.
Oh!
He sounds like he would be a fun at a bar.
If you get him loose enough probably.
I feel like he could be a good piano man.
I think I could get him.
Okay, on that note, we're going to move right on.
Oh, I thought we were talking about this.
Nevermind.
We're going to go to break.
Ignore me!
What were you thinking?
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With the old group gone,
and the crew of your airship departed for their homes and families,
you all are now left here in the middle of the desert
to decide what you would like to do.
Nebus is still your crew.
That's what I was going to ask, DM, how's Nebus doing?
Nebus has cheered up considerably.
I can imagine, you need the shit out of some people.
I don't think that's concerning.
From an insight perspective,
you've gotten the sense that she's sort of working out a lot of her emotions,
on the things that she's been fighting.
She's not necessarily angry at the group, it seems,
but she is more so angry at whoever supplied her brother those drugs that ended up getting him killed.
So we're no closer to that truth, huh?
Not really, nope.
Not entirely.
This is just a side quest.
Yeah, we were feeding raiders.
Before we go any...uh, bullet.
Yeah.
Where did you go?
Oh, right, we haven't unpacked that yet, have we?
Where did you go?
He went to another dimension, that's what that spell does.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, so where was it?
Well, it was somewhere nice and green and bright,
and I didn't feel so old, I didn't feel so heavy,
and I think I saw an Arachocra, and that was it.
Oh, you saw a what?
I saw one of us.
Do they look like you or her?
Question.
Oh, I don't know if I remember that much.
I think they were too far away for you to remember.
Question.
Yes?
Would his description of how he felt ring any kind of bells for me at all,
having been to multiple different planes?
Well, it certainly sounds like he went to a different place,
so not the Material Plane, so not this world.
But I'm like, if you're in a plane that's not yourselves,
do I feel different here than I would on my own plane?
Yeah, I guess do we feel different?
I never really thought about it that way.
Do we feel different being on a different plane?
That's a great question.
You guys don't feel different from, let's say,
like in some of Celestia, but however,
like when you were in the Astral Sea, there is no gravity there.
You're floating around kind of like in space.
So yes, in that respect, you would feel different here because there's gravity here.
However, it is 1G.
It's the same as what it would be over on Celestia,
which is a very, you know, very happy, good place to be.
And so the conditions there are good for life.
Whereas the place he went to seems to be more suited for something like him.
But no, to answer your main question,
this does not ring any bells of some place that you personally have heard of before.
I was mostly asking, it's like, would like him describing like how he felt,
would like that make me think it's like, oh, hey, that's where he's supposed to be, like, you know, or...
Roll the insight on that. That's a good thought.
Also, when I looked up into the sky, was there another planet up in the sky?
I feel like I remember that from your description, Black King.
Is that the case?
There was. You remember looking up into the sky and seeing what looked like the glass sea
splayed out on the the moon above you.
Oh, super cool. Yeah. 24.
24 on the inside?
Yes, you could definitely get the impression that the place he went to is probably more so suited for him.
He said he felt lighter and more youthful than he ever had before
and sort of reinvigorated almost as if that place was where his species came from
and not from the material.
You're filming that.
What?
Hang on.
I'm joking about Carrie.
You said you felt freer and lighter.
Yeah.
It kind of originated there. It's meant to be there.
Or that that is.
Oh shit.
That would make sense.
Okay.
Why you have such a small lifespan on this planet.
That is a good point.
Because it's completely different than your own.
You're being crushed by the gravity here.
You're crushed by the gravity. Maybe the air is different here than there.
That sucks. What the hell?
As a brief aside, the lifespan of an Arikocera is about 30 years on average.
Varelik is in his twenties.
Yeah. He's an old man.
He's an old boy.
Only old men say, goodness gracious.
We're not letting you live that down.
You whippersnappers.
So do you want to try to go back there?
Maybe grab her.
Seems like it would be better for you.
I don't know.
That would probably be something that.
I just gave that whole speech last time about how gray water is home and all that shit.
So.
It would increase your lifespan.
The world is shattered right now.
It's okay for your definition of home to change.
Yeah.
It doesn't have to stay the same.
I know.
Your gray water wasn't your home just a little bit ago, right?
It was nowhere before, but you know, then you found a home.
We don't talk about that part.
But then you found a home. It's okay for that definition to change once more.
You gotta do what you gotta do to keep yourself alive.
I have questions for my parents.
We can talk to them during the.
Oh, during the thing.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, so.
What now?
We did.
Back to the hot spring.
Now we go back.
I guess we go back and wait till the.
Well, what time is it?
It is.
Look up at the sky.
I'm blind myself in the sun.
Because I can see the sun now.
You can.
I mean, you could technically see it before.
Yeah, but like I can actually like see it.
See it as opposed to.
Yeah, they can burn your eyes now.
Fuck.
They can focus the glass.
It's about 1 p.m.
Oh, anything doesn't start.
So like, what was it?
Seven.
They said it wasn't for several days.
Oh, yeah.
Oh my God.
What were we gonna do for several days?
Sleep.
Watch her fight over him.
I am not.
He said that out loud.
Absolutely.
Don't lie to yourself.
Honey, I just.
What?
I mean, it's not your normal.
Listen, there was.
Bad mental state for you to be throwing shit out right now.
Why don't we just go back?
We should all take maybe a day.
Calm down.
That was a pretty tough fight.
We just have experience.
So why don't we just chill?
Hot springs.
Alchemy jug.
Let's go.
No towels.
I thought that was the norm.
That never happens, actually.
You just make a bonfire and we dry ourselves off.
Yeah.
You have the alchemy jug.
Yeah, we do.
See, I fell out of the bag holding.
Oh, yeah.
It was the second thing you picked up.
Does anyone else want to scream in the bag so we can do that later?
Yeah, here we go.
He needs that scream right now.
Really?
I want you to know that's not therapy, by the way.
You might have to talk to someone.
It's as close as you can get.
I actually jacked up a throw.
You need to get laid.
I'm not offering, by the way.
Not offering, by the way.
Thanks.
I didn't think you were.
I don't fuck with birds.
That was so mean.
I need to get laid, but not by me.
But I will not be the one doing it.
Thanks.
No, yeah, you are repulsive to me, actually.
You, no.
Smash?
More like pass.
You know, in the fuck, marry, kill, I kill you.
I wouldn't do that, or maybe marry, but kill.
All right, let's start with going back.
You guys have decided.
She's desperate.
I'm sure her feathers are all over the place.
She's all ruffled up.
He needs it for therapy reasons.
It's therapeutical.
Sex therapist.
I think you both need it for therapy reasons.
Fuck you, fuck you, fuck you.
I don't know how to feel about you right now.
You're cool.
I'm going to tell you about the thing I found later.
You don't get to know now.
I was going to tell you.
Monder, let's go.
Walk with me.
Let's go, yeah.
You guys trudged your way all the way back to my brush.
Look at this pouch I found.
Look, look inside.
Looks like a whole other room in there.
It's a room.
I went inside it.
Oh, hey, it disappeared.
It's so cool.
Damn, how big is it?
Wait, watch this.
Earthquake.
It doesn't shake.
It's awesome.
Nothing happens.
Yeah.
I'm there.
The best definition that the vacation made out of the group chat, but the group chat
did not make it out of the vacation.
You guys arrive back to Eblash.
You still have on those boots from before that allowed you to travel across the light
of Eblash.
And so you managed to make your way up all the way to the top of that light well, the
tipping top of the tower where that little old wizened man is.
Welcome back.
To go ahead and if you want to return the boots, because you fought the wizards and
because you are part of the clan now, you do get to have your own set of boots if you
would so choose to keep them.
Or if you want to store them.
I mean they're made for my feet so I'll keep mine.
You'll keep yours?
Yeah.
All right then.
I can keep them in the bag of holding.
Would these, if I were to be wearing these, would they, are they heavy?
Would they impede like stealth checks at all or are they just normal boots that you can
just use?
You definitely can't run these.
Okay.
Yeah, they're like wearing ice skates.
So you can't run in them.
So yes, you would get sort of like disadvantage on things like that and anything like sort
of athletic if you were trying to do them with those on.
However, you put them in your pack, you could just pull them out at a later date.
It's like dawning or doffing armor.
You just put them on.
Okay.
And they're not, I know they're more or less made for like Aarakocra feet but are they
okay for like humanoid feet?
The ones that you picked up are sort of made for you more for the Hashim as opposed to
the Aarakocra.
Yeah.
Rola's got a special pair.
They're gonna let me keep them off, take them off.
Okay.
Did mine get damaged in my, you know, seven?
I do recall that.
Yeah, they were kind of chipped up a bit.
Alright.
Um, I'm gonna head over to I guess the big shelf of them?
Where I really have them?
Yeah, there's a couple of big shelves nearby.
The old man is sort of standing there, kind of chatting aimlessly with Rolik.
Cool, so I'm gonna take mine off.
I'm gonna grab a new pair and just kind of...
You're gonna swap them?
I'm gonna take a new pair.
God, three, four seasons from now, we're gonna see like, oh my god, I'm gonna swap them.
Three, four seasons from now, we're gonna see like, somebody from Eblash coming to save
you guys and they're gonna fucking eat shit as they pick up the broken- I'm gonna write
that down in my notes.
I'm gonna like, and then I'm gonna prance over to the bag of holding.
Hey, can you put this in there for me?
Oh, who do I give the sending stone back to?
Do I keep the sending stone?
Do they want it back?
Uris Nazbili does want his sending stone back.
Is that the guy who was just the old man?
No, that was the old man who runs the little shop here.
Okay, well I have to go find him and give him back his stone.
He's down just in his rooms right below this room.
Alright, I'm gonna go find him.
The rest of you guys go with?
Yeah.
Sure.
Okay.
You go down, Uris takes the stone back from you.
He lets you know that those amulets he gave you are a gift from him for all the hard work
you did.
He's thanking you for taking care of those bandits, but he does wonder who those wizards
were because those are not normal bandits.
Yeah, I was just about to say something about that.
You had said raiders and bandits, but I think the only parts of that whole situation that
seemed like bandits or raiders were the little guys up front.
So that definitely doesn't seem normal for you guys here.
They were not normal for us.
And like that's never, never, never, never happened before.
Not even like once.
Never as far back as I can remember.
Did by any chance you recognize these individuals?
Well, they were coming here for you.
That would be a deception check if you want to say that.
Because they were coming here, they were trying to find you guys.
Well yeah, but do I recognize them as me?
I don't know.
It was me saying I guess I don't, but I don't know.
As a person I don't.
As a character you definitely do.
These people you could definitely infer came from Reacher.
Considering Reacher was looking for you, there are two wizards coming to get the two outlanders
and bring them back with them.
And then just to kill everybody else.
They were hunting you two.
Um, well, I don't know them first hand, but I believe I know who sent them.
Who might that be?
Is the name Florence Reacher, Ringabel?
His name is Florence.
Yeah?
I think, yeah.
I didn't know that part.
It's so pretty.
I cannot say that the name rings any bells.
That's the man who sent them.
You have interesting enemies, Mondor.
He's certainly handsome, I mean.
He looks, he's definitely up there.
Yeah, so that's, I apologize for bringing chaos to your humble abode, but.
We are happy to shelter those of our clan.
Yes!
He puts his hand on your shoulder!
You, no matter what you decide, will always be part of our clan.
Eh, okay.
He did say before that you guys are honorary members.
That doesn't mean that you have to participate in their rites and things to basically become
like a full member.
You'd have to go through the whole ceremony of joining.
But yes, these people are still very happy with you, and they are willing to go quite
out of their way to assist you.
As part of that, I'm just gonna turn to the rest of you guys and go, no.
I do remember and recall that you said you wanted to travel to the city of Valuin.
If you would like, we can use the light of Eblash to speed you on your way, saving you
much travel across the desert, and perhaps saving you from a worse fate.
That would be... hold up.
Un problemo, por favor.
Yes, advice.
We want to be here for that kickass fest.
Sorry.
We want to be here for the Ancestry Festival.
The Psy Ead Rosk's tree?
I'm sorry, I can't pronounce that yet.
In your speech, the Gathering.
Yes, I would like to Magic the Gathering.
I would like to visit that.
I understand, advice.
So if we go to Valuin now, how long will it take on the light of Eblash in these cool
ass feet?
And then, is there a way that we could call you, I guess the Sending Stone, to get us
back here in time for that?
We could have you there by night's fall, with the light of Eblash to the city.
What about getting back?
Getting you back would be a harder prospect.
The light does not flow two ways.
You would have to arrange transport back yourself, or perhaps we could let you have some of our
depar, and you could ride them through the desert back to the city.
How long is it a departure?
It would take you a day.
So we would be in Valuin.
So we'd get there in a day, be in Valuin, and take back a day to get back.
Let's do this, if we spend a day in Valuin.
Yeah, but like, I want to sightsee.
I've heard there's some really good spots in Valuin.
Have you been to Valuin?
What spots?
No, I just heard there's really good Mediterranean eerie there.
Oh really?
Okay.
So you said a few days, you said a few days until the...
This is a little chaotic character.
Two days, a few days until the festival?
So from this current day, there are three days until the festival.
I do not see a reason that you would not be able to take the light of Eblash after the
festival.
This is a open offer?
So yeah, we'll take it, but we'll take it after the festival.
Well, in that case, you guys have three days to spend here in Eblash.
We're going to go around real quick, and I'd like you to each tell me what it is you're
doing and how you were spending those three days.
So Vice, what are you doing during this time?
Hey, here's a...
I call it a pillar light.
Okay.
I found it on the street.
I found it on the street!
No!
It tastes pretty good.
Yeah?
Here's mine.
I drank out of this one, not that one.
Okay, yeah.
It's lukewarm.
It is.
I think that's how it's meant to be though.
If this is how I found it.
I mean, you know, it's no...
Whatever the fuck comes out of the alchemy jug now, but it'll do.
Oh man, maybe I could have done that.
Yeah, you could have done that.
This is all right though.
Yeah, it's all right.
I feel like I should have a grill with it.
Yeah.
Anyway, I gave you that beer to prepare you for some news.
Okay.
With this most recent victory, I just kind of feel a little bit stronger nowadays.
Yeah.
I've been studying a little bit.
I think I could reincarnate you.
How does that work?
You die.
I forget.
I had hoped...
And then I bring you back, but we can't control what kind of species you come back as.
Do I keep my memories?
It'll be a little hazy.
Okay.
Such as this hazy IPA sponsor.
Trot.
There are cons.
There are a lot of cons.
Okay.
Such as you could turn into a variety of races.
You might not like that body.
And I don't really know how reincarnation will work after that.
I don't think this is a thing that we can play God with.
Probably not.
Either it'll eat away your memories, your physicality, or maybe you just will suck as
the new person and I won't want to hang out with you.
Damn.
These are possibilities.
Let's...
I just want you to know...
It's not off the table, but let's save it as a last resort.
Yeah.
I feel like now is an inopportune timing because one, you're alive.
Two, you are trying to get in contact with your extraterrestrial.
Yeah.
So it's totally understandable that you're hesitant, but I want you to know as your buddy,
if you need that done, I can perform something.
Cool.
Cheers.
You want to get drunk in the hot springs?
Oh, thank Christ.
I was so sick of this emotional garbage.
The two of you guys apparently spend your time drinking, chatting, relaxing in the hot
springs, and generally getting yourselves back to peak.
Back to peak?
Okay.
Yeah, wait, can we have a fucking workout video?
Like one of those at-home workout videos?
Oh, Jazzercise.
Yeah.
Who was that?
Richard Simmons.
Yeah.
Yeah, he puts on the headband, I put on the galoshes, we fucking kill it.
We teach a whole bunch of...
What do we call them?
Urchins.
Yeah.
The little urchin.
The little street urchins, yeah.
We do an aerobics course.
Yep.
Well, they see you guys training, and so one comes over with a bit of wood or something,
starts to practice with you, kind of like a swish in behind you, and soon after three
days, you've got an entire group of children all following you.
Maybe they just assembled child armies.
This is not the first time we've accidentally done this.
I don't know, it seems to be everywhere you go, you guys want to improve the lives of others.
I was gonna say the same words, and we're not worth it.
Here you go, you're training with us.
I was gonna say improve.
Look at that guy's fucking...
He's vascular as shit.
You, you are the next Richard Simmons.
Thank you, Vice and Rolik.
I'm gonna make a jump here, this is gonna be kind of surprising.
Mondor, what have you been doing these three days here?
I've been familiarizing myself with the area, also trying to find out how to get past that
area to get to Florida, if I can.
Research, I guess.
Through research.
Okay.
Well, there does happen to be, through your looking around of the town, quite a library
here in Edlash.
It's the Diamond Library, and it is home to some of the oldest tomes still left in existence
from before the cataclysm that created the Glass Sea.
Several works still arrive, so there is some ancient magics and things in there.
And you actually get on quite good terms with Mr. Simmons, the librarian.
Cool.
Who is going to allow you, if you would like, to go through and look at those older books,
but you'd have to be very, very careful with them.
In that case, then, go ahead and give me a history check as you go through those ancient
tomes.
Eight.
I thought it was a one for a minute, so I'm glad it wasn't a one, but it is still only
eight.
So going through those tomes, you find some complicated spell work that describes how
a trigger can be applied to spell scrolls, so that if someone were to, let's say, cast
a spell scroll, the spell scroll remains.
The magic has not fired off until the trigger has actually been activated.
There's no way I can keep that book, so I'm just going to have to remember that.
You're going to have to remember that, yes.
Okay.
You're going to need to, if you wanted to make that a reality, you're going to have
to reach out to somebody who's a native magic caster, because you are not one.
That's okay.
I think I have like three of those in my group right now, so okay.
I'm going to cook carefully.
Yeah, I really almost...
Dusts the book.
It's just gone.
Carefully close the book.
Put it back.
And walk out to the library.
And go, I guess, look for my friends now.
I'm going to jump around again.
Rowan, what have you been doing those three days?
I probably would have found like the warriors and like, so I'm guessing the seahawks, if
any of them are around and maybe gotten like formal training with the Ganglion, really.
So the majority of the seahawks are actually out still.
They are looking for the people who gave those drugs to Hapus.
However, Nevis and some of the trainee Arakocra, are they're still there at their main headquarters,
and they do agree to go ahead and give you formal training with the Galeno blade.
Over the course of those three days worth of training, she does show you a couple of
tricks so that when you go to blind someone with your blade, they would have disadvantage
on that.
You're going to basically be able to shine and bend the light very well into them.
So go ahead and add that essentially as a minor feat with the Galeno blade.
Did you talk about anything?
Basically just tell her to go for it.
She's still like trying to egg her on.
You guys only live a short period of time.
30 years.
Wait, how old is she?
Oh, very important question.
Yeah, I like how all of you ignored that.
She is going to tell you that she is in her room.
Oh, she's also an old lady.
Okay.
There you go.
Old.
Jesus Christ.
I showed you the room.
Come on.
I showed you the room.
That doesn't count for shit against your age.
Doesn't make you cool, old man.
I never acted old when I first found you.
It's because his knees were still working.
It's growing.
Yeah, his knees are slowly bleeding.
Because I was 20.
Now he's 21, and now he's old.
Yeah, he hit a wall.
And I went through that period where I got an extra 10 years, then maybe lost that 10 years.
And he felt mortality all over again.
Yeah.
But now he went somewhere else where it went away, and then he came and came back, so it had all tumbling on him.
So now he feels even older.
Forefront of your mind.
Tix, what have you been up to?
I feel like while I'm here, I wanted to get back into magic using while back in the desert, because it's been a little while since I've been able to really work with everything while I'm in my quote, unquote, home area.
So I would just like to meet up with the magic users and practice with them, learn how to pray, because I've never prayed to a god before.
My other god wasn't needy, I guess is the best word to describe him.
So I'm going to learn how to pray to my deity.
And then at one point, I would like to have my say.
You managed to meet up with several of the younger shamans.
And this is actually a pair of women who are doing magic that you have not seen before.
This is called thread magic.
And so they actually have large pieces of string in their hands, and by focusing their attention on the string and tying knots in the string and manipulating it, they are able to cast their magic through that.
You spend your three days with them, and they are actually going to teach you a first level spell.
Okay.
This spell is called entangle.
Yes, entangle.
Go ahead and add that to your list of known spells.
You are going to need a piece of string to do it.
But essentially, if you focus on somebody within 90 feet of you, you can tie your knots in that string to attempt to tangle that person up with essentially magical invisible.
Okay.
Rulik, the most last, and last not least, the one who is mostly thinking about probably his mortality at this point in time and the fact that death is getting ever closer to him as the years crawl ever forward.
What have you been doing these three days other than getting to run with your buddy?
I do apologize.
I misunderstood.
I thought you were just said, I can't fuck it.
I'm going to go off drinking with him.
Does death have an advent calendar for Rulik?
He's like, oh boy, what's behind this door?
He loses another year and I get a chocolate.
And I get a chocolate.
Nice.
He's got one of those for juristics.
Are you joking?
That's the amount of times you've seen me.
The amount of teases you give him.
Oh my God.
If I don't get to reap their soul, at least I get a chocolate.
He's like, I can't do it.
It's a cheat day every day with these fucking guys.
Unfortunately, with that whole trousers of time thing the wizards came up with where you make one choice in this life, you make a different choice in another, death has to show up even when somebody might die now.
Because even he's not certain whether or not this is the time they actually die or whether they not.
It plays hell with his schedule.
And as such, he's a little grouchy.
He drives him to drink.
That's not the only thing that drives him to drink though.
Jim.
Although he seems to be doing, he seems to be much more chipper than he was.
Maybe he's really Jim.
Or fired him.
Jim's back in hell.
Yeah.
Yeah, aside from trying to forget, I probably spent a little bit of time writing in my notebook about things that I want to say.
I'll probably take a little bit of time to do that.
And then I'll go talk to them.
Oh shit.
Okay.
Thank God you don't blue ball me.
Still might.
Yeah, they don't.
They just talking around the city.
You find Nevis training hard with Rowan.
And you arrive actually as one of their practice sessions is ending and they're sort of they've been exerting themselves.
Oh, I mean, yes, as one does when they train.
Oh, bye.
Nevis is going to give you Rowan a look.
She's going to give you like eyeballs like back and forth.
The little wink back.
Okay.
She is going to wave and she's going to whisper thanks to you and she's going to wander over towards Rolik.
Hi.
Me too.
How are you?
How are you liking Eblash?
It's nice.
Yeah.
I'm liking the hot springs.
Well, I'm glad you're getting good use out of them.
Yeah.
Have you had a chance to go up to the aviary recently and see the thermals up there?
No, actually, I've not.
Oh, well, I'm just coming off my shift here.
You want to go take a flight?
Sure.
Why not?
The two of you walk the city of Eblash up to the Depar's aviary, which is one floor below where Marissa Nazbalee has his little private housing in the lightroom.
And you guys go through the door.
And as you will recall, there is those lines of stalls for these big blackbirds.
They were completely flightless.
I'm just going to throw that out there.
And then the opening in the cliff face that just drops out into the great beyond.
Well, here we are.
Have you ever used thermals before?
I don't know how much you've had a chance to fly with.
Never used thermals, no.
Okay, well, the biggest thing you need to think of is that they rise up underneath your wings.
So you really don't need the flap the whole time.
Just keep your wings out.
And as long as you stay inside of them, you'll keep going up.
And if you coast for quite some time, you can swish back into them and ride them up again.
Nice.
Cut the air with your wings.
And with that, she's going to give you a playful push on the shoulder, and she's going to drop backwards off the cliff.
I'll dive after.
All right.
She is falling upside down, staring up at you as she falls.
Okay.
It's intense.
Are you chasing after her?
I guess so.
All right.
Yeah.
You guys fall, and fall, and she's starting to get a little close to the ground.
And almost at the last second here, Nemus flips over onto her front, and her wings snap out, and she goes up past you.
Okay.
You want to try the same thing?
Give me an acrobatics check.
I haven't think for a second.
It's probably just like, and I just won't snap out of my wings.
I keep falling.
I just keep going.
And the end is imminent anyway.
You know what?
This is fine.
I'm cool with this.
I'm just accepting this.
I'm okay with this.
Acrobatics, you said?
Yeah, give me an acrobatics check.
Oh, we should have given you the end clip.
No, the end clip goes athletics.
Oh, right, right, right.
Yeah, it's fine.
I got 22.
That's perfectly fine.
You are spiraling up and spinning just almost as good as she is.
You are squishing.
Sick.
As you guys are sort of spiraling up together, what would you like to do?
What is your goal here?
I don't fucking know.
Everyone else wanted me to go.
It's like a blind date, but your friends pushed you into it.
Pretty much.
It's so funny, because otherwise, you're the Riz master until this kind of situation happens.
And then you're just like, I was going to say, I was like, what do I do?
This is coming from our bard who I swear has a child in every town they've passed.
He's not a child, but he's my nephew.
Exaggeration, that's a joke.
He's a pull-outer.
He's quite the slutty boy.
Quite the slutty bird.
He's a pull-outer.
He's a hoe.
Listen, I've only canonically fucked men so far.
I was about to say that too, like men.
No children are being had.
God, I swear, if we show up at Reacher's place and he's like, ah, Rulik, I have something to tell you.
Hang on, Minnie.
Slow your roll.
Some news for you.
Being a wizard, I mess with genetics and pregnant now.
I'm super pregnant with your baby.
What the?
He's even that voice now.
The baby isn't mine.
That's all I could think of when you said that was just the stupid like a pregnant sonic memes.
Oh, God.
And I was like, ugh.
Anyways, getting back on track.
You just want to spend a relaxing sort of like evening flying around with her?
How've you been?
How's it going?
How's the situation going on that we're not going to talk about?
How sluggish these days, ain't it?
No.
She seems better.
Yeah.
She's still looking for whoever essentially murdered her brother with those drugs.
Or in a Nile.
Okay.
No, no, no. In the other sense.
Okay.
In the other sense.
She does not blame you.
She thinks what you guys did was the right thing to do.
And she tells you as much.
Okay.
But she still wants to know who gave her brother those drugs.
And she wants to put a stop to it.
She doesn't think that the Hashim should be peddling that drug, especially after the effects of it that she saw.
That's fair.
I think I would say, you know, like I'll do whatever.
Obviously I have my own mission at hand, but if I can do anything to help.
She's very grateful.
And she's willing to offer you her help in traveling to Falluin, which is, I think, something that you mentioned to her several times now.
She lets you know that she's been there before.
There's actually a tribe of Arikakra who decided that they don't really want to hang out with the Hashim.
They've sort of formed their own little small group that live on the opposite side of the caldera from Falluin.
And that she's flown with them a couple of times and could at least introduce you.
They actually live over by the side of the caldera where the Marigold River pours out into the void.
It would be very helpful seeing as I have been to Falluin over, what, how long was it, technically?
Oh, you mean back in time?
Yeah.
30 years?
Yeah, haven't been to Falluin since 30 years ago.
And her eyes are gonna go a little bug eye at that, just like, what?
It's a long story. We time traveled, sort of, but not really.
Don't talk about it.
Oh, yeah.
Hope we don't talk about Bruno.
Exactly. I literally was saying the same thing.
Does the word's Marigold River spark anything in your head?
I think we've brought this up before to your character, but you might not entirely recall.
Can I roll to see if I can?
Yeah, give me an insight. Give me an insight check.
10?
You recall vaguely something about that was the reason you wanted to go to Falluin was because the Uris Nazbili had told you about this river, the Marigold River, that was flowing out into the void near Falluin,
and that the Duke there seemed to be of a very incredibly long-lived family, and the reign of Dukes looked very similar to one another.
And he said if you wanted to explore this living longer in a natural sense, that would be somewhere to really look into.
So should I bring that up to Nevis?
She brought it up to you.
Oh, she brought it up to me. I wasn't sure where the information was coming from.
No, no. Remember, she had told you that she knew a group of Arakakra who lived on the other side of Falluin over where the Marigold River flows out.
Right. Okay, cool. Yes. I am actually pursuing the Marigold River.
As a means to extend my life.
Like, how long?
Longer than 30 years.
You can do that?
I'm gonna fucking try.
She's gonna fuck with you.
Can I come with?
I mean, I'd have to ask the rest of the group, but you know, sure.
Do we remember that? Do we know that this is something that he's doing?
I've told somebody.
Yes, he has mentioned this before.
Do you remember who?
At least you and you.
I was gonna say, you guys probably know. I don't think Rowan and I know, but that's okay.
I may have. I don't remember.
We just kind of follow you guys anyway, so we'd go anyway.
If there's nothing else you want to bring up in the flight, we're gonna skip along here.
I mean, is she gonna make a move? Because I don't think it looks like she's gonna make a move.
You know what? I'm gonna go ahead and roll for it.
Roll a d4, baby.
Why a d4?
Because one and two, or evens means make a move, odd means don't, or odd means make a move.
That's a better thought than I had. Let's go with that.
What was your thought?
I'm trying to roll a d20.
Oh, okay.
So what was it? What was it?
It was either odds, do it, evens, don't, or...
Odd, she's a chicken, evens, she's not.
All right, Rolik has defined it. Evens, she is not.
And you roll a 20 on the d4, she pecks.
I'm gonna roll...
I'm actually rolling a d20.
I'll roll the d20 and I'll roll the d4.
I'm gonna roll it though in our magical skull here.
Oh, Jesus Christ, it just fell out of my hand.
It's a four!
Okay, well, it slid out of my hands and fate is decided.
Yes, she is gonna give you a little...
...nuzzle with her, I guess, beak. She can't really give you a kiss.
Okay.
She's gonna give you a little affectionate like...
Like a cat?
Yeah, like a cat, like your neck and your cheek.
See, I always imagined we had like cartoon beaks so we could kiss.
Sure! Yeah, we could go with that!
You just made it so she kissed you!
She has given you a kiss.
I guess I did. Whoops.
Whoops.
Yeah, she does give you a kiss.
You ever fucked inside a pouch?
Fuck!
You dirty dog!
Oh my God!
Damn!
Is this an offer?
You dirty, dirty dog!
You got one on you?
Oh my God! I picked my cock block!
Open the pouch?
You opened the pouch! You fall inside!
Oh my God!
And because things on the inside are not affected by the outside, I imagine it just like tumbles through the sky.
No, it's just like floating in the thermal.
Oh, it's just like...
Oh my God!
We're in the Mile High Club!
Yes!
A round of applause here to Rolik. I'll go ahead and drink to that.
You're like...
Mmm!
Back the fuck up and leave!
If the pouch is a floating, don't come...
I don't have a good rhyme for that. Nevermind.
Don't come!
No rhyme needed! Just stop there!
You see, just don't. Just cease the stomp.
It's like the sock on the door handle. You're like...
I'm gonna be back.
If that pouch isn't on Rolik's hip...
Think that Rolik is in it and do another thing!
Watch out for his dick.
It rhymes with hip.
It does!
It's actually more of a slant rhyme, isn't it?
Not orange, but not brown.
Well, congratulations on your Mile High Club!
I'm gonna go ahead and add that to my list of notes.
Thanks!
You're welcome!
Thanks.
Why don't I just have a voice crack?
Get that!
You're having a good time, I guess.
Uh-huh!
Well, it has been three days now.
You managed to catch Rolik right before...
Okay, I thought we were just gonna...
...the ceremony.
...and you never see him again.
Right before the ceremony.
He is rather ruffled up.
His feathers are looking a little uncouth, shall we say?
Do I look better or worse than before?
You look very suave.
Okay, I'll take it.
You're walking with big dick energy.
Can I assume something happened?
How many ends do I have?
I was gonna say, you're gonna have to really look into that one.
Eight?
You do not seem to notice.
He just seems to be having a good time.
Is now a good time to talk to you?
Yeah!
Let's go!
Sure!
Did something happen?
Did not even three days ago you were...
I mean, I'm glad you're not moping anymore, but three days ago you were more than...
...a half.
How did I get that?
I rolled a one. I put it in the dice jail.
Oh!
Sorry! I was messing with Bort, who was our dice jails, a little Lego mimic, and out rolled a die and I picked him like...
I forgot about it.
I was looking, I was like, how did this come from? I'm so sorry.
No, that's okay.
I thought you came with inspiration or something and I'm like, wait a minute, what's happening?
Inspiration for boning? Let's go!
For fucking the NPC!
Look, if you can fuck higher than he did, you can have inspiration next time.
I don't think the Tix is gonna do that!
We'll get some balloons.
Get an airship.
Yeah!
But I'm glad you're not moping anymore, but is something good?
We drank with Vice and we trained a bunch of children.
And then Nevis took me to the thermals, which was pretty cool.
I ain't the flap, I just, you know...
Just casually left out the fact that you slept together.
Why would you tell me that?
I'm fair.
You gotta tell me that you slept with someone.
I know it's been a few days.
Are you doing okay after hearing all the stuff?
After learning that this isn't my home world and I actually have another planet that I'm from.
Yeah, that sucks.
How you doing in this set?
Still weird.
If it rose to this point and you were to choose this plane or that plane, do you know what you would choose right now?
Uh...
I mean, the way I've been thinking about it.
The DM is very excitedly waiting to write down notes.
The way I've been thinking about it is like, yeah, do I feel lighter and younger there?
And might there be more Eric Hockers there?
Yeah.
Do I know anybody there?
Fuck no.
Yeah, okay.
They can be full of terrible, horrible people.
Valid.
There can be fruit that bites your dick off for all I know.
I don't know.
You can hold your own.
We just gave DM a new monster type to work with.
I'm safe!
Wait, no you're not?
God damn it!
Whoops!
Yeah, you keep playing men.
I know!
And we don't know what gender mine is, so it's ambiguous right now.
It was SFW the whole time!
Good one.
It's sexuous.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, it's not a permanent answer.
I was just curious.
Because I don't know, if I found out I was from a different planet of existence and I was going to die here younger than there, I would have some thoughts.
Oh, I have thoughts.
And prayers, bitch. I don't know what you want from me.
I'm pushing them down for right now. I don't want to think about that shit.
I'm always open to talk if you need to talk because that was a lot that was thrown on you.
And I mean, granted there are probably better people to talk to.
There are Ira Kouk right here who can relate to you.
I know you and Nebus.
They're going to give you a little nudge.
I know you two have been getting closer.
Bonding over the death of her brother, yeah.
Yeah, that.
So I just wanted you to know.
It's never not going to be weird. I want you to know that.
Oh, I'm not trying to justify it or anything. It's weird.
But I'm always here if you need to talk because I'm probably not good at answering because I don't know.
I don't know either.
And they're just going to give you a hug.
A little pat on the head.
Small kiss and a hug.
The res master.
And then they're going to walk away.
Well, you turn around and the rest of the group is walking over because it is only an hour until the ceremony here.
The gathering itself.
People look like they're making their way down to the hot springs where you guys have been enjoying your guys' day for some time.
He's still running an aerobics class.
I wouldn't be surprised if he was because Urs Nesbillie.
Don't forget what I tell you about pit pocketing.
He's going to place his hand on your shoulder and he's going to whisper softly, like, hey, we're about this.
We're getting ready to start.
You're going to need to end your class a little early tonight.
I've been informed, gentlemen, that this will be our last set.
110 percent of your energy right now.
What are they doing?
We are doing we're losing across the city.
Luging.
This explain lunging lunging lunging lunging.
Oh, this is worse.
It's just really deep.
Yeah. Oh, God.
I don't want you on your knees.
That's why it's working at the same time.
Yeah. OK.
Well, I already in your class.
That's awful.
I mean, child, Lungen, Splooge, their children.
That's true.
You guys are a lunge, by the way.
I just didn't want to say I'm sorry.
I understand.
You guys arrive at the site.
The rock three, the gathering here in time.
It looks like the entirety of Ed Lash is emptied itself out.
You see a small platform has been erected in the water itself.
That was Nazbeli and several of the council members that you guys remember seeing before when you had that.
Oh, my goodness.
When you had that Teletubo Makai, that like ritual combat.
Silly us. Look, man, I got you on your bullshit.
I would definitely know that you were wrong.
I apologize.
I'm trying to keep consistency here.
You also see that Shovel 14 is up there as well, sort of acting as a guard.
Everyone is started to form into quite the large circle with the platform at the center.
And sort of hush has fallen over everybody as they are carrying those lanterns.
Those are spirit lamps that we've seen all over the city.
And the ones that they are carrying are slightly larger than the personal ones that you've seen on people.
It looks like these are meant for families.
And they're carrying them over to add anybody who they have lost over the years to the collection here at the hot springs.
As they do so and the ceremony hints to get underway.
Now, this kind of hurrys up behind you guys.
Oh, no, I like her in the pouch.
She's sleeping it off.
She's going to wrap behind you guys.
Everyone's asking, where's Nabas?
Oh, she's freshening up.
She's freshening up.
Okay. Yeah, sure. Why not?
No, no.
I'm joking.
She's going to wrap behind you guys and be like, hey, sorry, I'm late.
But are you have you made a decision?
You don't fucking know.
You are more than welcome to observe and listen, but you will not be able to actually join in the ceremony if you are not a full member of the Eftekonk.
Yeah, I've been informed of this before.
Really?
You were.
Oh, that was not knowing.
Yeah, that was one of the benefits of joining is you got to participate and look back and see your ancestors.
We are specters and we are welcomed in their city, but we are not welcome to participate in their traditions.
They can't you know, you physically can't participate in their tradition.
You have to be part of the tribe to be able to do what they're doing.
Would I actually be able to speak with my parents if I was a full member?
Just roll me insight.
Okay.
Is that a great question? I know you're very important for your character.
Can I tap you and give you guidance?
Yeah, I need to.
Cool.
Yeah, 30 20.
That's fine.
From everything that Uris has told you, from what Nebus has let on and from your general understanding of the Hashim, as long as the spirit hasn't gone off somewhere into some far off realm, you yes, you would be able to speak to them.
You're not a very religious person.
No.
And I feel like that really came from one, you were raised in slavery.
Yeah.
And also from the brief amounts of time, those interactions that you had with your parents who were not very religious themselves.
As such, they weren't taken off to some like great grazing land in the sky. They weren't taken off to like a sky where they could fly forever.
They're also Arakocra, which leaves you even more to think that yes, they would definitely be here and you would be able to communicate with them if you were the joint.
Alright, I'll join.
I kind of want to.
Okay, I'll let him know is anybody else.
What wish to become a member of the Evmah Khan.
Tix, you do?
Vandor?
Okay.
Vyce?
Rowan?
I will respectfully decline.
Respect your wishes.
I unfortunately have nothing to gain by this, so I will.
As you wish.
Can they observe us though?
Nah, we're gonna go grab popcorn.
You fucking in?
Hey yo! You fucking in drinks?
Oh, I found some pillar lights over there. You want to have some?
Of course, they're members of the clan.
Okay.
They are more than welcome to observe even our own children are able to observe our buff, buff children.
Their thighs and ankles have been looking really swole recently.
You want to have some?
No.
No, of course not.
I quickly throw off my headband.
But no, this is a rite of passage that all Hishim have to pass through in order to participate and to hear the voice of our shaman, our ancestors.
She's gonna take the three of you who said yes.
Okay.
And she is gonna lead you over to Uris Naz-Bili.
Now the two of you are obviously welcome to watch with the rest of the group here.
Did I just add a name to my backstory so that I could contact this person?
Yes, I did.
Amazing.
Mondora, we're gonna start with you.
Yes.
So, Mabes leads you over and she's gonna hand you off to Uris Naz-Bili, the shaman of the Pagati Tusek, he's the Well of Souls.
Cool.
And he takes you, he takes your hands, and he's going to lead you down into the water here with him, into the center of the group.
And he's gonna look at you and he's gonna go, Mondor, I do not wish to alarm you.
But as part of this ritual, Ahi will bond us together as members of the same clan.
Bondage?
I would sign up for that.
What does that entail?
We will become one blood together.
I am going to draw a cut down your forearm and we will together mix our bloods and become one clan.
That doesn't sound sanitary.
I'm only doing this for my wife, but okay.
Do you still wish to go through with the ritual?
My wife's still gonna be alive and I'm doing this all for absolutely nothing.
Cool, bye.
Horus is going to reach into his belt and he's going to draw forth his own Gylleno blade.
And it looks quite a bit older than the new blades that you guys have created yourselves.
It actually looks like it has been well, well used over the years.
It's ancient and scarred.
And...
Better cut nice.
He is going to lift up his own arm and very carefully undo the wrappings of his outer coverings.
And as he does so, he exposes his skin here.
And he is going to take the blade and he's going to slowly draw the cut from the crook of his elbow all the way down to his wrist.
The blood of the clan.
And he's going to take your arm and he's going to go...
Bunders is going to be like...
The blood of our friend.
And he's going to draw the cuts down your arm.
It stings, but he's not doing it to hurt you.
He's drawing it to basically just draw a cut.
And he's like...
Two!
And he's going to grasp your hand and he's going to lift it up so your forearms and the cuts are pressed up against each other.
As one.
Out of game! That just tastes so crazy!
Out of game! I'm not happy. I'm not comfy with it.
Okay.
Two!
As one.
And as he does so, you feel a strange fiery magic flowing from his arm through your cut and into you.
And it seems to lift you up inside.
And you feel almost warm and tingly as this magic flows over you.
You're almost a little light-headed.
And there is a sudden sear of just bright flash between your arms.
And he lowers his arm.
And you now have, running from your elbow to your wrist on your left arm, a very thin white line of a scar that has been sealed closed.
Now I have two scars on that arm.
There you go.
Two scars sitting on your arm.
And he puts his other hand on your shoulder and goes,
Mondor, you are now a full member of the Evmocon clan.
Your blood is our blood.
And he's going to raise your hands up and the whole group here, the whole clan that has gathered up is going to cheer.
Mondor! Mondor!
And there's cries of welcome and jubilation as you hold up your hands.
Please go and take your place amongst your fellows.
And I will see to your friends as well.
I'm going to make eye contact with them both as I walk past them because Mondor really went through that with very little to gain from this.
Actually at all.
Tix, you're next in this grouping.
And he is going to place his hand on your shoulder.
And he's going to ask you the same question he just asked Mondor,
whether you still wish to go through with the ceremony because there is no going back.
I'm going to ask a question.
Of course.
There are three of me in my head.
Is this body the thing that's going to be joining or is it my consciousness that is joining?
It is your soul we are joining to the clan.
You, all of you, will become part of us.
Okay, then yes, I will.
Alright.
And he's going to do the same thing.
And you can see as he draws the cut on his arm that his left forearm is almost nothing but white lines where he has done this over and over for new members over the years.
And he's going to draw the line and there's a line of blood that goes down and he is going to take his knife across yours as well.
It's going to part the skin and he's going to hold it up again.
It goes, Poo as one.
Poo as one.
And you also feel that rush of magic flow into you from your toes all the way up to the tips of your ears as it sort of fills you with its warmth.
And the sensation fades and there's that flash as the scar on your left forearm seals closed.
He's going to come over to you next.
And as he does so, Nebes is going to step up next to him and he's going to put his hand on your shoulder.
He's going to ask you the same question that he just asked your two compatriots, whether or not you want to go through with this.
There is no going back if you do agree.
Having game just for clarification.
What do you mean by there is no going back?
You can't undo this by now.
Okay.
This ritual is permanent.
You are part of this clan if you decide to go through with it.
Gotcha.
Okay, cool.
I hope this won't come back for us in the ass.
That's kind of what I wanted to check.
We can leave, right?
Yeah, because that's what's happening.
Yeah.
So he is going to lead you over to the center and Nebes is going to come with you guys.
And as you come over, she's going to lead a little bit closer.
She goes, for us, it's a little different.
I'm going to be conducting your ritual.
Roll it.
Oh.
And she draws from her own belt her knife.
Oh.
And she is going to slash down her arm and she's going to grasp your palm.
And I'm going to turn this on.
I'm going to send a message to Vyce, be like, not the knife play I'm into.
And she is going to draw that line down your own as well.
And she's going to press your guys' forearms up together and she's going to look at you and go, two as one.
I'm going to send a message to literally anyone else.
They're like, did I just get married?
What the fuck happened?
Did I just get married?
Oh, he got ball and chain.
Why is Spanish, what is it, the word for wife, the word for handcuffs are like a single letter off.
Yeah.
She's going to go two as one.
And you feel that magic flow from her into you and it sort of fumes you up and you feel very, very light inside.
It's very warm.
And there's that flash as it seals shut again.
And you now also have that scar on your arm.
And as you look down, you do notice that she has four lines now on her arm.
Three to four.
She's had one for years.
She's been married three times before.
Oh yeah, I just get married.
What the fuck?
Members of the Evmikon clan, welcome your new brothers and sisters and all of you to the clan.
And there is a cheer from everybody as the new members are welcomed here.
Wine is brought out in food.
Can I have wine?
Yes, everyone can have wine.
It is passed around by several of the younger shamans in training.
It is given to each of you.
Large goblets of wine made out of lufa, the alsep shells.
And there is food of kinds you have never seen before.
And a great feast is put on for you as you stand there amongst the water.
And you see the souls from the lanterns begin to float up into the larger lanterns that are suspended all around.
And this lasts for several hours until things get dark in the cave.
The light's beginning to grow dimmer.
And as it does so, the time of the actual gathering is almost upon you guys.
Outside, it's become night now.
It is now night and it is dark outside.
No light is filtering in through any of the glass apertures.
And as it does so, Uris asks you guys to all join him in this gathering.
And to basically just relax and open your minds and to let the spirits enter your thoughts.
And as you are sitting there, I do need to know, are you going along with this?
Are you sort of relaxing yourself to what's happening?
Yeah.
Okay.
And as you guys relax yourselves, you feel a great consciousness around you.
You can sort of vaguely feel the emotions and thoughts of all of the other members of the plan all sort of around you.
All sort of pressed together in this one great group experience.
And at the center of it is...
How many people would you say? Is it like the entirety of the plan?
It's almost the entirety of that blast.
It's anybody who has passed the trial and become like an adult.
Yeah, it's any of their adult members.
That's scary. That doesn't matter.
At the center of this is Uris Nasbuli himself.
This sort of great star, this great beacon of a mental voice who is seemingly going from person to person and touching on their thoughts and asking like what problems they have and judging disputes amongst the group here as he jumps from sort of person to person.
And as he is doing this, you do sort of see from the lanterns up above almost what looks like a mirror of this group.
There is a congregation above you.
As you sort of mentally peer upwards, you see all of the ancestors are sort of spread themselves out there.
They're sitting up there smiling down upon you guys and one by one folks are trying to reach out to loved ones or past family members to talk to them.
And as the three of you guys look up Rolik, you vaguely almost distantly get a sense that there is somebody reaching out for you.
And I need you to roll me a insight check here.
Seventeen. Seventeen.
You can vaguely hear almost like a voice on the wind, the voice of your mother calling out your name.
You share your name Rolik over and over again. It seems very faint and very distant.
Yeah, you can call out to the voice.
Mom?
She's going to call out Rolik again, but it's slightly louder, but it does sound sort of confused.
Mom, it's me. I'm here.
And the voice grows more distinct and grows with definition and in the distance, the far distance of your mental eye, you see a vague figure of an Arakocra smoothing towards you.
But slowly as if they didn't expect this and also don't have entirely have control over themselves.
I'm going to start making my way towards her.
As you go closer to her, she comes to you all in a rush and mentally she embraces you. But as you do so, you do notice that she does seem faintly fuzzy.
But she takes you up in her arms and she wraps you in her consciousness and she's the pure burst.
I'm not going to come over and hug you. Your burst of joy that just floods through you. It's like a lightning bolt through your brain.
Hi, Mom. It's good to see you again.
It's good to see you too.
I guess I didn't think this was going to happen.
I've wanted to do this for so long. I missed you. I missed you too.
Where's my boy?
Alive. Making my way through the world. I am a lord of a town.
That's my boy. I always knew you'd do good.
Yeah, you'd love it. It's beautiful. It's full of all different types of people. I rescued them from manpower.
Darling boy, so smart and clever. I knew you'd get free.
I'm just sorry I couldn't take you to death with me.
Be sorry for us.
Have you seen Dad? Is he near? Is he?
Your father? I haven't seen him in so many years.
And her voice seems to start to grow faint as to the outside world. You've been like this for three hours.
Oh, oh, oh, shit.
Talking and listening back and forth with her in this sort of almost trance of the gathering.
I love you.
Wait, Mom, before you go. Where did we come from? I think I saw it. We're not from this plane, right?
Your father used to say we came from somewhere else. Far away.
Okay, exposition, Mom, come on!
That's not helpful, actually, at all.
So you, you... that's a lot, okay?
The voice does fade out.
Hello, I love you, Mom!
Wait, that wasn't a proper goodbye. I love you. Sorry.
You did great.
Okay.
The other two of you, we're going to return to you now. During this three hours.
Fun.
Mondor.
Yep.
You also were able to reach out. You were able to see all of these spirits around. People are reaching up to their ancestors who were stored here.
You are reaching out for your wife.
She's dead. I don't know.
But if.
As you reach out and expand your consciousness, you... why are you...
The voice is touching me!
It's in the chat!
He's touching me! Oh my God, no!
I'm going to look at this.
Alright, maybe take a quick pause and look.
I'm going to look at this.
Alright, let's take a quick break, folks.
Ruleh, please don't cry for me. My precious son you'll always be. We come from a place far away. Far above hills and skies it lays.
Mondor.
Yep.
So you are there for this great gathering and you have reached out with all of your heart trying to scour this plane for your wife's soul. Are you calling out her name here?
Yes.
Suga, what are you calling out?
I'm going to call out her name, which is Kaleen. Just came up with that one. Kaleen. Alright, down.
I wrote it down too, Kaleen.
Yeah, kinda, yeah.
So you call out Kaleen, Kaleen, into the great void here. And after some time you feel Uris's presence brush up against your mind and the words just sort of flow into it asking, who are you calling for, Mondor?
Um, I, my wife was captured with me by Florence Reacher and I wasn't able to get her out. And I was afraid she had died. So this was my way of finding out if she's still alive.
Mondor, I, I could leave for your boss. Do you have a image of her name you say is, is Kaleen?
Kaleen.
Kaleen?
Kalee.
Yeah, sure.
I'm sorry, you're going to have to tell me how you spell that.
C-A-L-E-E-N?
Well, Kaleen is K-A-L-E-N-E, so he's thinking of her one-shot character and mixing it up with her.
Alright, so I'm going to do Cal-Een, so it's Kaleen.
Yeah.
Okay, I will remember that now. You said her name is Kaleen.
Yeah.
You form in your, in your mind's eye a picture of her. I will help you search for her.
Uh, yeah, I can do that. So, picture her in your head. She's a little shorter side, 5'4".
Um, kind of skinny-ish, I guess, normal regular size for a 5'4 person. Um, she's got bright blue hair. Good. Why not?
Brown eyes. Fair skin.
Okay. Give me a religion check. And, Horace is going to be helping you on this one. So go ahead and roll me with advantage.
As he is going to call out into the void,
Mondor's Kaleen.
I don't need your advantage. That's got enough for 20.
If you are there, come to us now so you may soothe your husband's soul.
And he calls out once, twice, three times. And you feel sort of happiness flow through Horace as his mental voice comes back to you.
And you hear his words in your head go,
Mondor, I believe I have good news for you. I believe your Kaleen still lives.
Is there any way for my physical body to relax significantly?
100%. I feel like you've been like stiffened up this entire time in the water. And now for the first time, you've sort of relaxed and just all that stress and weight that was on your shoulders has flowed away.
And even mentally, Horace does notice this.
Thank you. Thank you for helping me look.
I'm happy to help you, my brother.
And he is going to mentally touch you again.
And you feel his happiness for you and his desire to see you happy and well.
And he's going to jump off to other folks and he's going to keep bouncing around.
Thanks.
You have also been here during these three hours of this mental congregation.
Who are you calling out for? What are you reaching out for?
I'm trying to reach out for a regular from the village who used to come and see me a lot.
I don't know if I necessarily call her a friend, but she was someone that would stop by, ask for my help sometimes.
Her name was Serene, E-R-E-N-E.
And since she's the one who I know that is unfortunately passed away because of the fire and the one I know well enough, that's what I'm trying to reach out for.
So you call out for Serene and you are focusing your mind's eye on her?
Yeah, as much as I can.
Can you give us a description of who were you picturing here?
I would say she's a pretty tall individual, very, very strong, has a lot of muscle to her.
Short, maybe like chin length, brown hair, pointy ears because she's also an elf, and very, very gentle.
So you reach out and you call and you call and as you do so, Rowan, Lice, you guys who have not been part of this, have seen your friends sort of relax.
And they have been in this sort of trance with the rest of the adults for this three hour period.
During this, at the end of this three hour period, you see the lanterns above sort of ripple and flicker.
And the chains that are helping to support them creak and shake as they sort of sway backwards and forwards.
And as you do so, Oris Nazbeli, who's in the center of this group, who has not moved since the start of this gathering, sort of shakes himself awake.
And his hooded head flips up to look up and snaps down to stare at your friend Tix.
Uh oh.
What did you do?
Splash, splash, splash through the water and Tix, he tackles you into the water and your concentration is broken and shattered as you get knocked under the water.
He floods up your nose and he pulls you back up and you're just peeping with the water you've just inhaled.
Tix, Tix, my child, what were you doing?
I was trying to reach out to my village that got burnt down. Why? What happened? Why did you break concentration?
The Pari were in uproar. You called this great evil spirit to the door.
Oh. I think I know what happened.
Are you okay? Did you see anyone?
Did I see anyone?
That's a great question. Roomie perception.
I think I know what happened. Out of character.
Dirty 24.
Dirty 24! On the very edge of your mental site, off in the direction that you think your village is from here, or at least where it was before it got torched,
you saw a very expansive, very fuzzy silhouette of a distorted looking figure floating slowly towards you out of the ether.
Can I question if this is Zargon or a follower of Zargon?
That's a good question. The answer to that is going to be no.
You would recognize this because you've seen figures like this before where we said those spirits that spend lots of time in the desert that don't get to move on,
slowly loose themselves over the years. Remember, it's been over 20 years since this person has died. They were never put to rest.
Their spirit has remained here in the desert to float around, to slowly dissolve. They are no longer who they once were.
They are probably now a djinn of the desert, an evil spirit who causes those storms and things.
And you were calling them by name, summoning them to this protected place.
And so all of the spirits that they have put up, the guardians that sort of protect against that, are suddenly now battling a creature that not only is trying to get in,
but one that's being pulled in by somebody already inside, which is why Uris tackled you over the ground to stop you from calling the creature.
Because he recognized what you were doing and acted as quickly as possible to stop it.
I would like to formally apologize. I did realize that they have become the thing that you are sworn to keep out of your village.
I was completely unaware of that and I would like to formally apologize.
It is an honest mistake, Tix. Do not fret.
Just know, those who have passed away over the many years and who were not properly put to rest,
their souls will degrade over time and they will lose who they once were.
This friend of yours who you are calling is most likely not themselves anymore.
And I am sorry for it.
It's okay. And I'm guessing they're like, oh wait, so they're gonna like get up and leave the...
Alright, he is gonna put his hand on your shoulder as you get to leave.
And one last thing. If this is your friend, there is still one thing you can do for him.
You can still lay there so depressed.
He's gonna take his hand off your shoulder and he's gonna...
I'm gonna go sit with Rowan.
As a quick aside out of game, you do have the tools to do that already on your person.
You do have your spirit catcher.
That being said, that's the end of the gathering.
It slowly sort of fizzles out, everyone heading back to their own lodgings the next day.
Mm-hmm. Let's go about it like nothing happened.
Nice and bright and early.
You guys are meeting up here. What do we want to do now?
You've sort of shared your experiences during the gathering, everything that was going on.
What is your goal now?
It's been some time since we've really discussed what you guys want to do.
I know our plan seems to be to stop Reacher.
And as part of that, you guys had mentioned that you wanted to go to Valuin
to get that one cube-looking key that you guys previously found in that Temple of Time
that was later pushed back into time by that vision that you saw
to open up their Well of Souls to let their souls flow along.
In exchange for, you would be taught how to make the Hashim's special portals
that would allow you to push right through that strange weird world barrier
that's up around Reacher's castle and allow you to get inside to go beat him up.
And to go rescue your wife.
And to stop him from punching a hole out into the outer plains,
which he has recently thought up that they might exist.
I will also just throw out there that some of your personal goals
definitely go through with this, but also some of them seem to be branching off slightly.
I know you've got your one friend and also the village that's on the way.
I know you're looking for the river.
Go ahead. Have you mentioned that river to everybody else?
Yeah. You have. Okay.
In that case, then, I'm going to have ticks through all of this
that's kind of been floating through your mind.
I'm assuming that you are feeling pretty conflicted on which way to go here.
Well, I will remind you that as you were thinking of the things that your friend said,
I'm not looking at what you're saying. You're the Deadeye there, Vice.
I ain't looking. I'm in the middle of this. I'm not looking either.
You're thinking back about your village that was burned down.
And you do recall that the elders in your village were quite old for their age.
They seem to live well beyond their years.
And in fact, there was a well in the center of your village
that everyone drew their water from, which was something very noteworthy,
at least for the Glass Sea, because that well went down deep to get its water.
And as you were thinking this over, you do have the faint thought in your head
that this water might be the same and or similar to the Marigold River
that runs underneath the Glass Sea and pours out into the caldera ad volum.
If that were indeed the case, and this water is close enough to this Marigold water,
does that mean that I have been drinking it for the entire time that I have been living in that village
and therefore also have this life thing, this ability to extend my life?
It's entirely possible?
I'm an elf! I want to die!
I'm an elf! I already live a really long time!
Give me some of those years!
I'm older than you by a long shot right now!
I know!
But technically not. So, our interests might align here.
Oh, cool.
Because there was a well in my village right in the middle of it.
If it's still there, because it's been a long time,
there were some people in my village that lived a really, really, really long time
before a village of elves.
It's a long time.
And we live to a certain age, but these guys older than me.
So if this Marigold River or whatever that you're talking about...
Those creepy motherfuckers! They got so many years! What the hell?
It's not great!
So if this is the same, if we stop by my village,
it might still be there, and you might still be able to get Marigold River.
It's a good life.
We've got to make sure it's still there, because it's been a little while.
And I haven't been back checked.
Well, it's worth a shot.
It cuts some time.
It's actually two vices with one stone.
Yes.
So if we want to make our way there...
Is it the same two birds with one stone?
Yeah, no, that's triggering for me. I'd like you to not say that again.
So two birds with one stone?
Well, fuck you.
One bird, two stones?
Hmm.
Alright, fine. One voice, two stone.
Yeah.
So yeah, are we thinking about going there first?
Maybe we can get our interests out of the way and then...
Plus, I mean, your town might be where the cube is anyway.
Hopefully.
It might be a one-stop shop.
That would be convenient, but boy, when are our lives ever convenient?
When has things been convenient?
I don't know ever.
Alright, so yeah, I guess we're on our way to where my village used to be.
I'm on my way.
As you wish.
So you guys, let your intentions be known to Uris, who happily has the old man who helps to run the Light of Eblash go ahead and get things set up for you.
Working with you, he points the light in the general location of where your town used to be.
There's not much, unfortunately, that's visible from here.
However, it does appear to be rather close, as you know, to the city of the Luin.
Yeah.
And so, with that, the light is ready to be lit, and several large D'par are led up the steps into the main changing area by Nebus, who is super overjoyed.
And as they come up the steps and they see where they're going.
By the way, Nebus asked if she could join us.
My bad, I meant to give a heads up about that earlier.
I mean, it's another set of hands in case we run into trouble.
Yeah, it's not a bad idea, and she can fight, so.
Yeah.
As you guys see the D'par, these big black birds coming up the steps, and they realize where they're going, they begin to do the tippy taps, just with their claws.
They are super excited because to them, they get to fly.
They are flightless birds.
They are overjoyed by this experience.
And so, they are fidgeting constantly as they're getting into their harnesses, and they have their own special little boots that they get put on their own feet, just like the ones that you guys are wearing that allows you to ride the light.
And together, they are led up the steps to the light, which is activated with a big bwwaaarrr past you.
It begins to drain the light well here.
Nebus is going to mount up on the lead D'par, and she's going to ask you guys whether or not you want to ride yourselves, or if you want to ride the D'par.
I'm going to ride the D'par. Last time I rode by myself, it was a problem.
There are only four D'par.
You can see this time.
I can, so I don't mind if I ride a D'par or not, because I can see now.
I will ride by myself.
I'll go by myself if anyone else wants to ride a D'par.
Well, I'll ride a D'par.
Vyce, you can turn into a D'par.
You can. Go ahead and add them to your list of birds.
Fuck it. Why not? I'll be a blue D'par.
You blew into a blue D'par.
I would like to hop on Vyce's back.
Go, Vyce.
I like how Vyce is now basically.
I thought you hesitated. You said I would like to hop on Vyce's back.
I thought you were going to say I want to ride Vyce's back.
Oh my God.
I would like to hop on Vyce's back.
I like that you basically become a blue beast boy.
I'm joking. I would like to ask Vyce if I can high my blinds back.
Consent is important here.
Hell yeah. I'm a bird.
Alright. You are fitted out Vyce with the same shoes as the other D'par.
And together, you guys start to step onto the light and go...
along out into the vast expanse of the glass sea.
Running around at the speed of sound.
Right before you hop on Rulik, Nebus shouts out to you and goes...
Hey, can... do you mind if we bring shovel 14?
He might be useful at Valuan. He used to work there.
Sure.
I don't know. Something was screaming, not liking.
But I'm not here.
Let's bring shovel 14.
He was a D'par.
He's the automaton.
He's the free Golem.
Yeah, free Golem.
Alright.
And she just hop on and goes zipping off.
And Rulik, you catch sight as you hop on and go flying off of that large clay man.
The shovel 14 with the big 14 painted on him.
And his little slate.
He just steps onto the light and goes...
Just completely like neutral, almost like T-pose.
Just straight down the line. Unflinching, eyes dead ahead.
The coals that are burning in his eyes just like smoking back.
As he just...
Amazing.
You guys go zipping along.
And it takes, surprisingly, quite a bit of time.
Even at Eblash's speed, something he managed with the light well.
It takes you about a good 15 minutes.
And that...
The end of the line is coming up quick.
I'm gonna need from each of you to describe to me how you dismount from the light so you don't hurt yourselves.
You guys have been doing this for some time now.
So you have experience doing this before.
So I don't need any checks just to ride the light.
But I do need to know how you get off so you don't hurt yourself.
I'm amazed. I want to burn.
Yes, but if you...
So we're gonna start with Vice.
Mr. Vice, you are a bird.
How are you gonna get off the light here so you don't injure yourself?
I pretend like I'm riding a skateboard and I ollie off.
You ollie off?
Yeah.
Okay. In that case, go ahead and give me an acrobatics check.
Oh, please don't fail that.
Oh my god, I'm on your back.
You failed this shit.
We failed.
Matt 20.
Yay!
I was about to say!
That's it, now.
What is the session of just the natural 20s?
Vice, with that ollie, jumps up and does his little flippy flips
and lands running onto the hot sand of the glass sea.
And the other birds take their inspiration from you.
And they are also gonna do their own little tricks.
Oh my god, my bird.
Mondor, your bird is like, oh my god.
Clip it, clip it. Mondor, you are like back flipped off here by the bird.
You are holding on for dear life.
Actually, I do want to know if you were holding on.
Give me athletics, please.
Yes, I was.
Holding onto the neck of my bird.
Please, please.
What was I giving you?
Athletics.
12.
12. You hold on just fine as the bird lands.
Those of you who aren't riding birds, the two of you folks,
how are you getting off so you don't get hurt?
I kind of just tuck and roll.
You're gonna tuck and roll?
Yeah.
You're gonna use your athletic skill?
Yeah.
Okay.
Go ahead and give me athletics then.
22.
22?
You jump at the last second and you tuck and roll and you go, roll, roll, roll,
and you kind of come up almost into like a bit of a jog,
and you peter out and you are standing there, you are feeling fine.
Rulik, how about you?
I'll jump off and then flap my wings out.
Flap your wings out?
Superhero landing.
Okay.
You're, as I said, you know, moving at quite a fast speed,
so just go ahead and give me athletics as you snap your wings out the,
you get like air brake.
Oh man, athletics, my favorite.
Yeah, my athletics is the greatest.
No, your athletics, isn't your athletics pretty good?
Should be strength-based.
Yeah.
It is.
16.
That's more than enough.
I said.
Yeah, it's not, it's not, it's not bad.
It's pretty good.
17.
So the rest of your group, Nebus and Shovel 14, arrive as well.
And with the, the light winks out and you guys are left standing,
looking around at the ruins of a burned out town that has been half
swamped by sand and dust over the many years laid out in front of you.
There are several structures that are still standing with their sort of
natural rock columns poking up out of the dirt.
You can see scraps of cloth and what looks to be pieces of,
what might be the machinery kind of strewn about and the just general
detritus of what looks to be almost like a battle has taken place here
in the distant past.
Well, um, this is Jolly.
This is where he used to live.
It was a lot nicer than that back then.
Can't imagine.
Um.
We can speak for, well.
What are we looking for?
We can speak from experience.
It was very nice.
Except for that one shithead kid.
Yeah, but you guys don't care.
No.
Multiple times to what we've heard.
We survived in the final timeline.
Multiple times to what we've heard.
Although, I mean, guys, I think, listen to me.
Listen to me.
We pull our gold.
We get a little bit of a fixer up here here and we sell it for more than we
put in for it.
Why are we selling it?
Well, so then we can make money and then we can do it all over again.
Hey, is there home?
Don't be insensitive.
We can rebuild it.
And with flame decals this time.
Forget everything else.
Just something can go faster.
Makes it cool.
I'm going to take Rolik's hand and I'm going to take him to wear the
Vopal Well.
I am going to need from you guys, uh,
perception checks as you look around for this.
Well, while the two of you are doing that, you're helping him look right.
You're helping.
Oh, yeah.
All right.
Yeah.
Roll with advantage.
Thank you.
What are the other three of you guys doing?
It's still bad.
I guess there could be some freaky shit.
Can I have a fun deal for like the plant life around me?
Is it overgrowing?
Is it withering for some odd reason?
Something odd.
No, I'm not.
Nature check.
As you're looking around for the plants.
All right.
Can I use my divine sense?
Just sense if there's any celestial themes or undead within 16 weeks.
I love divine sense.
Some people think it's broken.
I think it's beneficial if you know the player has it going into it.
I know you have this.
So go ahead and use your divine sense.
Okay.
I mean, just use it within 60 feet of you.
You sort of like that.
I'm guessing I'm feeling this like a radar like sort of pinging out.
I just sense in close you do not sense any of these different types within 60 feet of you.
Oh, but that doesn't mean you don't sense any.
Give me a perception check.
Shit.
You got a nine on your nature check.
So looking around at the plants, you do notice that they are a little overgrown.
There's a bit more of the Fiyogamaru, but they are sort of dead and dying.
They look like they've been recently stripped.
And you sort of get the general sense of your main street where the well had been in the center of this sort of large open courtyard.
Since then, the area has been covered by lots of dust and sand.
But judging by some of the burned out remains of two buildings, you know vaguely where that well is underneath that sand.
But it would require some excavation if you wanted to be able to access it.
Yeah, I would.
Okay, well, let the group know first and we'll come back to that because that's going to require more than just shoveling.
Yeah.
You got 21.
On the edge of your perception, you feel that amulet that was given to you by Uris Nazbili has grown a little warm, is trembling faintly.
What, the lost hand amulet?
No, the one that was given to you that has a party inside of it, the helpful spirits that keep the the gins of the desert and stuff away from you guys.
So from that, you get the sense that yes, there is definitely evil spirits that still linger here.
People who were, as you know, killed and never laid to rest.
Their bodies were desiccated and destroyed and their spirits never got a proper burial.
They're still floating around and they are still looking to hurt the people who hurt them or at least the closest person they can get to, which at this point would probably be you guys.
But right now, your amulets seem to be keeping up.
I will let everybody know about that.
You let them know of the evil spirits that still haunt this place.
Mondor, what are you doing while your two friends are looking around for this well and your other friend is looking at the plan life?
Um, I guess I'll look at the houses and see if there's any intact still.
Yeah, so there's a couple. They look like they've been burned out.
You can see actually the ancient remains of arrowheads that are poking in several of the walls, but you can most certainly look inside of them if you want to go into the buildings.
Sure. I'll just take a look inside to see if there's anything of note.
Go ahead and let me perception that will look around this building to see what you find.
17.
Jesus Christ. Okay. Well.
The six looks like a zero. Oh, yeah.
You go into the first burned out house that you see is made of this, you know, natural stone here, so sort of really blends in with the sand.
A lot of the first floor has been filled up with sand.
And as you walk over, you do manage to step over a bunch of what looks to be like destroyed machinery that seems faintly familiar.
But you carry on the look inside the house.
And you see that there are lots of broken bits of pottery, old, old, old furniture that has become sun bleached and looks like it would just disintegrate into dust if you touched it.
And you also find a mask that's partly cracked, but it's of a white clay.
And it has a crude symbol etched into the forehead area where probably was once inked in, but that ink has since decayed away.
I'm going to carefully pick it up.
Okay. You pick it up.
I'll take it out with me.
I guess I'll show it to ticks when they come back to see if they know what it means or what it is.
They're right in the center of this sort of burned out village.
They seem to have a knowledge of where the well is that they need to look for.
But they're letting people know that, hey, it's under the sand here.
We're going to have to go digging for it.
Oh, yeah. We're going to need to do some digging.
Digging? Cast Meechan. I'll handle this.
Digging. We have a guy called Shovel.
Oh, that's right.
A guy named Shovel.
Shovel, who has just been standing there this entire time.
I can see him just standing there like the child, like, mama food up.
Mama food up.
Rites on his slate and goes, do you want me to dig?
Yes, please.
Where would you like me to dig?
Ticks, show the Shovel where to dig.
I'm going to give him a general like...
He gives you a tap on your chest.
It is not Shovel Rulik. I am not a tool.
I am a creature just like you. I have free will.
Sorry.
Can you help us dig?
You are fine.
I give him a general area.
Okay. It should be right here.
So Shovel 14 is going to just with his hands start to dig.
And the sand is just flying backwards.
Vyce, you talked about the plants.
You were looking around at the plants and you noticed that they seem to be desiccated.
Almost as if something has been like eating at them recently.
Do you let the rest of the group know this?
Good eye.
Guys, something here...
Something is living here.
These berries have been poked recently.
They've been eaten away.
So something is crawling around.
So everyone stay on your toes.
We should probably also want to look out.
Would I know of anything that used to live here that could probably still be living here that would be eating the berries?
Nothing comes to the top of your head.
But remember this place has been abandoned for 20 plus years.
So anything could have moved in in the meantime.
I'm willing to keep watch.
Can I help Shovel 14 dig?
Yeah, I would like to help Shovel.
I'll keep watch.
Alrighty. The three of you begin to dig.
Mondor, you are keeping watch.
Rolik, go ahead.
What are you and Rowan here doing?
Well, I am going to cast alarms.
Basically, a string goes around us, our 20 foot cube area around us.
And if anything enters that area, I get a little mental alarm.
Wonderful. That's a very good thought.
Rolik, what are you doing while people are digging?
I designate that all of us that I can see already will not set off the alarm.
Okay.
Supervising.
Supervising. Okay.
Throw me insight here because you have...
Oh my fucking upper management.
Am I right?
You're right.
17.
17? Alright.
Nebus has gone to help dig.
And as you are standing there looking around, you know, glancing over people,
you do spot something strange and faintly familiar in the hand of Mondor.
Say, a white clay mask.
That sort of gives you a cold tingle in the back of your brain.
Oh no!
You feel like you've seen this before.
Where have I seen this before?
You've seen this in Valuin, specifically in the hands of that order of magic haters.
Oh!
The Adeptus Analecta, those sort of street sweepers who came through and were hunting magicians.
I remember them.
Can I see that?
Yeah. I was going to ask Tix about it, but...
I want to take a closer look. Is it for sure that mask?
I didn't realize you'd see that one.
You look at it and you do recognize the symbol.
Oh no! Does it look old?
It looks at least... it's the same simile we were using 30 years ago.
Okay.
This belongs to the Wizard Police.
Well, shit.
Oh.
Yeah, Valuin... don't know.
So yes, you do recognize this mask, Rolik, as the ones from the Adeptus Analecta,
those sort of anti-magic police who you saw 30 years ago when you went back in time.
Yeah.
Cool. I'm going to relay that information to everybody.
They'll be like, hey, Vyce, remember these guys?
Oh my god, those fuckers.
Yeah.
Oh.
We killed so many of them.
Those.
Yeah.
Although it didn't matter because of the time travel.
Are we about to see a sequel of them?
Probably.
I'm not... I don't like... they're never better than the original.
No.
Do I recognize the mask?
You?
The son of the mask?
Fucking hope not.
Oh, I like that.
Jim Carrey's mask.
Maybe.
Rolby?
Romy Insight, you were quite young when this happened.
You might not recognize things.
Yeah, you didn't remember before fuckers kidnapped you.
Brutally, brutally kidnapped.
Ate in every form of you.
18.
I'm going to say... Rolby, could you hold this mask up to see if they recognize it?
Yeah.
Okay.
They hold it up in your face and there is a flash, just like in Kung Fu Panda 2, when
he sees the bird symbol.
And it continues to do the lightning flash in your brain and that symbol flashes and
you see men wearing those masks with that symbol embossed in bright black and red, cutting
down people and friends that you were growing up with.
Thank you.
Yep.
Okay.
Okay, so Mondo just witnessed all of this and nothing was explained to him, so he just
went... and he's going to turn around and he's going to continue watching for anything.
Oh shit.
Well, they have to process some things first.
He's fine.
They haven't said anything yet.
They need to process something.
He's cool.
He knows none of his business.
Look, the rest of you guys definitely did notice that Tix's eyes go huge, the sort
of like whiteness, the sort of paler that came up to their face.
Oh, I noticed like an audible gasp and then went, oh, okay.
So, you can definitely assume that you recognize Tix.
And then went back to digging.
Ah, Mondo's just chilling, he's just watching.
Cool.
Glad I just traumatized you again.
Again.
It looks like we've hit stone.
Stone?
It's a well.
But like, shouldn't there be water?
Well, water.
Water's in the well.
I mean, valid, okay.
Egg.
Have babies in the water.
Water in the egg.
Have babies in the...
Mondo doesn't quite know what he's expecting, okay?
He was figuring water, so when he said stone, it's a little concerning.
You look over and Shovel 14 and all of your work have revealed the top portion of the stone well.
It looks like the cover for the well, the sort of ancient wooden cover, was still on.
It is baked and sun-bleached, but appears to be holding firm with a good seal.
The time is now quite late in the day.
You guys have been digging for a while.
I'm gonna pull the lid off, like, kinda like, big my fingers and pull the lid off, slide it.
I'm gonna need athletics.
I was about to say, should I...
No, no, no, no, no, I wanna see, I wanna see, I wanna see how this goes.
I also would like to be the one to open it, but if that doesn't work, that doesn't...
I'm guiding myself.
Oh, I might not have to.
I'm going to anyway, but I might not have to.
18.
Roll a 15 on the die.
Wonderful.
You heave and there's a grinding, a shh, shh, and you push it off the top of the well and it thumps into the sand and cracks them too.
And as it does, you feel a plume of cool, damp air rise up past you from underneath the well.
You can hear the faint trickle and gurgle of an ancient stream far, far below in the darkness.
You know, dumb question.
Yeah, what's up?
Is there still a bucket of string in the bucket still hanging?
The bucket and the string?
No, the bucket and the string are not there anymore.
I didn't think there would be, but you know.
Resident Druid, Mr. Vice, go ahead and roll me a huge insight check as they open the well.
I have rolled.
We can just drop him.
Is that another Nat 20? What has Withdrew done?
You are on point.
We are killing it today.
Vice, you are standing there watching your friends, they reveal their ancient childhood well and they go,
I pee.
Sniff, sniff.
And you snuffle up the damp, wet odor of the stream far below and little cogwheels start to click in your brain at the...
We're in the desert right now.
There's water here.
Bugs like water.
We just opened a flume of water and your heart starts to go...
And then from far, far below, even the most unperceptive of you hears a faint stirring of something down there.
We just wanked something up.
Men, your battle stations.
The Alceps.
Wait, we need to make it so they don't get in the water because I don't know what will happen if they do.
A magical hut, five by five by five, I think, goes and covers up the top of the well.
It's a nice seal.
I also have a tiny hut.
I just never have it crafted.
Okay.
From behind you guys, you hear Nebus go, that's not the only thing we need to worry about, it's getting late.
Oh, we can sleep the tiny hut.
Yeah, while it's covering the well.
Most of the space inside is taken up by the well.
We're in the hut with the well.
There's not enough space.
It's either the well or us.
Yeah.
Is there enough room in the pouch?
Yes, there would be enough room in the pouch.
We need guard, buddy.
No, we don't.
I have my alert spell up.
So the pouch and tiny hut.
I actually was about to say, one of us can just throw it in the tiny hut and just crawl into the well.
All right.
Hold on, I check to make sure it's actually still clean in there.
Did you clean the...
Yeah.
I don't need to know this.
All right, everybody in.
Oh, are we getting in again?
Again?
This happened before?
Well, okay.
You know what?
I'm not going to ask questions.
None of my business.
I want to know all the...
She looked like she was halfway into pulling out a glass sphere from her pack, but she
sees that you seem to have a plan and she starts to put it back.
What's that?
Huh?
Oh, this is for the bats.
For the water things that like water?
And she takes out this large glass sphere and she is holding a large glass sphere full
of what looks to be swarming mosquitoes.
She goes, this.
Oh.
It's for the wild bats that are all out here.
They tend to swarm folk if you're not careful at night.
Gotcha.
They need water too, so you just have to be careful out here.
Yeah.
But I'll save this for a better time.
Cool.
And she puts it back in the pack.
Wait, the way around the bar?
Oh, yes, definitely.
They will not fit inside of it.
Oh no, they will not.
No, they won't.
Is there any kind of dilapidated but still somewhat upright shelters?
I walked into that one house that was pretty...
We just have to watch out for some of the sand.
Yeah, there are several houses that have been burned out.
Cool.
Let's make a hut of home for the depart.
All right.
I'm going to go around in a big circle and I wanted to know how you guys are contributing
to making a house a home.
Nice, how are you contributing to making this burned out house a proper home for our depart?
Give me a second to look at my skeleton.
That's okay.
I'm going to stare blankly into the endless eyes of my skull here.
Question for the DM.
Yes, of course.
What's up?
With my tome.
Your tome?
If I take Mage Hand as one of the cantrips, so I have Mage Hand as a bard and as a warlock,
can I have two Mage Hand?
We'll have to talk about that later.
That'd be funny as hell.
It's a really funny idea, but I also think that might be kind of broken.
Okay.
So I want to sort of explore that with you at a later date.
All right.
I would like to use Plant Growth to, I guess you could say, build up the sides, make a
solid structure on all four sides to reinforce it.
You know what I mean?
Maybe cover some ivy.
Okay.
So one of the walls that was completely smashed open and exposed to the world, you use your
Plant Growth and a wall of Fiyogamaru rolls up in front of it and now blocks any action.
It blocks any access from that side.
Dope.
Nice, Vice.
Thank you.
Rolik, what are you doing to make a house a home here for our lovely Depar?
This place has a couple of windows.
It's got a broken staircase up to a second floor.
There is a hole in that sort of like roof area and the door has been kicked in and has
long since decayed.
There was a hole in the wall on the first floor.
Vice has now filled that hole up.
You want me to get back to you?
Yeah.
Okay.
We're going to move on to Rowan then.
Rowan, what are you doing to contribute?
On like the knob of like the staircase is that I'm going to just cast light on that.
So like a very dim 20 foot radius light.
So kind of like a nightlight.
Aw, okay.
Wonderful.
So you guys have some light.
You'll see something if it comes like down the steps or like through a window or something.
Yeah.
Good.
Okay.
Dix, what are you up to?
Are you making a house a home for Depar?
So I'm not going to step foot in to the house because I feel like that would be low key,
mildly a little bit triggering after everything that's happened.
Okay.
So I'm not going to step foot into the house, but instead I'm going to pry and see if I
can set mediocre traps outside with like the debris, like stick some like really pointy
planks like on the ground and like have them like.
So you want to go rummaging amongst all of that sort of-
All of the like extra debris on the outside and like try to make small little mediocre,
to try to slow down what's ever going to try to attack these things.
I'm going to try to make traps to slow them down.
I think I hear what you're saying.
Alrighty.
Go ahead and give me some sleight of hands to see if you can make some traps out of these
bits and bobs that are all around.
Nine.
Nine?
Okay.
So you managed to make a couple of big spikes out of some of the broken arms of these strangely
almost like mechanical scrap that's all around your village here.
You're sticking it into the ground.
And as you do so, a glimmer catches your eye.
And I would like you to go ahead and roll me inside as you see this little, almost like
a jewel sparkling in the sand.
Okay.
I don't think I need-
Nineteen.
Nineteen?
You glance down at this little sparkle that caught your eye and you blink as you recognize
the unmistakable blue glow of star stone, the soul-filled gems from Valuin.
So pick it up.
You pick it up and you can, even just holding it in your hand, you can feel the faint swirl
of power inside of it.
This stone that you're holding, you get the sense that it's probably from that battle
that took place, meaning it's over 20 years old.
That whatever was in there is probably not exactly there mentally.
It's been trapped in that stone to sort of ferment on itself for 20-something years by
with nothing else around.
I'm gonna hold on to it and tell everybody when we're all done.
Okay.
I'm gonna pop this one out of the demon door.
Mondoor!
So, I don't have spells that I can do, but I am strong, so I don't know if there is
like a giant, like a big slab of wood that I can prop up against the door frame.
Do you want to help me with my thing?
Because I figured out what I'm gonna do.
What is it?
I have leftover tools, I realize.
I got like a big ass wrench and tongs and shit like that.
Okay.
I'm gonna get some crude from the various places we've been that have required tools.
Yeah, you're a hoarder, I understand.
Yeah, I know.
I'm gonna give some to Mondoor and I want to search around and look for like things
maybe we can snap off of other like buildings or whatever so we can like order up this place
a little bit more.
Are you taking like bricks?
Bricks, wood, nails, anything.
Bricks are probably gonna be your best back here.
Yeah, alright.
Bricks it is.
Alright, you guys managed to grab a whole bunch of bricks here and sort of break them
out of the other walls from some of these other buildings and you break up some of the
doorway, the main doorway.
It's all bricked up.
And yeah, and some of the windows.
Nice.
The depar are now inside of what's a pretty safe enclosure I would say for the night.
Where do you guys propose to spend them?
Inside the bag, inside of Tiny Hut.
In the bag everybody.
Alright, go on hop in the bag.
Don't think about it, just hop in.
Inside of Tiny Hut, that's also still then surrounded by the alarm.
Yes.
Alright, so inside the bag, that's inside of Tiny Hut, that's inside the alarm barrier.
We're pretty safe.
I'd say so.
I would hope so.
Alright.
Everybody in?
Everybody's in.
Alright, I'm gonna walk into Tiny Hut, kind of squeeze in, and then I will also hop in
the bag.
Alright, you close the bag, you hop on inside, and you guys are gonna spend a very nice restful
night in your bag.
Go ahead and give yourselves...
I am not going to sleep.
You're not gonna sleep?
I am not going to sleep.
You don't want a long rest?
No.
Okay.
So you guys go ahead and give yourselves a long rest...wait a second, what's that?
Your alarm spell just went off in your ear.
Oh well, we're having a long rest anyway.
You're gonna like...
What do you say?
I'm gonna like peep my head out just to take a look at everything.
Rowan, you poke your head up out of the bag, and you just see like, you know, the bag's
just sitting there on the sand, and this little head just goes right up out of it, and you
turn around.
You don't see anything in front of you, but the alarm spell is still going off.
I've also popped my head next to her.
Do I see anything?
Because I'm awake.
Alright, your heads are like pressed against each other here.
You don't see anything.
Hi.
You don't see anything in front of you guys.
I don't see anything.
Okay.
Um...
I'm gonna cast the invisibility on myself.
I will be able to see things if they're invisible.
That's only 30 feet, isn't it?
You don't see anything in front of you guys.
Alright, I'm gonna whip my head around.
You sort of awkwardly spin around with your friend there next to you, and you come face
to face with a large pink trunk, the inside of it, as it's bonking against the outside.
Kayleen is...
No, Kieran.
Oh my god, thank you.
Thank you.
There's too many Kayenians.
My god.
Kieran has been outside.
He was left.
Abandoned.
Back at Eblash.
I thought he went with the crew.
Because he was with the crew, wasn't he?
No, he wasn't.
You had left him back with Uris and Asbeli to keep him safe from the fight.
And he is just tap, tap, tapping with his trunk.
Oh, agreement ruling.
It's like, let him in.
Let who in?
Kieran!
Oh.
Ding.
The doors pop open.
Like, elevator.
Yeah.
Alright.
Do do do do.
Alright, and then if he comes in, just shut.
Yeah, he's gonna like wiggle his way in.
And this, you know, big pygmy elephant squeezes his way into this small space.
He is like pressed like up very tightly against the inside of Tiny Hut.
Can he fit in the bag with the?
He cannot fit in the bag.
Oh no!
He can get his trunk down there though.
Kieran, can you make yourself smaller?
I'm just trying to help you out fit in here.
Anyone have like a reduce spell?
No, I don't.
Wait, Kieran is intelligent, right?
Like intelligent language.
Yeah.
I have universal speech.
Can I kind of understand what they're saying?
Yeah, you can.
Hell yeah.
Are you gonna use that spell?
If not a spell, it's just a feature.
Do you have that as a feat?
What?
Sure.
I mean, the ability to make...
Oh no, hold on.
That's my speech.
But I still have the spell, uh, speak comprehensive languages.
Yeah.
So I can, I can just cast that on myself.
You're gonna cast that on yourself?
Yeah.
All right.
So that is translated to, can't you make myself smaller?
It will.
It is not the actual voice I expected for you.
Okay.
I don't know.
How does it work?
I grow, I shrink.
That's kind of what the situation demands.
Do you want me to polymorph him?
I can do that.
Do you mind being polymorphed so you're tinier and you can fit in here?
I mean, I want to get back to my family.
So yeah.
Oh, okay.
Wait, who do you consider your family?
Just out of curiosity because we've never had to have a conversation about it before.
I just got a point with his, his, his trunk at our resident Rowan and Mondor.
Oh, that's sweet.
Oh, those two.
Oh my God.
The mom and dad right here.
I'm going to cry.
All right.
Nice.
Polymorph.
Any, you want anything special?
Cause I'm not, I'm just going to turn you into a nice little cat for a little while.
Okay.
He's good with it.
Jimmy, a cami, a shaker and a cat.
And a small, what did we say?
What did we say?
Okay.
I'm not going to give you the skinless cat.
Um, yo, imagine a nice slender orange cat.
An orange cat.
Yeah, really?
Let's go.
Are they chaos?
No, the orange cat is going to drop into the bag of holding.
I'm going to pet him and give him love.
We left you there to keep you safe.
I didn't expect you to follow us.
I should have turned into a turtle.
What did he say?
You left me there.
We let him, tell him to keep him, it was to keep him safe.
You can understand what he's saying, right?
Yeah.
Keep you safe.
Yeah.
I wanted to come with.
He wanted to come with.
Well, look, I know you're here now.
He was lonely.
He was lonely and you're a bitch.
Okay.
I'm going to pet him and like lay down.
All right.
We'll go to sleep.
We need some sleep.
I'm going to wing kick him and just like, you're welcome.
I just got you extra cuddles.
You're welcome.
Thanks.
Bird.
All right.
Back to bed.
Long rest, baby.
So what do I get at one point of exhaustion?
I believe you.
You have to make the...
Oh God.
Xanathar says something in the lines of you have to make a constitution check to see if
you get exhaustion if you stay up late.
It's the keep coffee locks from becoming insanely overpowered.
Okay.
So, the con you said?
Yeah, constitution.
Okay.
And it's a saving throw?
Not that it matters, but...
I believe so.
You're within 10 feet of me.
You get a plus four.
Eight.
Eight?
So, I'm going to make a constitution check.
Eight.
Oh wait.
Nine.
Because she gave me a plus four and I have a plus one.
So nine.
The DC is 10.
Yeah, I figured.
I'm pretty sure the DC is 10.
Let me go ahead and...
I'm under the...
You looked it up.
Okay.
I'm not going to worry about it.
Yeah, you so...
Yeah, you are going to gain a point of exhaustion as you force yourself to stay awake.
I'm going to put that here in additional...
I have to...
Because it depends on the points.
It sucks, I can tell you that.
You have disadvantage on all ability checks.
Yeah.
Wonderful.
Okay.
Because you were drinking Austin.
It's not fun.
No, not really.
Because I think didn't you guys have it with your cigar addictions?
Forever.
Yeah.
You...
Sorry.
No, you're fine.
Is everything okay?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just checking in on everybody.
I'm good.
All right.
Well, we'll keep going then.
We both.
You guys wake up.
It is a brand new bright and shiny day.
During the night, a certain someone has cuddled up against Grolik.
Sorry.
Honestly, more likely, you were taking too many of the sheets.
What do you want me to do?
Nebus is on the other side of Vyce having attempted to get close to Grolik.
I haven't done it with the Vyce instead.
When she wakes up, she blinks, scoots away a little bit and then gets up.
And Tix is giggling as they're watching.
They'll throw up when you never need to.
Because that is exactly what they expected.
And then to see Vyce right before hand.
You, me, me, and you, just us and your friends Steve.
The cat has sort of just lounged themselves across both of your guys' faces.
Sounded about right.
I'm going to get up and climb out of time cut.
The birds go and open up on a bright, beautiful, new day.
Probably check the well.
Also check the...
Yeah, I'm going to check on the bar.
All right, you go over to check on the bar and you peer through the vine wall that Vyce
made.
And the birds, they're doing quite fine.
They're scratching at the ground here.
They seem to have had a very secure night.
It's hard to make this house a home.
You guys did a wonderful job.
They are all doing just fine.
Can I determine how far down the water is?
Pick a boat like a rock and drop it down?
Of course you can.
All right, you're going to drop one down?
You pick up a rock and you drop it down.
And you count.
One, two, three, four.
Crack.
Sploosh.
I was going to say crack.
Did I hit the side?
I'm 10 to that, right?
Let me perception.
Oh.
I don't know if you know how deep that is.
No, no, no.
I'm just...
I need to stop giving me good rolls.
That was being stupid.
That's all.
30, 21.
All right.
There's a crack in the sploosh.
And as you're listening in your head, you're going like...
Three plus ten.
Oh, you're leaving me to...
Oh, shit, I'm doing math.
There's a faint rustle-rustle again.
And you hear an unmistakable screeching and clawing sound from down in the well.
Oh.
It sounds like things are moving around down there.
I like that.
I'll come out of the pouch.
Who's there?
I'm also coming out.
I assume everybody's getting out.
Yeah.
Hang on.
And at this point, I think Tiny Head is going to start to dissipate.
Let me see something here.
Okay.
I need to figure something out.
There it is.
So, what's the problem?
We want to jump down the hole?
Can I...
No, no, no, wait, wait, wait.
Oh, come on.
It's not that far.
I'm going to cast Light on...
Thank you, because I was looking at...
I had Fairy Fire.
I didn't know what that did.
I'm going to cast Light on a stone and then drop it.
That's a good call.
Yeah, I was going to do Fairy Fire.
You drop it, and the light goes down into the well.
One second, two seconds, three, and then there's a crack.
And you watch as the light of the stone hits a black carapace that's sort of looking up
at you and bounces off.
And suddenly, the light is behind something with lots of legs that sort of scuttles past
the bottom of the well.
And you can see filth and detritus and other bits and bobs, what looks maybe like a broken
femur or something down there.
But you can hear scuttlings and movings along with the swish and the tinkle of the water.
Does this thing appear on the side?
Those of you who have seen...
Does someone want to give me a nature check to figure out what this might be?
I think our resident druid would be the best to do that.
Nature boy.
But if he doesn't, I could also...
Wouldn't you like to know whether, boy?
Yeah, she got another nat 20.
Oh god, I'm so sorry.
Oh, it did!
Thank god.
Sixty...
Twenty-three.
All right.
Nature boy, Mr. Vice, you have gotten a good look at this thing as it scuttled past.
And it looks to be the spawn of an ousep down there.
And it looks like there is probably a nest of the young larvae that have been placed down
somewhere where there's lots of water for them to get to, this nice well.
All they're missing is food.
Well, they've been eating, you know, they're probably gonna have lots of burrows nearby,
and this just happens to be one of their many tunnels that seems to have hit the bottom
of the well here and continued through it.
So there is now a ousep tunnel network connected to this well.
Incredible.
I said you were going for it.
I have four seconds equals 50 feet.
How many feet do you have?
How many feet down?
Bug off.
Second of falling, would you say that that would be...
I think it's ten.
I don't remember, I'm gonna be honest with you.
I kind of just think it's one of the most important things that we've ever done.
In game I also wouldn't know this answer, so...
Gravity is negative 9.6 feet per second.
I don't know what numbers does that mean.
What are you trying to do again?
I'm trying to figure out how many feet per second the rock was falling.
Because it was four seconds the rock was falling.
So he's got 50 foot a rope.
Theoretically, depending on how big this thing is, we could probably sneak by them.
About five seconds is like 122 meters.
That's a lot.
Nevermind.
I mean, if you guys want, I can see if I can bring Berika for the chart and just stick
it into the well.
Just purify the well.
Remember, there's a whole tunnel network connected to this.
So they're spread out way across the desert.
So how are we doing?
Hey, Vice, do you shake water by any chance?
I do.
Can you bring it up?
What's the range of shape water?
Do you want to see it?
I got it.
Oh, I always have it.
It's a race to see who can find it first.
Okay, so definitely not far enough.
Lower you down a bit and then you get it.
You have to lower him down quite far.
You want me to just pull the water out of there?
I mean, it would probably be better.
I can only move like five feet or like a five foot cube of water.
And remember, you guys actually cannot see water down there.
But I could hear a splash.
Could be a flowing river.
Well, it doesn't matter.
It needs is a little bit.
So the water isn't at the very bottom.
It's somewhere probably off to the side.
I just did a kind of found a calculator online.
Four seconds of a free fall would be about 270 feet.
Oh my god.
Okay, so how are we going to manage that?
Do we want to go and try and find another passageway?
Because I heard there were other passageways to this.
Well, or are we going to just jump and hope there's water at the bottom?
I would suggest not.
Jump!
Well, you can't because you know, you know, he can't know he can't have enough room to
do this.
Not have enough room to his wings.
Why is that?
Because I have a feature in which.
Oh, actually, my mask probably.
You'd have to put it on at the moment.
Where is it?
Oh, yeah.
You're human.
When I'm in dim light, I can fly the speed of my walking distance for one minute.
So if I drop and I can see the end, I can make myself float.
However, I won't be able to get.
Yeah, that'd be the issue because I don't think you have enough rope.
Well, how much rope do you guys have?
50 feet.
I've got 50 feet.
I have.
Is rope in an explorer's pack?
It should be.
Should be 50 feet in an explorer's pack.
I also have 50 feet.
So do I.
I have technically.
These are three different rows, but I technically have 100.
Well, we could tie them together.
Good.
Or we could try to find another entrance.
Or we could not go into the.
Out of murder hole.
She's going to shiver.
Hate bugs.
Yeah.
Wait.
Tie the alchemy drug to the rope.
No.
I think it'll get cut.
What's your reasoning for.
We can't pick up water with it, so none of us actually have to go down there.
I mean, anybody got anything that's not the alchemy drug that we can pick up water with?
I mean, regular water skin.
I've got a glass jar full of mosquitoes.
Maybe not that.
I have a lantern.
I mean, how much of the water do we need?
He probably only needs a little bit.
I mean, the water skin probably works.
Wait.
I pull out a hand axe.
Okay.
I unscrew the top.
Oh my God.
I'm sorry.
Thunder gus.
Oh my God.
He gave you that so long ago.
Yeah.
I guess it wasn't pleasant to that.
Safe to pour.
Do you want to drink it?
No.
She want to drink it.
Oh.
What's in it right now?
Strongest shit.
Alcohol.
There's booze inside of the handle.
I mean, I'll drink it so we can empty it.
Yeah.
Is that the only reason why you don't drink it?
I'll drink some too.
She has thrown it back in one chug.
Oh, never mind.
Snoozy lose.
Yeah, I suppose that's true.
All right.
Tie to this bad boy.
Let's see what we can fill up.
Right.
You guys have tied your rope together.
You've got about 250 feet of rope it looks like to work with.
It's going to take probably three of you guys to lower the weight of this rope together.
I will assist.
Yeah, I will.
I will too.
Yeah, Nevis.
So, it looks like Mondor, Rowan, and Nevis are going to hold onto the rope here.
What are the other three of you doing?
You just need to lean it over the watch.
I'd say girl power, but Mondor's a man, so.
Sorry.
There are only two.
I don't discriminate.
I can be girl power.
I don't discriminate.
Fair enough.
You guys start to lower the rope down into the well and just shh, shh, shh, hand over
hand as it goes down.
The three of you who are watching see it descend 50 feet, 100 feet, 150 feet, 200, and a little
bit and it hits the bottom of this well.
And there's just a dull, excuse me, thud sound as it impacts the bottom.
Was there a splash?
There was no splash.
You hear faint sort of skitterings down there and you see something move past the rocks
again and you hear a bit of a tug on the rope, but then the skitterings move on and there's
no sound.
Drop it lower.
It's hit the bottom of the well.
How about move it?
We did hear a splash.
With the swinstone, you heard a thunk and then a splash as it probably bounced off the
floor and then into some sort of body of water.
So there's a body of water nearby down there, but it's not at the very bottom anymore.
Okay, do you want to try to interact?
Wait, the rope goes on the bottom that goes to the bottom, correct?
Mm-hmm.
I might get myself killed.
Leave that to me.
Okay.
Right here, four chances.
I'm playing with it.
Since this is my village, I can climb down this thing and find the water.
I feel like anybody could go down there and find the water.
I just don't want to put that on anybody else if you do not want to.
Tix, I love the idea, but Alceps are incredibly poisonous and you will get bit probably if
you go down there and I don't think you're impervious to poison.
Nobody's impervious to poison.
So what, we find another way in?
Hold on.
What?
Nevis.
Yes?
Do Alceps eat these berries or are they just man-eaters, really?
They're omnivores.
They'll graze on lots of things.
All right.
I'm going to mash up these berries.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Should you wait for sending somebody down, should you give them the berries for a distraction?
That's what I was going to do.
I was going to mash up the berries and then they could just throw it along.
I thought you were going to throw them down there.
Sorry.
No, I'm not that stupid.
I throw one down there.
You hear a skittering at the high pitch, almost like the edge of your hearing.
And then the skittering goes away.
Yeah, of course.
I wouldn't waste the remaining toll on my berries doing that.
You slow.
I've got berries.
I can jam them up into a jam.
You're Polymorph.
Can you turn anyone into anything that you want?
I think me and the DM have had a conversation about willingly attacking another creature,
like when Robin was a vampire and if they could get blood off of attacking me.
And I think we said we're not doing that.
Yeah.
Well, I was just going to say.
Polymorph is different.
If it's a willing creature, you can turn them.
What I was questioning was if you could turn me into an Alceph.
I don't want to do that.
Okay.
I think they would smell you as not of their brood.
I can't mimic horror.
It looks like shit down there.
And I don't mean like figuratively.
I mean like literally.
Ew.
You're going to get like a disease if you go down there.
That I'm immune to.
Yeah.
What?
Yeah.
I'm a paladin.
You're immune to disease?
It's either immune or resistant.
Hold on.
Well, that's handy.
Well, what?
I just want to try to find the way in.
Are you immune to aging?
No.
Oh.
Because if you.
I understand why you're not a paladin.
Yes, I am immune to disease.
If we can't go down.
There's other reasons.
Wait.
Nevis brings up a good point though.
Is this water now contaminated?
Yeah.
That's kind of why I was starting to think maybe we give up.
Do we go through all this trouble just for some brown water?
Which will most likely shorten your lifespan.
Ew.
I'm sorry, buddy.
I don't.
You know what?
You called me buddy.
Wait a second.
You and me purify food and drink.
You?
What if we come.
You?
What if.
I don't.
What if we come back to that?
What if one of us figures out how to cast that later?
We could purify this water.
You could change yours every long rest, right?
Yeah, but then it died instantly, so.
Yeah, I know that.
Well, this doesn't have to happen right now, right?
He doesn't need the.
You're not going to die tomorrow.
Of old age.
Of old age, no.
We can purify it later if we skin it now.
Yeah.
We just have to send somebody down there.
I could probably do it.
I won't get diseased by touching anything.
Are you sure?
I mean.
We're going to have to hold you the whole way down.
It's a lot of trust.
I'm also probably, um.
One of the.
I could probably take a few more bites.
Then you can.
I mean, if you're, if you're sure.
I mean, you're also probably fine.
He's also got the distraction berries too.
Yes, I would give you like a lot of berries.
I mean.
Does this work to you?
It is.
I'm just saying this isn't the only source of the water.
But they're going to be everywhere.
True.
Well, except maybe in the rich place.
The rich people area.
Where the dukes are.
Although that's going to be more high profile.
Also, who knows how crawling the loon is with manpower.
True.
We might never get a chance.
Are we doing this?
I guess so.
I'm going to tap you on the shoulder for you to win.
And say, be safe down there.
I don't know what's down there anymore.
But, um.
Be safe.
And I'm going to pass.
I'm going to make sure this is the right thing for a casted.
Yes, I'm going to cast warding fondle.
Which means I take half of what you take so that I know you're being tapped.
Okay.
I'm going to play realm break.
For your inspiration.
Okay.
Awesome.
And I do have two DM inspirations on my sheet.
This will be great.
Before you go down, are you going to be just holding onto the rope?
Or are you going to be putting a harness on or something?
I have a bad parachute.
You do.
Don't ask me to fix it for you.
I will roll a one.
Wait, hold on. Before you go down.
What is like your big weakness?
Is this a concentration spell?
What do you mean?
Like, uh, if you had to make...
Like a saving roll?
Yeah.
I was trying to think of a nonmetal way to ask it.
Cool.
I'll cast...
She is...
Cast Brace.
You do have heavy armor on.
So you can use that as your way of being bad against it.
Is there any tree nearby that we could also tie the rope to and set up ourselves?
There are no trees nearby.
We could get a plus four or two.
Mondora, you still have your runes if you wanted to use those.
I don't know if either one of them would necessarily help her.
You have advantage on dexterity checks.
And you also...
You have three.
You only have two.
I think we get one for leveling up.
I have two.
Okay.
I guess I do have three.
Also, I'm going to use my channel divinity.
I do have three.
I'm going to cast Watcher's Will on myself.
So I have advantage on all intelligence, wisdom, and charisma saving throws.
Awesome.
Rowan, please give us either a shout or a tug of the rope when you're either done your
mission or you need to get out of there.
Okay.
What is your word?
Because I think a word is easier than the tug because we might always feel it.
Well, if I...
Oklahoma.
And I'm also tethered to it.
They might not want to be pulled up until they get in the water, right?
If they're already being attacked, I don't know.
We'll let her make that decision.
Yeah, but I'll know if she's being attacked.
Can I carve a rune onto one of her weapons?
Yeah.
It's on any object.
All right.
Oh, God.
I'm going to carve a rune into whatever weapon you're weapon of choice.
Probably my sword.
All right.
I'm going to carve the fire rune into your sword.
And if you invoke it, it entangles something in fiery chains.
Oh.
So in case you get attacked.
Nice.
And when you invoke it, just let me know and I'll give you all the stuff for it.
Sounds like a plan to me.
This is where I wish we had a wizard where we would just send them halfway down, fireball,
pull them back up, send the real...
Send the paladin down.
Don't you know?
Yeah, I don't have...
Oh, and your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses your
proficiency with a tool.
God, we got a strategy on this one.
Yeah, this is freaking awesome.
With the fire rune.
Like, I was just like, all right, you're going into this.
All of your friends have done their best to help you, Rowan.
Damn.
I need you to roll me initiative.
The rest of you guys will be working as a group to assist Rowan.
So you will share the initiative.
I got a 13.
Your group has a six, so they will be following along with you.
You usually roll really high on initiative.
Rowan, you are now at the top of this shaft.
You are...
Amen.
How are you holding onto the rope here?
Did you get his parachute on?
I'm not putting on the...
I will remove the parachute from the harness of the bag.
So you just have the harness on.
Yeah.
Actually, I'm using that piece of shit.
It's not the best idea because then they can pull them up.
Also, then if I get attacked, I don't risk letting go and falling.
I think that's a great idea.
I think that thing did wonders for me.
I'm not using the actual parachute.
I'm just tying myself to the rope.
And then I put it on the one and fucked it up.
Kieran is going to walk over to you and they're going to put their haul on your shoulder and go...
Mammarow.
I'm going to give him a little squirrege.
He's going to...
Probably means good luck.
I'm probably going to go dash.
Yeah, I don't know any more than my spell or else.
Yeah.
Alrighty, we're at the top of the well here.
You can start the descend if you want to.
Yeah.
I'll probably dash because I don't have anything else.
Okay.
Collective rest of the group, go ahead and give me athletics as your friend dashes down into the well.
Athletics?
Athletics.
You're supporting the rope.
I'll make one for Nebus.
I'm going to...
Thank you.
Guidance.
Nebus.
Whoa.
Oh, no.
14.
Eight.
Nine.
15.
23 from Nebus.
Go, Nebus.
All right, that was pretty difficult because you went diving down there.
The rope goes through your hands and you're going hand over hand over hand.
This person, heavy plate male as they're climbing down into the well.
I technically only have a breastplate.
Still, you're quite heavy.
They hold on to you.
You've descended quite some distance.
I only weigh 140 pounds.
Yeah, but that plate male.
Plus the sword, plus everything else you're carrying.
You're quite heavy.
I'm no Norea.
The weight of your sins.
You're no Norea.
We wouldn't have been able to do this if it was her.
Norea wouldn't have been able to sit.
No.
You've descended down about 60 feet.
From below, there's a faint skitter skitter noise, but you don't see anything from that
light at the bottom where you dropped that rock.
It's your turn.
What do you want to do?
Probably just going to keep going.
Are you going to dash again?
Probably.
Okay.
Everybody else, give me another athletics check if you're troubling this support of your
friends.
Because I can't flavor this to touch, I'm not going to.
Rowan, I will throw this out there to you that you have put your life in the hands of
the rest of the party.
Nat 20.
I also rolled a nat 20.
You can see it right there.
Nine again.
With that nat 20, you managed to go, there's two of them, you managed to go quite further
than you were before.
You've descended about 150 feet now.
You are pushing your way through.
As you descend, the air around you has become cold and slightly clammy.
It's very damp, and the walls have become slick and slimy to the touch, to where you
think you would not be able to grab onto them and stop yourself.
Okay.
There's no going back at this point unless your friends pull you up.
Okay.
From below.
Hold firm, men.
There is no noise from below.
Six.
It's your turn.
What would you like to do?
Should we have sent her with Merican?
I did think, not enough, apparently.
I mean, I could drop it.
What's the worst that could happen?
Wait, hold on, how far down are you?
Don't fucking do it.
150 feet?
No, no.
How 150 feet down?
You couldn't try and mage hand it?
I can't mage hand it.
I know that look on your face.
It's too far away.
I actually want to check myself real quick.
Oh.
Warring bond doesn't work on you.
You'd be within 60 feet of me.
So let's cut.
That's why you created Oklahoma.
Yeah.
Oklahoma's just a problem.
I hope you appreciate that, man.
I just wanted to check something.
Smiley enforcement.
I don't know.
I'm trying to think of two.
Okay.
We're going somewhere after this.
I don't know where.
By the way, is there a time, Evan, you have to run out here?
I'm ready to kill this at six.
I'm attacking.
Six is your kill.
Okay.
What are you going to do?
You know what?
I'm just going to keep going.
You're going to keep dashing again?
Yep.
Okay.
The rest of you guys, I need another athletics check from you as a group.
All right.
So I've exhausted that die.
I can tell.
14.
I'm using this one.
30, 20 from Nebus.
30, 20.
Well.
You should have used the other one.
What was this one I'm giving me?
17.
17 and 15.
15.
Okay.
Well, that one gave me a four, so it wasn't any better.
I'm not going to say much until afterwards.
That's a good idea.
So I'm in the back, so I don't mean anything.
No, that's the anchor.
You're just like, oh, fuck.
No, no, I'm in the middle.
I'm in the middle.
You run into the person in the middle.
It's kind of like one of the stronger people.
He's in the back.
Front and the back.
I'm right in the smacked head middle.
The front keeps it tethered, and the back is the one who's actually doing a lot of the
... They're your last line of defense.
They're the anchor.
It goes in the back.
So, yeah.
You drop another 60 feet as you sort of dash down.
You're now- Are you running on the wall, by the way?
What do you say, dashing down?
210.
Yeah.
I'm assuming that's what she means.
That's fucking awesome.
You're just like... What is it?
Mission Impossible style?
Just doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo.
Maybe you're running around spiraling down.
Or like the ninjas in Daredevil when they-
Yeah!
Yay!
Now that I could probably... I'm actually what?
About 40 feet from the bottom now.
Yeah, you're getting close.
I'm going to drop a moonbeam right below me to the ground.
You're dropping a moonbeam right below you?
No.
You just dashed.
So this will be your next turn, so give me a second.
Yeah.
No, the moonbeam's 30 feet.
No, it's 40 feet, but... There is another chitter-chitter from below
you and yes, several sort of chitinous shapes move and get in the way of the light.
It is now your turn if you want to do the moonbeam.
I'm going to move 30 feet because it's just my normal moonbeam's feet.
Rest of you folks, give me an athletic stretch for the...
And then drop a moonbeam.
By cock, maybe just like five feet to my right just so I'm not caught up in it.
You see this?
It's a six.
22 for Nevis.
11, 10, 11.
Dirty 20.
Well, six.
22 for Nevis.
This is where I start going.
I had my good rolls and I'm so happy these are happening when we're in a group.
The rope gives a bit of a jerk, but you do manage to move down your 30 feet.
They're straightening up there for you as they pull you to a hop and your beam erupts
down below you.
That creature that was at the bottom, that little alfep larvae, is directly in the path
of it.
Do you have to make a save on any of them?
Yeah, constitution.
Constitution save?
All right, it's going to make a constitution save.
It is going to succeed on the consave.
Whoa!
It will take half.
Half on the con.
Okay, I'm experienced.
I fold it right back to the same thing.
Am I able to cast this spell at all right now?
You'd have to let go of the rope.
Half of 19.
Unless it doesn't have hand movements.
So, yeah, it takes nine radiant damage.
It takes nine radiant damage?
Because that's half of 19.
You got it.
What?
Can I take this?
I'm just using it to support my laptop, so I'm just going to put this back here to support
the thing.
Okay.
All right, it's a blister up here on this thing's face, and it is going to give a high-pitched
scream of pain.
It's that creaning noise that echoes up from below.
The rest of you guys, because you're pulling on the rope, you can't see down there.
Hear this noise erupt from the well.
What are your thoughts right now as you're helping your friend move down?
God help those poor insects.
That's a good sign.
I hope she's okay.
Well, that thing's angry.
Yeah, I watched it other way around.
That was a sound.
Sorry.
Am I able to use mage hand to replace the grip of one of my hands temporarily on the
rope?
I think mage hand only can pull 10 pounds.
Yes.
Can I use mage hand as the hand component of casting a spell?
No, I don't think you can.
All right.
I figured it out.
Once I hit the bottom, you could probably let...
Well, I was just going to boost Tix's advantage to strength check.
You can always come off the rope and then start playing your instrument if you wanted
to.
I'll wait for now.
Okay.
Once it's the outstretched turn, it is going to grab onto the walls of the tunnel and it's
going to start to burrow its way up towards you.
It goes up and...
It's the start of its turn.
It needs to make the save again.
Ooh, good call.
Good call.
It's going to make the save.
That's a failure.
Yes.
It's pulling itself through this moonbeam in a rage.
20 radiant damage.
Let's go.
20 radiant damage.
This thing is starting to smoke and its black plates are starting to turn red like a lobster
is being cooked.
As it does so, its big pincers snap open and there is almost an undulation from its thorax
up through its throat and a burst of acidic spray is going to go lobbing up towards you
on the rope.
I need a dexterity saving throw from you because this is coming not only for you...
He gave you advantage.
He gave me advantage, right?
For you, he did, yeah.
Yeah, this is coming not only for you, but also for your rope.
And your rope does have health.
21.
You manage to jump from one side of the wall to the other and sort of flatten yourself
against it with a thump, kind of knocking the wind out of you and the acid splatters
up against the side of the wall and begins to smoke and steam.
From the top where you guys are, you see this faint white vapor begin to rise up out of
the well.
No, breathe it in.
That don't look good.
Ooh, okay.
So splatters of it are going to fly off of the wall and sort of strike your arms and
bits of your legs.
So that's 6 and 6 is 12 plus 3 is 15.
You're going to take half of that, run around that up.
So that's 6, that's 8.
16 is 8.
You're going to take 8 acid damage from that.
Okay.
It is now your turn.
I'm going to drop the remaining 10 feet.
Okay.
This thing is in your way.
So you're going to go down to it.
Okay, no, then I'll drop down to it and then take a swing with my sword.
Yeah, it's coming up at you.
Its head is right in your face with its pins.
It's going to snap sometimes.
I'm going to do a Divine Smite on it as well.
That's a natural 19 with a crit.
Woohoo!
Let's go!
Now we're going to have no crits next session.
We're burning them all here.
I'm doing math of what I am rolling.
Oh, sorry.
That really just happened.
Who is going to let it out?
Lamento, burp.
Oh no, hose do.
You're right.
You could not be more right.
I'll take that.
Yeah, I'll take it.
That's some home material right there.
I didn't say it.
I knew I fell off for some reason.
That's why I told you to hold it.
I'm going to do it the whole time.
The whole time.
Yeah, I have the whole time.
The whole time.
24.
24?
Yeah.
You bring your sword around and you decapitate this thing and its carcass drops down into
the muck below.
You still have your movement speed if you want to continue down.
You drop down onto this thing's steaming carcass and you glance around yourself and you find
yourself at the bottom of several intersecting tunnels.
It looks like the well that continued down a little bit farther below has become filled
with boulders and other detritus from the tunneling.
The walls themselves are smeared with the excrement and other bits and leftovers of these outset
larvae over the years.
But you can see through essentially a small tunnel probably.
You should probably be able to squeeze through it the faint glimmer of the water.
Okay.
If I have any speed left I'm going to start moving towards it.
Okay.
So you move slowly off from the main side here and towards the water.
You are now at the foot of this small tunnel.
The light from the stone is still there, sort of lighting things up.
And my moonbeam is probably lighting things up.
It is.
You do not see any other outseps around you, but faintly in the distance you can hear.
Folks up top, it is now your turn.
The rope has actually gone a little slack.
It doesn't feel like she's tugging on it anymore like she was when she was running down.
However, with the sort of white steam that's pouring up out of the well, you can't see
down into it anymore.
What would you guys like to do?
Do we figure out how far down it is?
200 something feet.
200 feet.
Like 200 and a bit.
Okay.
It's in the message.
She's on her own down there.
I don't know if she's okay.
Honestly, we'll just listen for the code word.
Wait, I just realized something.
What?
If we need to, we can send someone else down super easily.
We put them in the bag and we drop them.
Yes!
Oh!
I'm a genius!
Nice!
Alright, I didn't even think of that one.
So who wants to go down?
I mean, I can always go with this.
Do we have to right now?
I have a sneaking suspicion that you should stay up here because you will probably be one
of the best people to help pull people back up.
Oh, you're right.
Never mind, I'll stay up here.
I have garbage to my stress.
So if you need to send anybody else down, you can send me down.
You are so right.
I have the fear of can you survive down there.
That's the problem.
I have the most help out of you guys.
I don't think we're in a position to do this.
I think we should wait for a tug or something.
We're setting up a RIT team here.
That's amazing.
You know what, nice.
Well, you know what, I should roll a concentration on my...
Should we plan on who we are sending down for when that does happen?
Because when that does happen, people won't have time to think.
Oh, okay, go ahead and roll that for a minute right now.
I think of...
I just only beat it 10 because the damage on tug was less than 10.
Yep.
You could probably send Nevis.
11!
Perfect.
I was about to say, we could both be snow.
No, don't send Nevis.
She's also this really strong...
And she's also afraid of bugs.
I'm terrified actually.
You shouldn't send down the two strength, which are Mondor and Nevis.
I can go.
Boom boom firepower.
Yeah, Nevis!
Woo hoo!
High five!
I can Wild Chamber 3 burn and fly out, if need be.
Or you can just hop back in the finish.
From down below, you hear the faint chitter-chitter of the out-sets, and as you kind of tilt your
head over to look behind you, you can see the glitter of three sets of eyes.
They seem to be at the far end of the tunnel, but they're moving cautiously towards you,
sort of shielding themselves from the light.
They seem to be trying to move very stealthily towards you.
Okay.
It is now your turn.
They're about 60 feet away from the tunnel.
Will they enter my moonbeam before they get to me?
Yes, they'd have to, because you're basically standing in your moonbeam right now.
Okay.
And then, keeping like a quarter of my eye on them, I'm gonna move towards the water.
Okay.
You are already standing there at the front of this tunnel.
You're gonna have to sort of squeeze yourself into this tunnel if you want to go down after
this water.
Okay.
Okay, it is...
You're gonna do that?
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm gonna need that athletics check from you as you sort of want to push your body into
this tunnel and see if you can reach out for it.
15.
15?
Alright.
You sort of shove some of the boulders in, and you get...
You sort of...
And shove yourself in.
And then you are technically restrained.
You can't like, fill out your arm to let the fight or anything right now, but you're getting
closer.
You're about 15 feet from this water.
She has the axe.
Can I dash?
Do double movement if I don't...
Give me another check.
26.
That's more than enough.
You shove yourself through this slime-encrusted tunnel, and any normal person would probably
walk out of here with 16 different types of like, rot gut diseases, bone disfigurements...
Paladins are holy, motherfucker!
It does not affect you.
You are just basically smeared in mud for all you could care.
And you pop out of this thing, and you fall for like, about a foot, and then your rope
swings, and you find yourself sort of swinging, held by your rope above the surface of the
water.
You've got this thing in your hand.
Suddenly for you guys up top, your rope goes tight in your hand as you feel like a jerk
on it.
It is now your guys' turn.
What would you like to do?
Hold on.
I'm gonna hold...
I guess hold...
I guess, yes.
Is she still... does it still feel taut?
It feels taut.
It jerked and went taut.
Okay, I'm gonna hold on for dear life, because I don't know what's going on.
Hold on, I guess I'll hold action for in case I gotta pull.
Okay!
You guys hold!
Wait, hold on.
We're like, I know you want to do something.
This might be the chance.
What, to hop in the pouch?
No, to do your thing.
Oh!
This might be your only chance, buddy.
I mean, I'll just give bardic inspiration to six.
That's a little easier.
Jinga jinga jinga jinga jinga ding ding ding.
I can just do like a whistle, like...
Little diddy.
Nice!
You give bardic inspiration.
The alceps that are down there are going to make their move.
They're going to...
You can hear them come skittering towards you through those tunnels.
You are... you've dropped down into this small tunnel here.
They are going to sort of cautiously probe your move, being the kind of poke at this
beam of light.
You're still keeping it up?
Mm-hmm.
They're going to poke into it then.
Okay.
So they need to make their moves.
Yep.
From up above you, that's one, that's two, that's three, you hear one faint scream and
two soft hisses, as if one of them is sort of...
overly exposing themselves, shall we say.
One of them failed, two of them have succeeded.
Okay.
22 radiant damage, then to the failure and 11, then to the...
Successes.
Okay.
It is now your turn.
You are dangling above the surface of this water.
From the very faint lights glimmering through those rocks and things above you, you can
see the color here is a faint gold tint, almost like glitter flowing through the water and
as you look underneath its surface, you catch the distinctive glint of what looks to be
old skeletons of some great and enormous creature, almost like a dragon or some other large predator
that is deep, deep under the sands here with the water flowing through its body.
Huh.
Okay.
Is there any way I can reach the liquid to fill up the axe?
You can.
Okay, I'm gonna do that.
You're gonna reach down and you're gonna dunk your hand into the water here and there's
a blub blub blub and the axe fills up.
It's probably enough for one person to take a good mouthful and swallow it down.
I was about to ask, how does the water look?
The water does look really clean.
Okay, just because, you know, we don't want him dying because of the seas.
Is there anything else you'd like to do while you're...
I mean, just screw it back together.
Okay, are you gonna climb up or do you want to try to go through the water yourself?
I have no need for the water myself.
Um, all right, so I'm just gonna start climbing my way out of there.
Give me an athletics check to climb back up to those, those rocks.
17.
That's fine.
You pull yourself hand over hand until you reach the rocks and you sort of pull yourself
up into that sort of narrow shaft that you wiggled your way down into.
You're halfway through the shaft and you can see the sort of heads of those outseps starting
to block out the light at the top of that shaft.
Friends, you guys are at the top here.
That sort of mist has sort of cleared away, giving you clear sight down the bottom of
the shaft.
What would you guys like to do?
Okay, is the rope still like taut or is it kind of slackened a bit?
The rope is slackened a little bit.
Okay, I make it.
Um, where is it?
All right, I want to take out my big ass wrench from forever ago.
Oh god.
Okay.
Because I did give it back.
Yeah.
And I'm gonna go to the end of the rope.
Yeah.
And I want to tie off the rope like in like the middle of the wrench.
Well, how big is the wrench?
It's like the size of your forearm.
It's a big like industrial wrench.
I was hoping it was wider so that way in case we fail it would catch on the well.
Oh, is it long enough for that or no?
That'd be a pretty tight...
Yeah, I think so.
I think it would be long enough, but it would have to be like a perfect catch.
Okay.
Does anyone have another one of you?
I don't have any more.
Honestly...
What about the tongs?
The tongs?
Yeah.
Those would probably be a better bet.
Cool.
Wait, they're both made of metal, right?
Yeah.
Can I cast, can I put them like kind of on top of each other and cast Heat Metal on them
both until they fuse together?
Sure, buddy.
Cool.
I do that.
Alright.
Why'd you say it like that?
You snap your fingers and you cast Heat Metal on these two things and they start to glow
a cherry red.
They heat up and they are starting to, you know, run together a little bit.
What the fuck?
You'd be going blacksmith.
Right now, bitch.
Right now.
I'm assuming you're doing this away from the rope.
Yeah.
Okay.
That's what I thought.
Yeah.
So they...
Wait until they're about fused and then...
This is gonna take, this is gonna take at least six seconds for this to happen.
Oh, okay.
At least six seconds.
One round.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Sorry.
The rest of you guys are holding on to the rope?
Yeah.
I assume I'm in the front and Nevis is in the back.
Yep.
Because I don't think Nevis wants to be anywhere near the opening.
Oh, she does not like the bugs.
It's like they're looking down at the hole.
I'm in the front, I'll look down at the hole.
I'm hearing the hole.
You see the rope going down, whoop.
And then there's a whole bunch of bugs there at the bottom of the hole and you don't see
your friend.
Well, I haven't heard the word yet, so I think...
Well, there's no sound, so we're good.
So just so everybody knows, there are a whole lot of bugs and no rowing.
But the rope's not to want, the rope is loose.
Rope is still loose.
Rope is loose.
We didn't hear the word yet.
Are we worrying?
I'm not worried.
Are you worried?
Star, if they're around, that's two failures and one success.
Well, that's really good.
You're watching these bugs get decapitated by the sun.
25 radiant damage.
25 radiant damage, round up 26.
Awesome sauce.
13.
Two of the bugs begin to smoke and smolder and they skitter back and you hear their sort
of running away sounds.
But one of them is persistent.
It starts to wiggle its way into the same crevasse that you're, you know, crawling up
into and it is going to start to try and snap and bite at you in an attempt to defeat on
you.
And that's going to be a hit right there.
Definitely.
Yeah, that's good.
It's going to be a hit.
So it's going to grab you with its big pincers and you're going to take 10 piercing damage
and also four poison damage as this Alseps venom rolls from its fangs into your wound.
You are now poisoned and also grappled by this thing.
It's grabbing on to you with its pincers.
It is your turn.
What would you like to do?
I want to break the grapple.
All right.
I'm going to need a strength contest for that then.
23.
23?
You've escaped.
Let's go.
It's got an escape DC right on the creature.
That's nice.
Which is actually really nice.
So yeah, I'm going to try to then like move my way out of this area because I can't really
do much in the tunnel, like this small tunnel here.
So I'm just going to try to push past it.
I don't care if I take a little bit of damage because I'm going to push past it.
You're going to try to push past it?
Yeah.
Okay.
Just to get into free space.
I'm going to need something pretty high then for you to sort of push past it.
It is taking up the space in the tunnel so you're going to have to push it yourself and
it out of the tunnel.
Athletics?
Yeah, athletics.
Yeah, that's right.
18.
18?
Okay.
So you managed to push you end it about halfway to the end.
There's about maybe not like five, 10 feet left of this tunnel, but you are still in
the tunnel with it.
Okay.
Friends at the top.
Do I see these bugs getting absolutely like slaughtered by Moonbeam?
You see that sort of two of them sort of like catch fire and go skittering off.
I think she's okay.
But you do see one of them as sort of like when it's the kind legs poking up out of like
a tunnel, out into like the edge of your sight.
I think she's okay.
She just, she just is this one still obliterating the Moonbeam at all?
Or?
Yeah, it would be.
Yeah, she's, she's good.
She's chill.
Okay.
It is now its turn.
It's going to make it safe.
It's going to fail.
Another 19 radiant.
It is going to start to smoke and you can see the life sort of fade from its eyes as
your Moonbeam takes it out.
We didn't roll concentration on your Moonbeam when you took damage, but I'm okay with that.
I didn't call it.
So we're just going to keep moving on.
Okay.
It is now the out steps turn.
And from up above, there's just sort of rumbling sound that you guys are hearing.
Yeah, you guys, you hear it.
You're hearing that faint rumbling.
What would you guys like to do up here?
I want to turn around.
I would like to look to see.
Like, you know, that was coming.
It's shredder.
Watch out for shredder looking around.
You don't see anything out and around here, but the sand and the dust is starting to like
shake and shiver a little bit.
Hey, shovel 14.
Can you keep a lookout?
Yes, I can look out for anything.
I'm going to go out into the desert to kind of look around.
I'm going to shout directing towards I'm like in the middle.
So I can't see, but I'm going to direct my shout towards the well and go.
There's stuff going on up here.
If you're done, you might want to start moving.
It is now your turn.
Climb out of the well.
You've.
Okay.
Yeah, so you can try to get the tunnel.
Give me the athletics.
Push yourself out.
You pull yourself out as you do so you climb up and you look to your left and to your right
and in front and behind and you can see eyes all around you.
There's a lot of these things and they're coming for you.
Oklahoma, I have hold my action for this very moment.
You have.
Roll me that athletics baby.
Roll, roll, roll.
I have hold because I'm out now so.
Ah, no.
Is that a three?
Yes, but it's athletic so you should have at least something.
I definitely have a plus four.
Oh, the rest of you.
No, it's all of you guys.
Oh my God.
Yeah, I thought it held my action.
You're all up top of my crew.
19.
22.
Nine.
You haven't parted.
I used it.
Oh no.
Wait, I have an inspiration from the DM sitting right there.
What's that?
Re-roll.
Take the higher.
Oh really?
Yeah.
That's a 14.
This is going to be an 18.
There we go.
Now I'm going to get rid of that.
Rowan, you are looking at all of these hungry pincers as they're coming for you.
They are charging along through these tunnels, snip snapping.
You've got those berries still in your pocket.
I'm going to throw them.
You scatter them amongst you and suddenly there's a jerk on the horse and you go flying
up here.
You are kicking yourself off the walls of maintenance to keep yourself from bashing
and battering yourselves into it.
But together your friends and your own cleverness manage to pull you back up to the surface
and you keeve yourself up out of the well and fall onto your back successfully with
the axe grasp above your hand in triumph.
I think that is what we're going to leave things off today.
So thank you guys all so much for listening.
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We're going to pass this out.
I swear, we're not new to this.
Alright, session 40.
Rulik is not from this dimension?
Nope.
And then I got, bitch got fucked.
Someone got fucked.
Probably one of the wizards.
Probably.
Nuraya has joined the party.
Yay!
I forgot that was all last session.
Penelope's a guy?
Question mark?
Yeah.
Reacher is planning something big.
Actually, some plot.
Rulik found a room in a bag.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
It's the weird bag holding that looks like that's a room.
Yeah.
Rulik talked to his mom.
Mondor didn't find his wife.
Rulik tried to bring someone from the past back, but they weren't put to rest.
Yeah.
And I think that's all I got.
Oh yeah, that got skewed.
Alrighty.
Well, thank you so much, Mondor.
If you guys want to hear, I guess, whoever's going to do this next.
Popcorn.
Who's going to do set M41?
Oh, which make right?
Well, so we got...
I think we've all done it at this point now, so you could choose.
It's open to whoever you want.
I'm going to popcorn.
Drustix on this one.
Popcorn Drustix.
Alright, well, if you want to hear Drustix, do the session notes for next time.
Make sure to stick around for the player notes after the credits.
Thank you all again, folks.
We'll see you next time.
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