Thank you. And welcome back. It is now 2026.
I'm your host, Larry. I hope we all had a great
break. You guys and my players as well. How was
your holidays, guys? I'm fat now. Oh, okay, yeah.
I've always been there. I've always been there,
baby. More or less the same. Yeah, okay. Yeah,
nothing crazy. Nothing crazy. Sound very exciting
holidays. Still working. Still working. Still
working. Well, I hope that the listeners did
have a good holiday and enjoyed the special that
we did release, which was one of my favorite
recordings so far. So that was very fun. Very
fun to do. But we're going to jump right into
it, I suppose, from where we last left off. But
before anything else, as always, a question for
the three of you. And that question is... How
would you describe a perfect night in? Annie's
perfect night in would just be her in like her
special fluffy pajamas, wrapping herself up in
at least two weighted blankets while reading
encyclopedias and bibliographies. By candlelight
or by gaslight? By candlelight, of course, not
gas. Too risky. Ah, fair enough. Okay. Yeah,
I can see that. For me, a perfect night would
be something akin to sitting by the fire in the
most plush robe that I own with some classical
music of some kind. Sipping at some deep red
wine of a maybe one of five bottles that still
remain. Can I have the entire five bottles? No,
I just want to know that it's scarce and makes
it better. Oh, I see, I see. Understandable.
My goodness, have you seen my constitution? I
cannot hold that much. Alright, lastly we have
a raider. Is that what they told you? Like, a
fancy night out? Let me tell you, Gimbal. Alright,
so what we need to do is fade to black. Okay.
Yeah, I'll take that. I'll take that. And with
that, let us all transition into the recap. An
imposing phantom figure wakes our group. Her
looming chains and frightful face gleam as she
demands the location and return of her son. Given
almost no answer besides a vague description
of his auburn hair and facial scar, our group
wearily enter the cave. The cavern's path, with
large clusters of bones from all kinds of creatures
past piled inside, led our four to face multiple
entrances that continue further. Thanks to Rainer's
ex -lover's career and a short game of dice,
a collective decision of the rightmost entrance
was made and Annie takes the lead. Their path
slopes down deeper into the cave and the scent
of rotten death overwhelmed their senses. The
sight of more skeletal piles and dirty cavern
water grew concerning. An unknown force had pulled
Annie under the surface and Godard dives in chase.
Panic rose between all four, their efforts almost
fruitless as two of them are forced immeasurably
deeper into the murky water and the others were
forced to face leathery, undead humanoid figures
as they stood autonomously and walked closer
to them. In a feat of unmatched improvisation,
Godard's magic forced the creature to release
Annie and they succeed in shoving her body into
her own bag of holding. A panicking Raynor holds
these hulking sodden corpses back and Gimble
shrieks in fear. Soon breaking the surface and
scrambling to the edge, Godard joins Raynor as
Annie clawed out of her bag. This gruelling fight
drove everyone to the brink of pain and debilitating
exhaustion, especially for Raynor, with his efforts
to support his companions. Their goal for this
endeavor almost forgotten until the mother phantom
spoke in Annie's conscious. What approached them
now bears similar features that were aforementioned,
only now does the tongue of this undead man unfurl
at our group, hungry and ominous. And we are
right back in here, in this deep, dank, dirty
Dave cave. I wanted to keep the alliteration.
Yep. The cave's called Dave. Okay. Why didn't
Dave help us out? You are in this cave of Dave
and you are now face to face with what you can
only assume is Dave. Okay. Let's just say, yes,
it's Dave. But with a scar running from this
creature's right eye down to its lips, it's leathery.
skin or hair that is almost um scraggly and uh
what's the word where it's almost like it's coming
off you know what i mean yeah folks it's folks
it's been uh it's been an age uh we haven't done
this in a while so i'm a little rusty so you're
gonna have to forgive me on that but you're coming
face to face with this thing and it is now ready
to pounce i would like you all to roll me initiative
Annie rolled a 14. Gordar got an 18. Rainer got
an 8. Alright, with that, this thing across from
you, across the waterways that is before you,
you see it contort and twitch and is almost ready
to make a move. But up first, it is Gordar. Goodness,
not again. Didn't we just get rid of these things?
Um... God I was gonna use the pointer and ring
finger make little beads of Green energy and
is going to cast Sorcerer's burst at this creature
and It's going to be in poison. That is a 12
to hit Unfortunately you miss. Yeah, that's no
goodness. Ah Annie, you're up. It chomps and
gnashes at your direction as it's preparing itself
to dive. Annie, you are now up. God is also walking
back about like 10 feet or whatever. He can.
Yeah. So you're all, if you recall, you're all
in this like this thin tunnel sort of thing at
the entrance of this opening, this cavern. But
before you take your turn, Annie, can you just
please give me a wisdom saving throw? With a
DC of, let's say, 13? That's a 15, baby. Okay.
So with that 15, you just hear the voice once
more in your head. And it is the familiar voice
of that spirit who is currently in possession
of your faculties, I guess. And you just hear
her voice and just says, My son! My son! And
it's your turn. Hey, I think your mommy is calling
for you. And she cocks her rifle. She points
and shoots. Okay, go right ahead. 20. Okay, so
that definitely hits. Go ahead and give me the
damage. 11 damage, baby. Okay, so this creature,
this thing, the son of the spirit is... Not exactly
running in the small space that it does have,
but you see it try to weave through all these
bones and debris that is on the ground and is
about to take a dive as you fire your rifle,
hitting it in the shoulder and it dives right
in. Ugh, disgusting. But you definitely got it.
It is now in the water. There's a moment of silence
and it's as if this thing that is swimming under
the water, you cannot even hear. Even through
the silence, you don't see any movement in the
water. And you see just in a flash, this thing
jumps right out of the water. Who would, let's
say, who would be the closest here at the moment
from the three of you at the mouth of this tunnel?
Oh, Annie's left. She's not in the cave anymore.
She's gone. You're all at the mouth of the cavern,
yeah? No. Okay, so Annie, so with your... You
burned yourself, man. I just stepped back. That's
so mean. That's so rude. Okay, let me just take
a look at what this fella can do. As it jumps
out of the water, you are taken by surprise and
it goes straight for you. Where are these features?
Here we go. And you can see that this close,
it's, well, what was once hands are now these
huge claws with like nails, blackish nails, ranging
from like five centimeters, not five centimeters,
sorry, five inches each long. And it's going
to take a swing at you. Excuse me, I'd like to
dodge. With very little time to dodge, that's
an 18 hit. Yeah. I would like you please to take,
oh, that's nasty. That is about 12 points of
damage. So take that 12 points of damage. And
I would also like you to make a constitution
saving throw. With a DC of 13. Is this how you
want to treat us in the new year? We come back
and you're already trying to kill us. I'm pretty
sure that she can just lightning them back, right?
Yeah, possibly. So constitution saving throw
is 10. Can I use my reaction to do Goliath Ancestry?
Okay. But first things first. As this thing slashes
you, your nostrils are assaulted with just this
foul stench. It is unbearable. So you are now
currently poisoned. That's how stinky it is.
Yuck. Now go ahead and do your thing. Your thing.
A wordsmith as always. Yes. You can't say that
to me. English is my second language, man. I'm
still learning. After 20 odd years of being in
this country, English is my second language.
I see that you too have been to jury duty. That's
a three. And do they get pushed back or is there
anything like that? No, it is only when I take
a damage from a creature within 60 feet do I
get to execute 1d8 thunder damage, of which that's
a three. All right, so you execute this Storm's
Thunder against this thing. Lightning, is that
right? Lightning? Yes, lightning crackles through
you as it travels to this creature. As it hits
this thing, it is now back in the water, half
submerged. All right, next up, Rainer. So it
just dove back into the water, right? Yeah, so
it's half submerged at this point, so it's still
showing its upper half. Okay, so he's going to
kind of just look at Annie, kind of give her
a thumbs up, like, hey, you finally did something,
great. Annie gives a middle finger in return.
And he's going to use Dissonant Whispers on it.
So they need to do a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw,
or take 3d6 damage. Okay, they fail. That is
nine damage. So these whispers that are... It's
almost a cacophony to this thing where it shakes
its head. It's almost reeling back. It's now
slightly thrashing about onto the water. Do you
do anything else? Yeah, so it has to use its
reaction to move as far away from me as it can
using the most safest route. Oh, okay. Is that
immediate? Yeah, immediately. Okay, all right.
It dies back down. As it's thrashing about, you
see it sort of wail and then it just dives back
down. It looks like it's gone deeper because
the water has now become somewhat calm. Anything
else? Raynor is going to back up a little bit
further than Gordar if possible. So just deeper
into the tunnel. Yeah, deeper into the tunnel
and he's just going to just go. Oh God, we're
going to die. We're going to die in this cave.
So does this mean that it's just going to keep
running away from you, basically? On its turn,
it can come back. It just has to go as far away
as possible. Gordar, you are up. Seeing this
thing starting to flee, but knowing, in our last
fight, the same thing happened, that something
ran away a little bit and ended up coming back,
Gordar is going to look towards Annie. This is...
This is the sun, right? Is this what we're looking
for? The voice in my head tells me so. Well,
can the voice do anything? Or are we just supposed
to kill its sun? Listen, I don't know how to
get the voice outside and into my... I don't
know how to do it! Well, you'll think, don't
you? I'm sure I can listen. Speak to it! As he's
going to pointer and ring finger... Can I see
it from where I am? You can see the lighting
here. I guess you can see vague shapes within
the water. So I would say that you would have
a disadvantage. Going to, yeah, once again, sorcerer's
burst. It's going to be poison. Does a nine hit?
Unfortunately, no. It's again, just like launches
it into the water, but it just, the resistance
of the water just like splashes and it kind of
just separates before dispersing. Okay. Anything
else, sir? uh he's gonna be about like 10 feet
behind and he's gonna move up five feet just
so you if you could try and hit it didn't hit
it and it's kind of just gonna stay there and
hopefully uh strengthen numbers okay so what
i'm picturing right now is this this cavern and
at the mouth of this cavern we have annie standing
there and then 10 feet beyond behind annie is
gordar And another 10 feet behind is Rainer.
And then another 10 feet is Gimble. Am I right?
Sure. Sounds good. Okay. I mean, makes sense.
Rainer got jumped last time. I just wanted to
get a clear picture in my head so I know what
I'm seeing. All right. Annie, you are now up.
uh you see godard back up uh he tried to fire
at it while it's down underwater you are unsure
whether they made some sort of contact damn it
uh she's gonna try and i don't know what she
can do to reach the mother spirit in her head
oh it's also the start of your turn can you please
give me a wisdom saving throw this time with
a dc of 14. okay 12. with the confusion that
is going on you feel your body almost stiffen
as if you're being held back the rest of you
now see these chains that manifest that just
appear out of thin air. And chains are now holding
you back, Annie, as you look at your arms, your
legs, your torso. And you hear the voice once
more. That's my son! Do not hurt my son! Yeah,
well, he clearly wants to hurt us. Hello? Silence
once more. As you now feel this chain that is
upon you. So you're currently restrained. Damn
it. So being restrained, I think you can use
your turn to try and break free. Honestly, I
think she's okay like this. If she doesn't want
us to hurt her son, I don't think Annie's going
to want to hurt the son anymore. That's the choice
that you will make. Okay, well now you're making
me second guess my choices. It's perfectly okay
for you to just end it right there. We're going
to move right on? Yep. Okay. Okay, then. Once
more, the water splashes and this thing comes
right out of the water. It lands just by you,
Annie, but then almost looks like it slithers
and slides across the ground, you being in chains.
It glides across you and it's now heading towards
you, Gordar. As you can see, it's priming its
claw straight towards you. I didn't think you'd
get any more gross than you do that. So does
a 12 hit? A 12 does not hit. Okay. So as it comes
sliding towards you, it does this slash, and
then as it misses, it rolls on its back, and
then it skitters and gets back up on its feet
and goes for another swing. So this time does
a 24 hit. yes okay uh and if you could just please
take 15 points of damage uh i'm feeling generous
so i will this time uh -huh and what type of
damage is that it is uh what is this type of
damage i think it's slashing now if you could
also kindly give me a constitution saving throw
please with a dc of 13 now you're just asking
for too much That's a 24. Very good. So you pass
that. Again, being this close to this thing,
there's this scent, this smell that permeates
from this thing, and it is almost assaulting,
but you sort of shake it off. You pull out your
handkerchief and you cover yourself. So you're
good. The perfume handkerchief, pull it back
off. But that gash that went across his chest
is a large gash that you saw, like, it just went
deep. You see, like, the ribs as well. Like,
that was a heavy hit on him. Very heavy indeed.
So, Reiner, you just see Annie in chains and
this thing just slide across the cavern floor,
this tunnel floor, and then just slashes into
Gordar. What do you do? Oh, great. That is just
great. Do something, Raider! Do something! Shut
up, Gimbal. I'm thinking. It's scary! Oh my god,
Gimbal. Don't hurt it. Don't hurt it? It just...
I know! What did she look like? What did she
look like? He's just gonna be visualizing it
and he's just like, what did she look like? Because
he did see this ghost before, right? Yes, that's
correct. He did. So he is going to use phantasmable
force. Okay. Interesting. This is the first time
we're seeing this, I think. So he is going to
craft an illusion in the mind of the creature
in front of it. And he's just trying to visualize
what she looks like. Right. So that he can create
it in that creature's mind. so they need to do
an intelligence saving throw of 15 so you um
this this uh illusion essentially looks like
the ghost is what you're saying yes it essentially
looks like the ghost the woman his mother and
he's just kind of conjuring it in his mind like
it's hypnotism to some degree And he does not
succeed with a 14. So what exactly happens at
this point? So he sees his mother materialize
as a ghost. He's able to rationalize it. So anything
that's odd with it, he rationalizes it. And it
can even take damage from the illusion. Interesting.
Yeah. At each turn, it has to take another saving
throw or it can study it. All right. And it realizes
it's an illusion and the spell ends. Interesting.
All right. Is there anything else that you'd
like to do? There is not. He's just kind of making
it face away from Gordar. So it's in the opposite
direction. Sure. All right. Gordar, you are up.
Anything, Annie? I see something happening. Please.
She shakes her head. Goodness. You know what
I'm going to do. Gordar's crown flares, the snake
flares up. It's not so much him, it's the snakes
themselves going into protective mode. Their
eyes flash that white. And I'm going to cast
Mind Sliver upon this creature. So... You temporarily
try and sliver the mind of a creature you can
see within range. The target must succeed on
intelligent saving throw or take 1d6 psychic
damage and subtract 1d4 from the next saving
throw it makes before the end of my next turn.
So it's a DC 16 intelligent saving throw, please.
And they rolled a... 7. Awesome. They are not
very smart. Currently. So, uh, they take seven
points of psychic damage. Yep. And, uh, next
time they do a saving throw, we take one D4 off
it. Okay. Godar is, um, kind of just, like, back
against the wall now. Just, like, trying to,
like, hold his kind of chest together from that,
like, deep cut. It was like the girls are just
activating on their own, trying to protect him
at this point. Okay, Annie, you are up. Before
anything, can you please give me a wisdom saving
throw? And this time the DC has been lowered
back down to 13. 17. As you're restrained by
these chains, you try to fight against the restraints
that are currently on you. And you see the chains
break. And you are now free once more. And you
just hear the voice again. No, no, no. Oh, by
the gods, can you just take over my body and
do something? Is that a request? Well, now you're
making me not want to do it, but yes. You give
in to the voice. You find yourself back into
this dark room. And before you, again, is that
huge. almost TV screen -like visual, and you're
now seeing what is outside of you. You see Godard.
You see this creature. You see the illusion of
the ghost. And Annie brings up her rifle, aims
it at Godard. What? Hey! Hey! No! Now, let's
just take a look and see here. Let me take a
look at your sheet. I did ask you! I asked you!
Here we go. This was about your son, not with
us! So, Gordar, there's a 16 hit. As he kind
of like looks towards Annie, just like hoping
something happens, sees kind of like probably
like the shoulders like slump and the rifle just
comes up. facing towards him you see these chains
break from her and you then just see Annie bring
up the rifle aimed towards you eyes sort of like
glazed over with this sort of greenish bluish
glow and the rifle is now aimed towards you oh
no and as she pulls the trigger He's going to
cast Shield, and it does not hit. Annie! I don't
think they can be reasoned with. We just need
to get rid of them. You can fight this. Just
out of curiosity, because I don't know you're
carrying the sheet too well, but do you have
any bonus actions? Are you talking to me? Yeah.
For the sake of the plot, no. For the sake of
the game, let me double check. Pretty sure you
have something for bonus actions. Can you create
your little guy? Isn't that a bonus action? For
the sake of the game, yes. For the sake of the
plot, no. After Annie takes that shot at you,
you see Annie sort of lean down and is now beginning
to pull all these scraps from her pack. And you
see her begin to tinker away almost so quickly
in a fashion that you've never seen. And you
now see the cannon. of what she usually has out.
And it's now there prime and ready. And I believe
how we've ruled this is the cannon also takes
its action after Annie. With the cannon now prime
and ready, it aims upwards. And as it aimed upwards,
it shoots this blue stream, then creating a bubble
around Annie. And let's see here. So Annie, you
will gain temporary hit points equal to... Where's
my dice? You'll get temporary hit points equal
to four. So let me just put that on the sheet
here. My hands are off the keyboard. They're
off the mouse. Yeah. Annie's turn, guys. Annie's
turn. Creature, the sun, looks away from you,
Gordar, and is now looking at the illusion that
Raynor had created. You see this thing approach
it and is slowly beginning to just circle it,
eyeballing it. Almost seems like it's studying
it. Raynor, you are up. He's going to kind of
just go, oh no, Gordar. You also see... Sammy,
take a shot at him. Oh god, this is really falling
apart. Oh no. He's just going to be focusing
on maintaining this illusion, especially since
this thing is trying to scrutinize it. So what
he's doing is he's just kind of going, he's mouthing
words to himself. He's like, how could you die
like this? As he's just going to try making the
illusion slap. her son interesting okay so it
would cause damage it's just straight damage
is it uh yeah but they could take us they can
take a study action which they're doing with
a dc -15 intelligence let me take a look okay
that's how i think it works yes it fails and
it takes eight points of damage you see this
creature studying the illusion that you had created.
And with those muttering words that you produce,
it almost, it's almost projecting to the illusion
itself where you now see this creature kind of
flinch and then the slap and it takes its damage.
Can you do anything else? Yep. He's going to
use bonus action. And he's just going to be kind
of eyeing Gordar as he uses healing word. So
that is healed for 10. Thank you very much, Lee.
That is big money indeed. And that's his turn.
All right. Gordar, you are up. I am getting sick
and tired of these caves and these undead and
take people being possessed. And the crown arcs
up as I use my innate sorcery. The last one I
have for this long rest. You see his pointer
and ring finger go out. The little beads of energy
then grow. And then as he's going to... I'm within
melee range of the ghoul, aren't I? Yeah, sure.
Yeah. Alright, so we'll be at disadvantage. So
that becomes a flat because I had advantage from
innate sorcery. I'm going to cast Chromatic Orb
at level 2. he is over this does a 19 hit uh
most definitely hits and it is uh the poison
damage they usually do what they usually do that's
14 points of poison damage and it doesn't bounce
all right because i didn't roll the same number
twice okay is there anything else you'd like
to do uh just like whips it up and just straight
into the middle of its chest just like uh singes
with the poison it kind of like you see like
the black and veins like go green from the poison
going through it it's like now either you undead
things stop it and deal with your family issues
or i'll return you to the earth oh big threats
sick of this Big threats indeed. Okay. Annie,
you are up. And when I say Annie, I mean me.
Go ahead and give me a wisdom saving throw with
a DC of 15. Number three. Annie, you bring up
your rifle and you just saw what Raynor did for
Godar. Raynor seems to be a bit of a threat.
That's a huge threat. Go ahead and you prime
your rifle deadlocked onto Raynor. No, no, no,
no, no, no. Raynor, that's a 15 hit. I'm going
to use cutting words. Okay. So he's just going
to start yelling, you old bitch. Okay. Very good.
So it reduces it by how much? One. One. Okay,
there's a 14 hit. Yes. Okay. Did you just call
me an old bitch? You yell, Annie, but your voice
just echoes into this dark, inky room. It's as
if your voice bounces off. Whatever you say does
not seem to penetrate to the outside. Rainer.
The moment he called a bitch, it was both of
them shooting. Just for that split second, that
split second. Rainer, I want you to go ahead
and take nine points of damage from me, please.
Succeeds in this constitution saving throw. And
now you see Annie lower her rifle and she just
gives her cannon a little kick as the cannon
begins to move forward. And it is going to go
ahead and with all of you in this tunnel. No.
Everybody in this tunnel right now, apart from
Annie, will need to take a dexterity saving throw
of DC 14. Is that including her son? He had negative
1d4 on that saving throw. That's a four. I rolled
an 11 for my dexterity save. 11. Rainer, what
did you get? 17. 17. The creature got, what was
it? They got a total of 18 minus 4. So that's
a 14 to meet just the meat speeds. Those who
are within the flames. take six points of damage
please uh is that does it take half damage on
a successful save no it does okay so those those
who do succeed take three points of damage and
those who fail take the full brunt of six um
you see as this cannon aligns itself in this
tunnel and as this burst of flame just shoots
straight down uh hitting the majority of all
of you minus annie this thing now inflame partly
inflames the whatever tattered clothes these
wet clothes it seems to be almost singeing off
it falling to the ground and is examining again
still trying to study this illusion Delusion
breaks. It breaks? It breaks. It can't maintain
concentration. Okay, so it's trying to study
this thing as it disappears and it looks around.
Annie, I would like you to roll me a 1d4, please.
1 to 2, it will attack Gordar. 3 to 4, it will
attack Raynor. So go ahead and roll me that d4,
please. I can't decide on who it should hit.
How about itself? You're cruel. Stop hitting
yourself. Stop hitting yourself. That was a three.
So this creature, the sun, now turns its attention
upon you, Raynor, as it slowly kind of moves
and then with a quick motion goes for a slash.
Does a... Does a 12 hit? It does not. Okay. So
as it takes its first slash, it sort of slips,
lands on the ground and twists its body. And
as it goes for another slash towards your legs.
And this time around does a 22 hit. Gee, I wonder.
I'll have to consult the manuals, but I think
it does. Oh, okay. All right. Just making sure.
I don't think it does. Well. I'm going to say
it does. This is a game of make -believe. I say
it doesn't. I would like you to make -believe
take 16 points of damage. Oh, I am gone. Oh,
shit. Okay. Takes the slash towards your legs
as you... Does that knock you out, by the way?
Yeah, knock me out. Okay, so... Gordar, you see
this thing slash towards Raynor at first and
completely missing, but falls to the ground and
takes another swipe at him. And you just see
Raynor fall to the ground. Now, Raynor. This
is an important part here, which is something
that should be hidden from the rest of the players
and also the audience. So if you would be ever
so kind as to make a secret roll to me, a death
saving throw. I think this is the first one of
the game. It really is. Yeah. Congratulations
to me. I'm pretty sure none of you have ever
gotten to this point where you had to roll a
death saving throw. I don't recall. I think we
have had one before. Yeah. But go right ahead.
Well, you're the first one where it matters.
I'm so glad. You hear Gimbal. No! And you see
him now trying to rush towards trying to rush
towards Raynor. Gordar, you are up. Now you want
to do something. Gordar is going to This is an
interesting position to be in. How close are
the son and Annie together? They're very far
apart. So Annie's still at the entry to the cabin,
whereas Rainer's at the opposite end. Gimbal,
try and stabilize me if you can. I'll try and
stop this thing. God, I was going to pointer
and ring finger. God, it doesn't have healing.
This is an issue. And just try and get this over
and done with. Because the ghoul, has it left
my range? Oh, okay. Cool. I'm going to pointer
and ring finger. Second level chromatic orb poison.
And it's going to have advantage because it's
out of my melee range. Does an 18 hit? Most definitely.
poison come on bounce that's 16 points of poison
damage uh and it doesn't bounce again i rolled
four dice and i couldn't get it to bounce pretty
i'm god i was going to after doing that i think
i'm gonna have to he's going to run up and stand
over reyna's body okay all right interesting
take what do you mean interesting take that's
all i'm gonna say Go run up and the snakes are
going to arc up and he's just going to be like
kind of trying to... He's not going to be able
to scare this thing away, but he's going to just
more or less just try and... Arc up, lad. Arc
up. Something like that. Arc up, lad. Now it's
going to be his turn. Okay. Annie. Why don't
you give me that sweet, sweet, sweet wisdom saving
throw with a DC of 15. Number eight. Gordar,
as you're moving to... to stand in between. Sorry,
let me do that again. Godard, as you begin to
move, rush over to Raynor to stand in between
the thing and Raynor, you just hear a gunshot.
17 hit. Shield. It does not. Very good. You immediately
shield and then make your way just in between
Raynor and the creature as the snakes begin to
arc up. You see Gimble run over, and he's now
on his knees, and he is trying to examine Raynor,
trying the best that he can. And what does he
need to stabilize Raynor? Medicine check. Oh,
he's not very good at medicine -y stuff. Isn't
he intelligent? Okay, what is the number that
is required, though? Because he... rolled a...
I'm pretty sure it's a DC 10. Okay, well, he
rolled a 10, so. The rest of you, as far as you
can tell, Gimbal is doing the best that he can.
I think I got him. I'm not too sure, though.
And get him out of here. And it is now the creature's
turn. Rob, go ahead. Oh, not Rob, sorry. Gordar,
please. Oh, okay. You're coming up to me now.
Oh no. I am so sorry. I am so sorry. You see
Larry just walk off screen and then come up behind
me. Before anything else, could you please give
me a constitution saving throw with a DC 13?
I don't want to. You're going to have to, my
friend. 24. That's fine. Again, that stench is
just like permeating and it's just very stinky
winky. What are you shaking your head for there?
Never say stinky winky again. He's a little stinky
winky. Stop it. That's so gross. It doesn't tickle
my head good. Bella, are you a little stinky
winky? I think we have next episode's episode
title. Yeah. First we have a Dave Cave, and now
we have the fifth Teletubby coming down the fucking
tunnel at us. Stinky Winky. With a little Stinky
Winky, the little Stinky Winky does a little
Slashy Washy with a 25. Shut the F word up, dude.
Please don't. With a total of 25. What? Yeah,
with a 25. A 25? Well, it slightly hits. It's
just slightly. God. Okay. A TPK for the new year.
uh -huh with the uh with with the first slash
slashy washy with the damage of an 11 weapon
oh my god new hey new year new campaign it's
okay and you will live so you'll be under the
yeah and you will live yeah and be drowned under
the water as it takes its slash towards you you
for almost kind of crumbled, crumpled to the
side as it steps onto Raynor's body and takes
a slash at Gimble. I love how none of us have
reactions to Gimble getting hurt. Oh no. Yeah.
He literally said the same thing. Oh no. As Gimble's
just like, Gimble's like, I think I got him,
I'm not too sure. You just hear the the the little
oh no gimbal yep do i see him unconscious next
to me from you take a look back and you see his
body sort of just fly and hits the um the cabin
or the tunnel wall oh that hurts is he moving
uh as far as you can tell you're not sure lovely
though you do know if he is dead you um the explody
of the head so Rainer, you are currently stabilized.
But this still means you are unconscious. Is
that correct? Yes. So you're still currently
unconscious. Gordar, fallen friends before you.
One possessed, trying to shoot you from the back.
What do? Well, first and foremost, friends is
a strong word. Oh, and let us not forget stinky
winky also in front of you. Godar is going to,
barely holding himself up, is going to shakily
his hand. Okay, as a bonus action, I'm going
to use Font of Magic. I'm going to transfer some
of my sorcery points, which I haven't used, into
a spell slot. So for a second level spell slot,
I need to use three of my sorcery points. So
that takes me down to one remaining. That's a
bonus action, and as an action, with my newly
acquired second level spell slot, he's going
to look towards Annie, and he's going to cast
Suggestion. Oh, okay. And as the snakes arc up,
he's going to look towards Annie's eyes, but
not to Annie herself, and say, I suggest you
give her back her body and leave. Oh, okay. as
a large disc attempt that is a dc 16 wisdom saving
throw please okay as you make this suggestion
you see it it's prime it's i keep using that
word today it is uh it is taking aim once more
towards you with its rifle any everything goes
black the screen that you were staring at is
no longer Annie lowers her gun. Annie, you are
back. And you see the spirit almost ejected out
of Annie with these wisps of... No, not ectoplasm.
Smoke. Yes, yes. Vapor. That's a better word.
Vapor. Pulling away from Annie. And you now see
the... the spirit once more and you see the chains
that are just hanging off her and she just says
no no no is there anything else that you'd like
to do honey help and god i was more or less just
like barely holding himself up now and that strength
the demeanor of the like the serpentine and like
staring this thing down is completely gone and
he's just doughy i just like terrified Annie,
faculty has returned to you once more. You are
no longer possessed. You have full action. You've
witnessed what had just happened here. You could
see it all through. You watch yourself. Cut down
your own friends, your own companions, the ghost
now behind you, that creature standing over the
body of Raynor and you see Godar all weakened,
shaking on the ground. What do you do? Annie,
while looking at the mother and son duo, runs
towards the three of her compatriots. And she's
going, like with the three of them in range,
she's going to cast aid. Interesting. So choose
up to three creatures within range. Each target's
hit points, maximum and current hit points increases
by five for the duration. So not much, but still
can do something. So this means they would gain
additional five hit points? Yep. Okay. All right,
go ahead and apply. How do you do this aid? What
does this look like? Once Annie reaches the three,
she kneels down to the ground and she puts her
right hand into the ground, her flesh hand, basically,
and then a circle appears and surrounds all four
of them. Oh, cool. Alka has three vibes. Okay,
so that is five hit points restored to the three
of them. very cool indeed now was this an action
or a bonus action just out of curiosity this
would be an action okay you still have your bonus
action oh and your cannon too yes i was just
gonna say uh she's going to command her cannon
to come towards them and cast protection over
them very good And with that, the cannon points
up and with that stream of blue, a bubble is
created on the four of you. And how much temporary
hit points do all of them gain? That is a further
five hit points. There you go. You all get a
temporary five HP. You currently have four, Annie.
Just a reminder, okay? She would go back to five
because it's a higher number. Oh, yeah. So change
that to five now. Yep. So whatever the higher
number is, it overrides. Okay, and with that
creature also being in the bubble, turns to you,
Annie. Looks at you and stares at you for a brief
moment. Takes a swing. Shield. Do you need to
know the result first before you cast shield?
I suggest you wait for the result first before
you cast shield. Fine. I'm giving you a freebie
here, simply because it rolled an 8. So that
shield would have been wasted, okay? Okay, thank
you. It rolled an 8. You're welcome. It first
rolled an 8, and as it takes that first swing,
it's going to take another swing at you. Now,
this one is a 23. Annie, could you kindly take
12 points of damage, please? No! and then a constitution
saving throw with a dc of 13 oh wait no you already
got the stink yeah i already got the the poisson
yeah the poisson the poisson but that was such
a good roll it was one of my better ones ever
of this campaign it was the best roll you could
get it was a natural 20. okay Does Raynor come
too, now that he's got that HP? Raynor, last
thing you remember was just being cut down. Everything
goes black. And you open your eyes, unsure what's
going on. And you just see this thing lumbering.
towering, not exactly over you, but near you.
You can see Gordar huddled up near you as well.
And if you even care, Gimble's somewhere. Somewhere.
He's somewhere. You're up. Okay. Gordar was still
standing over him. Sorry, then he would be standing.
He was still standing there, bodily protected.
He wasn't. My mistake. Rainer is going to kind
of notice a creature and he is going to use bonus
action telekinetic shove to try to push him out
of the bubble. Yes. So they need a 15 strength
shaving throw. That is a measly 13. So he has
moved 5 feet away. this creature just slide across
the tunnel floor and it is out of the bubble
and now he is going to use vicious mockery oh
cool yes go right ahead so it's a dc 15 saving
throw so he's just gonna be like mommy's boy
you're just a mommy's boy yeah well mommy's boy
got an 11 so damn That is, how much damage did
he take? He took six. I would say, you know what,
all of you, just go ahead and give me just a
quick perception check, please. And he got a
15. God, I got an 18. Raynor got an unnatural
20. None of you see the ghost. It is no longer
there. I was going to assume that he listened
to his suggestion and fled. Because he told him
to leave, so hopefully... I did not consider
that. So, let me think. I was wondering if you...
Because I was like, you probably just did the
first half and not the second half. I went back
to my turn to ask you about that. Because he
said, yeah, like... get out of her and leave.
Yeah, I forgot the second half. Love suggestion.
You can put multiple things in there for part
of the same sentence. Okay, that's not going
to happen. Never mind. Alright. But you do not
see the ghost anywhere. For now. Gordar, you
are now up. He's going to look terrified around,
trying to find out if he can see this ghost.
Doesn't see it. Okay, I don't think we have much
time, but I told it to leave, but it could come
back in a minute or whatever. And we just need
to get rid of this thing and get out now. Pointer,
ring finger, and is going to cast Sorcerer's
Burst at the sun. That's a 22 hit. The 22 most
definitely hits. That's going to be 10 points
of poison damage as he launches this into its
chest. We need to go. We need to go. Is there
anything else you'd like to do? That is going
to be my turn. Annie, my dear lovely grandma,
what do? What do? Just remind me, where is the
creature now? Just outside the bubble. Okay.
All right. Annie is going to command her cannon
to stop doing protector and instead change into
a force ballista to push the creature even further.
Awesome. All right. So that's your bonus action.
What are you going to do for your action? Good
question. That's what I'd like to know. Uh -huh.
Well, shit, I guess she's just going to flee
as soon as the cannon does its thing. Uh, okay.
Give me a second here. You make a ranged spell
attack originating from the cannon at the creature
or an object within 120 feet of it. On a hit,
the target takes 2d8 force damage, and if the
target is a creature, it is pushed up to 5 feet
away. So go ahead and make a ranged spell attack,
please. 23. That most definitely hits. Great.
Well, 8 force damage to the creature. Okay. You
see this... Well. How would you like to do this,
Annie? Yay! She commands the cannon. The cannon
goes up to the creature. Goes up to the lowest
point of the creature, like the foot, the robe,
whichever. Yep. front, like the creature's front,
and just points directly up at like a 88 degree
angle. So it's almost upright. Sure, like, I
know what that means, but sure. Okay, well, fires
the force straight into the creature's chest.
Okay, and it gets pushed as well, don't it? So
this huge force just pushes this creature Almost
upwards to the tunnel ceiling as it hits the
ceiling and flops back down. Then a burst of
light begins to stream through the body. You
hear the familiar voice once more. My son! As
the ghost now returns. And with a stream of light
coming from the body. You're all momentarily
blinded by this bright light. Basically, it's
like a flashbang, if you will. And then you now
see, you see a woman, an old woman in her 60s,
in her brown, very brown dress that she wears.
And you see a young man. in Antili uniform, military
uniform. You see the scar upon his face on his
right side, the eye, all the way down to his
lip as these boats of light spins around them.
You see them in this last embrace and another
flash of light and gone. Well, that's nice. They're
reunited. How fucking touching. Well, I'm glad
that you all are sightseeing. Let's get out of
here now. As you say, let's all get out here
now. I'd like you all please to take a break.
So we're all going to take a break. I need one.
Set a little fear on you there. So let's take
a, we're going to take a five, five minute break,
folks. We'll be right back and we'll see you
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get back into this episode, and hopefully, it's
not a new year, new character moment. Trying
times indeed. How are we all feeling? No. So,
listeners, how do you feel about a new DM coming
in once we sacrifice Larry? I can get a new DM.
Hold on a second. Hello, I am your new DM. I
am here to run the game for you. We have the
Swedish show. Now a cooking D &D story. All right,
so. Yeah, I'd play that. There is a D &D cookbook,
by the way. Oh. You're all now exhausted, tired,
but still within this tunnel, this floor. The
occasional sound of dripping water, but otherwise
silence. Let us get out of here before any more
of those ghosties or ghouls or whatever the hell
those things are come back. This is immediately,
uh, like this is immediately after we defeated
the creature, right? Yeah, yeah, okay, great,
so the cannon's still working. Okay, uh, Annie's
commanded the cannon to follow them while still
casting Protector. Oh, my everything hurts. Yeah,
everything most definitely hurts for the most
- part for you everything hurts what do we all
do goddard's walking towards the entrance and
dragging whoever he can come on okay let's get
going stop dilly -dally goddard unless you want
to end up like the bones in the bottom of that
river goddard i am lake whatever it is goddard
what al i'm sorry that i shot you we can figure
that out when we're not in the cave of undeath
Where's my Zari? Ow. You don't get one. Hurry
up. Come on. And Annie helps Raynor walk a bit
better, with less pain. Godara's walking off
just, you know, a couple feet ahead, just with
the dagger with the light on it, just so they
can see if anything's glowing, eyes are glowing
before it just starts running at them in the
dark. Okay, I'm going to say, go ahead and give
me a survival check. Just see if you can remember
your way through. Give it advantage. Oh, thank
goodness for advantage. A 16. You make your way
through these tunnels. I want you all to roll
me just a flat intelligence check, please. But
you make your way through these tunnels and cabinets,
fairly certain on exactly where you came from,
and it almost seems like memory is doing its
work for you. Annie got a dirty 20. Very nice,
because I got a 2. 9. 40 minutes now. that you've
been traveling through these caverns and you're
making good headway till eventually you reach
the entrance once more on where you're all camped
out. You can see light streaming in. It is most
likely now daytime. Well, whatever passes as
daytime here at the Expanse. I know that we're
all injured, but I don't particularly want to
camp in the entrance of this cave again. Absolutely
not. And we drag down into wherever, whatever
is down there. Should keep going, but just need
to be careful and quiet. Especially you, and
then he's going to grab people's rope again.
You can see there are freshly laid guano now
onto the ground. Not as much as before, before
you all cleared it up. But the bats have returned
from their nightly trips, and there are now fresh
layers of guano as you... Well, not wade through
it. It's not that thick. But as you go, just
imagine wading through a pool of guano. But you
make your way through the guano, and you're now
outside the cave. Now, if you recall... um you
had taken a different route to return to briar
rose and if i remember correctly i think you
yes you were traveling on a road you had all
found a road which is this is just off the road
not too far from it and you eventually make your
way back onto the road you were following a sign
that did say briar rose i imagine that you all
press on correct um god i was gonna walk up next
to Annie and kind of, like, nudge her a little
bit and point at the boots. Um, I think you've
got a little bird poop down there. Oh, thanks.
And she snaps her fingers with prestidigitation.
Oh, okay, well. Yeah, obviously the joke just
didn't land and she continues to... Oh, okay.
What, do you have some too? Don't worry about
it. Poopy shoes, says Gimli. Gimli? Gimble. Gimli?
Gimli. Didn't we leave him behind at the North
Pole? The Lord of the Rings crossover? What is
this? Renner, if you would ever be so kind as
to just roll me a D8. Okay, I will be kind this
one time. Six. So, we all get lollipops and candy
and sunshine and rainbows. No. Which is one more
than my current HP. Since it is a fresh day,
it is currently day 14. I would like everyone
please to give me a D100. Huh? It's for your
cancer. And he got a 40. I got a 7? Reiner got
84. Do we know if high or low is good? You don't
know anything. Oh, great. You do not know anything.
As you're traveling along this road, it has been
a few hours now, and a familiar roar shakes the
air. You look up, and you see that dragon once
more, flying over you. Unknown whether it knows
your presence or not, but continues to almost
as if circle you like a vulture. Definitely be
running to the nearest tree or bush or anything
to try and hide. Annie follows Godar, but not
before extending her hand up to show her middle
finger to the dragon. Oh, you really want to
do that, huh? Okay. Raynor is running in the
opposite direction, and after he sees that, he's
going to go into a different tree. As this dragon
is flying over you, he's still fairly high up,
but... Not so high that you can see its immense
size. And you hear it once more. It bellows.
Lord is mortal. As the air quivers and shake.
Could you all give me a stealth check, please?
Annie with disadvantage. 16. Uh, a natural 20.
Okay. Holds a natural 20. Very good. Screw the
both of you. Seriously. Hey, I didn't flip off
a dragon. Annie, you're fairly certain this thing
does not see you as you saunter your way towards
Gordar, but go ahead and give me a dexterity
saving throw, please. 13. You, as you've... As
you give the dragon the bird and you look away
and begin to walk. How can I describe this? Hold
on. Let me consider this for a moment. You suddenly
fall to your front. And something had hit you
from the back. Gordar, you see there's almost
this huge sort of chunk. You're not sure what
it is, but has hit Annie square onto the back
and is now on her face. Annie, can you go ahead
and just take five points of damage for me, please?
Please tell me she just died from falling dragon
poo. Initially, I was thinking of poop. I was
initially thinking that because that's my go
-to. And you know what? Yeah, sure. Let's go
with that. It does now. It does now. It does
now. In Antilli, dead dragons still poop. So,
Annie, this force that had hit you was very malleable
and... sloshy and um but it was very weighty
i suppose and you managed to put yourself back
up and there's this just stink about you this
smell of death and undeath and you're fairly
certain that you just got pooped on the both
of you goddard rainer you just see now annie
just like covered in poop uh goddard's gonna
start like chuckling is that worth something
is that worth something gimbal dragon poop i
don't know we haven't had dragon poop before
more much less one from that kind of dragon that's
a great point annie if you use prestidigitation
then i will cut off your fingers earlier she
was covered in guano in her boots and now she's
covered in dragon poop that is a great observation
gimbal master of the obvious annie is very stiff
right now stiff in her face stiff in her body
like she's she feels a lot of shame right now
but she doesn't want to let it show she steps
out of the poop yeah and a few feet away from
the poop silently she clicks her fingers and
cast Prestidigitation on herself to clean herself
of the poop. Okay. You are clean of poop. There's
still that smallish pile over there. Yeah, go
on. In her bag of holding, she will... She will
give it to Rayna. Scoop the poop, if you wish.
And then she goes into her backpack. takes Tink's
camera out and takes a photo of the dragon. Oh,
very good. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that's right.
That was a little task that was given to you
by Tink. Very good. With the distance of the
dragon, you got a picture. As far as you know,
you've never used one of this before, but you're
pretty sure you have a picture. All right. Well,
that's done. And then she's going to turn around
and take a photo of the dragon poop. Rainer,
are you scooping it up into the bag of holding?
No, he's already chucked the bag towards Gimble.
Kind of going like, well, what are you going
to do now? Come on, Gimble. We have a time crunch.
I'm injured. I don't know what you want me to
do. I'm injured too. He also has a gash across
his chest. It kind of hurts. And he kind of...
Ah! He super forces a finger on him. Oh, wow.
Yeah, that sucks. Oh, I'm injured too. This bullet
hole that Annie has shot me with numerous times.
Annie, I think you need to pick up the poop.
She storms back over to Rainer and Gibble, like,
takes her bag of holding in a rush and just saunters
forward. She doesn't know where she's going.
She's just going forward, away from the embarrassment
that was this moment. Annie, the thing's over
there. Yeah, you missed it! Oh. Please do not
make a racket. All of us are very hurt. If you
attract something else here, it'll leave you
behind. Perception check from everybody, please.
We need to get a move on. The sooner we get behind
safe walls, the sooner we can rest. And he got
a 15? That is an 18 for Gordar. Another 15. As
Gordar, as you're saying, for everybody to keep
it down and you don't want to face whatever comes
next. Brush not too far off you, rustling. Takes
a moment. Dural, now Prime, you see Gimble in
a kung fu stance is ready. As Gimble does. Russell
wants more. And hops out a little rabbit. Got
to lower his hand where he had the sorceress
burst about to be released. We need to go. Come
on, let's get this. As this little rabbit hops,
it stops and stares at all of you. And you now
see this rabbit's face with just one eye. And
you see little horns. Don't open your mouth and
have teeth. Please don't. Opens its mouth and
has teeth. And it just goes. Sorcerer's burst.
It's dead. It's dead. I'm getting sick of this.
Yeah, let's go. Continue your travels along,
and it's almost taken you an entire day. What
you can assume is almost sunset. While the land
is kind of dimming, it is not darkening the same
way as you would expect. And just off the distance,
you see Briar Rose. Oh, thank. The guards. Oh,
there it is. We're nearly there. Don't let your
guard down, though. Last time we did that, we
got lured deeper into a cave and nearly eaten.
Wouldn't be the first time. And no possessions!
Uh -huh. Yeah, okay. You make your way back into
town. You can see that most of the folks here
have now made some headway in the development
of Briar Rose. There has now been considerable
repairs on the older buildings some you can see
where they have laid out some scaffolding to
uh not only repair some of the uh the older buildings
but also have additions to it um you can see
the uh some of them and now that it's somewhat
well not late but it's getting into the evening
uh you can see that uh some of the men have now
been uh some of the people that are working are
now heading towards the mess hall And yeah, you're
all back. Is there anything we need to do right
away? Samson. You have to let him know so we
don't blow up. True. Alright, let's just go.
Get this over with. Okay. Yet through town square.
And just a little off, you recall the building
that is currently being used as Samson's office.
You make your way in. And there doesn't seem
to be anyone here at the moment. No fishbowl?
Not that you can see. It seems like he's not
here. That's an issue. God's going to stick his
head out of the tent. And the first person that
walks past. Do you know where the fish is? You
see one of the laborers walk past. Sir Samson?
Yes, that one. Is he not in his office? No. He
kind of like doubts himself, turns around, looks
back into the tent. He did not see Samson. Sorry.
And this is a... Looks back out. Not a tent,
sorry. It is a building. Like, he's taken one
of the buildings. Oh, okay, sorry. I thought
they had... I thought he had, like, a bigger
tent. Yeah, no. He's taken one of the buildings
as to use as his place, essentially. Ah... No,
he's not in there, no. Shrugs. Hey. Ugh. Okay.
Well... Thanks. Got him. I haven't seen him all
day. Hmm. Closes door. He's on. Okay. He's just
here. Walks back to the rest. Well, um, I don't
know where he is. I asked the nearby people and
they haven't seen him all day. Okay. We should
just write a note then so that he doesn't blow
up his head. Blow us. Okay. We should just write
a note. Yes, blow our heads off. I think that's
a good idea, and we should go and get some rest,
and hopefully don't get stabbed in our sleep.
Who wants to write it? All right, you can't read
or write. Give it here. Hey, hey, hey, whoa,
whoa, whoa. Gordar is going to scribble a note
in high cursive, stating they have returned,
badly injured, and will be resting if he wants
to call upon them. As you're writing this note,
you hear the door open. As the four of you turn
around, you see Samson. But his face looks a
bit different. He has this angry sort of look
about him. Not the usual pompous sort of air.
And he snaps his fingers as the three of you
fall to your knees and electroshock courses through
your entire body. God, I knocked over the oil
well as he was writing. That's not good. You're
going to have to clean that up, snaky. And what
was that for? Walking into my place. Didn't even
knock. As he takes a seat. It's finally nice
to meet the three of you. What do you mean? You
have met us before, Samson. You met my brother.
The snakes instantly just like droop down after
hearing about this dude. You three have met my
brother, Samson. I'm Son Sam. And let me tell
you something. I'm not as pleasant as my brother.
Not pleasant at all. You feel a course of electricity
run through your body, Raynor. And it is probably
the worst that you have felt through the electricity.
Little back chat, eh? Let's try not to do that.
Yes, sir. That's more like it. I understand you
guys were away a couple of days. You were supposed
to head back. Seems to me that you're all late.
We got held up. Held up by what? Ghosts, demons,
dragons, a river of blood. A deer with two heads.
Don't give me these tales of ghosts and whatever
nonsense. You're a floating... You're a fish
in a fishbowl with a suit. and yet you don't
believe in other things. Shock. Even before you
could finish your sentence, the electricity courses
through you. Let's avoid the back chat, shall
we? Rat! He looks at Gimble. You see Gimble now,
like, quivering and shaking. What have you got
to report? What were these nunces up to? And
he looks at, Gimble looks at the three of you.
And then back to Sun Sam. I'll have the report
ready. We just got back and I'll have the report
ready soon. I want to hear it from your mouth.
Were they good little kids? Oh, more than good.
They're very good, one could say. He looks at
you, Annie. What about this old bird? Looks a
little frail. Does that armour of yours even
work? Looks a little rusty. It works fine. You
seem to be a little chatty with what you've come
across. You were supposed to go and investigate
one of them sites, innit? What'd you find there?
A golden city. Burned to ash. Golden city, you
say? Did you bring any of it back? No, sir. As
I said, it was all burned to ash. Golden city
seems mighty interesting. So you're telling me
that there's no more gold there? Correct. How
do you burn gold? Magic. Seems like a poor excuse
to pick a man's pocket. By all means, if you
want to see it yourself, you're more than welcome
to find nothing there. Did you learn the cause
of what... anything... of why that place might
be a little... I don't know... extra potent in
magic? No, sir. You there, Spindles! Looking
at you, Raynor. I'm Spindles? You heard me. What
you got to say? About this golden city, what'd
you learn? Exactly what our leader said. A leader?
Looks over you, Annie. If anything, I thought
that one would be your leader. Pointing at Godar.
He seems to be all primmed all up. I'd expect
a written report from all of you. Can I vocalize
my one? I expect a written report from all of
you by the morning. Now get out of me fucking
office and don't darken my doorstep once more.
Unless I call for you. Now get the fuck out.
You see Gimble just immediately rushes out. Got
our strides out. Door open or close? Which one
do you want? Are you being smart with me, son?
No, I'm trying to be helpful. Get the fuck out.
Just go, Raynor. Right away. Anna just bows and
leaves. Annie also turns around and bows to Sansom
before leaving. That's more like it. That's more
like it. Fucking filth. Get out of my office.
Get out of my place. What a prick. Oh, the magic
cancer gets him first. Anna, you fall to your
knees. She's not in the room. She left, didn't
she? I imagine she was saying it as she's walking
out, right? Did you say that as you were walking
out? Yeah. There you go. I knew it. I knew it.
Fall to your knees momentarily. Watch your mouth,
young lady. Well, not so young after all. Madam.
She whispers under her breath. Gonna have to
find something to put in this bowl. You now find
yourself, the three of you, just outside the
office. I am going to get some rest. Need it.
If you need me. Nowhere to find me. Goddard,
not even looking back, just starts heading off
through the camp to where he crashed last time.
You're not going to head to the manor? Was that
where we crashed last time? Yeah, you guys have
your own rooms. Are we heading to the manor then?
Yes. So I imagine the three of you, well, the
four of you head to the manor. As you approach
the gate of the Delacroix manor, the gates open
for you. You make your way through the path,
and as you approach the front of the manor, the
door opens once more. As the four of you enter,
you see Hamlet. Welcome back. Godard doesn't
say anything. He just walks past, upstairs, straight
to the room. It would seem that you have experienced
quite a spell. If any of you need anything, merely
call. Raynor. Mm -hmm. What do you think we should
do about the thousands of gold pieces we have
acquired? He's going to quote it. The gold! Holy
crap, the gold! Do not mention that in our reports.
I know, because I'm getting a cut. That's great.
Sure you are. He's going to look towards the
wall where Hamlet was and just go, Hamlet? Sir,
you see him just appear just five feet away from
you. Is there a way that we can take this amount
and ensure that Sun Sam, Samson, whoever, can't
see it, but also a low -risk method of investing,
perhaps? What form of investment did you have
in mind, sir? Property, real estate, small businesses.
The extent of my power cannot go beyond the walls
of the manors themselves, unfortunately. Would
you? However, I can look into any sort of properties
that might be available within the city. And
with a little help, I could perhaps attain a
smallish property. As for the, I assume that
you all have a large sum upon you. And note that
by the words of the Delacroix, that your possessions
and what you find are yours. You do have a vault.
You have access to the vault. So long as you
keep note of everything that you keep there.
We just want to find a way that ensures that
our money keeps building while we are out. I
shall look into some possibilities for you, sir.
Thank you, Hamlet. Will there be anything else?
One more thing. Yes. He kind of just points towards
Annie. Annie has been afflicted by something.
I see. Can you see if it has been progressing
within them? At what rate? While this might be
outside of my capabilities, I do sense upon the
four of you some form of illness. And one can
only deduce it is caused by the land itself.
Given that, would people who are residing within
Briar Rose currently... have such an affliction?
Would there be telltale signs? While I am unfamiliar
with this illness, judging by the three of you,
there are no external symptoms whatsoever that
I can see. Are any of you suffering from any
internal pains? Headaches? Any of the sorts that
are something outside normalcy? No. I see. So
whatever this illness is, it does not seem to
infect you internally. Or at least not in the
early stages. But you all seem physically fine,
from as far as I can tell. But I do see a growth.
Not necessarily physical. But more ethereal.
Ethereal growth. Great. And just when we needed
a cleric. As much as I'd like to go and get a
cleric out for you, unfortunately, I cannot have
anyone travel between the homes other than the
Delacroix themselves. I know. Would there be
anything else? No, that's it for me. Very good.
I'm going to head off to my room. If there's
anything else, Annie, let me know. As you finish
your sentence, you see him disappear. You all
head to your respected chambers. Your... I guess...
How do you spend this night? Annie's going to
tinker with the crystals that she has. Okay.
In what sense are you tinkering with said crystals?
With the crystal in her hand, she... With the
crystal in her hand, she's going to cast the
spell Identify. Does Annie, like, have... goggles
on when she's like working and stuff yes she
does as you cast your identify spell as you're
tinkering away trying to examine these crystal
uh pieces that you have found um at first even
with the goggles on it is blinding the aura about
these things is so it takes you aback now you
know that this entire home itself is magically
infused and you're getting you know bits and
pieces of aura here and there uh and as you're
staring at this crystal you examine it more you
realize that there is much like the crystals
back home where it is used as a power source
This one seems to be far more potent, almost
like an overcharged battery. You can see as well
that while with your identify, you can sort of
see the different types of magic, the different
schools of magic. In this, it seems to emanate
all those different auras. each dancing and coalescing
with one another. So it suggests that perhaps
that these crystals have the power to work with
any type of magic. Interesting. With her tinkering
tools, she's going to try and chip off a piece
no larger than I would say one inch. Okay. uh
you give me like oh yeah slide a hand and then
add i think one an additional one to it for your
tinkerers tools wow uh only a four you crack
your knuckles uh and it is with delicate work
like this it's something that you haven't done
in a long time and you seem to struggle doing
so and it takes you quite a while a good maybe
40 to 50 minutes just to get this one inch shard
out like to carefully take a shard out of damn
out of practice Does the same sort of magical
sensation come out with the shot as well? It's
still present. Interesting. With the remaining
bullets that she has, about 13 total, is she
able to fuse the crystal and the bullets together?
Give me an intelligence check. Six. A few theories.
uh go through your mind the possibilities of
perhaps using these crystals to infuse the existing
bullets that you have there's other theories
that you do make perhaps even making these shards
into the bullets themselves though because of
the because of the events that had occurred previously
you're just way too tired to even properly formulate
the uh any sort of plans to actually enact this
uh these ideas you're just too buggered out basically
like it's just now at the moment it's just passing
thoughts like it could be possible but you're
not even 100 sure not even 50 sure uh it's just
an idea oh maybe another time And then she gets
a piece of parchment paper and a pen from the
top of her desk. And she just writes down that
idea as a title. And then she pins it to her
corkboard and just smashes into the bed. Okay.
Very good. I want to know what the boys are up
to this evening. Which one of the boys would
like to go first? Okay. So Rainer is going to
walk into his decadent room. Close the door behind
him. and just sigh a breath of, like, relief.
That was a lot closer than I had thought. He's
gonna go sit at a table, just kind of, like,
playing with his fingers nervously, take out
a piece of parchment, and... He's like, oh god,
that Sun Sam guy. He's gonna, like, he's gonna...
write like a bunch of squiggles before realizing
that and like feeling his neck and he's just
gonna be like i gotta do this properly as you
see him kind of like throw away that piece of
paper and then start normally writing neatly
and like writing as if he actually cares he's
like this is what happened leaving out huge bits
that would kind of look out trying to corroborate
with um any story as closely as possible And
he's like, this should be good enough. And I
can say Hamlet wrote it even better. Oh, okay.
Interesting. If you could just provide me with
what information exactly you are omitting, either
tell me right now or have it written somewhere
that I can, so I know what is. So he's omitting
bits and huge segments of. what happened in the
city of gold their entire like the journey with
the dragon folk all of that so he's saying they
walked into the city of gold it was already devoid
of color walked around it was ash those people
kind of just there charred oh okay interesting
uh note that annie did mention it was a city
of gold yeah he's gonna say that like He saw
like a sign that said City of Gold in the distance.
It was gold, kind of. As he got closer, the gold
kind of just faded away. That's what he saw,
at least. Okay. All right. Is there anything
else you're going to do for this evening? He
is going to kind of call for Hamlet. Sir? Could
you turn my room back to the way it was? The
Narrows. Just for tonight. Are you referring
to what it once was when you first arrived? Yeah.
Very well, sir. You see Hamlet takes a step back,
turns around, and as he walks, he begins to disappear.
And as he disappears, the room shrinks and changes.
You can see the... red wallpaper sort of rolling
back up and you can see the configuration of
this room completely change before your eyes
and it is once more this small tiny bedroom that
you had long ago Rainer's gonna kind of take
it in see under bed kind of just kind of get
comfortable a little he's like oh yeah nurse
it does not feel great as he's gonna kind of
just play with like his hat and he's just gonna
be talking to himself like mumbling as he's trying
to go to sleep he's like I nearly died today
and and if they didn't save me I would have been
left in a cave and died Is this what you wanted
of me, father? As he's just going to go to sleep
as best as he can. Gordar, you enter your room.
How do we spend the evening? They sit down at
the desk, pull up the quill and the parchment.
Starts to write. And then it's kind of looking
off. Not looking at the paper while writing and
then just catching themselves. Scrunching it
up and starting again. And again. And again.
And again. Not being able to think straight or
clearly. Eventually... Hamlet? Sir? Are you always...
Observing our rooms? I would not say observing,
but I am aware. Is it possible that for tonight,
you are not able to see this room? Unfortunately,
that is something that I cannot. I am tied to
the home. I am the home. I cannot... It is as
if I were to ask you to just remove a... thumb
temporarily okay goddard gets up walks down the
hallway down the stairs and out the front door
and off the property keeps going around the buildings
till he finds a tucked away corner sits down
in the fiddle position pulls out his mother's
necklace he uh abstract imperfect oval that looks
as if it's been hand carved into with a scale
pattern crudely by someone with no skills. Inlaid
in the center is the gemstone which is that clear
milky kind of gemstone with red throughout it
that ribbons and as you're looking over the gemstone
you see just it start to become wet with tears.
as that strong demeanor that he has been keeping
up since they were attacked to try and get them
back in front of samson was all exactly that
a facade and he's just collapsing and just why
why is this happening where are you oh my god
why didn't you want me why can't i find you Anyway,
I just tried to be the best I could. Why? And
just eventually goes into a quiet, sobbing, barely
being able to breathe, just shaky breathing,
trying to get the air back in his lungs as he
eventually passes out, tucked away somewhere
around the corner. Godar, you awaken in this
hollowed -out building where no one can find
you. You awaken with the sounds of men and women
preparing for the day. Just outside, you hear
light chatter, shuffling of feet. Annie? Sunlight
streams into your room, but you know that the
sun cannot be seen here in Matusha. It is a mere
illusion of what once was as you look out the
window. Rainer. Noise streams through your window.
The common rabble, the jib -jab and whatnots
of the people of the Narrows, just beyond. It
is early, but there's no such thing as early
or late in the Narrows. And it's just chit -chattering
away. Godar is going to, probably quite cold,
get off the floor. brush away any uh dust and
everything that is would have piled up on his
face uh from mixture of the tears and whatever
little dust has been blown up on there cleans
down his face takes a deep breath lets the girls
consult him for a couple minutes and then the
shoulders get pushed back chest forwards and
determined face once again and starts marching
towards the mansion to figure out what we need
to do next. Okay. Both of you. I mean, those
who are remaining, what do? Annie, uh, grabs
like the parchment paper, same one from the night
before and a new one, uh, same thing with the
pens. Um, and she exits her room, makes her way
over to like the breakfast area and she will
sit down at the table, um, and just start writing.
Uh, she's first gonna write the report that she
has to give to Sun Sam, and then afterwards,
once she's done that, she'll start writing up
plans for the crystal. Rainer is going to head
downstairs. He's wearing a very lavish robe.
As he kind of oversized, for sure. He's gonna
walk down the stairs, kind of Is Annie already
downstairs or is she in her room still? Right.
He's going to head downstairs, kind of take a
peek at what she's writing. Are you writing your
letter for Sam Sam? The report, yes. Right. Have
you already written yours? I had Hamlet do it.
He kind of places it on the table. We should
probably make sure our... things are the same.
Agreed. Although, should we say that we've separated
and looked at different things or that we all
stuck together? It looks like everyone's here.
Where's the rat? Where's Gimbal? You see him
raise his hand from under the table. Behind a
pile of pancakes. He just sees her. There he
is. Oh, good. We're getting on to our reports,
I guess. It'd be a good idea if we consolidate
the facts. Apparently, Rainer Hess has already
written. Oh, good. It'll give us a basis. You
see, Gimble slams his report. Gimble's report
is like ten pages long. Oh, goodness. Let me
quickly look through this and I'll... I'm correlated.
God, I was going to the instant like businessman,
just like quick skimming, just like, all right,
reading this contract, just like. The glasses
comes in. It's not glasses because it's the girls
as well. They are also like skimming over. So
it's just like, he's got like, what is it? It's
like eight pairs. He's got 10 pairs of eyes looking
at this thing right now. So yeah, it's like,
it's like reading over it. Does Gimble's differ
much from the one of Rainer's that I have in
my other hand? Very different. He, the only omission
that he had made was the acquisition of gold.
But he was very specific in his report. It is
very methodical on the way he's written it. And
almost as if like step to step, like. of what
had occurred from the uh from the forest to the
crystal uh to giant lady uh to the dragon head
and so forth and the the so -called rebellion
uh also Raynor's possession And then it talks
about the ghost and then the strange creatures
in the cavern and talks also as well mentions
the dragon. He is very specific of the way he's
written this thing. So we have an issue here.
Gimble has flushed out pretty much everything
apart from us obtaining more money. And Doreen
is one is. lucky to be three paragraphs and it
is very skimpy and avoiding of a lot of details
this could be an issue they do not line up i
say we marry the two with a healthy amount of
gimbal i need you to redo this page this page
and this page the ones that are like mainly of
like uh the the things that are like the main
things that have been omitted from um rainer's
one it's gonna be like okay it's on this page
this page and this page it relates to that okay
i need to redo those it'll be fun uh and please
follow this as a guideline feel free to embellish
give me a charisma charisma check this well not
versus but i'm going to roll intelligence for
him for how well he can keep persuasion yeah
good let's go persuasion and i'm just gonna see
on how well he can uh keep up and understand
your instructions it's a 26 baby okay so he's
following it to the letter as he said as best
to the best of his ability and with that i imagine
that you're also looking over his shoulder as
he's like trying to write it and like eat pancakes
and an occasional maple syrup stain falls on
some of the pages and you just seem like trying
to smear it off god i picked up the page put
down another one start again Here, I got you.
You just touch it so it presses the digitation.
And it wipes all of the ink as well. No! No!
Ah, perfect. We can save money by not spending
it on extra parchment. Thank you, Rayna. Next.
He continues to do that work. As you're all trying
to line up and corroborate all your reports so
they match up, It doesn't need a matchup entirely.
Just remember that. Just as best as... It's to
the best of what you guys want, is essentially
what I'm trying to say. You see Hamlet appears
in the dining. Pardon the intrusion. Good morning,
first and foremost. But Annie, you have a visitor.
Who is it? The mistress and master of the house
themselves. Without saying anything, she just
takes a quick inhale and excuses herself from
the table, leaving her parchment and pens behind.
And you see Gloom motions, he waves his hand
as the door opens, right this way. And he leads
you through the manor and... You go through the
east wing hallway and you're following Hamlet
and you're taking all these twists and turns
and you're not even sure on where you are going.
The halls seem to extend and grow as he moves
on and you find as he stops at this double door.
and they will see you right here. You see him
open the door, and he motions you to enter. Thanks.
And she walks through. As you walk through, you
can see this large office space with a huge executive
desk. at the center of it, a huge arch window
behind. You can see light streaming through.
You can see a garden just behind. There's bookshelves
just as high as the ceiling. And you can see
an individual just sitting behind the desk, kind
of hunched over. And you can see, you can see
Glimmer de la Croix. There, she is sitting, but
also off the ground, and it looks like that she's
sitting on a broom. Hello, Annie. Um, Madame
Delacroix, you called for me. Oh, it is so good
to see you again. How was your time, Zell, at
Briarwoods? Interesting, to say the least. That
is good to hear. Allow me to introduce you to
my Brazil, the one who has fronted this entire
mission. May I present to you Gloom Delacroix.
Brazil, this is flint finger bones. You see,
while Glimmer with her... Her plate doctor mask,
that crow mask that she wears. You can see this
one has this porcelain, white porcelain mask
on with gold trimmings. But you can see his long
hair almost disheveled. And he looks, as far
as you can tell, he looks weary and tired. I
understand that you have the proclivity to...
Work with particular metals and salts. I will
admit my practice is a bit out of touch, but
I am working towards what I've achieved prior
to my imprisonment. Please just answer the questions
plainly. Do not give me a lot of extended information
that I did not ask for. Now. I do have someone
on hand who I believe is far more skillful than
you. But he's not someone that I entirely trust.
He's a mess. I do believe you have already met
him. The man in the basement. The filthy rat
machine man. Tink. Yes. I would rec - Request
your services. And she's listening very intently.
And that's where we're going to end it. What?
Very neat. That's where we're going to end it.
Wow. So much has happened this episode. That
was a roller coaster episode for sure. Definitely.
I'm going to make Annie into a double agent.
A spy. To spy on you guys. That's what's going
to happen. No. But yes. Not until she gets possessed
by the DM. And then just nearly collapse all
of us. Can you wait until Annie gets to level
10 or level 12? Until she unlocks a few more
things? Before anything else, go ahead and all
take a long rest. And for next session as well,
know that you guys are going to level up. Yeah!
all right so level six baby look over your things
in the meantime and then once i have everything
fixed we can go through uh everything but uh
thank you all for listening by the way so uh
hugs and kisses to your mom and grandmas okay
uh but the dads and the grandfathers get a firm
handshake yes yes yes indeed but uh so goodbye
good night bye everyone Bye, everyone. See you
in Table Talk. Good night, Mrs. Akhmanik, wherever
you are. Who? Okay. Okay. Welcome back to some
Table Talk, folks. How are y 'all feeling? Intrigued.
How do I describe a non -stop internal screaming?
I think that was the closest we've come to a
TVK. Yep. Which is terrifying. I hate you. I
love you, but I hate you. But those who can't
see, I am dancing. I am dancing. My goodness.
But overall, that was a lot of fun. It was scary,
but fun. Very good. I was thinking, I'm like,
yeah, new year, new campaign. Let's go. Oh, jeez.
That was intense. How do you feel about the two
that have not said anything as of yet? It was
a rollercoaster. Cricket noises. It was very...
It started off a bit intense, yeah, because it
was straight into combat. It was from last where
we left off. And I think with all the events
that transpired in that fight, like especially
Annie getting possessed, I think was one of the
coolest things for me. And like just Annie almost
taking you both out as well. was very very scary
like utilize like just it was the it was the
rolls that like did it if like you cheated those
rolls uh -huh sure i did we've been over this
larry you need to stop using like your own dice
they're the computer's dice fyi and we're using
a system which are dm biased uh we are using
a system currently which was not set up by me
so you cannot blame me on that but i still think
you still have access to all of the uh the the
actual settings of the software you can change
any so um we all we all know how like you know
crazy you get with the modules yeah that's certainly
me a guy who's into tech that's i'll see you
in court later today larry the guy who is so
hands -off with anything yeah i did that uh could
i please get a highlight for each and every one
of you if you would be so kind one favorite moment
one tiny moment or even a big moment something
that was just either fun interesting funny or
just anything really let's start with you um
i think i mean combats my like one of my least
favorite things but i did like uh the possession
of annie and how that just made uh annie's form
just obliterate everyone else i did like that
uh but most of all i did like the little personal
moments of reina and gorda individually that
was very nice and it hit me right in the heartstrings
uh yeah i just i think this is one of our best
episodes yet if i'm gonna be honest okay yeah
I enjoyed it too. I think it was very cool. Vadar,
what would a... Vadar. Rob! You called me Annie!
I know! What the fuck? Bella! Rob, what would
have been a highlight? It was better than the
last session, calling Rainer... Yeah, each other.
Yeah, mix you two up! For me, I liked the whole
situation. It was claustrophobic, it was chaotic,
and it was also terrifying. I do enjoy the fact
that, like, even though, like, some of us in
this party are still... There's tensions. Between,
like, Gordar and Raynar, there's still tensions.
Between Raynar and Annie, quite often there are
tensions. So... I'm sensing one person. That
kind of... Both of us. So what you're saying
is, Raynar is the problem! And everyone hates
Kimball. And... I mean, even Gordar and Annie
have their instances of, like, just snapping
at each other over things. So, like, I'm enjoying
the fact that, like, this triangle of, like,
we have to work together, but we're just constantly
just mini -snapping at each other is, like, happening.
And it's... It's enjoyable to play out. It is
terrifying because in the world, like we could
literally go from like the dragon coming over
the top and Annie flipping it off. Oh yeah. I
was like, great. She just signed our death warrant.
We managed to get out by the skin of our teeth.
Hallelujah. And she's flipping off an eight,
like this massive dead undead dragon. Thanks
Annie. Yeah, you're welcome. Oh, sorry. You're
welcome. I was initially what the idea was just
like, you know, it's just debris from itself
that had just fallen off while it's flying. But
then you mentioned poop and I'm like, that was
what I was originally thinking. And then I was
like, in my head, I'm like, I also thought that.
Yeah, it is funny. Initially in my head, I was
like, it'd be funny if it's poop. But I was like,
oh, it's undead. Undead even poop. Now let's
just make it debris. So I was like, initially,
this huge white chunk just like hits you. And
then Rob's like. Oh, is this spoopy? And I'm
like, yes, it's spoopy now. It's spoopy now.
I just always thought it would be so hilarious.
Like, you know, birds. Yeah. People like all
the time. You just like, oh, tiny little thing.
Like in a pelican one is like a big sap kind
of thing. Imagine a dragon. She was literally
covered. We're here for Jimothy's funeral. Unfortunately,
a dragon shat on him as it was going past. It
was a big lot. It just crushed him entirely.
Yeah, could you imagine? His horse and everything.
And it's just like, wow, that's one way to go.
Yep, indeed. Okay, Raynor, what would be a highlight?
I mean, Zen, Avia, what would be a highlight?
I have a bunch of highlights. For me, I really
liked, Annie's moment where after the whole niceties
of this mother meeting her son, they were sending
up into this white light, and then both her and
Raina were just kind of like, oh, that's great
for them. Yeah. Like, great. I really love that.
Yeah, just like, how sweet. Great. Another moment
I really liked was, yeah, when she got shadowed
and she was just, like, storming off into, like,
nothing. She's just like, yeah, no, I'm... I'm
annoyed. Just instigating that was fun. Yeah.
I can tell you were having fun with that. Gordar.
Screw all of you. Gordar, I think his, like,
emotional breakdown around the end, that was
really good. Yes. That actually even got me.
I was, like, fucking nearly tearing up, too.
Yeah. Bro, like, he's been carrying so much.
Like, he's been holding up so much. Like, and
then... just everything just almost with the
events that had just happened it just came all
crumbling down it's really good really like that
because yeah it was really interesting and then
um general like gimbal obviously just kind of
like i don't think i have a gimbal favorite moment
i'm sorry not even when he saved your life Especially
not that. I have a Raynor favorite moment. It's
not something I did, it's something that happened.
I think my Raynor favorite moment was him, well,
one, obviously, I had failed the saving throw,
so I was like, yeah, okay, this character's gonna
die. So that's interesting. So I was already
kind of like, okay, what's my new character going
to be like? And then Gimel comes in. That was
one. And then another one, which was revealing
that he could actually write and read. And he
was just really... Yes, that was so good. Yeah,
you motherfucker. Oh my God, that blew my mind.
Bella's face and all that, she was just stunned
and at awe. Yeah, he's just not going to... Tell
him that he can read. He's just going to play
it up because he doesn't want to do any of that
stuff. Yeah. The listeners can't see, but I had
my both fingers up at the camera. Just like,
fuck you. That's great. Oh, man. Thoughts and
theories on Sun Sam. He's a cunt. Yeah, that's
very apt. Yeah. And if I didn't have this collar
on him, I think Gordai would be plotting his
murder. Oh, yeah. I think I even said, like,
I hope he's the first to get magical cancer.
Yeah. Yeah. Like, no hope of return. I have a
feeling this is just a theory, but I don't think
there are two fish people. I think it's one with
multiple personalities. Agreed. I have a feeling.
I also think that maybe Sun Sam is just highly
jealous of his brother and just decided to remove
the bowl and put it somewhere out there in Matusha
and then Sun Sam himself just comes in. They
swapped bodies. Yeah, they just swapped bowls.
That's how that works. I have a feeling that
the Delacroix's don't actually really like Sun
Sam or Sansan. they're just kind of putting up
with him and he's going to be working against
their interests at one point and it's gonna really
bite him and then we can kill him which is great
yay yay please as you can tell uh glimmer this
well for her this has been the most on hand she
has been with anything and even that like just
with you guys she's still a little off hands
it's just like okay whatever sort of thing she's
very nonchalant not wanting to think so but yeah
that's an interesting thought we'll see how where
it plays out the delacroix's they are funding
this expedition right yeah so like we don't know
the relationship but like in my mind it seems
like it's not so much like they are their people
like the people who work with delacroix's often
it's just like we hired a group of people who
are willing to go out there and do this kind
of stuff and they've hired two groups technically
one of them they've kind of pulled out of a prison
and enslaved and the other one they're paying
and it's kind of going to be like a forwards
and backwards of keeping an eye on each other
and if someone slips up then the other person
because it's going to be gained for them is going
to dob on the other person which then is going
to cause things to happen so for them it's a
win -win and they don't have to micromanage yeah
so that's how they like to do things that's the
way my brain is looking at it yeah they don't
have to you know all hands off sort of thing
but yes uh i'm glad you all had fun uh we will
certainly be back soon enough uh thank you all
for listening uh i love you all and goodbye i'm
gonna fade away now bye fade away make sure you
comment Yes, comment. Tell your friends and stuff.
What they said. Good night, Mrs. Akmanek. Okay,
bye. I want to say something, and don't feel
so bad, Bella, but why is it that I'm playing
Annie far more efficiently than you? Scanny is
just a PvP goblin. I'm just gonna do something.
It's gonna be for comedic reasons, okay? You
can keep this in if you want. Leaving. That's
the comedic thing I meant. I shut the door on
you! I am wearing pins. Nobody asked that, but
okay. I shut - I shut - I'm in my own mind. Annie's
in her own mind. She leaves her mind. She shuts
the door. Does not return. I... This... This
is BS. I'm calling it. You're using physical
dice. You're cheating. You're using code. You
can see my rolls! And they're fake! Yeah! Fake
news? They're fake! Okay. So, we've seen your
natural 20s the last couple sessions. I don't,
I don't, I don't trust you. This is now on a
different, completely different system, ladies
and gentlemen. Don't care. Don't care. All right,
so. If you want to, we're going to cut it where
you say we don't see it, and then we can come
back, like, to now. We don't have to have that
middle part. Yeah, sure. Cut it out. Whatever.
Do you want to know what I was going to do? It
was pretty funny. Gimble. Yes! That's why I was
just like how am I gonna kill him we're dead
Everyone, go up and start kicking him on the
ground. Everyone, bully him. Yeah, bully him.
I can't use magic. I'll kill him. Yeah, bully
him. Just bully his leashes. Gordar, you are
now up.