What's up? Everybody? Welcome, Welcome to Table Stories, Simulckram. How's
it going. How's everybody doing today? Doing great? Good? Good,
good morning? Bye? Hi. Hello. We haven't done any shows this
week. On to it, Brad was like, oh my god, it's
the Table Story Holiday week. Uh. Just yeah, there's just been so
many weird things going on all week that we haven't done any shows. But
it's alive. We've done it. We've done it. How's it going?
Everybody? Welcome to the show. Stupid phone mute, Welcome to the show.
I'm I'm excited to do this. I didn't I didn't get to do
zero Blue Oryan on Monday either with myth and uh it was. Yeah,
I feel if there's like a there's like a an anxiety that sort of like
happens when you don't do first Yeah, when you don't do like a show
for a week or something like, it's just I get I get like all
anxious, like oh my, like I need to do some work or something
like I can't I can't relax or anything for that long. So yeah,
I'm happy to be doing the show today. I'm excited. So that means
since since I haven't done a second show this week. I'm gonna have to
take all of that energy and put it into the show today, which probably
is bad for you guys, but we're dead. It should be six hours
of show. Yeah wait, I just fixed my sleep schedule. Hold on,
I've done a twelve hour role playing show before. I've done a twelve
hour one. I mean, Myth's done a sabbath on for that. He
rolled played for twenty four hours. We did twenty four hours D and D
before Encounter, which was nuts. We should keep that in the past.
Let's not do that anymore. We did an eight hours it was eight hours,
six hour big zags and oh six hours. Yeah, that was I
thought we were going to die. It was a lot. It was a
lot. Yeah, it was a lot. It can be fun, but
it's definitely a lot. It's a lot. No, we're not doing a
six hour show today though, just because everyone would die. So let's not
do that. Go for it. We can do it. Fuck can do
it together. It fucking you get up early too. You stream like early?
What time do you usually start like nine? Well, I want to
I try to start around seven. It always ends up being around eight.
Huh. So the streamer schedule, So my goal is to hit around seven.
But the move kind of like I moved recently, so it messed it
all up. But my goal is to make it around seven again. So
I get up really early for a gamer. I listen, I get up
early too. But my my reason that I get up is because my cat
wakes me up for food ay morning every morning, like six six thirty every
day. Yeah, mine'll yell at me through the door because I keep my
door closed because they'll wake me up throughout the whole night if I don't,
so they'll just start like howling and like like I don't know. My one
cat figured out that if he palls against the door, it'll rattle in the
frame a little bit and wake me up. So I'll hear like this rattling,
so I know it's time to get up, so I can't sleep in.
See now, if I was Jay, I'd be terrified of that,
like if Jay actually put his cats outside, because Bosco could just ram through
the door, right, like Bosco would just leave a cat size I'm sorry,
do you mean my Dodge Caravan sized cat? An cat? You've been
looking down at my feet, like, let me up, human, It
would just be a Bosco shaped hole through the door. Easy, no problem.
Welcome to the stream, everybody. If you have not seen this show
before, Samuel Lockram is a really weird show. It is a virtual world
set in the Ninth World, New min Era, the Ninth World, and
the players are playing themselves, playing characters. It's a weird show. And
I came up with the idea a long time ago and I'm I'm excited that
we can do this in New Minera. The show is in fact sponsored by
Monte cod Games. Thank you so much to them. If you guys want
to check things out with the system, there's two core books, New Minera
Discovery and New Minera Destiny, and either one of these can get you started
with your own games, like the whole core book can get you started,
Like if you wanted to just start playing New Minna, you could get either
one of these and just you've got monsters, You've got lower, You've got
you've got descriptors, types, and Folki which comprised the ways you make your
characters. It's got artifacts and ciphers and all these cool things that i'llow you
to make your characters. We just did a giveaway for the set here.
But if you want to get yourself some books, we still have some things
that you can use. We've got some coupons for you. You can use
the coupon Table Story and Pumpkinberry fans out there can use the coupon Pumpkinberry,
but not if you're you're not. You can only use it if you're a
Pumpkinberry fan, which I mean, let's be honest, everybody that's on the
channel is a Pumpkinberry fan. Anyway, on subbed from her Man she's changed.
She's changed. Then she joined with Table Stories. She's gotten so fake.
Uh but yeah, those two coupons for you. And if you missed
it, Monte Cook Games has just started up a Kickstarter And if you do
exclamation new Minera in the chat m man air I can spell shut up.
Go go check out our our link there for you. They've just put out
a new Kickstarter for a thing called Liminal Shores. Liminal Shores and it's all
about the uh, the data sphere and glimmers and whatnot, and uh,
it's really cool. They're doing something through their Kickstarter where they're doing these things
called glimmer bursts and they are sort of like, uh little knowledge drops,
so keep an eye out for that. You guys might want to be looking
at the kickstarter event right there, because uh, there is a glimmer burst
that's going on as we speak. If you if you head on over there,
you can put in there. There's there's some codes that are hidden there.
We'll just we'll just say that you're gonna have to figure it out.
You're gonna have to use your big brains on their kickstart. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, head on over to the link there monticok Games. Is Darcy
in the chat. She can she can maybe help you guys get started with
that. But I'm pretty sure you just have to go to our referral link
there and uh yeah the most recent update or the top of the campaign.
You go check it out and get yourself some cool info about the Liminal Shores
and everything. Go check it out. How's what is the stretch goal at
right now? It was two forty K for a set of supporter cards and
I was going to be like, go check it out, but they're at
two hundred and eighty thousand. Rip. You guys got to hurry up with
those stretch goes. Why don't people talk stand ups, that's what it was.
Yeah, yeah, but go check it out. Otherwise, as you
know, Peebee is not going to be joining us today, we have a
special guest, Katie Peters. Please, Hi, Katie, are you doing.
Thank you for joining us again, Thanks for having me again. Why
don't we uh, why don't we just do a real quick intro around the
room. Let's introduce everybody and let's uh, let's get started with the game
today. Jay, you want to start us off? Please? Hello?
I am Jay. I am an intuitive Jack who rages. Now what does
that mean? We don't know, but we will find out. I went
for the most roguish class that I could be, especially since while Classic is
coming out on Monday again. But I'm playing a hunter, so that doesn't
really make sense. But anyways, I'm a strange, weird hunter rogue that
rages, and my character is ugly as shit. I'm playing Jajamerson, who
is me but very very ugly, and I hope you will enjoy very ugly.
Met don't make the joke. Chat they're gonna say, but Jay,
you're already ugly, all right, You're not Jay, You're not ugly?
No, what Chat's gonna say that? Well, now they're not because you
already said it. I'm vetoing chat Jay. I have that kind of power,
as you can see under my name here Jilli, I am the administrator.
Okay, here where we go? Thank you Jay? Myth Hi everyone,
I'm Myth Thematic. I'll be playing Mythematic who will be playing Ulrich Shiloh,
who is a risk taking right who dances with dark Matter. Last week,
we took a pretty big risk by asking someone to do something for us,
and we don't know if it's going to happen the way we want,
but I'm excited for it and I can't wait to play today and see what
happens and where we go, and I'm just super hyped to be here.
I can't wait. Thank you once again, Table Story for having me,
and thank you everybody for playing with me. And I can't wait to see
you guys. Maybe chat Maybe I'll see you today. I don't know,
but I'll see you at the end. Thank you so much. Nega rix
Hi, I'm Naga ors Oh. I'm sorry. I'm a sleeping cat in
my lap and she did not like that I started speaking again. I apologize.
I know how dare I am playing myself. I'm playing next Orgs playing
Una O'Leary. I am a gregarious Jack who speaks with a silver song.
That's me, Hi, thank you so much, Thank you. Pocket.
I'm Pocket again playing myself and my name is Technome in the game, and
I am a protective nano who works miracles aka your pocket healer. So but
I am playing myself but also a pocket healer in a game, and I'm
a big Momo fan, so I'm taking this very seriously. Thank you so
much, Katie. Hi, I'm Katie Peters plays playing Katie Peters plays playing
Jax Castler, who is a cheerful Nano who adures the Leviathan. And I
just found this group last session and I've seen some shit, but they haven't
yet, so let's see where it today goes. Thank you so much,
Katie. I'm Wax Steven and I will be your administrator. Normally I'm the
GM of Doom, dragging players kicking and screaming through adventures, but here I
let the players do that kind of thing to themselves. I am your humble
administrator and I also play no the sort of interface that allows the players to
work their simulacrum and interface with the with the world sort of in game GM,
and yeah, chat if if you haven't if you haven't really seen the
show before, you're probably going to be a little weirded out. In general,
it does get kind of intense, so just a heads up on that
front. The players know that we usually have chats and whatnot after the show
and uh, it's it's uh, it can get pretty intense and there's some
really pretty difficult things to deal with during the show, and it was that
was the intention with the show. So hopefully you're you're not super upset by
it, but there is a goal here to have a bit of an emotional
rollercoaster. So there's some some tough things that are said during the show,
and I hope, I hope everybody's okay. But otherwise, if if you're
feeling I don't know, a bit too uh, I don't know, too
emotional or or traumatized, you could probably head to the discord and talk to
some people and and whatnot and they can kind of help talk you through it.
Anyway, this is a show where we we do have the chat role
playing sometimes along with the show. The players don't really watch the chat because
loss of that and Uh, well, we'll see how everything goes with that
today. Otherwise, is everybody ready to get started here? Okay, enjoy
the trauma chat. On the last episode of Simulacrum. Uh, the group
was I think starting to come to terms with the fact that they are sort
of stuck here in this in this virtual world. And they had a sort
of celebration as they helped out a town known as Cahord that was being sort
of plagued by this horrific noise that was only only only the people in the
town that were blind were unable to hear it, or they had to have
some sort of protective earwear to stop them from from hearing this horrific noise and
I mean so loud that it would burst people's ear drums. Incredibly incredibly intense,
and uh, they helped them, and the people of Kepward were extremely
extremely happy about that, obviously, and they praised the group and called them
the heroes of Keward. And they had a bit of a party there was
there was some festivities and whatnot that went on. There's a lot of drinking
and some drinking games, and the villagers, the town and the group here
got pretty sloshed and It was at that point that pockets character technome. She
was kind of she kind of I guess faded. She sort of turned gray
and was seemingly dead for the other players. She managed to wake up during
the festivities, though completely unaware of what happened over the last few hours,
as she missed all of the interactions with the New min Era and the Gazers,
these spheroid like automatons that were guarding this device. After they found the
source of this, they also found themselves a device that allowed them to see
twitch chat again. It was only for brief period of time, maybe about
thirty seconds or so, but they got a glimpse of twitch chat, and
that happened before the vice did. The New min Era sort of heatered out
and they got a little bit of insight. There was some chat messages that
were saying that a Pocket might be dead and their bodies were convulsing and whatnot
in the real world while they were in this game, and that apparently everyone
could still see them on their streams. Their streams weren't going down, and
Twitch could not take them down. After the party, they awoke as they
as I think many people that have had a hangover before woke up to pretty
horrific and Nega, I think got the worst of it. I think you
ruled a natural one on that role. I'm not mistaken. You're dru Yeah.
Yeah. When they woke up, unfortunately, they found out that pb
was gone, and they ran into Jax Castler, who had heard Pumpkinberry's name
being said, who had escaped her own sort of trauma. She encountered an
actual player killer, someone that she suspected of killing one of the other players
in the game. She stole a cipher from this player and was able to
locate the group here and she sort of walked through a dimensional riff to get
to the rest of the group. After talking around town and looking in Peebee's
room, they found that they found a note that was written there and said
that she had to leave, and they questioned about town and they found that
she left with someone on a transport ship to the City of Bridges. Early
in the morning. They were weighing their options to determine what was the best
route to get to the City of Bridges and possibly meet up with her,
and they were worried about her, and they spoke with an Angolan Knight night
seeker and Sulia who had a she drake and I'll never pronounce that correctly,
Darcy, if you're still in the chat, I don't know how to pronounce
the z drake or she drake. I'll never get it right. But they
met up with this Angle and Knight and and uh Alric Shiloh gave a pretty
empowered speech to try and and get her help. It was a it was
a really intense moment, and they managed to convince her to help look for
for for their friend. The group had decided, I think, to uh
head to the gallon stable in kV Hord and ride across the plains to the
city of Bridges after the speech, because they had suggested to the Angule and
Knight and Sulia that perhaps she could head that way and come back and they
might run into each other along the way. I think the group was just
a bit flustered and they didn't really know the best way to handle it.
But it was a good speech nonetheless, And we left off the last session
with the with the group heading to the stable or some gallon. The stable
owner there by the name of Lazin you had met previously. They were they
had lent you some gallon to help with the with the disturbance that was going
on outside the city, creating the sounds and whatnot. So that's where we'll
start today. Players, make sure that you have the chat closed. Chat.
Actually, players, do me a favorite. Take off your headsets for
just a second. It won't be too long chat. We're going to start
the RP up now. While the group is setting things up here and getting
their transport their gallon, there were several people that were questioning what was going
on with pbs stream, and you saw that she was in fact abducted by
someone that was going by the name of Fang, somebody that was clearly a
player from the real world and not an NPC, somebody that had been banned
in the table story chat, someone that was obviously upset about it and had
some power in this situation. They took pb on a trade ship for the
City of Bridges on Pebe's stream. Over the course of the morning and whatnot,
you would have seen them get onto the trade ship with Fang sort of
frightening her the whole way basically at the sharp edge of a blade, and
getting on the trade ship. She would have gotten put into like a dark
room and the stream basically would have gone dark. You would have seen nothing
on her stream from that point she got covered up. You saw basically a
blanket getting thrown over her, and there would just be sort of really sad
sounds like you might expect murmurs and whatnot coming from Peb throughout the whole time,
lots of sort of begging and whatnot going on. You would have seen
the person known as Fang take away her things, and it was it was
pretty brutal, and it just kind of would continue going on on on her
stream throughout this encounter here. You might hear the occasional noise, but it's
it's a lot of sort of sobbing and whatnot. It's probably pretty terrifying.
Maybe a few murmurs and whatnot. That's what you'd be saying on her stream.
Get the players to uh run on their headset. Okay, so uh
you head to the h you head to the the stables for the gallon?
What do you do? Is it possible to get like a brief description of
the area real quick? Sure? The town of Kepford is uh, it's
in general like a it's a it's a lumber town, so a lot of
wood but like anything you'd see in the Ninth World, there's a lot of
there's a lot of like alien looking shapes and sort of technologies that are mixed
in with very rudimentary construction techniques like wood and stone. And then suddenly,
like part of the building is a strange metal that reflects light in a really
strange way, like you can't really understand how that happens. Or there might
be a sort of spheroid shape to a building, as opposed to the way
that most of these buildings would have what we would expect, like a sort
of box like rectangle building with a slanted roof, you know, to keep
the rain off of it. It's it's a lot of like strange structures and
whatnot. There's some would appear to be some like rice paddies and whatnot that
are around for the for for food production and some small farms, but otherwise
it's it's like a sort of rolling hills and on one side of the village
there's a very large forest that you can see that that that's you can't see
the end of it, and it's sort of like on a river, so
there's a river that pours into the bay. The stable itself is much like
the rest of the buildings. It's probably just a wooden sort of space.
Maybe there's like some thatched roof that comes down, but like simultaneously, like
the the like water trough that the gallon seem to be drinking out of is
probably some metallic like alien looking like remnant, right Like, it's probably just
like it looks like it could be part of an engine or something that has
just been sort of cleaned out and haulowed out and filled with water. And
these gallon they're they're sort of like like maybe a like a little bit smaller
than a horse, but probably like stockier meteor. They look like this.
Yeah, I imagine they're being like a giant heat lamp in this. Yeah.
Well these, you know, a lot of these creatures, a lot
of these creatures in the Ninth World aren't purely like reptile, right Like,
they don't fit into our animal kingdoms like what we would understand are reptile being
They might have some insect DNA as well as some million DNA and some you
know, reptilian DNA like it doesn't they have a different rule book that they're
going by. Their their classification of animals is probably a lot different than ours,
and some of them have you know, automaton components inside of them,
you know, that have just kind of integrated with the flesh, and trying
to put them into any sort of classification would be really difficult. But in
general, this place is pretty warm. I would say, like it's it's
probably like, you know, close to eighty degrees fahrenheit, so you know
it's pretty warm. Otherwise, Yeah, it's kind of it's kind of a
thatched stable. You can see there's there's gallon that are in there, and
they're drinking from the wander trough. I'd be walking up and just like holding
my hand around them or you know, need them to try and get them
used to me and maybe hoping that somebody else is doing the talking. I
don't know, just immediately going over to them. If there's room is leason
around good question, I don't know. Should we just kind of do a
little app and check ye yeah, yeah, I'm a I'm a I'm gonna
go in and try to see if I can get these things used me because
if you want to try to find lasin and see, I'm just gonna go
try to grab one of these and start rounding them up. I think he'll
understand. I hope, yeah, I'll I'll see if I can find him.
And I'm just going to wonder with her because last time I was on
one of these, they threw me off and I got injured and it was
bad. So I'm just gonna go with her. Yeah, they weren't they
weren't super kind to you last time. No, they didn't like me.
We're almost going to get phone off, but I caught you. But that's
fine, dude. Yeah, you know semantics details. So I want to
see if I can go into the structure next to where they're chilling drinking water
see if we can find our buddy. Okay, just looking around, I
think you don't see him, but you probably hear him. There's probably probably
uh, there's probably some noise coming from behind the stable here. It sounds
probably like somebody's shoveling something. Hello there, Hi, hi, Hi,
Hi again, it's us. Hello. Sorry. I didn't want to bother
you, but we have a mention. Lazin is one of the people by
the way that's blind, so he's kind of doing the thing where he's trying
to listen for you. Unfortunately, as much as We've liked our time in
your town. It's been brought to our attention that somebody needs help elsewhere much
as we helped you and your people here, and unfortunately we do not have
enough time to make it where we are needed. We need to travel a
lot faster. Would you mind terribly if we borrowed your fine gallon that you
have outside, like lean over and whisper? How are we gonna borrow them?
If? If you know, we'll get there one step at a time.
Okay, okay, Please please make a difficulty three intellect check in regards
to persuasion. No O'Leary, you have rolled a natural one. I don't
know why we let me talk. It never goes well. I thought you
had the silver tongue, Yeah I do. Apparently the rolling well doesn't go
along with that. Though you did good when you were drunk. I think
you just got to get into your character a little more, you know.
I think I need to drink a little more. Maybe that's the secret.
Yeah, I think so too. We'll worry about that after we deal with
this one that you just rolled. Though. Okay, that means a GM
intrusion will happen unless you pay one XP would you like to pay one XP.
Uh, yeah, I'll pay one XP. The GM intrusion has been
canceled, so I think I think Layson sort of like stop shoveling, leans
on the shovel. You can see that they're probably digging out. Uh there's
probably some like rocks or something like the large rocks just off to the side
of the building that they're just trying to I guess move or get out of
there or something so that nobody uh steps on them or something. And uh,
he says, unfortunately, it's it is my business. I we do
appreciate everything that you've done for us, but it does cost my me to
to use these creatures. Gallan, how much does it cost? Well,
it's it's three shinn a day. Okay, Well, I will have to
confer with the party. I'm not sure how much money we have, but
I understand you're a man of business. You're just looking out for yourself.
Would it be at all possible, perhaps maybe just a little bit to get
a slight saved the town from an eternal noise damnation for forever, an all
eternity discount just a little bit. I'm already doing that. Normally it's five,
got it? Sure, just double checking, Thank you. I will
be right back and I'm just gonna scamper right back to to everyone outside with
the gallon. Hey, so, uh, he's not cool with us just
taking them. He you know, bills to pay mouths to feed kind of
thing, and they cost three a day, a day a day. Yeah,
so how do we feel about that? Do we even have I don't
even think we have that eight. I only have eight borom and then just
return them after we run out of money. Just to interject, you did
tip at the party? If I remember correctly, how much would you have
tipped? Uh? Oh, good question. Probably I was pretty drunk,
wasn't I. Yeah, yeah, probably too. I probably only have six.
I was real into the bartender. So never mind I have six.
Yeah, I don't know. I mean, how much time do we think?
This could take a lot of time? Anyway. We don't want to
bet on the fact that we'll make more money while we're over there. I
don't think any money at all. What about we could just I feel like,
I don't know, I don't know. Let's just pimp out commercon you
know, while we're there. Yeah, I don't I don't know. If
sell me. I mean it works well body the love Well no, I
was talking about like manual labor. But I mean I guess that works too.
I guess we could do that. Yeah, I mean yeah, I'm
up in my MIC's score so we can. Yeah. See I'm not so
I wouldn't be much use. I could heal people, do miracles, maybe
small miracles, turn water to wine, walk on water. Maybe. Suggestion
okay, set a miracle, you can. It's the same suggestion that I
made. Why don't we just pay for these and then go and figure it
out after because we don't want to steal. The last thing we want to
do is like be go from hero to thief, you know, stealing.
If we like buy for a week and then just like, oh sorry,
we took three weeks to get back. Here's the money that we made on
the way to make up for taking three extra weeks. But at the same
time, we're gonna have no money then, like I know money with us
idea, Jay, you and I are Jax. We have that lucky break
thing. Do you think that might help? I haven't used it yet in
the game, but I only have one XP left, so I have more
and I don't mind using it if it makes it easier for us to just
get out of here without worrying that we're gonna be chased down for not paying
for these things. Yeah. Yeah, we could lucky break it maybe and
try to find some money after the fact, or or before maybe, or
we could just start talking, you know, just just start going, you
know, just or what if no, this won't work. I don't say.
What if we just take one? But no, that won't work.
Yeah, I mean we could take two and maybe could we ask if three
of us would fit on one? Do you think what I know? I
think you're right. I think you're right. We can we can use the
lucky break thing. We can. Okay, there's got to be a way
to word it. Hold on, hold on, no Onnie, use my
player intrusion, Jackie Burkson, I would like to use the player intrusion.
Lucky break? Is that correct? Yes? Your lucky break allows something unexpected
to happen, that is to your advantage. A rope your opponent is hanging
from night snap. The person you're debating in front of an influential Eon priest
trip will forget what they were going to say or something that was supposed to
last only around or two lasts a little while longer. Yeah, wouldn't it
be really crazy lucky of a break if there was just a lot of shins
nearby, like somewhere, just like a lot of them. God, they
would be so lucky, like ten feet away. Okay, So, uh,
I think what if we used it and uh something fell on his head
and incapacitated him for a short amount of time long enough for us to take
them and go, and then we'll just bring them back and pay when we
get back. Well, I can't try talking to him before we will eat
them like that? Oh you want to talk? Okay, Okay, I
mean good lass are said on that? So I think what happens actually is
someone it's it's actually uh, it's actually the mm hmm oh god, someone
here's us talking like this. You actually see the the the the little girl
that you originally ran into when you came into the village. Very she what's
your name again? Very? Very? You see her sort of running over
to the group. She says, yeah, hello too, nice to see
you again. Do you give us a ladder? Well, she gave a
lot. She went and got help too, which is really nice. You
know saved your ears. Thank you so much for helping our town. I
heard that you were you were trying to get some of the gallon. Yeah,
we are. What's up, ladder girl, My name is Very,
sorry, Very. It's not much, but she like she takes out like
a handful of shins from her pocket. She says, you made it so
the noise stop. I don't have a lot, but you can have this.
Thank you so much, very, thank you. This helps us so
much. You know, there was a woman with us that we're actually trying
to find, and this is going to help us find her. So thank
you so much. What a lucky break you've given us. She's got like
a big smile on her face. Thank you, thank you, my heart
give the thumbs up to all of them. I like, I like pat
her head, ruffle her hair a little bit. She's like real small,
but she has like a like a really big smile. Yeah you're gonna say,
a beard, a really big beard. She pulls the shins from the
beard, you know, and pull off I pull off like this like tiny
like golden scarf that was around my neck, and I like put in her
hands and I'm like, I know it's not much, but hopefully you remember
us. She like smiles and she's like holding it, and he likes she's
like running around less scarf is kind of like trailing behind her. There we
go. Thank you, it's so pretty. Thank you. She's given you
sixteen hins. Oh dang, I'm gonna what if that was for her,
like college fund or something. Yeah, I mean she can hear now,
so at least she has that going for she's allowed to. She can download
some ebooks, you know, audible, and I think we've saved her money.
I don't know that's that's not there's no morality to it. That was
a lucky break, good idea. Thank you. I say, if we
have any other lucky breaks over the course of this trip and we fall into
some money, we should bring some back for her at some point. Yeah,
just in case it was her college fund, like you said, Katie,
right, and just in case the guil catches up to me a little
bit. Have you guys looked around. I don't really see a college around
here, but I could be wrong. I could be wrong. Could start
one, start one. I don't think she could start one and six tensions,
but more because we know, Yeah, just if they have. You
know, if we got an unexpected windfall or something. There you go,
you can start like a logging company here and make we could start a college
here. Yeah I am. I don't mean to break this up. BB
could be in trouble. Oh yeah, yeah, I dropped out of college
anyways, so we won't be able to do that. Let's go rescue peebe.
I can try to talk him down, maybe in price I don't know.
Oh yeah, that sounds a good idea. Might suggest just telling him
the truth with what's your face? He did say that he was already giving
us a discount. He said, normally it's five a day, and he
was giving us three. So I think we should letter. You know,
we just found her. I think we should let her talk. See see
if she can talk him down, because you know this will o Her tongue
isn't working right now, so I gotta get more. Yeah, I do
require alcohol for the uh for the charm to be turned on. Apparently,
Well, I can try. I mean, I have that making friends skills,
So I wish I had that skill in real life when we're still back
there. Damn great. Oh maybe I mean, maybe he'll give it to
us for free. And then we'll just have an extra sixteen shins, but
I'll If not, maybe he'll give us them all for sixteen shins. Then
the guilt will catch up with us. If we gotta go work quick,
I'm gonna go. Is he in a he's in a barn? Or is
he just outside working? It's like a stable he was. He's off to
the side. He's kind of like prying up like a like a pretty large
sized rock with this like a spade, just kind of cracking it into the
ground and trying to leverage out the rock. Awful sound of shovel hitting stone,
mm hmm, scraping. Yeah, I'm gonna unago. What was his
name? Great question? And now we know why the silver tongue didn't work?
Actually, so about that? Does anybody remember his name? There?
You go, late Lason, Okay, take him and we'll stay back here
because we've already talked to him. It might be better if we just hang
back a little bit, Okay, Right, and then if I can't talk
him down, maybe mith Ken maybe together, teamwork. So I'll make my
way around the stable to Layson. Someone there, Hi, Hi, Layson,
how's it? How's your day? It's fine? You had a beautiful
herd of gallon over there. Thank you. Can I help you with some
Yeah, I was just wondering if we could borrow them for a little bit
for free. Who are you? And then I'm Jack's castler. I'm new
around these parts, but these fine folks help save your village from an awful
sound apparently all right, we're going to save a friend. We don't really
know, but we think something bad happened to her, and we just need
to get to the city as fast as we can. Jack, I like
whisper, I like yell whisper mention the part where we don't have a lot
of money, we're broke, Jack's Castler, please make an intellect role in
regards to persuasion. This will be a difficulty difficulty five roll. Yeah,
that was tripping up. Oh so okay, I don't really know how to
I just kind of skipped over the totorial a little bit. I'm leaning over
to myth what's going on? Okay, I have like a skill thing I
can roll on, or the intellect thing. Okay, so it's gonna be
like base roll if you have a skill and it's going to count as an
asset. Okay, so I just roll intellect and then okay, you can
also spend edge if you want, or I'm sorry, effort if you want,
which will reduce your intel pool by three unless you have edge in it,
and then you would reduce the cost by howe much your edge is.
Okay, I'm gonna try. I'm gonna do the effort because okay, Yolo,
yeah, you're right? When when also, if your pools are your
health? Yola was right, Oh yeah, you have rolled a five.
Oh oh, so you can see like a sort of frown come across the
face of Lasin and he says, I'm sorry, I don't really know you.
I'm sorry about your friend. But if you're with the with the group
that helped our village, I'm sorry. They they were already offered a discount
of three, but you would have to pay five. Oh okay, that's
five shoons a day, and you the rest of the group would pay three
cool. Okay, that's Beth. Do you want to try talking to him?
It didn't go well? No, all right, never mind, I
heard a rule I have to pay full price. Yeah, hey, I
could try, but I mean he's probably just now gonna get very frustrated,
and that's that's kind of what we'll be fighting against. And I think if
I know the game, well, I'm gonna have it's going to be a
plus six we work together. Is that something I we would be able to
reduce it. But once again, he doesn't know you, so I don't
know how much of a benefit that is. I worked at a bar and
I and I know how annoying it is when you say one note to one
person and then the drunk friend comes over, and then they start begging for
their drunk friend. It's just it doesn't work. It only just makes them.
I'm frustrated, and I think that'll just not go well for us.
I mean, we could just go ahead and try to get a quote and
see how much money we have, and we could just hope for the best.
It also may not take us a week to get there. We have
no idea how long it'll take. Do we get to talk to him about
actually doing the business, they'll be fine. I have an idea. Excuse
me, sir, do you know how long it would take to get to
the capital via a gallon or would it not even take that long? Because
you know they're they're fast to the city of Bridges, Yes, yes,
Bridges, Yes, well, it's about it's about two hundred and fifty miles.
M say, if you treat the gallon well, it would probably take
you maybe five days, six days. Hmmm. See that's about the same
as on foot. Then, because it was about it was a week on
foot, muse, it would save you a day and a half two days
or so. But you shouldn't really run the gallon that long. You need
to rest. I look back at the others. I'm gonna walk back over
to them. It kind of sounds like we're not gonna save that much time.
And honestly, if we walk maybe I mean, is hitchhiking a thing
here? Maybe we can find a cart to hop onto or something to save
time along the way. We say that we should just take a boat.
It'll take four days, two days of waiting for two days of getting there,
we gotta go. We should just jump on these horse things and go.
If they're gonna save time, they're gonna that's two days. But yeah,
but it sounds like he's saying that it's gonna run them into the ground.
If we do that, they're not gonna be able to make the return.
Trip, and then we're gonna have to pay for four dead lizard dogs,
or we have to pay for the time over there while they're resting.
Yeah, I think this sounds like way more trouble than it's worth. I
say we just start walking and we could try to hitchhike. That's a good
idea. We are in a We are in a farming town. They are
they their their commodity is mainly lumber. And if this is the city of
Bridges, well then who knows. Maybe they need so, I guess.
And if it's have you stepped away from Lasson? I was never close to
Lason. I think we are. Yeah, I think it was presumed Katie
walk back. He goes and talks to Lasson as like goes around the corner
and talk to Lison. I likes, that's where I was going in my
in my brain. Yeah, I walked back over to myth after whatever it
is, we we should go soon. Like you said, I'm good to
just start walking. Are you guys good with that? I'm as much as
I hate it. We have to. Yeah, we need to get a
move on now, or we get a gallon. And I think we should
just get it. We should just go now and then, like I said,
if we see a trade, a caravan or something, maybe we'll hitchhike.
I don't know, we have to, We'll go with our my instinct.
Let's go, let's go go, start walking. Yeah, so we
can't take the boat because the boat gets here in like two days, so
we've already wasted time in Sueler won't see us. Yeah, cool, let's
head out all right? West Ish west Ish? Yeah, I don't I
don't exactly know where it is, but I do remember on the map that
it was west from where we were Jack's And well, I guess this is
directed to Jacks. Have you used any of your esotaries since you've been in
the gameies are like the nano spells. No, I have not, Okay,
technom by When you use your esoteries, you have basically a connection to
the data sphere. You have a way that you sort of understand much of
the nanotechnology, uh that's moving around in this world. How do you think
that you perceived that this is gonna sound so corny like the matrix? I
would I would picture it like like it's it's it's a video game that we're
in that we're stuck and that's now the real world, Like this is now
our world, but like things get overlaid with like just it gets mapped out
and and it shows like all the beings around and how they're connected, and
it's like we're all one and how I don't know, I would imagine that's
something like kind of how it is and it's all connected in my brain even
though I don't fully understand it. I just got like hit with it,
you know, randomly while it was on a ladder. So I think I
think, uh, you can probably see what most people can't see, which
you can actually see nanites and things moving about now obviously normal normally their their
microscopic, but you have some way that you're able to perceive them sort of
moving about, floating through the air and whatnot. You see them sort of
moving on currents. And the longer that you've been here, the more aware
of it you've been. Okay, it's it's been like a it's it's just
been you're getting like acclimated to it. You you know, maybe at first
it might have you might have thought they were just like bugs crawling on the
rock or something, or kind of like fireflies or something. Yeah, but
it's it's very I think it's it's just it's very sort of almost a detached
kind of feeling. You just kind of see stuff floating around. Is that
pollen? No, those are little like little nanites that are moving. No
way about it. See if I can like disrupt it. Yeah, it
does kind of like you're moving your hand through smoke almost, And when you
put your hands through, when you concentrate on it, you can feel your
hand like moving through them. And I'll leave it up to you how that
feels. But I think all of you might notice her sort of swatting at
the air here and there, or you know, sort of catch her sort
of like looking at her hands or whatnot. Ever, since you sort of
woke back up from that gray state that you were in, there's been a
certain level of communication that's been happening. And I think for you, there's
probably been a few times when people have been talking or whatnot where you have
to like ask them to repeat themselves or what But you know how sometimes you
can hear birds in the morning it seems like they're talking to each other.
I don't really understand what's going on, but you may be able to understand
a mood or a situation that's happening. Just by the the way that they're
sort of chirping like danger or something along the warning of something coming towards them.
There's a there's a there's a feeling like that that you have, like
ever since you woke up, it's been more acute and would almost feel like
it's getting like I wouldn't say louder, but just so obvious. It's starting
to get like annoying, and it's like, oh, why can't I just
see normal? Like what's going on? Am I malfunctioning? I don't the
more that this is happening to you. Over the course of of this,
like last day or so, you realize that that you are sort of in
tune with this sort of datus feel you're getting. It's like bursts of information.
And I don't know how you perceive this, Jacks, but this is
something that you would see. It might not be the same way, but
as a nano, this is something that nanos are in tune with. How
do you think that you would perceive that? I would imagine like wisps of
light passing by me, and like some of them form shapes and other things.
While some just pass by quickly. Okay, yeah, I was gonna
say that, the like the nanit's on my hand kind of feel like when
this like a sun ray hit your skin and it warms up just that part
of the skin, Like it feels like that, but like since it's so
many hitting, it's like little beads. It's just all over and it's warming
like spots on my skin. But I don't see anything on it, Like
nothing's changing. I'm not getting actually hotter or anything. It's just very weird
feeling. Okay. The longer that you're here, and I don't know if
it's a feeling in your stomach or what, but the more that you interact
with these beams of light or the way that you sort of see these nanites,
you get the feeling that this place that you're in is not virtual.
This is a real place. You don't know when it happened, but there's
been a certain level of detachment. When you first entered the game, like
with any video game, you could see the polygons or whatever. As you've
been here, you've it just kind of happened. It just kind of faded
from memory. But people look like people, things look like solid things.
They don't look like models, and the world's not like hollow with nothing underneath
that you can like falter the world like it's all there. Yeah, this
is a This is something that has sort of I don't know how long it's
it's taken, but at least over the course of the last day, there's
been that feeling that's been kind of building up and you're in the pit of
your stomachs and it's you Jackson and you Technom that have been sort of feeling
this, and you know, I know, I know Jax has been sort
of a bit timid since all of this stuff has started happening, but I
don't know if that's part of it or not. So you guys are to
myself, Yeah, I would keep it to myself for now because I I
don't fully understand, like I think I know in my gut, but I
don't want to like admit it to myself yet, just like, oh,
this is a like in my head, like this is an interesting part of
the game. I didn't know it's just what my character does, like what's
going on, but in my gut it's like I know, So it's just
very weird for me. I feel like I keep it to myself just purely
because they've had a different journey than me. It seems a little bit more
happy, so lucky in a way, and trying to explain that there was
a shift at some point and that it's not pretend seems challenging at this moment.
Can we all feel this or just the nanos? Just the nanos?
Okay, this is something that Nano's experience. Uh, they're they're called glimmer
bursts, and they're connections to the data sphere. They are connections to all
these to the nanotechnologies and things that are going on. If you if you
are curious about these kinds of things, that's actually what the just to step
out of character here, that's actually what the what the kickstarter is about for
Monty Cook. It goes into depth on the data spheres and these glimmer bursts,
and it explains, from my understanding, sort of explains why this kind
of thing happens and how it happens. It's that aspect of the story.
So if you're interested in that kind of thing, check out the Liminal Shores
Kickstarter. But it is a thing that Nano's experience. Yes, cool,
I think we I think we head out after that, we probably all start
walking. We are looking for a ride though, Just to clarify right where
like, if we see a wagon that can maybe fit us, we would
definitely flies them down. Yeah yeah, I don't know if we like a
rolling perception for that or not, or I have b steery knowledge. Can
I tap into like the nanosphere and see if there's an animal around that I
know we could ride. Everyone except Jack's Castler can make an intellect check based
on perception Difficulty three Jack's Castler. If you are attempting to locate a creature
that eats flesh and is non humanoid, you can use your lore of flesh
eating non humanoids. Difficulty is three. Okay, while you're heading out of
town, there are several other creatures besides the gallon. We'll say less than
a mile out of town that you have sort of walked out, you can
see that there are these other creatures. They're much larger than the gallon.
They are sort of gray skin and bipedal. They have sort of like these
little t rex kind of arms. But you can see that there are there
are we'll say three of them outside of town that are being ridden outside of
town. You can see that there's like there's some like cargo basically strapped to
them. They have these sort of saddle bag like things, and yeah,
you can see them sort of like walking along the way. They obviously look
like some kind of like a herd animal kind of thing. Like they're there,
there's people that are riding them and jacks. Uh. You would know,
not necessarily the exact same thing. These are not the same creatures,
but you know that in these sort of plane like environments there are creatures that
you might be able to control with your special abilities. Specifically, there are
some really scary creatures that you might be able to control. I have to
find them. Hold on. Yeah, there are these like strange bug like
creatures. They're sort of like insect like humanoids. They're known as co chatan.
A lot of these creatures are not friendly. M There are also creatures
known as shivern mm hmmm uh. They are essentially shadow creatures. They they're
sort of humanoid like. They're not exactly the best to ride or anything along
those lines, but they they are around. I mean, these aren't things
that you see right now, but you know that they might be findable on
the trip there's also umem nothing really friendly though. Are the bipedal ones?
U? No, they have nothing to do with that. If you want,
everybody can make an intellect check based on uh on beast knowledge. What
was the perception check for that was to see if you if there's anything along
the way. And everybody rolled, well, so it only you only had
to walk about a mile or so before you started finding creatures that were Okay,
does the twenty get anything? Did you roll? You roll the natural
twenty? Yeah? Okay? And then oh wait no no, no Katie
got the nineteen. I thought Mega got it. Yeah, so yeah,
there there there's probably like a group of these creatures. These are what you
see, Yeah, the bipedal t rexes. Oh, there we go.
You see these creatures. Uh, they're sort of like making these I think
the sounds that they're making are probably kind of whale like kind of noises they're
being, say, I imagine a whale like thing with them. Yeah,
but you would know Technome and and all of you just by looking at these
things, you immediately kind of recognize what these what these are the information pops
into your brain. These are anine. They are essentially creatures that that they're
sort of like pack animals. They're they're you know, uh, they're domesticated
creatures that sort of roam these lands. I love them so much, so
much. But yeah, they're making this kind of whale like sort of noises
there as they're moving about. Can we ride these things? Uh? Yeah,
I mean yeah, you can see there's like there's some there's some that
like look like they're just kind of loaded with gear, you know, and
they're sort of like leashed together as they're walking, and they've got that sort
of like you know, that sort of hunched sort of walk. But their
legs look very powerful. I mean their legs alone obviously are about the size
of a person. How fast are they moving. They're making like a decent
pace of me faster than walking. For sure. They're not really running.
You're not seeing any that are really running. They're just kind of like at
a at a good clip maybe six seven miles an hour. These they are
like rubber cows. I like Ducky from Land Before Time. We could try
to ride that, I mean, I can control there's like there's people riding
them. I mean it looks like there's people that are they have they have
several of them that are just kind of like leashed together. There's two or
three people on the back of one of them, and they're they're sort of
loaded down with some gear. I think that you probably see that they have
like a bunch of kindling and stuff and some firewood that they've got strapped at
the back of this thing. Also maybe some other food stuffs and whatnot,
bags of rice, those kinds of things. Seems to be their headache.
They look like they're they're headed probably. I mean, I don't know if
you have the cardinal directions down, but if you're going by the sun,
you can assume that they're they're sort of making their way west. Can I
can I I don't know if this is possible, but can I do like
a perception check or something to see if I can follow the nanites to tell
like directions better? Does that make sense? Because if I'm in tune with
that, I mean, wouldn't I think it's just the general way that you
do things, that's how you perceive things. Yeah, it probably hasn't.
Really, it's it's second nature to you already. You're the way that you
interact with the world and the way that you interact with here. Esso,
Tery's is using these nanits. Okay, that makes sense. Okay, so
if I need to do something, i'd be like, well to tell the
direction I follow the nanits? And what are they telling me? You're just
now probably realizing, like when you were finding the new Man Era out in
the woods, it was probably nanites that were glowing that you were seeing.
Okay, like the equivalent to feeling the arcane breathe. Yes, there's like
a bug creature here somewhere, I can What do you mean that sounds promising?
I got a question by it eats flush. So I don't know if
that's a good idea, because like, what if I don't roll, Well,
why don't we just go ask? I mean, I'm assuming we can
ask about these. I mean, we only need two, maybe for all
of us, maybe less. I guess it depends if they have gear on
them or not. We should at least get one for gear like they're riding
west. I mean, if what it seems to be, if if this
is in fact Earth, which I guess it is in the in the future
of it being twenty eight hours and everything, if this is still Earth or
what we know of it, then that would be west and that's where is
what it looks like it's going. So I think we could try and see
if they will just let us tag along. Okay this, yeh, I
got a great idea. Why don't we flag them down like this. I'm
gonna start waving my hands and uh, you did the talking oga ye that
has not been working for us so far. I said, we we let
myth do the talking here. I think that his character, uh people,
he knows what he was talking about, and uh, he looks like someone
to take seriously, no offense, commercion. I mean, I take you
very serious. But you know I want to do the talking and an ugly
character. Truth, this is real, it's what worked before. I mean,
if we can, if we can use empathy as a as a tool
here, I think will be all right. We could we could be like,
hey, we need a ride, oh sorry, and then do the
do the whole video game thing, or we could actually just really be real
with them, and I think that'll that will help it. That's what I
did with Soula. I mean, I have a hunch that we should just
treat this like we're like, it's like something that we would want in the
real world, and yeah, we we need to get there, And I
think, yeah, whatever, I mean, we could we'd all just talk
as a group. I mean, we don't need to have one person just
do it, you know. Yeah, I agree, that's that's probably the
best option. Let's just try that and commercon you just you just talk the
least. Yeah, I agree, I bet I agree with you. Yeah,
I wouldn't want to see my face moving if they Yeah, probably put
the hood up. It wasn't about that so much is what sometimes comes out.
Yeah, great, ideas, you're welcome. We thank you. As
I continue waving, I like, put the hood down just a little more,
like go just a little bit more, a little more. Are you
trying to flag them down? Yeah, I'm like frantically waving, so like,
yeah, okay, you would see that. You would see one of
them start to like turn away. You don't have to make a role for
that. There we go. Let's I walk over. I start to walk
over towards them, so okay, yeah, you can hear them. They're
just kind of making this sort of like strange keening noise as they're walking.
They have this you can see sort of like similar to like a frog but
probably just like the lower portion of their jaw just kind of like makes this
sort of a bubble sort of look like as they're it seems like it's moving
in relation to that noise. But yeah, you can see the people are
sort of like turning their way, and they're they're leashed together. So there's
like three of them. Uh, there's three of them together. Two of
them are empty save for some some cargo. The one of them that's sort
of leading the rest has uh has three people on it. They make their
way over towards you. You can see it's a it's a woman and two
of her children. They're probably in their teens, and and uh, she's
kind of like she just has like a like something on on top of her
head, probably just to keep the sun out while they're making the trip.
She's got the kids kind of like wrapped up. Otherwise it's pretty it looks
like pretty airy kind of clothing. And she she says, yes, hello,
I don't talk. Hi, Hi, okay, is I neither?
What Why are you saying? I thought the deal was you would, but
none of you said anything. I am She's going to take the lead.
Hi. He Hello, Jesus, Hi there hello, we like cows.
Oh boy, what what what did you say? I'm trying not to laugh,
but I'm just like, oh my god, not from here. He's
not from here. He doesn't get out much as you can tell. And
then I like lift up the hood briefly and put it back down. I
was like, oh, sorry, sorry, we all that you're heading west?
Are you heading west? Yes? We are towards the City of Bridges.
Maybe well, oh perhaps, but not not all the way to the
city. Oh even just a little bit. Uh, could you help out?
We are on our way there, and we're trying to meet a friend
that we think maybe got kidnapped. She's at the City of Bridges. That's
what we last know is she was on a boat with a strange man on
our way there, and it's hard trying to get there as fast as possible,
and we're on foot. We don't have any means of travel beyond just
walking there. Can I touch the beast? Are you asking her? Yeah?
Are they just? Yes? You can? You can? You can?
And she looks just kind of like like a bit a big carre.
You've never seen an unnean before? I haven't. I mean, cool,
we're from out of town. We've traveled a very long way, and we're
worried if it takes us any longer to get to the City of Bridges that
we might not be able to save our friend in time. Yes, traveling
is very dangerous. I try not to do it very often, but we've
been very low on supplies for some time. Hmm, where are you headed?
Actually? Actually, well, we have a small home. It's about
a day or so away from the Sacred Monoliths Scarred Monoliths past it or or
before like? And I asked it because you know, if it's past it,
it's obviously closer maybe to where we're going, because if I remember correctly
looking at the map. Oh well, yeah, no, you have maps.
You're probably looking at them. Isn't that like really close to us right
now? Are not too close but a little, well, it's several days.
Any amount will probably work. I mean, it's closer. If you're
getting closer than here to the City of Bridges, then you will be helping
us. That's true. Actually, that's true. Are you willing to help
us with this? I mean, just us tag along and we promise we
won't cause any trouble and we'll be quiet. And if you need help with
anything, we can obviously help out. Commercon here, he's really strong,
and I like hit him on the back really like. Yeah, difficult,
difficult, hard, Yeah, I keep my elbows up. I like to
keep him up. Okase, anything strong, We can be your bodyguards or
just help out with any supply runs or anything on the way, you know,
just kind of please make a difficulty three intellect check in regards to persuasion
echnoma. Okay, I just do intellect thinks and I'm persuasion right, that
is correct. Okay, can I take one from my pool? Are you
trying to use effort? Oh? Yes, if you are trying to use
effort, you have one edge and intellect. Since you have one edge instead
of the normal three points required to use effort from intellect, it will only
cost you to Okay, I'm going to do that. Yeah, you have
rolled a ten barely. I hate it. I think we have enough space.
We won't exactly be able to move very fast. We are loaded down,
awesome, but I think our onion can can handle it. Thank you
so much. That sounds good. That sounds excellent, Thank you, thank
you. Okay, let's just let's get on. We don't want to slow
them down anymore. How do we get up? You had to have a
bottle or something. Hey, these things don't read minds, do they.
Oh it's ridiculous, Yeah, ridiculous. Do we lift each other up?
Or what's the best way to do this? That there like a is there
like a bridge or something on it? Not a bridge, but you know
how there's like a rope ladder on some things that are tall. It just
has these sort of straps on it. She sort of like indicates, uh,
to the to the sort of it has a you know, like a
bridle. She sort of like indicates to the like the reins coming from the
bridle to uh sort of uh. She she she tries to make the gestures
like she hops down from her onion, and she says, here, I'll
help. So from what I'm picturing, there's three saddled ones, and then
there are four cargo ones, and we are to the one so we can
have to just kind of they're not really saddled. They just kind of have
like some cloth and some there's kind of like straps on them. And there's
three that are meant for writing and the other ones aren't really they're meant for
just carrying stuff. And there's three total. Okay, there's three total,
and there's three people on the one that you're interacting with, and there's two
that are leashed to it. Okay, so they have like two that they're
sort of carrying some extra supplies on. Well, what if we just split
us two and two? We just split us and try to like match the
body weight. Yeah, that's a good idea. I would say that Jay
and I are probably the heaviest because of these damn wings I bought. Yeah,
so yeah, then we just split that way or two and two that
leave someone out? Okay, my bad. We need to put three on
one. Uh, the three smallest and then me and Jay. Yeah,
sound good, and everybody thumbs up tall of them. I'm gonna start climbing
the one nearest to uh technom and I I'm gonna like try to boost them
up. She says. Uh, my name is Coda, I'm Jay.
Nice to meet you, Coda. My name's Techno. Oh my god,
why are you so heavy? I trust the heaviest model. I did the
Slader all the way home. Hold hold still, I just need to get
I need to bend down and they start to she starts to like she pulls
the reins a little bit, and the creature just kind of like folds itself
down. You know, it's kind of awkward. It's kind of a cross
between like several different animals, right, it's kind of like a cross between
like a like a like a can and a frog and uh into what dolphin
with its Yeah, it's it's yeah whale. Yeah, it's a strange kind
of love experience. But she sort of pulls it down and with her help,
it's the difficulty is a zero basically, so you guys can get loaded.
It's packed getting onto these things. I mean they're loaded down. I
mean they were getting supplies. So it's just it's just kind of you it's
not comfortable by any means. I introduced myself as she helps us all Rick,
thank you very much, by the way, You're welcome whatever whatever I
can do to help. It sounds like you've been through a lot. This
is my son, Sem, Sem say hello, Hello. Sem looks like
he's probably like early teenager. She says, Sam, go help the others
with our other anime. Show them how to get on you hear that?
Like that sigh uncomfortable already. Yeah, and she says, don't make that
noise. You help them. Thank you Sam, Thank you Sam. And
this is my daughter Danny. Hi. Hi. She looks a bit like
Timid. She's younger, she's probably like eight or nine. Thanks for letting
us ride. These, I means are beautiful by the way you're making you
feel it like vibrate through your body, like as the sound happens, you
know, like it's it's a little bit of a racic park, you know,
kind of type creatures. Yeah, I want to do the doctor Grant
thing of leaning on it. Oh yeah, I mean it's kind of a
leathery slash scaly, slimy kind of feeling there. Yeah, you know you
feel the breathing and you know you feel a pulse. Why does this thing
feel like an onion? Like an onion? Yes, an onion? And
they're named A nine. When she says her fast enough, it sounds like
my onion. Are you just hungry for onions? We haven't eaten in a
while. I don't know where the onion comparison is coming from. Feel like
an onion. I hate cutting onions. They were like they're slimy, they're
weird. Oh I like onions, man, I wish they had whatever.
Yeah, we have onions. Well, they have rubber cows, so they
might have onions. So tell me about this from the scarred Monolith area,
I mean a day out. I guess that counts as an area. Yes,
as she as she's helped you like sort of climb the climb up with
sem Coda starts to walk back towards her Nie, but she she'll turn her
head and kind of look towards you as you say this, how how is
the how is that area like this? The name of the scarred Monolith just
sounds very intimidating. And you live close enough to it, is it not
a horrible as it sounds. It just sounds intimidating. Well, they there
are many gallon that lives nearby, But no, they're strange to look at.
Sure gallon, you say, like wild gallon? Oh, yes,
there's many herds of gallon. Look everybody else with You have to be very
careful though, if you interact with them. Wild birds of gallon can well,
they can scare easily. Are they easy to tame? Not exactly if
you don't have any practice. H I have cats, I don't know if
they're similar. And cats are easy. What is a cat? Ah,
it's a lot like a gallon, but just like really small kind of like
and you can bring it indoors. And yeah, they're just very domesticated and
sweet. Harry, Yeah, definitely, Harry. But you know, similar
shape and build and all that. They're from where we're from. So yeah,
change, I never heard of gosh. I wish, yeah, I
wish I could see you. And uh, she she'll hop onto the to
her gallon and and uh does everyone ready ready? When you are? I
think so over commercing, too much fun, shoving your wings. I'm sorry,
they're big. I can't help it, just like you you're big wings,
slider the max. We're just so much I think, as comfortable as
we're going to be. It's definitely it's definitely not comfortable. I mean it's
lumpy and you can't you can't. I mean you can't really get your legs
over in a comfortable way. You know, you're always like a skew a
little bit. They're really wide too, right, so it's like your legs
are like yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean go inside saddle
as a possibility, but you have to be. You're constantly adjusting. It's
not a comfortable ride. I finally end up where I just lay across it
like like this, with my feet dangling off the other side and my wings
up behind me so that way they can't like knock into anything. And I'm
just like the wings are counterweight to her body. These creatures, these creatures
are being led. Coda's leading them with her gallon, with her onion.
So you're not really rushing at any sort of a fast pace here, like
when you were rushing through the forest. So there's no role that really has
to be made to control these animals, and you start your way out.
Is anybody trying to do anything, because we'll do a bit of a time
skip here. Just a rolling perception is what I'd usually be doing. I'm
looking at the nanites. I'm trying to study the nanites because I'm still trying
to understand them better even though I'm getting used to them. And I'm like,
I'm slowly letting my gut take over my gut feeling. Okay, that's
about it. My character is always tinkering. Oh I am doing recovery.
Sorry, yeah, we're going to do that as well. Oh, I
want to do recovery as well. Actually, I'm always tinkering. I'd like
to craft a cipher, but I completely understand the narrative that I can't.
Yeah, you essentially need a place to kind of work on stuff. You
can try to do it here, it will be significantly harder, right well,
I mean why not. What else am I going to do? Is
i'd recover right now? Nice? If you are recovering, you can't be
doing this at the same time. I mean, if you're using just your
first action one, then that's the first action is what we're doing. And
then which is great because that's got beautiful Oh yeah, and then I would
like to try because why not try to create a cipher because I have none
still? Okay, jag Emerson, Luna O'Leary, Jax Castler. Please make
intellect check. Please make intellect checks based on perception. The difficulty is for
yeah, yeah, okay. You're gonna be traveling for a few hours.
These are the views that you're seeing here, in general are very beautiful,
sort of the rolling hills of grass, strange plants and things. As you're
making your way along, you know, there's a there's a lot of atmosphere
here, you know, you're getting the feeling of the wind and everything,
and it's just it's just a kind of like wide open space. It's a
lot different, obviously than being in the village and hearing that sound and being
overwhelmed by it. Here there's this just this wide open nature experience that you're
in, this wide open field of plains and whatnot, and this sort of
serene landscape that you're passing through. There's there's just this you know, this
like constant wind that's going on, and it's it's it's probably pretty refreshing because
it's it's a bit humid and it's hot, but there's this like fresh breeze
that's constantly rolling through. If you've ever been to sort of like a tropical
island or that kind of a feeling where the where the sea is reasonably close
and there's a lot of flat land, even if there's a lot of humidity,
it'll it's it's not a stagnant humidity, it's it's a it's a sort
of rolling feeling. So it's a pleasant it's a very pleasant breeze that's sort
of flowing through here. But there is a lot of wind. These are.
These are sort of big open plains. As you move away from h
Kephard, you're sort of heading like north and and west at the moment,
as you're making your way around the forest that was near Cafford to the west
near the coast. As you're as you're moving across these these rolling hills and
plains. After a few hours, Uh, there is something that starts to
worry you. The wind is increasing in its severity. It started out just
kind of like as a pleasant breeze, but now it's getting to the point
where you can barely hear yourselves think the wind is blowing really hard. Still
clear out, but really intense wind. It's whipping by. If you have
any clothing that's kind of loose, it'll be like slapping against you, you
know, like and just getting stuck against your against your body. You'd see
like the grass kind of like flying almost horizontal as the wind is whipping through
all rick. You're trying to work on some kind of device here. The
way that crafting works, there's a as a right, you're primarily a crafter.
You kind of like need a place to work, you need time to
work, and you need materials. You have yourself some of these components you
have iotum that you've salvaged from her, from these from these experiences thus far,
the way that the crafting works basically is, uh, you determine,
like what kind of object you're trying to create. What are you trying to
create? I was thinking a cipher, but nothing of any specific, So
I was just gonna fiddle and roll on the table. Okay, So all
right. What I'd like for you to do then is to at a character,
because in character I would still think that they'd be like, hey,
it doesn't matter, let's make a cipher and whatever it is, it will
get random ull rick shiloh. It seems like you are trying to craft a
cipher. Is this correct? Yes? Please roll? Let's see. This
is gonna be a D one hundred followed by a D six h yeah.
Yeah. So, uh, this iotem that you have has sort of turned
into a kind of liquid sort of thing. It's looking like, uh,
some kind of spray of some kind. Please roll a difficulty five intellect act.
In regards to crafting new min era Um, I'm gonna spend an edge
on it, or spend effort uh twice, I'm training it is that an
asset? No? Please roll from your skill list you have crafting New min
Era. I did that, Yes, I was just wondering if it was
an asset, if I had a train you are trained in crafting New min
Era or no further assets than get rolled in eighteen. So as you are
doing this, it just kind of comes naturally to you. You're creating some
kind of container the iotem. You sort of break it apart. I don't
know how you do it. I'll let that be up to you. What
does it look like as you're doing this? What does the experience look like?
Sure, so you said it will be a spray device. It's a
spray device. Yes, so you are creating essentially a slash retardant spray slash
and retardant spray. Okay, so yeah right, Uh so I get rayon
kevlar kind of pretty much spray on chain mail. Yeah, the BAM.
So I guess, uh what if anybody's watching or looking, I'm taking out
I'm fiddling with all these different like iotem. I have mentioned the iotem before
as some sort of like dark blueish glowy ore looking thing. But one of
them that I take out, it kind of is a little it looks like
it's been melting. It's got a little bit of a sludge. The viscosity
is a lot lower than the than the the I guess the the booger type
iotem that we had before. But this one I start to use UH,
and I take out and I start to apply it and need it within my
fingers until it starts to get a little drip stiffer. And then I use
the same bottle and the vial that was in it, and I place it
back in with with I guess some of the parts that I would probably used,
maybe some of the surgical tubing from from the scrap and parts that we
had from the spherical iotems or the spherical new Monera back the gazers, and
even maybe the the laser tip or something, the parts that we've salvaged from
them, I fashioned into the nozzle of this this piece. What you see
is a small vial and now with inky dark like a the a big inky
dark liquid with some surgical tubing and the laser bit from the from the gazer
UH, and I test it and it sprays this and as it sprays through
the air, probably the the nanos in the party would see it start to
glimmer, and I like the cloud glimmer. And then as it would as
like a cloud of for breeze or a cloud of spray would dissipate, so
does the light that would come from it. And then I just kind of
put it back in the that don't work. Yeah. I think as you're
working on it, you realize that it's it's kind of bulky as you're making
it. It starts to get more elaborate as you work on it. Like
first you start with this little vial, but it starts to be this like
this bulky handheld device and it's kind of got like a large tank and like
a wide hose kind of thing to spray it. But yeah, fire hydrant
size, and this is going to cost you some iotem is it level two?
Uh So this device is a level four and it was a difficulty five
because you were doing it on the back of a knean. Yeah yeah,
yeah in the wind okay, yeah, Technome, I'll explain to you some
things that are happening in just a second, okay, because as this wind
is kicking up and this is something again that Jacks and Jay and Una,
you're noticing, like over the last couple of minutes, it's been it's been
starting to get like really kind of intense. The uh, the entire thing
is, uh, it's it's it's it's starting to get a bit like overwhelming.
Okay, you're also noticing something the three of you. As the wind
is picking up, you see the ground start to move. I got some
shit's going wrong. At first, you see the grass like you think it's
the grass, you know, like it's just getting whipped around or something by
the wind. But then you realize is that the ground beneath the grass seems
to be moving. Do I notice anything in the nana nanos that's different thing?
Oh yeah, that's how That's what gives you your tip. Here,
as the wind picks up, in an almost like goose flesh like reaction,
the ground reacts to the wind. You can see the nanites are sort of
grouping up. There's sort of pools of them. And I guess the way
that you described was sort of like bits of light. So you can see
the light is just getting like really kind of intense in certain areas, and
the ground starts to you start to see still lag my come from the ground,
right, Yeah, yeah, they come from the ground and they start
to burst forth ship going on. Is this normal? Coda? Is this
normal? You can't even hear coda. The loud sounds are overwhelming. You
can see the the unan are definitely bothered. And that's a good place for
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return. As the winds are picking up, and yeah, Jacks, you
are you are noticing the the nanites and things moving about at pretty crazy speeds.
You can see those are sort of moving all about, and everybody starts
to hear this, this sort of like rumbling of these rocks. Can I
do the post? What are you looking for to see if it's created by
any sort of being? If I'm looking at the nanites, is it created
by a certain being? Or is it just like a phenomenon that's happening right
now, kind of like an earth quake. You were kind of trying to
get in tune with the nanites before. What were you looking for before this?
I was trying to study them to see if I could differentiate the difference
between like the land and the thing the creatures that were alive, and like
the flow of where everything's going and how it rests. Okay, Just so
just a general kind of study of how they sort of interact with the world.
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think you really. I don't
think I'll really make you do a role. You're a nano that's kind of
like what you do. They're all over the place. I mean, they're
everywhere, equivalent to germs or bacteria around the world. They're everywhere. It's
very pervasive and as as I think you can imagine, as the wind sort
of whips around, you'll see the nanites just kind of whip around through the
wind, and you can see they're crawling on the grass, and they're crawling
on everybody, and they're very much a part of this world. Is this
a like big luster of nanites or is this just the world like shooting up
out. I think I think that you were kind of focused, just probably
in a small space. Everybody else was kind of doing these these checks.
You probably were just kind of in the zone. You were studying what allows
you to do what you do basically from what the sound is, from the
sound of it, and you maybe you were trying to use some of your
hedge magic and whatnot before. But you'll see that your hedge magic is actually
closely related to these nanites. You would see that they are the things that
are actually doing the hedge magic. So the small objects I could make and
whatnot are actually just them. They're the nanites that are creating these objects.
Okay, Yeah, that's why I'm mister Smith. Yeah, creating things.
I mean, I mean in that sense of like if I was like,
here's a cup in front of you and it just like forms itself around it,
almost like a three D printer kind of thing. Yeah, in my
hand, Yeah, it just it would. I think with the hedge magic,
it's meant to be sort of a flash in the pan kind of thing,
so it might it might be there for a second, or it just
disappear, you know, after it's not it doesn't have real structure to it.
Yeah. Yeah, the rest of you, you're you're seeing this,
I mean, this is this is crazy. You're seeing stalagmites shoot up from
the ground, and I think that you're a nine start to you know,
they're they're starting to uh to move around and uh buck as you're all on
them. Yet Yeah, I think I think this is bad. I think
that these are these are the things that the wind things, the iron wind.
I really hope not. Yeah, this would be bad, this would
make sense, but this but this is the this is bad. This is
okay, we gotta get everyone. Please make a speed check. Oh boy,
in relation to riding animals, a difficulty m sorry one second suspense?
Does that scene in the Wizard of Oz from the Tornado brings Dorothy? But
it difficulty is three? Obably? What? Okay? This isn't knowledge based
task, is it? Oh? This is not a knowledge based task?
Uh uh? Does a skill reacting count? Oh? No, difficulty three?
We all get three? Yes, that's perfect. Wow. At least
we're consistent among the party. No one's getting left behind. We all fail
together, thank you, we all win together. We all fail together.
Wow. Okay, So what happens below you. A salagmite forms, shoots
upwards, forms, and the anine gets thrown. Everybody flies off of the
anine down to the ground as this wind is whipping through rocks and things are
flying through the air. Little bullets of rock essentially are moving all about as
these salagmites shoot up from the ground and they sort of make like a wave
like motion in response to the wind. Uh. You all hit the ground
hard. Uh, everybody is going to roll. Actually, who wants to
be the volunteer to roll? I will pocket pocket roll two D six for
me? Please? Okay? Three again? Three? So the Uh,
the whole group hits the ground pretty hard, falling off of the onien who
are sort of bucking. The one that you were on is connected, you
know, via a like a leash, like a lead to the other two.
And you can hear Coda sort of like yelling you it's it's too she's
like too far away. It's too loud. You can't really make it out,
but just hear, you know, just sort of screaming trying to reach
you. Over the wind. Everything is chaos. The anion gets thrown into
the air, and your aniene starts to uh, like get launched up by
the by the stalagmite. They're sort of like on an angle flowing with the
wind, and the onion gets tossed up into the air. You all fly
hit the ground, Rocks begin to pelt you. Everyone takes three damage through
your armor. Mike, Yeah, this will be might damage, yes,
nice and uh yeah, these little like pebbles that are essentially bullets are just
flying through, smacking you in the body, and it's it's brutal and uh.
The the wind you can hear it starts to like fade, but it's
hard to see as there's lots of rocks and things moving through the air and
we're all like on the ground kind of oh yeah, that's go to keep
moving with the herd. Uh. The anine stopped because of this. The
sort of center one, uh, that that several of you were on got
launched. Now one of the other the other one that had the rest of
the group, got sort of like pulled and smacked and you just kind of
fell off of the anine into this chaos. The anine look like they're uh,
they're kind of like injured like as they're as they hit the ground,
but they do kind of like all fall over. You can see Coda and
her two children also fall to the ground. I'm in like fighting sand.
Then I've got love. We got both the daggers out looking for whatever this
is, no matter how futile it might be, maybe trying to back out
towards the grier you think coming at us. Besides, like, obviously we
got hit off the thing. But is anything else coming at us right now,
like any monster or anything visible? No, there are bullets of pebbles
still coming at us from there. They're kind of like whipping around. It
looks like they're kind of dying down. I kind of just like get loaded
down. Fuck, what the hell was that? As the wind starts to
die down, you can see the the lag mites start to shrink back into
the grounds that were those the iron winds. I have no idea. I
run over to Coda. Yeah, I run over to her, and I
start picking up her children, trying to help them up. I'm start trying
to the collected any scattered supplies. I'm gonna start trying to pick up for
them. Sam, Donnie, are you all right? Or are they uh
uh, they're they're they're there there. They look like they're sort of covered
by some of the supplies. Sam is trying to like push some stuff off
the anine Uh is sort of like doing the thing where it's a kicking its
legs trying to find a way to sort of get back up. You can
imagine these creatures are not really meant to fall onto their sides like this is.
It's pretty dangerous, and the legs are sort of kicking about. You
can see Sem, Sem and Donnie are trapped below some supplies and they're trying
to free themselves, as as Coda is. She's she's trying to get close,
but the ain is still like kicking trying to find a way. It's
making these like panicked Sorry, it's they're making sort of like the panicked,
like repeating these warbling kind of noise noises in a much more like hurried pace.
I'll try and skid her under the legs if Technom doesn't beat me to
it, to try and get the things off of the other kids so they
don't get trampled. Just to be clear who's doing this, it's it's Jay
and oh no I'm not I'm not gonna go and I don't have good mite
and speed, so I will I'll assists Jay. We'll also assist I'll try
to help to. I'll get ready to heal. Someone's gonna get kicked.
I'm like doing that is there underneath the Amerson? Oh no, please roll
a speed check Difficulty three. You have been assisted by three members of your
party. Yeah you have three assets? All right? Yeah you're just yelling.
Okay, Okay, I have a question. I can't even go that
high. I can I use my hedge magic to make a blindfold for the
anine. You know how when you blindfold a horse, they calm down a
lot more because they can't see around them. The anine, if I can
make like a blind blinders around it, so that way, it like maybe
calms down a little bit. Does that? Hope that makes sense? I
may not understand, but I get it. Yeah, just kind of like
little blinders for them. Even though they don't last a long time or something.
Your application of hedge magic will be impossible for this task. Okay,
it was a good thought. Yeah, So can you explain how the three
of you are helping Jay to rush through these very big kicking legs I mean
muscular kicking legs. I mean, you know how horses have really like large
thighs and this sort of like legs in out these creatures have like big meaty
thick like ice les. Yeah, these are big thick legs. So these
are very heavy, meaty legs. I'm sorry. How close are they together,
these these anene because you say there's maybe ten feet apart from each one.
H Okay, I know what I'm gonna do. I guess I'm running
underneath. So when I start seeing these legs like piston kick horse horse keel,
I'm gonna start I'm going to uh. I guess what I'll do is
I go to run over there like help, and then realize how dangerous that
is, and then I take out I I I guess I just kind of
like look at my hands and remember what my character does, and I hold
out my hand and you see a distortive lens of of purple just kind of
distort around the two anein and hopefully try to slow the kicks in a distorted
dark matter of warp which has a template range. So you see this dark
matter starts to spread out. Una, what about you and and Jack's So
my plan is a lot less eloquent. My plan is to just run on
the inner side, like between where Jay and the legs would be, because
I assume they're so big that like we can actually fit kind of staggered like
that as we're running as big as a person like each leg Okay, and
literally all I assume that I'm here for help wise is the possibility of being
a human meat shield if needed. And because I don't know anything else that
I can be doing to help, I have this odd chaotic mix of like
trying to run through while also trying to speak really comfortingly the way I would
if my dog were freaking out or something. So I'm trying to book it,
but at the same time, I'm like, you're okay, you're doing
fine. Please stop kicking me. No no, please don't do that.
No no, no, we don't need to be doing that right now.
And I don't know if it's having an effect, but I sure would like
to think it does. Okay, what about you, Jacks. I have
a special ability called push. You can push a creature or object. I
don't have to read it if if you guys don't want me to, but
an immediate distance in any direction you wish. You must be able to see
the target, which must be your size or smaller. I must not be
a fixed to anything. So since it's bigger than me, is it not
gonna work? Null? Unfortunately, your special ability push will not work in
this situation. I'm gonna look at the two kids. Is there one of
the kids that I can push out from underneath it? Uh? I think
you can push the stuff that's on top of them off. I'm gonna do
that. Yes, Okay, so you have you have one edge in your
intellect, so this is only gonna cost you one from your current intellect.
Okay, but yeah, you push some of the stuff off, and all
all of you sort of working together, push this stuff off, get the
kids out from the sort of dangerous spasmodic legs of this of these anine,
it looks like the third one is still standing, but the the sort of
central one and the one on the left where we actually probably she probably would
have had m no, probably she was probably on the left, and then
there was a central one and the one all the way on the right that
was kind of attached. It would have just been one lead. I don't
think they would have divided it. And uh, yeah, the third one
is still like standing. It looks like disoriented and upset. But the other
two are like on the ground, like on their sides, sort of like
kicking. But through your efforts, you're able to sort of help these kids
out and help Coda get her get her kids out going. All right,
Sam, Donny are you all right? They're good, they're good. Sem
is like noddings. He's he's like, he's you can see he's like holding
Donnie's hand and she looks like she's like freaking out a little bit. And
uh and Sem says, I'm okay, Donny, Donny, it's okay,
it's okay, it's okay. You're not hurt. You're not hurt. It's
okay. And she's she's just kind of crying and he's he's just trying to
like comfort her. But what was that? What what just happened? She
says, Lenn must be angry, lamp It gets angry. Sorry, I
don't know. We must have done something too upset it. So that wasn't
those weren't the the iron winds? Then? No? Okay, oh,
okay, say that, like the iron winds are way worse than that.
Yeah, that's how I imagine them. I have seen the iron winds for
a very long time, and I hope that I never see them again.
Oh okay, it's like that. Okay, it's like that, all right,
but that wasn't them. I'm mostly not worried that that wasn't there.
But we should get this under control. I'm gonna like say that to the
group and and her maybe try and try to help pick up even some of
the supplies and stack them properly. I don't know how to tame a rubber
cow, but I'm gonna start gathering some of the supplies as well and trying
to organize and repack things I've been since I couldn't do anything because I wasn't
gonna dive under there. I'm gonna do the same. I'm gonna I've already
been gathering supplies. You guys are there gathering supplies. Well, I'm doing
like the what the fuck space the whole time, like, oh my what
just like eyes wide open, really tense. Is there anyway I could try
to gauge what just happened to us beyond just some stalagmites or whatever jumping out
of the ground at us being okay, Like I'm like, wait, I
know I was facing out and I was focusing on the nan nights that were
surrounding Jay's face. But what was that? And I'm trying to understand that
the whole time, I'm like picking up supplies, like why you weren't helping
her? Why you didn't help it because you were like so focused on going
what was that? Yeah? What was that? And why didn't I see
it? Like I feel like I should have seen that. I should have
seen that coming like that shift. Please make a difficulty seven intellect jacket.
Okay, oh but ye seven regards to nature and I don't think I have
a nature. Let's go no ooh, please don't get a one? Okay,
what I got twenty? What I got twenty and failed? Oh it'd
be like that sometimes do I get like any like, well you failed,
but uh, I actually don't know if it's success. It's not a six.
You would have had to if you put effort into that, then yeah,
you would have succeeded. There there's no auto auto succeeding roles. Yeah,
auto succeeding roles like I felt that. Yeah, my magic major effect
is that I'm completely devastated. Okay, alcohol now, so uh you're you're
just not sure? I think that if anything. I mean, you saw
the nanites kind of moving about the world in sort of reaction to this wind
that was happening. But I don't think you really understand why it happened.
But can can I tell if the nanites were a part of it or like
against it, kind of like moving away from it, like it was phenomenon.
I don't think he can tell. Okay, you okay, talking look
a little lost. I don't want to talk about it. I just just
sneaed alcohol and to pick this stuff up so we can get on our way.
I don't know what's going on, this is this is crazy. I
thought I could maybe tell, but I can't. I'm sorry. Oh this
is cool. I didn't kick in the face. By the way, i'mlad
you didn't get kicked in the face because you're already, you know, ugly
enough. So can you imagine, you know, yeah, if I had
like a crescent shape on my face and you guys are like, hey,
what's up? This is the guy that got his head blown off by Rubbert
cow and as it does, like pick this one up. This one's too
heavy. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm not very strong. I am going
to pick it up. I don't know if it's Jacks. How are you
feeling about all of this? I'm kind of in odd that they're joking because
it feels so real now and I'm helping pick up supplies and I'm watching them
and I'm gonna drop what I have in my hands, and I'm gonna look,
do you guys not feel how different this is? What do you mean,
Katie? I mean the part where we almost died. I don't think
are you making jokes? I don't think this is something to joke about anymore.
I'll walk over to j and I'm gonna put my hand on his face.
Do you feel that? Yeah, I'm gonna slap his face. Does
that hurt? Yeah? We've been through this and I like the side of
his face. Well that's what I mean, though, No, But we
know, we know already. We know like apparently I died. Did you
know I died? Like like I died like whatever this and you like golden
whatever I died apparently like did you know that? I mean obviously you weren't
here, but I uh, that's what everyone they're saying. And they're the
ones that communicated with uh uh chat yeah chat uh l I can't even remember
anymore because it's so I just maybe it's denial. Maybe we all cope differently.
You're Nana right, Yes, I am. Yes. Does anything feel
different? Or do? I mean I'm seeing things? I'm seeing things?
Do wait? Wait? Does look the same? What do you mean?
What are you seeing? You guys getting like visions? No? Well,
no, kind of no. Like like you know, Jay, when I
was on the Anean and I was staring at your face for a long period
of time, Yeah, there were these like I like to call them fireflies
in my head, but it was just a bunch of glowy that was like
just over your face and swirling around. Did you feel the wind at all
there? Because I mean yeah, I could feel the wind. I know
what you mean. Though I played it. I played a nano before we
did this. We did like a pilot session. I know, I know
what they can like, so you know what we're you know what we're feeling
then, I mean I don't know. I know they have an ability,
you know, to feeling, but we can see and well I can see
and feel it like I it feels well, I mean yeah, I just
roleplated. I didn't I knew that in the lower but I didn't. You
are actually feeling this, Yeah, it feels different. Yeah, I just
thought it was me, So I thought, you know, I'm probably just
going crazy again, you know whatever, you feel that? And I point
and ad gestured to the scar still mikes, do you feel that? Yeah,
you were staring off at it. I tried. I don't know what
I think. I think it's just too much. I you know, we've
only been here for how long, and it's all like just it's all starting
to rush, and I don't I don't know. I had no idea that
was happening because I was so focused on just the things around us, the
nine and and just the wind, and I just didn't even see that coming.
It was I don't even know what it was. Was that a creature?
Coda said the land is mad? But the land is mad? What
is that? Oda? Jay? Did you you hit the face? Oh
man? No? Wait what Remember when he hit the face? Remember when
he hit the face? Okay, that was like, you know, thirty
hexes that way, and that thing was like a little head of Alex Louise
Armstrong, like there's no way communicate, you know, like when you start
chopping down a tree it can actually send out like like what it's like pheromones
or something to the other trees to warn them, like or I'm looking around
like a I mean, and I'm just going to lower my voice here so
only the our group can hear. I don't mean to disrespect her beliefs or
anything. But it's possible that this is a story that has been passed down
over generations here to explain things that aren't really the land being mad at anybody.
That's just what they believe. That's a I mean, that's the thing
for us with religion, right, like to do that all the time.
Remember the ear drums. I just thought it was something that was meant to
be and then we went and well I didn't go do anything. So she
could be attributing some kind of spiritual reason saying it's the land doing it.
But there could be a perfectly plausible explanation to this. Could have nothing to
do with the way we're treating the land or interacting with it. You know,
I don't think one second coda codah, Yeah, she's she's trying to
like calm the nine down approach. Coda. How many times in your I'm
sorry, just you said the land was angry or it seemed mad. How
many times has that happened? And does it happen often enough? Where is
that is that recent? I don't I don't really know. I've seen it
happen a few times. When was the last time you've seen it happen a
few years ago? Okay? Was there anything unusual happening at the time a
few years ago to coincide with that? Do you remember wall right? Or
are you guys saying this. I'm just gonna pop my head up because I
was trying to rude Leavestrup. But I don't say anything. Luna O'Leary,
please make a intellect checked difficulty three in regards to conversation social interaction. You
got it all, damn it. No always interrupting our conversations. Yeah,
you have rolled a ten, she says, Now that I think about it,
I remember these wins again. The winds got very strong, and then
the ground just it moved. What a couple of years ago? I think?
So who were you with? Were you with anyone I was making a
trip with my same trip? Yes, we were getting supplies. Okay,
so it's not a frequent thing every We just got unlucky. I mean,
either way, we have to keep moving forward, right, there's nothing we
can like do here. How are we going to investigate the ground? Should
we just keep trying to try and triangulate, like where the window? How
would you investigate the ground? I'm I'm saying, And we look where the
wind came from, and wind comes from everywhere. Should we just try to
move on and hope it doesn't happen again? I mean, what do you
guys want to do about this? No? We can? We can?
We can yet, right, we can? How would you stopping? You
can? How would you stop? Yeah? Yeah, you're right, impossible
my question, And I guess I'm going to try to help strap some of
these things down and actually lend a hand. But I also have a conversation
at the same time. Why is it called scarred monolith The scarred monoliths they
are like you have never seen them my first time passing passing this west?
Mm hmm, Well, the scarred monoliths. They are like floating islands in
the sky with massive statues, these monoliths so rest atop them. That sounds
like nack ran Yeah, how you say it? Yeah? Yeahn gron Okay,
I mean, you can say it either way. Probably it doesn't.
Okay, Yeah, I get it though, Okay, I wonder never mind,
I was gonna make a joke. Never mind, never mind, this
isn't time a joke. What what do they do? They just what do
you mean? They are like a mountain or a cloud? They simply are.
I mean, somebody put these statues there for a reason. We have
the pyramids. Something happened that launched them and to keep them suspended. That's
probably why they're called the scarred monoliths. They got to scar them or laser
rate. They were Earth history. What ephen the last time we came upon
an object in the ground that appeared to be some sort of like, I
don't know, ritualistic type device. Yes, things are beyond me. No,
I'm saying it attacked us. That's what I'm saying. I hear what
you're saying. And we did almost die, but we did get a lot
of iota the land is andry at you? Oh what at us? What
makes you say that attacked you? What? No, a bunch of what
are it all's gazers? Gazers attacked us. Yeah, they were the new
mon era. They were weapons like giant meatballs with lasers. They burnt our
friend really bad thing. That's horrible, So we shut down, we shut
down the giant noise. Do you think that just this everything knows and we'red
has traveled amongst the new min Era and now they're they're trying to get revenge
as we go along our journey. I don't. I don't know enough about
any of those to know. But is that a thing where they can be
communicating? Is it? I mean, everything seen human is beyond that.
Would that would imply like such a large connection. But then are all the
new min aras connected? Then we think about where we are from Dab and
how we are now here. Maybe it's not just the new man Era,
and maybe this new Minerra is in fact where we are, and that's why
it can do what it is that you were saying it can do, because
we are the ones causing a ripple within this new Minera. So it's us
wherever we go, stuff's just going to happen. Maybe possibly it's just a
theory I have, or maybe yes and no, like that's how keffort they
have the They have that for years they blinded themselves generations. I don't think
that. I think the is keffort was just a thing that happened in history.
Thank you very much, Koda. Let's just we'll try to go back
up our backup art our thing over here. And I kind of gesture everybody
as we as we walk away, I go, what if it just knows
we don't belong? Yeah, I think that's the same pretty saying it could
be mad because we are the ones who are the one we are, we
are the issue, we have the ones rippling across this new minera, which
is actually just the world. Well then let it be mad man, what
the hell we don't want to be here? Or maybe the developers just programmed
it into the game to happen in the specific area at a specific time.
Maybe Wait, you said yourself that you knew this is more than just a
game though, Well it feels real now. But why wouldn't it be mad
at us? There's so it's not just us, there's others out there like
us. Because we don't belong, we are we are disrupting what could be
a whole nother world. That what if we were like transported into this world
and now we're just here and we're not supposed to be here. Have you
ever watched the clover Field with this this space one? Yeah? How they
get trans transported and then it just spends the whole time trying to kill them
off. Spoilers. I'm sorry if anyone didn't see that, but it just
spends the whole time trying to kill them off. What if that's what it's
trying to do. We don't belong here? Well, different timeline. Well,
I guess in that case, we better move fast. If it's going
to keep doing it, we still have to get Pumpkinberry, right, we
better start going it. Oh boy, Katie, I mean, I know
it's not the time to joke, but that's I mean, we really if
this is it, then this is it man. You know, like if
you're saying it's not a game anymore, then it's not a game anymore and
we're living. And holy shit, that wasn't the iron winds. Because those
things turn you into a fucking mountain or something. They make your eyeballs into
like broccoli, and then your feet turn into a car, and your heart
turns into a tire or and then your tongue is a deer. They'd like
rearrange everything that shit's terrifying. Okay, I didn't know about this until right
now. Yeah, they're nanits that like travel the world and literally rearrange every
single thing in their way, and the parently spot on Jupiter. It just
travels in the entirety of Yeah, New Manero to nine World, and all
of the nanits that are around us are just culminated in that, and they're
just not happy, and they will, like you, they will change them,
elecul destructor of anything they breaze sort of. Also, Katie, if
you don't mind, I could call you Katie or Jack's or you just call
me Katie. Okay. Uh, the we had any thing happened, the
events with Pocket and her not reacting, we interacted with her by putting her
on the gallon to get her safely, and in that Noel would reply glitch,
yeah like you like, please make a please make a like very kind
of. So anyway, we just there. If little fragments of it left,
yeah, if there are things that we are doing here are still interacting
with whatever is still this place. As real as it seems, there is
still a bit of artificial I don't know, I don't know, and we
have we have of course, maybe that's what we should be worried about.
That's what I'm saying. And so I'm moreorried about this this. If this
winds of stalagmites could just take us out off a mountain, who is to
cause it? If the world and the land is mad at us, what
else will he's also mad at us? I mean, okay, call me,
call me stupid if you want. But if stupid, thank you.
If if we're foreign objects existing in the world, doesn't that just make us
new minera as well? Can we? Can we talk about this while we're
going on the way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll hoist myself back up on it. You have to think about too,
if we're not belonging here, something kept us here, and the fact that
we have known, like I said, when when you died or whatever bucket
that I mean, I hate to say it. I feel like that's our
ticket out. If we have any lives, like do we do? We
have three lives? Like old Mario anything like that? You know why I
don't remember anything from that time period, like it's all a blank. It's
kind of like I just fell asleep through the whole thing and don't remember any
of it. Honestly, did your companion respond mine? Yeah, the reason
why you've left and found that one place. I never saw him again.
I just left would be far away, right. I don't I don't.
I don't trust the chances of making a again. I say, maybe we
should be on our waist. Remember how last time we wasted that time?
And I don't want to pressure anyone to stop talking, but we're doing this
as we're like getting ready, and yeah, yeah, you three can go
talk because I think you know, you have a better idea of what's going
on in commerce. And I will go back on our any you know,
I saw him. I'm up here. Yeah, are they anine? All?
Ride it again? And there no coda the large creatures Coda. Coda
is checking to see if any of them were hurt. These are what what
happens if, like you know, a horse or a cow falls on its
side, like cow tipping much bigger. This is you know, probably injuries.
Yeah, do they seem injured? Uh? I think that Coda,
Uh, Coda would be sort of like running between them, sort of like
furiously checking, sorting, trying to calm them down and whatnot as you got
closer. Uh, do you ask that sooner. Yes, yeah, Coda
Cota would just be saying, uh, I don't think so nothing bad aside
from a few cuts and scrapes. Good. Can we can we help you
get them back up again? Please? I'm going to need all the help
I can get. All of us should should try. Yeah, just let
us know what to do, all right. Don't get near the legs,
get near the hips and yes, uh we we should all help from the
hips and from the shoulders, and and trying not to push on the stomach.
I you I've got I've got this cord, and I've got this very
thin cable. I could you if I could lash the legs or try to
last all the legs and and help tip them up and also keep it securely,
don't fly and kick. They would have trouble standing if you did that.
That's true, then makes a lot of sense. Okay, never mind?
Question how far away from are we from your destination? Wait? Less
talking, more pulling? Wait? Wait, I just want to know how
far away we are? Who are you asking? I'm asking? Coda Coda
says, oh, several days? Oh? Is there no town or a
little like village before then? No? Great, Okay, I'm not very
strong, but I'll help how I can. Everyone please make a might check
difficulty three. This is in regards to lifting. Whoa, never mind,
I'm very strong right now, teen eighteen assets. Al Rick has rolled a
sixteen. Uh, al Rick has rolled a six. Jack Says rolled a
sixteen, and Jay has rolled a sixteen. So after much uh sort of
heavy lifting, everyone is able to write the anine all Rick as you do,
so you're uh, you're definitely not cut out for this kind of thing.
Uh, maybe your strengths lie elsewhere. But as you're trying to lift
this thing, you just face plant right on the ground. Your legs sort
of come out from ut of you and the the the uh yeah, you
just couldn't get a good grip with the with your feet on the ground and
just whap slam your face right into the ground. But everyone else is able
to sort of write these anyone scene that's everyone saw this, okay there,
Yeah, yeah, it's that you're gonna based up the land is angry at
me. Joke about it as I wipe the blood and blood off my nose.
Yeah, I've ever done like a hard face plant into the ground.
I mean it is dirt, but still laugh. I'm gonna take a mic
from that. I needed that, thank you. Yeah, all right,
Big Van Dyke of ninth World. I'm fine, I'm fine. All right,
we should probably get going. I think the creatures are well. Now.
This probably when all of a sudden none. This would have taken like
a half hour or an hour for all of this to happen. You guys
have been here over a day now. It's it's probably been close to like
thirty thirty two hours something along those lines. It's the middle of the afternoon.
Essentially, you've been traveling kind of all day on this first day.
But you get the onion righted and you're off on your way. But all
Rick, you've created this slash resistant spray. As far as the iotom goes,
it would have cost you. It took away one in one so far,
just so I believe it would have cost you probably four regular iotom who
I have two, so I can't do it. Did you have any other
kind of iotem? I have parts and responsive synth. Responsive synth is a
level two iotem. It basically counts for two. Okay, so I will
you said four? Yeah, it will cost four basically, like think of
it like a level one or level two. Level one is one okay,
okay, which is yeah? Which which I guess then correct on a little
bit of the narrative, which doesn't matter really. But the liquid that I
was playing with was reacting to my touch. Okay, that's there, was
it? So yeah, I'll just take the two responsive synth off. Then
I'll add that part I had taken off back. Okay, and you understand
how to use this slash resistant spray, but someone else that's using it would
have to make a roll to try and understand it. Okay, So the
rest of the day is sort of unevent full, thankfully. As you are
traveling through the Ninth World, Code would have stopped and said we should probably
set up camp here for the night. I agree, Yeah, let me
know how to mark this and what you need done? H question actually coda?
Uh? Do you have any food? Any food? Oh? Just
a little bit. That have to be a thing big. Well, I
think we can pay you for it even if you have any, just something
little. If you don't, we can go find some. Oh true,
yeah, we could go find some. I've never hunted before. I haven't
either, but I don't know how to do that. You guys are super
fucking hungry. I mean you have you've essentially Yeah, you've only had like
one meal since you've been here and it's been thirty something hours. Yeah,
we have sweet rations. Don't forget. I'm gonna like chew on two of
them. Wait, do I even have rations? I don't have any of
that that come in your main pack. Not everybody gets one. I didn't
get I didn't. You guys want some? Okay, grab one from his
hand and leave six. Anyone else? Do you want one? All of
us have sponsors, that's uh, yeah, not all of us are sponsored.
J Some of us had to buy yeah sponsored rations. I mean sorry
Monti Cook gave it to me for their new Kickstarter. Who is asking coda
in regards to these? She had rations and if we could pay her for
it? Technome, please make an intellect check difficulty two in regards to persuasion
or bartering. Okay, I just have to do Intellet Yeah, you have
rolled a seven. I have some food, yes, anything, It doesn't
have to be any It could be bread and water, I mean, just
anything, honestly to be a lot. You know you have a family,
yes, your secondary just remember that feel off of that, you're already bringing
us along, so just thank you for that. And I'm also happy to
help. And she says, sim give them some of the fruit that we
have, all right, I will help. Thank you so much. Sighs
again as he gets off the I mean, Danny, you helped too,
And you guys are gonna make camp for the night. There's probably just like
there's a lot of rolling hills and stuff here. There might be just like
a rock that's kind of like moss covered, kind of growing out of the
out of the ground and whatnot that you use is kind of like a little
miniature shelter. But yeah, you're gonna kind of set up camp here.
And she doesn't have like really uh any extra stuff for you to sleep in
or anything. They have like a tent for them. Does anyone else have
anything? Are you sleeping outside? What are you doing? I have an
Explorer's pack, and I don't know how to check what's in that. Also,
so in the player's Player's Guide, if you look under the equipment section,
it will actually tell you what's in there. Okay, got it pretty
sure. I have an Explorers pack too, and it didn't give me I
don't think it gave me sleeping gear unless I'm blind. What are you from?
Kevft Wow. I started to gather some like pieces of wood and whatnot
to make a fire. So the thing about this is, you guys have
moved away from the forests. There's really not any wood around. If we
need some light, I'm going to pull out a glow globe from my pack
and activated however, however it needs to be activated, whether it's like us,
however you think I am going to say, please work and it'll kind
of light up and start to fill the space. Do they hover or do
they just that's why I read that they hover like five feet off the ground.
They probably do. Then, yeah, I think it's a it's a
minor globe that like glows. I'll find however many feet eventually, but I
think it hovers about five feet off the ground. It just kind of gently
stays there, so kind of like a Chinese lantern, but it doesn't go.
It just stays. Okay, I mean, we can't cook on it,
I don't think, unless you like crack it open. Maybe, but
it lasts for about an hour and it sort of hovers. Uh, it
probably is not five feet off the ground. Maybe like a foot off the
ground or something. Okay, can I grab it and take it with me
and look for like if there's bushes or something, we can always like gather
the twigs off that and just quite dark yet it's it's getting there, it's
like dusk. Okay, Okay, I'm gonna go look for twigs and stuff
to be like, I know, I want to try and make a fire,
all right, all right, well look for the like I have.
Oh oh, that makes it easy. Yeah, you can see. I
mean they've got firewood. That's like the saddles are filled. That's why they
went to calor it. Yeah, that's why they went to the lumber village
and like to get this firewood and think, you you know, want to
want to light up your own supply, you know. So okay, wait,
but I have a I'm a little worried after the attack earlier, and
I think that maybe if we set a fire and we take turns keeping watch,
you know, a couple hours on then the next person comes on,
then maybe we can like warn the others if something like that starts to happen
again. Yeah, no, that's reasonable. I played enough D and D
to know that no one should be not everyone should be asleep at the same
time, right, you always go and staggered shifts. So what do you
guys saying? Do you think that sounds good? Like? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, I'm good that. Yeah, I'll stay up a little bit
and cover you all if you want, and I can just sleep on the
ride tomorrow. I'll get well, actually, let's split a half and half.
I'll get this, I'll get the second half. I'll get a little
rest and yeah, yeah, I need to still make some ciphers, so
I could also I'll take a shift, okay, use the company. Yeah,
I mean yeah, just try and you just try and rest when you
can. I can literally only go invisible and throw a knife, so not
much use here unless I can teleport far away, so that doesn't really help
anyone either. I can run, no, but I can probably yell.
I could use my voice, so if something happens, I could just scream
wildly. So I'll take I'll take a second shift, and or I'll take
third shift. Uh, Commercing you get first and mith you get second.
Yeah, yeah, wake up usually yeah, we'll split the night and then
uh nega and are oh I'm using your wrong names? Oh, God,
I'm like, look at I look at Coda, and I like turn away
on it. Sorry, we have nicknames for each other. I apologize I
shouldn't use them in front Ouna and Jacks. If you want to take the
do you just want to get well rested for us? Yeah, you too,
sleep and then take the shift tomorrow night, the long shift, and
we can stagger it out on the nights instead of doing it. Yeah,
all in the one okay. Yeah, just to be clear, Uh,
you guys sleeping outside, do you have anything to sleep in or like a
tent of some sort. I'm gonna lay out because I have a I have
a bundle of clothing. I'm just gonna lay out clothes and use it as
a pillow. And I was gonna do the same near their tents though,
like kind of like their tints are like this, like they just have one
tent. They're all sleeping, okay, Well, then near their tents,
so we put the fire like in front of it and then sleep all around
it. I guess. Yeah, So all right, I'm gonna die.
Coda, Yeah, Coda, Coda and uh and Simon and Donny probably you
know they would have had some like idle chatter and whatnot, and Coda would
have said, Uh, Sam will stay awake for some of the night to
keep an eye out the company. Yeah cool, Yeah, yeah we can.
We'll keep them company, teach them what it's like to be a man.
He can help us with the firewood, keep in the fire, fire
lit, because I don't know if any of us have good, good experience
starting fires. Okay I don't. I'd like to learn, Sam, you
can be the stick man. You take a stick from there with that you
bought and then bring it over here. You make it sound so exciting.
Yeah, okay, right, get get get get get, get, get
some rest. We got a long day ahead of us, and I'm a
little worried. Well after everything that happened, in my mind's wired, so
I'm going to try to make some ciphers. I like, as I say,
get some rest. I already have like my cape laid down and I
got like a bundle of uh like shirt, blouse or whatever, and I
just pass out. I'm just gone, Like you're gonna have to wake me
up. It's not comfortable if you have ever slept on the ground outside,
regardless of a pile of clothing or like a contrary about what's that? But
on the contrary, I love it, you love it. I'm gonna actually
I love it. I'm going to debate you there because I can fall as
I fell asleep on concrete before. I'm not. I'm not saying you can't.
I'm just saying it's not comfy. Oh no, I'll wake up with
the like thing in my Charlie horse or nothing in my neck, but I'll
be like whatever I got rest, it's comfortable until you wake up. Yeah,
you're like, oh this is great. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's lots of like little rocks and things like. It's yeah, it's
not. It's not the best. You have to clear a space for sure
before and it takes a while aisle to do. I went for the flattest
place I could with pebbles underneath, laid it down and then slept flat on
my back. Idea before we all break our back bucket, if you hedge
magic this oh shit, flat aboard for all of them. Oh my god,
I was almost do you know what that feels like? Yeah? I
get up and I'm like, you're right, okay. I lay my hand
on the ground and I try to use my hedge magget magic magic. We
are any rocks or pebble that are like within the media area around the fire
technome. It seems like you would like to use your hedge magic. You
know what would be great? Now? You know how did you know?
Please make an intellect check okay using your hedge magic difficulty to you have one
asset? Oops? Oops oops oops, Oh god, I forgot a how
to roll it? Is there a button we click to like specifically roll hedge
magic. You can just use your intellect status. Oh I knew that.
Yeah, I knew that. Difficulties too, and you have one asset okay,
I knew that you have rolled a six. You clear out an area,
the rocks sort of move about. What do you think happens in the
in the data sphere while you do this? What does it look like to
you? As I'm like, I put my because I'm groggy and I'm only
slightly paying attention. But then like as I open my eyes and I use
the hedge magic, everything just kind of turns like a golden webbing and you
see the twinkling of the nanites just everywhere around me, and then the magic
pulsates and just pushes them all away. As well as the rocks and debris
that's near us. And then they kind of like form around us for a
second and then slowly kind of ocean back in like a wave. Sem makes
like a kind of noise. You can you can talk to the data is
here. I have seen people like you before. Oh would I do something
wrong? No? You did a good thing that works miracles? Remember miracles?
Yeah I can't. Oh. Oh, he looks like complete shock,
completely shocked, like jaws on the ground. I'm like fully awake. Now,
I'm like, wait, who did you see before that could do that?
When when we visited the city of Bridges, I saw someone hmmm that
could speak to the data sphere? Oh, oh, so you're rare.
You and Jacks don't reveal too much information. You get their name at all?
Or did you get to know them at all? Were they I ran?
I was young? Oh well, I hope I didn't scare you.
I'm not trying to scare you. I don't. I don't do any I
don't use mine for maad. Does it hurt? Does it hurt? No?
I don't. I mean I don't really feel much. It's it's kind
of like it just becomes a part of you, do you understand? Can
you teach me? Oh? I don't know if I could do that?
And I like, I like, I don't. I try to communicate with
them, like can I do that? I don't think I can do that.
He's like he's walking over and he's trying to like put his hands on
the light. He basically what you've what you've done, like any like small
pebbles and whatnot. That's like spider web like golden light. You sort of
like have pulled the pebbles like down into the ground. Oh okay, I
mean I honestly, I don't. I don't know if I could. I'm
not really fit to be a teacher, not yet. I'm still learning.
So I kind of new I've much You're a genius. I just learned.
I mean I wouldn't really call myself a genius, but I mean I had
just learned how to do this, and I just thought that it might be
hopeful. Right now, I can't really do anything big with it. I
can just do small things, you know. Oh yeah, it's pretty amazing.
I mean, yeah, I guess hearing some pebbles is pretty cool.
It's like antem me basically, So if I don't need a simple anyway.
So you don't find a lot of people who can do things like me.
You just don't see that a lot of those I don't use those many people
so nice. Well, I want to find them and see if they can
teach me more than myself. He's like still, he's looking at you like
all like like you're some kind of god essentially. Can I that is?
I could feel horribly. Can I try to make him a flower? Am
I? Anne? How do you? How do you? How do you
that? I like kind of like a magician. You know when a magician's
like they have a glove and they go and it suddenly has a flower in
their hands, but they've like pulled it out of their sleeve or something.
But I'm not going to pull out on my sleeve. It's just gonna be
there, like, hey, look the head of flower and it's a it's
actually gonna be if I make it, it's gonna be a rose that's yellow
and red. Technome, it seems as if you'd wish to use your head
hedge magic again. Yes, please make an intellect check difficulty to Yeah,
you have rolled in nineteen whatever you whatever you want? This flower to look
like it looks like I feel like, can this happen? I feel like
when I make the flower, I accidentally make a whole bouquet and I scare
myself. So I'm like, haa, oh do they format it the same
golden light? Yeah, so it's like they like they just like pop up
out of it suddenly, really like just so suddenly that I didn't expect it
to happen. Oh what if I could do this in person? Oh my
god, if we could do this back on you know where we came from,
I'd make so much money. Yeah, you're gonna think. He's gonna
think you're a And so I grab them and I hand them to him and
they just start to fall apart, and you can see the nanites just like
dissipating. I feel like they would be like a golden effect around his hands
and stuff. So it's like golden sand just pouring through him. Hum.
One day, maybe maybe you can learn to do that too. I'm not
sure. I just started, but it's kind of cool. And then I
lay down to go to sleep, and then I just if he didn put
it back, but oh, yeah, you're pretty cool. Like America.
I'm just gonna pat him on the back a little like, yeah, sure
is, buddy, can you sure is? No, No, I can't
do that like she could. She can speak to people really well. Yeah,
really well. Here check us out. Kid, hold hold his knife
and I'm gonna throw it. It's not throw it at him general direction.
You're gonna throw the knife at him? Please don't. I'm assuming a closeness
that I am apparently wrong on. So I'm gonna walk over to him and
give it, and then your pocket portal it back. It was almost bad.
You know, maybe you shouldn't. I don't know. Maybe your mom
wouldn't want you to play with knives. Let's not corrupt the child in the
first night we're here. Yeah, we just gave him happy dreams. Can
we just let him go to sleep with that? Okaye? Put your knife
away? Yeah yeah, sure, sure, sure, I'll put it away.
I'm gonna like point it out. My pomicle got on gin there for
a sec. Yeah, he he's I think he's probably still like watching technome
like after she goes like she just blew his fucking mind. Okay, and
uh, Jay, you're trying to like do some kind of trick. He's
not even paying attention. Okay, it's like knife, I got all right,
okay, grab a stick. Pop that. Let me teach you how
to poke the fire with a stick. And as he says, I'm like,
listen, kid, if you if you want to stay watched with me,
you're gonna have to go to bedstone okay. And I was just like
roll over again. My mother said that I needed to stay awake and watch
her any trouble. No, man, Jay has this. You can stay
watched with me on third shift. I don't know what that means. I'll
wake you up, okay, I'm so tired. Yeah, and he just
he says, why are you poking those sticks with another stick? You've gotta
you have to keep the fire going. You have to poke the fire with
a stick. That's what you No, go go to bed. Go to
bed so you can wake up with her. I'll poke the fire fire.
Do stuff different. So he says, why why wouldn't you just use this
And he just bends down and he like he he uses the equivalent of like
a lighter to start to fire. Oh, just leave me alone, kid,
all right, go to sleep. He's like he nods his head and
starts to walk away and He's like muttering under his breath, and he says,
uh, the other one was way, way more interesting, and yeah,
he walks back into the tent. What a kid, kids? Am?
I right, I'm gonna go to bed a little bit sullen at that
child subtle put down of me. I think it was a Jay. I
don't think it was you. All of us, none of us are interesting
enough for him except Pocket. Apparently she works miracles. Okay, so your
gung and camels didn't kick us in the face bend crovitic powers for your child.
So just to be clear, Jay, you're you're taking the way I'm
taking watch. I think Myth said he was up as well with me,
but like half paying attention. I mean, yeah, it's like you're keeping
me company, but I'm I'm probably doing watch the whole time. So just
to be clear, Jack's technom and Una you're going to sleep for now?
Yeah, okay, yep, I'm watched after they're done. Okay, ulrick
Ja Gamerson, please make intellect based checks on perception difficulty level three. Yeah,
yeah, sorry, I think you have rolled in eighteen Jagamericon. You
have rolled a one. Ah fuck h that's so bad. Read for you.
Jacob Marison, will you take the GM intrusion or pay one XP.
I'll take it. I don't have any XP. Give it to ull Rick.
You have gained one XP as well as Ulric Shiloh ull Rick. After
everyone is kind of started to sleep, maybe a few hours into the watch,
you're absolutely looking around. You can see that Jay is what do you
think? What do you think you were doing doing? Jay? What have
you done to completely lose interest in watching what's happening in this terrifying place?
Poking the fire man? All I used to do is a kid I used
to get in ship all the time for sitting as close as I could at
the fire, taking a stick and poking it, just moving all the embers
around. That's all I'm doing. I'm just I'm probably like half asleep,
just like poking the ember. Okay, probably like an hypnotic. Yeah,
man, watching you are slacking so hard. Maybe myth you have complete faith
in myth, But myth is sort of doing a little bit of a patrol
around the place as you've gone on your little patrol here myth making cypher's let's
not forget that I really need ciphers, O you definitely would not be able
to do it if you're if you're doing a patrol, like a round them
place. I'll take a break. Okay, everything's gone quiet. There are
seemingly no sounds of birds. Even the wind has sort of died out.
It's silent. You can only hear the sounds of like the fire and jays
sort of playing with it. Complete silence. You don't hear bugs, you
don't hear the wind, you don't hear anything like. I'm far away where
I wouldn't really be able to hear the fire, but I do because it's
the only thing I hear. Silent. Then you hear a scream from Jack's
Oh uh, Jay, do you hear that? Jack's Katie already? What's
happening? Mean? What do you mean? What's happening? You've heard a
scream, you hear what's happening? And then nothing? M What do you
do? It's still silent, Katie, silent. I go to where Katie
was, Katie? Did you heard that? Yeah? She's not there,
Katie. Was that scream loud enough to have woken us up? Okay,
I'm just going to immediately jump up and start shouting Katie, Katie and I
can see because we were sleeping close to each other, Like, I can
see pretty quickly that she's not there, and I just want to start booking
it running. I'm a little slower. I'm just like, what the what
is going on? And I like look around and I noticed that, like
no one's next to me now, and I'm kind of like all alone by
the head. It's like I have loric. You snapped turned around as soon
as you heard the scream. When you looked at first what you saw,
you just assume that you probably saw it wrong. But it looked like a
shadow was moving and pulling Katie into the ground. And that's where we're going
to end the session today. Uh. Oh cool, very cool. Cliffhanger.
Mm hmmmm. Good session, everybody, Great session, guys, Yes,
my first thought. Sorry that Leviathan. It's gotta be something with that
man. Good session, everybody, session. Thanks everybody for joining us today.
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Let's go around the room. Let's do some shout outs to wrap things up.
Katie, thanks for being our special guest. Yeah, didn't mean to
make it so serious. I know, like we were already there. It's
okay, Yeah, I know, I just felt that because I was like,
you guys can't joke, but it's probably better to have humor. In
this kind of situation to be honest, no, no fun police, It's
gonna be like our first like real like what the fuck experience you know with
people. I guess, yeah, I guess I want to go spend some
time with my shadow friends. So oh, but thank you guys for having
me and being so welcoming and letting me just kind of jump in in the
middle of things. I'm Katie Peter's place. We played Erica today and that
was a lot of fun and kind of screwed up. And I play a
lot of sci fi and horror on my channel, so if you want to
come hang out with me, I'm around. So yeah, thank you guys
for hanging out today and watching the Shenanigans that is. This scenario is horrifying,
by the way, and Whax sent me some information about one of the
creatures that he mentioned. Can I read it? Whack like a tiny bit
of it, just a tiny bitch here? How do you say it?
How do you say it? Oh? God, if I know? Okay,
it's like the bug creature. It says that they're like humans and they
can create coach a tan. Okay, then they're is not as intelligent as
humans, but they can fashion and use Crewe tools. They hunger for anything
edible, and they live in cranny and a group of three to five scouts
followed by a swarm of one hundreds of roaches. So yes, can I
make it less scary? Though? Yes, I picture the thing from uh
Men in Black where it's like the annoying roaches that sing, sing, drink
coffee. Yeah, those are the better things. But that's what wa sent
me in the middle was like, that is my actual nightmare. So yeah,
okay, that's me. Thanks for having me, guys, sure,
thank you so much. Pocket sugar Water. I am pocket. I work
miracles and stun little children. I don't know that's what I do. It
don't help at all with anything that involves strength. So I appreciate once again
for being here. It's been a lot of fun. And every time I
knew we were going to end on something like this, and it knew it
and it just makes me want to be here next week already, So I
appreciate it. At it's just like some kind of oh no, it's like
it was planned. But yeah, I look forward to next week and uh
I stream and stuff. Yaya ors hi, I'm mega ORX I've been playing
Mego ORX, playing Una O'Leary. I'm also a full time variety streamer on
Twitch. I play a lot of single player, story driven games and simulation
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to follow along with all the stuff I'm getting up to lately. I'll be
at packs West next week. Yay, so yay, Come say hi.
If you're in Seattle, I'll be there. Thank you so much. Thank
you mith Man, what a great one. I mean, they always are,
but thanks for being here, everybody. Thanks chat for playing along you.
Though I can't read or playing along with you until that time we can
see you in game, but it's been great. Thank you. Thanks everybody
for playing along with us. Who's great playing with you, Katie and man
Ow. I don't know. I just can't wait for next week again.
As always, my name is Mithematic. You can find me on Twitter dot
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doing recently. I have been doing a lot of Star Citizen stuff and I
also just released big plans for Star Citizen the other day, and on the
opposite spectrum of that, tomorrow I'll be actually in the blacksmith doing some forging
with my brother. Maybe I'll make a kitchen knife, who knows, and
that should be a lot of fun. So if you want to check that
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Thank you everybody for watching. Thanks thanks for all of the the the
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You love to you Chat, thanks for hanging out with us, Thanks for
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What else can happen to the players And how can they fuck about and waste
time? I don't know. There's just so many different ways, so so
many, but thanks for watching, everybody. We'll see you next time.
Peace out, have a wonderful rest of your weekend. Good night, everybody,
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