All right, so hello and welcome. My name is still be Zelda.
They then pronouns, and I am super excited to be joined by all of
these fantastic humans. We are going to be showing off Nova Reil. Nova
Rail is a standalone one shot adventure that is kind of like a prequel to
the Dark Symmetry, which is what we are currently have going live on Kickstarter
right now. It is a fantastic three hundred page adventure that takes you underwater.
I don't really know where up at the logo under underwater. Yeah,
and oh, we're gonna have a good time, but I think overall we're
going to kick some ass. So with that tiny intro, David, why
don't you kick us off and we'll go around and do some people introductions.
Yeah. Well, first of all, thank you be Zelda and Alchemy for
having us all here. This is going to be a wild and wacky time.
It's gonna be very fun. My name is David Telstra. I'm normally
the Dungeon Master over at from a Far podcast where a D and D fifth
edition bi weekly actual play podcast. You can find us wherever podcasts are sold
or listen to because we don't sell it. You can just have it for
free. Um yeah, that's pretty much. You can find us from our
podcast and you can find me at David Hilst wherever you find your names like
self promotion, got it? Yes? Uh yeah? How whoever wants us
to go next? Slash track? What's up? Yeah? I want to
go next. You find me on Twitter at your conics d R A k
O N i q E S. I'm a teach, performer, streamer podcast
right. I'm trying to do everything and anything I can teach up related the
finding. On Twitter, you can find out what I'm doing any given moment,
because most of the time I don't know what I'm doing any given moment
to a couple of hours prior. Um. I use he they pronounced,
and you know, I'm excited. I'm excited to play. I think we've
got really fun characters. I'm excited interact with phenomenal phenomenal. Uh you want
to take it away? Hi, everybody, I'm acky. Um. You'll
know me from places here there about the internet. Um, but today I'm
here doing this and I'm very excited about it. Um. I. You'll
find me on Twitter and Instagram at mixed Genie in a bottle for a based
on everything that I'm doing. Um and yeah, oh yeah, I use
they them pronounced um. Yeah, I'm STI. This is gonna be a
lot of fun. I just as soon as you said it, realized what
you're had to pronounce your handle on Twitter. I mean, I still don't
thank you for mean mixed gene in a bottle. That's amazing. Wait,
yeah, just click, I love it. It's yeah, okay, m
and Stephen brings home. Yeah, I'm Stephen. Um. I am.
Outside of what I'm doing tonight, I am the GM of the Fai Forge
Academy, which is also a DND podcast that you can find in your podcast
with new episodes every week. I also am the co host of a certain
anime podcast that's quite popular these days. Uh that I host with would be
Kelsey. Um and and yeah, I'm just I'm here to have a good
time. Thanks for having us. Oh and you can find me at the
Underscore bad DM on internets. Heck, yes, I realize. I should
also do my due diligence as the community manager and plug our socials for Alchemy
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You can do so at Alchemy rpg dot com. We are on every single
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But honestly your best bet Twitter, Instagram, Discord, Reddit. Reddit is
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it. Um, I'm terrified Reddit. It's he read it as like the
elephant graveyard in the line dark space over there. We don't go there.
There's a lot of really good home Whenever I look up something like, oh,
kenn Eldridge, Knight also be a warlock. The first thing that corp
has always read it like someone's like, no, that's a bad idea.
Here's five hundred reasons why that idea is bad. You know, thanks Reddit,
so supportive, supportive. I still love it so much. But yeah,
so, y'all can check out any of our content there. Make sure
you check out or kickstirter. The links are pretty much everywhere on all the
socials that I have mentioned before. And David take it away. Yeah,
well, I mean I guess with that. Are y'all ready to do this
thing? Ready to take a deep breath and dive underneath the waves of Lake
Lake Chrissal, which is where I tell you that I can't swim. Uh
well, start by rolling some death saving throw us please, okay, good?
Um no. So yeah, So we're playing Novareil today and for those
just a quick little up, a little background. It's all gonna be taking
place around the city of Chrissalia, which is underneath the waves of Lake Chrysal
or the Lake Fano I can't remembers. Underneath the waves of Lake Chrissal.
It is a beautiful, wonderful domed world, very much like if you look
at Steven's background there, that's exactly what it is. Um. So to
begin, you all find yourself aboard a derelict, old ruined cart on the
Nova Rail, which is sort of a think of like a mono rail system
that goes around Disneyland disney World that goes around the town the Kingdom of Chrysalia.
You guys are on an old one. There's vines, there are cracks
in the glass, the rust on the hinges, and there's a couple of
folks around, not folks, there's a you see, it's you. You
four your characters will go to a little introduction there. But you also see
in the back corner, sitting covered in vines and dust and cobwebs, an
old war forged creature sitting there um. But as you're standing on the glass
bottom nova rail, an abandoned station lies below in ruined, scarred and straight
and stained by the ravages of town time. The rail car's control desk is
popped open, exposing a circuit board overflowing with wooden transistors, silver capacitors,
and a twisted mess of wires. Vines and ivy have infiltrated the electronic components,
evidence of nature's supremacy over the mortal creation. A young elf appearing as
no more than a pair of frightfully muddy boots, buried deep in the tangled
circuitry investigates, not talking about microphone. Entangled circuitry investigates the cause of the
rail cars stoppage, curses. This old battery pack is dead hand me the
flitter. Would you as you all look, you see a fairly extravagant elf.
She has purple and pink and blue hair. She's lying underneath all this
circuitry, and we'll get to a better description of her later. But she
has pointed to you all and is asked to hand her the flitter, and
as you look you see her tool chest or toolbag sitting on the floor next
to her. She can't reach it. And there are four um tools of
note in there, one of them a ruby encrusted brass hook attached with a
wooden handle, two needles attached by twine to a mechanized spyglass, an intricate
tuning fork with a small with a small circuit board and speaker horn on its
handle, and a handheld cylinder filled with small turbines and constantly wearing water.
So as we look at these devices, what would the audience see of y'all's
characters? And whoever can go first? And I'm not going to throw drags
under the breast I actually because um omis immediately when Sasha reaches out and hands
it, takes picks up and hands over to them. If I need to
figure which please is? Yeah, roll me either whatever you're feeling more comfortable
with investigation or just like a wisdom check, either our investigation or investigation right
the investigation, investigate the heck out of this sixteen excellent. Yeah, that
you definitely see exactly you know, you know what the flitter is? The
flitter is a handheld cylinder filled with small turbines, constantly wearing, wearing with
water. Might say it's flittering, Why don't might say it's flittering. You
resent into into into this person's bag and grab it and hand it to her,
and and here you go. And what you see is a five foot
flat, dark skin try and they've got um brown curly hair and a really
messy tied in a really messy bun with probably like a loose wire, like
a loose cable wire they found around lying around. They have um kind of
hodgepodge army. You can tell that they built their greatest army themselves with scraps
of metal that they've found lying around. Um. The only thing that's really
like, you know, not made by them or just made considerably better is
the kind of cloak they have over that armor, red crimson crimson red cloak
with a hood on top. But right now they have the hood down beside
them. I think, just kind of quietly humming, as if there's wires,
like some kind of current flowing through wires, and the slight sound of
cogs and nothing boats clanking together. On the inside of it is a five
foot five so a bit taller than I'm Sasha five old school diver. It's
the old school diver suits. You've got a massive helmet with the bars in
front of the wind, the kind of visor tinted window in front where the
visor would be, and it's kind of bulky overall the way they kind of
right out a stationary. But as you've been on this amount of rope with
them for a why I've seen a walk around the very heavy, very heavy
on their feet. But they're standing right beside Sasha just like a statue entirely
still very cool, and Sasha just goes to the elf. M I figured
out what's going on. I could take a look if you want. And
the elf kind of like, you know how like mechanics do they slide out
from the cars? Yeah, she like slides out. And you see who
you would all know as the person who's kind of someone you all here.
Her name is glyder pre Marine. She is an elf you know her from.
She comes from a fairly well known family in Chrysalia. She's an inventor
as well. She's very energetic and she actually there's a handout of her.
I don't have to describe her because I can show you what she looks like.
Um, if I can do it, I'm gonna keep describing her because
I can't figure out how to do it. But you see, she has
very like large voluminous hair, pinks, blues, purple. She's wearing kind
of standard like nothing too flashy, just like worker's clothes. And she has
a rainbow like monocle on one of her eyes. And she slides out from
underneath, and she says, of course if you want to take a look
at it. Um always down to to learn something new from something from a
new friend. And she lets you, lets you take a look. Yeah,
so I I will slide down. I'm just being underneath. Why everyone
else is yeah, we'll check back in then a second as glider pops up
and she kind of dust some dirt and vines and oil and magic just off
of her hands. And she looks at the rest of you all. What
would the will the audience see for? For the rest of the folks standing
around this derelict glass bottom monorail car. You know I want to go last,
all right, Stephen, either of you want to describe who I'll go
next, I will keep it going in the same order. Ish. Um,
They would see a about six foot three, thin as a whip uh
teethly um whose skin is kind of this opalescent pink and their eyes are the
same sort of opalescent pink color, and their horns kind of hug really tightly
to their head and go back. Um. And then you see tufts of
curly white afro sort of sticking out from there, um, and pretty white
lashes. Um. And they're wearing a leather armor, but you can't really
see it underneath. Um. The swarm of starfish that are covering up the
leather um like from from their should like from their shoulders all the way over
their chest and back and maybe down to the very top of their legs is
just sort of the swarm of of of starfish and varying uh like soft blues
and purples and pinks and stuff. So like their leather almost has sort of
this rainbow star vibe thing happening. Um. And then strapped to their back
is a quiver of parrows in their boat. Um. And yeah, that's
that's the trick. Um. That is literally one of the coolest descriptions I've
heard of the character. That's so cool. Thank you. Yeah, and
what about you Steve, what are we What are we looking at? We
have a triton t fling. Yeah, you would see as central and away
from anything that's broken as possible. This six foot four, probably two hundred
and fifty two pound bill well armored UM fire genasy this like almost like like
cool lava black skin, but you can see veins and almost with each heart.
But you can see this like fire run through um any anywhere where there's
like exposed skin. His hair is is kind of medium length UM. It's
like an undercut and combed over UM and very fiery and orange. His eyes
are also this like like fire orange. He's leaning on this warhammer like with
with his shield over his head, making sure that there's like no water water
drops. I think you're I think your fire might be my fire. Janasi's
long lost brother look exactly alike. It's really cool. Yeah, y'all are
good at this. Holy crap, this is cool and just looking around very
uncomfortable. M fantastic and by um so I am playing Hedge. UM.
Hedge is a Gnome fighter uh and they're they're very low to the ground,
They're small. Their arms are always crossed in like a disgruntled arm crossing.
Um, it's the entire entity of like every ounce of their tiny body.
It just radiates rage. Um. Nobody really knows what Hedge is angry at
though, Um because despite their like grumpy demeanor. Uh, they wear like
a lot of really lovely, like bright colors. They've got like, um,
some like a green top. They have flowers around in their hair.
Uh, they're really really fond of I think interior decorating, um, one
of their pasts. But um, I think anybody that doesn't really know anything
about Hedge just kind of looks down at this like disgruntled little gnome that's constantly
huffing and puffing. Um. They they'll use their afro they have like an
afro poof that they'll use for storage. Um. So unique and things that
wouldn't you wouldn't normally think should fit in their hair absolutely fits in there.
Wow, y'all, this is this is very cool. All these characters are
fantastic. Um and as as we as that's what we see. Uh,
you see Glider, she sort of is kind of half paying attention to the
three remaining folks that are in the in the train car, half focusing on
Sasha, and Sasha could you please roll me with advantage A let's see what
what would your tink? I want to want? You're you're you're used to
this kind of thing. You used to think that you used to fixing things.
What would be better for you in an investigation check a performance check?
Probably not, but maybe I think so. Am I trying to figure out
what is wrong? What am I trying to fix something? If I'm trying
to fix it, I think maybe like slat of hand, I'm trying to
denico at these things I'd imagined. I love it with advantage, could you
please roll me a slat of hand check? Okay, that's oh, so
you you know exactly what is wrong with this thing? Uh, with the
fact that Glider just asked for the flitter. You know that the power cells
in the situation are um are depleted, and you you know once once you
take the flitter, it's it is a situation. It is a it is
a tool that, if if not used appropriately, it will start to drain
the life of whoever last installed it. UM. So you but you you
you catch that. I was trying to trip me up with that, but
you catch it, and you're you know exactly how to install this and I'm
gonna say, just brought off the bat you you hook the flitter in.
It's it's like I said, it's this, uh, this handheld cylinder filled
with the small small turbines of constantly wearing water. You kind of like jam
it into the in the power cells and you see the water started to spin.
Yep. And everyone, could you please roll me a dix Terry saving
throw except for Sasha, because Sasha you're already lying down. It's true,
Okay, I need to write, I need to roll one fill my buddy
well for buddy. Yeah, absolutely, it's very simple. Oh all right,
oh boy, all right? So with with how well Sasha fixed the
the engine here on the Nova rail, uh y'all? All right. So,
so Buddy is the only one who remains standing as the engines kick back
on and this thing, quicker than anybody thought was possible, starts taking off
down the rail and even glider she kind of falls down, and all of
you kind of no one takes any damage or anything. I'll just you stand
back up after a second. And the year now zooming through Gloom, which,
as you all know, is one of the bubbles that is in the
Chrysalian Empire. Unfortunately, it is probably the worst bubble because this, as
you all know, is a section where most of the pollution goes. And
in fact, as I say that, as this god voice says that,
Glider starts coughing just wildly, and you get the sense that, yeah,
she's not from around here. She doesn't deal with this pollution very well,
and it is it is not treating her well at all. But in this
coughing, I'm sorry. Good for I think I'm my back already, so
I don't fall when a movement does like slide the like I kind of slide
underneath and I push myself back and I'm kind of like it's kind of fun,
and I just start pushing myself along still on this thing, and I
slide over to Glider. Oh yeah, you're not used to this? Okay,
could you catch down? Did you cratch us down? And I'm gonna
cast air bubble um. So what you see me do is I kind of
hold my fist around my mouth and start blowing into it as if I'm blowing
into a balloon. As I blow and blow, you see, so I
imagine the pollution is like fairly not visible, but like you can tell that
we're reaching like that ye air as I blow, almost like I am blown
into balloon. You see a balloon grow and grow of clear air um and
I believe it's like I don't know there is it's I think like five sure
are um or and I think just enough to fully encase the heads of one.
So yeah, so I blow and blow until it was about the size
of glider's heads. I literally that hold it as if it's an actual balloon
and go, okay, here you go. I just sit around her head
and so that should last for twenty four hours. So can you see her
like starting to like poke at it, like, well, well it will
it pop? Is it like a like a bubble gum? Okay? Cool?
And she just starts like and used to yeah, this is great,
thank you so much, and take inspiration. That was amazing. Uh.
And she also was like, wow, this is see I knew there were
some good people down here in gloom. Still, thank you, thank you.
And in fact, and she like reaches down and kind of like nudges
with her foot the mechanic rolly things. She's like, you can have that
if you want. I don't want it. Thank you, of course,
buddy, push me on the push down around the lightful already so good um.
And as you see Sasha and Buddy kind of like having fun pushing around
this like derelict glass bottom nova rail, you all start to pass farther and
farther through the city of Gloom. And this isn't exactly news to you,
but you all see just pretty pretty rough, a pretty rough area. The
air is visible with with pollution. The houses and villages and buildings that remain
are all either falling apart, decaying, or covered in vines and whatnot.
Also, just to be clear, you guys aren't in the water at this
point because you're inside the city. You're you're inside a bigger bubble. Um.
But as you look around just this kind of destroyed hellish landscape, Glider
with her new air bubble kind of sits down and looks to the four of
you and says, okay, well, I know that I called you all
here. First of all, thank you for all agreeing to be here.
Yeah, I like it. I like that it was we were in.
There's a lot more water here than I expected. Oh, I'm I'm sorry
about that. I thought that if you knew we were going to balance you
knew. I'm sorry, Yeah, we're gonna be going through the water.
Get ready? Is that a problem? And she's like, would a bubble
help? She kind of looks to looks to Sasha. I think fire Boy
is a little bit scared, scared of everything, though I'm very brave since
one forever, you know, swim is that the problem. It's not the
it's not the action of the swimming. It's the wetness of the swimming that's
the problem. It's going to put his hair out. He cares to stay
very much about his hair. It is good looking hair. Honestly, it's
it's beautiful. Thank you. We are compliments to a minimum. Sorry,
sorry, sorry, sorry, yeah, so what what a so here?
Here's here's the deal. I'm I'm trying to figure out what's going on here
because this city this part And she points and you can see like a like
in way off in the distance outside of gloom you can see like the rest
of the bubbles of Chrysalia. And she's like, this is a pretty great
place. Chrysalia is pretty cool. Not not immediately where we are. This
place sucks, but Chrysalia itself is pretty cool. But it doesn't seem fair
or right, that there's one place where people are just sort of like living
like this and in in pain, and like thanks for this bubble because this
I would have sucked without this. But I think there's something deeper going on
here. So I'm I need y'all's help to to find this information. So
if you want to come with me to Gloom to Balance, I will.
You can live there, you can be safe, and I'll I'll just ask
you some questions and might need your help trying to figure out what's going on
here. Yeah, is that okay? I mean this polace smells like farts,
gladder looks around, She's like, uh oh yeah, no this place.
Sorry, Yes, you're right, that wasn't me. Okay, Well,
I just want to make sure before we get going that you guys are
all okay with this, because we're who knows, which would be quite the
waste of the trip to have come all the way down here and not actually
do the job. That's a good point. You're absolutely right, So I
guess, first of all, thank you, and I'll see if I can
get this thing going a little quicker, see if we can get get get
you. Yes, Sasha, and Sasha literally like still sound the kind of
grace of the hand. Um, who's that? And they point to the
war forge you mentioned, like it just kind of like sat there covered in
vines glider. She actually looks up and like you see her adjust the rainbow
like monocle on her eye like like some like spy glasses zoom in and other
lenses kind of come shifting down in front of it, and she's like,
I have no idea, and she turns around and goes back to like adjusting
the like trying to fix the engine and get it, get it to move,
start moving quicker. Uh, y'all if y'all want to investigate it,
you totally can. But also that that that isn't that isn't the dungeon master
being like, you want to check this out? If you want to,
you can. I yeah, I Sasha is definitely like, oh, Wolf,
I've always wanted to figure out how those work, buddy, that way,
I feel like we always don't. I love it. It's so good.
As you get closer, just like basically basically what you see with your
like just normal perceptive skills, it looks like this thing is very all fairly
rusted, and it looks like it's been here a very long time. Looks
like a lot of the vines that have kind of sort of taken over the
inside of this this nov rail cart have almost like locked this dude into place,
like looks like it's been there for quite a long time. That's just
like basic looking. Okay, if you'd like, you know, I think
Sasha first kind of sees this and they put it so around there like underneath
their cloak. They pull out a small that's a very small rod. It's
kind of like, I don't know, probably like five or six inches,
very thin, and they kind of like tap their side of the face of
it and then twil in their fingers and it shifts and changes into a pair
of scissors as they use their all purpose tool, which just becomes any artist,
artists and to all they want, so kind of just flipping their fingers
and turns into pair of scissors or shares I think will be better. Actually,
So that's cutting a way at these vines and growth on this wool forward.
Should you try and free it's a little bit more cool. Yeah,
that's so, I feel like you'd be able to do that, which is
just given enough time. So as as the as the rail the car keeps
moving on, You're just gonna keep working on it. Yeah, um and
yeah, just with enough time you'll be able to free him. Is anyone
else trying to do anything? As you you see the rail car getting close
to the exit of gloom and you're about you are about to go into open
ocean. I think I would sorry, go ahead, Oh, I want
to decorate the rail car, like I think I might have some uh finger
paint. Okay, of course you do. Yeah, I love it as
a fighter. Yeah, my my subplus definitely supports finger paint. Warpaint,
just warpaint. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm just like I want to spend
my time just kind of like painting on the inside. And I'm pretty load
of the ground too, so like I'm really I'm covering like the lower ends
of it. Cool. U give me a just some some sort of creative
check if you want to do performance or sleight of hand or whatever whatever whatever
you think would fit you best in this situation. I'm down for us.
All d check. I feel like you wanted to say something after that.
Cool? Fine? Two? Yeah, so I'll say because the cars moving
just a little bit too quick and it's a little bit like you can feel
this thing as old. It's starting to rumble and shake and maybe not beautiful
decoration is maybe not up to your normal standard of of I think I mixed
too many colors and then we kind of got that weird brown. That is,
it has so much potential, but it just looks awful. It's a
good brown. M hmm. What are what are you feeling to do?
Uhre would probably be finding someplace to keep watch to make sure that we're not
being followed, or that there's a real danger ahead or behind. Roll me
a either perception or investigation check, whatever is better for you. I'm very
flexible with these roles. As uys might have appreciate it. All right,
this is what I would give you. You see a couple of things.
You see way way way off in the distance as you as you're about to
exit Gloom. You see several large dark shapes almost like whales, like like
swimming and flying floating through the pollution and nastiness of Gloom. You also see
what looks like a a car that a cart that has been parked on a
different rail that's close by that looks like it sort of holds the colors and
the the symbols and sigils of like the peacekeepers and law enforcers known as the
Sentinels here, which as someone who's from Gloom, you probably would think you
occasionally will see the Sentinels, but they don't normally stop. It's more just
like a patrol that goes through. You see a stopped Nova rail cart from
the Sentinels. And the last thing you see with that twenty nine, because
that's a very good role, you see Glider. She looks pretty nervous.
Actually, she has a she has a pretty eccentric, easygoing way about her.
But you say, you'd notice when people when she doesn't think anyone's looking,
she gets a little more serious and a little more like her Her hands
tremble a little bit when she thinks no one's paying attention, and her her
smile kind of leaves her face when she thinks nobody's looking. And that's what
you see with those with that good role, and if you want to act
on that, feel free. I mean, Dietrich will pocket the uh knowledge
of like the sea creatures, but they'll point out the nova real carm as
as you do that, Glider comes over and you very much now see she
is nervous. Are you okay, Glider? Um, yeah, totally super
great, really awesome here like this bubble. I'm I'm doing it. I'm
doing great with this bubble right now. And you don't even have to rue
inside check if you don't want to, because that is not how she's feeling.
Um. No, Glider, if there is something wrong and you're worried,
it is better that you let us know than you know, keep it
to yourself. What do you tell us later? You tell us now,
we're going to find out one way or the other. Give me a persuasion
check with advantage, please God for advantage much much better. Uh. You
you get the sense that Glidder at first is like, yeah, no,
no, we're good, Like let's just get get on with the job.
Uh. And then like she looks into your eyes and she's like, okay,
um, I think I'm being followed. Oh and see, here's here's
the thing. I'm I'm not exactly supposed to be down here. I'm not
exactly supposed to be working with you all not I haven't been like expressly forbidden
to do this, but I've just noticed from just from this investigation that the
more questions I asked. The more people seem to not be okay with me
asking these questions, and I think I'm being followed by the same Well,
I mean that the rail car that I saw back there is possibly a good
indication that you're right. But does it appear to be following us now?
No, it is not. If they were there before, they might not
be there now. Hm. Well, luckily you're you're right. I think
I think that it'd sort of just put all my suspicions to rest because I
think I think you're right. But is this rail only one car or is
it several cars? There's there's this the specific one you're in right now is
just one um, and it is. It is very old, and it
is very like, as I've said, like kind of destroy it almost.
Uh. But the track itself has different interchanges and there's other you can have
multiple cars going on at the same time, go in the same direction at
the same time. Uh. And there's interchanges and there's all sort of fancy
technology that would probably get Sasha very excited. Um. But yeah, for
this, for this part, for your exact car, it is a single
car. Well, we got the basic one mm hm, it's all I
can find Sorry. I'm just saying that if the sentinels, if the sentinels
want to tussle, I mean, it seems to me that you're trying to
do the right thing and they're trying to stop you from doing the right thing.
That's what my gut's telling me. And that's all I can go off
of, honestly, aside from my incredibly smart brain, which is good for
tinkering but not good for other things. Um. But you know, you
know what they say about sentinels. They're all bastards, they do. I
mean they I mean, that's that is it? Yeah, Alchemy, are
you listening because now we're doing it. Um And she's uh, Glader actually
laughed at that, and you see a little bit of the tension and fear
sort of leave her and she's like, I think I'm gonna like you all.
Y'all see him, like you know what's going on? Rick? Rick
has been this whole time his his warhammer that he has, while incredibly large,
it actually looks like a hammer you would use in a forge. Um,
it's shaped that way. And he's been going around just sort of tapping
on every possible crack or rusty bolt or anything. Casting mending. Um yeah,
my finger paint though, no, I feel like uh he would no
heads well enough be like this is this is art, this is not my
feels like a joint f h. You know yours construction and your your interior
director. Yeah, the whole time, the whole time, just muttering like
I'm not I'm not fucking drowning this as this conversation happens. How long is
this investigation you've been doing? How have you been have you been asking questions?
Not? Not too long? Honestly, I've I'm pretty new with this
whole detective thing, but just a couple of weeks. But like I've said,
from from the main from the main city, next to Mother Tree.
Uh, that's where I live with my family, and that's where we do
all our tinkering and working. Uh. I started I just started thinking that
it just isn't fair, Like why are you all stuck in this sorry shit
hole? Sorry, I don't know. I don't want to. I didn't
want to say uh that, I mean, we all know it's a shit
hole. I just I don't like. I don't like cussing makes me feel
who us Yeah, they don't use that word. We don't use the word
hoole. We use all sorts of other words. Fucking, boobooph those are
the worst. Those are the worst. Yeah, No, those are bad,
bad words. Um, but no, not too long. But like
I said, ever since, Okay, here here's the deal. I know
I've explained this a little bit, but I'm gonna go into more depth because
I like you all. Yeah, Queen Queen Lily is also, this train
is long, bump gloom is huge. We've been riding on this train for
a while. We haven't we haven't got outside yet, but it's good.
Yeah, there's a McDonald's down there, and there's a cave in a while.
Yeah, we stop there for sure. Yeah, don't don't. Don't
mention McDonald's or I'm gonna walk fries. I'm sorry, and then you're neverly
gonna be say that we have fries at home, and then we're gonna at
home and at home or not as good as never a little fraser burnt all
the time, just just a little bit, not as good as McDonald's fries,
especially when you're like right out of the fryar. Oh my god,
that's solved. Um, but yeah, sinner time for some of us.
Oh, yeah, no, I'm I've already got my Postmates ready. As
soon as this has done, I'm hitting that purchase button m McDonald's. Um.
Also, it's cannon now, Alchemy, there is a McDonald's and gloom
deal with it, like, oh god, I can't. I can never
think of like like off brand McDonald's on the spot like McDonald's whip Donalds w
that's pretty good. You just caught the way the pollution checks out. You
see most of the pollution coming from the McDonald's. Actually, yeah, have
you have you thought about investigating that that restaurant over there? No, Honestly,
now that you pointed out that, I think the case is closed.
You guys, you want to just go live in the safe house now,
actually shows everybody we didn't. Oh wow, that's no for real. Everyone,
Thanks for tuning in support Alchemy because they just stop your mega corporation.
I mean, I see no problem with that messaging agreed. Um. But
Glider, basically, just to speed this along a little bit, goes on
to tell you that she's she has been investigating this for a little while.
There's there's been rumors she's found a few different things. There's the rumors that
the queen, Queen Lilias is gathering an army, which is strange. Uh,
she's noticed that ever since the the portals to Fano, which is,
as you would all know, the main city the men like basically the the
flip side of your underwater city coin. It is the main city above ground,
above water on the on on late croissl Um, the portal Stefano had
been closed. Queen Lilias is assembling an army, and all this pollution and
all this junk has recently started becoming like deadly in gloom and she says that,
and it's really cool and you guys are all really inspired and it's amazing.
Wow, Glader, you're such an interesting character. Um as unless unless
there's anything super pressing anybody wants to do. Uh. Well, so like
the war happening in kind of like Glader's hometown with like the tree, and
um, is that relevant? Like do we is that related to like her
being stocked or followed? Uh? She you can roll an invest insight or
investigation if you'd like to. On that one. I think I set my
character up as well. You'll notice that I'm now called Hedge. Two.
Yeah, so did Hedge die and the and the initial dexterity saving role and
just another head is just hey, guys were playing a D and D alien
est. I think like maybe it's like a you know, like death of
the author, death of the artist. So after they did that, I
was like, I've left that identity behind that now I'm a different person now,
growth you know exactly, that's what this whole thing is about. Okay,
Hedge is going to go ahead and roll investigation, Please do and roll.
Oh but hey, it's it's perfect for the story and that's all that
really matters. Um. So what what you get with that is this is
this is the first time you were hearing of a of a war going on.
Okay, you have heard in the past, because like I said,
you guys are all from Gloom, which for the audiences, um perspective or
whatever the audience is, what's what we're looking for for the sake of the
audience. You know, Gloom is a place where people get kind of banished
too, or people are not really there by choice. So you have heard
occasionally, You're not sure if it's a rumor or not, but you have
heard of the sentinels following people, usually right before they just sort of disappear.
Um, So that is what you get with that. But this is
the first you've heard of the war. Okay, is is um? Is
Glider speaking of the queen like positively or okay, I would say yes positively,
but um tinged with just a little bit of concern. But that might
not be that outstanding to you, because she's been fairly concerned throughout this whole
thing. Everything, everything is a concern. But yes, she isn't like,
oh gosh, the queen. It's like more neutral than not. And
as as you all are talking with Glider about this, these these threats that
she's there's been she's been noticing, and these these things that she's been noticing,
you all for the first time head out of the of the portal in
the you from gloom and you are now in open sea. So I'm sorry
ricks now now now, now the fear should set in. But I will
say you as you like. Right as you've finished doing your last little mending
tap with your hammer, the last crack in the glass seals up right as
like all of a sudden, you just feel like this little pressure like from
just like water being all around you. Now you're like I'm really glad I
fixed this thing. We're still breathing. You're still breathing, and it is
kind of breathtaking. Actually, as you all, I don't know what,
I don't know how long it's been since you've seen uh Chrysalio. But as
you leave Gloom, you all see this site right here, these iridescent bubbles.
You look off to your left, you see growing from several hundred feet
beneath you this this tall, gnarled, twisting route that gets up to the
to the top and fans out in you. That's where all the cities come
from. You see. That was a great description. Yeah, so this
is this is what you see and you all have seen this this site before.
And the Novo rail starts going along. It's it's outermost track to the
next main bubble aside from the middle bubble in the middle. Um. You
know, the next you know, the next bubble over that you're going to
is balance um. And right as that happens, um, you all hear
a shrill, staticky sound erupt from some speakers that are around just like all
around the inside of the cart. Yeah. So one of them has just
a sort of like wet, sort of gurgling sound so like so now instead
of like a nice stereo like five point once around sound system, it's like
all and coming from one side. So uh. You see Glider like pounding
on it with her with one of her wrenches, one of her tools.
Um, and she's like, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, these
things, these all these alder cardings are annoying. They're really not. I'm
sorry, but they're they're fun. They're kind of fun. It's a little
bit of like education about the city. Uh here, let me see if
I can get it fixed for you guys. And you see her like run
over and she starts like tinking around with a wire and soon enough she is
able. You hear the shrill, shrieking, staticy sound die down, and
you hear a voice come out, and this is what it says. It
says, Welcome visitors, young and old, near and far, Welcome to
the marvel of all Etherra. Welcome so the wondrous underwater kingdom of Chrysalia.
And let me make sure this is right for the next part, Yes,
glad, It turns to you and she says, all right, well,
I guess we're gonna listen to this. But we don't listen very long,
so I don't worry about this balance is coming up. I'm glad, glad
someone else is excited because I'm excited because I've actually never heard this whole tour.
But it'll be pretty fun. Um. But she's like, don't worry,
we won't be we won't be on too long, and shake points to
like the front of the of the ship, and you see, not too
far off from the distance, you see what you know to be balanced.
The next main bubble in like the neighborhood district um and the the vote.
The voice over the recording kind of directs your attention to the middle bubble here
where you see this big, tall, glowing iridescent tree erupting from the center,
and you will know that through like the main area of Chrysalia, and
you hear from the speaker much like Fanno. Chrysalia was founded long ago by
the Novarian elves. While Fano sits above the water of the Chrysal Lake,
the city of Chrysalia lies deep beneath the surface, sharing the darkness with strange
creatures. The anglers above were sharing the darkness with strange creatures. The anglers
above only dream of Though sea creatures are fascinating, the Novarians found something much
more valuable, an unlimited supply of ether, a mysteric, a mystical element
of unimaginable power. With it, Chrysalia has grown into the hub of innovation
and technology. These extraordinary advancements continue to the well. These extraordinary advancements continue
to this day thanks to the hard work of Taos and the Upenda family,
whose work provides our kingdom with all it needs to thrive and prosper. Let's
begin with the most important dome and Chrysalia, and in it the mother tree.
And you all see it, this big old tree that I was describing
a second old it's pretty big old tree. It's beautiful pink and the other
that it reminds me of a giant plum blossom tree. It really does.
Would be dope as hell. Actually, let's getting cotton candy vibes, which
just makes me want to get But I think that's just me being hungry.
How we've got French fries and cotton candy um and the the the speaker starts
up again. It says, let's begin with the most important I already said
that, uh blah blah, blahlah. The mother tree, once to see
the size of a marble, grew. It grew in tandem with the translucent
cell that eventually became our largest dope. Once this massive habitat was complete,
the mother tree spread her roots, allowing us to expand the city into the
surrounding habitats. Everything here is dependent on the mother tree and her roots that
bring life and strength to chrysalia and gliders. Like, yeah, they say
this isn't too bad. It's it's kind of kind of wordy, but like
it's pretty fun, right anything, It's yeah, little propaganda for me,
but that's right. And I'm sitting my necks to the speaker and it's like
spitting in my ear. But it's fine, it's fine. I think that
was that was the paint that you No, that's fine. I'm not gonna
no no blame, no shame here. I love your art. It looks
great. Um. But yeah, so if anyone has anything they're trying to
do in response to that, feel free. If not totally goal, we
can move right along. Yeah. I feel like we're just kind of getting
like a very much of a tourist vibe. Yeah, I will say yes,
I will say Sasha is not listening. You can hear the faint clanking
and of metal as they're trying to like mend this war forged the entire time.
That's so, yeah, let's let's check back in with that. Actually,
as you as you've exited, as you've been hearing all this stuff about
these wars and the queens and all this propaganda you tourist the information about Chrysalia,
you finally are able to get all the vines and weeds off of this
war forged. And uh, you see, like I said, it looks
fairly old, fairly rusty um. But on its chest you see, basically
it looks like a like a badge with the the symbol of Chrysalia on it,
which is the young queen holding out like a mechanical bird, and the
symbol of Chrysalia which looks like saturn um. And you see this sort of
shiny brass badge on this thing's chest. Looks very old, but that is
what you see, and you're trying to get it to work. He said,
yeah, I'm gonna take the badge. And it's been like, hey,
buddy, and I guess I didn't have act you say this, but
buddy, is the like all school sky, but ever thing that's been following
um, pulling them around. So Buddy kind of like walks over to them.
Yeah, So Buddy walks over like turnds beside them and then kind of
crouches down and I take Buddy's helmet, twist it and open it. I
just dropped the badge in there and then close it again, and it's like
there's nothing in there. It's like, ah, there's a hollow suit.
So I paid back and close it. Yeah, we might need that later.
I love to start working on I'm gonna start working on the walk.
We'll just see if I can figure out if it can even be fixed in
the first place, or for sure just trying to figure out what went wrong.
Absolutely, that was awesome. And as you as you're working on it,
Yeah, you're you're noticing it doesn't just from like a cursory glance,
it doesn't look like anything's actually wrong with this thing. And like if it,
if it was actually up around and moving like that wouldn't surprise you.
So like it. It's it's strange, very strange, very spooky. UM.
And as you all are continuing on towards balance the Nova rail is picking
up speed. Um. It looks like gliders having a little bit of an
issue getting it to slow down. You hear a couple like huh um m.
And she pulls up like a some a bundle of wires and and a
couple of condensers, and she's like, oh, um, everything's fine,
Everything's totally fine. I don't think everything's fine up there, totally fine.
It's getting quite shaky and it is getting quite fast. Um. But as
you all zoom along this this outer um perimeter, this outer circle of the
of the nova rail, you start to come in towards Balance, and I
can do a thing for you all here because this is what you start to
see as you and you all can see this right, yes, cool,
it's beautiful. Honestly all the art for for this campaign specifically is like just
a huge aesthetic for me. Um. But as you as you kind of
pass through that portal, like like the one you exited from Gloom into the
open, open ocean, you now pass through one and you're inside Balance,
which is lovely and beautiful nowhere near the not even like like there's no pollution
at all, like nothing like Gloom in the slightest uh and you hear,
and the speaker starts up again and it says, the first habitat on our
tour is Balance, And wow, look at that beauty. Doesn't it seem
peaceful? Like you could spend an eternity here. Well, this is the
This is a place that is meant to do just that. It is a
retreat for the hard working Chris hard inventing Chrysallians who desperately need to unplug and
recharge before heading back into their laps. And when I'm not guiding tours,
I'm running the show here as a peace mentor. One of the most exciting
innovations here in Balance is the Manaris project, a sentient network that and then
suddenly the uh the the sound cuts out and lighter. Yeah, go for
it really hard. You got a kick, give me, give me,
give me an attack roll please, let's let's get some rolls in here.
I feel like it's been a while since I had you, guys roll something.
Percussion engineering is a very valid way to fix things, exactly, big
hecking fan, I'm gonna call this my kick attack love it love it seems
like it seems appropriate to me. Yeah, I feel like I should be
proficient good I know that this has kind of been talked about just a little
bit, but I'm personally experiencing the joy of just making your moves like I
got to name. Yeah, Like that's just wonderful and really silly, and
I really like it. Like that's just my kick. Oh my gosh,
kick, uh take take it with advantage as you as you kick, you
kick off to the side, and it's like, you don't even hit the
speaker. Grider walks up to you and she's like, try kicking it over
here, and she like points to like a very specific section of the of
the speaker intercom system. Okay, m hmm, Yeah, I just kind
of missed a little bit. And the second kick it lands, but it's
that's enough. And and right as you kick it, you hear that like
the record scratch and the the the what's it called? The voiceover starts up
again. There's all but time rambling. I assure you nothing will go awry.
I'm taking all the necessary safety for cautions in my work. And that's
how that works. Yeah, that's nice. That just more Propagandra. What's
that program that's definitely gonna go wrong? I'm not entirely sure why he felt
the need to add that last bit. Well, honestly, I think it
was for a good reason that he added it, because this is one of
the things that I was talking about sort of set my mind to that there's
some corruption something going on the Minaris project. Um well, first of all,
can I get a from the group. Can I get a charisma check?
Please? A charisma check? Yes? Cool, excellent, excellent,
y'all are amazing. Um well, with the all of you pass. All
of the DC was twelve. This is fantastic. Um you You see her
kind of get like like a like a ikey like on her face, and
she's like, yeah, the Minaris Project is it's kind of messed up.
They take and she like makes like the biggest air quotes. They take volunteers,
and they sort of few introduce a sentient sort of plant to their brains
which puts them into a gathered, waking dream state. So if you,
if anyone's ever like, yo, come with me to Balance and we'll have
like a cool fun spot a and like end up with the Minars Project.
Just be like no, I'm good. I'd rather go hang out in glim
um like they can do that to people. Volunteers what happens to them?
No one's really sure, honestly, And she sort of looks out over to
this um to this big tower, this big central dome that's in in the
middle of balance here, and she said, as there's there are certain rooms
in the spas and certain areas and the spas that people aren't supposed to go
into, and there's and she leans into you all and she says, you
know, gloom isn't the only place that people disappear. And if you get
my drift, Ricks gets this huge smile hearing there's places that we shouldn't go
perfect perfect Do you know any of these rooms like where they are? And
she she also gets kind of a big smile on her face, and she
says, honestly, yeah, if once we stop here, if things go
well in the safe house, if you want to go take a look,
because I'm always down, always down for a new adventure. If you want
to, I do want to go. Oh good h And she like takes
out a little journal, she puts it in like a calendar, like a
planner. She's like, go on adventure with Ricks in rooms we should not
go into um X's Rix's hair also is burning a little hotter, very cool.
You burn away someone like the vines that are towards the top of the
ceiling. They're just like cinder away, Sasha, kind of like sand goes
up to the check and just goes hey. Um. So earlier they said
that, you know, the whole notsing went, if you catch my drift,
I don't. I don't think I'm catching it. What do they mean
that we are probably not? Wait one more time, they said that people
don't only disappear in Gloom. If you catch my drift, that's timely missing
it. Oh. Yes, that means that there are other places that people
are disappearing, not just in clue, oh like that very specifically, they
are disappearing here, probably being brainwashed some sort of parasitic plat and they're just
behind you, like that's it, that you got it? I can't sorry,
I'll just be confused a drifting. I have a question. Yes,
what so Gloom hasn't always been that way? Hasn't? No, And you
can you can actually roll you don't even roll history check on that. Actually
you you would know that it has always been a place of like sort of
more of the terraforming like experimentation, like building these bubble areas underneath it,
underneath the town. You do know that it has always been the place of
where kind of people people end up, not necessarily my choice, but the
pollution it just from the state of just from the fact of what it is
like with these like big heavy machines like moving earth earth and reshaping earth.
There has always been a level of pollution, but it seems like recently it
has become much more deadly. Within the last I would say, probably the
last couple of weeks, two month or two How long has this project been
going on? Interesting, you should ask that around the same amount of time.
I feel as though there is probably some correlation and it makes sense that
you ended up in gloom trying to investigate light bulb. Does your your flame
sort of make like a leg a brain wave which probably confuses Sasha because it's
an oceanic term, um what m yeah no, and gliders like yeah,
now you're kind of getting what I'm saying. Like on the surface, everything
down here is all roses and seaweed and yeah no, no chlorine and fresh
water. Trying to think of all the chorus are doing great, but once
you dig just a little bit deeper, checkpoints to the like the speakers like
there's things that there's there's some evil here and I don't like that. Star
well uh and and as you as as you asked that question, you guys
are starting to get closer to the the train station or the rail stop for
balance, And she says, I think Balance might be a good spot to
start. Honestly, I think it's it's portrayed as this like relaxation paradise.
But as you just heard from this silly I guess they didn't edit that out.
Yeah they Yeah, it's not exactly a safe place. So I think
we should go check out some of these bathhouses. Spo. You're at least
heard of you, and so you might be connected to some people, Like
do you know that dude, as I'm pointing to the speaker, uh,
and she kind of smiles, as, yes, I do. And let
me look at my notes serial quick, because I'm pretty sure that is actually
somebody in this book. And I don't want to I don't want to mess
up with stuff. But and and for sake of time, she says,
yeah, that's uh, that's old Rex Amsterdam. Yeah, he's uh,
he's one of the one of the one of the sort of head counselors had
head folks down here in charge. He's sort of the the not the commissioner,
but the the mad scientist, the mad scientist, exactly natural, naturally
naturally mister Amsterdam again alchemy Cannon get ready for it now, Um says yeah,
so I think, yes, I do know him. He is a
little bit off his off his rocker. Sorry, pardon my carson, ums
are whoo sorry. I like to put my rockers in holes around here.
He just dies, she just explodes and fighter is gone. You guys no
longer have a guide on this on this journey. Um. And as you
all are, as you're having this conversation, as you're talking about all Rex
Amsterdam boom uh, you are approaching the stop for um for balance and what
is all y'all's passive perception twenty one? I'm a ranger. Oh my goodness,
that's amazing. Anytime I ask you to roll a perception check, just
don't you'll you'll have it. I have like a plus eleven to my perception.
It's love that. Another rule I forgot to mention. If I ever
ask you to roll a perception check and you roll lower than you're passive.
Just take your passive unless you roll a natural one. Uh. So with
with the sorry, sorry Jack, you said you have eleven is nowhere one
eleven eleven directions? I think it was oh twelve, okay, perfect?
So then, uh, Dietrich, that you see with this godly passive perception,
as you're approaching this train station, you see a couple of figures,
um there waiting for you, which, uh, just to set the stage.
This city is not a band. None of these cities are abandoned,
so it's not it's not particularly strange to see people on the train station deck
that the you know, there's an actual word for that, the station,
the station, at the train station, the platform, thinking the platform,
it's not particularly strange to see people on the platform. But you only see
like just two people. And the car is starting to zoom in and you
see glider try to put on the brakes and you hear this room and nothing
happens. The train does not slow down. Um. And as you all
zoom passed gliders like, oh gosh darn it. Um, well, don't
worry, I can get this fixed by the time. Well you make another
loop. Buttrick, Dietrich, what you see is the two people that are
on the platform are wearing the same colors and sigils as that Nova Roil car
that you saw stopped in gloom. So they you see two sentinels standing there
and they just like in like there's I know this happens in a movie,
like you know that that Umbrella Academy meme where the two cars are going in
both the eyes you look right into their eyes and they're looking right at you,
and you see this like they are not phased by this car speeding through
the station at all. We're just looking at you. I think we've been
sabotaged where And Glider like pokes her head up. What what what are you
talking? What? What are you talking about? I just saw your followers,
oh your stalkers. Oh how much space is there between like where we're
traveling? Um, and before we like leave balance, you know where we'd
have to like where if we got out of the train, we'd end up
in the ocean. Uh. It's a decent a decent amount, probably a
couple of miles across. So you have a few This thing is going quick,
so you have just a few minutes, but it's space wise miles Is
there any way that I could perfect because it's just highlights? That was delightful.
Oh that was so good? Um um so if you need to take
a second, okay, Um Is there anyway I could get to like more
of the like closer to the rail? Yeah? Totally, because because my
idea is before I go too far, is I want to use heat metal
and try to just basically like melt the the base of the train so we
can't keep going anymore. I love that. Um yeah, roll me in
uh an investigation check. Please see because I'll say this. You can see
in the in the back sort of like the back of the train carby you
do see a door. It looks like it is very locked and very it's
gonna be very difficult to get through. Um so I guess it wouldn't be
investigation check. How do you how would you how would you like to try
to get through this door using your like your skills? Set it on fire?
Hey, that's that's a viable option. If you want to you want
to break it, I will say if you break it down, you are
if you do it and you're not aren't able to stop the car, you
are going to go out into open ocean again and that will be no,
I will be jumping off that point. Mm hmm. I mean I think
like, like, is it like like you can take can take take a
time, take a time? Is it like, Um, if I smash
the door open, if my warhammer, do I feel fairly confident that I
can do that? Or or do I do I feel like I might need
to give it a little extra h I think you would you you would need
to give it a little extra Okay, I'm gonna yeah, I want to
cast searing smite. Oh okay, um and so so I think you just
you just see um Ricks just like we're speeding past we've just got told that
the that we've been sabotaged, we're going back into the ocean. Like everything
is not the way Ricks wants it. He's just he's just like fuck this.
And you watch as like the flame from his hair and like the veins
like starts to like glow out of like this this molten hard lava skin that
he has and his whole hammer just bursts into flames. It just walks up
with two hands. It's just starts wailing on the door. Heck yeah,
I love it. Okay, uh So rollmingan attack role. First of all,
I'll say the D or the AC for the door is like eight.
It's fairly easy to hit a door. And I'll give it a damage threshold
of fourteen. Okay, uh, I was gonna give it a damage threshold
of ten, so you're able to do fourteen damage on it. You see
this big play. I did more because I cast serious bite. Oh excellent,
this is what I'm gonna say. Yeah, you you just really reel
back his hammer and smashed into this door. And you see like the top
hinge of the door just like break off, and like the door is like
just hang there on one hinge now, and you all of you hear a
very loud sound that is not the speakers. Uh. And in fact,
Sasha, you've probably can you roll me a constitution saving through a Sasha?
Oh no okay, um bad no, no, no, no, this
is this is great. This is fantastic at twenty guns these roles. Uh.
You you are so in touch with machines and tinkering, and you can
see that you're you're you're back with this war forged and you you start to
hear the sounds and the serves and the fans starting to activate again. So
you're you're like, oh, this thing is turning on, and you're able
to brace yourself just a little bit right as just this sound comes from this
warfores and it stands up and it says, uh, breach detected, breach
detected, alerting the sentinels, and uh, you all see this like sort
of little like little like cop light start spinning on the top of its head
and you see this thing. Uh look right over at you ricks and real
quick, can I get wow initiative roles? Well? I totally forgot what
it was for. Its like, can I get initiative roles from from all
of you all? Please? So actually, before I make you make everybody
rule initiative, I have a question, um as them. Do you have
an option on the top? Oh? Yes, to automatically roll over initiatives?
I do. Um, that's so nice. So I'm in a slide.
Come on, there we go, turn it off, turn it back
on, Come on, there we go. That checks out. Step away
for a second, but totally lost an initiative. That'll work out great,
totally. Well we'll go slowly. So just to set the stage real quick,
it seems like you have alerted some sort or it seems like Ricks has
alerted some sort of fail safe, some sort of alarm in this big war
force has stood up and it is starting to walk towards Ricks. And it
isn't just announcing like alerting the sentinels in five four, like it's not gonna
be five seconds. But basically, just because I like to be very upfront,
you guys are gonna have just a couple rounds to deal with this thing,
or the sentinels will be even more alerted to what you are doing than
they already are. And I will, I will say that is three rounds.
Can I immediately take my reaction? Absolutely, because even away from me
still pati attack right, Yes, absolutely, and yes please do so the
let me get my book here because I'm old school and I still really like
to use books, good old paper feel um where there we go. So
the ac that you're looking for on this on this bad boy is seventeen and
so you all know. So what you see is like just as I see,
Like I think it's because of my awareness that this is breasing up.
I kind of turned just before it stands, before it starts making its way
to Ricks. I'm Sasha quickly turns to buddy and go buddy tidant, and
Buddy Buddy moves. You hear the wearing of cargs only things going on,
and they move their head and just hold it up, their head up and
start to hold their hand out, and you just first you hear like a
wearing side and suddenly a beautiful like onex black tribent is. I think it
is made of like this obsidian stone with some iridescence, like almost rainbow iridescence
on it, depending on how that light hits it. And if you don't
carefully see the iridescences and patterns of ruins and sigils, arcane runs and sigils.
As I reach out, it flies out of the top of body and
into my hand because it is a returning weapon. I used it. It's
an infusion of artificer, so it returns to my hand whenever I throw it.
So I stab this preach in the back and cast booming blade will cast
us. I think spells excellent. That is amazing. So, like I
said, seventeen is what you're looking for. This big old rusty guy is
moving towards your dear friend Rick, and you're what do you got? So
I'm using two handed twenty five to hit you absolutely hit excellent for eleven damage
excellent. Um oh I did so it would be plus sixth damage and if
it moves or taking up a fourteen thunder damage another fourteen. Yeah, so
it's seventeen damage right now, and if it continues to move away from me,
you'll take another, um another fourteen excellent. Well, probably is going
to do that because it's kind of a kind of a dummy. I hope
not. Honestly, I want you all to be the heroes here, so
I hope this thing dies quickly. Um. Sorry, your your machineries are
marvel but I love it. That case, I'll do it again again.
Have been bladed in my trident? Excellent? It's still a melee, right
it is? Okay? Yeah, so I just have again excellent. So
seventeen to hit or seventeen is what you're looking for, I would have so
I'm still two handing it because I wouldn't want to use two handing. So
yeah, I hit for twenty one to hear all right, excellent? Nine
damage okay, last um plus five and if it moves it takes another five
a it probably will there we go, um, then my bonus action I
turned to Buddy and go Buddy, get them um and Buddy takes his initiative
is right after my so Buddy will head rush over to it again, attack
it as well, love um force empowered to rend it. Just it just
kind of like all of a sudden, close a pit through the kind of
gloved hands of this um scuba diva and full marine diver um and slashes at
it. Doesn't hit. It's all right, I'll say, yeah the Wordford,
You've got his attention now. And the Warfords turns and it like it
catches buddies like talented hands right on its like arm and doesn't doesn't take any
damage there. Uh that was still a really cool attack. Well done,
uh d trick. As you see, this is all happening very quickly,
but you're you're starting to pick up what's going on? How do you respond
to this threat? Um? How? How why is this? Uh?
How long is this? Great question? I'm gonna say. The car is
about sixty feet long and probably about twenty feet wide, okay, um,
And there's there's all sorts of chairs and like just imagine like a normal uh
subway car. There's there's chairs lining it along the sides. So trying to
shoot this thing with an arrow might not be the greatest idea in such close
quarters. Uh. If if you just I would say, if you burn
a little bit of your movement speed to like just get into an advantage.
I want to get us yeah, as far away from it as I can.
Okay. And I'm gonna cast Hunter's mark on it because that's what smart
Ranger does. Um. You never forget that. And then I'm gonna I'm
gonna shoot it two times with my with my uh, with my long boat.
Excellent, too, long boat seventeen to hit. Let's see how we
do. Nice. Yeah, so that's going to it's not twenty damage.
That's gonna be seventeen damage to start. I love it. Um, Actually,
no, I'm gonna use it. I'm gonna a favored foe slot for
this, Okay. I'm going to set that on it as well. So
that is going to be a full twenty. I can do that. I'm
my first, Yeah, the first of every Wait a minute, hold on,
let me make sure I'm not burning too many actions here. When I
hit a creature on an attack role, I can market cool excellent. Uh.
And then my second attack, but I can only do it on the
first attack of each round, and my second attack also hits with a natural
twenty Oh okay, are you happy with twenty nine damage? Damage works for
me? Well, it's on sh I'm so sorry. Yes, perfect,
perfect, perfect, perfect. Yeah, I rolled pretty well. I rolled
like a nearly max on that one dar and I did roll max on the
other. So it actually worked out exactly the way it was supposed everybody,
everybody watching Alchemy knows your homebrew rules before you even act, before you even
spell at the table, so it is exactly, um, excellent that you
pull back fire off these arrows, and just like you see sheets of metal
and like screws and bolts starting to fly off this thing where you hit it,
but it is still starting to move forward closer towards Rix, who has
damaged his precious, precious Nova rail car. Is there anything else you're doing
with your turn? Nope, I've moved it, did my bonus and my
two actions, so I am done. All right, Hedge two, you're
up, um and then yeah, just to reset the stage a little bit,
you have Ricks by the back of the car, wailing with his hammer,
probably noticing what's going on behind him now? Wailing with his hammer on
the door of this car. This big warforce has gotten up and it's starting
to make his way towards Rix, while your friends Dietrich and Sasha are doing
the Lord's work and taking this thing to full school. What are you doing
trying to? I think I'm gonna hold my action for now. Okay,
I'm gonna hold my action to if they get any closer and then I want
to attack. Got Okay, Well, they are gonna be coming up after
Ricks here, so you'll you'll you will know if they are moving after that.
So then Ricks, as you're wailing bam bam on this door, you're
take taking some big damage to it. You turn around and you see this
scene in front of you. This war force has now stood up and it
looks pretty terrifying. It's got arrows coming out of it, pieces of metal
are like falling off of it, and it's starting to like come towards you.
Who breach Alert, breach noticed, I've noticed a breech. You've hurt
my train, you jerk um and uh it it is uh shambling towards you.
What are you doing? Is the is the door open? That like,
did I did I have the door yet about half? You know that
if you hit it, hit it again with pretty much what you did before,
it'll it'll come off those hinges. Okay, Um, I'm gonna look
kind of look at my group. They've they've they've done some significant damage to
it. Oh yeah, uh oh yeah, you guys got this. And
I'm just gonna keep whaling at the door. Give me, give me another
attack role against that door. I said it's low AC, but it's got
a decently a decent damage threshold. Yeah, absolutely hit yeah the damage.
You are able to bring your warhammer down on this door one last time and
with this, with this final hit with your flaming uh warhammer, you knock
this door off its hinges. And now you realize you're probably like eighty feet
up in the air, and you look down over over the expanse of balance
underneath you. You see the train station that you've recently left. You see
the two sentinels, like, oh, what's going on? As the as
the train as the novreil keeps continuing on, You now are open to the
elements or is there anything else you're trying to do with your chiel um you
still, that would be your action, Yeah, that would be your action.
You have movement bonus or reaction. Yeah, as a free action,
I'm gonna flip off the sentinels there watching. You can't you can't curse like
that were they started running after one of them? Oh no, they started
rolling around the magic words ultimate. What a bunch of rockers, just weeping
rying on the platform. M we know we're chasing you for the right reasons.
The way is there a way to get to where I can? I
could at least in a fairly braced position, whether it's like holding on or
something, but get my the head of my hammer against the rail that we're
off for sure? Absolutely? Yeah, um I would. I'll say this,
you or you look down at the exposed door behind you, none,
you see the rail speeding down underneath you. Um, you you can stay
pretty much standing in the doorway and try to reach down to It's only probably
less than five feet underneath you at this point. Okay, yeah, I
will, I will do that. And I'm just I'm I don't have anything
else I'm actually gonna do on my turn, but I'm getting I'm I'm sort
of like muttering a prayer. That if you listen closely, it's um,
something along lines of like like um by the fore jaw. Things that can
be made can also be unmade. Um. And my hands start to glow
um and even hotter my, my, the head of my warhammer is starting
to glow like white hot as I'm preparing to try to melt this rail to
stop us. Amazing, wondering, there's a half there's a halfway fleeting thought
like we're kind of high. This might be a bad idea, and then
and then followed immediately by it's not the water. I don't kared anymore.
Uh. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. Um. And that is it for
your turn. As the war forged, um, it stops in its tracks
and it turns and it faces you, Sasha, and you see a single
oily tier pour out of its eye. It says, I thought we were
friend. I'm just kidding. I'm evil. And he, uh, he's
gonna take one of his attacks on you. Um. Uh that is a
thirteen plus reading David seven an unnatural twenty hits. All right, so you're
gonna get hit actually sorry, um, buddy's gonna use the reaction. Oh
yeah, hit me with it take this guy down. So Buddy will reach
out to try and they don't have this advunch of this attack. Basically your
budd buddy will reach out to try and put themselves in the way or slow
down their swing. That is a now at two plus seven nine. Uh
So what does it look like when Buddy like catches this thing like it just
it just like you see it's hand turn into like a big like just hammer
and it's like starting to come down on you. What what does Buddy do
to stop that? I think so Buddy isn't like cool anything. Like the
coolest thing that they've stilled into Buddy is the clause. I think, like,
Buddy like five foot five, and I feel like this wolf is like
what six foots at least? Yeah, it's six six. Buddy kind of
just jumps and headbuts to arm before you can like just just diving head butt
at the arm to knock it out. Of course I love it. So
then like bullet time, you see this like hand transformative, this hammer and
it starts to come down and for a moment you're like, oh, this
is gonna hurt a lot, But then you see the the diving bell helm
crashing into the side of the hammer and just glances off the side of your
face. Thank you, buddy, thank you. As that happens, you
hear from the opposite side of the rail, like low rumbling, infernal like
as um uh, the opalescent pink and really pretty teethling reaches out of hand
um and like uh that sort of same pink opalescent and like color kind of
like extends from their their mouth out into the space as they cast Helen's rebuke.
All right, and let me go ahead and roll the damage for that.
That's gonna be twenty nineteen damage. Oh I need a deck save.
Actually, all right, I'll give you. I'll give you one of those
that is that is a natural one wonderful ties nineteen damage. Roll me an
extra six please show. I like to reward critical successes. In fact,
hey, all right, so twenty five damage. Ye oh man. You
just see like from like within the like inner chest carapist area of this old
war forge, just this light glow. And what color are the flames?
Is it like normal flames where you got like pinks. They're pink flames.
Excellent. You see these like pink flames are rough from the chest of this
war Forage and um As it takes a huge amount of damage, and you
see like the wooden parts and like the leather parts of this thing that are
like holding it together start to fray and splinter and crack, and it doesn't
look like it's much longer for this world. I gave you all three rounds
and this is this is round one. Um wonderful jobund over here. I
love it done. So I'm gonna say, out of out of reflex,
I'm gonna give a disadvantage again for the second attack on um On Sasha.
What is your acy? But it is a nine plus No, not gonna
have nine plus seven sixteen uh as as it as it's trying to bring it's
it's big hammer hand down on you again, but with the flames and with
Buddy and just all the chaos going on, it can't quite do it.
And it's like looks at you again and you see like no tears. You
see it just like I was trying to do my job. It turns around
and it starts to step towards uh step towards ricks, which thinks might be
an easy target. But then that booming blade challenge is gonna come on in
so roll that damage blaze, yeah, alredy nineteen excellent. Yeah, and
just just to to speed things along here, did you just booming thundering damage?
Uh? Erupts as this thing takes a step forward and it kind of
like knocks it down. It's kind of crawling towards ricks. Uh. And
we're back to the top of the round, top of the order. This
thing, it woke up and chose to accept violence today because y'all are y'all
are doing it? Yeah, Sasha, you are up and this thing doesn't
look like it's long for this world? What are you? What are you
doing here? Come on out? Oh wait, I'm sorry? Um uh
hedge two, it moved if you want your action to trigger, oh yeah,
just a good old fashioned flegending smash. All right, I need to
take it away for it all right? Boom, yes, twenty all right,
So like a casual, just like a casual crips. So, and
that's twenty nine damage on that. That's outrageous. What did I owe?
I added an extra I was looking around when I was making my ida or
my my move to see like, oh what would so it's more like nineteen
damage. That's still that's still enough. So as what I like to say,
describe to me how you killed this poor poor Warford. Whoh okay,
I like that. Well, Hedge has kind of been vibing this whole time,
watching what everybody else has been doing. I think they're used to the
team kind of like taking care of them while they just kind of run around
with some bingker Payton decorate everywhere they go. But when it comes to combat,
Hedge is good at one thing and that has taken them out at the
knees. So with their battle axe, they're just gonna like they take like
one swing and like anime style, it's almost like nothing happens for a second
and let yees, war Ford separates defeated so good and it just it crumbles
to the ground exactly the way you described it. Amazing, good job everybody.
You've solved my Warforge puzzle and exactly. And I will say, uh,
you got ricks. You turn around. You kind of been like I
don't really care what's going on behind me. You look turn around, you
see the scorched, bisected Hamburger ways, Warford sitting on the ground. Uh,
and your friends are like there and you're like, oh wow, this
is why let everybody congratulations, but also opened up a door like opened up
the Yeah, we should get out of here. I want you Suddenly you
are very quiet, ricks he's very focused on the prayer. You cast silence.
Sorry yeah, um it looks back at everything else, y'all didn't.
It's like, hang on, just don't, don't come out here quite yet.
And then and then just slams his hammer into the rail um and is
holding on as tight as he can as as he casts heat metal to try
to melt the rail, essentially just to stop the train. That's really cool,
um roll me uh an attack role and we're gonna kind of use similar
similar rules. Here be a lowish ac This one's a little bit higher because
you're moving fast on a train trying to hit a single rail. Okay,
do you want do you want that or do you want the because heat metal
does like um a con save? Oh yeah? Does the rail have a
constant see that? This? These are the questions I love getting asked as
a DM because no matter how no matter how much I prepare, I don't
I think it. No, I think heat metal would just happens. The
con save is for them to hold onto because if you usually passing. Oh
yeah, yeah, so I'm gonna upcast upcast it, which would be three
D eight fire damage if anything, so in physical contact with it. Cool.
Yeah yeah, so give me so yeah yeah it did. It happens.
I'm not I'm not gonna roll concave for the rail because it it's it's
a very unconstituted rail. You guys should not be sailing on this rail.
It is not strong. It should know better. Um fourteen damage. So
you you cast this, uh, you cast this spell, your your your
your hammer lights up in flames, and you do see the metal start to
like melt and stretch out in a long gate and you see it start to
like drip off of off of the rail down into the city of balance beneath
you. Uh you feel that, Yeah, someone's like gardening. Oh no,
my pumpkins. Um. And you see you feel the trains start to
slow down, all of you feel the train start to slow down as you
as you rick see the metal of like the contraption holding the train to the
rail start to merge. It isn't quite there yet, um, but if
you can think of how yeah, it's not quite there yet. What do
you what do you do? Uh, anyone any fire? Well, actually,
you know what what I'll do is, um, I'm gonna I'm gonna
just I'm gonna put my uh fire Janazi trait where I get the cast burning
hands and so I'm also gonna as I'm doing that, like you watched my
hair like light on fire and that fire to shoot down my arms, through
my hands, down my down my hammer into the rail. Dank. That
was that was some flavor that tasted good. Um yeah, so yeah,
what what are the require or what does that do for you? Is that
just flavor? Burning hands is? Yeah? It does damage? Is three
six fire damage to you all feel the Nova rail car as you see your
friend Ricks literally grab on to the speeding rail underneath you and you see this
fire shoot down his from his hair, down his arms into into his hands
and on the rail. You you feel that the Novo rail car come to
a stop and Glider stands up. He's like, what the hell? I
just got this running? Why would you do that? No? Running?
Oh? You know what? You're right? Sorry credit where credits d?
That was totally you U You're totally right. But no, you've you've you've
stopped the car. You're now like I said, about eighty feet above,
above above the floor, above the ground of balance. Uh, and the
rail has stopped. You see the body of the war force in front of
you. And Glider's like, wow, y'all really, y'all are crazy?
That's cool? You know, Yeah, I don't think that there was any
mistake that we were not able to stop at the station like we were supposed
to. I think you're right. And if if we are, if we
are fast, we might be able to catch those sentinels and ask them why
they messed with our our cart. You know, that's a great idea.
What the answer we can make them answer? Right? Violence? Violence?
I thought we're just going to see Um, that's well and good, But
how are we going to get down from here? That was my next question
too. Looks at the now broken real car or an over real car again,
we're just melded to the rail. Walk on the rail. Does anybody
have a new rope? And whit We just walk on the We just walk
to the station, just like on the on tracks. I mean, yes,
you are correct. I got little legs. But it's cool, it's
cool, It's totally fine. You can you can sit on on I can
give you piggy back, right, Okay, thank you excellent. Uh yeah,
if you all want to try to walk back along the rail, Oh
I'm so sorry, this is an even better idea. I just have this
image that every now and then and if this is okay with you, of
course, Rack, I'm asking because if every now and then, um,
Hedge is allowed to ride inside Buddy and get this little like head yeah kind
of like that. So if you do so, do you want to do
that? I gotta have a little window thing open though, so like every
time, like without without fail, um and be I think you would appreciate
this. I don't know. Maybe Ucky will as well. I don't know
how much they know, but why I'm about to describe, but as I
opened up the heads, like take off the helmet of Buddy, like okay,
if you just put your arms there and there so you can kind of
move around it a bit hard because body also views on their own. Maybe
do you do not rub out this sid you're on the back of the neck.
That kind of animates it and it takes it took a lot of ether
to kind of figure that out. Um. And then once they're inside,
I'll put their head on and like open though opened the kind of vice as
you can they can see there you go, thank you. Yeah, I'm
not going to touch any of those symbols. I know that ether crafting.
It's scary stuff. There's an arminal leg sometimes, honestly it was I nearly
lost more than just phenomenal, Like a friend of mine actually came along and
yeah, that got dark anyway, and such a tons around. I just
got like serious full metal alchemist vibe. Love it. You are a legend.
Oh my gosh, I finally realize who this character is inspired by.
Oh good, oh my gosh, grengratulations, you guys be a really difficult
fight. Um, and if you want to try to walk along the rails
back to the station at balance, feel free, or if anyone else has
any other ideas, feel free. I think we're just gonna walk in,
So then definitely let's do whatever is it better for acrobatics checks. Please,
we have to do a couple, because I'm gonna say you are you're You're
probably several hundred feet off of out of the out of the station, So
let's do three each. I'm just gonna see if I have any spells that
might help me not. Oh I did really well. Yeah I got I
got a fourteen, a sixteen, and a nineteen excellent. I was meant
to do three right, okay to three okay, I promise excellent, excellent.
Oh my god. Oh so so that that seven on the last you
guys said you're kind of tied yourself together. Hear that correctly? You were
asking for a rope and or what what were you? Yeah? I think
the plane of the rope was if we had to go down, but then
we decidedly we're just now we're just going to walk around. I see.
Well, uh so then as you all are walking, you see Buddy and
and your friend Sasha starting to loser balance a little bit. I haven't rolled
the buddy seem that you if you rolled, then you're in because in buddy,
yeah, that's can we can? Is there like a rope that we
can like tie off like daisy chain each other to each other? For sure?
If you if you want to say, this has been kind of free
form on this one. So if you want to say you've tied a rope
to each other, you absolutely can. Then we can make those like group
checks instead, and then you guys will all just have passed. Yeah,
I think that'll be better and smarter idea. Yeah, cool, So then
kind of keep keeping that same narrative going, y'all are y'all are tied together
and you're starting to make your way along this this rail back towards the balance
station which balance, um, and there's one You get to the last probably
twenty thirty feet, and Sasha starts to teeter, but you all like together,
you tighten up the rope and you you're able to hold each other on
the rail and thanks the dreamwork, and you all make your way back to
the station. And you're back on the station now, and there is not
at least from this from this point in this perspective, you don't see anybody,
any of the sentinels, anybody. What are you all doing? Um,
I'd like to start looking around for any sign of where they might have
gone. All right, And that's probably pretty good for you because you're somewhat
of a tracker, I would imagine, So yeah, give me a whatever's
better for you, investigation survival or if you have some sort of like cool
ranger tracking ability, I'm sure we could fix flux that around to make it
works. Twenty three work twenty three works fantastically. I don't think y'all have
like this is a walk in the park for y'all. This is great.
If we picked the right party balance here thing to happen too. I'm very
excited for it. Um. So, as you're starting to look around,
you see, uh, you're you're standing on this this platform. This platform
is sort of about eighty feet up in the air. There's the rails are
going like sort of east west north south, like the one rail passing through
it. It looks like this station is abandoned. But you see only two
eggits leading out. You see one that they both lead down. You see
one leading off to the north, one leading off to the south. And
uh, you see it looks like the door of the one heading up to
the north is open. With that with that good role, I think they
might have gone that way. But oh okay, yeah, get them,
okay, okay, okay, just in my little metal casing, still riding
along and Buddy, if you get them, um, buddy will just sprint
with you inside. I love it, as does Buddy do that? Does
Buddy just starting to charging off, Buddy just sprinting down. They have a
speed of forty fantastic terrif um is is anyone not following? I'm I'm following.
So as you guys head out this sort of you make it through one
of the turnstiles of this of this area, and you make a quick journey
down a few flights of stairs and you open up a door and you are
now out on like a more busy section of this station. It looks like
there might be a couple of different platforms connecting to different nova rails. You
see people running like they're late for trains. You see people walking around cleaning
up trash. It's busy and lively here, um and roll me one more
or actually, no way, no, don't roll me anything, because your
passive perception is buck wild. Uh. You you take a quick scan with
your with your arranger eyes, and you you see the colors and the sigils
and the symbols of these two sentinels retreating off in the distance, leading down
these like set of stairs, down this pathway into more of the main city.
Proper of balance. What do you do with palmaturgy. I'm going to
yell after them, Okay, you can't hide from us. And you see
like the whole station just like It's like a what's the word looking for every
Everyone stops, Yeah, everyone stops, and all the heads turned towards you,
and you see off in the distance, you see the the the sentinels
like turn and then they just start to book it once they see who who
is here? Probably about sixty feet away from you, all across like this
sort of this courtyard platform platforuh courtyard place? What do y'all do? They're
they're starting to book it in towards the city. I am going to throwing
my try it it. Oh dang, okay. Range So I have a
normal range of twenty feet okay, but with this advancee I can throw up
to sixty all right, roll me. You're gonna try rolling it? Yeah,
I'm gonna say that. The DC for these guys is sixteen. Okay.
I believe in you. I believe in you too. I remember you
do. Oh you don't know. You don't even need it? Three and
an eight team And if I can, i'd have to put um either bonus
action to put a burning is it searing burning smite? Branding smite on twenty
hold onto it. You see this like iridescent sigils, glow and ended very
tips a bit turn of just a bright red I throw it and slam into
the back of one of them, slams right in the back of one of
their shoulders, and you see, uh, you see them them stutter and
stumble a little bit. With seven damage excellent, you see them stage eighteen
damage total? Oh my gosh. Yeah, all right, yeah, then
take back what I said. You definitely see them fall down. They go
prone, not they're not unconscious or dead yet, but the one of them
goes down, the other one turns and it's starting to like administer quick CPR
or not CPR first aid, then trying to get their friend back up.
So you will, I'll you will be able to get to them a lot
easier now if you guys are, if you all are trying to get to
them a few moments, might try dents as well, fidetting whoo and like
it flies back, flies back towards you. Uh, sixty feet across this
this platform, weaving in and out of the bystanders who were all actually know
who we're all now screaming and running and uh trying to get the heck out
of the way. Uh what do y'all do? As as we're continuing towards
him. I'm not gonna speed up. I'm just gonna keep the same like
thirty feet a round speed that I'm going. But I'm gonna pull my shield
out and my and my war hammer and I'm gonna start banging them together and
I'm gonna cast hole the dead. Oh okay, ore, does it look
like the one who's on the ground is unconscious or is just like getting aid,
just getting aid. He he got hurt drastically, but it's not quite
He's still he's still writhing around, moving like, oh gosh, get it
out of my back. And then it goes out of his back and he's
like, I still hurt, hurt so much. Um, it's not a
untackled that. That was my mistake. I built it. It's a wisdom
saving throw. Thirteen thirteen excellent. Let me get my other little dice here.
Okay, that is uh so for the first one who I will say
is on the ground, number sentinel number one, he got a four plus
two six, So he fails and then takes h twelve necrotic damage, good
gravy um, and I'm gonna, yeah, you see this sentinel who is
riding on the ground, reaching towards his back. You see him go still,
and you see the other one look up to you guys, reach up
to his aerial quick mumble something you can't hear, and starts to starts to
run. What are you trying to? Right after I bang and cast out,
I want to say, as loud as I can, I don't have
thoughmaturgy, but as loud as I can, I'm gonna say I stopped a
train with my fucking hands. Think about what you're gonna do next. Uh,
roll me intimidation or performance, whatever is better for you terrible, Oh,
I'm sorry. M hm. Uh. If you're rolling strength, sure
make it actually have a plus three to persuasion. Make it a persuasion check
then, because you're persuading these guys not Oh there you go, excellent,
well done. Um, you see the one as as you as everyone hears
this bang bang bang, then I stopped a train with my fucking hands.
Today. You see like like the one who was starting to run away like
stop and just like kind of puts his hands up and it's like in like
kind of surrendering. Um, congratulations, you solved my sentinel puzzle. Well,
um, we're taking that one alive. You see, like the platform
is clearing out. Now there's a couple of stragglers. There's there's maybe a
few maybe down on their luck Chrysalians who are just like sitting there watching what's
going on. But for the most part, everyone else is gone. As
the four of you walk up to the one dead sentinel and the surrender other
surrendered sentinel, He's like, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. What we don't have any We don't want
any trouble here. You clearly are much more intent intense than we originally thought.
Very sorry, what interesting way of putting it. Right. Hey,
we were just told to follow follow the old car that came out of gloom.
That's it. Why did you keep fighting back then? And he like
sort of like thinks back to the last six seconds. He's like, we
just now we definitely did not Very sorry if I gave off that impression,
But okay, now you're right, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm just
trying to I'm just trying to make make ends meet here. We were told
that there was going to be some interesting people coming out of Gloom. Uh
do usually what they're doing in Gloom. Do you know who hired you to
follow us? It was the head Sentinel commissioner Gordon. Um the drugs.
No, No, I can't, I can't tell you. Um well,
inspiration. Well that is a very very strong batvibe going on. Uh,
he says. It was just orders. We're just told to patrol. Usually
we don't get this much pushback from people. People in Gloom are sent there
to to die. Basically, yeah, we lived there. Yeah, I
go sent to die. Interesting, Yeah, you just sent there. They
thought I was too nosy and too smart, so they sent me there.
I think I just got lost. Honestly, all of these things that you
like tinkering with, buddy, you just casually as they say that, you've
also just killed my friend. Um, there's all the tracks. Y'all are
right on the money with yourselves. Please don't kill me. Umm, you'll
tell us what we need to know. We don't have to kill friendship kind
of roll me a persuasion show. And you have advantage because you very much
have this person in the palm of your hands. Y'all. Y'all done very
well. I'm behind them, just mouthing like I'm gonna kill you sorts.
Of FIDS we flame hair rolling fourteen fourteen. Yeah that's good. Uh you
you see this guy's like, okay, um, I'm gonna get in so
much trouble for this. Um. I mean, it's better than the head.
You raise a valid point, just like wipes the blood of their friend,
make an eye content like it's legitimately just a casual thing for them.
But it's so like hardcore water tribe energy happening here over each other's shoulders,
just like it's so good. He's like, okay, okay, okay,
okay, come with me. I swear I'm not gonna try anything. I'm
not gonna try anything, but but we probably should not be right here when
the other sentinels show up, because they're gonna be here. And just a
bit like follow me, and he starts like get up slowly. He's not
trying to make any quick moves. Now. It's like, I know,
I'm very outnumbered, very outmatched. I am an NPC. This is not
what me and I started bleeding from my notes NPC, all five of us
looking down into this world. U uh, the fall. We just we
can't be here in about three minutes, so okay, talking and lead the
way then you're right. Sorry, He's like, I'm trying to still know,
and he's like, he leads you, guys, just a little ways
off, and he leads you, like down, he leads you a little
ways off the platform, and like down these stairs. You're now descending the
eighty feet from these sort of sky platforms into the city proper of balance.
And it is a really nice place. You see, everyone here is dressed
relatively nicely. You see, the streets are relatively clean, the buildings are
not derelict and falling down. Uh. And in the center of the whole
thing, it smells. It smells like cinnamon and pumpkin pie. I'm starting
question just as we're going, I'm starting small small fires, and I said,
and I look at them, Dart, and I say, I love
it. Oh my own question is I guess it's like no, probably question,
but like, what was Glider's reaction to all of this? Oh my
gosh, I'm so sorry. I am so sorry. Yes, Glider,
Glider, Yeah, she's just a little bit like, Oh, I guess
I signed up for this. Um yeah, no, like these I asked
for answers, and I asked for y'all's help I'm gonna trust you. And
she's not necessarily happy about killing people. Um, but she realizes like y'all
are y'all have your methods and you're you're you're knocking in the heads and you're
getting those answers. Um. And so she's just tagging along and she's I
will say, she's probably trying to like pull up her hood and trying to
look a little more inconspicuous because she is relatively she's from a prominent family.
Here. Um, I'll take um suchial take off her red cloak and pay
it over um glad and had them wear the hood like they probably told us
that they kind of like tying the tying to cloak her on them. Delightful
and Glider for sure, she thank you, thank you so much again,
the bubble, the cloak. I like you. They're lovely, aren't they.
Sasha's just the greatest m And this after a few moments of walking this
this sentinel takes you all kind of to like a back alley and he says,
okay, um, oh sorry, that's Glider. Okay Um, here's
the thing we I've heard. I've heard with the Minars Project and a couple
of other things going on. There are some people who are close to the
queen who are trying to take over. I swear that's all I know.
They're there. If if I would, I would suggest you all starting maybe
there. There's a couple of folks, a couple of the scientists that happen
to be in the spa is right now into in the main sort of Yeah,
there's some secret rooms back there. I've heard of, uh, and
gladder. It looks to you Rix and I was like, um, He's
like, yeah, I would. I would suggest looking back there. If
you want to get to the bottom of this head into the head into the
spas, try not to kill anyone. That'll get your thrown out relatively quickly.
Um. But I'm just understood. People manage to kill somebody and like
um, Dietrich pats their armor and like you see one of the starfish short
of twitch and like they say, I have a disposal method for them.
Uh. This person was already very much willing to occupiate with you guys and
was very terrified. Now I think, yeah, and I love it.
And this this guy's like all right, I'm I'm just a worker here.
I will I'll try to find some more information. Please just don't kill me.
I won't I won't write on you all. I'll try to get you
as much information as I can. I think you should start by moving in
or not moving in, heading into the into the spas there. Ask for
Oh, I can say, yeah, he says, ask for Iron.
He's he's a he's a scientist in there. He has a couple of ideas.
What's going on. He's gonna be you're one of your main points of
contact. And then he says to you, says, for the love of
God, do not drink the chrysalian flourish. They're gonna try and get it.
And you all, you all would know, you all, that's something
you all would know. Actually, both these names, you would you would
know the name Iron Adam as a very well known prominent scientist here in the
in the chrysalia, and you would know that, uh, Chrysalian flourish is
like a special nutritious drink that they serve. It's very delicious um. But
it according to this person. Now he says, don't drink it anymore.
And just to sort of wrap things up here quickly, I'm going to say,
you all talk to this person. He says, he's gonna help help
you out as best he can as long as you promise not to kill him
and he and he points you off in the direction of the spas and the
relaxation centers in balance, and as you all are walking off towards this next
phase of your adventure. Unless there's anything you all want to do or say
before I end this for you, I want to drinking contests of the Chrysalian
flourish with Buddy. Okay, wait, if you want to try and do
that right now, we could we could try to make that happen. Yeah,
sure, I know. I mean I think they called us. Oh
yeah, they said don't drink it right away. But you know that's it's
a it's like a fago when they say don't do the thing you're supposed to
do it right. Um. I mean you can sort can drink it,
but I think I prefer Sasha didn't. Um if if Buddy didn't maybe because
the whole you know, the eat acidual, it's kind of it was kind
of hot, and I don't know if you'll handle anything more civic than just
water. Um, So you can do that, but and Buddy would chay
you on. Yeah yeah, Rex do you want to drink with me?
No? The sentinels like that. That was like that's the like remember earlier
on when Glider was like, oh, there's like this thing it takes over
their minds and stuff like that. I'm just like just like putting some pieces
together. Pretty sure that's the said sh plant, that's drink. Yeah,
that's probably going to brainwash you and turn you into plant creature. Which like
if that's if that's the life that I mean your friends, Yeah, I
can energy if you want me to. I really think that I realized that
my life as an artist is not meant to be. And I'm just gonna
pull out their finger paints and like pour them out, um no while still
inside and Buddy's face masks out after very much like frank out of the couch.
That's fine. And then they're gonna PLoP down to the ground gracefully.
You're not gracefully depending on your image. Um, and with their little arms
in the air, I think it's time for a new me. It's time
for a change. And um they're gonna grab like three flasks in two hands,
smack off the lids and break them all right, roll Okay, you
just see um, you see, Sasha just climb into your body and go,
hey, buddy, we should have run pretty Roman constitution saving please.
Um yeah, I see if I could do. Um, that's true.
Yeah, how's a nine for you? Uh? You take these three flasks
straight to the head and they do taste really good. Um, and you
feel this like presence kind of creep up from inside of you, and you
feel this warmth through your your cheeks and in the back of your neck.
But then nothing happens, and you see the sentinels eyes grow kind of wide,
and he's like, I I can't believe you just did that. Um,
y'all, y'all are gonna want to take keep an eye on this one.
Um. So far, so good, so far, so good.
Yeah. Yeah, And you know what, that's great. I'm happy for
you. And he sort of directs you off towards the these spas, and
your your venturing party walks off towards these the spas, and we're gonna cut
there. As you all have the next phase of your journey planned out.
You have some some mysteries to solve, you have some new friends to make,
you have some new sentinels to kill. Um. But and that's it
for this one shot. Thank you all so much for tuning in. Thank
you all so much for playing. I know that was very, very chaotic,
but I I had had a blast time. I will play a game
no other way if there's not chaos. What are you doing? That's the
only correct way to play Dungeon Dragons. But how do you want us to
sign this? Off? Beat? Um? Why don't we go around?
Uh say where we can find you? How do we support you? And
then and off with myself and I will close us out. No, I
don't know who's this time? All right? Um? Well GM, David,
you killed it? Why don't you go first? Thank you, thank
you, Hello everybody. My name is David Telstra. I am the dungeon
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fabulous. Thank you so much. That was wonderful. So that was
so great, seriously, like from beginning to end, Like I know you
did follow some structure at the beginning, but that it was just kind of
like like you said, off the rail and that's what speaks to my heart,
you know, and that's what this platform should really really assist with.
And heck did it ever? Hm, it's super? Did super? Did
Steven? Why don't you go next? Yeah? I'm Steven. You can
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that's where you'll find me. And yeah, Alchemy, thanks for having
us. This is this was so so fun and such a beautiful a beautiful
interface to work with and and build out characters and stuff. Thank you.
Next up was our I think the most like fixed a Rupper of the bunch,
Um plus had the best buddy buddy. Yeah, Hi, I'm Jack
Cold your knicks. You can find me on Twitter at your conics. That's
the r a k n a q ees kind of live their place. Do
you're trying to do a bunch of stuff. I think the only thing I
will shout out is one um I mean like Poembrey campaign on table Story on
Cheesys at Phokim Easton called King Makers. I play a disgraced king, which
has been very very cool, a disgraced king known as the sun Eta,
which has been yeah, very cool. You can also soon just keep an
eye out, follow me on Twitter and keep an eye up because I'm going
to be in a Strixhaven campaign called higher Education. I'm very excited about.
I'm paying a gorgan named Baru some other stuff about them that you might recognize
if you've watched all those this episode, because I definitely use this to test
out some personality trace that that I might give that character. So keep an
eye out. If you enjoyed that I want to see a bit more of
that. I'm also the co founder and event organize our French Role Dice,
which is a two chap Twitch channel. We have a bunch of campaigns and
stuff. I usually work behind the scenes and that kind of stuff. So
if you want to watch some cold things, we ever recently ended a or
poc Wild Weird West, which is very fun. We've got a bunch of
shows going on, so check out French Role Dice if you want to see
some coold stuff. And yes, that's pretty much it from me. I
just enjoyed being a really sweet but apparently murderous, wonderful just minor serial killer
vibes. Yeah, but nobody will suspect too um And speaking of those,
we would not suspect the eyes of the game, which we would not be
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