Well, well, well, I see I see you back there, see
you whiden skulking. That's all right, you just stay back there behind that
barrel. Yeah, that's right. And while they're back there, why don't
you sit down? Shut up, and welcome to From a Far Podcast.
Last time I'm from a Far podcast. The ice trudder has set sail.
Yeah. Hey, the kitchen here is great. Listen, I'll get you
well, whip up something good for breakfast, kind of a specialty like slow
motion baywatched all dive but like you know, somehow the time just stops when
I'm jumping in and then that goes around him and he falls down. He's
like, hey, hey, what the what the heck? No, no,
no, okay, okay, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Sorr.
I'm I'm not supposed to be here. I'm not supposed to be you caught
me. I'm just trying to find my brother. You literally cannot remember any
bad memory. Do Do you see this? He's trying to put in two
to together. It's like the memory loss in like in regards to the purple
crystals. I'll like some sort of could I make that connection? Would he
be able to? I'm gonna have to take care of this myself, aren't
I. So the first thing I'm gonna do is a Hexplay curse, a
deep breath. Then it's kind of breathe out cool air. You almost see
like rhyme, like you know, frost, like Cover's body as he rages.
And then he's gonna cast Baine on the two ramorazsu And I'm casting one
of my special abilities, emboldening bond. She looks to all you, she
says, you four, you can stay on the top deck from this point
on. Oh by god, I have a Bachelor's of Science for my degree.
My brother nice, my father has a Masters of Divinity. WHOA that
sounds simultaneously amazing and concerning. Yeah, I don't like it. That's what
Bruce Springsteen graduated with. Yes, oh yeah, absolutely this Bruce Springstein.
That's the most dn D sound like, bachelor, Bachelor of Sciences, masters
of whatever, the masters of divinite, Masters of Divinity. I've mastered the
divine. Calm down. Yeah, I don't know. I just thought of
that. But every once in a while, I'm like, wow, my
father is he does He's not a pastor anymore. He's an artist, which
is funny. Oh, no, wonder what kind artie does. He can't
be telling us these stories, David, come on, he does a sexy
commission on you know, like um in like kindergarten, mean you like spaghetti
portraits and portraits it's like NSFW noodle portraits. They're called um there there.
It's a mixture of what and drying. It does depends on what the what
the can I get macaroni to absolute and he'll put the cheese on it for
you. Daniel Louis the master of divinity and the creator of nudes, is
a funny bloke. But with that, are you all ready to do this
thing? Yes, you're already too. Let's see what do we got here?
Just keep it simple again, say you're ready to part the veils of
reality and just and just go into the story and just will um into the
story. No, that one didn't work. Sorry, will I am well?
I will I am flow Rider into the story. I was older than
I should have been when I figured out flow Rider's name was just Florida.
I was like, I was like twenty something, and I was like,
what songs? Because either apple bottom jeans, right, I'm thinking of all
those songs? Now, man, you did Apple Bottom jeans, I think
it's at Florida. Yeah, I thought that was ludicrous or someone shit?
Now you right, definitely, Master Florida, mister Florida. Well then in
that case, are you all ready to part of the vales of reality and
flow ride right onto this story? Yeah? Alright, well then if you
will. The general feeling around the ship is energetic and excited. As the
battle with the ramo As comes to a close. Both members of the knights
End and the Silver Fleet circle around you, congratulating you on a job well
done and commending you on your battle promise. Then allowed voice booms to the
crowd. Alright, alright, alright, settle down everyone. Is this your
first mission out in the ice or what enough lollygagging around? Yes it is,
And Neptune looks down to you and she says, I'm not talking to
you. I know it's I know it's your redirected Yeah, literally our first
She like puts her hands out like and slicing the pie, and it like
excludes you all, and she says, is it your like, looking very
directly at the crew. You know, you guys are good. I know
what's your first missions? Great? Um? Is it? Your first job
whatever, get back to work, and she like kind of brings the the
environment down. Not like that the energy stays high, but she kind of
asserts herself. She jumps up imagine like Will Turner, you know, like
on the parts that care of it moves and it jumps on like the rigging
of the ship. I was like hanging off. It was like cool rope
ladders. She likes up there and she starts h She's like, no,
it was a it was a great job you all did. You all did
a wonderful, great fight. Super proud of you all. But we gotta
get we got we stop a job to looking to the ghost ship, and
I don't want you all to to to be caught with your pants down because
of one fight. Y'all, we've all killed ramerazes before and check points to
the side of the ship and you see like mounted heads like of like several
and we've all done it. It's exciting. Can we get a quick round
of applause for the new the newer folks here and the whole the whole,
both both parties of the Knight's End and the Silver Fleet start sharing you all.
That's really cool. It's nothing dangerous is a butcher bowl. Put them's
head on this fine. After that, she kind of like draws her sword
and kind of and leads, all right, y'all, now time for the
the nights end theme, chant dunt dun. They're honestly they all started doing
it actually, like it sounds pretty cool, harmonizing. Yeah, they've been
working on a three part harmony, like yeah. And instead of like kind
of like doing this like chanting motions, she starts directing them with her swords,
so alright, sopranos and like thanks to bring up this part and like,
all right, bass, bring us home and like just like rumbles the
ship. It will be. It's pretty. And then she she sheathes her
sword and she's like every time, every time, it just it gets me
rob but get back to fucking work. And uh, everyone everyone does it
and it's very cool. Um, and she a couple of things happen right
right in that she she jumps down off the the off the will Turner perch.
There's a plaque it says will turn and she she jumps down. She
says, okay, seriously, I was not seriously all right, that was
awesome, good job, And she kind of low key like fist pumps all
of you, says I'm impressed. I'm not. I'm not gonna I'm very
impressed. Elsie right there up top bergermond X and then she like starts to
fist bump you, Bruce, and she says, I know y'all might want
to look around, but before before we get to the next spot, just
coming to my quarters, and I want to talk to you a little bit
about what's uh, what's gonna happen. I saw what you were doing today,
looked really cool, really good, and I think you might be ready
for some more stuff, some more, some more leadership, more responsibility here.
And she's like, now she's looking more primarily at at you, Bruce.
Well that she looks down at Willem and she says, oh, man,
your nose. He is ugly. What come on? That's uh you?
But but it is quite ugly. This is uh. No, Nosy
is a new member of the team. Nosy, Okay, I'm not I'm
not hate guys. I'm not I'm not a team. I'm not good with
the with the the line and stuff. So if he wants us to take
over here, I can't. Really, it's just too late to definitely didn't
find definitely didn't find him stowed away. He's good here the whole time.
I remember back and he's been with us since probably the beginning. But you
always begin probably you always have those those ill timed injuries that have you sitting
out from the games very often and broken nose. Well, I'm just kind
of looking back and forth to all you all. It's just like and I'm
gonna need whoever wants to roll either a deception or a performance check for this.
And because everyone's helping again, Craigan probably Craigan got plus thirteen to that
twenty two. It's like that moment I forget what movie it is, but
there's a I feel like there's a movie where people are trying to like deceive
someone and like the camera keep zooming in on the d c V. And
it's just like you're like, Oh, they're gonna get it. They're they're
totally gonna understand, like this is that we've blown the cover. And like
Neptune's eyes are narrowing and she's like leaning more into William and then she's like,
uh, okay, welcome to the crew. And just so many movies
do that. That's a lot of movies. Most we all just just like
let out a breath collectively. Oh God, she bought it and says that
just don't forget to uh just come see me pretty soon. I have some
stuff I wanna want to run by you all. I lost the voice,
but I'm gonna bring it back, and the wind blew it away. So
now now it's now it's back. Here it is. There's the voice.
I can do that wind can do. And she like stops and she turns
and looks to you. She says, the wind can do a lot of
things out here. Okay, this camera starts zoom in and get on her
see later, and she she walks off towards that little like stare area like
underneath the helm. She heads down to load deck and you see the rest
of the crew running around. Um and basically, feel free to just if
you want to go talk to her directly, feel free to do it.
But I just want to. I like to try to give you guys some
opportunities if there's an't anything you want to do. No pressure, team team
huddle, team huddle, real quick, I mean, nosy, come here,
are we settled on that one? Are we gonna? Sorry? It
just kind of came out. I get a little flustered. I have to,
you know, tell a little little white lie to my wife. I
didn't like it, but uh, hey, Nosey's what came out. It's
it's what got you on the ship there will. I mean, but can
we trust her though? I mean, if it's your wife, I can't
just maybe I don't know. I mean I think you can just tell the
truth. I mean, you trust her, right, you love her?
Well, that part of me, nosy went. You're saying earlier something about
how they always kick you off. They know, like you are roughly do
you do this like every year or something or every ghost, every every couple
every couple of minutes. I'm actually just thrown off the ship, just constantly
getting thrown off. I have a really good respond point. Um no,
yeah, I would say lt to that. Could you roll me an inside
check please? Um, it's very it's it's gonna be very simple, very
simple. It's eleven. Hopefully it's that's simple. Hope, it's really simple.
So I think I think I can't. I'm not gonna speak for for
Bruce here. Um, but as you're like, oh, can't we just
trust her? And like kind of in line with this conversation we're just having,
you see, William just like like you see I feel like it would
be Williams. William's reaction is opposite of like Bruce's reaction with Bruce like yeah,
of course, and will I'm just like, oh no, no,
no, no, no, I don't. I'm not trying to like scare
you all or throw any throwing it under the bus or anything. You're just
talking to You're just talking to her husband, that's all. So. I
mean, maybe maybe with you here, Bruce, maybe we could talk to
her. But all I'm saying is I've been thrown off. I'm trying to
find Marcus, my brother, and every time I've got on one of their
ships, they've they've found me and they've thrown me off. And they always
say it's from my own good. I'm too young. I mean, I
get that they throw you into the freezing ocean. Well, sometimes if they're
a good shot, sometimes I hit the dock. Sometimes I hit actually throw
you don't make it very far into the journey. You stow away quietly,
not quite quite badly. Yeah, well okay, let me put it this
way. I've hit the dock for it but there's a couple of times where
they put me in like the brig when they find me deep in the ocean,
and because I'm like, I can't swim, I can swim, like
they don't want to like kill me. It's a trick. I'm like,
I'm like, I'm sneaking, I'm smart, I'm a roguish kind of guy.
I'm kind of kid. Or maybe all those hits for the deck,
maybe you know, you might be confused. I might be, honestly,
Honestly, yeah, I might be a lot of a lot of this isn't
quite adding up. And even though he says that kind of joking, can
you all roll me? Wisdom checks and well, I remember that conversation two
downstairs about the purpose, Like, yeah, listen at twenty, I don't
need advantage, bro, alright, I got twenty. Well it's just twenty,
okay, but now twenty wells, as we say here on from of
our podcast, we have one natural twenty and one flaccid twenty. I got
twenty one, all right, twenty one seventeen. So I think I think
you're you're all starting to be kind of exposed to this idea a little bit
more. And Christian with your natural twenty, sorry, Craigan, with your
natural twenty. As William says, a lot of things don't add up.
You have a moment where kind of similar to where Bruce had that moment back
at the Burger night where you just all of a sudden, all of a
sudden, remember things were looks really bad, And then I was like,
no, this wasn't my thought. You You think back to the moment where
you guys were all having chocolate with the mayor, and I I think it
was actually you asked this. You were like, yo, why are all
of us? Like? Why? Why? Why us? Why were we
the ones chosen for this? This makes literally zero sense. You think back
to that moment and you have kind of a weird when where you remember saying
that, you remember asking that question, and then you remember the mayor answering,
but you can't hear what the mayor is saying. It's almost like someone
like redacted he was saying. And then you remember, like the next moment
you're like, oh no, yeah, of course, yeah, we're going
on this mission. That totally makes sense that we're the ones chosen With a
natural twenty, that's what you get. Christian twenty two. So both of
you have have that sort of realization oversation being being kind of like empty spaces
mixed and mess up. Yeah, like like like you remember a moment where
like you kind of were like, what the hell is going on? This
doesn't make any sense, Like why are we? Like what is going on
here? We're a Butcher's ball team, Like I I stir ice, I'm
a speed walker. Why are we chosen for this? But then you remember
like sort of like a blurry moment, and then you're like, no,
yeah, we're here, We're chosen. We're the ones with the natural turns.
I'll give you. There's been several moments like that, several moments of
like doubt, several moments of like oh, but then like no, we're
going to get about them. But then like this moment, you're remembering all
those times where you like what, like why are you doing and nope,
yeah, I love being here. This is a right. And then for
the folks who didn't get natural twenties, you you, it's it's similar you
you you start to kind of piece that together of like it's it's more of
the thought for you, like, yeah, there's been a lot of things
that haven't really made sense, Like, I don't know if this has happened
to you. This happens to me a lot because I have an irl small
brain. I'll like get somewhere and be like, I don't remember why I'm
here, but I know I need to be here, okay now, And
then like then you're like, oh, yeah, I got eggs or whatever.
Like it's that that kind of uncomfortable, disoriented moment of like I am
okay, cool, got it when I walked into this room with apartment.
Yeah, maybe you have a big brain. Okay, don't know you're actual
Brian. I have six actual Brian s locked in this cranium of um.
But yeah, as well, and as talking and as he's like as it
sort of sounds like he's done this several times and been caught several times,
it seems like there's he's like, yeah, a lot of this doesn't add
up. It's weird and and and I'll even I'll even go as far as
to say he's like, I don't remember, I don't remember how I got
back A lot of times, well, I don't remember, like I'm not,
I don't know. It just doesn't it's not adding up. It's not
making making sense. And I feel like if we can find the ship,
if we can get on the ship, things are going to start falling into
place. Yeah, I'll tell you what. Hey, buddy, you're you're
you're a member of the team. Okay, you're one of us. We
promised you we'd help you find your brother. Uh, you know, for
better for worse. You know, I'll go talk. We'll go talk to
my wife. You know. Well, well I'll get it sorted in the
meantime. You know, you stick with us, We'll help you out.
You know, when you're on the Butcher ball field, your family, you
know, blood or not. And you're a part of this team, all
right. So if your brother's out there in danger, that's our brother.
All right. We're gonna help you out, buddy. And yeah, it's
it's been a little weird. I don't know. And he kind of looks
at the beer. He's like, yeah, to lay off the bruise.
No, no, I was gonna say. I think we need to all
the others we have with the sportble stuff we need to get rid of.
I want to throw my net just over the board. I'm throwing it.
I'm strolling into water. Yeah, oh, LT, what did that was
a gift? That was a gift? Yes, but to see like a
pod of dolphins, like did you cut the loops? Did you cut the
loop? I cut you off your sex? Oh no, I was complaining
about littering. The followed up perfectly like, Okay, I would cut them
because I am I am a water because like I'm like from like the water.
So I would make sure to cut them. Because make his ren tea
so real quick you can ampathize. There's nothing worse than being a fish and
just running into a random fish net. Yeah, that would be really shitty.
Is literally made to screw up my day. Cool, so Lt throws
over his net. Well, I mean we didn't even get to look at
it too deeply. I mean I do that through it on you last time.
Well, I mean you do not to remember. Maybe it's because of
purple. I remember most things most of the time, and that one.
I definitely Yeah, you might be right. There might be something going on
with this purple stuff. And he pulls out his EMF reader reader and he
flicks it on and off switch and he's just kind of like looking at it.
You can investigate the EMF reader reader. But as you fincket on off
it, it actually like there's a lot of EMF readers around you. It's
like there's a lot. It's like, whoa, yeah, I got twelve
and it's like, strange, it seems to be working fine. But I
mean, now that I think about him, what exactly does working fine?
Me? And it comes to this thing. Everyone have an MF reader too,
so many it goes off a time. It's it's very strange. So
are you gonna try to hold onto it? A You're gonna try to keep
keep that eart. I've wanted to look at it a little bit see if
there was anything strange going on? Did you roll? Can you roll me
an investigation? Or did you I did? I did, and I rolled
a twelve. If LT is like calling out the strangeness of it, you
can you can roll again. You can have advantage on that. He's he's
he's literally like these things are are cursed items. We don't we do not
want to have them. David has a six. That's worse. That's the
worst investigation. So with so I'll put it this way, you don't necessarily
believe LT. It definitely is strange that there's a lot of these pings going
off as you look up the EMF readers. But I will give you with
that. You actually you see around the ship. As you're looking around where
some of these things are, you see a lot of other instances of these
amethysts, gems like you see him, like on the hilts of swords,
hils of daggers, maybe like inlaid in some like cool collage on the wall
like kind of It's not y'all are the only ones who have these, see
LT. It's quite explainable. Everybody, we're we're on the Night's Watch the
nights, the nights end, something like the Night It was something pretty much
we're on this ship that their entire deal is dealing with ghosts and supernatural in
this and that, so of course there'd be weird interference is happening between some
of the same gear. I hate to break it to you, but I
think you just lost a very cool mat maybe, but I don't know.
I could see the waves coming off of it, so we want to keep
it as vine. I'm not going to risk it's not no risk in my
memory. I can't keep it now. It's it's it's strangling that poor sea.
Turtle down. I remember what it was. Now you you did some
sort of magic detection on it, and you saw a lot of necrotic mat
Now, oh yeah, I detected magic. That's right, that's right,
y'all. Hey, actually, hey, you know I got to support my
best butt LT. Fist bumps. Here we go. But hey, remember
that time we went out did the burning soul wing joint. Remember that that
was a great time. Here's the thing you don't because remember VEX took your
form while you were doing the churney. So actually, I'm better friends the
vacs and LT doesn't remember any of our things never happened. What are you
talking about? You keep bringing up these moments. I'm not sure. This
is like a jest and then a moment. Williams like, that's what I'm
talking about. People are forgetting I don't even remember that. I was looking
at my notes. I'm like, that's right, there's that connection that I
forgot about. Um, yeah, hey, you know I did that detect
magic before the before the attack. Right, A lot of bad vibes coming
off of this, A lot of dark energy, kind of necrotic, you
know, you know, I do have my master's and divination I'm kind of
talk so I'm not really uh you know what lt hey best, but I'm
with you. And he cracks to let remaining bears and he pours him,
pours him out um over the edge and then he reciting just bottles there it
is there. It is for like a cool just cool flavor. Like it's
it's it's so cold out here. Before they even hit the ground. I
know, alcohol, it doesn't exactly freeze before the beer hits the water.
It like they kind of blow away. They're frozen in. It's sort of
like a snowy beery behind the behind the behind the boat. Um. I
mean you're all acting surprised, like you know, gost ships shouldn't be intertwined
with the chronic energy, but this stuff we have shouldn't be though. I
mean, you can keep the ball blood, I mean is it is a
cool ball blood. But we can always get you another babod with amethest eyes.
I can get you. We can get you one with the opal eyes.
It's even more stunning. Okay, yeah, no, that's I've done.
I'm going to toss it over the edge. Cool. There's like a
there's like a two seagulls walking flying by that happened to have like a recycle
bin between them, you know, when it's right and the recycle bin and
they fly away. And it's like when you said walking flying by, I
just imagine them walking in the air casually. That's how another recycle birds.
Yeah, taking cares. No one questions that, but that's that's fine.
You know, the recycled birds around these gems are strange, but these walking
birds make sense. Craig is just looking at everybody just tossing their their their
gifts over and he's looking at his EMF reader thinking about how long he's wanted
to have his own e M A reader read it. Well, no,
I mean it's it's his team, you know, one of us. I
suppose if the entire team believes that there's something wrong, these cool as cuts
and maybe I'll also throw my gift here it goes and he does it,
but he's gonna slight of hand like throw like an orange. Yeah, that'll
be contestant. Or where's the orange coming from? Too? I want to
know? Well they have orange? Is a board to us stop scurvy?
Oh nineteen, I got a twenty eight. Yeah, I see the rocks
of the wall see the game. I free to get thrown m right here
the splash which he's just gonna slip it in his jacket sheepishly. He's gonna
walk up and it's gonna walk to patch you like, we'll get you a
new one. Okay, one without that? So nice? Thank you.
Yeah. In fact, hey, by listen, I Greg and I know
that was real. That was really tough. Yeah, real bright, hey
one of the I'll tell you what here, I have a gift for you.
You can you can have this here and he pulls out from his back.
I'm like kind of a little machine and goes here. Once you take
this, all right, I want you to have it. It is my
sea pap machine. I'll need that at night. But if it's a gift,
I trust you. I trust you with my good night's sleep. That's
how much of a team you know that's produced. That is quite sweet of
you to do. I will gladly bear the honor of being your sea pap
uh Pa se pep squad, see pap squat, see path squire And yeah,
Keith and Jess, get on it as you all are getting rid of
these these really really cool, very valuable items that I now have to redo
the end of my campaign. Totally kidding. Uh, Bruce Springsteon, can
you roll me a a D twenty and eleven and up will be one option
and ten and down will be another option? Cool? Good, I got
a twelve so uh. As you all are throwing these these items over almost
without any any sound or anything, all of a sudden there's somebody standing next
to Bruce Springsteen, much taller than he is, but like not as as
burly as Neptune. It's it's interesting. You can as you look at this
person and standing next to Bruce, you see a female half goliath who from
certain angles, wow, dead on looks just like Bruce. From other angles,
wow, dead on looks just like Neptune. Uh. And as Avril
Levine reaches down and kind of puts a hand on your shoulders and says,
hey, dad, what are you all doing? Al Oh my gosh,
we're just having a little team meeting. Yeah. You know, first items
that are possibly cursed and messed away their minds and memories, you know,
average day, Kurt, I'm sorry. Cursed items. Yeah, gemstones,
they were so pretty, you mean the chicken out points around you see a
lot of these other gemstones. First of all, Hi, my name is
Avril Levine, Bruce Springsteen together Lovin. Yeah, we did, were dropping
the mash of potatos on who are shoes? You know what? I do
remember that? And she looks down. I was like, I haven't seen
those yet. Look at the still still mashing, still fresh. I'm a
c PEP squire. No, oh, Craigan, that's wonderful. Honest,
honestly, that's that's fantastic. Yeah, well deserve you know, he's a
great member of the team. Keeps Craig and a pat on the back.
Thank you. First two things, I want to circle back to that we
were talking about those gemstownes. Y'all did great. That was awesome. I
know this is your first mission kind of dad, I don't don't remember what
you did before you got your Masters of Divinity. But yeah, no,
y'all did great. That was very impressive. You all took that on no
no problem whatsoever. But cursed cursed items, cursed energies. I mean,
we are we are kind of a monster and ghost hunting ship, so there
might be some sort of like residual, but I mean, I don't think
these these gems are are any issue honestly, I mean, hey, we
want you can you can throw years away us that we've these, that these
have helped us protect us from a lot of different Uh just real, real
intense and real intense shit out here. Where did they come from? You're
saying a lot of words, but you're not really saying anything. Yeah,
pretty good at that, aren't I? She uh he asked where did they
come from? And say, oh, the the Mayor game to us.
Yeah, it's like one of his uh ideas to help like make the Knights
end a little more. H gave everyone all of them. Everyone got them
from the Mayor. I don't you remember there was there was a big research
initiative after the first ghost ship instance, And do you do remember there was
there was something back in the day about like the Mayor trying to like help
the Knights ind and the Silver Fleet trying to like get more with it,
a little more strong, a little more deadly for the forces out here.
And she's, yeah, I know, there's these are I mean, these
are Honestly, I would feel very exposed if we went out now without these.
Um and who how did how did William get disguised? Was that magical
or did you all just put a disguise, kid, got it? So
that's still up? Then okay, cool, I got you. I'll cast
it on top of it. If a heaf a mustache falls on. Yeah.
Yeah. So she's like, yeah, I'm sorry. I don't mean
to be distracting you. I think my mom actually wants to talk to you
all, um, But I just wanted to say good job. And I
will take that into consideration that you think these items might be Oh no they
are. But it took r is a strong word. It's a truth.
It's letter. It is a strong letter. You are correct. But yeah,
I just wanted to let you know that I thought you did a good
job. Wonderful job. Shucks. We appreciate that, sweetheart. That's great
coming from a master's assassin, I did. I told you my daughter,
master's assassin. Yeah, I've killed ninety four people. He told us here's
a secret. But wait, no I had to kill us. Oh are
we dead? No? No, no, no, I wouldn't kill you,
or if I I mean you wouldn't. You wouldn't know if I was
trying to kill. It's a very straight faced, very serious smiled at dumpan
daggers, just like in her wrists and like she's beside you, LT,
and she's not trying to she's not like putting a knife up to your throat
or anything. And she's like you wouldn't see me coming. And then she's
like over there by Bruce and she's like my dad, she hugs you.
Yeah, like she picks me up, you know. Yeah, you know
she's big, she's real big. Um says yeah, well, I'll be
around catch you later. And she's just gone. She's just straight up gone.
So team, I kind of wonder it here. Uh you know,
there's a lot of weird stuff. I think we go meet with my wife,
Neptune, captain of the vessel Hu. Maybe we'll see what she wants
me. We bring this up with her, you know. Um, you
feel like, uh, you know, I could do it in private,
you know, but uh, you know, having the backup of my team
would be great. You know, I really trust LT seems to have a
real grasp on this, and my best friend I trust him, uh fully
there so will and we can talk about what's going on here. And I
think, well, you know, what could you situate it here? Yeah,
yeah, that's that's great. I mean, she didn't she didn't recognize
me a second ago. So I'm gonna I'm gonna come in there with you
all if that's cool. Yeah, it could be a nice reveal, dramatic.
Yeah, yeah, I can like take a mask off like I made
it, and then I'll then I'll just get thrown onto the dock. No,
no, no, no, we'll keep you. No more brain trauma
for you. UM wonderful. So are you all trying to head into to
talk to um? Sorry? Also yeah, no more brain trauma for Willem.
Sorry, I just totally walked over that, Chrystal. I'm sorry.
Um. Are y'all gonna go talk to Neptune? I think so suspiciously?
But yes, got it? And then just all have a time check here
we have twenty minutes or an hour and twenty minutes an hour? An hour?
Okay? One hour? Cool? Cool, fantastic um option see other
of the things that I just said. I took a little on ye cool.
So you all you all walk in and we walk you leave the main
deck and you walk down below deck. And unlike the Sea Monster, the
Ice Treader, which is the name of the ship. I don't know if
I've said that before yet. Um, it's it's very standard. You got
you go down the stairs, looks like right in front of you at the
bottom, at the base of the stairs, you got a door that leads
into sort of like a cargo bay. Uh. The hallway kind of doubles
back on either side of the staircase, and both halways leading down just have
doorways that lead into different bunks, different hammock rooms, different storage rooms.
There's probably a kitchen, probably like a mess hall area, and you easily
enough you find um, neptunes quarters or her office whatever whatever you want to
call it. Hopefully her office. I feel like her quarters would just be
like a cot in a chair, very utilitarian, not even not even a
cut. She she doesn't sleep. Neptune is very busy. Um And as
you are walking through you see several of these of the sailors going about their
tasks. And now that you're kind of thinking about it, that you see
a lot of these sort of there's like these amethysts brooches holding up some of
the capes. You see like never noticed this. Okay, yeah, it's
well that that that's more on me than it's fair and truly imagine that we
spent this in time we were pretty so absorbed, like and I think the
memories like maybe just a memory of naturally what's happening too. It's kind of
like, well, it's like whoa, yeah that dejapu, Like wait a
minute, m um. Yeah. As you're as you're getting down there,
things seem okay, things seem fine. Doesn't seem like anyone's like like what
are they doing down here? Um? And you get in eventually you get
into Neptune's office. As you walk in, you see several trophies from these
just kind of exotic monsters that they've killed. Um. You see ramarazes.
You see like these interesting like they look young, um, but they're like
like youngish humanoid faces with just like blacked out eyes. Um. You see
like like almost like weird like aquatic deer things that are not deers. That's
all what they're called. They're called not deers. All these things are genuinely
those are servin there. Yeah, like you like it very clearly, not
like I just killed an elephant because I wanted to. Like, these these
things are like horrific. Yeah, And and you see like there's a probably
the most disturbing thing first of all, before I before I say, this
is everyone okay with like insects, Yeah, yeah, of course. Um,
you see probably there's like a couple of cases, like you know how
people have like butterflies like pinned you see several, but like they look very
much like large in large like parasites and like earw things so horrific, things
that you would never want like a culture or a society to have, like
invade like and also I say, like trophies, like it looks like it's
it's not like glorifying like the death. They're all taxidermaid to be like doing
like crazy. Yeah, it's like face playing volleyball golf. Holy shit,
that part of the story was awesome. It's not like I remember. I
mean it surprised you, it surprised me. Whoa, it's like I'm watching
this for the first time or it's like record of this eighteen and a half
years ago and I can't remember exactly where we stopped. Whoa, Look it's
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Anyways, onto the next painting. No, no, no, the next
story, poor guy storyed Okay, all right, Yeah, as as weird
as this sounds, more for like educational and like scientific studying. Sorry,
yeah exactly, more like studying, like oh shit, we we killed this
fucking thing and it was awful, But now we know about it now we've
been to do it against its poison, you know, in case of ravages
this part of the ecosystem and gun exactly like the Knights and they do their
ship. And also I can get more into the descriptions of those later.
But all of those are underground oracle monsters. Oh there, there's some really
good ones and under the harvest moon. Don't look them up. They're genuinely
have a lot of legs, like do they have multiple limbs some of them?
Yeah, yeah, a lot of a lot of these little parasite guys
like centipede millipede style, long tails, long long pincers, long long spines,
and just like very much not not okay. And you you walk in
and you see Neptune kind of sitting at a desk, kind of working on
some papers and planning out maps and battle strategies and like triangulating with compasses and
stuff. Just oh, good, good, good good. Welcome in.
Um. Let me just get right to it. I think we're getting close
to something up here. And I want you four five Sorry nosy, I
keep forgetting about you. There it is, um. I want you all
to lead one of the rating parties because I think we're gonna think if,
if, if my information is correct, this ship somehow is landing somewhere,
is making is docking somewhere, and it might take potentially. We have a
lot of we have a lot of scout ships out and a lot of the
first time this has ever occurred, like is it actually docking or anchoring?
I'm going to stop asking and let you answer. No, no, no,
no, no, no, please please please keep asking. I it
shows a good initiative. I love it. We don't know a whole lot
about the ghost ship. We we the first time it attacked it, they
killed several people. They dozens and hundreds of people from Butcher's Bay were killed.
People were stolen when we went out to find it. Uh, several
of our of our warriors were taken, some of our ships were sank.
It wasn't like docked at any point at that point. But when we when
we fought it, it just it was it was. It was. It
was terrible. Still nightmares about that. But I saw initiative with you all.
I want to I want to think you all could lead lead a party.
I mean, but we just kind of we were just formerly a Butcher
Bay team and I used to just help stirwater, but now we're going to
lead a writing party. That seems a little extreme. Lt isn't that what
the mayor asked us specifically? I can't quit recall there was a purpose.
It just seems straight exactly like last Thursday, I'll tell you what I was
doing, real list. I was out with my speed walking group and we
were passing by local cream gry. We decided to get some ice cream,
and you know, fast forward to now and I'm apparently going to be on
one of the most elite fighting forces saving Butcher's Bay. And this makes them
a lot of sense to me when you say it makes less but okay,
I'll take you home. Yeah, it just says. All I saw is
all I saw out there is you all went head to head with one of
the more dangerous and terrifying things out here. Well maybe maybe not terrifying.
There's some pretty fucked up shit on the wall behind you. But I was
impressed. I was very impressed. And I think the mayor made a right
chot. It made the right choice here if if, if, if I'm
being totally honest, you all are kind of doing me a favor, and
she kind of to you, Bruce, and she says, I've needed I've
needed this one to just start getting out there trying new things. And I
know I knew it would have been easier with his team, with his butcher
ball team. So if you're not comfortable with it, that's totally fine.
We I don't want to force you to do anything, but if I see
genuine potential in all of you, and I think you'd be impressed if you
just sort of let let go and jumped into this thing. Well, I'm
definitely not comfortable about the teams going. I'm definitely gonna go, but I'm
not comfortable at all, to be honest. Well, let's listen team.
Uh. You know, sometimes you're faced for the channel. You remember last
season we went up against the hammer Heads and h we were down. We
were down by quite a lot, right, but we rallied. We faced
that challenge head on. We thought there's no way semi fan semifinals. I
think it's always the sum episode my finals. For us, it's always our
journey point in turn. But we were there right down by a munch,
and then we just pulled out a win. You know, we came together
as a team and I think, you know, my lovely wife here.
Uh you know it's her job to find uh people like us, to get
us, give us opportunities to be the best that we can be. That's
like, that's her, that's her job, you know. And if she
sees something in us, you know, I trust her and I trust my
team, all right, this team here, it's the best damn team out
there. She puts like a hand over over your hand, Bruce, and
you see like this very loving like nod and smile towards you as you say
that, LT. I don't I mean, I excuse me, Bruce,
but I mean I think we all remember who brought the win out against the
hemmaheads. It was you, Lt. Yeah, that's right. We were
all down. I believe I was under the ice with a five pound kettle
bell attached to my belt when VEX what you were? You were splayed across
the ice on a unicycle. I thought, well, dodging stillag mites,
that's right, because yes, Bruce, Bruce was over there, come on,
now was gone. It was. It was a legless Bruce. And
I mean it was all thanks to you, Elty. And I don't know
if this applies now of his helps hearing this, But I mean you've kind
of shown yourself many and many time to be the backbone of the Rue de
Begas MUGAs. I thought we were the righteous Rue de Begas. Yea.
It was like our second team name already will and looks down at his shirt
and he's like, I hope it's this one you might be coming. Yeah,
those rights, I honestly forget. We made a lot of jokes about
both of them, so I honestly forget the main export is a rebar and
rue bar. But somehow our team name was the Layabouts. So that sounds
like that's right. Yeah, okay, I've got to have that alliteration.
Yeah. So my memory, like I said, I think my memory is
just a little hm, well, like I said, I mean, I
still don't trust it. But I trust you guys though. So if you
guys go lt we trust you. We trust you. That's exactly it.
Yeah. If your memory is a little a little iffy, I understand.
Yeah, but you can focus on that feeling on the inside, right,
that's strength, that love for our team. The connection. He takes his
hands and puts them together, connection, teamwork, synergy, right, that's
us righteous, perfect wonderful, wonderful, hand said, let's all hold hands.
Oh okay, okay, hands are a little clammy, come on,
I'm sorry. And he runs over and he does it. H and yeah,
you guys hearing it's wonderful and and uh and uh Neptune is all right,
that's it. I'm thank thank you. I think I think you're gonna
thank you' are gonna do great out there. I'm very forty or die.
No, you're not gonna die. I don't know why I said out that.
That was the dm S talking in me. Why would we ever die?
I will make sure you all survive this. Okay. In fact,
if you're if you're feeling a little bit worried, Uh, Bruce, how
about you take Avril with you? Okay? Yeah, mass your assassin sounds
great. Mean she's killed ninety eight people. It was ninety four. It
was ninety four, like six minutes ago. A little busy, a little
bitmatic too. On the boat. There are some stowaways. That's how you
deal with the stowaways. A minute to talk to you about stowaways there,
Uh yeah, you see you see will I'm just like backing up like this
is a great let's go look at some um water up on the dark deck,
right the deck the doc Dick I was, yes, right behind the
name of it. Everyone before you leave, William kind of like pulls on
Bruce on your on your pant leg and he says, wait, um,
where's you gonna ask about the crystals? And like it gets like very quiet.
Yeah, um so uh yep to glove of my life, absolute gem
of my eye. Uh so you know how our life's like pretty much perfect.
Everything's great, right, mostly because of you, Bruce. Yeah,
well you blush is so hard as his ball head gets so red. Yeah.
So, you know, the team and I my team. We've been
realizing that um having some weird, weird feelings about what's been going on.
You know, just the other day, we're having Burger's girling out and I
thought, you know, I just had this thought of like how it never
used to be so perfect, but it always has, you know, and
we've were but Craig I made a wonderful point before about just last Thursday,
he was having ice cream and now we're leading a rating party. We can't
quite remember we got there. I think it was cookie dough, cookie dough
ice cream. Yeah, from the Creamery, great place good. I'm almost
gotten all my punch cards done from Butcher's Creamery. So you know we've I
felt that, the whole teams felt it. I'm wondering if you maybe have
as well. You know, it's just something don't feel right about what's been
going on. Stuff doesn't always add up. I can't help, but you
know, I you know my master's in Divina. I got my plaque up
on the wall. You know it's up there, Bruce Springsteen, Master of
Divination. And I sensed a little in the chronic energy coming from those gifts
from the mayor. And you know, I know people can use that magic
and do well, but I didn't. I didn't like the fibe. She
stops writing, and she stops compassing, and she stops triangulating, and she
looks at you, and she looks very she's looking very intently at you and
kind throughout your your your your spiel here. Uh. Then she stands up
and she she turns around and she just says, there there is something wrong.
This is all happening just like he said it would. And I'm gonna
need all of you all to make me a due wisdom saving throw with disadvantage.
Please, Oh gosh, we went we want to be added to um
to April's lists. Yeah, all of a sudden, how you feel the
cold, steely rasp of Avril's dagger. Eleven at disadvantage you got a twenty
two? Oh yeah, nine on Wisdom Saves, I got a fourteen five,
fourteen five. So this is what happens even with the twenty two.
You didn't pass, but we're close. You were, you were close enough,
vexed lt and Craigan. You all blackout, like the deck blackout or
like oh college, you're more catatonic. You're standing up and you just don't
exactly know what's going on. Bruce, you see, just before you blackout,
you see a violent purple sort of pulse of energy as as Neptune is
standing with her back to you. It's all happening the way he said it
would, hers happening faster than he said it, Woulter for exactly what I
said. You see the sort of violet pulse, you black out. Then
two, where does the pulse come from? Do I know? Or she's
standing with her back to you, and just sort of like again, Aura
kind of lights up the wall in front of her, so like you see
almost her in like this like violet purple silhouette as this like magical pulse happens,
and then you all forget that you had this conversation with her. Oh
your next thing. You know, you're on the deck nice and everything is
fine, and everything is good, and you are now leading one of the
mini rating parties that is heading out towards this thing that you're seeing right now.
As you sail the black, choppy waters, as you dodge giant icebergs
embrace against the freezing wind, you see something off in the distance. You
see the mass of several ships rising from the water, all broken. The
white whispy remains of a thousand sails flutter in the breeze, making it look
like a hundred ghosts fly about the masts. As you get close, you
notice a subtle rising and falling of the ships. All of them rise and
fall in unison, as if they were on the back of a sleeping giant,
and in fact, as you look closer, you realize that's exactly what's
happening. The gently curving back of a gigantic whale rises out of the water.
As your mind refuses to perceive the sheer scale of this beast, But
soon you realize the gargantrian form in front of you is all one creature.
Thousands of broken and beach ships dot the whales back like trees in a forest.
The whole crew grows silent and still as the Ice Treader approaches this unimaginable
sight. As you get closer, the water occasionally vibrates with the sound of
a giant pulsing heart. The pressure makes everyone on the ship brace themselves.
Neptune orders the navigator to take them to the beasts. Her already loud voice
reverberates out over the silent crew and silent ocean for you know it. The
Ice Treader glides to a stop right beside the whale's flipper. Neptune barks orders,
and the crew jumps into action, attaching the ship to a nearby chunk
of ice. Ready yourselves, we're boarding this giant monster. Split off into
groups. We're going to search for the ghost ship. You all are basically
on the flipper of this gargantuan whale. Day this is it's so massive.
You at first, like you your mind is having a hard time being like,
oh that's an eye. Oh shit, that's an eye that's like the
bigger than the entire ship. Like this thing is kind of like half half
submerged or half emerged out of the water, and all along its back are
just thousands and thousands of busted up, broken ships making the sort of labyrinth
on this thing's back. Then occasionally you see the breathing rise and fall if
you feel it's so big yet you feel its heartbeat kind of making wave off
of it as it as it just exists. And that's the next thing you
all see, as you don't remember your conversation with Neptune. The boarding.
The boarding parties start leaving the ship, heading out in little rowboats, and
it looks like several of these parties start just kind of making their way across
this giant, giant, gargantuan whale. Right, well, yes, that's
so cool, Bruce. Yeah, you're the defective coach leader of a team,
I believe after you. Please, all right, team listen, we've
been set to task. You know we have. This is nothing we haven't
faced before. You remember that last year, last season we went against the
Hammerheads. You remember that it was a semi finals, one of the Yeah,
one of the biggest catches we've ever had. It's a long but yeah,
yeah, okay, okay the audio from before, I forgot what all
we said, but you nailed it. That was exactly it. Who's all
in our team? Is? Is it just the five of us? Is
a five of you and als? So it's William and Avril. Yeah,
she she won't kill you all. Yeah, you just see her like as
you guys are like in this robot as like two dragon born folk or like
rowing you out to like fix the ship isn't tied darkly to the whale.
I don't know what you guys gonna do this thing if you make it think
I'm not going to kill the ship. But uh so it's a little ways
offen. You guys are taking robots into like like the flipper of this thing
to me, and you see a couple of pathways and a couple of ways
you can get up onto this gargantu in whale avrils with you. She's just
sharpening whoa dang ales really the blowhole of the whales some like water came shot
around. Yeah yeah, she's just sharpening her knives and apparently farting. But
yeah, multis silent but deadly. Yeah, it's some of the hero's feast,
Yeah, ripping as Britos games, and you all eventually get to this
giant creature and like I said, it's the four. It's the four of
you. William is with you and Avril as you all. Um, I'm
sorry. One one thing happened, Bruce as you got that twenty two a
second ago before you before you blacked out. Okay, uh, you you
did remember something from your past that you're not going to forget. Like you
you remember this, and this will probably be why William is, like why
you've been so attached to William and why you're kind of connecting with him.
You remember a long time ago, right after the first ghost ship attack.
You remember you were at the docks. You were watching Neptune and the first
kind of ship go out to like find this ghost ship, and you remember
meeting a very small, much younger urchin there and you actually remember it was
Willem. As you were watching your family go out on this extremely dangerous mission,
you sort of saw this little boy in the crowd by himself, and
you, being very coach oriented and father oriented, you kind of went over
and checked on this boy. And you remember that it was Willem, And
you remember both of you standing there are talking about how scary this was that
you seeing your family going off into this dangerous thing. And he eventually told
you that this was his brother, his older brother, who's the only person
he'd lived with. They were they were abandoned here years ago and they only
had each other, and he was trying to join into the Nights Night's End
to like hopefully make more money and make like a better life for him and
Will. And you remember him confiding that in you that he was really scared
that his brother wasn't going to come back. And you remember the ship in
exquisite detail. You remember it's weird, Like you know though while you have
those those memories where like it doesn't seem that important, but like you remember
like weird things and like just hyper detail, like the smells of things and
the looks of things, and the way the sun reflected off the sails,
and like how glorious the ship looked as it was sailing off with not just
your family, with this little kid's family, but like it was going to
this like horrifically terrifying thing, but it looked so grand doing it. Like
you remember all this as you were as you kind of black out, and
then you come back to it, and you notice a couple of things.
As you and Willem, as all all of you land on this giant whale,
you notice that a couple of these ships actually look very similar to that
ship that you all saw sail away, Like they look like there's a couple
other Knights in ships here, and it's like there's a couple other um silver
fleet ships here, um like modern ones or like are they kind of like
old styles a little bit older, but like it's it's not like, well
this one was a couple one hundred years ago. It's not like the an
Avatar like the old Fire Nation ship that's like stuck there. It's it's it's
there. You get the sense that it's it's all kind of within the time
still, but there's there's just a lot of them here. As you all
end, uh, you see several of these other boarding parties starting to spread
out and starting to look for things, and you hear occasionally the growl or
like the rumble of a monster, or you hear exclamations from other crew members
like we found something, or like just occasional just like a little tidbits that
there's other action and activity heading going on on this whale. And uh,
what sparks your memory in that is Willham kind of like grabs your hand as
you see a ship that looks very similar to the ship that the first ship
that went out, and you just kind of feel that like fear and like
that tension rise in Willham. So that's do I, Bruce Lay kind of
remember that right now with that that hand. Yeah, well we'll go with
that. Yeah, I said, like flashback to like that hand grab flashes
back to that scene and he's grabbing my hand on the dock years ago,
much better. Yes, I think Bruce like kind of like has that like
you know, oh you know, remembers it. And he looks down at
Willam and he's got the eyes and the big nose and he gets down on
his knees and he uh says, you know, but I'm sorry, I
forgot it was so many years ago and maybe you did too. But you
know, years ago on that talk when the when the ship went out to
find find the ghost ship, do you remember we actually met back. Did
you see like the spark of recognition, like, oh, oh my gosh,
it's you, and he like he actually on his perspective of the memory
and Bruce has just a glorious head of hair. It's so good. Yeah,
he's shining and shimmering. Yeah you had hair back then. Sorry,
yeah yeah, And he like goes and like just like hugs you. Um
and said, I said, listen, but huh, I'm sorry. You
know we've been having some trouble with memory. But I broke that promise that
night, but I won't break this one. All right, We're gonna find
your brother. I'll tell you what. No more hiding and he takes the
glasses and nose off. You're willing. Okay, you're not a nosey and
you're a part of this god damn team. I don't care who does it.
Let's go find your brother. Lovely, take take an inspiration. That
was very good. Um. And what I'm gonna need from you all that
there's any unless anyone else trying to is trying to do anything at this moment
um. You all, I'm gonna need. Uh, I don't care who
rolls them. I'm gonna need three different survival checks and see how fast we
can find the ghost chip. Oh, y'all, I do not want to
be in charge of this, just an ice five? Can we can we
help him off? Can I just give him a hand? Sure? Sure,
you guys can look and Elsie, I would say, actually I would
yea, I would say, Elsie, you have a uh, I'll give
you a plus whatever you have normally a plus three top of this, because
this is you're you're very monstrous oriented you you understay? Yeah, yeah,
sorry, is is it your background like monster? Because yeah, because I'm
a title child tool, my parents will say, um yeah, Undine,
who's like they're like weird, like um like octopus legs, like dark creature,
it's like really black, inky skin. I'm very rist, very like
weird and kind of cold. And yeah, this makes sense. You have
a little bit of familiarity with these exquisite sea beasts basically, so yeah,
thank you. Uh yeah. So basically I'm from whoever. I need three
different survival checks and we'll see either if you know, I feel like Bruce's
Bruce is leading the first, so maybe I'll take the first one. Okay,
Okay, uh so plus plus five that's a natural twenty baby. Oh
ok so that that'll that'll count for getting past two of these potential obstacles.
And I'll give you a choice. Um, as you're as you're walking,
you're kind of making with you these like broken ships and not all of them,
not all of them are from the the from Butcher's Bay, Like that
looks like there's some ships from different cultures. Looks at the ships from different
like maybe even like but with you with the Natural twenty and that I will
say you absolutely understand that not all of them are from Butcher's Bay. You
see a couple like ships that are absolutely not of this world, like not
necessarily like spaceship, spell jam or stuff, but like you see like like
the remnants of like a sort of like an ethereal ship. You see one
that's very nature you looking like maybe even from the Fay Wilds. You see
a lot of different planar activity going on on this ship. And just to
just just be things along here a little bit. With that Natural twenty.
You're walking and you you turn and you're like, oh, and you see
like a just a group of bad guys and you're like no, no,
no, and you like subvert around them, and you, like you the
ship, you you choose to like kind of subvert this potential minion fight through
you find just because it's it's from Afar and it's the best magic autem of
all time you find in a movable rod. Okay, and then you you're
able to get very deep in and I'll even give you this you sort of
the reason it's easier for you is you get a sense from this whale that
they're like you get sort of a sense of sentience from this whale, and
it's sort of almost guiding you a little bit, if that makes sense.
And with that, you've you've passed two of the obstacles you find on a
movable movable rod. Now I just need one more from either of you again,
Bruce or so whoever wants to roll one more if it fails and fails,
but if zero on survival, so again, I'm just I give it
to um So Bruce. Alright, Bruce, you're kind of kind of getting
this weird, this weird sense from this whale. Yeah, I don't know.
I think as whale's talking to me. It's the weirdest thing. Nineteen
Yeah, all right, fair enough. You like throughout the next couple hours,
you all are sort of wandering and you're seeing um, the tracks and
the by the way, the whole time, Bruce is like having a whale
over time. I really like you, guys, and that's what's keeping you.
Um, that's what's keeping you happy and focused, and you're dodging all
these potential intense fights that I have planned you. Eventually, after several hours
of wandering aside from the immovable aside from the immovable rod, you don't see
anything super of note, there's a couple of monsters that you're able to dodge.
And one thing I will say with about the monsters you see, Um,
could all of you roll me in our on a check please? Oh
natural one not gonna get as much twenty two, twenty two, sixteen is
good. Eighteen is also good. So aside from Christian, all of you
all realize that all of these these monsters that you're passing, you're you're passing
similar things like what you saw Neptune's office. You see a couple of these
like smaller humanoids with their the blacked out eyes. You see these potentially these
like sort of these dear looking creatures that like if they turn and look at
you, like their faces almost seem to be like kind of like melting and
like more more phizing around their like their their faces are very amorphous um,
and they don't they don't seem to stay in one orientation. You're seeing a
lot of these truly horrific beasts, but because of the guidance from Bruce,
you're able to sort of subvert all these potential fights. But with the three
of you rolled that our contract for is um, you're starting to you you
realize and you remember in either your studies or just in the years that you've
been adventures, this kind of thing happens to beasts that have been touched by
the shadow Fell. Okay, and for those of you don't know, shadow
Fell is like very much like a mirror of the material plane, but it
is kind of without hope and without love and joy, and it is basically
just the plane of despair and just like just real shitty times. And so
the three of you, maybe you'll come to that realization at the same time.
Maybe it's a slow realization for some of you. As you're as you're
walking and seeing more of these very strange like nightmare beasts, you're like,
yo, there's a lot of shadow Fell activity happening on this Eventually, as
you're walking as you're you find your way through this ship graveyard, and there's
the howl of wind, and as you look above you there's like season these
tatters sales that look almost like ghosts flying through the air. You eventually get
to a singular ship that is kind of in the middle of this of this
beast's back. As you come upon the ship, as you kind of crest
over like the part of this whale and kind of as two of the ship's
part, and you see this ship here, you see a couple of things
about it. You see this ship has sort of a weird ethereal kind of
nimbus around it, almost like a ghost ship. But Bruce and lt you
recognize this ship as the exact ship that left the first day when the on
that first expedition out to find the ghost ship. But what's strange about that
is you also saw that ship come back. You fully be on the shadow
of a doubt know that this is that first ship, but somehow it still
came back. Somehow it's still here. And Bruce, you feel William's hand
tighten on your hand as he sort of whispers, he says, I think
he's on there. My name's Adam mcgrave. I've been playing Bruce Springsteen and
you can find me over on the uh my god, damn it which others
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So yeah, with that, remember to stay happy, stay healthy.
And did you get the lasagna out of the oven? I mean you put
it in there to bake forty five minutes ago and hopefully it's done. I
don't know if lasagna has taken more than forty five minutes to make, but
it seems like an appropriate amount of time. If it's a high enough heat,
maybe like six hundred degrees. Again, I don't bake, I don't
know or cook. I don't know what proper times and cooking temperatures are.
So anyway, with that, go check your oven and we'll see you all
in two weeks. Thanks my