Well, well, well, here we are again at the brink of another
story, and you know what, you've all waited long enough to hear this,
So why don't you all sit down, shut up, and welcome to
From a Far Podcast. Previously on From a Far Podcast, Little Teacher.
I mean, that's doing what you need to do for family is something that
I definitely empathize with. This is the origins of the fastball special. We've
made it. Yo, How are we doing health wise? I think you're
the only one who's actually been hit. I'm so sorry, You're all so
beautiful. Remember, failure is not the end, but we should still try
to succeed. Try to kill him, pretty want try to beat him in
the race? Why are you putting this on me? I want to kill
him? Can we follow him? Can we can we get in the portal
as well? Okay, let's go with another burst of speed, allotage of
blast right through the portal. Kippa, you know where you are because y'all
are back in Kushmar. Oh shit, he looks very racknid, but also
like very litchy, as we have now found the true form of rapture.
Oh shit, do you all thought I was a goober, joke's on you.
Our job is a job. I love recording the day after we recorded
last time. I mean, in real now, it's only so fresh.
It's only been about twelve hours. Has it even been twelve hours? I
went to sleep right after that. I just woke up, So I think
I think Cosmo's finally calming down. It's been it's been a year. Has
been a year? Yeah, yeah, he's he turned one on in July
nineteenth? Was it July? Oh yeah, so it's the same as the
same anniversary as our is our podcast? Very nice? Wait? Really?
Or is that June nineteen? Am I mixing up June July? I think
June. Wasn't it June twenty thirty? So yeah, June nineteenth when we
released this episode zero, and then June twenty third was the first episode.
I think, yeah, oh that's right, we did it was just talking
about that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, well yeah, I feel like
once a kitten reaches a year old, that was like Kirby. Once she
reached a year old, she got a little calmer. Yeah. Yeah,
she's still waiting for Steve to hit that. I think it's usually around two
for dogs. So right now, it's like I'll be like cuddling him.
He's like laying on my bed and I'm like kind of like over him,
rubbing his belly, and he'll just be like all right, time to get
up, and he like flips his body around and like convulses so fast and
aggressively that if I'm in the wrong place, like he could knock me out,
like he's hit me before, like in the face, and I'm just
like, oh my god. It's like, dude, you don't not everything
has to be maximum effort right right, right, right right happy one year
to el Cosmrino. Uh, you guys, to start this thing, what's
the tone of what do you mean? What do you mean? Like?
Sh I think it's I think it's serious as hell, fairly serious. I
mean I have a feeling that, okay, that're going to get goofy,
we've really goofed wraps. Why I'm asking, I have a feeling I'm going
to read this little bit and it's going to be really cool, and then
you're probably specifically Christian, are going to say something like oh what that ass
do or something like that just really really kind of ruined the whole tone,
not sorry, not ruined. Enhance the whole tone. Shift, shift the
whole tone. But honestly, I want the tone. I mean the tone
is that you're you're fighting the BBG of this arc. And if you if
you all want to just keep leaning into the fact that Rapture is trying to
make himself relevant in y'all's lives and you all are just like, no,
sir, that is totally fine. Railroad us into the serious nature of this.
Of this I'm still gonna try to kill you all. I just think
it's the juxtaposition is funny. If if you guys are like not respecting him
and he's still just like counter spelling and like sucking your brain. Oh,
it's still just like totally unfazed by it. I think that's so hen into
a severely difficult to be a monster. So I'm excited to see how how
we suck his ass out. That's what I want. So yeah, uh,
if you with with y'all's permission, are you all ready to part the
veils of reality and kickstart this engine? Oh and jump and drive into the
store. Ready, I'm ready by my own We're ready. Let's get going.
As you speed through the dark monochromatic world wore the white spider web pattern
of nightmares and dreams that criss cross high up in the sky above blurs.
But as this onspiring site rushes by in the heavens above, you focus on
the horrific yet eerily elegant growing form of Rapture or skeletal insectoid arms slowly grow
from his back. They stretch and flex, clicking as they reach reach down
to the roof of the Nightmare as the spider legs scrape the middle of the
roof. As they as the spider legs scrape the metal roof of the ship,
Rapture slowly lifts off the ground, rising several feet. He laughs,
and you see teeth that are sharp and jagged, like sharks. We could
aile. Splits his face larger than normal, giving him the look of a
bloodthirsty clown. Oh the color drains from his skin, only to be replaced
by a dry, cracked bone white death mask. You now see Rapture for
what he truly is. A terror that hans dreams, a monster who revels
in the pain and terror of the people whose mind he invades, a nightmare
incarnate, a creature of terror that stalks the most hidden corners of dreams,
a behemoth who feasts upon anguish and fear of those he infiltrates, A true
maestro of malfeasance. Thought that was the spider, legs clicking with a rhythm
of intending doom, the macabre smile of a clown dripping with sanguine ickers.
Yes, this one, it's god damn dude. You pull out that the
source. Yeah, skin long, devoid of life, cracks and crumbles before
your beary eyes. This is rapture, the predator of the subconscious, the
thing that all fear but no one has truth. That's cool, The predator
of the subconscious. That's cool. That's his whole name. I've been holding
on that one for a while. Yeah, rapture. This is rapture,
the predator of the subconscious, the thing we all fear but no one has
truly seen. He lets out of roar, and you can see, and
you can hear the voices of those he has killed, roaring and leuc with
this feast. And as the battle cry fades, he looks to you three.
You see his eyes stare at you with pure joy, the joy of
a hunter about to feed, the joy of a nightmare, about to destroy
another dream the joy of a man beaten and ridiculed about to get his revenge.
Can you all please roll for initiatives? Dang of the subconscious. That's
a cool one. That made me think, is he then like a like
a paralysis demon. Yeah. So a lot of this stuff, like a
lot of the like the weird creepy, dripping nightmare things have been just sort
of inspired by like weird sleep paralysis demons that have seen online and stuff that's
cool stuff. Ge willkers Man, Gee, it's all good. See Christian
got a twenty two, I got an eighteen. Knocks got a six,
all right, Rapture got himself eighteen. So just to set the stage a
little bit, you all see this, this horrific growing nightmare creature, the
sleep paralysis demon growing in front of you. You see in his eyes,
like I said, he's sick and tired of you all not taking him seriously,
and he is going to do his absolute darnness to make sure you know
his name by the end of this fight. But I have a feeling it's
not going to go very well for him. So you are all on sort
of like the main deck of the nightmare. It's roughly roughly rectangular shaped.
It's about sixty feet long by about thirty feet wide. Rapture is about halfway
up, sort of towards the front of the ship, the bow of the
ship where I he is. We're like, you know, the like the
steering apparatus, and like the driver to be the helm, the helm,
and you all have climbed up the back after crashing the Mariabelle into the back
of the Nightmare. You all have climbed up the back. When you are
all standing there looking at Rapture as he's grown taller, he's this laser coming
out of his back, and he's ready to go. He's ready to go
as and with that, Yeah, Kippa, you're up first. What damn?
What are you trying to do? A shame? I'm hype as hell.
It's been a minute, but I'm back now. I know we're in
this. Let's let's let's get it. Let's get this bread. So Kippa,
Kipa yells out to Rapture. What that ass do you see? You
saw like you fed that one to me in a big spoon. You saw
a rapture like rising slowly silhouetted by this like spider web neuron pattern of Kushmar
behind him, and he's fucking god damn it, Kippa. He just he
says that to you as it is still your turn. What are you doing?
Kip? Kippa moves up or looks left and right to Arius and Nil
nods and says, all right, that's finally deal with this motherfucker. And
then you notice his eyes become a black, inky void. The goat pupils
of his eyes suddenly enveloped the rest of his eyes. He's casting eye bite
to the sixth level spell very cool, I bite. What do I have
to do for that? You have to make a wisdom saving throw. One
creature of your choice within sixty feet you can see, must succeed on a
wisdom saving throw or be affected by one of the following effects. Blah blah
blah. I warn you ahead of time. I have a plus nine to
this. Oh shit, he is a lich So heads up, Okay,
this is a this is a gamble classic. What is it? What is
your what is your what is your eyelind look like you said that you're when
you're trying to cast him? What does that look like? You know?
I'll say it's like a very thin, very almost hard to perceive, like
liquid that connects to him almost like a goopy goopiness because it's a necromancy type
spell. So it's like a jet of this like kind of shoots out and
then long lashes and just like have you ever seen Kung Fu Panda when when
Poe like catches the cannonball and like spins it off to the side. Yeah,
you shoot this black this black liquid forward and rapture just like rears up
on his two back spider legs and just like catches your beam with his two
front spider legs and just like shifts it off to the side, and you
see it just go shooting off into the into the unknown because he got a
twenty five to that. Okay, Kip his eyes. Kip his eyes immediately
go not black, back to normal and he just looks back at you guys
like, ah, Ship, I thought that would work well. Ship,
you could have told me, I could have given you some guidance. Oh
sorry, I thought it would be cool to just open with it. I'm
gonna it was very cool. I'm just super strong. I want you no,
no, no, I don't think before well, you're about to mantle
of inspiration as my bonus action using a barnic inspiration to give you, guys,
your full movement, no opportunity attacks and you get a living temp HP.
Oh hell yeah, so wreck it up, wreck it up. I
already had that, but all out of it again. Do we have to
take that action immediately? Or can we like the movement? Yeah, you
have to. I would. I'll say this if you want, if you
want to hold it, just because I like doing this stuff, you can
instead of using it right now, you can just add an extra five ft
to your movement on your Oh okay, if you want. You know,
you don't get the forward movement, but you can just if you want it
to not use it now, just to reward I prefer using that. Cool
Arius does use his his that mantle to get up up close and personal.
He's sweating profusely. Oh, out of nerves or heat, maybe a little
bit of both, having a flash. I guess I forgot. I guess
I forgot to mention it's it's one hundred and fourteen degrees down here in Kushmar's
he is scurred, he is hang on, what is that? In Celsius
probably like forty five? Oh damn, that's big it's a lot. It'd
be forty five David, it's exactly forty five degrees celsius. Oh my god,
d m brain coming and pledch basically just because I came back from Phoenix,
Arizona not but two days ago. Kushmar is Phoenix Arizona. I want
you guys to know it sucks. Raps he's one of his legendary actions.
And he's gonna cast his it's called paralyzing touch on this on the staff block.
Because he's a rapture. It's gonna called b touch on this one.
And what does it take him? Seriously? Yeah, I need from what
is your A c A? I got a natural one. As as you
run into raptures like range using Kip his mantle inspiration, you see like they
so fast you can barely see it. These two front spider legs come up
and like pincer kind of like right around your neck, not to like pincer
right into your jugulars. But you're like you just like step back and the
like they clinch. They snipped. They snipped together, and Rapture looks at
you and says, please please let me hurt you. Please look hear you.
I want to rapture. Come on, my god, and you know
I can't let you do that. You're right, I'm sorry, but hey,
guess what, it's my turn. Now let's see let's see here.
Oh that's right, okay, cool. So as a rapture kind of resettles
himself after that that initial failure, he stands up and he reaches with his
human or his tee fling hands behind his back and like like he's drawing a
sword like from like on his back, but you don't see anything. And
then the hand goes back down and then back up, backed out, and
there's a there's a backscratcher in his hands. Hold on, hold on,
We're good. This itch is a nightmare. Then he drops the backscratcher and
says, this is what I was really going to do, and he had
put He holds his hand out to the side and like coalescing out of like
the shadow and you see this big wicked scythe that is long and dripping,
and he says he doesn't say anything as he swings as he swings it,
as as he looks like he's about to and then he like changes his mind
eighteen to hit I'm rolling like dog shit again my a C. We're gonna
have let's have the conversation one more time. What does andy shield do?
I don't think is my shield active? I can't remember how Michiel is acting.
You have not it's not active. It hits okay, so it does
hit okay, wonderful. Then, so as as a rapture drags this wicked
curved like shadow dripping scythe off just across like your chest, you are going
to take sixteen points of damage. And I'm gonna need you to make me
a eight DC eighteen wisdom saving throw. That's a seven. That's a seven.
Oh shit. As you see what is what's y'all's passive perception? Fifteen
twelve seventeen seventeen. No, you see the wound that Arius gave himself while
he was in like the nightmare sledge saving kippa like ripped open, and you
see these tendrils of black acre like come screeching out of Arius's shoulder as Arius's
eyes roll back in his head, and you are now stunned for one minute,
Oh my god, one minutes, holy ship. That's six terms.
Well, I well say you can you can keep her? You can,
You're gonna get into it a phase where you can repeat saves, Oh,
okay, okay, whoof I mean, hey, let's go, And all
of a sudden, areas you you wake up and you're sitting at your table
back in on in your home, sitting across the table from your from Electus
and Gloria and Polkra, and you're there and you've you've been there your entire
life, like you don't remember anything else. You this this is your life.
Oh oh sorry, I must have dozed off while I was eating.
I had the strangest stream. My apologies. And Polkra stands up and she
comes over and you can't see her. She kind of is in that weird
sort of dream state where like you can see that you can see who it
is, but you can't see their details mm hmm. And Polka comes and
stands next to you and like puts a hand on your shoulder and says,
oh, it's it's okay, Arius, there's no need to worry about it.
We're all fine. And then you look up and you you see your
wife and she has no face. We cut back to the to the fight
at hand, and you see Nil and arias you see Nil and Kippa you
see areas just go like rigid, like I'm stiff, all down stiff as
well, and not in one specific area. Okay, you're back straightened,
and so does your penis your knees, don't you knees? Don't he's he's
in a squat position. Yeah, okay, okay, as actually it is
it is your turn right now, Arius, that's the perfect time. So
we cut out. Then we cut back the Arius dream. It's gonna make
me another wisdom saving throw. The DC is now seventeen. I got a
natural one, a natural one. Oh, you take four damage for psychic
damage as you as you look up and you see just this like not like
not like a void where your wife's face should be. It's just like perfectly
smooth skin. Yeah, slender man. All of a sudden, you are
on a field of battle, standing over the dead body of your son,
and there are just rent and ruined bodies everywhere around you. You see burned
and like still smoldering and like blazing on Electus's chest, the the symbol of
neth and you see like the remnant shards of a like a bone white crystal
crushed like at his feet. What do you do? I think areas,
like falls backwards and starts crawling away. It's like no, no, no,
this this this, this isn't real. This can't be real. And
then he starts like looking around like wild eyed, make me, make me
a perception check with with a disadvantage please uh five you yeah, you start
to crawl back and you just you cannot figure out what is going on?
Why you were here? What is what is happening in this moment? As
we cut back back to the fight on Top of the Nightmare, well wild
first round everybody, well almost almost into the first round because it is Nail's
turn. No, what are you doing? You are standing looking at Rapture
like you know in Lord of the Rings. In Lord of the Rings,
when Sheilab is like wrapping Frodo up in the like Rapture is starting to make
those kind of motions around areas. She's not like wrapping him up in anything,
but just like his spider legs are extending out and like starting to encompass
and VELAs areas in this like horrific spidery embrace. What are you doing?
I don't like that? So she sees she sees that and obviously like you
know, not not good and yeah, she's just immediately just cast sacred flame.
Heh yeah, all right, that's a deck save for me, right,
yeah, that ho ready for this one. The tension is palpable.
That's a two plus three, that's a five. All right, Well you
failed absolutely, so hit me with that damage fourteen, So he gets fourteen
radiant damage. Fourteen radiant damage. Actually, can you roll me one more
D eight for that? Sure? Thanks? Sure? Five? So nineteen
if the math is mathing. Yes, cool. As you see this this
glorious radiant being that also kind of looks watery because it just it's from your
lady Moontide, just shoot down and blast like the sort of erupt on the
on the deck right of a rapture. You see him writhe and stagger back
and he releases Arius a little bit, but he's still is still within danger.
Well that's that's the point, just to just to like try and keep
air you safe. Yeah you did. That's a good job. As Raptor
is gonna do another legendary action real quick, and I am going to do
something here great. As you see Rapture writhing from this this divine intervention and
divine strike, he says, why why why am I fighting alone? And
you see him like snap his weird insect fingers, and just one really small
and tiny dream dancer arrives veilil Dancer and he's like, sh it, that
usually works a little better. Uh. Rapture has just capt cast conjure conjure
undead and supposed to roll higher than one, but only one has a arrived
for now, and they're very easy to kill. But just one little guy.
I'm early Rapture. Everyone else is coming in behind me or we're gonna
kill these mother flickers a way our spider voice and kIPS your turn. We're
back to the top of the top of the round that is round that is
one round. One round is done all actually all legendary actions every time.
And one minute is six rounds six rounds. One minute is ten is ten
rounds. I'm sorry, yes, oh ship, that's even worse. Yeah,
our heavy hitters out fuck it, y'all can hit pretty hard. So
Kippa, Kippa does not like what's happening here. He's going to use cass
Missy step cool and hoove himself right in between Rapture and Arius and immediately follow
that up with a thunder wave. Oh yeah, right, it raps trying
to last everyone, get areous, back away, get actually last Arius.
Well it's a it's a it's a cube. So you know it's you know,
it's happen. It's happening. Make the that's a safe from here as
an attack from him. Yeah, it's a con. Say for you,
seventeen, you gotta be a rapture has a lot added to con. But
Andy, I'm gonna say automatically fail. Yeah, oh boy, okay that
is what is it? Seventeen? Yeah, okay, I have a plus
ten to constitution. Oh my god, I got a four. O my
god. So Rapture is blasted back ten feet towards the front of the boat.
And I'll say now, kid, but you can see Rapture was kind
of standing in front of it. You can see there is there is somebody
still driving the boat and you all the ship, and the ship is hurtling
towards this central area of the spider web, and you can see far far
off in the distance there is some action taking place up there. And just
thinking back to your time with Franklin and the Don Walkers, you do a
quickly survey around where you are and you notice you're heading back towards that area
where Franklin and the Don Walkers. Okay, oh shit, Arius, you
so damage for rapture police. Let's get some let's get some rapt damage.
That was the first level. So it's a thirteen. Damnon, that's still
pretty good. Yeah, and I took that as well, wonderful. So
then this is what happens. And you are still in the areas, You're
still back on that battlefield. You are sweating and crying. There's blood and
dirt on your hands and your eyes, and you have no like you're you're
just as confused right now as you were when you really when this really happened
to you, like only just a couple months ago. Now, actually you're
right back in that moment, your your your breath is catching in your chest,
and all of a sudden, you see standing above above your your son's
body, a small, diminutive form wrapped almost like a like a mummy,
but like not it's not a mummy, just like wrapped in kind of dirty,
old, ragged clothes, like very like shredded up clothes, like a
shredded cape, shredded like face coverings, and you can't see anything other than
this creed anything any other distinctive features about this creature. But it reaches a
hand out to you, and in that moment, you know that taking this
creature's hand is the only thing you can do and the thing you have to
do. And you reach that creature's hand, and you feel a sense of
familiarity and comfort wash over you, as really quickly a sense of vertigo and
pain washes over you as you are back into your body and you fly back
ten feet and you take thirteen points of damage, and you will now have
advantage on Rapture's sleepy sleepy touch. Yeah, okay, now that you've done
it. If the person who is a sleep takes damage, they wake up.
By the way, way you're describing cigaret flavor, like how big is
it? Yeah, well then then kip A blasted everyone back. So just
to recap that, that that that whole player that was kip A Misty stepped
in right in between Rapture and areas And imagine you put like a hand on
both their chests and just shot this thunderous way about both the shooting areas back
to safe do you reach their chests right on their dicks on both friend and
their penises, just real center of mass type of and they both go flying
back. They both take a large amount damage in areas. You shake yourself
off. You are prone, but you are back in. The fight is
here. She's still driving the boat. The good smell. You're right,
you're right, you're right right. No, it's Rapture's turn. You're right
as Rapture is going to do something very fun that I invented. It's called
the two steps. He pulls out a gun. All of a sudden,
Rapture stands up, kind of rising up again on those spider legs, and
Homie disappears. Does he have like a spidy dump truck as well? Does
how he? Yeah, he's like he's just got that like black widow.
But dunk dunk, hanging what that thorax? Rapture disappears. Does anyone have
a true sight? I do you do? So? Noil you see Raptures?
Sorry, yeah, I have to cast it. I thought you meant
like, who has this spell? No, no, no, So Rapture
was at the bow of the ship and all of a sudden, you see
you see him like kind of step backwards into a shadow and just disappears.
So now all you have is the one very weak looking veil dancer, and
a Rapture is gone, veil dancer, where do you go? The veil
dancer stands up. That guy probably knows. Let's he walks over to the
veil Dancer kind of steps over to you, and he's like, well,
I think this is what I'm supposed to do. Are you dead? Yeah?
I've been dead for a while, trying to find my calling. Yeah.
Rapture said that I could join his gang, and I just, you
know, I was taking my ear off walking around Europe. All right,
all right, hey, hey, hey, we don't need all this.
We don't know this. What's your what's your ac KIPA fifteen? Cool?
That is a fourteen? As he shoots a little bolt at you, and
it's gonna take another uh up, that's another fourteen and the second multi attack
and he just he just kind of shoot. He's trying to get like his
crossbow like fixed and like ready and love. He shoots it into the ground
twice. Fuck damn. All right, Well, I guess I'll wait patiently
for my next turn as arias I think. As he's like he's like,
like, you know, starts gulping in air and like cut of thrashes around
for a second and looks and like realize the right he back. He looks
down and sees Kippa and like nail. He's like, oh welcome, Oh
god, that that was so weird. Some advice, don't don't get stunned
by oh you're thinking about it? Yeah, then Arius uh kind of slams
the ground with his hand. Helloa, what did he do to you?
And get and like he doesn't have kip ups. He's gonna use up.
He's gonna use half his movement speed to get up, and then he's gonna
use a bonus action to get into like horse stance. He's gonna activate his
rage and I like, I like to imagine like he slightly glows red and
like an ethereal like ripple like ripples out like around and you see the anime
anime a f super animate. You see his his his ancestor spirit kind of
like like rise out of his body and like and kind of go back to
back with him in the same stance. Is it like a stand from JoJo's
what do you what are you rocking? Grammar? And so he looks around
and sees like is it good? Boy, are you good with with that
little guy? What are you talking about me the undead? Like, do
you need me to come help you? Oh no, it's fine, I
think probably. All right, he's not a good aim I'm not very good.
I'm not I'm not a good mailed answer. Arius is that he's gonna
go. He's gonna go stand next to Nil and ready an attack action if
rapture shows up within range. All right, cool, love it, you're
readying that attack action. Fan fucking tastic. That is what happens. You
see Rapture appear back into existence right here, a little farther away from right
in between. You see Rapture appear back in existance right between Kippa and you
and Nil, and you see him conjuring this like green orb right in the
middle of his hands as he's going to use another one of his legendary actions,
and he's going to cast this spell at you. Nil. Oh no,
I'm going to need you to Let's see here, So what's your a
CMA six sixteen That is an eleven plus twelve twenty three. Oh my god,
oh my, As he is, he is going to hit you for
six sixteen points of acid damage as a as an ass acidic orb launches out
of his hands and hits you right in the chest. You stagger back as
you take sixteen acid damage. Now, okay, so then that's because I
got the eleven ten. It's not too good. No, yeah, not
too bad. He's not he's not hitting too hard yet. And that is
that was his uh that was a legendary action actually, so now it is
nil. It's your turn. Cool. So she sees Arius like coming up
next to her, Are you all right? Do you need any healing?
I'm I'm okay at a moment, but I might need some okay at the
moment. And then she gets hit. She's like, you know, I
guess coughs on blood because she's a fucking She's a magic user, not a
tank. She like like wipes her mouth with the back of her hand,
like that was a very nice I'm sorry, I'm not sorry, I'm lich,
I'm lich, hey dad, and she's like, well, bully to
you. Then she like conjures like an Eldritche blast, and I believe she
gets and eldrichly blasts him the three beams. So I haven't told you this
yet. His ac seventeen Okay, well, I have a plus ten.
Let's go twenty three. All right, So the first one hits, roll
the second. Do you imagine you're doing all three? Yeah, I'm doing
all three. Of course, I'm doing all The first one hits thirteen,
so that one misses, that one misses. So we have one hit so
far in twenty one. That's gonna hit, so two two of three hits,
So roll roll the roll of the damage. Okay, ten plus nine
nineteen nineteen wonderful Hell, yeah, a rapture raptures he's taking He's taken a
beating so far, but not not. He's still he's still going pretty good.
Is that for your turn? Now you're doing anything else? Is he
still invisible? No? He can, no, No, he's on.
I'll give I'll give Arius one of my healing light wonderful five. Not a
lot, but excellent works for me. And then the last thing Rapture is
gonna do before becau he's gonna take another legendary action. He's getting Okay,
he's gonna he's gonna conjure a few more of these. God damn, it
has one more. One more weak ass. Veil Dancer appears right next to
rapture A rapture what you need as far God durm, you guys are not
a prompt like sort of organization. No, no, no, as that
is it for the first as. That is it for the first round of
the second round. Can I have you all make me dexterity sixteen saving throws?
Please, easy, pasy, that's a twenty five twenty five for Kipa.
Give me a challenge. Okay, aries, you are raging and you
can see that. What's going on here? An eight? Oh? I
oh sweet danger sense, then let's go eleven eleven. Both Arias and mill
are knocked prone, as as the nightmare itself like you see from the side
of the exhaust pipes leaning up the side of the ship just erupt in flame
and this thing starts to dash forward. Oh so like the speed of the
speed of it is not knocked on your asses? Yeah, actually, wait,
hold on, I have to roll for everyone here. Rapture pass its
uh and both of the fucking veiled dancers are prone to hell. Yeah,
let's go, and that is it. We're back to the top of the
order. Kipat is your You said that there's a driver, right, It's
say that there is a driver? Where is he? Can I see?
You can see him? He is up in the very front of the ship
at the nose. This is in the very front, and the engine and
everything is behind the cockpit of the driver. So as of right now,
you're about thirty feet from where you need to go. And it looks like
there's like there's like a dome. Yeah, so in the front of Yeah,
you can get there in one turn. You'll take an opportunity attack from
the veiled he is pro never mind, thank you, Well, he still
gets the attack. He just has disadvantage on it with knowing these guys.
That's the and a plus. Yeah, he's right. He like tries to
sweat at your ankle and you just yea over it? Could you describe the
driver? Like? What am I looking at? So? Are you moving
forward to go to the driver? You wtly to describe me before you head?
What can I just from what I can see over here? Just a
general it looks like the driver is like punched over, very focused on driving,
and there is like sort of an arcane barrier around the driver. If
you if you think back to your time in the race, you notice that
once once the or you remember that once these uh, these ships like kind
of pushed it past their limit. There what they were prone to fail,
and there was things that were prone to fail. You also know that they
were as Allotatu said, they were like they were all powered by magic.
So I think it wouldn't be that far of a jump to think, like,
if you can't get through this barrier where this driver is, there might
be somewhere on the ship that if you overloaded or attack like the arcane power
source, you might be able to get through. Gotcha. Interesting? Okay,
cool that, thank you, because that does change what I'm gonna do.
Yeah, So Kipa, Kipa's gonna kind of hop skip jump over the
body of the guy that just fell in front of him and said both pardon
excuse me, SA. He swipes out him and he just kind of dips
away, and then he's running over to that guy and he's gonna knock on
the barrier right over to what guy the driver. So you're you're running from
like the middle of the ship up to the bow of the ship. Yeah,
and he's gonna as soon as he gets here, he's gonna breath knock
on the Hey, hey, hope, excuse me. Do you see like
you see like a dude like very much trying to ignore you, like like
very focused on what he's doing. You know you can hear me. I
know you can hear me. Just look at me like you're trying to roll
the window back up, even though it's like puts up like a hand like
trying to block you out, Like just just up, all right, man,
hey you you you asked for it. And then Kip is gonna like
put a finger in one ear and one hand onto it and he's gonna cast
shatter. Oh excellent, So yeah, you can. You can definitely try
to attack this. I'm gonna say what it is is, uh, it
will have a damage threshold of what what what does? What's the damage you
can roll with the shatter since I'm casting it at third level, will be
four D eighty eight. So I'll say, if you can get let's we'll
say twenty. We'll say twenty the damage she will between. If you can
get over twenty, you will be able to start to get through this thing.
All right, here it goes. That's a twenty seven baby. But
you put your hand on this like arcane barrier and it has that sort of
like face swum like and you think in your head, you're like, man,
this is kind of a stupid idea. Then you're like, well,
fucking kip a willow in and you like you reach into like the weave of
magic, and you like change your shattered just enough to like not just shatter
glass and rock and wood, and you like you're able to like send these
arcane temple cracks into this, into this, into this arcane barrier, arcane
dome. It hasn't shattered yet. Cool. Yeah, So you like the
dude finally looks up at you, and he's like he starts to like she
Jim and you as he calls out for a rapture kid, but moving at
at a at a speed with creepy nasty spider legs assisting him rapture from his
sort of the middle area of the boat, the side of the ship where
he came where he re came into visibility. He just like scud scuttles on
over to you and here we go. I'm gonna need you to get ready
to make me wisdom saved and throw of eighteen oh God as you ship as
he pulls out that sithe good God, and he hits you you said your
grace's fifteen. Yeah, he literally he got he has a plus nine to
this and he got, so that's a fifteen. Damn Okay, my wisdom,
wisdom save is seventeen. Goddamn it. Oh. As you're very focused
on this really cool arcane moment that you just had, you just you're like
pushing through this barrier. See the arcane prack starting to happen on this dome.
You look up and all of a sudden, rapture is just towering above
you, and you just feel this like slicing pain that across your back and
you kind of collapse on to this dome. As you wake up and you
are invent Bran. Well, no, you're not invent Branch. You're you're
in the Fay wild and you are sitting in sort of a secluded glade talking
to like a little like a little like fay creature, a little like nymph.
As you you play some music for this this creature and you see it
dance around and you feel this not like a fatherly protection over this creature,
but just like a a connection and the trust and a love that is is
very powerful. And you're just watching this creature dance and you are playing the
what instrument? What instrument would Kip A play? The spoons? As you're
just ham boning and mist misty mountain fuck or what is Appalachian music play for
this? For this spade creature? And as as weird as it sounds,
it is dancing perfectly to the spoons, which has never been done in the
real world. Uh. And it's a it's a mesmerizing sight as like they're
they're like moss and like nature covered skin sort of twirls and blends in with
the forest around them. At times they're their their long green hair kind of
flows out behind them as they spin like a dervish. Get it, yeah,
get it? And we're back and we see you see areas and nil
areas you know what just happened? Nil, you saw this happen to Arius.
Uh, but you all don't exactly know what to do as you see
Kipa go down. And I'm sorry, Kipper, you take large amount vantage
too. I'm sorry for six ten, fifteen damage fifteen slashing damage. So
that is what Kip is doing. It sounds cool, it looks goofy is
goofy, but it also sounds cool shit because it's in the dream and we
have just surpassed Raptures turn areas you were up. You just saw your friend
Kippa, you know, get teleported into a fucking terrifying dream state. Raptures
is towering above him, scythe in hand, ready to do more damage to
kip On. Hippa just started to shatter this arcane dome of this of the
driver's seat of the Nightmare. And you have two very weak looking veil dancers
standing in between you and Kippa. What are you doing? Oh fuck?
I think so, Arius taking taking his bonus action, activates his shield like
like you know how in three hundred when Leonidas like slashes the arrows off of
his shield. That's how I imagine Arias doing it. Like as your sword
passes your wrists, your shield like appears like behind this we like yeah,
like clangs it like this like activates it pulls a quarter from behind one of
the and then and then he says uh. I don't think he says anything.
I think he just goes for it as he's focused. He's raging right
now, He's got that, he's got the eye of the storm. Kippa
is sixty feet away from you. Yeah, so Arias is first gonna go
to the He's gonna he's making his way there, but as he's running,
he's gonna pass by the two each of the of the veil dancers. He's
gonna he's gonna use his action to attack. Okay, and so A eleven.
Oh babe, they hold up wooden practice swords. We didn't have time
to grab our armor or our weapons. He just summoned, does he.
I was in the middle of a shower. I literally you see one of
him like pulling their pants back up like I was pooping. First one is
fifteen. We're gonna hit fifteen damage. That's cool. Yeah, dude,
that's super cool. Immediately blooded nice, both of his arms fall. Oh,
he's gonna. He's gonna go the remaining ten feet to the next one
and attack that one. Yea eleven, what you're looking for? Twenty three?
And I could take and I guess I take an attack of opportunity,
right, and that one's Thirteen's see now with the shield like twenty twenty twenty
ten plus two, it's twelve. That's not gonna okay, he has no
arms. Yeah, he he tes to fight it areas areas just like airs
like like imagine like areas like run like he runs by it. It doesn't
even like look and like slashes and then continues them. Yeah, and then
and then slashes this one. But you know his his his movement does like
like someone trying to get up areas like runs over and pushes them back down
and then it runs to So, yeah, advantage on him because he was
they are actually yeah, roll up roller. Oh they're both prone or let's
see if I guess if you can this changes things. It's it's less cool
now you're just trying bold. He just runs to one. Yeah, no
I don't. I don't get CRIDs on either of them. No worries.
He still he still did really good. What's the amason? He just kicks
the head as he runs by. Oh I was thirteen damage. Yeah,
both of them immediately, but they're not long for this world as Arias I
imagine, like looks back, I glintington mill do what I could not,
and she like she salutes, She's like, yes that you can. So
you were kind of standing in the middle of the ship next to the veil
dancer, who has not who has yet to rise? Who they will rise
after this and take their attacks on you. Rise up, Yeah, you're
you're about halfway to Kippa who's on the bow of the ship, raptures towering
over him. As both as the veil dancers. One right next to you
stands up using his movement speed sixteen plus two eighteen I can to do it
and an eleven plus two thirteen not going to do it as and for the
first one second one stands up clambers over to you, and now you're now
you have kind of like an Arius and veil Dancer sandwich going on. But
this one is now flanking you, so he's going to get an advantage attacks
on h plus go. Is this the one that lost his arms? Yeah,
he's biting at you. Well, it's a fortunate two six sixteen and
a four plus two six for the first attack twelve plus two fourteen and a
two plus two four. None of them hit as he's trying to bite you
just like put your hand out on his forehead and he's just like trying to
get at you. Both of them. Don't do shit to you, nil,
you're saying, yeah, so she she sees jess Areas basically like mowed
down. Yeah. Also, just when my ancestors around the first veiled answer,
and he has disadvantage if he attacks anyone else. For me, ah
me, I always thank you for remind me. I always forget about that.
Yeah, I mean I don't. I don't think he's going to live
past this moment. Yeah, Grandpa, oh knows, still got it?
So yeah, so nil nil, Like she she's still prone, I think,
right, yep, okay, so she, I mean she doesn't really
need to move honestly, So so she uses her her you know, half
half movement to get up, but her spells are all super long range,
so it doesn't matter. Yeah, Neil to stay down. Actually, dude,
her Eldritch bast can go up to six hundred feet. Wow, that's
a wild amount of feet snipe. Yeah, yeah, sniper two football fields.
I want to see you like take your staff and like, yeah,
start sniping. Her firebolt is two hundred and forty feet. Her chill touch
also two hundred and forty feet. Eldrich bluss is six hundred feet. Did
you get the sniper trade? Isn't that what it's called? Yeah? Thanks?
Oh yeah, okay, So so she's gonna shoot off two beams for
the first one, and what actually no one one one beam because there's I
rolled already. So two of them hit seventeen, twenty four and twelve.
All of those hits, oh do they okay, never mind if you're shooting
the if you're shooting the aveiled answers, Yeah, yeah, eleven okay,
never mind, all right, So all three hits, so one of them
about to be fun okay, So the first one is it fifteen yep?
Okay, and the other one that's not dead actually there's there's a little bit
that was the one that lost his arms. Now he lost his legs as
well. Well. There are three memes. So yeah, you first to
right one. Yes, I think I'm gonna make sees a glints on the
horizon. Then you blast off the legs of the other van dancer. He
just kind of falls like waste to the ground like that black man from Anty
Python, and he's like looking around, He's like, I'm still alive.
And then I did we see that? We see that from from not from
Nil's scope, and he just looks and you just gave him the peace sent
as Elder's blast through the brain. These two guys, oh my god,
are toast but fun fact rapture can bring him back. Wonderful turn. Anything
Eldrich blast is a cantrip, so it's fine. Yeah, just kid,
just keep blasting. Yeah, just like a gatling gun of spells. All
right? Is that it for your turn? No? Yes, wonderful.
Can everyone please except for Ki, because you are already incapacity stunned? Can
everyone please make me DC fifteen decks arety saving throw as the engines reb again,
I see this right, Yes, you have advantage on this fourteen ten
Yeah, not much of a dangerous sense if you need to see it.
Yeah, that's just called eyesight. All right, So both of you are
knocked prone again, God damn. But one other thing that happens, which
is really exciting that I've been looking forward to for a while. Can I
like shoot spells while I'm sitting down? Absolutely? And I was just like
at this point, yeah, like I just I might as well just stay
down because I feel like I'm gonna lose every dex The two engines exhaust.
Events on the side of the Nightmare flare up with fire again. The main
deck of the boat of the ship starts to catch fire. What a strange
feature. Yeah, well, well this is well we've now reached the third
round of them dashing and the burning, and they're starting to be like they're
The driver sees the arcane cracked and you trying to break, and he's like,
I had one job. He's just like he's trying to get to which
actually areas? Could you since you're the most upfront, now, can you
roll me a or what's your I'm just gonna tell you. You see in
the front, you see far to the front. You're about halfway when you
started, you're not about halfway to this, to this kind of central area
of these like this like spider web dream paths you all are traveling on,
and you see now much clearer. You see about as you see nine shadowy
shapes whipping and spinning and flying like almost like the the like the Death Eaters
from the Harry Potter movies, like when they're like traveling around. So you
see these like smoky shadow tendrils wrapping all around this. I was kind of
also imagining a little bit of Attack on Titan. Yeah, oh yeah,
that suh Out regiment too. It's much better. That's much better. As
you see more like the Scout regiment from from Attack on Titan you see these
these nine very diminutive figures. It's twirling and spinning and cutting around this this
truly horrific beast. You see like a long almost like like worm. It
is. It's like a worm shaped creature with like little centipede legs and a
giant like circular mouth with just rows and rows and rows of teeth. You
see black acre dripping off off this thing, and little eye stalks and just
weird appendages kind of flexing and curling off this thing. As we cut away
really quick to the ethereal see again, and it's very calm, it's very
pleasant. And we see on a small fishing boat, Bernice beming Way.
He sits up a little straighter. He was he was dozing while he was
fishing in the ethereal see. Is it a there's a dream splitter somewhere near?
And we cut back in in the areas. That's what you see,
is you actually see a real life dream splitter. All are all are racing
towards. But fun fact thought he was a night waiver or something, or
a night walker. That's a different one. They killed that already. They
already killed that. So just to sort of set the stage or to bring
everyone up to speed. There was a night walker like nurturing and growing the
dream splitter. Oh that's what I see. I see the dream Splitter is
now emerging from its cocoon, and the night walker is dead. Good job
that you left. Good thing you left. The dawn Walker's there, or
else you'd have a night walker also to contend to Oh shit, oh ship,
we have a dream splitter and a litch right now. Well, the
don walker is doing a really good job, and there's a few things that
might happen between now and then. You have three more rounds before the before
the ship gets there, you might want to stop it. I just want
to say as yes, we're back to the top of the order, Kippa,
I have I have a quick question. Arius knows that you need to
hit someone to wake them up. Arius was hit and woke up. I
think you all are smart enough to piece it together. But no one said
that out loud. Would this be considered charmed? No? This is something
different, damn it. Yeah, sorry, this is a this is a
fully You're you're in like a full on nightmare state. So should I should
I roll? At least to start out? So yeah, yes, please
try to say, seventeen now is what you're looking for. It goes down
every time seventeen wisdom, Well that is not that it's eleven as what.
I have a couple of ideas, but I'd be interested to see what Kipper
thinks. What would we We've done, We've done a lot of Kipa nightmares
in this What what is something? What is something that Kipper would fear?
What is what is a nightmare that Kippa would have? What is something that
Kipper would see in this? In this nightmare moment, maybe it flashes to
and you have artistic liberties here, but so roll with this. But some
kind of like a camp, like you know, torturous slave labor type camp
that has all the residents of Bent Branch. Actually it's it's it's weird.
You see actually very close to what what you see here in Kushmar actually like
sort of that we haven't described it yet in this episode, but like these
sort of unending fields of like matrix style like human pods going everywhere. Oh
you kip it, so like you sort of fade back into reality, into
this reality for a second. You see all these like these trees of people
that have been taken and they are being siphoned into this nightmare beast. Their
energy is being siphoned in this nightmare beast. You see that for a second,
and then you're back back in kushmar as you see all the residents of
Bent Branch, not in like the court of Summer, not in the sealy
court. You're now in like the more twisted, more dark, more like
vicious looking, vicious side of the fae. And you see a lot of
your folks, a lot of your your your family, chained up in these
chains and being led away by like dark like satyrs with big twisting, curling
horns and like shaggy dark fur. You see your your family being like sort
of forced into these like camps and forced into these areas that look sort of
like these like sort of siphoning life energy siphoning pods. You see them being
forced to work. You see them being forced to like servet. Okay,
this is actually we've seen this person before. You actually see like sitting at
like a corone of twisted and like gnarled and burnt like branches and oaks and
twisting roots. You see sitting pale, pallid, white skin, dark lanky,
red hair, and just these hands, these long skeletal hands that end
in these fingers of like blackened, sharp, disgusting fingernails. You see your
your people and your families kneeling down in front of this this person on this
like twisted knotted wooden throne and where like this sort of weird ethereal nightmare part
of this comes in as you are running to get to them. You are
running to try to call out and reach to them, but you're moving slow
and you're being pulled back, and then your voice is muffled and this you
can see that they're there and they're just out of reach, but you can't
get to them as you're cut back out and you're just kind of lying not
like not like you're you're convulsing on top of this, on top of this
arcane dome where the driver is. And that's it for your turn, Oh
boy. As Rapture raises up, raises up one of his nasty, skeletal,
insectoid legs, and he reaches down and almost like lovingly kind of starts
to dig it into like tend to kip his back where that where that where
the syche slashed. And I'm gonna say that just automatically hits kip bud.
Oh no, as you take fourteen contints of old damage, oh so twenty
twenty damage. As you're just as you see rapture just starting like to dig
into the back of Kippa, And you all can't see it on his face,
but you see his face in that disgusting like the predator. He is
the predator of the subconscious. You see him like this is his world,
this is where he lives, and he is he now finally has you at
his mercy, and he is he is overjoyed that he is causing you this
much pain. Oh yeah, sorry, that one kind of hurt me too.
Aris It is your turn. Oh man, I think I think as
Arias sees this, he doesn't like exclaim or anything, but you I think
you see him like his brow gets furrowed, and he his hand like his
bone knuckle white on his sword. And you see this, the ancestor starts
to slightly vibrate and get like get brighter, almost like to the point where
it's almost a little painple to look at. And he just charges straight into
you. Make it. You stand up from prone and you make it.
And as he's going there, I think you see him kind of like stealing
his his sword and he's going to activate his fighting spirit. Give him five
tenth pitch, yeah, yeah, five, and it'll give me advantage in
all attacks. And he he comes in like not like reckless or wild,
but like with a lot more emphasis than than before. And he is trying,
he is just trying to get get rapture out of there. That focused
that like intentionality that we've talked about is looking like. And I love I
love the idea of like I think I've described it kind of like in Out
of a Mordor where like the elf Raith, like when would various attacks like
his ancestor like mirrors it in a way, and like they're kind of like
taking up like a similar space, but like he's hitting in a different way.
So we're gonna roll the first attack with advantage seventeen nice, twenty two
excellent, that's ahead, and then we're gonna roll second one. That's a
crit baby, let's go. Let's go all right, So we'll roll that,
roll that slashing one. So this is this is the crit damage first,
oh baby, that is twenty two damage with that, and then this
is then here's the here's the first one you're using you're using his eleven the
crane blade, right, yeah, yeah, it's magical, the enhance.
Yeah, I was gonna say the enhanced magical crane blade wonderful because I would
have been like, no, it doesn't. That's yeah, that's thirty three
damage with that. And then you and you see him almost like like kind
of slow down, then speed up because now he's gonna use his action surge
to get another another two attacks. Yeah, another two attacks also get advantage.
Let's go, let's get another twenty three and twenty five. Who four
hits, let's fight. There we go. This one is fourteen is your
moment, This one's nine. So that's twenty three, so fifty six damage
total. Damn. The areas is just like and I think the whole time
is like I think he gets to a position where like he like is like
making eye contact the Rapture, and the whole time he's just staring Rapture.
Like in the phases, he's just like hitting him these four deep cuts,
maybe cutting off a spider leg or two. And then as Raptor starts to
cower back and cower away from killing, and I can use a bonus one
more bonus action to do my grappling strike. So immediately after you hit a
creature with a melee attack, you can expend one superiority to die and then
try to grapple the target as a bonus action at the fury died to your
strength. Instance, I'm raging, I do get advanced. I want to
I want to get him. I want to grapple him like away from Kippa.
And I'm gonna tell you one thing about liches, my guy, they
don't got no strength, all right, So the three plus zero, okay,
I think my base editions just will win. Goes back to high school
and just a bunch of jocks are pushing him around. He's like, all
right, all right, I know, I know, putting an ad brake
right before that move was about to land. Some call it blue balls,
other call it suspension of disbelief. You know, I did you know I
was planning to interrupt you exactly the moment coming up in that part of the
story. You know, doing this eighty three times, now, eighty four
times, eighty seven, doing this this many times now, I just sort
of get a sixth sense for these things, you know, Like I knew
I saw it in your eyes. I saw the twinkle in your eyes.
I saw you pulling out your script, and I just knew, so I
preemptively interrupted myself to like the tubas, the tube business. Maybe tubas.
The tubas were great. Bagpipes were a little strange, and just these sounds
of people clapping. It was a little weird too, but that was called
the audienceer. I bet you had. I Yeah, all right, everybody.
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so athletics advantage roll that, So that's an eighteen. Let's roll a D
six though to add it just turns him upside down and shakes the change.
That's twenty four total, and as I think wants to kind of like like
grab him and like grab the arm. That's like got kippa And I don't
really know exactly what grapple means. If you're an I have to use my
action to break your restraint basically, okay, and a really good You've got
him in a in a freaking naked choke. Yeah, So we're just real
quick explaining to me what is happening in just like some summarize what you just
did. So Arius uh gets up and while he's like, I'll kind of
flavored a little bit more so he like I think, as he's like,
he's kind of like you know on his like elbow, you know, you
just fell down. He sees and he sees Rapture start to like violate Kippa
in this way, and he's disgusting and he gets up and like as he's
in squad position, I think that's that's when he activates his fighting spirit.
And you see that's when like another ripple like kind of happens around him.
And as the ripple goes and coalesces like into his spirit, and his spirit
becomes like a little bit brighter, a little bit vibrating, and then he
just he just like takes off just like a like a bullet, like like
oh yeah, I love it. And it's like and he's just looking straight
at at at at Rapture and he lands these four like direct hits with with
with the the ancestor, mirroring and slashing through rapture on a spiritual level.
And then and then he and then as that last hit connects areas like spins
around and like kind of locks himself close against Rapture like like trying to get
in between him and and Kippa. He's got his legs around Raptures, tunny,
and then his desns I get so happy when you when you do your
nuke like this and you get a krit on it, it just feels so
as Rapture is like starting to dig in, like disgustingly, like lovingly digging
into Kippa's like open back. Arius just says no, no, no,
and you come in and like, just like like the fucking general and protector
that you are, you start to like fend Rapture back and he's starting to
carry away. His spider legs are curling up as you like knock chunks of
his his flesh and his uh suh chittness. It's like chittness form is trying
to get chunked away and kitenkiten his form. As he's starting to cut back
in kraway, He's still with a range. He's not actually gonna move like
mechanically, but like you, you are there now and you have his attention,
and Kippa is no longer getting his fucking spine ripped out as well.
Raptures restrained, right, he's grappled, not restrained. A grappled creature speed
becomes zero and it can't benefit from any bonus to speed. The condition ends
if the grappler is incapacitated, and the condition also ends u an effect removes
the grappled creature from reach of the graph. So I basically just have reduced
his speed. Love it as a as A as a legendary action at the
end of your turn areas can you uh, can you make me a DC
constant or DC eighteen constitution saving throw? Let's go, baby, it was
eighteen you said eighteen. I rolled in eighteen. All right, you meet
to beats as like as as you are wrapping yourself around Raption trying to pin
him down, you see like like those nasty little like spider like like tiny
little face hands. Yeah, like his smile opens up and out of inside
of his mouth, these like little mandamos come out and they try to like
wrap around you, but you just like you like grab his mouth and just
like close it shits as you were not affected by another one of his abilities
that he can do. And that is it for his turn. Good fucking
turn. Now you're up. Okay, I have a question. I have
an answer from the distance that she's in so you're at the back of the
boat. Yeah, so can she see what happened to Kippa? You apparently
got a sniper lens eyes and with your passive perception of seventeen. Yeah,
yes, I want this. I want this to keep moving. You see
what's going okay, okay, so yeah, so she sees the big hit
from Arius and she sees the you know that he's basically taking care of of
rapture. She's going to cast vicious mockery and she just yells wake. Yeah,
so you need a wisdom save of seventeen. Sorry, Kipa. You
oh, it's automatic fail. Okay, cool, Yeah, he's fucking passed
out nine points of damage to Kippa, don't worry about it. I'll take
care of that. Insects as Kippa as you are. You're running through this
like dream munk, as we should transport back into your dream. You're running
through this like dream sloggedness. And all of a sudden you hear that you
stop. A light turns on behind you, and you see a glowing like
warm light behind you, and you turn and very much like the sludge that
you escaped from before, you see both your friends standing in silhouette at the
end of a very long tunnel, and very much like Arius, you see
you know that this this is salvation this is that way is the way you
have to go, no matter what. And you start to run, and
like a fucking bullet, you make it to the end of that tunnel and
you wake up kind of face squished up against the arcane dome. Eyes meet
the eyes of the drive, and your back hurts like shit, you're now
awake. No, that's okay, that's okay, don't worry about it.
All right, So I'm going to use you have the remaining pool of my
healing light. So that's that's five D six is of healing. So I'm
about to fucking I'm about a fuck this man up. All right, let's
go, kis bones my back. That's eighteen points of healing. Wonderful,
Kipa, take eighteen points of healing back as as you are brought back to
reality and just sreeching pain in your in your back, and for a moment
you think you're like, this is it. I'm done, and kip A,
willow win, this is where it dies. And then all of a
sudden, this warm like like being submerged into like a warm bath, like
it's like warm of your body almost like you pee yourself over your body.
Uh, and you you you turn your head and you see nail like wet
dripping down her brow, just like arcane magic shooting towards you. As you
know, your friend just saved your life a million feet away. Yeah,
she's so tiny and Kippa, you are now back. What are we on
the Paul Davis Allen five. Yeah, so actually you look to you look
to the left, and you don't see them. You look to the right
and you seear her back as it has circled around the world. No,
that doesn't happen. But yeah, you see Neil as the one who saved
you. Here, Neil, one last thing, can you please make me
a d C twelve wisdom saving God? Oh I got that twenty with the
NAT twenty. You hear a frantic plea for your attention. You hear a
very deep, rumbling voice say in your mind, oh my five minute break,
what's happening right now? I'm trying to get in and help you,
Please help your guide me. And you know it's the dream the dream Warden.
Dream Warden is trying to assist you all. We can adjust that.
We can address that in just a second. As we're back to the top
of the order. Kipper, I've been texting. I've been I'm sorry my
phone was are non silence? I am outside. I have your fun.
Yeah, with the natural twenty, I was going to make you try to
guess who it was, but with the Natural twenty, it's absolutely dream ward.
Let's go as you might have some some backup on the horizon. Yay,
calling in whale force onew KIPPA, we're back to the top of the
order. Actually everyone except for Kipp because you're already prone up and Neil,
you didn't stand up, did you? Uh No, I guess it's actually
just Arius. And do you have any well, no, you have just
need to advantage because you know what's happening now. As the fire starts to
spread and the flames actually nil, you're gonna need to get out of this
fire pretty soon. As as by the you are in the back of the
boat and the fire starts to spread just into the space that you were at.
You're good for the moment, all right, you passed and you're like
your whole The ship lurches forward as the fire on the back of the boat
spreads, and this the whole ship is trying to rattle and shake and starting
to fall, starting to fall apart a little bit. As it lurches forward,
everyone stays standing or they just remain prone because that's you all didn't stand
up, which I love. What are you doing? You've just woken up
from your pretty horrific dream vision. Rapture is standing above you, like writhing
back and forth, kind of standing up, wrestling with Arius as Arius is
grappling him and fighting him with his sword and fending him off. What are
you doing? You notice he's a few a few legs shorter. Yeah,
Kip Kipa has one of those like call of duty like grenade, high pitch,
ringing noise moments where he's like looking around, like there is and then
he like looks back down again, sees the guy driving a thing. He's
like right, and then you said it looked like it was about to go,
Oh yeah, right, it's going. So then Kipa's gonna save a
spell slot and use a cantrip. He's gonna just thunderclap as he's just gonna
knock knock love And that is a twelve. As all of a sudden,
the pieces of this parking's going to shatter the fly doctors as the boats keeps
charging forward, all of a sudden, the dude inside his eyes squint because
he's not wearing goggles, his hair flies back. He's still just fucking driving
forward. Kippa was laying across it, so he's just gonna kind of fall
in his lad? Is that is that all you're trying to do? Is
that? Is that? What? Using whatever I guess movement I might have
left, Kip is just gonna kind of like physically interrupt this driver as much
as he's gonna, you know, just see falls in his lap. Guy's
gonna like squirm around, start like kicking him in the face and like trying
to move the wheel out of his Let's just do a contested dexterity I'll do
I'll do a dexterity saving throw. You can either do a dexterity check or
like a stealth or like a slim pan check or oh shit, that's a
nineteen plus. That's a that's a twenty two for for old old old boy.
I just since I just was doing a dexterity check only on my plus
four, so that's a fifteen. All right, You're kicking and moving and
she's just kind of pulled off you. Yeah, it's like wraps around you,
and it's just like it's like spanking on the butt. No, No,
this is magic. And you are in there in his lab doing ship
next. I imagine next time you probably have some some plans for that.
Yeah, sure, as we're gonna do something very fun for this next little
bit here, because it is raptures turn and he is really not looking great.
Areas did an absolute number on him? Arius, Can you please can
you please make absolutely DC eighteen Wisdom Saving throw oos that's a four as rapture.
You're you're so close to the rapture right now. You're you're, you're,
you're in you're locked in like a wrestling match with him. As you
just hear him let out this scream and like I said earlier, like it
echoes across like the entire plane of Kushmar As it seems like the screams are
coming up from these pods where these where these other creatures and humu ends are,
and he takes one of his nasty, creepy like insected arms and things
right into the spot where you cut yourself in the nightmare goo oh, and
you just you let out this howl and this scream and then your eyes turned
black God, and this is different than what it was before. You're not
in a nightmare, but Arius, you are now under my control. Oh
no, under Rapture's control. As all of a sudden, Arius lets go
of Rapture and stands next to him with a look and determination, or a
look that you have never seen on Arius's face before, because it looks evil.
It looks like he is ready to hurt his friends as he catches Nil's
eye and Nil, you you now know what it feels like to fear like
the hob Noblins of the Bronze played Legion. This at this point, Arius
is your enemy. Oh no fun And that's it for there's there is there
is one thing that happens at this point. And I'm going to help you
out here a little bit now as you hear scampering up beside you, because
he'll hit me one time and I'm going to go down. As as as
you know you hear scampering up beside you, is it as you see Latasia
scamp her up beside you and behind and behind you, uh and and she
actually like pulls you out of the fire and like so now Neil, you're
on the back of the boat and from both these side exhaust pipes. Fire
is pouring in from the exhaust pipes on the back side of the boat and
trying to envelop the deck. There's there's like a little pathway right in the
middle that Allotation pulls you into, so you're not gonna take any fire damage.
And Alotator says, what what the fuck is going on in here?
Up here? In here? Where are we? I don't know what's gonna
do? Well, uh things, I'm not looking great. Kiple's on the
front, I think, trying to take care of the driver. And then
Arius did a number on Rapture, who is now a spider creature. Holy
fuck. And now Arius has turned to me quite menacingly, and I am
very nervous because he doesn't seem to recognize me, which is very bad for
me. That's fine, that's fine, stay safe. I can try to
take care of Arious. And she steps forward in front of you, and
you see her draw her wrench. And now little little tiny Elotasia is standing.
She's not within range of yet, she is standing looking you dead in
the face. Areas you are, lost in your thoughts, lost in the
sauce, as it is as it is, Arius is turning roll me a
D twenty. Oh, go wa, actually roll me a D six because
just there's three people up here. One to two is kippa, three to
four is the driver, Five to six is rapture. I got four all
right as kippa. As you're kicking and scrambling and trying to figure out,
like trying to get your hands on these controls, that's all of a sudden
the crane blade Katona comes slashing down into the driver. Can you roll me
in attack please? Wow? So am I confused? Or my under raptors
control the first part of the control as you attackle a random person within range?
Oh gotcha? And I forgot the driver was there. It's a really
good thing. Ki got the door open. Yeah. Twelve. Why is
that come up as an eleven? That's gonna hit all right? Eleven?
No, you're hitting the driver's he's a he's a night, he's a week.
Eleven. Wow, I'm glad I'm rolling low on these ones. That's
nine. Yeah, you just like stab down right in this right in the
driver's shoulder. One of his arms goes useless at his side as he's still
driving in the vandro on a fender Kippa just like kicking like a tantrum baby
in his lap. Well another D six area same one to two kip a
three to four driver four No six is is God an attack role against our
dear friend. Kip is a ten ten total. Yeah, so then this
is the way it happened, Kip squirm. You get a flashback to the
to the to the cephalopod fight. You you know what, Arius has confused
eyes and you're you're like like, man, I know what's doing and you
just like duck down as his sword just like comes crashing right into like the
top of the stoe and you just it's like like an inch above your head
or you know, you know, like in Hercules when like films like Fighting
Hercules say, yeah, it's just head just just like that. It's not
it's like it's like a straight valley in between his shoulders and you. And
then you see this Kippa as as Rapture puts like a hand lovingly on Arius's
shoulder and like turns him around. Areas you use use your movement speed.
I have forty I have forty movements for you. Stop right at pt Asia
no I walk with knees unbent and then Arius, you are now Kippa.
You are now left with Rapture and the driver and Rapture looks back down to
you and that smile like just reaches up like past his eyes and just the
dripping black acherd team of Rapture. But he just doesn't say that this smiles,
he doesn't say welcome back. This is this is it. It truly
is a treat to have you back in my world. And it's just a
shame that you can die here, as Arius, that is the end of
your turn Nail. You see Arias walking right towards you see him cus stop
rid deloitator. You see fully black eyes, a look of just pure hatred
and rage on his face, and then you get his knees are not bent.
Mine definitely are. You're power And as the flames from the engine are
starting to leap lap up like beside you, as Elota just stands strong in
front of you, you get in your mind one more time and because you
got that natural twenty basically, what I'm going to say is you see a
rift in the sky and like a majestic whale, because that's what it is,
comes comes flying out of the sky and I'm gonna give you the choice.
Do you want dream Warden to fight the dream splitter or to come attack
the boat. I think I think we'll be okay, so I'll send him
to the dream splitter. Wonderful, Absolutely fucking wonderful. Did you describe the
dream splitter one more time? Like what it looks like as so as you
as well, He's a he's a fucking train size centipede. Basically you as
as nil as you just sort of all of a sudden, you're the sound
of the battle, the sound of the Russian men. You just sort of
like in this moment, very similar to where you were in the boat when
you were talking to the dream Warden, and you hear very calm waves lapping,
You feel just sort of the a soft breeze on your face, and
you smell like the salt of the of the sea air, and you just
send dreamward In the message, all right, go take out that motherfucking dream
splitter, and just without any hesitation, without any questioning, Dreamwarden just nods,
and you see off the distance, flying with the grace of a thousand
seagulls. You heard it in your head first before you with the grace of
a thousand seagulls you see come and crashing out of the sky. The gargantuan
tribal tattoo patterned wail comes crashing into this gargantuan, disgusting train sized centipede.
It's got black and white, just like disgustingly like sickly skin. It's slimy.
You see all of its thousands of little little arms all along its belly,
writhing and screaming. As the Donna Rockers attack it off in the distance,
you see off its back, very similar to rapture, just more like
insectoid large spider legs, just clawing and grasping an air but fucking dreamward and
crashes into this thing, and it goes toppling off off to the off to
the side, and you just see this titanic fight of this basically purple worm
and a giant whale fighting in this nightmare realm, while the fucking Scout regiment
still just keeps spinning and Captain Levi and and good job, Noil, because
now basically what I'll tell you what that is. Now you're not gonna have
to fight the dream splitter. That's what I thought. That's what I thought.
I was just like okay, I think I think we'll be okay,
and we need to deal with that ship afterwards, so I'm gonna send him
over there, which is really really good as that is the end of round
four. This has been four rounds of combat, y'all? Does that does
that count as my sorry? Sorry? Sorry you're I thought you would No,
No, you have your turn. I'm so sorry. That's okay,
Okay. So she is uh scared? Yes, Uh, she is worried,
she is concerned. All all all all emotions that involve concerned, worry,
and fear are present. Does she's well know because there is Yeah,
So Kippa's left alone over there. You know, Kippa's left alone up there.
Yeah. And Alotator, did you say leave Arias to me? Okay?
So then so I'll describe it this way. As you're thinking, like
you're still at the back of the boat, Alotaser is standing in front of
you, and Areas just standing right in front of her. You have fire
growing beside you, and but but up at the bow of the boat,
you can see Rapture standing over the cockpit, spider legs starting to display out,
and he's going in to make some sort of an attack on Kippa.
Where who you saw fall into the cockpit? Right? Okay, I know
what I'm gonna do now, Okay, So she's not gonna move at all.
She is going to throw Elwin okay. Oh, basically like commanding him
to go to Kippa. Okay, because she needs to be able to touch
him to cure his wounds. So he zips off. So, Kippa,
you take twenty feeling oh shit, wonderful. And then is Eldin's movement the
same, say forty or you could use that. It is what are you
trying to do because you still that five feet you haven't we used yet from
Kippa's mantle of inspiration? Grab him and fly back out. Grab Kippa and
fly out yeah, oh shit, or fly up I guess. Okay,
So I'll say this. You are about forty feet away from Kippa. You
did say you were trying to throw Eldwin. Yes, Eldwin's movement speed is
forty okay, make me a strength check real quick, give them the assist
nine. I will say, you throw Eldwin nine feet, which means he
has he has an extra ten feet okay of movement, So he gets to
Kip. He can he can move. He can try to move ten feet
away or ten feet up. Let's go ten feet up, ten feet up.
But you see kind of like slide into existence right beside you, little
Eldwin, and he reaches out his little hands to you, and he just
he probably just like picks him up by the by the feet or not not
not not not the feet, I mean like like Eldwin's feet pick pick Kippa
up, probably up by like the shoulders, so like they're holding by the
shoulders, so your arms are free. Okay, yeah, Kip, you're
now flying like a couple of feet above Rapture. Oh yeah, so then
he instantly feel better. Yeah yeah. So like as soon as Eldwin like
basically like grabs you, you feel the the healing, and then he like
fucking lists all the way. Yes, And so I will basically say,
if if Rapture takes an attack on you, Kippa, he will have a
disadvantage now because you know, like flying above him. Is that it for
your turn? No? Oh yes, wonderful, let me do it quick.
So now we're back to the Now we're back to the top of the
round. I have a bonus action Oh, okay, what's your bonusection?
Far step? Okay? What is what is? Get myself the fuck out
of that fire? Okay? So what is festep? Do you tell me?
It teleports me up to sixty feet to an unoccupied space. I can
see where would you have to go that that's the entire ship. Where would
you actually get I'm just gonna go like, all right, cool, so
just on the other side of area's wonderful. So now it's now we said
in the stage before we get to the next round. Kippa is flying at
the bow of the ship Eldwin. Eldwin is carrying Kippa at the bow of
the ship ten feet above the ground. Spider rapture and lich rapture are like
at the bow of the ship, like reaching and like scraping and scrabbling towards
forwards. Kippa, who's flying away, Arius is standing at the back of
the ship, facing off with Elotasia, who they're both surrounded by this fire
as it is now back at the top of the round. Actually, I
rolled for Elotasia and she got nineteen terror so she's gonna go right after you
did, so, Kip, But you're up, you are flying above Rapture,
he is looking really not great. A giant fucking whale just crashed into
the dream splitter behind you, which you are now getting pretty fucking close to.
I imagine, like within a couple hundred feet, because you're now on
the second to last round of common before you got there. So you feel
and hear this crash with me as this dreams Twitter crashes into this dreams as
the dream Warden crashes into the dream splitter. You see all this shit happening
in the background with Nil and Arius. What are you doing, Raptures right
in front of you? Come on, Ellen, higher, higher, Yeah,
once I get a little bit higher, He's just gonna cast a fireball
down in that little divid that has the fit. Yeah, the driving cockpit,
and uh, Rapture is trying to catch them all on that. What
is the dimensions of fireball? What is the radius of fireball? It is
radius? So forty foot circle right, yeah, circle, yes, that's
right. Well you're you're up, yeah, I'll yeah, so you're you're
you're fine. This is cool. I like where this is going. This
is talking from walking fun. I'm gonna take you take like quarter damage or
something as like the heat laps at your feet. But sure, alright,
uh that's deck starity saving throws. I'm going to say, the dude who
is sitting buckled into the probably is going to fail this dexteriy saving throw.
So I'm just gonna make fun for rapture raptures dex sterity saving throws. A
boy, three yikes? Are three? Yes? Yes? Plus three deck
stary saving? Oh? Oh that's good. That is Why did I just
suddenly lose to you? Got it? It's just plus three? Yeah,
that's eleven eight plus three eleven And I understand folks at home, I have
legendary resistances. This is very exciting. How much damage does rapture take from
this fire? The one who he has probably been abusing the most this entire
entire arc. As you look down on the disgusting, skeletal, insectoid formed
rapture, he sees it in his eyes and you see it in your eyes.
He knows he just got bested by you. Let's hit me with that
damage. It's twenty seven. It's not a lot. You want something extremely
exciting to me? Yeah? I shit you not. I will send you
a picture right now after arius. This whole slice just kill Did you just
kill raper had twenty five hit points? Oh, Kippa, for the first
time for you actually, let's go. Please describe to me how you kill
the boss of this arc way Oh my god. Okay, this is for
all the times you take a quarter of that damage. Okay, that was
I was so hoping you will. Okay. So the way it looks,
Kippa, you know, reaches his hand out as Elwen's like pulling him up
higher and higher, and then it does that sort of like where there's just
a little you know, like a little tiny flare and then all of a
sudden it just envelops, and you know, there's there's like screams of many
many nightmare people trapped and things. I feel like they're all wiggling their way
out of rapture. Yeah, as rapture. As this fireball cascades down on
rapture and like he starts to ride and crisp and smoke, and he starts
to crumble away, you just see like spirit after spirit like shoot out of
him, and it's it's like a fucking torrent, Like thousands of these creatures
are just erupting out of him. And as you as you're like as the
ship because you killed the driver. Chief comes. He comes like a screeching
hall like riding along this like it in basically in I think of in one
piece, like the milky roads like in Skypeia. Like it comes like crashing
and sliding on down to a stop right in front of the now dead dream
Splitter. You see all of these these these spirits erupting out of rapture and
they're just starting to go back to all these different pods, Like thousands of
these creatures are getting like woken back up and and and they're being released from
there. They're like eternal basically battery. The state where they rapture was like
using them for power. And yeah, you fucking you kill rapture as the
boat that comes to screeching, crashing, halt and arius. You you shake,
and you stumble a little bit, And just to kind of drive this
point home one more time, you look down to Latasia and she is standing
right in front of you, and she drops her wrench and she reaches out
a hand to you, and you think back to the and she she's saying,
remember we talked. I forget exactly what we said, but it would
be really cool if I brought up like a cool callback at this moment,
like, I know, yeah, remember that thing I said, Yeah,
better than this, areas, You're you're bigger than this. This is you're
here for a reason. You might not want to see it yet, areas
like looks down at the sword iness handy, He's like, wait, was
I about to Oh my oh, I'm so so hell And for the like
the fourth or fifth time this arc you are called back to that that moment
in the in the telescope in prison, but this time is different again.
You're the first time you saw you and you now know you and La Tasia
were victorious. You were back in the race and you were crossing the finish
line together. The next time you saw her, you were in this horrific
nightmare realm as you were about to go fight this nightmare beast. Now this
time, she's standing on a burning ship, reaching up to you and like
a genuine smile on her face as she knows she can trust you, and
she knows that whatever it is that you three are doing, y'all are going
to be successful at it. And she has a hand out to you,
and I'll say, like you that your eyes blink back and forth between your
normal color and just that full black, and then we see a shot of
her hand just like out in like close up on her hand like out in
front of you, with the flames burning behind you. All of a sudden,
your hand comes up and you shake her hand, and we have that
complete scene. Now the telescope vision is done. You guys did it.
Congratulations. I was. I was pretty hard that that time to kill you
all. Yeah, no, I could feel it that that was that was
was really happy. I got a kriit there, man, But he was,
he was. He was hurting our boy, willow Wind. Let's go.
We're gonna We're gonna speed along this next part here pretty quickly, thank
god. Yeah, honestly, Yeah, that's pretty cool. That was awesome.
Now you fucking killed an entire dream Sweater by yourself, and just to
sort of move things along here a little more quickly, you all are.
The nightmare has stopped. The Kushmar is weirdly quiet right now. The don
Walkers are are huddled around something you can't You can't really see it, Kippa,
but you see just the carcass of the dream splitter, dripping and using
as as dream ward and kind of turns to you on winks and says,
but as he turns to you now or as he leaves, he turns to
you now and he says, I remember your promise. If you you can
try to protect mother, yep, I will do the best. He and
he and he swims away back into the regular reality. Wait, how do
we get out of here? That? Don't worry about that'll be good.
The last, the last thing that you see, kipa, before we end
this, before you get out of ushmar back into sense. You see there
is one of the dawn Walkers who lies motionless on the ground. Oh no,
in a weird mixture of elation at finally beating rapture, who has been
tormenting you for the past literally in real life, like nine months. As
you as you a mix of elation and then all of a sudden, just
a sudden shock of worry as you see one of your comrades down on the
ground. You shoulder your way through and you see Franklin lying on the ground
a pretty serious wound. He clutches. One of the don Walkers has taken
off their one of their their cloaks and they're holding it to a huge wound.
In his chest and uh, the the the life training from his eye,
from his face and from his skin. And he sees you, your
eyes meet and he reaches out of hand to you, and he's, well,
ship, you're alone. Was that you over there? Did y'all did
y'all kill that? Yeah? Man, Yeah, yeah, we took care
of him. We took care of him. You're gonna be okay now now
you kind of like he puts like a hand on your chest, Kip,
and he's got like a bloody like handprint and is now like on like on
like your chest, and he says, it's all right, dear friend.
Sometimes it's uh. Sometimes night comes for all of us. She's running as
fast as she can, but she's too far. No, he looks to
you, and he he says, well, I did I did know one
thing. You always were and you always will be be one of us.
You'll be a don walker because of it. There's Neil trips on us.
And then then he pulls you in closer, and he starts to whisper into
your ears as you see tears flowing from his face, and the somber circle
of all the dawn walkers beside him, they all they all know, you
all know, everyone knows. Neil gets there at this point, and Neil,
you see his wounds, and you you see no amount of magic and
hurricane power can yeah, I guess. At that point, then Nil would
turn to kip A and she like gently puts a hand on his shoulder.
I don't I don't think I can do anything about this. You wouldn't have
been here if it was from Beef. Nah. No, friend, you
can't. You can't think like that. Our pads, our pads both let
us here and for a reason. No, you don't understand. I know
that you're special, kid, I'm not You're special. You need to stay.
Yes, I won't be seeing you back at the Farmer's fortresses this time,
friend, but make me a promise anything, keep my story, Let
everyone know what the what the dawn Walkers were. Make sure you let him
know that you were one of them, because I know you have a way
of yourself out of some of these stories. And then he then at this
point he pulls you in closer and starts to whisper it to you. He
says, there's still hope, Kippa, I know I said Ben Branch was
gone. Titania showed me something. Tanya showed me a fishing bent branch,
one where it was living, one where it was safe, one where was
happy. I'm gonna wait for this iron hold on. We're having this emotional
moment, one where it was safe and happy. She said it was possible,
if the dawn Walker can find the right path, we can have that
reality again. And he pulls you in even closer instance, Kippa, find
that path. There's something bigger going on here. I can feel it.
I can feel you're attached to it. Something is blurring the edges, something
is destroying the story. Kippa, you must tell the story. And he
starts to cough, and blood starts to kind of gurgle up from his from
his mouth, and the last thing he says, You're not entirely sure if
he says it or not, because there's so much like shit in his mouth
at this point, he says, don't break the prism, And then with
that Franklin dies. What does Kippa do in that? In that moment,
You're pretty sure no one else heard that last little bit. Kip's eyes are
like squeeze shut tears just flowing down the sides, and then his eyes open
as soon as he hears it, don't break the prism, and Franklin lait,
no, what was that, Franklin? Fuck? Arius walks up and
puts his hand on Kipp's shoulder. Aren't many of us that were still young
when the crossing happened. I'm known in my whole life. Well, he
thought protecting us, and he fought doing what he should have done. Yeah,
and you feel aside aside from Arius is like comforting presence on your shoulder.
You feel a domo, sweet, sweet, a domo. She takes
the bloody Don Walker's cloak that Franklin had like pressed on his chest, and
you see that that was his cloak now, and as disgusting as it is,
she puts it over your shoulders too. So now you actually have two
Don Walker's cloaks. I'm sure do with that whatever you whatever you see,
Neil just kind of kind of like she's like, well, you feel helps
we all technical g in the ethereal realm. So maybe he's around there somewhere
having a nice drink. Yeah, and uh, with that, we'll speed
through this. Leotasia is able to get the good smelling seven rigged back up,
and she takes all the survivors of the of the fight and Kushmar,
all the Don Walkers everybody after obviously the what what what would what would a
Don Walker's burial right look like? You think Kippa, I think what Kippa
does and what this is what they typically would do. He takes Franklin's cloak
and replaces it, replaces his own with it, so he's wearing Franklins now.
And what's typical is you wrap up the Don Walker in their cloak and
then let them meld with night m So he does it with his own cloak,
the original Don Walker cloak, the first one, yeah, but all
the others like we're based off of and whatever. And he wraps Franklin up
with it, and then they have a little ceremony type thing. Where As
the night as it gets darker, I don't know how that works here.
It's Kushmar. It's always dark, but it happens that, yeah, and
it's almost like an imperceptible like all of a sudden, it just like it's
not there anymore. Yeah, just like sort of almost like Yoda and Star
Wars just sort of yeah, like just becomes part of the night. And
yeah, it's it's beautiful, it's heartfelt, and it's it's sad all at
the same time. But it's it is. It is the way life is
sometimes. And like I said, Eltja is able to take all the survivors
of the fight down here, and Kushmarn is able to find a portal back
out using all the knowledge, the knowledge of everyone here, you guys find
your way back into sense. Needless to say, the race is over.
You all didn't win. Who won, Well, I'll give you one guess.
So the family Van. I wish it was the family Van on the
horizon, Kale on the horizon? Yes, do you stand in the Great
Hall of sennesday after defeating rapture, allotated found a portal back to the city.
Needless to say, you all lost the race. As you returned to
the city, you saw Kale on the horizon, standing on the grand stand
accepting a large trophy while a crowd roared and showered them with flowers and champagne.
It was a bit of a bummer to lose the race, but you
all won something much much better, the race to the Nightmare Beast, which
you now know was a corrupted, mutated dream splitter Suddenly, old Bernice Bemingway
doesn't seem so crazy, now, does he? He was right in this
hole. As you stand in the great Hall in front of Mariah, who
now sits on the throne, and she smiles at you, the crowd and
attendants cheers you four or wait six now actually as a Sebastian and whoever is
all there is, they cheer you all as the heroes of Sense. You've
helped free the city from a great evil. I mean, well, he
ended up being kind of evil, but he was kind of shitty just in
the middle. You helped restore Sense back to what it was meant to be,
a place where those who are lost, even in death, can come
and be welcomed and loved. A small Halflin comes limping out of the crowd.
Dennis Sewn limps to his sister, throws his arms around her neck.
The people who are lost in kushmar are now found and brought back to Sense.
Many of them are still recovering. You've done it, by God,
against all my best efforts and the best efforts of the real world, you
three have done it. You've saved the lost city of Dreams, and you
are all now one step closer to finding what the hell is going on with
Atlantis. You smile and you look at each other. This has been a
strange journey, and you have a it's going to get stranger, but at
the end of the day, at least you all still have each other.
When her eye rises, her hands in the crowd silences, my friends.
Thanks to these brave heroes, we once again are free, free to live
out the rest of our existences in peace, safety and comfort. But all
sunny days must give way. Tonight I have summer news. I am leaving.
I am leaving with the Adventurers to reunite my family. My time has
come and I will look back on my time here with love and fullness.
But worry not to my friends. I have no intention of leaving you leaderless.
I have a few ideas who I would like to take my place.
But at this point, she looks at you three, who do you all
think to take my place here in the city of Asia. Yeah, that's
that's an option, Sebastian. Yeah, we've also got Hypno back when he's
not dead yet. There there we get back. Hey we got you in
the map. Yeah, it's like, hey, we got you the map
and also now you kind of became by the way you're in charge. Yeah,
I mean whoever you want, Alotasia or Sebastian. What do you guys
think alots had enough skin in the game. She can obviously become president.
Yeah, yeah, with a decent campaign. And it's it's no shade to
Sebastian. But like, no, she just got you're a pirate. I
don't think he's more he's more into finding his sister, but she does.
I think it would be remiss to not settle this in sense fashion with some
kind of a contest or a race. All right, So Sebastian and Eleotasia
go to race. Sebastian got an eight, Elotasia got a seventeen. This
is the only two that were Latasia takes the good smelling seven, now a
legendary car in this race, and Sebastian's just running. He doesn't have a
car. He's taking the kale on the horizon, Yeah, just one of
their bikes and he's just like trying to pedals fast. Can Allotas just and
just goes past him. And then we come back to the Great Hall,
and well that's settled. Though we did that. We cut back and everyone's
happy U but Alotasa will will take over and the Death Race itself is probably
not going to exist much more. But she is going to use her her
time and her her power here now to make sure that the city has returned
back to what it's supposed to be a place where even those who are even
lost it, lost in death can find a home. And that's what happens,
and a couple of things, a couple things happen here really quickly.
Maria said, she's gonna go with you, so you guys can job.
And you did it. You caught my next gem folk. She does want
to speak to you all, and we can do that in a little but
we're getting pretty close to the time and I want to I want to get
through the last the last few things here. Basically, you guys have saved
Sunday. You there's there's a way for you to get back home. It's
gonna be very very simple, very easy. You will arrive back in Luskin
where you all left from, and I have some items for you all,
Maria and Alotasia and all of them. You're able to go back to the
dream Splitter and they're able to like siphon parts off of the dream Splitter,
and she finds three things. She finds the Shroud of the dream Walkers,
which is just basically like a hood that one of you can wear. Offers
advantage against on wisdom and intelligence saving throws, So that's gonna be a big
one. Would have been great for this this fight. Yeah, really,
you're able. She's able to recover the tooth a tooth of the dream Splitter,
which will be for whoever wants a plus two dagger one six plus ten
plus your dexterity modifier for psychic damage when you make it. When you when
you hit a target, they must make a DC sixteen wisdom saving throw or
be stunned for up to one round during their cast and took a nightmare stake.
Cool and then the third one they take one of the longer clause of
the dream Splitter, and they're able to make an item that I'm calling the
Sword of Ethereal miss. It is a plus two like sort of more like
tribal looking like leather wrapped in fur like at the hilt, but it is
just like a claw, one of the mandibles of the dream Splitter. It
is a plus two long sword with the light and versatile and finesse properties.
It does one D eight plus two plus two plus your decks or strength second
damage or plus ten because it's versatile, or a D ten because it's versatile.
The sword also can turn into an ethereal miss, retaining its form but
allowing the sord to pass harmlessly through any object. Or so once per day
I can do that, or once per day it can. You can touch
an object, living or an animate, and for one minute that object turns
into a mystery ethereal version of itself, a it to pass through any solid
object. Jesus. So you guys have those three items on Oh the sword.
Oh that's hardly fair. Fine, I figured we'll just go into the
into the into the pool. But we can figure that out. As as
as you all are starting to leave Sennes, you've reinstated not not that Mirah
was a bad leader, but you've you're taking Mariah with you, and you've
reinstated a good leader into Sunday afterwards. But before you do that, elotation
is like, oh shit, I have all this cool power I forgot,
And I know you guys are talking about talking with one of your friends before
you left, and then me trying to contact one of your friends. Was
her name Erica Silver? I believe, Oh yeah, I do remember saying
that. Yes you all said that earlier, but I remember it now because
now I'm the president. I don't know the chancellor. I don't know anyway,
follow me and she leads into like this like sprying pool that she leads
into this inner chamber where there's like a low, shallow bowl where there's like
a thin layer of water that's perfectly stiff, and she's like magic, magic,
magic, And all of a sudden, you see, you see the
shot of Erica Silver. You're not gonna be able to talk to her this
time, because I wasn't able to get Jared here today. But you see
something interesting, actually, you see Erica Silver. She comes into vision in
the bowl. Her hair kind of flows around her very gracefully and elegantly,
almost as if she's underwater. And after a moment you realize that's exactly what
it is, because she's underwater. She's deep, deep, deep underwater,
and it looks like she is with someone. Aris. Can you roll me
a history check please? With allage? Oh, you recognize that same dominiontive
form that helped you get out of your dream. Actually that mummy wrapped like
very scrappily destroyed, clothes, destroyed, cloak, destroyed like everything, and
kipa can you know you would know it, Kip, but you also recognize
that is the one in Kushmar. No, not from Kushmar. I'll say
it this way. You don't remember where you recognize that from. It's like
you remember when you you know, when you see someone like I feel like
I know them. It's that moment for you where you're you see Erica Silver
and this diminutive creature underneath the water, and they're standing there and it's dark,
and it reminds you of the time you guys were all about to fight
sell Rock. It looks like she is deep underneath the water. And then
all of a sudden you see a giant yellow eye open up in front of
her and it makes it puts Erica Silver and this creature in a silhouette and
it holds that for a second, and then you see from their Erica Silver
and this mummy wrapped creature. You see from their body language it looks like
they're talking to this giant eye. It's very strange. The scrying Pool,
Faith and and Illotation just like, well, that was useless, that was
awkward. Wait can you use this like on any person at any time?
Like, yeah, someone you want to talk to? Does she know that
we just looked at her? Right, I'm kind of I feel kind of
bad. No, it wasn't It wasn't creepy. Sorry, I realized that
why that'd be creepy and I don't don't. We don't use it. We
don't have to use it. Yeah, anytime we we we scry on someone
and it turns into something like, oh, they're picking their nose, we
just turn it off, right right? Can we can we spot on ourselves
right now? Can we look at like can we look at ourselves? She
does that and it turns into that like but like when you point a camera
at itself or like a camera in a mirror, it just you point a
camera at itself. Yeah, in a mirror. And yeah, but did
you have someone in mind you wanted to talk you wanted to spy on?
It feels weird saying it that way. Oh just looks over he looks over
at He's like, Kippa, what what about Icarus? Oh ship? Yeah,
yeah, it's been like weeks since we've seen me do you need more
information than that, just the name. It's been It's been months, didn't
you get kidnaped? I mean it's been months since then. This actually is
perfect because this is this actually leads me beautifully into the epilogue. As you
all see this time you can hear for some reason, because that's important.
It worked that time. You all describe Icarus, and you describe who he
is. Well, I've never seen him, true, So Kippa, Kippa
and Areas describe Icarus to Elotasia and the and the scry Master, the scry
Society, Nick Galvin? Who is who is behind this? Uh? This
magic? And as you start to describe it, you start to see an
image of him appear on the on the surface of this water. And you
see his wearing his red his red clothes, red robes, long disheveled white
hair, tall, slender build. You see uh Icarus close quickly closes the
door behind himself. His trembling hand is wrapped so tightly around his hilt,
the hilt of his glass dagger, that his knuckles have turned white. Blood
slowly drips from the glass blade up to the floor with a soft plump PLoP
plump sound. That poor boy didn't deserve to die. I'm not cut out
for this, Icarus thinks to himself. Falcon was always the one better better
at sneaking and killing. A hand covered in dark brown fur comes to rest
on Icarus's shoulder. Icarus jumps, sending a cascade of droplets from the blade
down to the floor. He looks up and his ice blue eyes meet the
dark green ones of the of his Tabacxi companion. I am impressed, scholar.
Now let's find that. Her furred face cracks into a warm smile.
Mah, we're still not safe here. The Tabacci turns and walks deeper into
the tower through the dust covered front room that doubled as his audity shop.
She carefully and silently brushes aside the curtain that leads to his old office.
Icarus takes a deep breath and starts to follow or remembers something and looks down
to the floorboards by his feet. He quickly and with practice ease, opens
up the trap door hidden by the front door to his hidden stash, But
to a surprise, the stash is empty. Uh. This is not good.
If those fell into the wrong hands, it could be disastrous. If
I told Mino about this, he he hopes not. I don't know why
I wrote this in a really weird perspective, he hopes not. But still
the journal is hidden, and that's what really matters. Icarus closes the trap
door and follows his Tobaxi companion deeper into the tower. A few moments later,
the two of them ride the elevator contraption down, heading down deep underneath
the streets of Neverwinter. Soon enough, the elevator slows, and a dim
ray of light streaks across the floor of the elevator. Oh damn, I
forgot to turn the lights off, I guess, thinks to himself that Bill's
gonna be in the insane and with a rumble the elevator the elevator lands,
the metal doors open, revealing icarus Is hidden chamber, the place where he
discovered the secrets of Atlantis, the place where he hid his journal, the
place where he dodges taxes, This place where. That's right. He was
a big old tax dovator, wasn't he. As the door grinds open,
a sense of tension drains from Icarus's features. He is finally home. Soon
he will have his journal. All those long months have been worth it.
Icarus rushes over to the giant's floating water glow. Charis whispers the ancient word,
and a face appears in the lottery depths. Finally, welcome home.
I was so tired of hiding for all these months. Welcome back, Hickey.
Icarus smiles and reaches out and dips his fingertips into the watery globe.
It is so good to see you, Ripple. I am glad you stayed
safe. Are you with the Deep One? Is he keeping you busy?
Ripple? The water sprite joyfully separates from the globe and twirls their way up
to Icarus's arm, coming to rest on his shoulder, and in one fluid
motion, the diminutive water spirit shifts and turns into a small version of Icarus.
The small chorus salutes the big Charis a captain. The Deep One sends
his regards and wants me to remind you that you stink Greunite. Tobacsi's stifles
a laugh, and Ripple returns to their original form, a small, care
free, watery looking elbin creature with long flowing hair. Now, Ripple,
I am not here to play. Ripple visibly deflates and looks dejected. You
have my book. It's very important, remember the one I told you to
keep hidden for me. Ripple bounces back to life, energy returning. Of
course, you hold on, Turning into a sharp Ripples zips back into the
watery glow. The green eye Tobacci Tobaxi approaches the globe and she gives Icarus
a look ikey, this doesn't leave this room. Icarus cuts her off.
She laughs. After a moment, Ripple returns holding an old looking journal that
is surprisingly dry on its cover, A simple meth thank you. Now I
have to go a little one, go back to the deep one, and
the sound of laughter fills the chamber, high merciless laughter. Icarus and the
Tobacxi turn and see a hooded, cloaked figure standing in front of the elevator.
One antler emerges from the top of their hood. The dark shadow crosses
Icarus's face. He would recognize that silhouette anywhere, and they know. The
one antlered Satyr steps out from the shadow, a cruel smile on her face.
Chamber echoes with her voice as she speaks, You fool king knew if
he'd let you escape, you would show him exactly where the journal wants look.
Let me write to it. Charius's eyes flipped the book in his hand.
Ripple darts up Icarus's arm and hides behind his shoulder. Minnow's smile broadens,
Thank you, old friend, and she starts to step towards the group
in front of the giant globe, but the sound of crystal being drawn from
a sheath stops her. The Tabaxi slowly draws a long amber dagger from her
belt. Mino laughs and okay, I gotta I gotta explain something here real
quick. Okay, a couple things right. I named this character after you,
Knox, years ago, because before you were on the podcast, so
I was like, this will be a cool nod to like to name them
knock. So this is very intentional. Do you really think that wise Knocks
the storm isn't here to save you this time? Haven't we met this Tobacsi
before? Maybe we have the Tobacxi the Tobacxi. Knox smiles and returns,
but stays her ground. I've beaten you before, Falling Star, and I
will gladly do it again in this life and in our next. Minnow laughs,
Oh, dear captain, you've said that before. As Mino talks,
two void black daggers seem to have seemed to appear in her hands, and
they seem to be made of night themselves. Then, with almost with an
almost casual air about her and Mino advances, Knox readies herself and then whispers,
ikey, run, I'll handle the goat. Is that Captain Falcon?
Wait what because she called him captain Minno called Meno called Knox captain right,
all right, sorry, Da, No, you're good. That was it.
That was That was the first one. I have one more ship.
So you you've mentioned knocks, and it's knocks the something that you said before,
knocks the cat. I don't know. I imagine like we like this
the scryans, and we're all there like eyes like buddy up or just like
So that was that good seeing your friend, Hey, guys was not a
good one. And with that, I think we were going to end tonight's
session as you all stand looking over this scrying pool seeing that whole ship go
down. You don't know if it's in the past, you know, if
it's in the future, it seems like it could be kind of right in
the present. But you're not sure. And as as as Alotaja closes her
eyes or not as Alotation like turns off the scrying pool, she that's it.
We're gonna end. I don't know, I don't know, I don't
know why I was talking like that, but that's it. Congratulations, you
guys have beaten Ghost speed Racer Ghost. You guys have successfully acquired one more
gem folk. You are heading back to the two Sea Monster, and you
have beaten rapture, returning sense to its rightful place or making it what it's
supposed to be. And with that, I think we're going to end tonight's
session. We see the camera. We see the camera looking at the Sea
Monster. We see the camera looking at the activity that's going on in the
Sea Monster. We see Guff doing his thing, we see Elizabeth doing her
thing. Everyone's still kind of parked in that port at Luskin, And after
a moment, the camera starts to travel up, leaving her up, and
it keeps traveling, keeps traveling up, past the peaks of the spinal the
world, past the clouds, past everything, and then finally we leave the
material playing behind. As we travel up, we finally find ourselves among the
stars, among the cosmos, sparkling dots of infinite depth twinkle slowly, not
aware of the pains and troubles that befall the life form that inhabit the celestial
bodies that make up this reality. A place of dreams, a place of
exploration, a source of divine inspiration and comfort, comfort that knowing there is
something more out there. There is more out in this world, in this
reality that we have the opportunity to discover. This space is hope. But
in that silent hope, deep and ancient evil stirs. We're not sure how
we see it, but somehow we see in between the stars, we see
the blackness that makes up the nothingness between those sparkling points and light and hope,
a monster that occupies no space. And then suddenly all space awakens,
rising from its long imprisonment, waking after countless lifetimes of fighting, the new
star blinks out of existence. A new life and dream are born. Then
suddenly that new life is snuffed out as quickly as it was born. The
evil moves and reality crumbles. A material plane, your home, surrounded by
eight broken stars, suddenly comes into sharp focus, and a sense of patient
hatred fills this reality. It is almost time. Then as suddenly as the
presence was awoken, it is gone, taken back into nothing by nothing.
The Matt King smiles. Soon his brother will fall, and with that reality
is once again filled with a silence and a hope. Hey, I'm Annie
Telstra coming to you, hot and in charge and bothered Jesus time. Hey,
it's Christian. I was playing Kipper Willow Wind. I'm super hot,
uh and my name is Erroscobar And I played Dell, who is just average
temperature. And I'm David Telstra and we finally did it, Ghost speed Racer
Ghost. Thank you so much. Everybody will catch you in two weeks.
Thanks Nikaiye. Hello, Hello, hello, and welcome to the thank you
section, the part of the show where we thank you for all the amazing,
fun and supportive things you all do for us. So yeah, first
of all, thank you so much for still being here. I know we've
kind of been wild and random with our releases recently, and I think we're
gonna stay that way for a little bit here. I think that there's a
potential that this might be the last episode for a little while, not like
too long. I think we're just gonna and the holidays are coming up,
so I think it's just gonna be a little more a little easier for us
to to sort of take a step back, record a bunch of stuff,
and then have like a big backlog for you all next year. So hopefully
fingers crossed next year twenty twenty four, when we are back, hopefully we'll
be able to be a little more consistent. Yeah, I just want to
say thank you so much for sticking with us and supporting us this last year.
No, it was kind of wild and kind of kind of random,
but you know what, we're all still here, We're all doing what we
love and we couldn't ask for more supportive, more amazing, more wonderful friends.
So with that, once again, thank you so much for being here.
And with that we will see you next time on from a far podcast.
So in the meantime, please remember to stay happy, stay healthy,
and go out and buy yourself a new pair of shoes. New pair of
shoes. It's holidays. You're gonna need shoes to walk around, to see
your family, to travel all around, or to do whatever you're gonna need
to do, do whatever you're gonna need to do. So trust me,
go out buy yourself some shoes. Wow, I am stumbling all over my
words today, but yeah, thank you all so much for being here.
Go get yourself some new shoes, and we will see you all. Oh
actually, probably not in two weeks, but I'm gonna say it anyway because
it sounds good. We'll see you all in two weeks. Thanks by a attatatatatas