Well, well, well, you know, time is a funny thing.
In fact, some safe time as a donut, and we're gonna stick with
that. So while you contemplate that, why don't you all sit down,
shut up, and welcome to From a Far Podcast. Last time I'm from
a Far podcast. There are many problems here with the engine. This was
the voice right. Do you know how many strikes there are total? I
just want to get that across so that we're on the same page, honestly.
Whatever you want, you could name your price and I can get it
to you. We got a whole ship right there, we can saldachin.
I want to go with the Smoky Chords. No one, no one,
no one? The fuck was that about? I don't know. No,
it's fine. I'm no, I'm not gonna hurt you know, unless there's
money? Is this? Is there money? Are you aloanted somewhere? I
know if you have seen a place that's new and the horizon and it heaves,
you hope pursue it all rex A steers them and then cuts contact.
Excellent. Fuck you recognize this as a not alloyed ship. The entirety of
their body shatters and shards of light seem to float away and get sucked into
this vortex on the head of the Alhoun zeke do I'm getting on this s
and whether they know it or not, I'm killing Killdessic and becoming the next
ruler of wild space. Have we ever told you that one of our first
first ideas for a podcast was to start a book club podcast that never actually
reads the book. It just makes people think you've read the book. Wow,
that that's a deep, deep reference. Dude, Can we do that
next? Yeah? You know, easy to be. Just have a podcast
or we just talk. We don't have to do anything fantasizing about that.
Like I hear all these people with like podcasts where it's like this is an
advice podcast, this is a whatever podcast. I'm saying, what is life
like for the upper crust? That's the next one. Just just welcome to
the book club. We read it so you don't have to wink the watership
down the Bible cat Moni Cristo, the chapter where he rents at the DM
club gets lit on Molly. It's pretty really found that. That was a
fun one. I liked the powdered sugar recipe. How do you make powdered
sugar, and he told you, He told you, And it's not how
you think. It's it's not how you think. A lot of glue,
there's a lot of glue. Without further ado, are you all ready to
part the veils of reality and fight your friends in this story? I fight
my friends daily, daily fighting of the friends. Um. But yeah,
so, welcome back to from a Far podcast. For the first time on
this show, we're gonna have some player versus player action sees. Let's make
it happen. Don't be so gentlemings. If you would form, close your
eyes, buckle your butts, buckle your pants, unbuckle your shoes, ben
down, touch your tees because here we goes Zek Do you stand looking at
the stunned faces of your shipmates? So many years, so many adventures.
If things had gone a bit differently, could you have respected these two?
Why are you not killing them? Now? They know your secret? These
are the thoughts that race through your mind as you finally cast off the hideous
disguise. Finally you are you again. You are Zeked, the soon to
be ruler of wild Space. The two in front of you are nothing but
a small step in your master plan, a step that has served its purpose,
and now you have passed. You look down at the jar in your
hand, and you know that this pup, this slow is the key to
your success. You know have the leverage you need to kill kill Dessic.
With one final look at your two friends, well, with one final look
at three and the awakened shrub that is now corporal buttons, you feel the
fire that you started lick at the hem of your robes. Then you feel
the familiar tug into nothingness, and then the nauseating sensation of being dissolved and
then reassembled. On the non aloid ship, the Black Stars you know it
to be called. You see several of your mind Flare brethren staring at you
from their places on the bridge, and in one voice, they all whisper
Countess Gears and demands to speak to you. Count yourself lucky. You are
being summoned by the Father. You look around the dark, alien Gothic design
of the non aloid ship and are surprised to feel and you are surprised that
it feels surprisingly comforting after all these years, another step on your long,
long plan is now complete. You take another look at the decanter in your
hands. That holds the essence of slow. Now for the next step you
are so it's very close. Is there anything you want to do in the
end of this scene, Nolan, mind Flares not the nicest of the people.
No, I don't know. Would there happen to be any length of
chain on the ship? Yeah, of course, I think there would be
somewhere the length of chain. I would like to get a length of chain
and strap the decanter to my body. Okay, And at no point during
this does Zecto turn their back on any of the other mind flares. They've
been disconnected from the collective for a while and have no interest in really touching
their mind outside of communication, and they make sure that their prize is their
own perfect So do make a couple of things, and don't roll me an
intelligence saving throw, because I think you've you've had enough practice of staying separate
that you can feel the black ethereal tendrils of the of the collective trying to
breach your mind prison. But you're you're too experienced at that to No,
it's not gonna happen. But can you roll me a perception check? Please?
Good thing? My perception is plus zero, but I got a nineteen
on the dice. You go. It is good that you are starting to
do this because you think back to your history. You think back to the
fact that you have been disconnected from the collective for a long time, and
you see nothing but mistrust in these eyes of all the mind flawers looking at
you. You you have not necessarily gone into a friendly environment. The mind
flayers aren't actively attacking you right now, but you think with the slightest provocation
they might easily enough. You find find a chain and you wrap it around
your waist or wherever you attach the decanter too. Well, yeah, anything
else? Can I cast calm emotions? You can try? Um? Okay,
So everybody in a twenty foot radius around me needs to make a chrismas
saving throw of at least sixteen. No, I really, I really want
to talk to Yardie right now, who is very clearly doing this. You
are in the middle of a room of people that do not trust you,
and you're and are willing to jump on you at the first provocation. Your
first idea is I got to spell okay to do sixteen? Is it a
wisdom or intelligence? It is chrismas that I still have that so that that
is a that is A fifteen A seven plus six. I'm okay, I'll
say I'll say this way, this is this is perfect again. The dice
tell the story. The fates are on our sides. Here. You as
you're looking for a chain, you start to feel beings and creatures starting to
encrouch on your space and like you're like, no, I know this tactic.
I know what you're doing. And you snap your fingers, cast your
spell, finagle your fingers. However, you tittle your fingers and all the
all the mind flighters on the deck stop and you turn around and you see
they were they were like approaching you, but now they are calm and not
necessarily about to attack you. I would like to move to this compartment after
casting calm, calm emotions. And as I'm backing away, keeping everybody in
my sight, Zecto looks at them and goes, peace, friends, I'm
not here to cause any trouble. I'm simply trying to return power to where
it belongs. I think that's what that's what wins them over. They they
kind of look at you and nod all is one. Everything they do is
like mirrored across like the entire like ship, just creepily, very sneakily or
very silently. Just okay, And they stop a bensing on you and go
back to their posts, some posts on the bridge, and you find your
You find a compartment, you find a door, You find a like a
small room where you're able to finally break eye contact and just get away for
a second. And I thought we're going to jump back to the other boys
back on the Winona three, and Buttons, you sit stunned at what just
happened. Slausa no zecto killed Slausa and just betrayed you. The fire burns
and several alarms go off. The air is getting thin around you. Your
good air is being used at a rapid rate. What do you all do?
Buttons? Zero? Shrub? Yeah, corporal bonds eye as can you
speak at all? Can like there be any do I can? And I
talk? Yeah? You kept all your like mental stats, so you basically
this little baby group. Okay, Corporal Buttons, what what You're a shrub?
They fucking bullshit? What how did we How did we fall so victim
to this disgusting, beautiful Fraser boy Where the passengers go to Constellation, she
she flew away, or roll me a perception check. It's a shrub shrub.
My perception is plus four. It's pretty good because I did roll a
sixteen plus four, So sixteen with a sixteen. You you look over the
fire, and you look over as the fire is starting to spread, and
you look to where Constellation and Slow and Zecto were standing, and you here
just a very faint help help. Oh gosh, is that is that?
Zip zips up and Brian. No, they're on the weapon's deck. They're
fine. Oh my god, forgot about those two. Well, three doesn't
hear that? So I think three would is like observing the shrubbery? Do
I know polymorph? Like? Would I know? Through me in our cannon
check? I can do that. It's a really bad role, all right,
maybe I maybe I slept through this lesson in the in the in the
Wizard leave. I'll say this way. You know what polymorph is. You
just don't want to fix it. Oh no, shit, polymorph, old
enemy polymorph. Of course, Sector would use my weakness against me a coral
buttons. Can you hear me? And he slaps the shrub Yes, I
can hear you. Got you know what the hold up? We've got the
Mermaids situation down here. Um and he calls out to Zip, zaps up
and Brian to begin the fire suppression protocol they have, which is apparently a
movie that when no One no Ryder was in with share. Um. Oh
yeah, if I can paint the picture. They're running to the fire.
Since they are Keg robots, I think their arms begin to sprinkle just water
out of their wrists to like put out the fire with advantage romil, what
would be a role to put out fire? Intelligence? Survival, revival,
survival. Yeah, so let's get a survival check please. I like the
image of Brian the like cooler yetti bottom. It's like running up to fires
with like two lacroise and just so it looks like you got a nine in
a natural one. Yeah, okay, so I'm gonna say, uh,
you your your your your boys in blue, your boys in in Keg run
up to Um then to the back of the ship where the fire is,
where you saw Zecto before you saw Zecto leave and they start like just trying
to put this fire up. But it's starting, it's starting to grow,
starting to get a little bit bigger. You see the smoke starting to go
up, and it's really you guys are starting to cough. Can you all
roll me a constitution saving throw please? Actually, oh boy, this is
ridiculous. Where I've been fighting, We might we might die. It's pretty
low right now. Twenty hey unnatural twenty also okay, yeah no natural twenties.
You guys, take a deep breath, rights like the foam. The
smoke starts to uh and coming to the bridge and starting to fill up everything.
So I'll give you guys one more survival chance. Survival check roll with
advantage unless throw, unless you're trying to do something specific. Well, yeah,
I have ray of frost as a can trip, So can I just
shoot that sucker at Yeah, that where the flame would be. Watch how
twenty seven cool? So with with the fourteen or with sorry buttons? What
is you got a fourteen? Total? Excellent? So with the fourteen and
with the twenty seven, zip zeps up and Brian all are able to open
their tummy closets and shoot out ice cubes and shoot out water and well no,
no, this is what it is. As they start to spread,
the Lacroix three is like fuck, this and ray of frost the lacroix and
it makes us like kind of snow and freezes over the fire and it's awesome.
You're able to put the You're able to put the fire up. Um,
congratulations, you've passed my fire puzzle goes back to the helm or the
spell jammer seat, and he like opens up the hud and he starts like
clicking and like you know, like moving his hands around and starts like getting
a status report from the ship. Oh and the status reports not good.
Your your air, your good air is turning foul. You you do not
have enough air to get back to to the to the Rock of Brawl.
You're going to find a way another way to get back. You do know,
though, that ships that are bigger, ships that have more hit points,
and ships that are have better air, if you're able to get into
their air field and their gravity field, good air can neutralize foul air.
There's a ship close by, so you see your ship your air is about
half I'm not at this current moment not about not gonna be able to get
home. And you've also you're you there's enough damage that your speed is going
to be reduced by ten feet so forty Corporal, it seems that are ship
it's taking some damage that fucking Zecto. Wait, but I know Zecto's name,
or I just think of what is no Slow as say it. I
don't remember if you said it. No I did, I did when I
when I presented myself. Damn, even this name is amazing. And then
Corporal, where are the passengers? I just realized that Constellation and Slow or
Slow was taken by Secto. Bitch Buttons is going to look around for who
called for help a minute ago? Thank you you you here. As as
the threat of the fire go is now goes away, is now goes away,
as the threat of the fire is now no longer a threat because it
was, Zip zaps up and Brian anthray um, you're able to hear a
little more clearly. You hear this the the frantic calls of somebody not on
the ship and you very cutely, who waddle in your pot with your leaves
are kind of trailing off of you as you you jostle on over to the
side of the Winona where you last saw Constellation hanging off the side of or
the back of the ship like the stinger part of the ship and she's starting
to slide a little bit. And yeah, she looks up to you and
you can see some genuine panic on her eyes. So she's hanging off at
a very strange angle. She's she's like getting pulled into the bottom of the
stinger as she as she slides down, and she looks to you, reaches
out her hand and says, but button's, holy shit, are you a
plan? Oh okay, help help me, help me? Please, well
talk about it later. What's what's going on out here? Buttons? Oh
god, there's constellation over there? Um wait three, she she's out there.
We got the gate, hurt, You've got the toss me. I
have a better way. And then he pulls out his he pulls out his
broom of flying. He's like, oh, thank god, I was I
was waiting to use this. And he he hops on and flies on over
um and uh it's called the nimbus Nimbus two million. And he he sweeps
around and and and and and gets her. And but he is going at
the speed of light, so, uh, this could be a little boy.
Why are you going at the speed of light? I just this room
and just goes that fast. Man. So yeah, I don't know.
They don't make slow, don't make him that go when he's slower. You
see, three get on the on the room of flying like kikiS delivery service.
And it kind of hovers for a second and you see everything start to
to to rattle and shake, and then you see and the one the Winona
explodes. Consolation gets looks out the window and sister, that's solved itself.
Right, this is just three just getting the hell out of there. It's
just like, thanks for plying everybody, and it's killed. You thought the
BBG was knowed. No, it's Andy and his nimbus two million. No
you you you fly quickly? Yeah, you get out the speed of light,
but you also give everyone an anti speed of light pill who's close behinding
you and they don't get explode? Yeah yeah, you go grabs her,
it brings her back and sets her down. Well, well, just just
for fun, roll me a strength check. You know, my strengths,
not my strings not bad. Actually all right, give me a strength check.
Watch out. That's what that will do. It You um, you
reach out and you grab Consolations hand and you again, very much like Keys
Delivery service, you are able to ring our dear, dear, dear noble
young elf to actually the safety relative safety of the Winona uh and the everyone's
there, everyone's happy, everyone's good. What do you all do? Well?
It seems that Zecto is royally shaped us. I'm trying to remember my
voice away. My voice was it was like this. It was like the
close that. It was like that. But you're going a little lower and
gravelier with it, which is actually kind of nice. Yeah, it's a
little easier getting angry. Well, yeah, so three of hideous. So
I'm a corporal. But why how do we? Of course, polymon I
don't know how to. But good thing, you can speak, we can.
We can strategize because we must. We must punch back. We must
defeat nasty boy Zecto. All right, so the ship is in shit shape.
I'm not going to be able to fix it like this. I have
a weird idea that I don't actually know if it will work. But you
can make things light and heavy, Yes, yes, a grafty wizard.
Can you make something heavy and something else light at the same time, like
two different objects? He pulls out his character sheet. Yeah, look at
that attle. It does say one object I'm gonna there's something I've actually been
wanting to put into D and D R D and D games more recently.
Um, I heard this thing a while ago about spell slots and how they're
stupid, and I super agree. It doesn't use a spell slot, I
know. But what what I'm getting at here is what the person was saying.
I'm pretty sure it was Annie the Gnome who's suggesting this on TikTok spell
slots or the amount of spells you can cast safely. You can still cast
spells after that it incurs exhaustion, or it incurs just like just straight up
damage or like just like wild shit starts to happen. But what I'm thinking
is maybe we can trust something like that where if you like you're you're literally
going plus ultra right now, like you're gonna you're gonna like break your arms
like deco or something. But like if you want to, if you want
to try this, I will absolutely allow it, but you will be kind
of pushing yourself beyond these these limits of safety and you can you can potentially
do it, but you might potentially get really hurt. And I think for
this, for this one, it would be a level of exhaustion. I
was about to say, let me save the plan before we go through all
this. It might not even work. Button suggests, uh finding one of
the biggest things we have on the ship. Do we have anything bigger on
the ship that we could put in the catapult and the catapult? Yes,
yes, yes, uh yeah, for sure. I mean you could probably
launch something about the size of like a keg, maybe a little bigger,
like a like a chest or something. Yeah. Is the not aloid ship
like just just chilling or is it flying away somewhere? It like warped to
you, guys, and it is like turning and starting to it is you.
I will allow you to try to catch out to it if you want
to. So what I want to do is put something heavy in the catapult,
turn it away from us, like in the opposite direction of the non
aloid, Make the thing in the catapult really fucking heavy, make the ship
really light, and then when it throws like will go in the opposite direction.
Right, I'm no physicist that would that would How many closer we can
we? Just? Can we just get there? And I guess forever go
ten feet? Sure? Do we do? We need to go faster?
To get there. You would you would see that you are. It would
probably take about two of two of your turns to get there. There's a
good chance it would it would start to move in that time. So if
you, if you, if you want to try and find a way to
speed up your ship, that's probably going to be a good thing to do.
What does exhaustion do disadvantage on ability checks and saving throws first level?
I mean, or we could just make the ship light and then the one
the one thing might do it. Well, your your ship, your ship
is still functional. Yeah, it is not totally screwed right now. It
is just it is gonna move slow. Can you do like a dash action
with your ship? Absolutely? So we could we could like go into like
fast mode in the realm of finale here. That will probably be and you
would both know this as as the engineer and like the pilot. That would
be the last thing this ship would be able to do till you could tell
you would fix it. Yeah, so you'd have to fix it. Okay,
you could take one quick fucking dash over there. But like your engines
are like your cat meters are already at like at peak, and you would
know that there's a good chance you could just blow your engines. As Commander
Wharf said, today is a good day to die ramming speed. That's exactly
how he read it too. Thanks. Okay, so let's get back into
character here. What are you? What are y'all trying to do? You
see you? Your ship has damaged your you you you've saved consolation. She's
like, we have to we have to go. We have to get small
right now. She like annoyingly sits down this and the spell jammer helme and
it's like pulling levers and he's just like, no, okay, get out
of shoe. And as you like push her away, ship leans it really
close, and she's like, how was your day? Small talk, and
then she's like um three three, like like since in the spell Jamera see
but he looks over to corporate. He's like, corporal, it seems that
maybe this is a time to be rickless. So you you load the cannon.
I'll work with the gravitations launchest. That fucking thing just fucking launches in
like three, starts getting the tendrils like connected to him, and starts like
moving stuff, eyes going in two different directions. Yeah, you pull out
your Ugo dal and you see like as you pull it out, you see
just like all your UIO just erupts with alarms, like it's like fire whole
breech imminent out of soda in the vending which stroll a delete. But like
more importantly, right before you delete all the notifications and like you did,
you just fucking uh your your ship was like an update is imminent. I
should have probably should have probably done that before all this. The main thing
you saw was, like I said, your heat meters are like at that,
they're at that red line level. And you know, if you you
know, you can do it. But if you get if you launch your
ship at the Noloid ship which is sailing away, you can get there,
but your ship will be out of commission after that, he starts getting things
ready. Buttons has another idea. Suddenly Buttons goes up to the catapult.
Do we have a chain in the catapult? Yeah you can, Yeah,
you have. You have a chain barrel. There's a barrel filled with chains.
Fantastic. We have a really on specified amount of chain somewhere between one
and five hundred chains. Yeah. Uh, And Buttons takes one solders it
onto Brian okay, hello, I am now chain Brian, and then takes
the other chain and solders it to like something sturdy on the ship, okay,
like the ground, or like like on a bulkhead. Bulkhead. There
we go, chucks him into the catapult. It says, when when you
reach it, you fucking grab it. I love it. Buttons is soldering
chains frantically like a madman, getting your your child suited up into the catapult.
If he's if he's a plant, you still have tools of stuff.
Thank you. Oh god, It's just I was just about to say,
hey, yeah. And also, David, you didn't check the homework,
but I totally forgot. Uh no, I was. I'll say this,
how long does how long does polymore last? For? By the one an
hour? But we'll still say that, like, as we're moving away,
Zecto could definitely lose concentration. No, no, no, they're thinking absolutely
not calm. It's calm emotions a concentration spell. It is a concentration spell
for a minute. So you could say that right now, I cast calm
emotion as I'm moving away, pal, bye bye, a corporal bonds eye
as as you as you said to start making these chains. All of a
sudden you're you again and fantastic and you are able to to sottle these chains
and do all that good stuff. God, I hate nature. As from
the perspective of the one Ona, we see these plants starting to go together.
It's kind of a frantic situation. Constellation crouches down next to you three
as you're transferring power from one all these other places, all these other systems
into like just your main thrusts, trying to get this one big jump going.
And you have the nod Aloid the black Star lined up in your sights,
and you look down at the button that says it's good time, and
you're about to press it, and you look up to Constellation. A TV
screen comes down and you see buttons as he looks up at you. All
three of you are looking at each other's eyes as you press the button and
the ship launches forward. And we'll cut away slightly back into the past a
little bit to slawso to Zeketo, sorry. As you're sitting in this you're
sitting in this compartment of the non aloid ship. You make your way out
of your safetiness, the safety of your compartment, and you make your way
out to the main deck of the Nooloid ship, where you find yourself face
to face with a single mind flare, and this mind flare looks to you.
You see this mind flare's eyes and you can see that there are legion
behind his eyes or behind their eyes. You know that this this homie is
super connected into the collective, into the hive mind. And you hear him
speak to you. He says, count like to speak with you, and
very just in the in the realm, in the vein of creepiness. You
hear that echo throughout the ship and then there's kind of like a shutter,
and this mind flare looks back up to you, and you feel the presence
of very weakened because it's very far away. You feel the presence of the
elder brain Killdessic talking to you, and he says, wow, sect,
I never thought I would. You always did underestimate what I brought to you,
oh child, the magic you are trying to bring to the family.
But only I'm just so discord taken away from my power. But and you
see the mind flare's eyes like look down to like the chain decanter, like
where's it chain to? Where? Where would you want to chain to your
body somewhere on my hip like it's probably a long you know, like a
messenger bag I got on my hip. You see the mind Flare, look
down to your eyes and it says, but if you can bring back my
lost child, I might be willing. Zecdo grabs the decanter and their fingers
like you can hear knuckles popping as they hold it, and they hold it
out in front of the mind Flare. You exiled me for years because you
thought I was weak. You thought I was bringing something that would tear the
collective apart. And yet when I find your air, I find something so
weak, so kind, that they can't see through my simple disguise. I
know that anybody who's going to take your place has to be strong, has
to be of one mind, and luckily I've spent this time learning how to
do that. I know you're dying. I have wished for this for a
long time. I'm going to use this opportunity and the death of you and
your child to reshape the collective and wild space in the image I see fit
excellent. Roll me at deck started saving throw Please look, that's cool,
that's very cool, as he gives you a big high five. How cool
that was? As he span total all right, don't know. All of
a sudden, the mind flare in front of you, like hand comes up
and like knocks your you're you're you're holding slow out in front of you are
right, Yeah, he like knocks that away and like quickly like approaches you,
and his tentacles wrap around your neck and you are now like face to
face with with Keldesic. And you would know this as like you as a
month flare. Nobody's about to try to do. He's about to try to
suck your brain out. Um. And you hear if you think you can
defeat me, you are just why intelligence as you think you are a zecto,
You've just given yourself to me, even though I'm not. They're in
the flesh, Every single child on that ship is under mind control. This
is not going to be a fight that you can win. As he's talking,
you hear the sound of cloaks rustling, and all the mind flares that
are on this ship now start to surround you. They're coming out of out
of the nod Aloid ship. They're leaving the bridge, they're leaving their barracks.
They're leaving their rooms and they're just surrounding you. Am I able to
speak at all? I mean, I guess we can do with my brain.
Yeah, you can speak telepathically, for sure, but you can also
you can also speak with my brain. Zecto is definitely um taken aback,
But I don't think they're scared, and they the milky white on life in
their eyes focuses on Keldessek. The greatest gift you ever gave me was pushing
me to become an Alhoun in exile. I have spent my time killing your
children, and I do it very well. All I need to beat you
is time, and you've given me a ship. What better way to get
it? Shit, I'm I'm trying to not just immediately kill you or fight
with you, but I think, okay, do this. I'm gonna say.
I think a collision course Fanona would be burn right as you as you
here just sort of just like collective gasp and a howl go up from all
the mind flares around on you. You two here. Here's the thing that
I think is blasting from corporal buttons. Is that the uh? The in
sixty four doom sound yeah, this is this is this has been having a
force because then Three is amplifying his own voice through the sound system of the
Wasp, and he's like he's singing off key along with the rhythm too.
He's like the Fable battle missing missing a third harmony coming in, but it's
been sliced. Actually, as as the mind players start to converge on zec
do uh you out of? Like that little anime like star in the background
happens in wild space as the black and white striped beetlejuice style, the wasp
shaped ship of the Winono comes blasting out of wild space, and it just
added the flavor. I think I probably i've I assume corporal buttons and would
have been convinced. I'm know we're not doing the old player, We're doing
a new plan. So then I think what Three would do is use the
adjust density and maybe go plus ultron it to get that exhaustion to make the
Winona like denser or well I'm thinking for ramming, but maybe I would do
the less dense to make it go faster. I'll say this, I'll say
this you how many times can you adjust density? As many times? I
want just up to up to huge, and I think the thing is gigantic.
Well we've already established that, like you have a special connection with Okay,
well, I was just gonna like do it like to like the like
the nth degree, just like okay, as you're you're you're doing all your
wizardly dunomantic magic. You you at first your buttons. I've done it,
and you launched the ship forward consolation, holding on to the back of the
spell jammer because you've made it lighter. At this point, everybody, buckle
your butts, everybody from from the wind. One of these days. It's
just like a god spoken phrase as you as you realize you've been doing this
all next to four corpses of four dead gods, and one of them looks
just like each of us. Just there. No, but you've you've you've
lowered the gravity or the density on the ships, and you've got it to
go faster, and you're gonna try to, like at the last minute,
just super amplify the density. Yeah, one thing once maybe once like the
momentum gets going, then switch it. Then you switch it, and then
then then it turns into like a fucking bullet. And but I will say,
we'll say what that that instant intelligence saving throw? You have failed for
the moment. You feel this exhaustion and this tiredness seep over you. You
haven't done this level of a spell, this level of your specific spell in
a very long time, and you're not quite used to it. So yeah,
disadvantage on ability to checks and saving throws moving forward, But it was
still a success. Let me pull up one thing here. What is the
hammer headship. I'm gonna just give you this moment, this this hammer the
rmmobility. Oh cool, So could you please roll me sixteen D ten.
That's why I didn't want you guys to get hit by this thing. It
is. It is no joke. But I'm also going to say that Winona
is going to take half of this damage as absolutely Yeah, crashes into this
fucking thing sixty seven damn it. No, I'm sorry, there's a plus
two. I'm reaking right now. Yeah, there's a plus two to all
damage on this. It is sixty nine damage, all right, all right?
Nice? Half of sixty nine is just one. So what's it's four
twenty? Actually, yeah, not alized ship has four hundred hit points,
so you you do a huge chunk. You almost take a quarter of its
health away with this one attack. Oh no, my ship, And now
the two ships are fucking like intertwined and intermingled. And so here this is,
this is what happens. Right as slow Zecto, I didn't I never
messed it up once when it was slow and Slaw. But now that it's
slal and Zecto, I can't get it right. And that's pissing me off.
Um right as slal fuck right as Zecto. Right as Zecto has his
neck and face wrapped around by this one mind flare, and you see the
beak and like kind of pincer shit coming out, and you see you're about
to get your your brain sucked, and all the rest of the mind flares
are coming in from around you, kind of creating the circle around you.
You see off of the corner your eyeing this this this this ship, this
black and white beetlejuice style your ship, the one on blast out of the
sky, and it's coming in quick. And I'm gonna say, just for
a moment, a smile crosses your face because you see, not only are
you about to get a distraction that you very much needed, you see your
two ship mates pulling some ship that only they have the capability of getting,
and there's a hint of pride. Maybe I don't know. I'm not trying
to make you likable. You're evil. But you see, just as this,
the Winona comes crashing into the black Star. The Winona gets tangled up
in the in the tentacles that are on the nod Aloid ship. Everyone on
the ship falls down, including you. But you, you are broken free
from the the the mind flare that is about to kill you, and buttons
as you kind of save yourself, you press the button and seeing we just
say as Brian lands on the deck of the ship and like just like he
just starts running around something he's wrapped around it and there's like so much slack
in the chain and he like tightens it up and he's just like, Brian,
well done, son. Yes, father's approval and that is what it
takes to give him the ability to speak. And he's like, yeah,
the curse is broken. The wicked witch of the West who cursed me because
only say my name. I just needed my father's approval. No, he
just Brian, Brian's a good job and he now your your ship is ultra
connected to the to the Black Star. Can we add one more little flavor
onto it? This is a wasp, right, we're a was. Absolutely
Can we rotate as we're flying so that we actually like stab into the Nautilus?
Yes? Please God? So now all right, but reado that a
little bit. These these ships are like very much like pirate ships, are
made of wood, have like kind of weird alien tentacles and shit. But
they all they all have kind of like main pirate decks, right, the
main like the main deck. This comes like think of like a regular pirate
ship, like where the two masts would be just this wood and metal,
huge gargantuan stinger just the main deck of the Black Style. The Winona has
made an entrance. I've always wanted to. I've always wanted to do that.
And you see a little smiley face on your on your const chime up
of corporal fucking three h and you see a text message and says me too,
um and yeah, so yeah, the chips haven't connected you. You
You've damaged seach ship enough that they're neither of them are going anywhere. Um.
And just to sort of set the scene here, the Winona has Pincered
has stung its way into the non aloid ship. Zecto is has fallen down
and is away from their aggressor who was killedessic And I'm gonna say there's uh,
let's see there are there's three total mind flares. I know, I
said surrounded. Well you mean surrounded by three you can bended? Yeah,
okay, So you guys are still on the winona Um. You look out
over your like, over whatever edge of the ship you are on, and
you look down and you see these three mind flares and Zecto sitting there um
all lying down because of the big impact you just made. And just for
a quick scene here as you look into Zecdo's eyes as he looks up to
you, all corporate buttons and three. The scene fades really quickly and we
see zek Do and Slalsa in a back alley the Rock of Brawl close to
Dulwar's establishment, the freez Ezy Peak. It's not what we called it originally,
but this is this is older they used to be called the Freezezy Peak.
And you see Zecto standing over Slasa in a very aggressive way. You
see Slausa is broken and bloodied, holding a huge gash like right over there
where I guess their mind flare heart would be. And what would not to
put it on the spot for the third time in a row? No one?
But what would zekdo say to Slals right before he kills him? Or
do they kill them? I imagine with the life that they killed born with
is, you know, holding it after having stabbed Slausa And they lean in
and they dry bristly broken, you know, bleached coral tentacles are just caressing
Slaus's slowly dying face and they say, now, don't worry, You're going
to be useful to me. And as as they're doing this, you kind
of see their image slowly like being absorbed into Zecto's phylactery on top of their
head. I hear, did you get rid of a useful wizard? And
for some unknown reason he pledged his loyalty to you. Wow. I plan
to learn from him and probably do other things. But now your arrogance and
stupidity have become my prize. It won't be forgotten. And as this happens,
and the color is draining out of Slalsa and the image is going into
Zecto's phylactery, they bend down and like slowly get their head very close,
and then just like drill beak into the brain, it starts eating it,
and the tentacles on their face are wrapping in and just like it looks like
kind of crushing the skull. But as that's happening, just more of Slusa's
essence is just draining into the lactery and becoming part of Zecto. Yikes.
And as as you stand up from your delicious brain grain buffet, what the
audience sees is not Zecta. You see Slausa standing there, and you reach
down and take the dollar store pirate hat off of put it on your head,
and you walk back into the Freezzy peak. As the door opens up,
we see a younger Thray and a younger Button sitting there drinking some space
wine, the bluest of milks. Yes, And you head back and ingratiate
yourself into this crew. And then we cut back from the audience cuts back
to this what's happening here, as again the oneona is pierced through the deck
of the noloid ship. You all are standing probably fifty feet above them,
above the deck of the noloid ship, and it looks like, sh it's
about to go down. You see Zecto, you see your quarry, you
see several other mind flares who are starting to like look between you and Zecto
and like, who do we serve? And before we get into initiative,
is anybody trying to do anything? Buttons As he makes eye contact with with
three, like before he jumps off, he said, he says, seems
the age of innocence is over and it's reality bites, but stay cool.
We've made a real star trek and we're going to kill this Frank and Weeney
Edward scissor hands. I don't know. I think I understand what you're trying
to see them, but I thinks that Zecto is killed one of our crew
members, and I don't think we can repay that and any lesser fashion than
killing him back. That's literally what I just do you not read the manual
with all? And I think Three just like kind of like puts a finger
to his chin and like looks at I imagine that him and Corporate like walking
off of the Wasp on getting off having this conversation to maybe have a more
serious one. And then I think you Thray stands with corporal buttons, and
imagine Constellation there too, and they're looking over at Zecto and these mind flares.
I guess they're laying down, but then I think they're just kind of,
you know, they're getting ready to fight. I just like this idea
of them like walking off, like the ship crashes, they walk off and
they're on the desk like fire in the background Superhero landing. Yeahs as the
three as as Buttons, Thray, and Constellation all kind of descend this wasp
stinger fire in the background. The stars are half realigned. You'll come down
off this ship, and Constellation actually looks to you, Thray and she says,
I know you don't like small talk, and she touches you on the
shoulder and she is going to cast a spell on you as a shimmering you
know the thing in Guardings of the Galaxy that like star Lord throws out on
the ground that kind of like opens up and like pulls like magnetizes everyone to
them. Like she puts this little piece of metal on your chest and it
like kind of opens up and sort of pinches into you a little bit,
and it's like shimmering technology field sort of covers your body as you have been
Shield of Faith to and you now have a plus two years. That is
that is, it is unless anyone else is trying to do anything before we
get into this, it sounds like Zecto might want to do something. Zecto
finds themselves in a predicament. Oh, while they're walking, I would like
to cast darkness. Okay, Magical darkness spreads from a point you choose with
a range to fill a fifteen foot radius sphere for the duration, directly on
me, directly on you. So like right, you're in the middle,
I'm in the middle. You sack a shit al Hoon's can at will cast
disguise self. I'm going to disguise myself as a mind flare. Wow,
just look like one of the other ones. What I want to do is
cast the darkness, cast the sky's self on myself, and then grab the
mind flare standing next to me and swap position. Just change places. I
love that very exciting. As the crew of the Manana was walking down,
Shield of Faith is being cast, Zecto cast darkness and then swap does the
old switcheroo on these on these mind flares corporal buttons and threw are you trying
to do anything before you starts? I think Three would just say, zeket
was was any of it real? Was any of what real? Was any
of us real? All of our adventures, all of us sailings, the
lives that we took as as a group, as as my first friend.
Was any of it real? I am going to use a feature to speak
into your mind, my telepathic speech. Of course it was you taught me
the value of friendship, something I plan on instilling in all mind flares from
now on. Oh that would probably because you know, get JEGGI hate mine
flares. That would probably make three livid. I think he would be like,
oh no, he like he like you know, pulls out his like
wand and his sword. So he's got a long sword, and you just
see like the like the dudomantic like magic like curling around the wand, and
Three turns to Cool Buttons. He's like, let's not give him any mercy,
And I think, oh I didn't plan too hell yes, um,
cool Buttons, are you trying to do anything before we start? Um Buttons
is turning up the doom soundtrack and and he like you know, punches into
his fists and he's ready to wreck shop. Do you have a magical weapon.
I don't have a magical weapon. I got two pets with me that
are magic, but they're not feeling too well. It's the sick Pikes alright.
As the crowd on box down, as darkness is being cast, as
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get back to it. Okay, So it will be Constellation, buttons,
the mind flares, ze do and then three yeah? Okay? Cool?
So first things first? Can people see through with dark vision? Agreed?
You with dark vision can't see through the darkness, and non magical light can't
illuminate it. Cool. Then, so Constellation just dashes straight forward through the
nooloid ship, up a couple stairs, and then into the magical darkness that
Zecto created. The Buttons what are you doing? Buttons lands on the ship.
He saw this darkness come up, and he's just growling and runs across
the deck, up the stairs into the darkness, and he's going to cast
light, which I think for him comes as him putting his pipe in his
mouth and blowing in it and a huge ethereal torch kind of burns from it,
and he has created light in a twenty foot sphere? Does that work?
Does that work in? Yeah? So only non magical light can't illuminate
it. So you cast. Yeah, you move in, you cast light,
and you light up this space, and all of a sudden, you
see these four mind fliers standing right in front of you and now look identical.
Huh. But would we know if zech like cast this guy's self or
like, I don't know if three would just think, oh, he just
like ran away, roll me a history check. Fifteen. You understand that
there's a very good chance that's that saw that Zecto is, if he's acting
anything like you've known him in the past. Three you understand that there's a
very good chance at one of these four is Zecto. Buttons, you're a
little bit You're not as quick on the draw. The disguise would probably also
hide be jar and chain. Yeah, your your disguise selves are like change
your clothes too. Okay, would Buttons even know what that was that like
the other ones wouldn't have it. He saw you put slow into the jar,
Yeah, but you wouldn't know that he's changed it to his hip right
now. Yeah, so even if he saw it, he might not know
what it was. Is that I for your turn, Corporal Buttons, Yes
or excellent all three of these mind players moving on you, and they are
all going to take a single technical attack on you each. So three three
technical attacks. What is your A C twenty four? Yes, sir,
all right, So this is the first one is an eight plus seven,
okay, Second one is a six plus seven. I'm not going to do
it. Third one is a five plus seven. I'm not gonna do it.
To flavor this as you like, you like kind of like earth Beender
style, like root yourself in the ground, and these mind flares come in
and start just like whipping at you with their tentacles, and you're just like
ping ping ping ping ping pingping blocking it like like Bruce Lee. It's amazing.
Consolation is like this is wild. So these things like I want to
attack, but if they hit you, y'all fucked. As Zecto, it
is your turn. You see your three mind flare brethren stepping forward to your
old crewmate, Corporal Buttons. But he's he's not he's not easily hit.
What are you doing? Um? Zecto is currently behind three mind flares and
Buttons. Zecto, I don't know if you've caught onto. This is quite
overconfident. They walk behind the mind flare directly in front of Buttons, and
they put their hand on that mind flare's back and they are going to cast
mind blast, and everybody in a sixty foot cone in front of me needs
to make a dex sorry a an intelligence saving throw of sixteen intelligence throw of
sixteen sixteen. Stup, bitch, plus t constlation is not that intelligent.
So about we're about to see that's a plus zero from about Brian? What
does it does Brian just get obliterated off this plane of existence? No,
that's an eighteen. Brian doesn't know a lot, but he does know hold
constellation failed. Okay, Buttons, what did you get nineteen o three?
What did you get? Eighteen? Damn it? Wait, I have disadvantage
on all my ability checks. Oh you do, thank you for a member.
That's a sen alright, three? Well definitely. Oh no, so
the mind player's intelligence saving they got a nights down to dice. They're fine,
okay, is it just me? Just three's like, oh no,
you, you and you in consolation, everybody who failed takes forty eight plus
four psychic damage and is stunned for a minute minute. Oh all right,
I'll just I'll just take a nap over here, and I will roll the
damage. Wait is that a spell? It's an attack, so it's one
of my actions, but it's not listed as spell casting. It's not a
spell. Okay, never mind, I can't yet. Oh but you wait,
it's coming. It's coming. So everybody who failed takes twenty eight damage.
Good, good God. So it begins, and I'm stunned for a
minute. It okay, but you can so you can roll. But he's
also exhausted, which is not good. Cool anything else you do in with
your turn. I think the blatant and open betrayal that I've just done to
the other mind flayers Zecto. Zecto doesn't care. They are planning on killing
these mind flayers one way or the other. They're homing that this battle can
do it, and all the quicker, the better people who say they don't
take any damage, correct, Yeah, it's there's no half damage. It's
just paler save. But Zeco is going to pull out their knife and just
brand a shit with one hand, waiting for one of the anybody, anybody
to come up. So from Zecto, this blast of mental psychic energy rips
across the deck of the nadelge ship. You see constellation drop like a sack
potatoes, sorry, space potatoes, space potatoes. And threat is the same
thing that all the mind flares and buttons like nothing him. But the two
of the mind players do turn around and they look at you. Slows zecto
as thraight as your turn? Do they do? You get to repeat the
Yes, you get to make the save at the end of his turn.
So this, if you make it, this will be your turn. There,
all right, so that's a what was it? Say? It was?
The save was an intelligence sixteen the intelligence all right zan wait hold on,
is that with a disadvantage? Oh no, all right, here we
go. Oh my god, hold up, oh flash the genius ad plus
three to that excellent as three as you like? You get this blast and
you're like, no sl zecto, no zecto, and you like, stand
back up, no, no zecto. You will do this to me?
You are unset on? Oh yeah, I think the way that's phrases that
is your turn. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, So I will guarantee lose
one turn, possibly ten turns. I had to reroll at D six to
see if I could get a recharge. They got it. Oh, excellent,
excellent, that's just your like your alhoon thing. Yeah, Consolation is
going for the save. That is a that is a three. As Consolation
goes down and stays down, doesn't make that save. Buttons. We're back
up to your turn. As you as ship starting to get a little while
um you you were able to you you saw Consolation go down and you were
like, no, no three, and you turn and you like, how
does your what does your flash of genius look like? He sees three kind
of like trying to you know, like Unstunn himself and Buttons just as m
remember the leaves on the wing that just kind of chill for a second and
then you're good, oh, yes, yes, this that works delightful.
Well that is that was prection. So what are you doing with your actual
turn? You have two of the three mind flares you were fighting have turned
and are looking at the mind flare who you're pretty sure is Zecto who blasted
you. Okay, what are you doing? I'm pretty sure that's Secto.
Then, so you're kind of covered in this like semicircle of mine flares,
and you're pretty sure the one outside of the semicircle is Zecto see holding his
knife? Yes, and then you absolutely recognize that knife as Zectos. Okay,
uh, guess who's gonna cast the heat metal? Oh? Make a
constitution saving throw, my friend? Is that blade becomes red hot? So
you think about this spell really hard. Oh, and Zecto has seen you
cast this over and over again, and they lean over and they look at
you and they just but with beak and teeth. So it's a little you
know, lips don't really work that way, but you get the impression that
Zecto is blowing at you. And I'm going to negate that spell with counterspell
or no, with negate spell. It's a it's an alhoon ability Fuck you
if if I if I read it quickly, you don't lose the spell slot.
Correct, you don't lose the spell slot. Wow, that's crazy.
Alhoons are wild man. You begin to cast that spell and you feel to
go back inside you. Yeah, well that would was that a bonus action
or an action? That's an action? So that's my turn. God damn
it. Do you have any bonuses or reactions? You do have move action?
Just walk between their legs. I'm giving that there's a very good chance
they will miss you on these opportunity and texts. I love it. You
know what I'm going to as something I didn't know, I have guardian armored
defensive field. I'm going to activate that as a bonus action to give myself
to temporary hit points. All right, damn, I'm gonna move out of
range of this semi circle of mind flare Chaos and get behind Zecto so that
he's between me and this other nameless, faceless mind flare. Absolutely as yeah
as buttons as you that kind of waddle through the legs of these of these
mind flares standing in front of you are than me. I'm gonna make two
opportunity attacks on you. Forgot in eight and it two is not even not
even close embarrassingly bad. Actually, as the tenantles please come back and you
get into Zecto's range, then you move around, so you leave this semi
circle of mind flares and walk around to the back of Zecto. Um As,
this is what's going to happen. The mind flares, the two of
them that are against you, zek do They're both cast their mind blast ability
on you. So you have to make a DC fifteen intelligence saving throw feel
like I want to give you advantage on the first one. Okay, do
I also need to or is he doing it? Absolutely? Yes, you
absolutely will as well. I'm sorry, yes, no, it's fifteen is
what you're looking for. The first one I rolled in that twenty all.
The second one was also a save though first one I just like matrix my
way out of uh and the second one with with the with the with the
natural twenty. I like to reward natural twenties. You're able to like disrupt
the first one so much that the second one also is just like, is
no effect on you? Buttons? You passed your first one? Yes?
Cool, I'm I'm gonna say that that's just it for that one. The
other one's come in at a different angle, so you just have you just
have one. Um. They both rolled and recharged that though, so get
ready it's coming back. And the third one, the third one is actually
going to start heading towards three and I'm going to make an attack against you.
Goddamn. That's so I want to want to roll this out so as
you as you go to hit three three, he's like, oh no,
and it just it just slices straight through him. And he kind of blurs
a little bit um and then and you're like, what that's weird, and
three like kind of like smiles. He's like, no, you think you
think that it's gonna be that easy to hitch me with with a little blade?
Yes, I dide, how do you do it? I'm so confused.
I have a cloak. I have a cloak of displacement. So we
roll as you roll, disadvantage whenever you have to attack. Yeah, so
yeah, that would have excellent, excellent, So as you batman Darkwing,
duck your way, Oh man, Darkwing, duck bump bump bump on,
don't know, that's not that's ducktails. That's it for the mind flayers turns
execto. It is not your turn you. You are now being flanked by
corporal Buttons and two of the mind flayers who just recently seems like they have
turned the teams. What are you doing? Buttons? I need you to
make a wisdom saving throw? Are you casting a spell? I am casting
a spell? What is it? It is modified memory? Oh cool,
I'm going to cast as a reaction auto's irresistible correction. Oh this is fucking
ridiculous. You attempt to interrupt a creature in the process of casting a spell,
you must yell out a correction to the spell that the caster is casting,
i e. Fireball turns into fire bolt or something. The correction must
include at least one partial word from the original spell being cast. Make an
ability check using your spell cast ability. The DC equals ten plus the spells
level, So I need to roll I would need to roll fifteen. Come
on, I want this to work so bad. So we are fighting,
So you get to roll this with advantage, all right, roll it with
advantage. It is a nineteen on the die. What does it correct my
spell to? Yeah? Autos Auto's correction? What do you got? Modify
memory? I knew it. I knew those fucking yeah because I couldn't think
of anything else. Honestly, Exacto now has just a very decent sized chest
in a very tasteful top. Thrayon's losing his mind. He's like, this
is just this is just too many, too many things. Oh my gosh,
that is hilarious. Ze Zecto having planned on modifying buttons memories of his
hate of vampirates and was going to turn it into hating mind flares who suddenly
realizes something feels different. Oh oh my, those aren't quite nice. And
then if we turn okay, amazing. You don't don't know any of the
this that's going on, Yea, honestly, you wouldn't believe it. You're
you're about thirty feet away from all this action, facing up against this single
mine. Yeah, what are you? What are you doing? As you
cloak of displacement yourself out of harm's way kind of but what are you doing?
So three like kind of like sitles around the mind flare in front of
him, and then he brandishes his long sword and then he casts steel wind
strike. Oh wow, I can choose up to five creatures, and I
move like the wind, and I teleport to each of these creatures and I
do a melee attack and if I hit them, I do sixty ten fourth
damage and then I can teleport to an unoccupied space within five feet of one
of the targets. Okay, so I think you can get to all these
dudes, all four of the mind flares here. So yeah, it's red
as shit. This is such a final fantasy a spell. I love it
so much, Like, yeah, is it an auto hit? No?
You have to you have to roll the hits. I rolled a seventeen fifteen,
so that hits thirty four four damage. That's also important, it's not
just like normal damage. Um, then we'll do that the next guy.
That one's a twenty one. Roll that sucker forty seven show. This is
a level five spell too. This is a fifth level spell. So this
this sucker, this sucker is not like something you just one of them is
bloody? Keep going, all right? So the next one would be zek
though, but he doesn't, he's not He doesn't know it zek though.
He doesn't know which one, but well he actually this is rightly the first
time he notices. So like you here in the wind, like Zecto,
I'm going to find you. And then let's roll that again. Sixteen on
Zecto. Which do you have it a higher ase than fifteen? I don't,
but I do have a question. Yes, Um, can I use
one of my negate spells? Yeah, I'll say you can. You can
dodge that with this one. Okay, all right, we'll do Zecto.
You have one more one more guy hit? Yeah waich how twenty five?
Yeah? Absolutely, and let's roll that DiMaggio thirty three. I love this
weapon like and also so Zecto not zec though three goon. As I get
Yankee, he's actually like really like it's kind of fun being a wizard because
they're actually like really strong and like physically, so he's really good using this
long sword. So I love the image of him just teleporting and literally teleporting
behind each of these mind flares and just and just hating them. You did
a wild amount of damage. Yeah, well it's at fifth level, so
it's like that I've only got one more slot for those, so um,
and then I think I'll just I'll be in between constellation and the mind flares.
Cool, So then just to sort of is that for your turn?
Yeah? So then and then after it happens to the bleak of an eye,
you heard four slashing sounds, so actually I guess three here, then
here one whoosh, and then you see three kind of kind of appear and
land light on his feet. He like swirls the sword around, um and
just has kind of an evil grin on his face. He's like, I
think I know which one Zecto. So you you definitely Yeah, as throw
teleports all around, hitting all the mind flares, something else is going to
happen. You see three of them explode and died. No, you see
two more mind flares show up on the main deck here after that epic,
very cool juggernaut do to two. Yeah, that's a good way to put
it. Slash. You just do omni slash, and they're gonna go right
after these other mind flares. As there's not five mind flares, not including
zech do as we're back to constellation and she what is to say if she
has to be sixteen? God damn it, that's a nine, which which
is honestly fine. There's enough going on in this fight already. As Buttons
did his ear turn. As you hear the door and the creepy, raspy
voice of two more mind flares appear behind you, you're facing off against for
you're pretty sure is Zecto. You saw your friend three launch all around the
ship, slashing everybody with this wild swell. You've only seen him cast probably
once or twice before. But what are you doing? Zecto has boobs too,
Yeah, Zecto is a bodacious rag and he's like, oh, that
makes a little easy to see which ones Zecto? Yeah, it's the holy
mind flare with boobs. All right, what are you doing? Buttons?
I am going to rev up my fists and rip chords on your fists.
Yeah, and I'm going to hit Zecto twice with my gauntlets. You're gonna
try? I sure? I am? And I do I have advantage because
I'm flanking him with someone else who's also hitting him. You're not sure if
these mind flares are gonna hold hold Allegiance. There's a lot going on and
you see their eyes shifting around. So just for this sake, I'm going
to say no, sure, And I'm not just saying this to make things
easier for knowing. If they get the sense that you guys are trying to
also take the vial from Slow, they're not gonna like that. First hit
is a nineteen. That HiT's second it is twenty three. Also hits good
two D eight thunder damage. Wait is this a melee attack? Yes,
um with another creature that you can see within sixty f hits. With a
weapon attack, you can use your reaction to increase the attacks velocity, causing
the attacks target to take an extra one D ten damage of the weapon's type.
Don amancy. So as you see that happened you see three kind of
swirl the wand and you feel like you're's a fist right you're punching him.
You feel the fist like your fists get heavier and as you hit him and
you see the don amantic magic kind of explode out a little bit. So
it was just seven, but now it's eleven. Oh danis might first PC
verse PC battle. Yeah. Uh, this one is also an eleven actually,
so that's twenty two points thunder damage total. It's a good amount of
damage. Oh my beak face. Yeah yeah, no, it's that's fine.
Turn sorry, excellent, excellent, cool as as you started, just
like whale into Whale into Zecto. Here it is the mind Flare, the
group of mind Flare's turns. He's coming for you three. You this one
didn't like how you left him alone. Oh I hit I hit him,
but I left the first one that attack with disadvantage. Oh, that's good.
That's a natural twenty on the on the first one. Second one is
an eight plus seven fifteen. Yeah, you have a plus two. Though
with the plus two you have a thirteen. Acy I I'm wearing no armor,
you silly boy. All right, you take fifteen psychic damage. As
these tentacles wrap around your body, wrap around your neck, and I'm gonna
need you to make me a DC fifteen intelligence saving thrown. I've also only
got twenty two hit points left, so it is it is a fifteen.
Oh man, So you're grappled now as these tentacles wrap around your face,
so that means my my displaced or cloak doesn't work anymore either, Yes,
yes, yes, that is it for the first mind player's turn. We
have a couple more to get through here. The second one is going to
take attack against us Ecto. That is no, that's not gonna that's a
ten. That's a three plus seven ten. I don't know why that was
sortmmitted to do that. Corporal buttones, you are going to take a fifteen
plus seven twenty two. That's a miss dam as the other two come in
Pea Christ and you're gonna take three more attacks. That is a five plus
seven and an eleven plus seven. So these these ones, no, As
things are starting to get a little bit dire here as all five of the
mind flares have gone. Consolation is still not responding after that initial blast from
Zecto. You see Zecto still looking like a mind flare. But all the
mind flares are fighting you and your friends and Zecto. They just don't really
like you guys on this ship. But most importantly, you see three getting
wrapped up with one of these mind flares, and you see the tentacles wrap
around Threy's get the Yankee neck, and you see it's starting to draw him
closer. And you do know your friend is organic and does have a brain.
As it is Zecto's turn, Zecto is going to sort of just make
a circle looking around at everybody, and they're going to turn back to Buttons.
Well, it seems that your rescue mission or attack, whatever it is
you think we're doing here is not exactly going how you planned. And this
has been fun and all, but I think we should try and end this.
And I'm going to quicken um hold person and cast it on Buttons.
God damn it, you're my biggest threat. My dude, does does quicken
negate a reaction because I got one more fucking correction spell slot. It's a
bonus. It's a it was meta magic because you're a sorcerer. It's a
it's a bonus action. Yeah, Okay, So it's still a spell.
Yes, okay, what level is it? Is it third or lore?
It is, but I'm going to cast it at a fifth level. Okay,
so I would have to roll again. That's a twelve month straight pitch.
Um. So the other spell that he was casting while he was casting
this was m Arms of Hadar, and I'm going to use all five of
those remaining sorcerer points. I have to twin Arms of Hadar, and I'm
going to cast it both in front of me and behind me. Okay,
So it is a well looks like your boys going unconscious. Well, it's
a ten foot radius. I want to hit UM five, twelve, and
one in a circle, correct, but not me, and because three is
essentially on the same point of the circle further down, not him. Got
it? Then with the other circle, I would like to hit buttons three
and two, got it and also not myself. You just doubled a spell.
That's crazy. Yeah, I used all seven of my sorcerer points in
one action. The thing that I would like to do, So what everybody
has to do is make a strength saving throw. That is, I rolled
for all of them, and that's definitely a nine plus none. All of
the mind flayers take a take a big old hit from that. Yeah they
take five D six damage. All right, roll it up, buttons roll
strength saving. That was a natural one. Okay, so you're going to
the five D six damage. Everybody takes sixteen damage. Cool. Right,
there's a couple of the couple of the mind flayers that are definitely looking pretty
hurt. If I can, since I did cast the correction, I would
like to change hold person into old person. And now zeke Do is a
geriatric having trouble standing up old and I think you've forgotten the point of letches.
I'm already old. We're talking for alych. Other liches look at you
and they're like a fucking boomer. Yeah all right, so you get older,
you age like fifty years. Bodacious rack, you add bodacious cool.
So that was wild. There was a lot of spells that were cast,
negated changed, you aged a bunch of years, and you, with your
nasty, nasty arms of hadar, you you were able to place them in
such a way that you were able to hit all the mind players that are
surrounding you and your team X does anything else you're trying to do in your
turn, So I just want to clarify on a failed save, they cannot
take reactions until their next turn. Does that include opportunity attacks? Opportunity tax
is a reaction? Yeah? Where do you want to move? Yeah?
I would like to move to let's see what is my walking speed? Thirty
feet? I would like to move from the top deck that we are standing
on to the stinger of the well. Know now where it pierced the ship.
Oh that's great. Love, that super love that someone does. Zeka
starts to move away. Three. It is your turn again, except I'm
gonna need you to make Yeah, what shall I roll? David? So
I'm gonna need you to roll a strength? No, it's a it's a
grapple check. So we have to do misty step wall grappled Yeah, fucking
yes, of course. I really just I'm only teleporting just to get out
of it. So I'm gonna teleport over here dwink by buttons ha ha ha,
and then I'm gonna cast gravity sinkhole. Okay, very cool. You
misty step your way out of these tentacles as this beak is coming towards you,
and you teleport right next to here, your good friend Corporal buttons um
So gravity sinkhole twenty foot radius sphere of crushing forest forms at a point you
can see within range and tugs of the creatures there. Each creature must make
a contugen saving throw, failed save and then trying to be sixteen and if
they fail, they're pulled in a straight line towards the center of the sphere,
ending in an awkward space that is wonderful. How much damage do you
take? Five to ten? As you see three of the five mind flares
and Zecto a natural one on my saving throw. Oh no, so this
is so if you if you'll permit me, Andy, this is the way
it looks. There's some wild shit happening on this deck. But you you
see like Zecto almost like tricking you guys into fighting all these mind flares,
and he's like I'm the Winona and Buttons is like trying to hold off these
mind flares behind him. You, Missy, step away from this one mind
flare and then you turn around and you just like snap and there's this like
black hole like that just like appears right in the middle. Yeah, like
one of the edges of the ship basically, and like you just see that
like weird thing, you know, like when you're like when they show you
like dropping a ball on like a gravity thing, and it just like makes
this like you see reality is starting to like fold in on itself basically,
as like the world is bending and warping. And you see three of the
five mind Flares and Zecto get pulled off the side of this ship and they're
gonna take a lot of damage. I'm gonna need a dexterity saving throw with
advantage Zecto, may I add some flavor as well? Of course. Well,
first off, even with advantage, I only rolled at Ten's that I
literally said it at ten. Oh yeah. Of the container that's holding Slaal,
I have not had a lot of time to adjust it so that it's
incredibly attached to me. Unexpected enormous shifts in gravity weren't something I was planning
on for some reason, fighting a gravity wizard, I think that my feet
come out from under me. I get pulled, and Slal's container smashes upon
the deck. Next the Oneona in full sight of Constellation, trying to revive
herself. Oh shit, okay, very cool, very cool. So here's
what I had. I love that here and here's what I had you roll
the dexterty saving through for and can you roll me the damage real quick?
Yeah? Well, I also want to use my gravity well feet or my
gravity well gravity wizard thing. So you've learned how to manipulate gravity. So
whenever you cast spell on a creature, you can move the target five feet
dude unoccupied space if your choice. If the target is willing to move,
the spell hits with an attack or it fails a saving throw. So I'm
also gonna have moving five feet off the ship even more so you're not.
I'm not gonna let yeah, yeah, don't save He saved on the dexter
all right, so roll the damage because you're probably just hitting hitting. One
of the mind flayers gets crushed in this gravity black turned into a marbecond.
The second mind flayer crushed in this gravity black hole. Third mind flay a
crushed in this gravity black hole. Yeah. Yeah, as you see the
mind players look scrabbling at the deck getting pulled by this like like looks like
you just dropped a fucking like like space black hole in the middle of the
death and it's like rolling and spinning and like bending the whole deck in on
itself and everything's gonna pulled towards it. These three mind players passed through that
black hole and pop out the other side is literally like crushed marbles and they
just go sailing off the ship Zecto. As you drop the as you dropped
the jar, the decanter that has slough in it, you're able to like
roll out of the way of the of the black hole and you don't you
take the damage, you take the twenty nine damage, but you're able to
catch onto the side of the no Alloid ship as you are just like holding
onto this thing. Yeah, you're all scrambling for dear life. And is
therenything else you're trying to do for your turn? Three? Uh no,
that's it. I think three is looking he's looking nasty as his constellations.
Turn Er Old is seventeen. She's back in the fight. Uh no,
longer stunned. She stands up. Holy shit, Jack though you suck,
and she she looks around, kind of surveying the scene real quick. She
is going to shout a healing word at you. What's your name? Thray
as as Consolation stands up, she prais a word a prayer to her God,
which is just her father silk shirt Johnson. As you take sixteen healing
points back, all right, let's go, let's go. So at that
point she runs down as she runs over to Slaw and she starts administering to
him, which like you see Slaw come out of the out of the jar
and he his very like nice clothes are like burnt away. You see huge
patches of raw and burnt skin all over his body. He's like kind of
just crumpled and shivering as dangling off the side of the ship. There's two
more mind flares, but it's not their turn yet. It is buttons turn.
But all this just happened, huge turn way to go through. That
was awesome. You have two more mind flares in front of you, and
they're like, wow, that sucked for us, right, since we're a
hive mind, we felt every one of those deaths multiple times. It's a
good thing. Those those guys sucked that. Buttons turns around and looks at
them and says, we will leave your ship and to you if you let
us. You're about to say the one thing that they're all leaving, Like,
yeah, never mind, I forgot that. They actually sung they wanted
the guy and you would leave ZECTO. Do you have read but fred Us?
Oh no, He's going to fall through the ground and die. I
kind of assumed I'm going to cast shatter. Okay, so they need to
make constitution saving throws constitution decease. Fifteen not a strength of theirs. I
would say that is an eight, nine and a thirteen. Neither of them
pass. Okay, sixteen thunder damage cool as just all of Sorry, how
does it look? Buttons turns around and says, this season going well for
you, and it's only going to get the worse. And he brings up
his hand and crushes a small light bulb he had in it, and behind
the mind flares. There's just the loudest shattering of glass, just like imagine
Sears tower. O She's broken. Wow, that would be that would be
a big yeah, a huge shattering and a smattering of glass as these these
things are blasted with these electric shock wave shards of glass. U is that
it for your turn? Yes? Excellent, It is now their turn.
They didn't like that. They didn't like that one bit. They cannot like
it all they want. I'm gonna need you, Buttons to make two intelligence
of saving throws of fifteen with a plus ten. Yes, you've bet on
the wrong horse, my friend. If they're twenty two and the twenty six
excellent. As you see there, the mind flares in front of their tentacles,
rise up and you see their beaks open and they just let out this
psychic scream and you just like cross your arms and stand there is just like,
oh yeah's my head? Um? Actually three, I'm gonna need you
to make one as well. You're you're be one one of the CON's God
damn it, three unnatural one as you take Wait, wait, do I
have something for this? No? Let me see if constellation, we're all
just trying to save three here, use my last negate spell on that mind,
last to save or to save yourself. I'm thinking in the commotion,
people are coming after me, and I'm just spell spells are out? Sure
well actually, uh yeah, I just I just rolled for the niceness.
And you want to know what I got natural twenty? Oh my god,
what would have happened to me if I've gotten hit by it? Twenty two
damage and it's done for one minute? Not that again. I feel like
this fight is coming to a close. I don't want you to be like
just like Catatonic in the corners, like um, yes, so Nolan,
yes, as this is what I'm gonna say. As this happens you you're
like hanging on the side of the Nadoloid ship. You're trying to pull yourself
up there. You're like half So this is actually what happened. This is
this is not me making this up. This is what happens when somebody leaves,
like the safety of the of the gravity field, which you definitely have,
You get caught in this limbo and you you're kind of going, You're
you're leaving in one moment, but then you're coming back in one moment.
You're kind of scrabble on and you you're able to get one hand on it,
but you're not able to like get a really good purchase for your feet
to like get push yourself back on. And like in that moment, you
look up and you see your mind flare Brethren opening their tentacles and about to
cast this this psychic song, and you're like, I can't, I can't
afford this, and you you reflexively nick Gate, the one that just so
happens to be shooting towards three um and three, and in your mind you're
like, but he saved me? Could it? Could it be? Could
it actually love with me? It is impossible. So that's it for their
their turns, and it is now Zecto's turn, because Zeco did literally kill
Slalsa, so Slalsa was a real person at one point. Oh yeah,
no, you're you're confused because you you were in love with Slalsa and you're
not necessarily in love with Zat. I think like three probably think so that
they've been the same person the whole time, but really they were two different
people. That Zecto, it is your turn. You are hanging on the
side of the ship. You for them from You see Slal on the ground
in front of you. You see Constellation administering first aid and putting all sorts
of salves and creams on our boys. Slough and he just says, oh,
it's Constellation. With my skin it burns. I am going to I
have my I've had my dagger out the whole time, i haven't done anything
with it. I'm going to activate it's it's daily ability, and then I'm
going to cast dimension door sixty feet above Slal and I'm just going to fall
with my dagger aimed at him to kill him. I love that. So
Nolan, I'm gonna have you make an attack role. Well here, so
I've got this thing called the violent attraction, so I used on Stag.
It says, you know in addition to that, you know where I added
damage to the attack. If your creature than sixty feet of it, who
takes damage from a fall? Oh okay, I can. I can just
make it do more damage. But I don't think that's gonna do anything here,
Well I did. I am falling sixty feet so I don't know,
but that does might make it worse for Slaw. Ze Zeco is taking extra
damage. Zeco's taking damage. Slaw is gonna also take some some damage from
this impact of somebody hitting him. Don't say anything yet, no one,
because I saw you roll. You're trying to be the thirteen before you know
the outcome of this. Three if you if you think you can, if
you think three might miss, you can you can add more damage to him
and have him take more damage. But you do you could also have him
hit Slaw and Slaw could take more damage. Is that that that that if
you want to do this, that's the that's the choice you have to make.
I am I am an evil person. Hey all right, all right,
he's he's gonna do it. He's gonna give him that extra two D
ten. How much can how much damage I take from a sixty footfall too?
It's a D six for every ten feet, so you're taking sixty six
damage. So I'll roll this. Yeah, I'll roll this in charge so
you guys can I'll see it. Uh, here's the sixty six damage,
and Slaw is gonna take pop out of the air and thres like awesome,
just like points. Slaw is gonna take half of this on top of the
No no, no, no, no no no. So I think,
okay, this is no, this is what it is. Slaw is gonna
take all of it. You're gonna take half of this. It's Constellation.
She's like consolation offering above him. Here here's how I was seeing. I
don't know anymore. I'm just trying to fall and like this is just I'm
out of options. My my, my golden goose has escaped the nest.
I'm doing what I can to do just get out of this. I probably
don't see Constellation working, so I think the dagger or me would catapult into
her and she would call up thiss onto Slaw. So Slaw's not gonna take
all of the damage here, Okay, here's the thing. She has a
sixteen. I had sixteen on the dice, but I'll roll again. Okay.
So you say you're gonna hit Consolation, okay, okay, um twenty
two damage from the from the fall saw secto. You're gonna take half because
you're cushing her fall. Consolation is gonna take all of it, and the
dagger damage and Slaw is gonna take half of it. Where's the two d
ten? Where's my amplification? Oh? I rolled a nine in a ten.
Let's go. Okay, So from from the fall damage alone, Consolation
is taking forty one points of damage. Okay, roll me the dagger damage
eighteen total damn. So Consolation just took eighteen plus forty two forty one fifty
nine fifty nine. Baby, that is wild. She had and I shit
you not exactly fifty nine hp left. Consolation is unconscious as unconstolant. She
goes forward onto Slaw. ZECTO, you take thirty, No, he takes
the forty. He takes the forty, takes twenty one because forty two was
the was the fall damage, so twenty one and Slow also takes twenty one
damage and he's also unconscious. Oh my god, as these two are unconscious,
slawsa Zecto is on top of them, driving the dagger right in through
Constellations back and that's a good turn, Jesus Christ as just to retell what
just happened. There was a lot there, Zecto hanging off the side of
the ship. You mean you like, look up your survey the whole scene.
You see Buttons and three fighting the two mind flares. You see Constellation
trying to save Slaw. You know you don't have enough strength to get back
on the ship. You cast dimension door right underneath you, and you just
let go from the ship. And as you're falling back into the void of
space, you kept pass through your dimension door and turn around in midair,
and now beneath you is Constellation and Slow you drop onto the back of Constellation,
driving your dagger right through her like it comes out the other side.
She takes a ton of damage as you like, driving knee right into her
spine. You also take a bunch of damage from that, and you see
you just feel also like slow underneath who is already prettydamage kind of just crumple
and not move. And that's what just happened. As three, it is
your turn. You are up about thirty feet away. You saw this happened
just behind you. Zecto is killing again. What do you do at this
point? I will point out that with the fall damage and the extra damage
from Andy spell, i am blooded. Oh that's significantly Yeah, I think
three will roll on up and I'm gonna cast sleep at fifth level and I'm
gonna thirteen D eight hit points. Oh my god, that's sixty one.
So starting with Zecto, you see three like like hold out the wand and
you see like a shimmer of purple blanket cover and slowly start to like,
you know, very peacefully fall over Zecto. Is that I'm gonna show you
the calculator I've been using for how many hit points I have left. I'm
just I'm gonna I'm just gonna turn this screen around. Oh yes, that
was sixty one of the listeners. Yeah, it's exactly HP God, I
can't think of a better both of you. How do you how does this
look? As as three? The the you he killed your lover. I
know, I think, oh man, what do you how does it look?
My one sided lover? It really you killed my first thing. He
really killed my first friend. Let's be serious here. So I think a
little. He's a little confused about relationships because he doesn't have a lot of
them. So is it just like platonic or is romantic? He doesn't know,
but um he you know, he extends the wand and you know he's
bloodied and and and like weak, and you just see the purple like Hayes
drift, and it just coalesces onto Zecto and you see him like Zecto started
to get drowsy and and Thrayon says that was for my my first d and
my best friend, and and you just I imagine Zecto. You just slowly
start to fall asleep, having been so focused on getting back to slow and
you know, driving the dagger into Constellation feels this this weariness just take over
their entire body. And they hear thray say this to them, and they
turn and look as they're starting to pass out, and they go, this
is the power. And then he falls asleep. They fall asleep. I
love it. So then we got the Constellation, Uh, Slow and sector
are all just kind of in a pile sleeping. Um as three, is
anything else you're doing for your turn? I think you know. Uh three
turns to buntons as buntons Zecta was asleep. We need to get out of
here. We need to get these moving into areas. Um he's threw out.
We need to we need to get constellation and slow and we need to
go. You can respond, but your turn will come up after Constellations.
Buttons is sure and I just rolled a death saving throw for constellation? Does
she save death? As three? You're talking to Buttons, you hear a
gasp come from behind you and you turn around. You see constellations. Eye
has open up because I rolled a natural twenty. I was just about to
ask death sing not today, and she just is like, whoa what?
Oh my back, my face, my every everything hurts broken, everything hurts
so much right now? Oh my gosh um And then she like that's it
for a turn. That's all she can do for a turn. Pretty sure,
as Buttons, it is your turn. You have two mind flares in
front of you. You have a sleeping zeke do which is fucking wild?
And what are you trying to do. Buttons looks both of these mind flares
in the eyes and says, you can die on the sheep or you can
die off of it by on your own terms. The choice is yours,
and like holds up his fists covered in electricity roll whatever you're better at intimidation
or persuasion. Ah, it's nine. This is what happens. They they
just as one. Now guess thunderwave. Okay, um, they're not hung
for this world. So you have a decent killing. That's a constitution saving
throng. Get at that A five plus one and a ten plus one.
Not gonna do it? Eight fifteen thunder damage. And they are pushed ten
feet away as you see the corpses of these mind players get pushed ten feet
away. They're Buttons. How do you how do you kill? What does
it look like? Buttons? You know? Says this. They laugh at
him and and they're never and so Buttons is like fine, He crosses his
arms and there's just like this huge like dragon ball z ask just shock wave
from him, like adjusting his back or something, and they get their corpses
get thrown against the wall and splat on the ground, and he turns around
and starts walking towards his friends and Mutters should have played ball. So I
think, for the sake of this fight, you are all out of initiatives.
Oh man, as you see a sleeping Zecto at your feet, Constellation
is trying to say revive slaw. But there's just so much blood and so
much damage you're not sure if she's making progress. So Three is gonna go
to Zecto. He's gonna adjust that sucker's density to half of his weight.
He's gonna chuck that sucker in a deep space. Oh all right, I'm
doing it, like, you know, somewhat gracefully, not to wake him
up. Yeah, Buttons, help me up with this really quick. What
do you say as you throw Zecto? What do you all? What?
What? What? What does that look like? Three? I think just
is like standing on the like you know, the ship railing with Buttons next
to him, just staring. Um. I don't think Thray says anything.
I think he just stares down Zecto. Oh yeah, hell yeah, Buttons
looks at him. Yeah, No, I don't. I don't think he
says anything either. I think he's mad that his real friend is dead and
this guy's in space now, and I hope he never lands Buttons. Buttons
says that to Thray. Button says, I hope he doesn't hit anything that
give him purchase. And you see as as Zecto's flu floating away, the
icye tendrils, the body starting to shrivel, the starting to freeze up,
and what do you do? Knowing um since uh, since Buttons doesn't have
a brain with which to communicate, this probably only comes up in phrase mine
and Zecto says, this isn't the last you'll see of me, friend,
and then he casts plane shift on himself and it disappears out of reality.
Three cast counterspell yes, yes, I've been saving that this whole fight.
So as that happens, extend his hand and you just see like a pulse
happened out of his palm and it just washes over Zecto as he's like smiling,
and then just like as the as the ice, I'm sorry, Nolan,
as I've got three slots for that. So he keeps like, wait,
wait, that's that's not supposed to happen. This isn't what's supposed to
happen at all, Like yeah, three three, just says, oh man,
what would he say? I'm so bad at these, but he says,
uh, Slausa Slawsa was a much stronger wizard soul sort of magic user
than you, and he just coughed in his mind the mind cuff as as
Yeah, as you see is exactly what happens. You see. You see
Zecho starting to like open up a shift in reality, and you spit on
the ground and you like in the in the in the flavor of density,
you like push out this pulse and like push him just a little too far
away from his portal, and like the ice takes over him and then he
just continues floating away as a frozen who into hell. Yeah, well fucking
done, let's go, let's go PvP. That's a that's pretty nutty.
Jesus, it was hard. I was scared there for a second. And
you guys did really well and let's just let's just wrap this up here.
Oh man, good job Nolan especially, Jesus, well done. Yeah,
uh, well fucking done, you guys. That was that was so much
fun. I guess, like there was so much chaos and I was like,
how can I not immediately die? As you see the corpse of Zec
do fly off into wild space. The remaining crew of the Winona. You
are on the abandoned not aloid ship known as the Black Star, and Consolation
helps you nurse your wounds and buttons you very quickly with slow sort of dictating
and helping you. You're able to rip parts off of the nooloid ship and
repair your ship. You're able to untangle it from the tentacles in the front,
and after some considerable time, you are able to the Winona is floating
and flying next to the Black Star. It looks kind of weird now because
it it has bits of these like almost like shellfish. Do we gain any
does the Winona gain any cool abilities? After you're like, oh yeah,
fuck yeah, buttons, buttons, What if we gain the teleportation from the
Black Star? Can we incorporate that into the Winona. Absolutely, yes,
you're able. It takes you a little bit longer, but you're able to
pull the required parts off of them off of the Black Star and now the
Winona black and white stripes, but also like weird, like some of the
stripes are disrupted by like the stripes of like a nod aloid shell. Yeah,
but you're able to install the teleportation device and out, Yes, the
Winona crew. Members of the Winona can get teleported two and from five hundred
feet fantastic, and you are all able to sail away and sail away from
the Black Star, leaving a derelict and abandoned in wild space. As you
all head back to the the all Rex as theism. It was very hard
to write something for this, so I didn't because I did know who was
going to survive. But as you all head back to the old rexis Theorism
in a scene very similar to what you saw a couple hours ago. Now
you see Constellation kind of helps Slow to the front of the Winona where you
guys are looking at these these these bits of stars and these bits of wild
space that are unfinished, and Slow pulls up the star mapper again and he
starts mapping the stars. You see him move these stars into what we know
as the is the symbol of neath. Once the final star falls into place,
you see the very center circle open up and through it you can see
an interesting site. You see what looks like the top of a mountain covered
in snow in the middle of a night sky. It blends in somewhat with
wild space itself. But you see it's not you see it is a different
plane of reality, a different plane of existence. You see this portal opens
up around on the peak of this mountain, looking out over this night sky,
but also way down in the distance you see the ocean. And Slaw
turns to U three and turns to you Buttons, and as much as he
can, he smiles, and he walks over to you and he gives you
both a hug. I don't know if you take it, but he gives
you both a hug through like kind of like pushes in a way. It's
like, I'm not doing this because I like you. I'm doing this because
they mentioned this would be rewarding. So Buttons buttons full on hugs. Yeah,
And you guys have this moment and Slaw looks to you and he says,
oh, well, um so hurt. I'll never forget you too.
I'll try to forget Zecto because he was a big, a big doodoo head.
Sorry Consolation, And she's like, no, he was a fucker.
And and he says, I hope I hope to see you all again at
some point. I don't know where this leads, but if it is within
my power. I will see you you both again. Yeah. It kind
of pats the ship on one of the burned two by fours and he says,
and maybe even the windowna again. This this you you all, thank
you, And he turns and starts to walk towards the portal, and Consolation
looks to you, you both, and she's like, I'm in a lot
of pain also, but um. She looks to three and then she looks
over to Buttons and she's like, Buttons. She she pulls out an amulet,
not a ring that she has and she gives it to you, and
she says, give this to my father and he will he'll know what it
means and he will give you anything you want. But then she she turns
and starts to walk away. Then she turns back and she says, no,
but seriously, thank you. We won't forget this. And can you
all roll me an insight check please, I'm seeing my insight yep, still
space twelve thirteen. You notice, as she says we a shadow falls over
her eyes. She sort of gives you a knowing look and yeah, she
turns and unless there's anything else you all want to say to her they're both
about to walk through the portal, so they just kind of like turns around
starts walking back to the stell Jammership, limping a little bit. Probably Buttons
tries to grab Slall real quick before he passes through. He says, I
don't know how interdimensional travel works, but if you should ever need my assistance,
he reaches into his bender like stomach and pulls out a small it looks
like one of his fingers, just just like a small cylindrical thing that's kind
of blinking, and he hands it to him and he says, I'm sure
you can find the way to make this useful. And this is a thumb
drive with buttons, just blank programming on it, no memories, just who
Buttons is essentially operating system. There we go and he says, did you
ever need a friend in the dark time? You have one in your pocket,
And you see tears. Tears fall from Slaw's eyes and he again says,
thank you. I never forget you. And with that, Constellation and
Slaw walk through the portal on to the top of this mountain and they turn
around and you see the wind blowing their clothes and hair, and they wave
at you as portal closes, and I think that's where we are, where
we're going to end this story. Actually, not just this session, the
whole story. Camera tilts down from the stars, down from the cosmos.
Out over a calm sea, we see the overlarge, disgustingly ambiguous and undescribed
pirate ship called the Sea Monster. The camera moves in past the night crew
led by Guff Leatherhead, blue Dragon Barn. We head down below, decks
down, down, down to a workshop lit by a single candle. In
this workshop we see Slow, much older, his burns and scars standing out,
his white patches on his purple skin. Then that is my story.
I have not seen the crew of the known As since I came to this
plane, but I think of them every single day. He pauses and looks
over at a shelf on the wall, high owe them more than they know.
He approaches the shelf and examines its content, a shelf of trinkets from
his past, a few shards of gemstones, a few scrolls, and leather
bound books. But among these keepsakes we see three items. We see a
small, floating black and white striped ship shaped like a wasp, next to
a small robotic thumb sized device with a blinking red light. Slaw looks at
these two items, and his eyes softened, and a hint of a smile
touches the corner of his mouth. Then his eyes fall on the final item
on the shelf, a battered and misshapen silver crown with an enormous emerald,
surrounded by citrins. The gems make the shape of a giant green eye.
This crown looks to have held great beauty long long ago. Now it radiates
nothing but death and pain. A ring of evil looking spikes around the inside
of the crown. They are discolored and stained with dried blood. As Slaal's
eyes fall on this crown, the love that touched his face a few moments
ago vanishes. He reaches up and absent mindedly touches the scars that cover his
face. Yes, I owe them more than they will ever know. And
with that, Slaw covers the crown with a small silk cloth and blows out
the candle. I am Noland Lacy. I was playing Zecdo you can find
me at GBq pod or A Good Better Quest wherever you get your podcasts.
My name is David Hallman, also go by Staghorn. You can find me
on Twitter at stag underscore Horn and Twitch It's stag underscore Horn. I am
the fungition master for a good better quest with Nolan, I have been Andy
Tilstra, soon to be Andy Tilstra and always Andy Tilstra playing threg on Iocodia
on this amazing side quest and side venture. And we're excited to see what
other side quest and side venture is the next one. Yeah, and I'm
David Tilstra, the weirdly sad boy, but I've been your dungeon master.
And just a huge, huge, huge thank you to Nolan and Stag here
for jumping on and helping us tell this part of the story. And with
that we'll see you all in two weeks. Thanks. Our theme song was
written by John Lowell Anderson. Sound effects and music provided by Artless dot Io
and freesound dot Org, edited by David Tilstra, and sound design by Christian
Spinama. And finally a huge thank you to Kendari O'Connor for his invaluable sound
master. And with that we have finished the first side quest the backstory of
slal So. First of all, thank you, thank you, thank you
to Staghorn and Nolan for jumping in and helping us tell the story. Literally,
we could not have done this without them. They're amazing. They added
so much to this story and brought such energy and passion and just themselves and
it was literally so much better than I could have ever hoped for. And
that's it. You've heard the story of slal Now and those characters, Corporal
Buttons, Slalsa and Zecto and thragn Aucodia will live in the canon of From
a Far Podcast from this day forward forward. So once again to the Good
Better Quest folks, thank you so much for lending us your talent and lending
us your storytelling power to help us tell the story. And for those of
you who have not done it, please go check out Good Better Quest.
They are amazing. They have one of the best DND podcasts out there.
And I'm not just saying that it is hilarious, it is heartwarming. It
is just good quality DND, great great storytelling, great voice acting, great
acting. It's amazing. Please please please go check out A Good Better Quest.
Now that I've done that, thank you for joining us again on this
adventure. Thank you for all the support and all the love you give us.
We could not and would not be here without you, and we are
so so so grateful every day for all the support and all the love you
show us. So yeah, thanks for hanging out. That's it for this
first side quest. We got a couple more in the chamber, new guests,
new new stories coming up. We've got let's see a little bit of
a spoiler here. I think we're going to be doing Williams next, but
don't quote me on that. Keep an eye on the discords and twitters if
you want some information about that. We'll we'll be announcing guests, we'll be
announcing the care we're gonna be playing, and yeah, it's gonna be a
good time. So please look forward to that. And that's it for me,
So enjoy the rest of your week. Please remember to stay happy,
stay healthy, and go wash your car because it's dirty, it's dusty,
there's candy rappers and string cheese rappers all over the inside. You gotta wash
the outside, vacuum the inside, and you got to just make it look
good because, as my grandmother always used to say, a clean car is
a clean heart. She never said that once, but I'm going to start
telling all my nieces and nephews that because it's confusing. I like that anyway.
I love you all, thank you so much for everything to do for
us, and we will catch you all in two weeks. Thanks Spike,