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welcome to another from a funwhale, just from a far podcast. Previously,
I'm from a far podcast. You all are standing sort of looking up at
this ship as you're standing on the back of this whale. Well, the
plus zero I got fifteen, So I'm going to sample an article. The
same thing happens. It just sort of turns into this like ah, just
not pleasant substance in your mouth. But then Vex ended up being kind of
like the target of their humiliation. He looks at his family's arm guard,
all of them pointing guns at him, the streaming on the water, and
I've been going to feel his coldness and just feeling so warm and dry and
the skin just peeling and cracking away. And I just went in the water.
They would let me. And now that we are an hour into this
thing less, we're also initiative. Please all right, we're gonna get it,
all right, el please lead, Let's go gotcha. We and I'm
casting or I'm using one of my features, emboldening bond. You all remember
a mayor Anvo you had shot chocolate with him just a few days ago.
But what's strange about this person that you see now is it's also a mayor
Annville. I'll go do a dip on it right now, Bro, want
to I want to see I want to see it doing. Actually I've been
wondering, like, what is that a lot bigger than I thought? Yeah,
it is a it is a lot gets a lot smaller. Perspective is
hard to tell. Blake is like just imagine all of this, But Blake
is three feet tall. Really, that's only a two feet today, So
that was not fun. I already did my chest this morning and I was
like, oh god, I feel it due No. I was also,
there's some good dips, but I was just imagining you being like, you
know, like two to three feet tall, just from how I've imagined from
that being behind you, and it's like it like I have it solidified in
a size category. So when you brought it over and started to he's like
the size of an eight or five year old. Certain the dip part was
only like two feet. Yeah, so you're using it was like, clearly
you're only three feet tall. I don't size, doesn't even you know I
am three feet I'm half like a real life thing. So y'a already let's
uh, that's part these vales of reality and make like spaghetti, make make
like spaghetti. I would be the best bull of spaghetti. Don't have no
reality spaghetti. That's confidence. Yeah, it's not even Italian. Still be
the best spaghetti. Like, don't eat don't even Christian Christians, Christians ancestors
are rolling over in their great No reality spaghetti is not as good as Grandma
used to make it. Immediately, derailists, what would reality spaghetti be?
Mass? Oh, the threads that connect us all, that's pretty good.
The meatballs made along the way the friends were the meat balls we made along
o. That makes this kind of sound cannibalistic, like if you can't eat
your friend, then new can't you eat? Though? I mean, let's
we're over gonna eat somebody, might as well eat somebody. So that's true.
That point people got in their bodies these days. If you're gonna eat
somebody, dude, do somebody that you know really well? You know their
medical history, friends and family only, I am so edible, edible,
don't go on advertising that now. Might be some hungry people out there just
like just gets a DM like, hey, I heard you're edible. I
happen to be very hungry, worry enough to eat roughly a three foot tall
sign with a very very good trips. Yeah, I'd like to dip you
into some ranch I've lost. I'm sorry, Can we start before this gets
weird? Oh weirder? Okay? Anyway, Yeah, so let's all let's
do this thing. So you all we're in the story. Now, you
all are your coats. Everyone, I expect you to never break character,
my gold. You're you're all are standing in this uh relatively dilapid. Dilapidated
is too strong of a word, very old, very used captain's quarters of
this ship, which you've been exploring this whole time. The whole ship is
its seem better days. It's still seaworthy, but it seemed better better days.
Y'all are standing in this captain's quarters right as who this person just wakes
up from the captain's desk. Uh, And like I said before, you
all recognize mayor and Mayor Nitri stinky state mayor Stinky Annville is the name that
we He's like, that's what I remember. You found my secret, my
secret, stinky. Um you, I'm sorry. Oh, I was just
gonna VEX. What's gonna point? Yo? Is that? Yeah? Yep?
Really you're here. You look awful strength, holds out this this and
he says, okay, hold on, hold on everyone here as you all
from Butcher's Bay. Uh yeah you sab us yep, yes, but if
you're here, then how did you how did you send us on this mission?
And he hasn't put the saber down, and he's very slowly. He
looks like he's getting in a position to defend himself, not necessarily attack,
if that makes sense. Um, And he says, okay, hold on,
no sudden, I throw my net love like I love that so much.
Make an a tag ral gotcha. Gotcha you're looking for is fifteen And
in fact, I'll give you advantage because you are. He's very he's on
edge, but he's surprised than okay, well, I'll do what I mean.
He would be surprised. That's explicitly what he asked you not to do,
which second twenty one excellent. It goes over him. We quickly cut
into his mind and says, navel, I've just explicitly asked them to foot
motion. Lt just reaches like this, worris whoop, just breaks it down,
just grabbed it because he hits someone like in a ball. And again
he's thrown almost like a fisherman, just kind of just almost like like a
poke ball. M Yeah, I captured him. Good gosh, you see
as you've now captured successfully captured a mayor, nickname him Stinky layer. Um
and he no, no, no, sorry, sorry, every every everyone
calm down, come down, I'm not I'm not here to hurt you.
You pulled out the sword was quite easy. We've we've established nets, especially
when a thrown by LTI, are very effect. Yeah, it's he goes
down and he's trying to just like get out. He is for the moment
in capacity. He says, okay, okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
I just needed to know if you've all been infected, you've been if
you've been taken over? What by? What hold on? I have?
I have a lot to explain here. And he holds his sword out to
you. LTI like in the net taken kind of lightly grab it, Yeah,
he says, okay, imagining it's like a dish towel sized net.
Yeah, he's just like, I can't. There's no way to get out
of this, like you've won. Have you all seen Robin Hood men in
tights? Yes, little John falls into the water water, yeah, he
says. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I realize
came on a little strong here, but I need you all to know just
I just needed to see if I could trust you or if you were sent
by him to stop men. Can someone help me out of this? You
gotta start over, you talk from the mat. He stays in the net
until we're absolutely has no more weapons. Okay, to see a gun fought
of his pot, Now that's the leto He's I have no more weapons.
I have no more weapons. And he's like pulling out his pockets of his
coat and uh, now that you can get a little better chance to look
at him, you see just very much like a like a very pirate looking
long disheveled hair. He has like a wine red coat that looks like like
a long tailed wine red coat that looks like it was at some point some
sort of naval officers. It's got insignia on the chest cuffs and golden buttons
and everything. You do see the scabbard for the saber. It is empty
belts and pouches and little little things, all a little cou traumont all around
him. He says, Okay, no, yes, you said I sent
you. Yes, or that's actually a pretty good place to start. I
used to be the mayor of Butcher's Bay. I take it you all are
from there, And seeing how you're surprised to see me here, it seems
like the dream or the night Walker is still impersonating. Did I send you
on a missions that night walker? Yes, it's a serious Yeah. No,
that that sounds scarier than I've ever ever heard. And you know why
I used to work breaking ice every day. I heard scary things all day
long. Yeah, and there's trust me, there's some horrific, terrifying sea
creatures in the month. And actually you know what uh he okay, he
says, wait are you are you vex Hexington? Vex Vexington. It's no,
I forgot my own name. Sometimes the body on homeplocking to it's been
it's been years. I okay, let me start at the beginning ears Like
I said, I used to be the mayor. Uh huh, which,
by check check I made a deal with at the point, I didn't realize
it was a night walker and he what was the deal. I just wanted
happiness for my city. It's fast insight, that's kind that's kind of a
bit of a lame thing to wish for. Yeah, to bond your soul
to to a devilish creature, you say, I hope everybody can be happy.
I didn't realize he was a devilish creature at the time. He was
very charismatic. He said he had a way to help make the city or
the village, the town, whatever it is. I've said, I've called
it every anything. They said they had a way to make everyone they're happy
and get successful and just having a great time going on. Yeah, that's
that's what's going with their memories. Yeah, before you go through, though,
is there is there someone else on the ship? I look at the
at the lad that's with us. Yeah, I forgot about yea too.
Will says, Hey, yeah, it's me, thanks for remembering me.
Um I hadn't inhaled in three hours. Exists again, um as William just
pops into existence. Um, he says, yeah, Mayor Annville, I
I'm looking for my brother. He he went, he went out on this
ship a couple of years ago after the first go ship attacked, and I
haven't seen him since. His name was Marcus. And you see, Mayor
anivils star like stop struggling and he he looks very seriously at at Willem and
he says, well, the reason you haven't found your brother is because I'm
your brother. And he takes off his mask. He's a little boy,
and he says, he gets out of one of the little holes in the
may it's me. No, he says, well, it's complicated. He's
he's not actually, but he's not here because none of us are where we
think we are. We're in the shadow Fell. Um, all of us
are in the shadow Fell. And in fact that the entire town was transported
to the shadow Fell when I made the deal. I'm an idiot, you're
absolutely absolutely I made a terrible deal. I thought I was helping. I
thought I was going to win the Poles the next year, if everyone's going
to be happy, and to us all to the shadow Fell are like consuming
her life for what even is the shadow Fell. The shadow Fell is basically
the realm of Despair. It's sort of an an inverse copy of the material
plane. Yes, yes, yes, I've a feeling disappointed. What an
easy mistake to make. Well, he didn't say, hey, hey,
it's me. I'll give you something if you can give all your people to
the shadow Fell. He didn't. That's not the way he went down.
He said he could help me, and I was excited and I went for
it. And no, I'm an idiot. I've made a terrible mistake,
and that's why I'm still here trying to save the town. Yes, and
you're doing so well. I'm doing a terrible job. No, don't patronize
me. I'm awful at this. It's okay. You had you had the
best intentions, like, yes, you're rago messed up, but intention that
seems just really sorry, we can move past that. Yes, we're really
we're really hammering down in the marry here here. Sorry, coach, if
you remember me or Bruce Springstey, he put us on the shadow Foul.
The shadow Foul. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a bumber, huge
bumber, you know. Yeah, And as he starts remembering, as he
remembers Vaccin as remembers Bruce. He starts to like tear up and he says,
I'm so sorry. I nerd was not the time and he digimon cards
fall out his pockets. Put the gun, Oh that was my gun was
supposed to be holding those downs, he starts to as he starts to remember
you always, I'm so sorry. I've made a terrible mistake. I've yes
and hindsights twenty twenty. If if I I wouldn't have made this deal.
If I knew, if I'd read the fine print, knew he was like
the way he was going to make you all feel better. All that,
all that is fine. You're just saying the things that we can't change.
Right, go ahead, you I think you're on the sand track as I
am. If you got it, I don't think we're not on this track.
What's the track? The track is all we can do now? Just
fix USA, right Hey, coach coach Bruce. Uh. If ever there
was a player that looked like he could use a pip talk, I think
I think some of your magic might work. What are you? Bruce gives
you the knowing not I got you kind of fixes like he's got dad shorts
on, you know, kind of cargo, kind of pulls him up a
little bit and squats down in front of in front of the mare. Hey,
but hey, Champ, see, uh, I'm a little bit of
a rough time there. But how you feeling terrible? Yeah? I would
do. Hey, you know if I if I had such a major bummer
like you did, budd, Yeah, I'd be feeling real bad on the
inside. But you know what. The thing we got to do here,
Champ is we got to move forward like the team's staying Upie. I mean,
yeah, we do to kind of just soak you one or two in
the face. But yeah, we'll wait until after. We're not the rush.
We're not. We got all the time in the world. I'm not
going anywhere. I can't get out of this net. This is a great
night. Yeah, thank you, you gave it to me, right,
I not get rid of those Yeah. So so, Champ. Here,
we're a team here. Okay, we got a couple objective, a couple
of missions here. First and foremost is uh, finding that little guy's brother
Marcus, Right, you gotta find him. He said that he's alive but
in here, but not here. We gotta find him, But no,
we've got a little bit of a maybe a little bit more important, but
maybe not secondary goals save Butcher's Bank. You say you've been trying terribly,
you admit, but still trying. Got to give you some credit, team
credit credit right, All you can do is triang is important. Compliment sandwich
may you're trying real hard. That's one layer of bread. Here's the meat
of it. You have done goofed real bad. Okay, you have done
goof real bad. You just real boner on this one. Okay, hagg
on your face all other side of the compliment. Someone helped me another night.
Your shoes look great considering yea, there it is compliment sand clothing.
All these years you don't smell as bad as you should. This year's you've
warned clothing. Yes, that's great, is nice. I just got to
know if you've been trying to help Butcher's Bay, right, what have you
been doing? How can we help you? Because we're bring Hey, hey,
budd, we're bringing you into the team. Let's get this man of
Jersey. Oh, come on, let's go bringing him into the team.
I suppose the wonderful Butcher's Bay Ballers, the Butcher Ballers. I forgot I've
forgot our name several times just route to Vegas. Just righteous, Oh the
Righteous, I remember, I remember when, right, because you know,
we had the playoffs against the Lisk and lay about an excuse of shout up.
I was making us. The shadow's making us forgets LEAs you know,
it makes sense. It's exactly h and as as Bruce is talking to Jimmy
says right, thank thank you. Okay, Well here's here's the first I
can answer your first question. Marcus is back in the material plane. I
left him there when I came back. I've been the I've been the ghost
ships coming back every every so often. Why I think he's taking people back.
I think you're what you're doing is you're you're taking us and you're bringing
them back to the I was trying to save the people, but it couldn't
after a while. His his name is leg What go? Who have you
stayed first? So anyone in relation to us? Anyone else have you saved?
Let me see, are you looking for someone specific specifically, well,
Coach's wife. Oh, oh, Neptune. Yes, I was gonna say,
yeah, I think Neptune. And I was like, I didn't want
to say anything with a coach. But I see what you're saying, he
says. No, I've I've I've been able to get a few people out
using using the ship and but no, no one, no one of important,
all the higher ranking officers are are I'm afraid to say, I think
they might be deep in the council of the goal guy. Oh dear,
sorry, Bruce, I remember you. Just a nervous laughter. Yeah,
this could be this could be intense. Um, But I left Marcus on
the shadow plane, sorry, the material plane, and we're currently on the
shadow plane. We've been well, you've been on the shadow fell for the
last three years. Oh well, good news. Willamy brother's probably fine silver
lining. I sent him to go find help because no, no, I
I just recently came. Oh okay, thank you, got a good time
line now, So you've just you've been living it up, just having a
great time on the material plane. No, no, no. He starts
like putting a bunch of like putting a much of like fast food cups,
always like no, no, it's been terrible, that's been awful. And
he's like tearing up like concert like good flyers, and he said everything guns
you Carson now like best foods kind of foosball machine. Yeah, I know,
and just pushes that out of the ship. No, it's been terrible
for me, he says. No, he's been able to keep me away.
Again, if i'd read the fine print, and there was fine print,
but I very small, I wasn't able to read it with my small
eyes. If if I'd been smarter, I wouldn't. He's been able to
banish me. He's been able to keep me away. I've been doing the
best I can to bring people out. Hasn't been working out. So I
left Marcus in the material in the material plane to go find help because,
as you can see, I am alone at this moment because I couldn't bear
if I brought someone back died or got recaptured. So I've been coming by
myself. Terrible mistake. Everything I'm doing is awful. I'm bad at this.
I'm not an adventurer. I'm okay. What can we do? What?
Yes? Yes? Please? Do you have a plan? Can you
count? There's like a couple of us now well as as he says,
yes, we can go back, we can we can do something here.
You all hear the door open up, and you turn around. Unfortunately,
you see someone there to naptune. Oh hey, babe by, are you
doing it? Wait? Hey, what are you doing here? Um?
Well, and as you look, you see Bruce. You see this with
a passive perception. Uh you see her eyes are glowing purple. I would
like to hide behind our entire party and just gonna, you know, shuffle
behind everybody, including Willem. There's a quick you push William right out in
front of you. She says, this would have would have been easier if
you all just died to that mass monster. It's waiting him. Run for
you. What net? You throw the net? Throw throw make make the
attack roll. Let's see what happens. The Mayor's like, I'm free,
yeah, And he turns into it and turns into the dream word of the
night walker. And it was me the whole time. That's a twenty three.
You see her use one of her legendary reactions. And she just catches
the net. She says, I've been at sea longer than you've been alive.
Nets don't work on me, and she throws it to the ground.
Maybe trident sto it. Then I'll charge and I'll stab her with the trident.
Good going if you want to, if you'll do that, go for
it. I shit you not. Don't roll for it because I just rolled
the natural twenty As as you charge at her, l t she she dodges
out of the way, grabs your tried it like bats you're trotting out of
the way, and grabs you around the neck. And she is going to
do some stuff too. It's game being held It's fine, yeah, yeah,
being held on. She is going to she okay, she she in
the in the flash, in the blink of an eye, she draws her
great sword, bats your you're trotting out of the way, and she hits
you for just an easy twenty eight damage okay, knocks you back on your
feet, sorry, on your butt, and she says, no, no,
you gotta gotta get up earlier than that. Bruce rushes like kind of
in between like over LT in front of Neptune. Uh in a you know,
like hand out in front of Neptune, over protective over LT. Hey,
Oh hey, hey, what's what's going on here? Why this is
my team? What are you doing? You sent us out here? I'm
so confused. You all were waking up, you all were starting to remember
life the way it was before, and we can't have that. I mean,
I don't recall any waking up happening. Well it was it was mostly
these two. And she points to Lte and Bruce and she says, but
they would have asked questions if we didn't bring all of you, and in
fact, Butcher's balls kind of stupid. So we just needed to get you
all out of here. Anyway. Excuse what have you done with my wife?
Roll me an inside check? Please? Um? Can I cast a
sky's self since I'm already kind of in the back? Sure you've got twenty
six? Yeah? Oh shit? This is this is someone you love.
This is the love of your life. This is the person you've been married
to and the mother of your children. You look into her eyes and you
see almost no recognition of you. You see, this is your wife.
This isn't like a doppelganger, This isn't like a shape shifter. But those
purple shining eyes are you know that she's not in control. You know that
she's being affected and controlled by something. Is it like like is she being
maybe it's roll? Is it like a charm, like a high level of
charms? Ye? Yeah, ro rollsom Arcona real quick with the twenty six
episode. I'll say, you're you're acting quick enough, and things haven't quite
escalated to where they are. They do them going a rate to hold a
rate, and so fair enough. Okay, A fifteen Arcona. Uh you
with with a fifteen? You recognize that she is being controlled by something.
You don't know if it is a charm spell or if there's like a totem
on her, or if there's if there's just something else. There's something else
going on. You're not entirely sure. Does she have a gift from the
mayor? I would know this she does. And this is where this is
where you recognize it from. You see her kind of brandishing the sword that
she just used against LT and you see the pommel of her sword is a
is a purple amethyst. Shit, good, good kid, Yeah, well
done. She says, this isn't going quite as as we thought it would.
You all are a little too smart for your own good and didn't just
die when we needed you too. So I'm just gonna help that along.
That's all thanks to butcher bowl bitch Bruce. She starts to back away.
If any of you want to do anything you can absolutely try. Do we
roll initiative? What do we do? I'm itching, We're not We're not
yea, Yeah, what's happening? So no, what would you guys do?
This is this is a moment where Yeah, Bruce's wife is very much
looks like she's being possessed by something. Eltie just got just flacked. Yeah,
I'll let you make the decision. This is what's going on. She
just hit Eltie. She's starting to explain things that are going on, and
she's like basically saying, fuck you, guys, you're supposed to die.
I'm gonna leave you here to die, and I'm out. And she is
trying to leave, she's trying to leave. I cast aora of purity on
myself, okay, and I tackle her. Okay, what does aura of
purity do? Aora of purity essentially means that anyone within it's cast on myself.
It's a thirty foot radius non hostile creatures, including you. We can't
become diseased resistance to point poison. But the important thing advantage on saving throws
against effects that cause blinded, charmed death, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned,
or stunned. So I know love that we oh moments we were fighting ourselves,
so I thought, And that's beautiful though if you think about it too,
like give her pretty much a hug, tocat a snapper out of it,
like low key, that's like really good. I'm absolutely loving this.
I wasn't necessarily expecting this. This is to be a fight, but I'm
loving it. So yes, um make me make me a rapple check.
Can have us help some home? Darn it. I wish I couldn't know
we would just just for the moment. I'm gonna I'm gonna say this,
this is this is Bruce's moment, just for the time. Yea, let's
see natural one. Oh no, but okay, oh it's actually an eighteen
I'm gonna use a portent role role Oh shit, okay, yes, hell
yeah? So how do how does that look? How? How does how
does the your your portents look? As you start you start to move towards
your your wife and you see she like roots herself and is like rounded,
and it looks like you are she's about to fucking knock you the fuck over?
How does it look when you flashback to uh, last year we had
Neptune just came back from a mission and we had a date planned. Um,
and I've spent the whole three weeks he was gone planning it, you
know. Uh, and I had this picnic plan and all this stuff,
and then it just started raining the moment we got there, and I'm like,
oh, dang, dang domage. So the picnic crown. I'm sorry,
babe, um, and you know, we're kind of going back and
forth, and then she gets this little playful look in her eye and she
goes, well, we've been playing that butcher ball, haven't you. And
then she produces a butcher ball and we start playing and then we're kind of
rough housing, you know. Rough housing gets to a little bit more physical,
and we're having a little fun being flirty. And there's one moment where
we're just grappled and I'm just like, oh, Pam, you know,
I get dude, you're just so big and powerful. I'm like hyping her
up. And then uh, she's always like, you know, she says
something along lines of like, you know, doesn't matter how big you are,
Bruce, it's the strength of your heart. Plus you know I got
that dan that damn bad left knee. Yes, And I remember that we're
grappled. I'm just like, it's the strength of the heart, babe,
strength of the heart. Blust your knee. Yeah, I love that out.
That was okay, yeah yeah. So Bruce charges and the rest of
you see you kind of a little unsure. There's a moment where like,
oh no, Neptune's about to just throw him back on his ass, and
then all of a sudden, all looking at it like, oh oh and
pancakes Bruce, like Lively would to strange, strange word to describe Bruce,
because Bruce isn't exactly a live person. Lively just sort of and this is
the moment you all realize this is why Bruce is you fucking captain, because
he can pull shit off like this the last moment, and he moves to
the side just a quick like little extra pressure on that left knee, and
Neptune goes down and I'm going to roll really quickly to see if she can
hold onto her sword. That is I say this something every time I play.
I think I say this at least one time during a campaign. The
dice are always going to be better storytellers than I will ever be. She
just got a natural one, and her sword goes ching ching ching fo lying
down the hallway as as Bruce was like kind of on top of Neptune holding
her down. What do you say in that moment, Bruce, to sort
of incite me to make a wisdom saving wisdom saving throw a role with the
page to see if she can break this charm? Okay, I think he
actually talks about that, you know, but you remember that night, you
know, out in the butcher ball field. Good, no, no,
come on, you remember the rain, right. We thought it was terrible.
We thought it was a terrible situation, but we made the best of
it. We've always just made the best of a baby. We always have.
We've got a great home, great kids, and the kids are doing
great. You know that you're in there, you know, come on,
as you're starting to just sort of like talk about your life and talk about
your kids and talk about the things that like you and her have like created
together, you see a sword two two tunes. You fly down the haulway
and you see her eyes like start to fade back to their natural natural brown
color, and you see her struggling with herself, and then like the purple
like flares back up and she grabs you around like the neck, and she's
like pulling you down in and you see her like produce a dagger from the
side of her boot and she's about to fucking stab you, and you're like,
no, but the kids, the kids, and you're just earlier disguise
self because I wanted to look like Avril Levine. Oh shit, okay,
perfect down time, perfect perfect yeah. And what happened you know, well,
you know, uh, you've got that speech and you see like her
very slowly started putting this start to put this dagger like against your throat,
and you're like, no, but the kids, and you're you're you're not
like trying to like hurt her, and you're not trying to like resist her.
You're just trying to convince her. And you see her some moments the
purple faces from her eyes and you see her eyes flick over to to Vex
behind you, standing looking like Avril Levine now tall yeah yeah, tall yeah,
and you all of a sudden, Bruce, the knife drops out of
her hand and you see her eyes. She blinks and her eyes are no
longer purple, and she just starts to cry and she's Bruce, Bruce,
he has our kids. I haven't been able to break three free from this
until oh my gosh, and she just starts to like hug you, yeah,
and that's all right, it's all right, Yeah he has Hey,
if he has our kids, he's already a dead man. There's nothing that's
going to stop us. Let's go reunite our family. She like wipes her
eyes and she stands up, and it's it's weird because the rest of you
have seen Neptune in this as this like very intense, like strong, strong
figure and bring exactly and you see her just like weeping and you see like
it just there's been a lot going on behind the scenes, and she's been
affected and she's been controlled by this being for so long, and now she's
like starting to break through with with the love of her of her husband,
and she says, yeah, let's let's go get him. Fuck this guy.
And she's stands up in a huge sabotage. Yeah, So what's ourn
as we kind of reset this this uh move or move past the next little
bit here you all get the rest of the information from the mayor. You
now have Neptune, who was going to be a pretty huge part in the
next fight. So well done. For for for taking taking her. That's
actually awesome power of love that she she she goes to pick up her store
and saying no fuck that she throws it off and she finds some old like
pirate cut lists or something, and basically what what the mayor says, just
to kind of bring everyone up to speed here, he says, this dude,
Logolgath, this night walker, has he made a deal with him.
It's a terrible deal. He's an idiot. He basically condemned the entire city
to be ripped out of the material plan into the shadow foul and this this
creature with the help of some other entity. He's not entirely sure where it
is, but he knows, like the crystal, the purple crystals are important.
Um with with the help of this these crystals and this um, this
night walker, he's basically been like projecting these fake lives onto people and making
them feel like really happy and content just to basically make them stay where they
are, like not want to leave butcher space so he can just like feed
off of them. So he's like making them complacent and then just like totally
siphoning all their like life energy and magic juju beans off of off of all
these people, and as he started, as the Mayor's like talking about that,
as you guys are starting to leave, that that was what you were
starting to realize you more or less starting to like wake up, kind of
grow a little bit of immune to this thing's charm and and it sucks because
it's awesome to live in like a fantasy world and have everything perfect, but
you're also just being totally manipulated and like you're not who you are, and
it sucks. So pretty much, bring you up speed. Marcus is safe.
He's back in the mature plane. He's going to find a pirate ship
wink, one of which Piet ship that's going to be Yeah, So basically
you'll need to get back to Butcher's Bay and kill this motherfucker. Basically,
the the objectives are if you can kill the if you can kill the night
Walker and figure out what's going on with these crystal things, the town will
be replenished, restored back to the material plane. We're just going to quickly
montage as neptune as you guys will make your way back off the giant whale.
You know, have Mayor and Mayor anivil with you. She goes back
onto her ship and is able to convince everyone else to go with you.
Y'all are able to sail back um and it goes a lot quicker than it
did before that did coming out here, because that's the way, that's the
way story works. Did did Neptune like trick the other all? Still like
that's good point. I was gonna hand away of that, but I think,
yeah, let's let's let's see that scene real quick as like, because
because Avril or someone one of them was with us, weren't they Camaro and
Avri Levi and you guys just happened to connect a little more with Avril Levine.
So my aura of peer two out so so like, I don't know
if that affects anything giving off this like just real chill, dad, vibe.
Can I just get real quick, real quick um performance or deception checks
from from everybody and you can have advantage with with with this both well it's
sixteen sixteen twenty one, fourteen nine. That's very good at deception. That's
why we're all my disgust kits. I'm a little els know how to lie.
He says, he's gonna tell us it's all good Bruce is just dad
dancing in the back. Yeah, we're good. But basically there's a couple
of moments then like as you're walking back, Napteine's like, okay, a
lot of these sailors are still under the thraw. We're gonna have to just
kind of just play it cool. We got to get back to the town
like um. And there's a few moments where like the folks who didn't didn't
pass the DC, which is lt and uh yeah, mostly just LTE Sorryltie.
There's a few moments where you're like up there and you're like looking at
one of these sailors like really intensely, like watching their eyes and just watching
what they are, and they start to be like ripping a training Yeah,
wait a minute, you're not. And then all of a sudden, like
Neptune walks up and it's just like it was like puts hand over over that
sailor's mouth and just like takes them down real quick, and it's like,
we gotta we've gotta make it through. So you guys, you guys all
be hand waving it, y'all, y'all get through, y'all, get y'all
get back. As you're starting to sail back nightfalls. Uh, you're you're
doing a good enough job of pretending to be cool, pretending to be like,
yeah, I know, we're still totally enthralled. This is great.
You've made it. You've made it to the final part of this story.
Things have gotten wild, things have taken turns up, down, left,
right, and sideways. Do you need to go to the bathroom or it
sounds like you need to go to the bathroom? I do, all right,
I'll be right back. Okay, yeah, let me thank over for
a second here. So what's happened next in the story? Sorry? I
think is um, maybe there are some they had did anybody have sex?
Maybe? You know a good stories has sex appeal, so maybe there's some
sex that happened. You know, Borg has it. That's great. Actually,
I have a photo album of all of my sexual partners if you'd like
to take a look. Come on, all right, I'm back. Where
did I miss? Oh? You're the Do you ever feel like your warriors
cry your battle cry? It's just two weak Christian Yeah. When that happens,
I usually go to the gas station and get one of the rhino pills.
Now exactly what I was talking about. But oh, if you do
feel like your roar is too weak and it's not the rhino pill of variety,
oh, maybe maybe you need to train it. I think you might
even train it. Find a trainer, a roaring trainer, as it were.
And if you're if you're looking for a roaring trainer, or the roaring
trainers looked on further because you found them, they're here. In the case
you're wondering, because this joke has gone a little off, the reddles what
the Roaring Trainers aren't The Roaring Trainers is a Pokemon D and D five extra
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the jazz Ege there's no space in the copy that we got. Canto in
the jazz Ege. Oh, Canto in the jazz Age there is no I
think that's an either. Oh so that star wars sort of music. I
see Canto and the canto in the jazz age Christian wants can't do on the
jazz age all about let me tell you so. It's a mix of humor
and mature and sometimes dark storylines, but it all has Pokemon in it and
it's for Pokemon. Well wait, no, it's not for Pokemon. It's
for people and for those of us that grew up on Pokemon and want a
story that sort of grew up with us, you know, gets more mature,
but still has fun little animals that you make fight. You should check
them out. You super should. Honestly, the Rowing Trainers is one of
the more heartfelt, more hilarious, more chemistry oriented. I don't know the
way when you listen to them, you can just tell that everyone at the
tables is a really good friend and they're having a really good time, and
you should check them out because they're amazing. So go check out Rowing Trainers
anywhere podcasts are sold. And as we sign off here, Christian, what
is your favorite favorite Pokemon? Go mister Mime. Mister Mime is the wrong
choice minus Squirre. Will have a good night, everybody. Thank you.
Bye. Okay, back from just going through old scrap book memories. What
is this book that you're looking at here? It's all my previous sexual encounters.
Is this just one of those pornographic magazines that you're looking at it?
I mean it shore does look like one, you know what I'm saying.
Um, there are kids in this audience on this ship. Why do we
why do we have kids on the ship? Throw them over? I can
neither confirm nor deny this joke. This is a bad joke, all right,
everybody. What happened next in the story was this part. Something is
a little bit strange. As the town comes into sight, you all see
the eye. It's the eye in the sky. That is a giant purple
crystal orb thing that has been floating in the sky this entire time up to
this point in your memories. It's given off sort of a calming, lavender,
pale purple vibe. Now it's the it's not like a calming lavender vibe.
It's much more like a ghoulish, fuck fuck with you, a kind
of purple vibe to it now. And the city looks much much scarier than
it did when you left. And so basically you all you all come up
and you all come back to the city, and it's silent. There's you
see no movement, You see nothing going on except for this like kind of
weird, pulsing, ghoulish purple um. And as you get closer to the
docks of Butcher's Bay, you notice something strange. All the crew that are
with you, except for Neptune and yourselves. It all goes. They all
go rigid, and they stand very still. You all. The ship eventually
comes back into dock and it's able to stop somehow. Um, and you
look runs into it, you fucking beach, the beach the ship, um.
And you all see. Yeah, like I said, there's no movement,
there's no noise coming from this town. But you all see lining the
main street on both sides, going straight up, all the way up,
winding its way through Butcher's Bay, all the way up to the Mayor's asshole.
The males, the Mayor's dungeon. You see the residence of Butcher's Bay,
standing perfectly still, perfectly rigid. All their eyes are glid, purple
that we're always like. And Neptune whispers to the to the four or five
of you, willieam glidch says, okay, just go along with this,
and she pulls out her new sword and and she kind of holds it at
you all. I'm gonna pretend you're my prisoners, this kidding, And we
can see the mayor and then doesn't know and I know I'm I'm unaffected.
Are you sure Is this normal to have all the residents lined up this way?
This is terrifying. I don't know if this is normal. I don't
know if what, I don't know what's going on, but I do know
gotta go fight this motherfucker. Yeah, the best player we got. I
like it. Should I dress up like anybody else? Or should I just
be myself? Who? VEX? Who do you want to be? We
will support, We will support the real you and whatever you want to be.
I want to dress up? Okay? Is there any other way we
can sneak in though? I mean maybe not. You can absolutely drive you
one above the table if you want to try. I'm just like I said,
I'm trying to just move, move this along. But if if you
all want to try to sneak and do something other, you can split the
party. You can do whatever you want. Um Basically, the option before
you is the mayor. It seems like the mayor is someone waiting for you.
Yeah, this is very much a welcoming Yeah. Yeah, if you
want to just walk up the pathway, I feel free. But if you
want to try to sneak I means DND. Maybe you can do whatever you
want if you want to try to sneak and sneak your way there also totally
fine. So it might be difficult to break the big eyesight, to break
sight from these these possessed, enthralled creatures, but you can absolutely try.
I'm going to disguise myself like somebody aboard the ship that would be working in
tandem with Neptune to kind of add some weight to this. And there are
prisoners thing, and I can even do the purple eyes to like a can
adult. Yeah, yeah, okay, absolutely, I'm just moving forward.
You'll have some advantages on some good stuff. So as you you all of
a sudden like magic yourself and you're wearing like the furs and like leathers and
like much more like the Night's Watch kind of vibe of of garb, and
you're like matching that tune for the most part. And you pull out a
sword and your you're like right there at the sword point. Let's move up
where we about to say, Christian, that's what something I could do to
help in the deception. Uh. And He's going to use pressidigetation to make
a color, small mark or a symbol appear on a circlace for one hour,
so he's gonna make her eyes love it. Very cool, very cool.
I'm not gonna lie. That was gonna be a thing when she walked
in with no purple eyes. It would have been what the fuck is wrong
with you? Um? Cool man? Yon would be trapped in an Oh
no you do, you're in that master? Is anyone else trying to prep
anything before? Because it sounds like we're just gonna walk up and go check
out what's going on with the mayor? Um? Oh, I did want
to say one thing. Um, was it like a long boat ride back?
And I think I made my hero's feast again? Okay, yeah,
for sure, absolutely. I guess what's goods? Coach? Some orange lices
coaching. Yeah, it took six hours to cut freshly cut horns. They're
hard, especially the boat. The boat was rocking up and down. William
was there just annoying you the whole time. But let's see just really quick,
Um, you're immune to poison, immune to being frightened. All of
your wisdom saves are now i'd advantage in your mass pit point as you should
have said, no increased by two D ten, So I'll roll that right
now. I love that. Whoa, whoa that's funny. That's too tah.
Yeah, yeah, I've never ruled that twenty tem paheb that is incredible.
Jesus Christ. Do those orange slices? Oh my dude. Cool.
So yeah, you take all that remember that for the fight that it's coming
up. Spoiler, don't he's eating something his net just like you know,
the little orange in your mouth is like you got the orange smile. Oh
yeah, you do that. Hello. So, as you all are preparing
anyway for this, this uh, the walk through, this the residence of
Butcher's Bay, you do the heroes feast, You disguise yourselves. You come
up with a little bit of a plan like all right, we're gonna move
into We're gonna move into this spot. We're gonna see how it is but
stuff. We're gonna try to get the element of surprise over this. This
mayor guy. You all head up, you all start moving your way through
town and it's it's just it's scary. It's the city is completely silent,
it's dark. There's this like weird like purple light kind of pulsing from from
the sky and it you make your way up to the Mayor's office. On
the way Craigan's like, that's Stacy from the club, But why is she
with Frank And you're not sure why. Like they're the only two people out
of everyone they're holding hands. Everyone else is standing just like stock still but
for some reason. Yeah, And you all make your way up into the
Mayor's office and you fit up. You walk up the steps to the Mayor's
office and you've you've been here once before on this adventure. Um. It
was a very small room where you ate where you all drink hot chocolate together,
and it was very confusing, but you all, you all did it.
Uh. Now you enter in the chocolate the mayoral building and you find
your way into like a great hall type area. As you open the doors,
you see a very large room, like a long purple rug leading from
the door up to like a daist where there's like a throne sitting. Basically,
it's a lot of round it's a lot of rock on the throne.
You see a large or you see the mayor looking much more put together and
younger and much more in control. Um. And he's sitting there and he
has like a cup of wine and he's just sort of swirling the wine as
he looks at you all, and he says, Craig. As we're all
bustling and making our way down at Craig and kind of like shuffles and like
pushes the Mayor up to the front of a group of US. Mayor says,
oh shit, oh no, oh bother, I know you're right,
You're right, um, and he you see the mayor sitting there, very
you see the bad mayor, the night walker Mayor sitting there on this throne,
looking very edias looking at the We call him sexy Mayor. Yes,
because I'll try to do much more of a sexy voice, less of a
goofy voice for him. As you see sexy Mayor sitting there, he says,
well, well, well come to my He says, well, well,
well, I've been waiting for you. It seems my plan didn't work
as well as I wanted it to. No matter, I occasionally have to
get my hands dirty. So yes, that's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to get my hands dirty, killing you on. Is there anything
you want to say before I do such a I do this us We're just
a butcher ball team. He looks to Neptune and he's kind of confused,
he says, I thought she would have told this to you at this point.
You you were beginning you when he points at Bruce and Ltie says,
you two were starting to see, starting to wake up, starting to see
the illusion for what it was, and I couldn't have that. I have
a very good thing. Oh well, that's the answer. That's the answer.
That's why I have a good thing here. I want to eat your
souls basically, and you've been allowing me to do that. So if someone's
going to wake up and that up for me, I'm going to not allow
that. Well that I mean that sounds like enough for me, guys.
Yeah, yeah, And as he's as he's talking, I want to I
want to rage like the like before like it pops off and then just before
it pops off, and so like I'm going to like if we're about too,
I'm gonna we also be breathed deep and also to my surge of the
deep as well. Could I roll perception to see if I see Avril Levine
or you don't. You don't need to roll for that, okay, because
as you all start getting ready, as lt starts to rage and get his
his shit together and you see him ragings, his muscles start to swell,
and you see the ice kind of cross the frost kind of crystallize on his
skin. Did you see the mayor just oh, this is going to be
wonderful. And he starts to change. He grows. You see his body
contorted, These horns spread from the top of his head, his hair screamed
receive and there's no nothing on top of sex for these giant sort of like
Texas long hornstyle horns. He grows about fifteen feet tall. His skin turns
not like black, just this like inky boy, and you see just this
sort of green flame sort of like erupt from the from his back as a
as a night walker. And you guys, you y'all feel free to look
him up if you want. The night walkers. Look, I don't like
this guy right here, Okay, dig the horns. It looks bride.
You see this, like this creature just rise up and he's almost touching the
ceiling in here now he laughs. No, it's time for you. Oh,
it's time for you to meet the final members of this party. And
you see your children, Bruce walk around the corner um. Their eyes are
glowing purple. Has has has he like bought that Neptunes still under his control?
Yeah? Home, things that Neptune still under his control. You guys
did a very good job of keeping I've been rolling a little bit back be
here on the serienes, behind the screens, behind the scenes, and he
thinks he's still under controys And in fact, he says, Neptune, bring
them to me. Could Craig and of cast Stone skin? While first everyone
else, for sure, everyone was getting it, was getting things ready?
Um cool cool. Neptune leans to you, Bruce and says, should I
bring you guys forward? Her? Are we splitting the ruse? Now?
What's going on? All right? Team? Listen, this may be our
last game we play together. Who knows the outcome, but the fatal butcher
Butcher's bay is on our shoulders. Oh, then you're right, Butcher's ball
as well. This is the real semifinals. Every other one may have may
have been fake. So we're gonna We're gonna go at this one with full
energy, right, Not gonna doubt that any of our successes were also dreams
as well. Not even gonna think on that possibility. No, he can't
take that from us, But I'd say let's let's get within thirty feet and
then we will uh, then we'll play ball. What do you say?
Team break deptum nas and you feel the pressure and of the sword in your
back stretch. Let's huss up, kind of usher you forward, all of
you all, and you all start to move yourselves forward with it. As
we're moving up, Can I roll perception to find the items that my kids
are holding? Yeah, for sure, for sure. I have a passive
of nineteen. Cool, so be there be a lower than nineteen, we'll
just use your passive. Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt the well your
final stuff nineteen. You see on your son very similar to to Neptune.
The pommel of his his great sword is glowing purple. You don't actually see
Avrilvins. Okay, you all get within thirty feet and I'm gonna give you
all a surprise round. What do you all do as you get within thirty
feet of this horrific, terrifying monster boy? Does coach point out his son's
a weapon. Listen, don't worry about my kids. We'll take care of
them. You guys, take care of the big one, and we'll be
your backup as soon as we can understood. All right, I'm still in
my pretend sailor form, all right, as the real mayor Vex Bruce,
Lt. Greig and Willow and Neptune's a big party. As you all move
forward, you get within thirty feet of the mayor. You hear Bruce say,
we'll take care of our kids. You take care of the mayor before
we roll initiative? What are you all gonna do to sort of break this
ruse and and start this fight? I want to throw a nip, but
I know he's so giant, so about it as his weapon hand son,
like in a round with his weapon night night workers don't particularly particularly have a
great ac It's uh, it's fourteen, So just moving forward to keep that
in mind. So that's what that's. Wells like, I'll do that,
but I'll charge so I kind of throw the net then trying to get some
treget his weapon hand, then going for like a little stabby stab. Okay,
well what is everyone else doing that? So that's what I want to
do. Okay, So Craig, I's gonna go in and throwing net and
making that too. Well, not Elsie that I was gonna say it.
Craigan and Dan got no minute. Craigan is going to cast snaptic synaptic static
okay, which is the fifth level spell. Choose a point within range and
cause a psychic energy explosion each creature in a twenty foot radius sphere centered on
that point. Let's make an intelligence saving throw, and after a failed save,
a target has muddled thoughts for one minute. During that time, it
rules D six and subtracts the number rolled from all its attack rolls and ability
checks, as well as its constitution saving throws to maintain concentration waterful, they
can make an intelligence saving throw to at the end of their turn to try
and get rid of that cool so speak ball of psychic energy explodes, and
if they don't make the saving throw, they're also a little like dumb down
from okay, cool Vex, what are you going to try and do for
this surprise routes Um, I'm going to cast my or use my radiant soul
because I'm an celestial asthmar. Once prolonged rest, I'm going to transform,
so I'm going to kind of like the the image of the sailor bow ghostly
person transforms into a back to a little short Vex who's kind of reas frowning,
but now their eyes are glimmering with like a yellow light. And I
have two golden incorporeal wings. For a minute, um, I have a
flying speed of thirty feet and once per turn I can add an additional ten
radiant damage to untarget. And so it's fast getting big. The wings are
like two times the size of my, my weird little body. But it's
fine. Looks good, Yeah you look, you look fantastic. And Bruce,
finally, what are you doing a little wacky while here? Uh?
Bruce is going to um speak out to his kids, just wants to see
if he can reach through to them. Hey, kids, Hey, it's
your dear old dad here, your mother and I love you very much.
We're can get you out of there. Bunga to kick your butt a little
bit first, and then he casts Otto Luke's resilient sphere on Tom Morello.
Okay, so what that means is that he is suddenly encased in a sphere
that is impenetrable, can't be destroyed unless it's the shatters or disintegrate spell.
It's waitless. It just kind of floats there. Literally nothing can get in
or out. Cool. Oh, they have to make a dexterity saving throw
actually first school, but yeah, it's immune to all damage. They can't
do anything and no one could do anything to them. Oh what do I
have to be? Seventeen? Dang? I got a fifteen plus one.
That's a sixteen dang. So right off the bat, Tom Morrello encapsulated in
this in this sphere and he just like like banging another. You guys are
just like poke balling everybody. And you see Tom Morello pull out this like
giant sword and he's just like trying to break out it, and his eyes
are just glowing and you see this kind of rage building up inside of him
his eyes and yeah, the machine the sphere, let's concentration for a full
minute. Cool. So he's effectively out of this fight, which is cool.
And Bruce and Neptune tackle Avril Levine. Okay, so I'll give you
can you make me a or Okay? So now I'm trying to go through
all this. Hold on to that. Bruce, We're gonna go back to
LT LT make a can you make an attack role? Please? I'm trying
to be a fifteen because this is with the net first, so that that
will be a twenty seven with my seven with the net water the weapon hand.
So just because I know he's a giant, I'm not gonna get around
him. So I'm like, well, you see, uh the night walker
the goal guth Like as he's changing, he like kind of puts his hands
on in front of him in like a very menacing like look at my cool
clause way um, And all of a sudden there's just this net on it
on his hand and he's looking down at it. He says, oh,
what do I do? I get this to you? Um? And you
said you're gonna make an attack as well? Yeah, because I was gonna
get the net and just go for attack. Cool. Yeah, I'll give
him, well, we'll say he has because of the net is on him.
That usually gives disadvant or makes him restrained. Yeah, those hands are
beencountered. Guess I'm gonna say, like, we'll have some minuses to his
to his attack us. That's a net twenty for the first one for the
first one excellent, an extra with my brutal critical and um again add extra
damage Jay for a critical with a melee attack. Absolutely? How to do
crits for this one? How would you get? You get one? Instance,
just like full toamage and then roll again. Okay, okay, so
that's gonna be actually with Craig and if if if his spell goes well,
that might provide a great justification. This guy getting really just tussled up in
that net. Oh man, true, true, truch are true. It's
basically a seventeen and a roll too. Yeah you damage. Okay, so
there're some damage that I all right, so seventeen plus seven a nine?
Holy shit? All right, so throw or three points. Yeah, so
you see the net go and then quickly balled the net just kind of go
on top and just stab. There's probably he's pretty big, so I mean
maybe like in the thigh, like okay, we're just matching how big?
So you know, just trying to bring him down. You see him like
starting to raise his hand and start to like reach down to like trying to
crush one of you on and you're like fuck that. You thought your net
kind of get him off balance. His hand kind of gets tangled up in
this net and you just go and start like a stabbing into his thigh and
you get like with that critical you get a huge amount of damage taking off
of him and I'm gonna say, you actually see him like kind of falter
down to one name with the with the with the critical I'm gonna say for
the next round, only his movement speed. I'm gonna take off like ten
movement speed. So now he only has a twenty so because because you're like
on his leg bringing him down, he only has I'm sorry he starts thirty
but he normally has forty. And actually, just to make a little spici
here, he can't fly away. He can fly, but now for this
time you cannot fly from from you all. Um as cool as that happens,
We're going to go back to Craig and Craig and you for your first
action, you were casting this thing. I have to make a saving through
this intelligence saving throw have to beat seventeen rue Okay, cool, Uh that's
done eleven plus two thirteen. And I was checking he's saving throw us only
as con that's maybe I picked the wrong beast for you all, but I
have I have a lot of immunity. So what are you about to do
to me? So first off, he's gonna take twenty eight damage of what
variety? It's psychic damage, damage of the mind. Uh, that's like
literally one of the only things he is not immune or resistant to tell I
didn't think of all that one, No, I didn't. You didn't think
about the brain. Uh cool's excellent. You just did a huge amount of
damage. That's it for your term. And he's now is he frightened?
What did you say he was? So? Now the target has muddled thoughts
for a minute, and you roll a D six and subtract the number from
all your tack rolls, ability checks and constitution saving throws to maintains it's wonderful.
We'll do that when it comes around. Vex, you said you turn
into a beautiful flying angel. What what are you doing? More like a
digimon? I can't one. There was like that small little brown one actually
turns into the big angel um a little bit of those vibes. But yeah,
because that's my bonus action as my main action. Can I just Eldred's
blast? Well, absolutely, flying up? I'm looking cool? Fourteen or
fifteen? Sorry, fifteen is what you're what you're looking for? Okay,
some level ten. I'm gonna do this twice, so let's see what it
hits. Uh So my twenty one hits the nine does not okay. Oh
that's so pitiful for total thirteen damage. Hey, I mean every little bit
else were sunk? Are you damage? How's my radiance shining? Magical?
It's beautiful, It's delightful, very cool? Um, there is there anything
else to do with your there's anything else? I forgot? I just fling
up in the air. What um? Who see purple's kind of a villain
color. And I've got a bit of a gold palette. Um, so
I think it's just like shimmering, uh, like wet gold. Oh,
Colin, but that's kind of how I imagine it, like a beam of
that. So it's a freaking lightful absolutely let And finally, Neptune and Bruce,
So you're trying to tackle your girl, Yeah, make me acrobat or
athletics checks please? Do I get like a is Neptune give you the help
action? Yeah? Yeah, so yeah, you get the help actionne So
you get a vantage of acrobatics. You said athletics please. The first one
was a dirty twenty. Oh very cool. We'll take that dirty twenty please
do okay? Okay, So as you go and charge towards your your daughter,
you see her lower down in like a ready position, pulls out her
daggers. You still don't see any of any any of the glung purple on
her, and as both you and Neptune dive at her to tackle her,
she quickly just like like does like a capuita like flip out of the way
and you all are not able to grapple her because she rolled twenty six to
get through. She's she's very dextrous. Um, we'll be proud. Yeah,
and now she's like kind of readying up. So cool. That was
the surprise. Room. Y'all did great. That was awesome. Now let's
roll initiative. I got fifteen, okay, sven six five? Oh no,
all right? So where did so for the order here, Avril Levine
got a twenty six. So for the for the sake of folks at home,
we have Avril Levine, the real Mayor, Craigan the night Walker,
Willem Bruce Eltie, and Vex the gas Party. Cool. Yeah, so
we are at the top of the initiative order here. As Avril Levine dodges
out of the way of both of her parents trying to tackle her, you
see her. Is there anyway I can give her a bit? Should really
like doing snap attack. I don't think it's gonna happen. Actually, this
seems about the right time to do it. Do you all see two more
creatures appear? Oh dear, indeed they look like vampire priestesses at the moment,
but they're not. They're horrific or backup singers. Yeah, they're backup
singers. No. You see the one that steps next to Avril Levine and
kind of pass from the back, and it's like, I'm who will you?
You see a horrific looking, featureless creature with like needle sharp legs and
like needle sharp arms, hunch back and like gray pallid skin, come out
and morphies out of the out of the shadows. And for anyone who's interested
at home, you're it's it's a lonely, a lonely sorrow swan. And
basically, just for the sake of that, Avril Levine has advantage on this
attack against you, her father m Bruce Springsteen. As Avril Levine turns to
you and you see no remorse in her eyes, that is shit. It's
a natural twenty oh damn. As she hits you first of all with her
daggers, she spins around for fourteen plus two are right, So fourteen plus
thirty six is fifty two fifty fourteen plus thirty six fifteen fifty for fifty damage
as your as your daughter spins around and just like looks you like she kind
of spins around it like comes run it to your face and just slowly like
sinks her dagger like right into your shoulder and then spin spins away, but
she's still within range. That's it for Avril Levine's turn. I've had I
not had that, Heroes East, I would be down. Oh my gosh,
fifty damage you said, right? Five zero? I did five zero
damage. Dam I'm real proud of your kid did great. It's it's a
big one. She can hit real hard. I have to roll a concentration
check to keep Tomrello in the sphere. Please do I have to get a
twenty five, which I can only get on a natural twenty? I think
because my constitution is only a plus three? Right? Or is there just
is it impossible? Does it fall? I mean you can absolutely roll a
natural twenty on this concentration check or I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say you
get advantage on it as as neptune like as you take this huge hit.
You kind of jump in front of Neptune, who who was about to take
this giant hit and you she kind of braces you up and she says,
it's okay, we can we can do this. We have to do this
for our kids. We can. We can do this together. Bleeding out
assassin. Oh god, she's killed one hundred and eighty four people since you've
been killed in this adventure or as no, oh come on baby day as
you all see as Tomarrella drops, it is now the mayor's turn. He
turns to you, Bruce Springsteen, and he is gonna just quickly as you
take because he's an evil guy. You guys made a bad choice. Beener,
it's good as you take. It got me. I'm like, wait
what I mean too? Yeah, I was like, oh my god,
that's great for you. As the mayor is gonna cast a third level healing
word on you as you get twenty eight points of healing back as he runs
over and he's like grabs you and he says you can't go down in this
fight. We need you, and that's what that's for his turn. Thanks.
But hey, hey, listen, I know those beers were maybe with
the evil mayor. But they were real to me, Bud, they were
real to me. It's been years since we've had a beer to get the
Bruce Springsteen, I cannot This is horrific and terrible. Your child just cut
your heart out, basically. Yeah, real proud, real proud. That's
that's that's noble of you to respond that way. You're you're you're bleeding up
right now. Um yeah, Gregan, you're standing down on the carpet below
that. Beneath the Dias, Dais Vex and lt are fighting this fifteen twenty
foot tall, giant horned demon looking thing. Looks like Ltie is taking it
down to one knee. You see off to her left, you see Bruce
Springstein and Neptune into some very intense, emotional, maybe some psychological damage fights
where they're fighting their children and the mayor has run over, leaving your little
group here to heal Bruce Springsteen. You see the sphere that was holding Tom
Morello off to the right of the Dias dissolves as Bruce takes this massive hit.
What are you doing? It looks over at will Em and he says,
um, well, hey, what's up to me? Oh, who
do you want do we want to go after Tom Morello or are you going
to And you see this like this hulking kind of like big armored, huge
dude, and you look at both the probably the two smallest people in the
party as you look to Will, who's about four feet tall and or like
two and a half three feet tall, and he's like, yeah, that
sounds great, let's go fight. Like well, you know what, on
second thought, it's kind of a family issue. I wouldn't want to get
in between that. So anyways, I'm just going to do you do?
And he's gonna shatter on the night walker. Cool. Uh, that's the
deck started to save for me. Come on, crap, you're right,
yes, sir, I'm sorry. That's at a fifth level. Cool.
That is a seventeen thirteen plus four. Oh so he saves hell yeah,
um, I thought he had to do like I had to rull like a
D six. Oh you're right, thank you? Yeah right, kind of
curse that yeah yeah, yeah it was my own thing. Thank you forgot
about my own thing. Seventeen minus two fifteen. Uh knock yep, that's
not gonna do it. Yeah, come on now, no, good say
work, let's go thirty four thunder damage. He actually does take half.
No, this was finally shocking. Nice nice, but I mean you still
you still you see it? Take this hit, brual you tune. You
seem just like rage out a little bit. Um as school. That's that's
it. If you're actually do anything else a bonus section or you're you're moving
what you don't. Um, So I'm gonna throw I'm gonna back up and
go Barne inspiration and I'm gonna throw that over to um LTU say go on,
lt you got it. You got to the backbone of this team.
Wonderful, fantastic. So you have a bart inspiration lte um it is now
the sexy mayor's turn. Yeah, you're gonna do to this mayor? Oh
no, mister mayor. So lt He looks down at you, and you
see him with his not covered up hand, it's not netted hand. He
points his finger down. You see this long clod figure commending. You see
a glow with this crackling, dark like sickly green necrotic energy. Um,
he's gonna make an attack on you. Can you make a wisdom saving throat
d E C twenty Oh yeah, no for sure. No, but even
with advantage. Yeah, yeah, because because you have because of the hero's
feast. I don't know if I could wait. It has to be a
twenty one. No about the negative one, and you can get it.
You can get you can get a natural twenty. But that wouldn't that be
a nineteen with a negative one, not not with this one with a natural
twenty. You at home? So in the nineteen so eighteen eighteen, do
you have inspiration? Oh no, that's your artic inspiration you just got.
Oh you did? That's very true? Shit? Use was it? Sure?
Okay? Yeah, dang, that's a D eight or D ten.
It is a D ten three reer hires what you need. That's a five
yepisode yepisode five plus eighteen. Oh man, do you see him like reach
and I'll flavor this way with with the help of Craig and I'm with the
net kind of getting in his way. You see this claw reaching down towards
you with this crackling black energy, Like he touches you on the forehead and
you start to like feel it starting to take over your body, but like
your ice cream kind of solidisfies a little more on your body and you shake
it off. That's good because that would have been really shitty to to take
that um and he that doesn't for charge, but he gets angry at that,
and he's going to take the rest of his action to take an attack
against u LT that is in eighteen plus twelve a third. Yeah, no
it does. It doesn't happen. No, I got a forty ec so
you take twenty eight half the necrotics. Yeah, because it was blade.
Okay, I's full damage is on his eyes. Look down at you and
you see that glow and you feel this this energy kind of gets sapped away
from you on the inside. Full damage twenty okay, feel good, I
feel good. I loved it. Yeah. He can just hit really hard
as it is Willem's turn. All right, Willem, all right, Willem
one of the nasty, undead monstrous creatures. He does just a huge chunk
of damage too. He pulls out his daggers. She's a spinning, whirling
blade of doom and Bruce, you're up. So Neptune's on my turn.
Can I have Neptune grapple? Yeah, Avril, because I feel like smart
her stats are better than me physically for sure. Yeah, better chance Neptune
has a plus nine to her athletics. Yeah, let's have that happen.
What I'd like you to do is grappler to the ground. Cool, I
roll, I'll roll the save for Avril if you want to roll for Neptune.
That's a natural twenty baby. Hell yeah, hell yeah, wonderful.
So then this is what I'm gonna say, Neptune, you on the should
you kind of take a step back. Neptune rushes in and she dodges Evril
Levine's blade, grabs her by the wrist, turns around like in the judo
thing, a judo twirl, and like drops her under the ground, and
she says, I taught to you that move. You can't use it on
me. She now has you now have Neptune restrained for the moment. I
mean you now have Avril Levine restrained for the moment. Okay, could I
have Neptune like on the ground, like put Avril on the ground, like
pin her down, And I'm gonna take the twolimoving immovable rods that you gave
and use them to pin Aviles to the ground. And she's yes, absolutely,
you don't even want to roll for that because she's restrained. You you
just like down like by her like wrists, you like put her arms down
and drop these immovable rods on her wrists and she's you just can't get up,
and she's trying to pull out and she yeah again, you've you've effectively
taken one of your children out of this fight. I'm gonna say that's here's
an act for you. Do you stop a bonus action? Okay, okay?
And movement? Bonus action movement left? As you pin your daughter to
the ground, she starts to scream and this like unbirthly scream comes out of
her, and it seems like it's sort of echoing from the depths of despair,
and if creatures, creatures from the Shadow fell, it seems like they'd
scream like this. What do you do? You have anything left for your
bonus action or your movement? Oh? Yeah, bonus action a thing when
a healing word myself because it's probably hurt. Probably go only you and LT.
You have taken damage so far? Oh that's right, LT. How
much damage do you take? Good? I mean so a lot of health.
So okay, yeah, I will cast it down myself and heal up
then and then that'll be my turn. Cool, um lt you're up as
you hear recklessly, well real quick, I'm gonna need you to make a
constitution savent. Oh twenty Jesus, it's intense. Yeah, no it's not.
It's gonna be a ten. Cool. You take another h at fourteen
necrotic damage as this thing's eyes because are still looking at you. You can't
see you know these odes are looking at you, but you know you also
can see it doesn't have odes, just this horrific face, this like amorphous
kind of based with all these like weird holes in it is looking down at
you and hear this voice, and you're in your head as you just feel
a little bit more of your life essence ripped out of you. And now
it is your turn. Started back with straight at. I'm like really gonna
tread through like you take it. I'm gonna attack regress in the first attack.
So fifteen is what you're looking for. It's gonna had the gonna attack
again, gonna two attacks, darn so first one's gonna hit only one hits.
You have advantage on all of these because because you're you're within a few
feet of vex is up there with your ears are flanking this thing. Oh
so okay, so all right, So first stack, it's gonna be e
love em periracing in to a mice damage. So thirteen total, thirteen total,
okay, seven one's gonna hit you because that's gonna be a twenty thirty.
Second one will be oh go thirteen person plus two. Um my standwich
to be fifteen once on the second and I just stab him in the foot
too, So off the first sigh. Then down to the foot. You're
just ruining this guy. This guy's legs right now is beautiful, beautiful legs.
Well he chose to be that tall. Yes, he's an idiot.
Anything else you're doing with your turn, no, just yeah, So just
jamming them right there, the foot and that's it. It's gonna match them
right there. It's kind of stirming as I twisted, oh, kind of
grinding in down into the into the round here, Vex's her true. I'm
gonna need you to make me a constitution stating throw too, because you're starting
within his aura range twenty one. No, no, no, just no,
I don't make that. I got a six. Okay, you also
take fourteen necrotic down as this do you just feel like being around this creature.
It just is sucking your energy and life force away from you. I'm
resistant to necrotic so it's a nice little seven yep. Oh hell yeah,
don't know why I'm an asthmar. That's only seven damage. It doesn't affect
you. You're able to kind of power through it a little more. Um,
But yeah, what are you doing for yourself? Year up a lot
of my life working hitting ice. You know when you when you do that
for a living, you get a lot of necrotic resistance. It's true,
and everyone knows ice is just necrotic energy. Yep. Um. So well,
flag in the air with my my golden wings, my golden eyes,
doing all my my asthmar stuff. I am. How is this super evil
villain spirit guy looking? He's definitely taking some damage. It looks like his
leg that LT has been working on is starting to hurt quite a bit,
right, Okay, start starting starting to looks like he's still standing pretty strong,
but he is. He has taken a beating. Well. Well,
in the air, the little wings are going to flap and then X is
going to clap their hands. Okay, thank cold bots, Thank cold bots.
We're gonna vanish this monster wonder hair and okay, ahead and past my
bonus action. I'm going to concentrate for banishing Smite, and then I need
to hit it with a weapon and to do the damage. So I have
a hammer and fly over. Yeah, for I want to bunk him on
the head. It's a little bunk um. Let's see if that hits twenty
twenty. Yes, we'll think of So that's perfect. Okay. So so
let's get the damage first from your sort. So your first, your hammer,
the max damage, and then roll again. Okay, so my blodgeoning
damage is just going to be a eight. What does banishing Smite do?
Um, I'll tell you if it's a success. I mean it is a
success. Okay, So that was just another two. That's so sad.
But then I get to add ten because I'm flat like I'm doing my little
as amer thing. Um twenty damage so far, okay, and then we
reopened Vanishing Smite again. I've always wanted to cast this. I'm excited for
it. And with the natural twenty, I'm pretty sure I have to make
a save. But with the natural twenty, I'm I don't think I'm going
to pick up the save I think you hit him so well, but tell
him what it is, just just for for fun? Yeah? Yeah,
So you know when I hit a creature with an attack before the spell ends,
the weapon crackles with force. So it's not just the regular like hit
to the head with a hammer, it's like Ford's hammer lightning and it deals
an extra five D ten. Ok guys, I'm sorry. Also, can
I bring attention to who's our main scorer while we're on the field. It's
absolutely it's the underdog, you know, the stealth. I'm seeing some some
poetic flash call back things to to lowering the the butcher ball stick gun.
Yeah, sinking us that final win. You have to kill the kill the
butcher's ball. So we know we're banishment banishing. Mike goes, it's banis
into the afterlife. You're all the five G ten. Let's let's get that.
So you're twenty damage thirty nine, So you have fifty nine damage so
far. I'm wonderful, wonderful. Um. And if that fifty nine damage
has reduced the target to fifty hit points or less, I banish it to
the to the plane of existence. Um, it's home plan of existence.
Okay, So this This is what I'm gonna say, because this is technically
we're on the home. But well, if it's native to the plane you're
on, it vanishes into a harmless demi plan. I just want here,
wonderful, so don't I don't have to even break through a minute, right
for a minute, It'll stay there. So what I'm gonna say though,
is this does not reduce it to fifty nine points. But with the natural
twenty, it's still it's gonna work, um, because it's a natural twenty,
and it's it's got it's got to happen. So you you all see
Vex fly up all of a sudden, these golden wings. Wait do we
do we know you had wings before this? I think I'm happened in one
game, didn't team was Ben kind of like, whoa wings? Vex has
wings? That's amazing. Was there a red full drink? We don't know?
Um, And you see Vex fly up and just like uppercutting this thing
with their hammer, and it's like it takes a huge amount damage, you
see, like necrotic teeth. Just actually no, it breaks one of its
horns. One of its horns snaps right off and comes it comes clattering down
to the floor and you see vanishous I'm too and it and it's gone.
But now basically, all of a sudden, you all take a deep breath
and didn't realize, but like there was just a presence over you that was
really bringing you all down. You're starting to see clearly. You're starting to
see like, oh shit, we are like the sky doesn't look as good
as as beautiful as it did. Then you look outside the windows and oh
shit, we are for sure in the shadow Felm and this sucks and we
need to get out of here. Ronto. The last thing I will say
is now now that he has gone, and now he's you've kind of removed
him from his throne, Christian will kind of understand where this is coming from.
As this fifteen twenty foot tall creature is now gone. You see at
the kind of the top of the throne, there is a pulsing for full
wristal. He was blocking it with his body and now you can fucking see
it because his body is in a demi pine. He's in his own bag
of holding at the moment. Yeah, always somewhat shatter it once it gets
to your turn again. But all of a sudden, a huge threat has
been removed from Well done. That round of applause be that was fucking great,
well done, perfect time for national twenty. So now we're just gonna
say Homie is just gone for the moment, and all guess I'll make some
safe to bring him. But you have a couple, a couple of precious
moments. Like I said, you see your friends Neptune and Bruce fighting our
children. You see Gregan kind of standing down like about I imagine queuing up
another big spell. Then you see Bruce's spell holding his son has failed,
and there is another creature next to Bruce, and they say they're going to
be up in the initiative order. So that is it for the initiative.
We're back to the top of the round. It is Avril Levine's turn.
Who can't do shit? It is she is restrained. Uh, I'll say
the mayor, the real mayor. He runs up and he's starting to investigate
that purple crystal. I na say that sweet is for his turn, Craigan,
It is your turn. As we were kind of blazing through a lot
of these NPC's turns, is it he's coming back? Oh yeah, oh
yeah, help me back and like, oh minute, if you can count
a little bit past a minute. Yeah, we have to take action,
like now or yesterday. Maybe if we get as many weapons as we can
and just kind of place them where we think he'll reappear, he'll point of
stuff. That's amazing. Craig's going to run over there and then find a
way to wench his spear that he has. Okay, shoot that as a
prepared action. May sexy, may any is there something with the gem?
Is that I think so you can make me? Is it? Is it
valuable? Valuable? Well? The mayor as well Natural twenty in his investigation
checks, he says, yes, I think this might be the source,
some sort of power source or this is important. We need to say shatter.
Yes, it's a shatter. You're gonna be double damage if you hit,
because it isn't it is an unanimate object and the ac you're looking for
on a static. No, I have to make a say it. I
don't know, it doesn't happen. I don't, I don't do it.
I can't make the same. I'm a crystal Eric crystal. Oh that attitude,
it's true. Roll me up some demage here. That's gonna be sixteen
damage? Is that already doubled its thread? Thirty two damage? And you
see a huge like crack happened right in the middle of this crystal. And
you see some like purple misty energy shoot out of this of this crystal.
And that's what you see for them. Well, all right, Sexy Mayor's
turn? Uh? And he rolls? What what am I trying to beat
to get back? Does this say? No? It just lasts for a
minute. There's no I thought, oh shit, that okay, never mind,
I'm not gonna roll. He's just fucking gone cool. William's just gonna
take a few more attacks on this creepy, nasty creature. I think William
is rolling like a fucking god. He really found himself in this battle.
He really did find himself in this battle. It is now Bruce's turn.
What are you trying to do? A lot has happened in the last six
seconds with that crystal broken? There is there any change in my children?
Wow, Avril Levine, I rolled wisdom saving throws. Avril Levine got herself
a natural twenty nice Yeah, you see Avril Levine. You see the purple
leave from her eyes and Tom Morello got himself a nineteen minus a bunch of
shit. He's a dog, okay, okay, yeah, yeah, well
then in that case, I will it's a free action. Uh. Hey,
Avril, hey, baby girl, Hey, listen, did did the
marre give you anything, by the way, any items? Yeah, as
a's a necklace I'm wearing like a pen. It's it's I pull it off
and I put it thrown on the ground and I crush it. Cool.
And then I take the dust and I throw it in towards Tom's direction,
and I cast the sphere again. He's gonna make a dexterity saving throw.
Yeah, okay, it's gonna beat a seventeen. That's a that's an eight
plus one, that's a nine. Uh see gets up just like right back
into this into this sphere. Let's give a little bit more time there.
But hey, okay, and the remove of the immovable rods help her up?
A Lee stands up. Bruce Springsteen, Avril Levine and Neptune Springsteen turned
to look at this stupid, fucking long, shallow, dumb thing right next
to us. Oh yeah, Mike, all right, let's give him the
family one, two, three? Ah cool? Roll me? Uh just
for the fun of it. Right now, roll me and two attacks for
Neptune and two attacks for Avril Levine, and uh, the armor class is
looking for a sixteen Neptune. That's a fifteen and a thirteen. Cool,
that's those are gonna be plus nine for both those. So yeah, she
fucking analysis thinks that's gonna be twenty four damage for her. And now give
me the attacks for Avril Levine. She's gonna be plus nine as well.
There's a good chance you just fucking killed this thing, right, uh,
six sixteen plus nine nine twenty five and that's oh yeah, so that's that's
gonna be a twenty one and then cool. So that's four hits. Um,
so twenty four damage from from Neptune, fucking twenty from Avril Levine plus
Y'll just do this in shard. Can someone do ten D six? I
did, I did ten dy six and I got I got forty two forty
two, I did sixty ten. Okay, so let's go for so forty
two plus twenty eight is six. Let's just say it even even seventy even
seventy plus fourteen ninety four? Um yeah, So how do you and your
how do you and your family want to destroy this, uh, this horrific
needle sharp arm beast. Yeah, sorrow sworn. Oh yeah, so I
say that cool island, like, let's give him the old family whatever I
said, I go, I just start clapping and they take off and just
stirked him out, and I'm just back there. Yeah, good job guy,
all right here, you didn't go yeah, And I'm just like standing
there just cheering them on. Real pardia, you know, a whirlwind of
steel and daggers and great swords and cutting amazing inspirational words from Bruce Springsteen.
This lonely sorrow Sworn has no chance, and all of a sudden, it
just like anime style sing. They slide past him and it just slides apart
in fifteen different spots where they cut him in those in those moments, and
well done. This guy is fucking dead. And then I have a bonus
action. Okay, cast mass healing word, Oh cool. Anyone that got
hurt, I'm not sure if anyone who I know VEX and LT did Yeah,
roll that, roll that heel and we'll see what we got. Man.
I thought for sure this is gonna be one that I was going to
be able to hurt, to do some hurting with today. It's a good
I was kid, it's all so that's fifteen. It's not a ton,
but it helps. Man. Yeah, really banishing with a natural twenty the
big bad, the bbeg. It really makes a difference in these fires.
Cool. So then this is yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, cool,
that was Bruce's turn. Elsie. You're up, you are you were
you were standing. All of a sudden, this ginormous, horrific monster has
disappeared. You're looking at this storm. You see this very cracked crystal that
Craigan shocked and shattered a little bit with his with his magical powers. What
are you doing ruglessly attacking the crystal? All right? Um, let's see
I get uh, Like I said, it's an ac of ten. It's
the first that's gonna hit. That's cool. What'd you get on that first
one of fourteen? Yeah, that's gonna hit image. Yeah yeah, but
the second one's going to be a twenty seven nights. Yeah, they're both
gonna hit. Roll the damage please, so it's gonna be. There are
twenty three total piercing and then six points of it said damage, cool damage,
six points of cold damage water thing one thing ice and also you know
what happens to calm crete and other things and cold areas water gets in different
cracks its fans, and so that's exactly what happens. As LT is sweet
or stabbing this thing with his tribe and smashing into it, you see like
it start to freeze and the cracks that Craigan made start to fill up with
this ice. And then all of a sudden, he cracks the craig and
cracks you. You lean back and you fucking ram your spear right through this
thing and it shatters, and all of a sudden, you feel the world
start to like rumble, because technically both of the things that I said need
to happen happen in this moment. As you broke the crystal and the night
Walker is nowhere to be seen, you feel Butcher's Bay start to rumble.
You hear the sounds of screams and running coming from behind you as the assitizens
have been set free, and all of a sudden, all everyone in this
fight, there's so many be on this fight starting to use. All of
a sudden, you guys are standing at the field. You look around and
you see you are in a field that the sky has this sort of eternal
twilight. Look to it. You look and you see these kind of moats
of light shining, kind of pulsing in and out of existence. You look
to the west and you see some very very fantasy looking trees, like all
twisted branches, there's leaves, all sorts of colors on them. These trees
are thirty forty fifty feet around at the base they reach up into the sky
one hundreds of feet. You look to the west, you see that.
You look to the right and you see like a very similar looking forest,
but it like all the leaves are gone. It looks very sparse and dead
and almost like again like like the upside down from um, very stranger things.
And if you could all make me history, arcana or religion checks which,
yeah, whatever, whatever, you're the best it's gonna be. That's
a six. Craig, and you have no idea where where the fuck you
are from Vex, you kind of know where you're at right now. Seen
a narrow tree or two in my days. Nope, I don't know where
we are. If that's a four l LT And Craig and I have no
idea what's going on? Bruce, would you get Arcana is a twenty three
Oh Bruce knows about the shadow of a doubt and vex. You're kind of
like fifty percent sure about this. This looks a lot like the fae while
or what you've heard of the felo looks like and you know fae. And
you all see standing in front of you, wearing what looks like a white
robe, an older looking woman. She looks very real. Her long gray
hair is kind of done up into like a kind of like a messy braid,
and there's like twigs and tree muntrees and twigs and leaves and stuff in
her in her hair. But the most intense or the most striking feature about
this, this very nature crunchy looking woman in front of you, is she
has a purple amethyst right in the middle of her forehead. She looks to
you all and she says, well, thank you all so much for freeing
me. That's terrible, terrible, Oh sh I was being held against my
will and forced to bring this boat defenseless town into a realm that I'm I'm
not in charge of. But anyway, thank you, and you all start
to fade away. I want to wave. She waves back, and she
smiles at you, and you see like a genuine care and a genuine love
and gratitude, and you feel a gratitude coming from this woman, and for
those of you for she smiles and you see this like like almost like an
impish kind of mischievous smile across her face, and she reaches out as you're
fading away, and she says, oh, but wait, I need my
awe. Then she fades away and she winks at you because it's not greep,
and two winks at you as you all fade out of the Fay wilds.
And for those of you who don't know, y'all just came across one
of the gem folks from from a farm podcast, someone that the main story
hasn't quite met yet. Oh shit, dude, and uh, that's that's
a big one for Kippus specifically. Um, and you all fade back into
Oh, we'll do this way. We open on a it looks like a
sky, A sky looks like storm cloud. A snowstorm is brewing, and
all of a sudden, four heads lean into the shot as the four of
you working really hard. You've had a bunch of losses this season because you're
back in reality, and nothing is as perfect as the as the fucking fake
reality. This the fugg was conjuring, conjuring for you. But you've made
it. You've made it to the finale. You're versing the Luskin layabouts,
not even the semi final. No, this is it. You all have
made it. You've worked so hard for this moment. It is the final
play of the butcher Ball's Final Finals. You've I said, you've worked really
hard. You've had some losses, but you've made it. Here, here
we are. What do you all say. I'm gonna say, let's let's
let's get that book in. Bruce, what do you what do you say
to your team as for the final play of of of the game. This
is beautiful. Bruce looks at his team. I've been through a lot,
Like you said, there's been losses. We've had to learn a lot.
A lot of our old moves didn't quite work as well in the reality of
the real worldly. Hi now, but I hight Yeah, No, it's
been a lot of disappointments. Yeah, it turns out there's a lot of
actual rules in butcher ball. We took it took a long time to learn
them. We're here. It's a much more tame game. Yeah, it's
just soccer. You guys are just playing soccer. There's no weapons evolved at
all. But listen, we've made it this far. We've had a lot
of losses, a lot of hard fights, a lot of loss apple slices
if you will, you know, but we made it. We made it
this far. And I just want to say I I just really appreciate you
guys. You know, I'm just kind of an old guy, just kind
of out here looking for something to do, and you took me in,
let me be your coach, and I really appreciate that. And win,
lose, drop doesn't matter. I've had one hell of a year and I
just I just appreciate y'all a lot. But I do want to kick their
ass because they they've been pretty smug. They're the uh, you know,
this other team we're fighting, the lusk lay About Luskan Layabouts are so fucking
smug aid them. I'd say we end this the way we started it up
together together together with our newest member, and Willem pops into frame. William
pops in the frame and he says, hey, honestly, thank you all.
This is this has been fucking great. Sorry, this has been great.
Umkay come on, well let me can't swear those kids. Yeah,
and like just like a like a like a school bust of orphans just drives
by and all of us like there's a teacher like sing trying to sing like
a song, and they're all just like fun, fun, fun. Fucking
teacher looks out and she's like, fuck you willem Um. He's like,
come on, oh, you're right, man, Actions have consequences. That's
that's freaking wild. And uh yeah you all are you Marcus in the audience,
it does teach hearing you on. So then you all know that once
you came back to real but as Butcher's Bay was replaced back into the material
plane, the real Mayor who had been taking trips back and forth from the
Material Plan to the Shadow Fellow to try and save the rest of you,
he said that Marcus went out to try to find kind of a backup in
case this very y'all y'all handled it very well, but in case that raid
didn't go well, he was like, there was going to be at least
another group coming in to try one last time. And you know, you
all know that you get a message from Marcus, who was he found a
pirate ship and he was on his way back to try to help you all.
And that arrives today Williams playing the final game with you all as it's
kind of like a final farewell because he's about to probably go live the rest
of his life on a different area of the story. But you all,
you all know that's happened in a couple of weeks since he went back,
and we're here in this moment, the final final Butcher's ball play and yeah,
you guy just got that amazing inspirational quote from Bruce Springsteen. And this
is what we're gonna do. I'm in any all of you all with whatever
best staff you have. Let's roll your strength, your charisma, your dexterity,
whatever you want to. All right, just like a saving just like
what kind of just just just like a you're like getting a Skille check.
But no shit, that's a twenty eight for Craig, twenty eight for Craig,
nine for VEX, sixteen for LT alright athletics. Oh no, that's
also a sixteen wisdom check just just to check, right, Yeah, just
just took it like a check. So this is the way. Oh shit,
you're right, all right, this this could be it. It's all
down to will the team. Okay, William got us himself a natural twice,
so wow, slow motion the ball. But the game's going and like
me, you know, like we're starting to get lose. But then we
just see this opening and we all turned to Willem and then just like someone
hands him the ball. We're just like, it's like, it's like when't
the really young kid, like they want to let him get a touchdown,
So like everybody's hand the way in front of him. That's basically what we're
doing, but a serious version. Yeah, but it works. It's testing.
I start casting that spear to like trap the other team, like we're
instantly disqualified, but I feel like Willam just really needs a win. He
does, so we lose, but we also won next one, so yeah,
yeah, there we go. That's the way it goes down is you
you're reverted back to to lagal goat days and you started casting spells and the
ref is like, no, I told you you can't have it. A
spears on a gun and shoots one of the other teams seacaps all of a
sudden, like this is like because you guys are all able to incompacit the
other team and you win, quote unquote win, and there's a trophy sitting
there, dumb gatorad on Willem, dumb gator on the will. It's honestly
like a beautiful moment where you like, you win kind of and but everyone's
too afraid to like take the trophy back from you as well. I'm like,
like, makes this final save stuns and yeah, that's against the rules.
But then you like wave the gun. You're like you, that's you
make a very good point, make a very good point with radiant energy.
Could take it, I tell you. But and we'll just kind of move
that. This sort of raucous scene down to the docks as you all see,
um of a very disgustingly undescribable pirate ship arrives at the docks of Butcher's
Bay and you see the gang plank go down and you see two people come
off the off the boat. You see a halfling or gnome I'm sorry,
a gnome with fiery red hair kind of walked down off the gang plank,
and a person who looks like an older Willow. It's like like like a
couple of year older Willem. They come down and they introduce themselves. One
of them's name is Jake Kniebier Haynes, the jeweler Volcano bay uh. And
one of them's name is Marcus, and they they are like, all right,
we're uh yeah, we're taking Willem. He's coming with us. He's
gonna be a pirate. Marcus has proved his worth over here. This is
Jake talking. Uh Okay, he's uh yeah, I'm sort of second in
command here on the ship. Uh. And yeah, we we've needed a
new a new cabin boy, and we're gonna kind of take him around a
show in the world. And Willem turns to you all after after having found
his brother. He looks to the four of you and he has some tears
in his eyes and he just says, hey, hey, thank you all
for stepping up and helping a little little stowaway find their their family again.
And he runs around and gives each of you a hug. Thanks for playing
butcher ball with us. Yeah, it was an honor to have you on
our team and make it legal. And he smiles and he waves and they
start to get on the They walk up the game plank and get on the
boat and that the sea monster as you see it written on the side and
Sharpie to sail away. William is waving and watching back to you all as
it sails away, sails off into the sunset, and uh, it's it's
a bittersweet moment, and it's it sucks because you know it sucks, but
you know it's a real moment because it sucks because it's not. Everything can't
be perfect all the time, everything can't be this sort of false reality that
this evil creature was making you all live there and you realize that even though
it's a bitter sweet, these are these are the kind of moments that stick
with you all and real quick, what does everyone do for the rest of
How do they end out their their adventure? How do they end out their
days? How does how does Craigan, Bruce, Vex and lt what do
they do in the next coming days, weeks, months of their journey?
You know, Craigan stops being fixated on the past and where he came from
and the relationships that he lost, and he decides to really commit and put
down some roots at u in Butcher bay Um and you know he hangs out
on the weekends, goes to the cookouts at the spring scene household. You
can find him practicing his butcher ball and at the local park and always swinging
with those secret secret swingers. Oh no, your part returned to the water,
just um wishing. So since the seeing moments like coach his weabinist family,
and then it's more than William mcke just a long he wishes he can
kind of feel like everyone else does because being in his blood length, they
don't feel the way everyone else does. So more cold blooded, doesn't we
get that warm through that same kind of emotional up failing. So so back
to the water somebody's kind of used to and then just Um spend his days
just kind of trying to find himself. I guess in the water in the
cold depths, I think vex uh, they kind of came to terms that,
you know what, they had some really good friend and they're in fact
capable of like making and keeping friends. They're not like to dour or sour
to to not be worthy of friendship and attention. So they start to they
quit their job crushing ice or whatever it was, stirring stirring ice. I
might changed in just about every episode I mentioned it, so he's related and
they just kind of wanted to explore the area and with your permission, I
think they met Um the Jumbo, the giant whale. It was in like
the Shadow fell. But I don't know that could be cross planner because I
think that whale needed a friend to love that. It's cute. Bruce and
Neptune and Avril and Tom. The Springsteen's stayed in butcher Way Bay for quite
a while. Everyone kind of mentioned ab coming over. We always had cookouts,
you know, but you know, you mentioned how life was always really
happy, and now that that facade has gone, everything's still really good with
the Springsteen family. But where the sadness kind of comes in, where the
happiness leaves is suddenly Tom like is focusing on his studies and he's gone for
a while and decides he wants to move in to the temple and worship more,
and he kind of leaves home and with Neptune having to go out.
Before, when Neptune went on these long raids or whatever, it was fine.
I was happy, it was good. Bruce was fine. But now
he's like this sectually really sucks. It's hard, and with Avril going off
on you know, unbelievable just taking out like hundreds of people all the time,
and then coming back. Bruce starts to just get really really lonely,
and I think eventually he decides to start joining either Neptune or Avrol out on
their missions. Actually, um, so eventually probably like a year or two
me, I don't know, Like after a little bit, um he like,
I get the scene of just like him, everyone's on the dock where
Bruce usually is, and this time Bruce is on the ship waving goodbye to
everyone with one of his family member it throwe a big bag of orange slices
into their hell yes, and as the as that orange slice as the bag
of orange slices slowly rotates over through the sky over to the dock, the
shot dissolves and we see a different shot. Uh, this was some it's
like a different shot of Butcher's Bay. It's it's a couple of years later,
um, and we see from the perspective, we see what's looking at
Butcher's Bay at this point, and it's Willem. It's a it's a little
bit older Willem. He stands on the deck of the Seamonster looking out over
the frozen mountain range that is the spine of the world. The Seamonster's current
mission has taken them close to his old home. Breeze blows and William shivers
slightly. He pulls the jacket he's wearing tighter. It covers him and his
many, many, many bandaliers of knives. After a moment, he turns
and walks down below deck, and as he turns, we see what looks
like the remains of an old butcher's ball jersey sewn into a large hatch on
the very back of his jacket. And with that, I think we're going
to end this story. Hi, I'm Adam mcgreve. I've been playing Bruce
Springsteen. You can find me over on my podcast The Roaring Trainers, a
D and D Pokemon pod cast set in the nineteen twenties canto in the jazz
Age. This has been unbelievable and I'm so honored to be playing with everyone
here. Thank you so much. Have a corner slice. I'm gonna go
grab an orange after this. Like, seriously, hey, y'all, be
Zelda, they them here. I have been your non binary busyb playing vex
Hexington or Vex Bexington, who knows I had an absolutely last I just I
don't love a lot of D and D, so whenever I played, it's
just important that I played with people I know that are gonna make it not
boring. And let's just say, y'all delivered. So thank you for letting
me play What's Your Mold make Up? An entirely ridiculous, outrageous game that
was in the end just completely wrong, and I loved it. I love
every second of it and for not to be like our finale part two,
like to bring it back to just our own chaos. Ah, so hecking
good? Thank you, yeah, thank you? Hello everybody? How do
I do these things? Yes? So I am Blake. You can see
me on um around that around the interwebs on what told me to do to
play in the sky Realm with the Alexia. I'm playing that one the first
watch, um, the second campaign part of that one. You can see
me in the Opal Star in a podcast. Um, I don't know,
I I do some things so but for gay thing, like you know,
I'm but it's almost like these why keep him back? So just sessions like
these with the good people's why I can't stop doing things like this because it's
so much fun. And this was definitely, um, a pleasant surprise and
hopefully it's not the last Tory games played together. So yeah, this was.
Um, this is incredible. So yeah is that a gun? I
love it? I love it Steven since on this whole evening. Um,
Hey everybody, it's Christians Vanilla. Um you found me here. This is
where you can find me from a far podcast. I'm here to do the
thing and I've been playing Craigan Berger. It's been an absolute pleasure in Blast
playing with these amazing players bringing what they got to the table. Everybody say
sexy, stay swinging. Yes, I love it. And finally I'm gamemaster
David Chilstra. This has been a hoot and a hauler goodness asked for a
better a better cast and tell this amazing story. We thank you so much
for listening. Thank you so much to the cast for bringing literally your A
plus plus plus plus plus plus ultra game to this entire thing. Wow,
I love you all dearly. Thank you so much for helping us tell these
stories. And we will catch you what No bye everybody. 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 Till and sound design by Christian Spanella.
And finally, a huge thank you to Kendari O'Connor for his invaluable sound
mastering. And that's it. We did it, We did it, made
it, We told the story, beat the boss, we saved the town.
And yeah, honestly, I could not ask for a better wrap up
and just emotional high that this story brought with the end, with its climax.
Um, this has been so much fun. Huge thank you to the
cast, Huge thank you to to be Zelda, to Adam Leagrave, to
Blake Francis and our very young Christian Spanella. This story was very amorphous in
my mind when we went out and started, when we went out and started
making it, and they they helped shape it and turn it into something that
I believe is truly truly special. Um, So thank you, thank you,
thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you all.
You. You brought such a good energy to this entire thing. So thank
you, thank you, thank you. And I didn't forget about you.
Dear listener, um, thank you so much for joining us and accompanying us
on this journey. I hope you enjoyed it. I know we did.
I hope you learned something about sports. Hope you learned something about yourself.
Hope you learned something about just Yeah, just hope you had a good time.
And yeah, so thank you so much. It is never honestly easy
to end, even a small campaign like this, but it's exciting to think
that it's something that's complete and now moving on to the next thing. So
we got some good stuff coming up with from Afar. With from Afar,
We've got our main story coming out. We have another side quest that we're
doing. We got some charity events, we got some live stream events.
So yeah, just keep keep track of us on our on our discord,
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hearing, that's where you're gonna hear where to hear more of us. So
thank you so much. We love you all. Remember to stay happy,
stay healthy, and go wash your hands because it's nasty when you're playing in
the sand and playing in the dirt and you touch some old old rat bones
or some old snake poop or something, and yeah, you just gotta wash
hands. You don't know where your hands have been. I don't care.
If you're smart, remember where your hands have been, But you don't.
You don't know. You don't know for sure, so you gotta wash them.
And with that, with that weird and creepy and disgusting note, I
love you, thank you so much, and we'll see you all in two
weeks. Thanks by