Well, well, well, honestly, I don't know much you say right
now, So yeah, tie your shoes, all right, And while you're
doing that, why don't y'all sit down? Shut up, and welcome to
From a Far Podcast. Previously I'm from a Far podcast. This this ARC's
gotten gotten the wheels of its owner, and it's it's wearing off down the
track and we're just trying to keep out. I look, you love good
smelling seven. Let's go good smelling seven. It's less of believe, more
of desperation. That's set. That's more valid. One. Two, oh
wait, we're just going yeah. Three. Have it be a ramp and
it goes off of but the ramp is slightly tilted to the sides. When
they go off, they're gonna groant it. Yeah. I think areas will
try to jump on the Mirrorbelle. Oh no, I just I have counter
smells. You know. It was the spell of of of hitting you with
the wrench. Okay, Well, she whips around on Frederick and at point
blank she's going to hit him with a couple of fire bolts. Oh shit,
okay, And also the bike splits and now there's there's two kales on
the horizon and can I dock into the good smelling seven rapture in the Nightmare
are blasting away in front of you, and you are you are starting to
get surrounded by the el Capitan and the kale on the horizon. Man,
if someone had to flush your toilet for you, I would create a whole
new society of people. Yeah, I feel like that would humble people.
It would humble people, it would Oh And also the anxiety around clogging a
toilet would be infinitely higher, because now it's not on you. It's like,
dang, I'm sorry, man, Like you gotta go in there and
fight this battle, and I care you gotta like part the waters to even
I feel like the anxiety would disappear though, because then it would be like,
oh, it's expected, like, oh, it'll probably clog. That's
what I mean is it would change society everyone, and like would we look
up to the flushers or would the flushers? Are they wait? Are you
not? Is not? Is it not like a full circle thing? Like
for you to have a flusher, you must be a flush? Like are
they like they do they hold honored places in society? Or are they just
are they just the bigger people that only they can flush because they're larger than
us. Is it kind of like it's like soak. You can't pour sake
for yourself, but you can you can receive sake from someone else. So
you can't flush your own poop, but you can flish someone else that's got
a buddy up to go to the bathroom. And then you got these like
toilets that face each other so you can just hell, yeah, dude,
toilets that actually would change that. I could see that being a reality where
it's like, hey, you ready, oh sick, Like we're both each
other's flushers. This is gonna be so like convenient. And maybe that's maybe
it's your partner, Like what if it's like jury duty actually does, where
you just be selected to be a flusher. God damn it, I'm the
flusher this I got flush of duty. Who did you get? Oh?
D I got Donald Trump. Let me know how that goes. And with
y'all's blessing and permission, I think it's time to start start the veils of
reality. It makes sense because it's a car this time, and to drive
our way into this story. Questions before we get going, One quick question
how many turns have I been raging? I think it's three or did I
do? So it's kind of a point you let rage drop. Okay,
cool, easy, easy mode. So your rage has dropped. Let's just
make sure you state that once we get going. But all that being said,
we're gonna start with a little, a little, a little something different
here. We're gonna we're gonna start on a flashback. Oh. So with
that arius you are old, which means sometimes you wake up wildly or wildly
early for no reason at all. This is what happened last night. After
all of you laid down to rest, Nil not sleeping, Kippa donning his
butt flat pajamas, and you hunk shooting for several hours. After a few
hours, you were startled awake and couldn't get back to sleep, so you
decided to take a little walk excusing yourself from the room. You carefully,
you just walk around. We're not in the room that everybody is asleep in.
Yeah, excuse me, sorry, I'll probably be back in like fifteen.
Well, you carefully see yourself from because Nil is just sitting there like
a trance studying or in your library. I don't know, So straight up
Gandalf in Return of the King. Yeah, exactly, No, she's just
reading the colonel's problem. So no, you would see Arrius leave at this
point, you excuse yourself from the room. Uh. You excuse yourself from
the room, and very carefully not waking Whinnie the Pooh, make your way
through the citadel. Oh, my god, very carefully not waking evil Winnie
the Pooh. You make your way around the same citadel. Important distinction.
Yeah. After awkwardly passing several guards who don't know what to do with you,
arrest you or let you wander, you find your way into the garage.
As you walk through this large and wild space, you see large metal
ships. You see ships look like trash cans. You see you see the
Nightmare, You see all sorts of stuff. After a few months minutes,
you see a light deeper within the garage. As you get closer, you
see Aletasia working on the internet her ship, the Good Smelling Seven. She
looks up, your eyes meet You see a deep worry behind those eyes,
as well as an iron clad determination and just exactly the way Christian is looking.
And she looks up and says, oh, hey, WHOA I didn't
expect to see anyone else a week at this hour imposing. I just I
couldn't sleep. No, I actually couldn't couldn't sleep either. I'm this I'm
worried. This is a pretty big day for us tomorrow. It's like walks
over, you know, within a comforable distance, just kind of listen.
See it kind of looks at what she's doing. But he's just listening,
you see. Like they're like, it's not an engine like we know it.
Like there are metal devices and mechanical devices that like make the wheels turn
and make make this car run, but most of it is like most of
what we would know as a mechanical engine parts over a place with like magical
dude ads and do hikies, so like these are very magical devices basically.
And you see her her wrench glows a little bit, and she like tinkers,
and she starts to use a ratchet and she's attaching the magical flux capacitor
to the blender. The first one was good. And she says, have
you ever been responsible for someone and felt like you've let them down? I
know that's kind of a big question, but that's what's what's what's what's on
my mind, aries like, uh, you know, laughs, but it's
like a dry kind of sad one. I'm sorry, was that a laugh?
Oh? You need a doctor? And I think, and then I
think our response is do I know you from somewhere? Let me ask do
I look familiar to you in anyway? Like purposely kind of an avoiding the
question a little bit, And she looks up to you and she says,
no, I'm sorry. I mean, I've seen hobgoblins before, and I've
seen adventurers before, but do you think we all look the same as it?
Oh? I kind of walked into that. She pulls out a gun
and just kills herself and no, no, she makes sense. No I
haven't. I haven't. I've never seen you before. Sorry, should should?
I have shrugs a little bit. I just think it looks a little
familiar to me in a way. But huh no, but something wrong and
it seemed nervous about tomorrow. Understandably, it's a fairly serious situation. It
is. I know Rapture is kind of a goofy dude, but he's I
mean, ever since he's come here, this is things have gotten a lot
worse. He's been They've been taking people and taking them out to this place.
He took my brother, I'm sure. I don't know if I told
you that or not. He took my brother, and that's the reason I'm
I'm racing. I'm trying to get his freedom back from that nightmare place that
he's where he's been captured, and I just I'm disappointed in myself because I've
I've been trying and trying and trying, and I keep losing, and I
just feel I feel like I'm letting my brother down. I feel like I'm
letting the city down. I know I'm not like like the savior of the
city or anything, but I want to find a way to get him out
of here so we can get back to where we can get back to what
this splace was supposed to be. And it's just this is supposed to be
a place for lost souls to find a peaceful rest. Like everyone who's been
who's made it here has had a really hard time of it. And now
that this like time guy is here and forcing people to race in his weird
ass races, and it just isn't right. It doesn't feel right, and
I just want to find a way to to set it right, So I'm
sorry, I got a lot of Yeah, I think areas. Probably there's
probably like a work bench or something. Right, he's probably like walking.
He says that she turns and looks at Arias is just like looking at something.
You know, it's like like what is this thing? Like? He's
clearly like he clearly is like new to this person, but she's also kind
of hitting on chords that are very sensitive to him. So he kind of
goes like the workbench just kind of like looking that stuff obviously new to him,
and you know, he kind of takes what she says and it kind
of nodds a little bit, and I'm like it turns around, looks at
her, and he's like, you know what I mean, that's extremely honorable
desire and doing what you need to do for families, something that I definitely
can empathize with on a the core of my being. Yeah, sometimes,
I mean, I don't have much to say to you other than I think
we're just right before for the rubber meets the road part of my pun.
But these tires aren't rubber, doesn't existence you don't know what rubber meets No,
I'm not looking. Sorry, I'm not trying to have you solve this
or I'm just I'm just sort of venting, sort of processing some stuff.
I'm not I know, you don't know me. You met me at the
same time you met an evil Winnie the Pooh, so I can understand if
I gotta understand if we're not even friends, to be totally honest, but
but it seems like we're it seems like we're locked in this thing together.
And as kind of laughs, he's like, oh, yeah, sorry,
that's my that's my my fatherly way probably coming out telling you what you should
be doing. But you are more than welcome to talk to me about these
things. I mean, as new as we are, you seem to have
a good head on your shoulders, and I respect that. Also, you're
fingus help, which again is very much appreciated than excite. I mean,
it's a long way to get through this world life, you know, how
about well this after life, because technically I'm Dare's like, it was like,
oh, right, right, right, right, right right, which
brings up a good question, are are you all dead as well? If
we if we said no to that question, would something happen? Yeah,
you know, you'd stop existing in this in this world, so just say,
just see us. And Show wakes up and there's like you see like
a grim reap foiled again and then he dashes away. There's like a like
like a laser that just like seems like right between his scythe is just like
the like the barrel of the size which is a gun. One of these
days, old man, No, no, ash, I haven't. I
haven't in a serious scene with Areas in a while. So I'm trying to
stretch him up again again, says you know, he just said, he
just said thank you to Allotasia for helping them stuff, and she just said
the only way that the life is helping people, Yeah, areas. You
know. He nods at that, you know, kind of crosses his arms
and sits there for a second. I don't think he responds immediately, probably
sitting in the space with her, and then he you know, get he
turns on his heel kind of starts, you know, walking out, and
I think at the doorway, you know, I think you know he you
know, from I think the perspective or where you can see, we can
probably see him and he probably probably holding that hypnotes ring, the hypnos coin.
They wouldn't talk that he talked, you know, he kind of like
is talking to Alatasian, not facing her, and he's like, you know,
I've I've had that was my responsibility before, and I have failed.
So there's one thing I can say to you, isn't Failure's not the end.
It's not what you want. But sometimes life takes you in ways you
wouldn't have gone without it. And he's kind of like he kind of like
lowers his hand with the with the token and p walks on his way.
Wonderful, wonderful, great, great scene hell out there, and then he
farts. Really, yeah, there's that from a far punctuation. Things can't
get too serious. No, no, he doesn't. He doesn't do that,
come on anything. Yeah, no he No. Beautiful as you as
you kind of walk your way back through the citadel, the witch, I
forget what I named it exactly off the top of the head, but I
said, it looks like cretic shaw do you make your way you leave the
garage and make your way back to the room as you as you leave,
like we have that scene of like Eletasia just by yourself working with like that
one work light and she just sort of here's what you say, and like
nods, and then in flashback, the more of the engines crown crowns out
the sounds of the wind that rushes past you all. You all hear Eleotasia
laugh wildly as she drifts the piecemeal ship the Good Smelling Seven into a more
advantageous position, being to enter the next obstacle, the c mine Field four
drought furiously paddled two bikes beside you, one of the one of the drought
standing on the handlebars of his of his bike. Look, yeah, he's
he's up there. He's thunting on you all. He stands on the handlebars
of his bike. All his friend pedals wildly looks at the two bodies dangling
from the side of the ship of the Good Smelling Seven. Hands crackling with
the remaining energy of the thunderway he just cast knocking kippa, kippa and Nil
off the side of the ship. Oh that's right, you guys are hanging
onto the edge. You have to both hang on the side of the ship.
Oh a full yeah, that's right. On with that, we got
a not so friendly dwarf flicking down at us. Yea, off to the
right. You get the engine of the silver and Metal Pirate ship the l
Capatan as it roars as it also that enters the minefield Arius. You are
standing on the deck of the good Smelling seven or the GS seven from it
will be referred to as from having just loosely attached the Mario belt the front
of your ship. A dwarf rolls on the ground, a gone wallyde from
hitting himself in the head with his own wrench, and another stands about nil
and kippa. It's just like so instant hit. Every time you look back
and see several other ships behind you, all jockeying, all jockeying for position.
As you look back, your eyes meet eleotagious eyes. A fierce joy
blows from behind her eyes as well as an iron clad determination. She nods
to is this the So? This is the this is the Is this the
vision that I saw? That's yeah, that's that's that's that's where we get
into a day. She nods to you, this is the run. This
is the time she wins. With your help, she is going to overthrow
a rapture and take back her city, free her friends and family from that
goofy hit terrible ruler. Uh you look, you look back at your friends
hanging off the side of the ship as Eleotages shifts, shifts the ship into
next gear and speeds up. What are you doing? Yeah, we've just
we've entered second gear. Everybody that was got our rpm? What you've actually
been going really really slowly, but just really loudly. Yeah. So,
Arius, you're standing. You have dwarf, the dwarf, dwarf and veteran
in front of you, who's seems to be not a threat, who's rolling
around it and still under the effect of the confusion spell. You have the
one dwarf standing above your friends who are dangling off the side of the ship.
You have the el Capitan approaching from the right. You have the remains
of the Kale on the horizon on your on your left, as you're racing
forward towards this minefield, the Nightmare is off in the distance in front of
you. What are you doing? Oh man? Arius takes a moment to
center himself. Then he pulls out his wand of switchero and he points it
at Nil and you hear like a pop, and Nil standing right and you
see areas of society takes one hand and grabs kip A just chucks him right
at the face. Yeah, do you want to make a stick strength I'm
gonna say, if you make me doing athletics, I'm a die right.
No, no, no, it's Nail, You're Nail. You're on Arius
all of a sudden, in a in a poof of a very comically magical
smoke, sparkles and bunnies fly everywhere, as as Nil as you are now
standing on the on the deck of the good smelling seven in Arius position.
Mustachio Arius, Arius, Kip you look beside as you see your your best
friend Arius grab onto the side of the ship as he as he looks over
to you, grabs you, grabs the grabs you by the scuff of your
neck, and you see the magical mustache grow on Arius his face as he
throws you up to the into the face or just at throwing straight at him.
I want you. I'm just just right in his face. We've done
this before on from Afar and you make me an attack roll strength based attack
roll please, and Kippa, can you make me a dexterity saving throw?
See if you can latch onto the face of the dwarf, the last remaining
crew member of the would you get natural twenty back boys, let's do so.
Kippa, you don't don't about your own you make it literally you just
two guys on yourself over there. But Kippa, you like launch up like
a bullet and it's it's now in SloMo as you go to the As you
rock it towards the face of the dwarf, the camera zooms in as your
face the skin on your you entered zero gravity or not zero gravity? The
g forces on your face more gravity, more gravity? And uh, make
make an attack role with advantage? Please on on this, on this dwarf
and folk. Since when you add my strength to his damage roles? Since
I'm like, that's a great idea. Yeah, that's a great idea.
Yes please since am I rolling? So, Kippa, Well, that depends
do you as you're flying forward? Are you gonna just confident that Kip is
gonna do the right full full on attacker? You trying to do something else?
This all happened way too quick for Kipping to react and do something about
it. He is a projectile okay, cool, So make me an attack
role using your dexterity, and we're gonna we'll add to the damage Arius's strength
and for the crip, I will have what will I'll probably have disadvantage against
being knocked prone or being knocked in the position that Kippa was just him.
So make me attack role Kippa, please? Okay, how do I do
that? So make make it a chack. Make your D twenty add your
proficiency because I'm gonna just assume you're proficient with your body and then had your
add your dexterity proficient with your body. That's another natural twenty. Okay,
So you tube YouTube, I'm gonna take take these verses the ball special.
We all know we just actually fat like this is the origins of the Fastball
Special. We've made it. So can you two describe to me how you're
going to knock this guy off because he's no longer going to be a threat
to you. But I want to know how you two with this one with
a double natural twenty and your two your two creativities. I want to know
how this man no longer is on the ship. I just the way I
mentioned initiating is I imagine, like Kippa, you see that you know this
is probably well enough by know the one. So it happens, and then
it switches, and then Arius isn't even looking at Kippa, but he just
he's looking up at the guy. He just grabs Kippa and he doesn't even
say anthing. He just tosses him up because he knows kipp is gonna gonna
gonna ace it. And and as Kippa flies just real quick with all under
this, we get a very quick flashback to the two Arias and Kipping falling
out of the sky facing off against the hunger in a similar moment that that
that that like point five iPhones taking at the forehead looking down kip Let's kip
A lunch is how do you how do you take him there? Just like
that? How do you take him? At Kippa? His Kippa hits him
in the face and the face keeps going with Kippa. The body stays so
literally he's going, he's moving at mock five and this dude's head just gets
mobbed off of the body. The Kippa's gonna keep going until what's the one
that in the direction I'm flying? These are Jason, So the ship that
would be next in the order off to your right would be El Capitan.
Do you with your double on NATO twenty do you want to make it to
the el Capitan? Yeah, let's do it. Okay, so as as
you land in the most Spider Man superhero pose you possibly can, oh no,
on the deck of he boom, you know, like CROs space first
into the deck of the elk Capitan. You see the dwarf in Veteran's head.
Just go rolling, Kippa. You're now on the deck of the elk
Capitan. Arius is hanging off the side of the ship. Nil, you've
just been boom boogie. Yeah. I don't think she's seen the one of
trew all right now. I don't think you have. I think the last
time you did it, she was upstairs fighting the stress Jim, the gin
Jim, the chin. Ye. Yeah, so so she is like what
blood pressure rose when she got the side, she's no no longer on the
side. Wonderful. And now there's the body of the dwarf and Veteran crumples
and falls off and quickly rolls underneath the wheels of of Kale on the horizon.
But they blaze right over it. Nothing nothing snow, just not even
they did. They cut it in half. They rip right there. Their
tires are knives just around pizza cutters. Yeah, exactly, they just cut
this, cut the door and the dowarm and veteran right in half. And
uh yeah, for for the moment, Kippa's on the deck of the El
Capitan nails on the deck of the good Smoking seven areas is hanging off the
side of them, the good Smock seven. But out of the three of
you, he's the most suited to get himself back in the safety he can.
He's the one who's most likely to be able to do a pull up,
Yes, Kippa. And now you just gonna turn as who who would
go next? And what would you do? Now you want to go next?
And I'll finish it up with what's I don't know what's happening on the
show? Okay, So she's on the deck. There's no dwarf anymore.
There's one dwarf who's still under the effects of Kippa's confusion. Oh but he's
not very threatening to you, all right now, Okay, So then,
uh it's see because I'm sure the confusion will not last forever. It was
not gonna last forever now, so she will. Oh no, the Majorn
can't really if kings can it, No, but you can. I can.
But she's not. She's not very strong. But okay, she she's
gonna try and like roll him off the side. Okay, yeah, I
can push up against this creature pushes right up like just trying to like roll
him off the side of the ship. Love it, uh make me a
strength check or strength athletics check. Please, we really did mean I feel
like it's not gonna be that hard to roll someone who's in a prone position.
Ten Uh okay, yeah, correct stand corrected you. You kind of
like shoulder into this dwarf and creature dwarf and folk, and he like he's
unconfused enough to like be like I don't want to roll off the side of
the ship. And he like puts a hand down and just like kind of
like stops himself and like so you two are sort of like in this grapple
for the moment. But she's not athletic. It's it's all good. You
tried, You took a chance, and it didn't exactly pan out. Is
elbow gonna try and do anything? I mean, he can also try and
if you want, Yeah, I can poke them in the ice. Yeah,
I mean he can't try. I don't know roll for I guess I
would just roll. We we we figured out last time for found familiar role.
What Eldwyn is is like he gets a full turn, he just can't
take a tax. So like you can you can have him do pretty much
whatever you want. We can find a way to make him work. Then
in that case, could I could a like retroactively then like if they just
both try to rot them off, try we'll get into that with advantage.
Then Okay, there we go seventeen. That's it. So so as you
as you like lean into this dwarf, he starts to push back a little
bit and then you hear the magical wing sound of Eldwin as he flies it
next to you, and you both push and all of a sudden, this
dwarf is like, I'm so confused as he rolls off the side of the
good smelling seven could and you just see like shoot out behind you as the
as you'r as your as a good spy seven just rockets forward. Uh.
He just gets lost in the dust of the road. Uh. And now
there's no one else on your ship. You have some folks who who have
been attacking you from the kale on the horizon. You have areas hanging off
the side of the ship. And Kippo, who we're gonna go to now,
he's on the deck of the el Capitan. How are we doing?
Health? Was? I think you're the only one who's actually been hit.
Yeah, I've been hit. Okay, you got hit by a thunderwave.
So even I am going to uh bonus action healing light myself a little bit.
Okay, cool, So add that all up real quick, and then
what'd you get? What does it look like? Is? Okay? So
I just I just heal myself for other six cool? All right, So
you're feeling a little better as your holy light shines down upon you, and
then the camera transitions over to Kippo. You're standing. You stand up after
being rudely thrown onto the deck of the elk Capitan. This silver metal pirate
ship. Imagine just like a like it's not like like the size of a
pirate ship. It's probably the size of your car, which is mid size
today. Yeah. No, it's so it's like all of these cars are
about like fifteen twenty feet long. And like ten fifteen feet wide depending,
so like a large size today. Yeah, a very large size to Dan
for the family on standard size. Yeah, this is the family, a
family size to Dan. It just looks like kind of like a shrunken down
like pirate ship just scale. You see like like the drivers up there at
the helm where the person with the steering shaft would be. It's what I
called it like third eighty episodes ago, and I thought it was really funny.
You see four humans on the deck, one of them driving, and
one of them up at the very front the bow of the ship with their
equivalent. They have like a big harpoon gun. They're gonna shoot at things.
And you have two folks beside you sort of flanking you, and you
were sort of staying in the very middle of this of this ship. What
are you doing? Oh man, give me one second thing. I don't
know if I've said this yet, but Rapture is like exiting the minefield.
He's like gotten through. So he's like a couple of spaces ahead of you.
Of you all forgot okay, Yeah those are coming up. We didn't.
We buw some of them up. The one that was right, you
blew one of them up. So you're you're your first initial round in the
minefield is going to be not dangerous at all, but yourself to get through
one. Okay. So Kippa recovers from his landing and then uh sees the
people, and I think what he's going to do. Okay, He's going
to quickly jump himself up and then locate the driver, and he's like in
front of the driver because yeah, the helm's in the background. So imagine
if we if this is like a top down view of like a ship,
you would be right in the middle of the main deck. The driver would
be like right behind you or like down south of you. Then you have
someone on left and right of you, and then one person at the bower
of the ship, so you're kind of surrounded on like the cardinal positions.
I know what I'm doing, Okay, let's go okay. So, yeah,
that's not good for me, it sounds great for you all. Christian's
face for the listeners at home just got a wily grin on. So all
right, so come with me on this journey. I'm with you, baby,
pops up, turns around, points a finger the driver, the helmsman
who might be I don't know, surprise up to you. Yeah, no,
he's goodness gracious, no, that's not his voice. Yeah, goodness
gracious. We have a stowaway on our on our our midst boys. Get
get him, no worries. I will be leaving momentarily. And he pulls
out his immovable rod. He is in line driver in six words sense.
We're moving at a at a fast pace. On the back. He's gonna
click it off. Whatever it goes through, its brilliant. Oh my god,
we're not. Yeah's gun baby though. No, no, he's letting
it go. Oh I see yeah, yeah, you may get like you
make it like a it's like a torpido. Did you guys ever watch the
Three Musketeers the Disney one way back in the day. Oh yeah, yeah
or no, no, h Zora Zora movie movies. You know they're well
they both have a very similar scene. They both have a scene where they're
being chased on horses and like both of like the roguis swashbucklers are like leaping
from different horses and and like getting people knocking the guards off. There's a
moment in Zoro when like Zoro rides over he's like he's standing up on the
backs of two horses and he rides over this guy like and it's like jumps
over. It's a great movie. And he's like there's coming up. There's
like a log it across the path and Zo jumps over. Zoro jumps are
flying and the other guy this is like like it's hit right in the chip.
So that's what we're gonna do. I'm gonna want to watch I want
to watch that movie again. I'm gonna make a dexterity saving throw. Okay
four. Just just to be clear, the intent is that the road's gonna
like bust through the steering mechanism. Oh, very very good. Yeah,
I'm sure it'll bust. Throw a lot more than that. It'll bust.
It's gonna do a lot of things. Us gonna bust. I'm gonna bust.
Uh. Well, hey, we got hot hands to night, folks,
let's go. Because that's natural. That's a natural one for my dexterity
saving thrust me with. With that natural one, I'm gonna say I the
driver is just gonna be like arms out, arms and legs down in front
of him. He's off, he's off the back of the ship and I'm
gonna roll because another thing that I forgot to mention been I was doing the
rules recap. Each ship has can take damage, but they have a damage
threshold. Every damage over every instance of damage over a certain amount, does
I roll on a mishap table. I'm gonna say, just this automatically is
gonna make me roll on the mishap table for the mishap of this one,
Christian, can you please roll me a D twenty please? Rolling Rolling Rolling
seven seven got a furnace rupture. A quick shot of like the as the
immoval around like crashes into the steering shaft and launches the driver off the back
that the camera like quickly like goes down on all the inner workings and mechanisms
of the ship. And you see like the steering shaft as it gets rent
like a piece of metal shoots up into like this magical engine. You see
one of the magical pieces gets dislodged, and just all of a sudden,
from deep down within the in the ship. Christian, kip, but you
hear this as as like fire shoots out the side of the of the El
Capitan and it speed its speed immediately starts to just drop and you're start,
you're starting to get very far back. You're trying to you you're the people
on the good smunks. I'm starting to outpace you. Well, so I
didn't want to interrupt the process of what's going to happen with the road.
But my plan after that was to go and do a cannon ball off the
side of the ship and have a dimension door chick and then I pop out
in like portal portal style like you know, I will say, that'll be,
that'll be. The bonus action will be to do the rod because not
what you just raise your hand and click a button. Just click a button,
and then if you want a cannon ball off the side of the ship
does look again, every dimension door just happens and you haven't used any of
your movement yet. I will say this, where where where are you trying
to? Where are you trying to exit the ship from the side. Okay,
so you're gonna get one opportunity attack as you pass one of the veteran
second. You know you know what I'm well, No, jumping off the
ship is cool. I could make a dimension door right underneath my No,
no, I like it, but yeah, I'll I'll do it right it's
kip it to be like, let's do the cool thing, and then be
like, yeah, let's do the cool thing, not the safe thing,
interring the kip his mind. As you see like this this like techno pirates
pulling out a sword. It's like breathed and wreathed and like and like a
neon lights. It's a Minecraft source, so it's all pixel it's all pixelated,
but like it's like glowing with like neon lights as he pulls out a
sword and you see an slight opening past him. But you also you're like,
I'm probably gonna get hit, fucking you just like charge forward fifteen on
the die plus with my long sort attack it'll be plus five unnatural twenty.
Yeah. You so you're gonna take twelve points of damage as this guy As
you run and this guy like in the action of like drawing his sword,
you run by him and he gets you like right on like the shoulder,
and you're like, ah, but you like jump off. You like you
use the momentum of the hit to like kind of spin your ready jump off
ackwards and just middle finger this guy cannonball, And how does it look like
when you arrive back on the ship. I imagine, you know, like
I said Portal, I'm not just gonna have it plot me like down,
you know, and like just cannonball into the ship. Is that what hurt?
So it's gonna be kind of like pointed up. So as I jumped
into this one, I in a little cannonball pop out the G seven.
So in the last six seconds there's been a lot that's happened. Arius teleported
Nailed to safety through kip It to safety. Kip A launched through a dwarf
onto another ship. Rose his immoval rod caused a furnace rupture and knocked the
pilot off of the El Capitan. Effectively, it's gone. El Capitan has
gone. The gray D four is now off of my trekking device. And
then I launched back into the good smelling step. Is that about sum it
up? Yes? Yes? Also and Nili and Nil Nil, with the
help of her flying monkey, rolls rolls. The ship. El Capitan is
gone. Drunko MAT's gone. Mariabelle pretty much is gone because now it's just
your nar wall spear, the it's your ramming on the kale, and the
horizon is gone. And now we are entering into the mine field. Wait,
the Kill Kill Kill boys are gone. No no, sorry, no,
sorry they have gone. They're still They're still there. Oh, they're
they're still here. And for the honesty, I just have a wish that
in the end, you all will become friends with these tribes, like somehow
they're like, yeah, you know what great race areas is like they don't
even exist, Like, they don't They're not enemies areas. They are they
are goals to areas. They are they're goals of the body because you know
that their bodies are like Grecian Grecian sculptures. Well there, because they're in
second place with us. Yeah, I have said that you were moving at
one hundreds of miles an hour. They're like anime backstory moment that we get
is like them being like, but I need to I want everyone to see
that the human body is capable so much. You go to medical school to
learn about to make money, to learn about to make money, and the
Sun goes to medical school and unlocks the secret of ultra muscles. Yeah,
and then he shows his three friends. That shows us three friends. You
know what, you know, whats Dworsan? Just just killing mercenaries for for
lof we can be road bike okay, and then they die and now they're
in a race because they're they're sould their soul with Is it went past what
the human body was capable of. No, they're in a perfect position.
Couldn't like, Yeah, they're they're literally these these ships are powered by very
intricate I didn't do a good job of excribe describing it in the flashback,
but these ships are powered by very intricate mechanical and magical engines. These guys
are just biking, so their bodies are at the intricate mechanical and magical items.
Let's go with that. As ellot Eleotation is going to take her turn,
none not assisted by you all, and she's going to try to maneuver
through this is a wild story, trying to maneuver through her trying to maneuver
through this minefield. And I just wrote a natural twenty on the diet for
etation. Is that ford for us? This is the fourth natural twenty,
the third natural twenty this round. The fourth was set one. Yeah,
I've only so far rold twice and I've got a natural one natural twenty,
so I'm gonna move you up two spaces you make you make it through the
minefield unscathed. What does she do? How does she maneuver? Because we
have us have a spear on the front of the so she she like,
this is this is how it happens with an after twenty she you hear her.
You look back and she's like, lean back, one hand on the
steering wheel, one hand on on the shifting mechanism, and she you see
her like look to you areas and she winks because it's not creepy. It's
like hanging on the side. Do you might want to you might want to
get back on as she like on her shifter, she like pops open a
little a little thumb. She pops open a little a little hidden compartment and
you see like a slot for what looks like a thick quarter to go into.
And she like takes her hand off the string wheel, pulls it,
pulls an amulet from her neck and she's like, this was my grandfather's and
she shoves it into the into the slot and close it and you you see
the engine start to glow. Black starts playing, Black Eyed Peas starts playing,
and you all just like it's called slit scanning in film, and like
they're able to make things look like they stretch out when they're going to areas.
I'm just gonna say, you're not gonna fall up, but you're not.
You're not You're not You're still you stuff to get get yourself up.
Your body was like this and now it's completely horizontal as she as she just
like pops this nos basically, and the good smoking stuffing rears up on two
wheels and roars right through this through this minefield and it it like there's a
part where it like uses the merrybell to glach Overhault, but physics be damned,
you still have the Mary Tobell in front of you because you feel like
we could do better stuff with that. But yeah, I know she's she's
like drifting sliding around these mindfields if it helps us get through the minefield on
an easier basis that that that works with me, baby, with the with
the natural twenty that errold, I'm not going to take that away from view
three. So she's just like drifting around. She had bumps one of the
mind minds into another mind and causes an explosion behind you, but it doesn't
hurt her. And then she gets through and you guys are not right on
Capture's tail. And he looks back. Oh she as Arius is stretching out
like all the g's are forcing all of your faces back and you just hear
law whipping you want by the end of you all see that that like fierce,
fierce joy, but just like thrill, like pulse through her. At
this point, she's just like drifting up on two wheels, like dodging around
these mine fields, like using momentum and like kicking up dust to like knock
other minds into each other, and like there's explosions behind you, and and
yeah, it's fucking great. Killing the horizon obviously makes it through. So
they're they're they're they're not they're not with you all, but they're one space
behind you. But they're making through the minefields and the other folks ten seventeen
Natural twenty and okay, cool. So you see the family van rip up
as this as this group of Vin Diesel's family family family like starts to are
just charged forward. They make it through the mind they make it into the
minefield safely. Uh you see the ram and the red car one they're about
to enter the minefield like this. No, it's not a reverse. It's
all the mechanics are moving forward, but the shell of the car its just
reversed. There's like there's like a scoop out front basically like a and like
a cockpit kind of in the back. It's not actually no, it is
a dude driving and he's just he's just got one arm on the passenger seat.
Ye, they're quick flashback and either are like Willie, you can't drive
your car. You can't drive a reverse car. It's impossible. He doesn't
have any teammates either. It's just him. He just wound up on the
on like it was he was delivering some materials. He's just he's just a
delivery car. You can't drive a reverse car. It's impossible. What if
I drive my car takes off his sunglasses in reverse? Your genius. That
still won't work. And we flash back to we flash back to the present,
but unfortunately the the Davis Paul Allen five is having a hard time restarted.
It's you. You're getting close to passing the back of it. It's
so they're ahead of us. No, no, no, they're they're behind
you, but their car is sol it reps around the world if you're starting
to pass the back of it. Alright, alright, alright, alright,
calm down. I know, I know what's happening in the story right now
is very exciting. But none of these, none of those confounded metal ships
could ever beat Old Bessie here in an actual foot race. So in the
in the foot race, or you should know this, the Sea Monster has
a bunch of feet on the bottom. I always just thought it was all
of us poking our feet through the bottom. Well we tried that with Sea
Monster one point zero, and all the holes in the bottom of the ship
really didn't make Yeah, excuse me. We lost a lot of good good
sailors that day, right night, anybody interested in somewhere so Christian? Hey
David, it's times like this that I really really think back to the past.
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You would know all about that, wouldn't be Wow. I was trying to
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this. Sorry, I forgot to say that one part. Damn it.
You all have made it through the minefield. You're run on Rapture's tail.
The Kale on the horizon is about to make through the minefield. The family
van is entering the minefield, and then the other jackasses are far behind that
that we don't worry about that. Right now, you've successfully taken out three
of my eight ships. You've taken out the Junco Mat, the Elk Capitan,
and the Mariobell And now let's roll for initiative again. Rapture. Oh
okay, Rapture got it too. You guys also got it to kill on
the horizon, they emerge from the minefield. You're all all are at first
Raptures in front of you. Looks like this car is starting to slow it
down a little bit and he's gonna go after you all. What are you
trying to do? Oo? You all are going first. Rapture is one.
He's just like basically one ship length ahead of you. You, the
rest the rest of the crew behind you is all starting to catch up as
both you and Rapture's car sort of after the cool maneuvers sort of, the
engines were overheating a bit. Eleotaia slowed down a bit, Rapture slowed down
a bit. You all do not advance this round, but you are going
first. Layer is going to get up off the side of them of the
car, making me a quick making a quick athletics check for the one you
very very like launchers like in a CrossFit style pull up, launch yourself up
over the side of the ship. And now and now the three hair his
hair is just like sha side creases it back down. He like shakes his
head. The three of you are now standing on the on the top on
the deck of the Chrismunk seven. What are you doing? That is there?
That was great? Love that? Oh? Thank you. I'd cook
that one up. I wanted to say for something special. Oh you were
saying something, David. Is there any any cars directly behind us? Yes,
you have the Kale on the horizon directly behind you, and you have
the family van that started starting to from the minefield. Oh. I almost
don't want to do it, but I think it's oil slick time. All
right, man, all right, so oils like what that does? Is
it? It's going to knock the car behind you, whoever you hit,
if they hit the aimost like back two spaces, Okay, you got Kippa
runs out. He's like, I'll take care of the rear, any crakes,
whatever the thing is. And I love it. So I'm going to
make a question, are you since you have both the family van and the
cal and the horizon, are you aiming for one in particular? We know
which one's more of a threat. More of a threat I mean, but
the calboys are doing they're doing They're You're also about to attack two of my
favoritest cars, a group of Vin Diesels and four drought on two bikes,
Like I don't want the drought, not make it anything, you know,
but what would you do in the love it? Because basically they're they're on
the left and right of view, but they're both behind you. You you'll
have to communicate with Aletaia to like, hey, get over to the left,
get over the right. Odds are evens. I'm gonna leave this up
to chance. Odds, odds are kale evens or evens are family man,
Thank you? I rolled and I was like, I didn't say which was
which, and I'm still now. I was struggling to the side. Okay,
so fifteen was was? That was her eyes and it's all so sorry
as you just pull just literally kick us and I'm so sorry, all so
beautiful flicks the cigar behind him as the oil dogs. I just thought that
would be a funny. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna make the x Terry
safe for them. Nine plus fine, it's fourteen what do I say?
Plus five on two bikes with their riding bikes. Well, you guys are
riding cars. True, honestly, I feel like they should get an advantage
box. Who side are you one? Listen? Listen, listen, listen,
listen, listen, listen. I appreciate the hustle. All right,
pretty game. Game recognize this game as love recognizes a game. And I
was like too, sometimes that too, that too. But I actually the
question, so what would happened if neither us nor Rapture wins. I don't
think we ever specified that. That's a good he didn't. Yeah, then
you just race again, I see, let me just run a bat well
you can bring Vin Diesel back. That that is so unfortunate. But it's
also that's the way the rules are written. It's a fifteen deck save for
they they got a fourteen. Oh so you see, Kay, whoa on
their on their pizza cutter wheels. We all get you next time. I
still love you. They start to it's like they go back and slide back.
Now maybe after this is done, as Kay on the horizon is now
their leg day must be insane. And you see like they pull a lever
and on the back of one of their pikes, you know, like you
know how like sometimes bikes have those like antennas with flags on them. Yeah,
for like visibility. Yeah, they had one of those pops up and
on the flag as it flaps in the breeze. You see it. It's
it's said you can't spell legendary without late day, and yeah, you can't
look it up. I say it every time I go to the gym,
which is not that often. So so that is Kippa's Kippa has taken out
the opposition. Now it is the ranking goes the Nightmares in first place.
The good SMIY seven is in second place. Tied for third place is the
Family Van and the Kale on the Horizon. Tied for fourth place is the
Ram and the Red Car one. And just bring up the rear is Davis
Paul Allen five, Yes, and bringing up the rear front. They're they're
also in front. They've already won the race. Bringing up the front,
bringing up the front of career. So that is Kippa's action. Are you
trying to do anything else with bonus action anything? I'm gonna give inspiration to
elotas hell, yeah I will. I will take that into consideration. Nail
or Arius, what are you trying? I think areas is just gonna help
Elotasia. Yeah, can say, how can I how can I support you?
What do? What? Do we need? What we what? I
would suggest because I'm a kind of benevolent DM. I wouldn't suggest if if
neither you're gonna take actions, only one of you help Ellotasia and then one
of you look for a shortcut. Okay, that's all you, Nail,
Because that's an intelligence role. Correct, Is it is a a perception intel?
Yes, it is a perception reservations wisdom though, Yeah, and its
investigation. I'm sorry, investigation. We're going to do investigation, and we
need a twenty I'll just use my passive and I'll find it because I have
a twenty one. Oh god for this, I think I'm gonna have you
roll. But but I appreciate, I appreciate the hustle. So so let's
let's just get back into the narrative. We'll have you going down mail.
So now, Nail, you're trying to look for a shortcut. Yeah,
so what do I rule? Investigation? So you are just going to yeah,
just investigation. Check doesn't that's a night It's okay, you don't you
don't see it this time? Let me let me get some kip Kippa's uh
back okay? Cool? So you so nil? You looking for a short
cut and you give Christians? How much do you give them back? And
what does it look like? It just looks like I dumb some water on
them. It's like it's like I dumb water on you, but you're not
wet. Very cool. How much how much HP are you missing? Almost
half? Okay, you get twenty back? Oh wow, that's great shit,
So twenty hp back to Kippa an area. So it's full, great,
thank you, thank you. Yeah, it's a nil. As you
look, as you're looking for this short cut, you don't see anything at
the moment, but you know there's some out there. You know that you've
heard of short cuts and you've there's all of them. Yeah, you're out
there somewhere you know of you know of the idea of a short cut.
I've heard them, I've felt them. Familiar with the concept. Yeah,
I'm familiar with the concept, but they're not If you walk over you like,
hustle over to Eleotation and she's just like I'm just pulling levers and steering
and you guys are maneuvering and you see all these gauges and dials and stuff
that she's monitoring, and uh, you like just you just put a hand
on her shoulder and you're like, she just like looks up to you,
and you guys have that moment of like looking at each other and you remember
that flashback last night and you're like, I'm here for you or we're gonna
make this happen. Failure is not the end, but we should still try
to succeed. He said, No, I'm absolutely gonna try to succeed.
Spots and she punches it and you guys will lunch forward again another gear.
Yeah, we're in third We're in third gear now, folks, No I
think what it was. No, No, that's good. It's gonna make
We don't need to make every moment. And if you if you're something,
Nope, no, no, it's not. At the worst. Sometimes you're
like, I'm not gonna say so basically what I'm gonna do now with you
that with that and the eleotation is now going to get advantage on her next
placement. Damn Retchi is so speaking of which it is now raptures turn uh
and this is what he is going to do. It is the top of
the round. That means these have re set. This is I don't know
why this is even coming out of my mouth, but maybe you'll enjoy it.
I just had this vision of rapture, Like he's that classic like Chad
chester Worth, like he knows he's gonna win. Like his car. His
car has like a dj like he's zjag and there's like a little like dance.
He's like, you know, like prayer prayer, fire shooting out and
then he like looks behind me. Oh shit, yeah, actually that's exactly
what he does. Is like imagine like if the Mad Max, like Max
has heard that and enjoying the thing. Bard if the ma the Mad Max
bar on the front of fucking whatever, Father, the father what was his
name anyway, the main the main bad guy in Mad Max Fury Run No,
no, no, that's that's the guys learning guy. Yeah, his
name is like he's like the father or it's it doesn't matter. We all
know what I'm talking about. The guy in like the red pajamas who's playing
the guitar on the front of the Mad Max haven't seen it, so I
don't. I don't actually have what you're talking about, but watch it.
It's a good but it's a very good movie. But imagine that but like
a techno kind of DJ guy up there, like welcome. You've been listening
to the BBC on the crown. Oh shit, Rapture look and he's like,
there's and you see the dance party stops and look back and as the
good Smoke seven is creeping up behind and Rapture is going to use one of
his legendary actions and he is going to Mario Kart double dash. Yeah what
does that mean? I have? But it's just more more double dad double.
He's gonna he's gonna dash twice up. I thought he was gonna like
hot swap with the driver. No, no, no, no, Rapture
is. Rapture is driving. That game was so good Mario Kart, Mario
Kart doubleday as Rapture as the Nightmare, just like you like we hear it
crank into another gear. You see think of that out of its exhaust pipes
and it speeds forward and you see Rapture's hands raises up out of the cockpit.
It's just a middle finger and that is going to be it for this
round. As we're moving into the next round, there was no there's some
combat and stuff happening behind you all, but we don't care about that.
Can I just quick quick snippet one one to two sentence? What kind of
like firepower is the family band? I just gotta visualize that. Yeah.
Uh, they you know those like roof racks that you have for like vacations,
We put a lot of like suitcases and stuff like on the top of
your car. You're like, yeah, we have we have like this like
weird roof rack on our arve. It right, we like never used it.
We never used it, but like like you could like put suitcases and
things and like strap it down up and it's like it was like a container
up on the top of your car. There's a really you know, common
thing on cars. Oh I didn't. Yeah, so we are something the
cars weird? Okay, Well, well there's there're I know, I know
what you're talking about though, because there are attachments that you can add to
it. Yeah. I think I think David's thinking a very specific one from
our childhood, which I also can think of exactly my head because it was
always there but we never never used it. You're on You're on sentenced to
now some sentence too, So there is there's this this roof rack on the
top of this car. There is there's there's like a like an angsty look
more like an angsty kid looking Vin Diesel sitting up there playing like a game
boy like hees headphones in, but he also has just a cannon strapped two
in the back and it's and it's a it's shooting out just old fashioned cannonballs,
cannon balls but techno versions. So they're all glowing me on a little
bit of glitch to them, glitch as we are moving into the next round
here, Eletasia fucking me? Okay, I just rolled for for Eletasia's placement
and with the advantage that Arias just gave her due another natural twenty How has
she lost any of these races before? She didn't have us. It's true
power family and friendship plot. Armor is you all move up right behind Rapture
yet again, you just you can't quite get past him. There's some folks
doing things behind you. We're just gonna skim past that. Everybody moves up.
Hit, I lost my die. I'll find out later. Wait,
the one that's been giving us these natural fums, Yeah, I know you
take as much time as you need, so you have. So you all
here as as cale and horizon and the family band eggs of the minefield.
You see the ram actually it hits one of the mind and is no longer
a thing, and the Davis Paul Allen five is starting to starting to get
some speed, starting to press the gas. That's the underdog story. I'm
just to sort of re reinstate or re reiterate what's going on. H.
Rapture has just used his legendary one of his legendary actions, and he's blasting
forward up to four spaces. You have then with with look, with help
from Arius Eletasia, thinking about the conversation that you have last night, she
starts to believe, she starts to believe harder. She gets the National twenty,
and she blasts forward again using the power of technology and friendship. H.
And you are now writ again on Rapture's tail, and then everyone else
is behind you. Don't worry, don't worry about them. But the RAM
is the RAM is no longer, no longer with it. As you all
enter into you you passed that fighting around. You're entering into the next obstacle
round, which I have so lovingly called watch out for the pits. There
we go, as I'm gonna say, just with with the natural twenty and
just keeping these moving. Ala is able to maneuver every maneuver through them,
so you don't need to worry about the pits. Is anyone trying to do
anything right now? As you're getting close behind Rapture and you do know that
the the the the outskirts, which is the area where Rapture will be out
of the city, is coming up after the pits. That's just another section
of the race though. Well, that's that's the part where he's going to
be out of the city where you have been informed by Marai he will be
no longer within like the protections of the city. So that's when we get
if that's right, we can kill him while because that's where that's when like
it's gonna be easier or more effective to kill him. Interesting forgot about that.
Kipp was like, is there anything you can throw at him? He's
just he's got so much damn speed. Are starts reaching for Kippa? No,
I'm sure only if you wanted button Kippa, I don't. I mean
Rapture right, his name Rapture right, right, you gotta threw you into
a dimension like as puts his hand on your shoulder. It's like, I
mean, what do you want to do about? What do you want to
about? You want to try to kill him? What do you want to
beat him in the race? You want to try to kill him? Pretty
much, try to beat him in the race. Why are you putting this
on me? Oh? I dot you. It just seems to hurt you.
Good point. I don't know. Man, all right, let me
want to kill him because he took me. Okay, I didn't want to
put any weird energy out there, but now you want to kill him the
shore. Yeah, I guess, yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't really
matter at this point. We just need to me. I might. Maybe
I'm going a little too strong about it, all right, No, no,
don't don't. If that's no, no, if that's if that's if
that's I would love to kill him. I would love feelings. I'm willing
to acknowledge it. I just I personally have no qualms whether he lives or
dies, as long as he's out of the picture. And if him,
we'll do that quicker than so be it. Wow, what a very clinical
way to I'm I'm just I'm just saying, we just need him out of
it. Yeah, that's true. Well, you know if if if he
is dead, then technically he won't be able to take anyone to technically,
that's true. It's right, that would be the best solution. To think
about it that way, all right to the best solution. I want to
kill him, says Okay, yes, a final solution. Let let us
let us kill him. Then you know, it's let's fucking as as you
all blast forward yet again, and we have now just because it's it's I'm
I'm in charge of this story. Skipping over the pits. You will all
very very coolly. There's a couple of ramps and jump over some of the
pits, and there's a few moments where you rapture shooting few spells it.
You will, you're feeling shooting a few spells back at him. You all
like go through a tunnel in your out on the outskirts of the city.
It's sort of a more wide open like almost like frozen tundra like area.
It's not like desert, but it's like there's no there's no trees, there's
no like there's not really anything here. It's just like a wide open,
expansive of like dusty barren road. And you see like there's there's a track
that you can follow that will like take you far out and then wheel you
back in towards the city. As Rapture pulls forward, your two cars are
neck and neck. All of a sudden, you see Rapture stand up,
one foot on the steering wheel, one foot on the seat, his cab
band style hat. He throws his hand up to hold his hat on as
like the wind is rushing, have three hands. No, no, no,
he's standing up. He's he's driving with his feet because it looks really
cool. He's driving a little little closer, and we realize he's been in
a rang and tang there all the time. You all see Rapture standing up
in like his cockpit area, and he like reach us forward and and points,
and all of a sudden you see a portal open up, and it's
not in front of you, it's in front of his car. And he
speeds forward and it looks like he's starting to enter this portal. What are
you all doing? He's cheating? Yeah? Is that is that against the
rules? It does look like he might be cheating, which is not great.
Can we follow him? Can we can we get in that portal as
well? Aletation looks at you and like you see this like twinkle in her
eye. There's a lot of stuff going on with her eyes today, and
she says, I, if y'all want, I can absolutely try to follow
this motherfucker into wherever he's going. It is that a bad idea that that
is not part of my idea of rule book. I don't know where that
falls. All right, well fuck it, let's go all right, let's
make it up and cool. Nor I said it because there was a branch
of my notes there if you follow, if you don't follow, and you
all chose to, so it chose in the right choice. Correct. Well,
no, not necessarily, because there there was a moment like there's there's
there's things that are going to happen and slash not happen now, No,
I don't. I don't want to spoil anything because I still might be able
to use them moving forward. I just want to say, Gigga rapture might
have been a thing that was coming up later anyway, So you all see,
you all follow the tail lights of the nightmare as it goes through this
like very large blue port You see him disappear through this portal and you're like,
all right, it's nuts to butts out here. Here we go and
with with another burst of speed aletation blast right in them, and you all,
like the breath kind of gets taken out of those you pass, feel
like you've been kind of plunged into icy, icy depths. And then you
feel your car like land on something and it keeps it keeps them blasting forward,
and as you all look around, something kind of shitty happens. Kippa,
you know where you are because y'all are back in kushemar as An areas
and now this is your first time seeing you guys are racing on Remember the
Remember those tendrils that I was talking about, Kippa, that you were looking
at over in the sky. You're racing up tendrils of thought and tendrils of
dream and nightmare way above this just horrific, desolate landscape. But now,
Kippa, one thing that you didn't see the first time you were here.
But now you are high up enough to see sort of this like central structure
coming up way off in the distance, and it looks like it's made out
of this like undulating black corruption goo that you you saw that you actually passed
through when you were leaving Kushmar for the first time. But so you see
this giant structure way off at the end of this road that you guys are
not racing on, and beneath it with more of these like tendrils, these
like kind of white transparent tendrils flowing into it. You look down you see
fields and fields of what looked like graves. Imagine it's it's like a cross
between the like a giant graveyard. And then also the pods from the matrix
that Neo woke up in. Okay, so like there they all have this
kind of glow to them, and they all look at they're attached to this
other structure. It looks like they're feeding this giant structure mass thing up and
up in the front or up up way in front of you. And and
that's that's what everyone sees right now. You're racing on this like semi transparent
tendril way up in the sky. And then the poorer clost behind him is
you all see you're back in Kushmark interaptures in front of you, and he
looks back. You actually see a look of surprise on his face as he
sees you are all right on his tail. So you all are in,
You all are back in. Well, keep out, You're back in Kushmark,
Arius and no, you're in Kushmark. Welcome to Kushmark. And like
the center, just describe Europe like hundreds of feet up in the air on
this like sort of semi transparent like road, like imagine like the Rainbow Road
and Mario Carlo a little more like ghostly and evil looking. As you're racing
towards this very large, fundulating black structure overlooking a horizon of like these these
glowing graves that looks like the structure is like siphoning things off of Kippa just
realizing where he is. I has to go away, He's next shit,
And then he like runs up to Eletasia where she's in the cockpit or whatever.
He's like, we cannot lose him. We do not want to get
stuck in here, all right, I don't know how to get us out.
Yeah, good gods, is this is insane? Yeah, well,
welcome to our nightmare. Did you see a look of absolute horror and like
a bit of realization crossover Eletasia's face and she says, oh my god,
Oh my gods, this this must this must be it. This is this
is how he's been gaining his power. He's he's been taking people in sighteing
off their their ability, and he's, oh, that's what's happening. Is
that what's happening. It has been very confusing, but I none of this
is character got it? Got Yeah? He is like, oh, that's
what's happened, so real quick, just above the tables, also in character
above the table. Rapture has been this realm of Kushmar has always existed,
but he's been like enhancing it with like the nightmares and souls of people he's
been capturing and putting into it. And it's now like you saw it a
little bit when you were when you were leaving, how like Sapphire was like,
oh my gosh, she's just sat to balance. Everything's out of mac
who don't know what to do. That was that was Rapture gaining power and
fun fact, that's how he overcame Marai. Because Marai she uses the power
of the veil of dreams. He's using Kushmar. And now that Kushmar is
more powerful. We have all we have this conversation in character, and that's
that's exactly what happened. Oh, it's that's that's the realization. I just
can't see. Can we go back to the beginning. I didn't write those
downe I did. Don't worry omanis laces. It's been just like curiously scribbling
this entire type writing it down. That's the story that we've been kind of
piecing together with all these with all the remnants here. All right, everyone
let out that deep breath we've been holding in for the last We can finally
swallow them. We can pretty easy. How do we stop him? She
says, and uh miroc Eletasia like points to the structure and she says,
I've never been here, but she's like, I would imagine like that big
like fundulating structures like that probably shouldn't be here. And I have a feeling
we don't want him to reach that. If he does, I don't know,
maybe something that give Gigger rapture. But what do we want to see
that? That's up to you. It's a much harder fight, you know.
The Book of Logic says, probably we shouldn't. I do like I
feel like that's very in character though, like you guys are like ooh,
but and then and then Mill's like, no, I've seen shit. This
is terrible. I've seen worse things, but this is still pretty bad.
Let's stop him, let's get him all right? Wait, but can we
kill him in here? If this is his rene? Only one way to
find out, And as as you all sort of quickly communicate all this stuff
to each other, and Eleotasia explains all of that, all of the backstory
of this, and we're now here right now all we're now all up to
speed pun intended. As as Rapture starts to dash forward, you all hot
on his tail. Is there any way that we could repurpose something on the
GS seven and boost the the spear car and I didn't spear him? Apps
a fucking literally is a tear from his eyes? Happy tear? Or said
here, happy tear that Kippa can think of something so beautiful. I'll say
this, I'll say this. What she can do is Eletasia. I don't
know if this would work physically. I don't give a shit. We're in
a nightmare realm called kushmar riding on a transparent road physics can get the fuck
out of here. If you want her to launch you forward or launch this
ship forward, you all can ride on it. She will slim on the
brakes, so she will be out of the fight for a little while.
But she'll like like boost forward and lay us out there and and she'll like
boost you forward, but she'll shop a slim on the brakes, because those
are the physics in this world. Kip Kippa, can he can like blast
a thunderwave on the back end too, to like assist in the blow through
the fools. Yeah, so yeah, we can do that. So if
you want to, so she all had stop casting like that. So I'll
say with if you want to give up a spell sting like that and we
if we if we get Aletasia out of this, you all can get to
a Rapture's car by spearing it with the merry Belle. Let's go, Let's
go. But Aletasia will be out of out of commission for a little while.
Areus is there as I think, like okay, as is happening.
Areas like kind of turns to like alotasition, like you know, obviously because
she's like been in his vision, like he knows that she's kind of like
a big deal to him, and like, I know he knows that she
doesn't really know that, but that's okay. He kind of awkwardly throws out
his hand to like, you know, shake her hand or something. Yeah,
no, that's yeah, absolutely, and like and then very like you
didn't and I didn't know it was going to be under these conditions. But
as you reach out your hand for she reaches out her hand to you,
and she looks up and she smiles, and you're transported back to that,
to that moment in in the in the Prism telescope where you were standing on
the front of this ship reaching down unto the cockpit a shaking Eletasia's hand.
And is it like slightly different now or or what it is? It is
a little b different because in the original in the original one, I said,
you were traveling through this like neon like shiny, very like very much
the imagine like thor ragnar Rock World. Yeah, but yeah, so it
is a little different. So that's that's interesting that like your your destiny and
your a fate is it's not quite exactly the way you saw it, but
it is still you know, you know, be on the shadow of doubt
and this is exactly that moment. Whoa this is this is a memory like
two years in the making. Yeah, yeah, we did it four four
years in the making, I mean, and then he he kind of like
his eyes go wide for a second, and then but he realizes that you
guys can go, and he like thank you, and like like runs and
jumps on the on the the spear, and you have like a weird like
a sense, well, how would how do you think ARBs would feel like
in that moment of like you've been sort of trying to run from your destiny
for a while. Yeah, seeing it like this starkly in your mind,
not in your mind, just like in front of you, like you're living
this right now. But it's also been like kind of foretold, Like how
an Arius feel in that moment? Yeah, I mean that maybe maybe he
doesn't know everything, you know what I mean, Like they're like, oh,
like like maybe maybe the outcome is not what I expect it will be,
but it it doesn't mean it's like less necessary. And probably that's probably
the most you could really think to it at this moment, because there's a
lot of shit going on here. There's a lot going on, but yeah,
and you you just have this, yeah, this weird sense of like
like destiny, but for the first time in your life, like you realize
it doesn't matter all that much. Right, It's like, oh, that's
that thing that was concrete. If something as concrete as that is is adaptive,
is adjustable, Yeah, but what else can change? What else can
happen? As as you shake Out'tage's hand and have this very similar vision,
the three of you, I take it all kind of scuttle onto the banana
boat that is that is the Mariabelle as. I do want to point out
that Nil is probably clinging onto arias she is Koala backpacking right now, and
then and then Eldmin is Koala backpacking on you. So there's like there's a
double backpack. As you all like very carefully scoop scoot your way forward,
and the kid was in the front a fucking jobs is like, ah,
you all scamper onto the onto the merriabell As you're blasting through this world raptures
just about fifteen twenty feet up in front of you, and you hear from
behind you Elotage says, all right, y'all, good, good luck,
buckle your butts, and she's just like again, puts this like big quarter
in her slot machine, and you feel the good spot seven rumble and just
dash forward. But then almost as quickly as it like dashes forward, you
hear her as it stops. But your Maryabell spear breaks the chains and launch
us forward, and you all are sailing right at the acid of the Nightmare
and boom you come crashing into it a sound way. Okay, I was
gonna say, I'm gonna oh yeah, I'm sorry, I'm gonna cast a
fireball right at the last last second to get a set little extra owns excellent
and but right, yeah, right, as the ship breaks right by,
and that that is what that is what with the combination of her and you,
you launched like like an arrow, you've launched the merrybell for and smashing
the back of Raptures to him, doing a good amount of damage, slowing
it down ever so slightly. But now you have you all have a fairly
easy access onto Raptures ship. But we continue going last week through. It
is his ship generally the same size as everybody else's, or is it it's
here okay, yeah, kind of almost an actual ship side, yeah,
closer to like an actual an actual like like pirate ship like frigate worship,
not a worship, wouldn't be that pick oh frigate frigate do you all?
I mean, As gets on everything. So he starts to board kippa Kippa
runs. He said, I'll meet you guys up top, and he's using
the spider climb bracelet. Oh oh shit, forgeving that actually, don't you
don't make a don't make a wisdom saving thrown time. He just actually,
person is already any in your mind. Well we can talk about that later.
You don't don't worry. Don't worry about that this step as you access
the because you slap the brastle on your wrist, the spider, the black
on ex spider on your golden bandal clothes, and you're able to find up
this side of the ship. I do feel bad about leaving Arias behind the
noose, being a cast far step she's gonna get well, I'll get you
up there, and he like looks behind him, No, I see you
left at some point. Well, I mean okay, so she'd be like,
I'm sorry, Areas can't I can't hold on like this, it's not
strong enough to hold on the entire line. It's fine. And he's like
starting to like climb up the side of the ship. It's like grumbling to
himself. And as you all, uh, so we'll say arias and kip
up both around the back of the climbing up the back of the ship as
you all get to the helm and the and the main deck of the ship.
Because no, no far step is just a teleportation. Yeah, it's
sixty feet cool, So you just teleport in and you're now standing on like
the main deck of this rounded by enemies. How much cooler would that spell
be if instead of that, your leg just gets like really long. Would
you really just take a really long by step? And also I realized we
missed, we missed an opportunity, because that's that spells no not not.
It's no longer called farst. It's called from a far step, as as
no you cast from from a far step and uh And you're now in the
middle of this deck of the main deck. Can you see up at the
helm rapture kind of lazily like standing up from his like his his seat where
he's been driving from. And he says, well, well, well,
it looks like you came alone, right as Darius and Kippa like it's not
alone said, well, technically, David, could I requests Kippa do a
thing. He I would like to try and stealthily because I have the run
along the side of the ship, I might as well. I would try
to sneak around to get like kind of to the front and get behind wrapping.
Okay, cool, So so roll me a deck stealth checker with a
bit with advantage please. Okay, that's a twenty nine. I mean,
yeah, why why wall dim wall in dim light or darkness? Uh,
it's turn for CB or at disadvantage. It's pretty damn you you have a
plus fourteen. Yeah, here, kipp nuts a stuff. I mean,
he's a he's a don walker. Maybe he's earning that foot's and so Kippa,
you, I'll say, when we start again, remember this, when
we started again, next time, you'll I'll let you have it. I'll
let you have a surprise run if you want it. Okay, So we're
setting the scene. Nil, you teleport up to the main deck. So
you came along as areas, hold on as areas like kind of rolls onto
the helm behind him. So Nil is on the main deck getting getting sort
of surrounded by veiled answers. Arius is now up with Rapture on the helm
where the driving is taking place, and Kippa has, in very classic Don
Walker fashion, disappeared like a fart in the air condition. And it's still
there. It's just yeah, it's still the condition. You just can't see
it. As you all start to ready yourselves as you see you see,
I don't know, a boss fight starting to happen, and uh as Arius
as Arris, you kind of like get to your feet or like roll over
and still your prom position and to sort of look at Rapture. He looks
to you, his eyes glowing yellow and says, Raal, welcome to my
nightmare. And you see him start to transform. He grows a little larger,
his arms elongate, and you see appendages grow up from his back as
he still looks like you can his face remains the same, but he's growing
much larger. His skin sort of goes a little more taut and a little
more gun looks like his face is now like looks at the life is sort
of draining from him, and he looks much more sickly and thin and pale
like these A big sort of amorphous appendages come up from his back, and
he looks very arachnid, but also like very litchy, as we have now
found the true form of rapture, not at a rapture that's probably not gonna
happen, but but litch rapture. As he he grows much more terrifying and
stands its downs before you would stands before you on this helm uh And he
just looks down and looks down at you with that thing, that ship eating
grin and says, y'all thought I was a goober. Well, jokes on
you. Hey, everybody, this has been Andy. This has been your
combat forgetting redskin protagonist with a redder nose, but an even redder heart.
See you next time, guys. This has been Christian the special fast Ball.
Say my own name, Hippa the special fast Ball, willow Wynn all
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