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And the uh and the forty eighth episode, I believe Jesus talk fire.
Maybe it's actually disgustingly crazy. It's a single episode, and you please
you've known well, I just mean the show has a show has never shipped
a week. That's actually amazing, by the way, yes, kind of
cool, through holidays, through trips, everything. This remember on Christmas Day
at one point still you guys, yeah, we still did it. Now
they're freaking out because they think that this is the last episode. I can't
guarantee that it's not. This might be the finale? Am I not?
We'll find out together. I've I've left it very open ended. I honestly
have really not done much in preparation. I kept going into the into the
folder where I keep all this stuff throughout the week, and I was like,
I don't even know what to prepare. I'm just I'm just going to
see how it works out. And I think I'm just gonna I'm going to
go full full D and D let's see style GMing instead of preparing anything and
you know, like having any set pieces. Sometimes I'll sometimes I'll set up
a little set piece. Did you just see? But I'm not. I'm
just relying on on dice rolls. Today. There will probably be two or
three dice rolls that are huge. Oh my god, I would imagine.
So here's the god damn it, here's the rolls. Does drift dive from
falling? Does that're all for you? Right now? John? Let's see?
Yeah? Howd I do he got fifteen? How about how about this?
How about we don't do any intros and we just go right into the
game, Like right, let's jump into the game. Then shall we can
chat real quick? Yeah? No, up chat? Absolutely not a very
quick, little little catch up as to what happened last week. Essentially,
realistically, all that happened is little bullet points, and that was it.
You you as a group were in the Gate of Fire, that that temple,
that dungeon that you were in in the beginning of the campaign. You
dealt with a bunch of Oltists, and then Drift went a little blood crazy.
It caused him to sort of he drank some of the blood of Wren,
and that caused him to have a sort of weird reaction instead of him
going entirely insane because he is now partially Drift and partially this creature known as
the First the First kind of jumped in as well and was about to go
blood crazy and eat you all, and then managed to contain himself and have
a quick discussion with you. He offered you all power to sort of join
him, and he would give you the power to win the day, to
defeat best Singer. You pretty much denied him. I think nineteen was about
to accept the thing, but then then he was like, all right,
fine, fuck you. He drew you into the shadow Fell, where you
basically entered into combat with him. He was doing a lot of damage.
He was freaking you guys out. He was very quick and very powerful.
He was on his own, but he kind of messed you guys up.
Nineteen went down and once Drift had stopped being a giant alligator or whatever,
he said, screw this. You the only way that you can have whatever
is that you want, and I don't want to I want to deny you,
that is, if you don't have me as a vessel. Drift launched
himself off of the bridge that you were fighting on, which was over this
enormous chasm. In response to this, rin leapt off as well. Iro
lapt off as well and was left to die the first laptop as well.
So that you guys jumped off this bridge and that was the last week.
Story and Subby were left up at the top. Stubby wasn't going to just
jump off this thing after you guys, so he went over to see if
he could tend to nineteen. He was lucky in that he managed to stabilize
nineteen. Nineteen woke up after about four hours. Nineteen was transported back to
the Gate of Fire along with Stubby, and that was pretty much the last
we saw of everyone and everything. Hmmm, who do we wanna who do
you want to art with? Who do you want to start with? Yeah?
Gone, rom me a D two? Which number do you want to
be? I want to be one? All right? You roll a one,
You roll a one. We shall make them go first. No,
you have you have chosen. You chose yourself as one, and you are
now the one. Neo. I am now the first. Watch I am
now the first. No, you are not. You're the furthest thing from
the first. Unfortunately for the rest of them, you are. You are
nineteen, and you are one of the the the guardians of the gate of
fire here. So we're going to jump back in. Sorry, crime,
and it's taken me a while to get back. I am there. We
go, young man nineteen you man, we'll Stubby. Stubby is there too,
but I'll find him in a second. You and Stubby are transported back
here. When you you said something to each other, I can't remember what
it was, but then the then the air around you began to shimmer.
If you recall you do, Stubby. Oh, if you're wondering, we're
starting, by the way, if you're watching out there starting, we're back
in there is So you and Stubby find yourselves back here. The room,
although I've cleared it of tokens, does still contain bodies of the cultists that
you dealt with. When the first was in the room, there was like
images of their souls being drawn from them, these ghostly figures that have lifted
up from them. But they seem to have departed, and you find yourself
in an empty room here. The only real things going on in each corner
there are these bowls of fire. There is that globe which still exists.
It looks it's like it's almost like a hologram that sits and floats above that
pedestal magically, like an illusion of the world of the crin You can see
that it appears to be summer time. It's not the icy version of it
that you saw last time, where there are a couple of exits out of
this room, and then there is the stairway that leads downwards. I'm going
to roll one dice. That's not good. I'm rolling one dice for something.
And is there anything you want to do immediately? Yes, I want
to tell Stubby that he should get another one of the fire rings off one
of the colts and put it in his pocket. Stubby pulls a little,
a little, a little, a little purse out and then opens it and
inside is like six of those rings already, and he says, he you
think I wasn't going to prove it off of that, I didn't take him
all though, you know, not fair. Well, it was a good
joyous I'll say that much. Ah, we're back. Then he pops open
the cork from another bottle of he's going to pocket in that endlessly pulls whiskey
he can pull whiskey from, and he pulls another one, pops the cork
and takes a swim. All right, what are we gonna do? Go
kill this demon? Well? Mm hmmm, I wonder where the others are
at. I could just be dead. I don't know what's going on.
And you're nagging, but I saw him. They jumped off that there bridge.
M or did you see them die? Nay? Then they could be
alive him if they was coming back. Will may be back? The real
question is how long will be gone? M hmm. I suppose we could
go outside and have a look, see if the sun's up. Can I
do a check to see if any weird reason I would have any clue?
How long we were going, Brad, if you can come up with a
way to figure out out that you are at the globe in the corner,
yeah, and the globe in the corner. I want to see if it
looks different. Okay, give me an investigation check. Okay, actually heading
closer to it and looking at it, or you'll look at it now.
That's not me totally needed that it's going to explode or anything. It was
just we're gonna go with a twelve on the investigation check. From here,
it looks pretty much the same. I think you probably weren't focused on it
at all at any point when you first came in here, because why would
you be. There were cultists and then there was a demon lord thing,
And how did the bodies look that we're dead, It's a better question.
They look the same. But you can probably check body temperature, lividity.
We'll be hard as fucking here, but I'll check it. Anyways. Let's
go bread Um, you can find one of the ones that doesn't have the
ring on it that has been taken from the body, and you head over
to one of these cultists. You find a human man looks like he's maybe
in his late thirties and you roll him over. The robe falls back from
his from his head, he's got the shaven head similar to the one with
the beautifully shaped head before. And you move him around, and you can
see that his body is moving around like his arm moves relatively like relaxed.
It doesn't look like any rigamortis is setting or anything like that. The heat
might, I guess, help with that, but I think you can probably
determine relatively quickly without even doing an investigation check, that it can't have been
too long. There's not really any decay on the body, there's not really
any rigamortis. It probably hasn't been very long. You can give me an
investigation check to truly work it out with things that we don't understand with our
actual brains, but nineteen might be able to with his super brain. Yeah,
let's do it. Give me an investigation check. By way eleven eleven.
I think you probably assumed that the time was relative, the time that
you were away compared to the time you were back here, and it wasn't
too long if the fight was only been like ten minutes, right, Oh,
but you rested for four hours. Oh that's right, four hours yes,
the yeah, the there's no way it was longer than that, though,
body would be starting to do weird things, get smelly. Well,
the two years or so. We weren't gone for long, maybe the four
hours, but I was in space floating for it felt like years. This
seems like we might not even have been gone for more than a few minutes.
I could be wrong, right, Well, I suppose we could leave
now they dealt with that demon. Sorry, if you feel like you need
to leave, then so be it. And if you feel like you still
want to avenge your brother and you'll come with me down the stairs. Oh
right, wait, hang on, so wait, that demon was not the
demon we were looking for. No, it was not the demon we are
looking for is down those stairs. The demon with what was was the one
that was taking over drift right, you guys got you guys are really away?
You know that? I bye? And so are you? How did
you get caught up and all this? Anyway? Well, if you'd like
to walk with me, I'll walk and talk. How we all? Right?
Do I now have no Chris? I'm sorry, I think something legit
just blew up outside like not like right by me, but like I don't
understand what's happening over here. By the way, John, what are you
doing? I have to deal with my dog for a second. My dog
is shaking really bad. I'm really very close to fourth Like, yeah,
you're good. I was trying to find something to cover the camera, but
someone said a diaper and chat a diaper and it doesn't work. You put
anything there. I don't. The problem is it's such a small faith.
I'll tell you what. Since I've got the time, I'll save you.
I'm not a fan of turning off the camera. By the way, D
and D people, just I'm going to put that out there in the world.
I was going to tell you guys this. Now we have a moment
to talk. Yeah. I don't know why they're going to either No,
No, we're dead. We don't know what's wrong, John, we don't
know. It scares me. I like seeing your reactions. But I will
I will cover I will cover it. I'm so sorry. I had to
put her thunderjackets thing on because it was either something blowing up or fireworks,
so either way, I looked over her and she was like, my dog
does that with a fire alarm. My apologies. Thanks for being patient with
me check of course, a right, where were we? Where were we?
Remind me? I got really worried about it. Give me a perception
check or an investigation check. Because the room is starting to look a little
weird around you. I'm going to forcibly, I'm going to force remove John
from the from the screen. Come man, it's okay. I got you.
Thanks, Bud be gone. There you go. I've saved you.
But don't forget to let me remind me, because I will forget that I
have covered him up. Thanks baby, ten on your perception checks. So
around you, the room since you've come back has looked a little weird.
You know when you look when you're in a desert or something and you get
that kind of heat mirage. I think it was like that a little bit
around you. I think you probably assume that the room kind of looked this
way when you first arrived. As you start to move away and stubby and
you start to head up these small stairs towards the longer or largest staircase that
heads down to to well, you don't know where, you've never been down
there, but further down you can see that this heat mirage is becoming a
lot worse I think at first, maybe you think that your vision is going
a little oddly, a bit like if you were like taking your glasses off
and putting them back on really quickly and just kind of like zooming in and
out, going in and out of focus. But you can see that it's
actually just the room itself, because as you kind of look at Stubby,
he seems to be relatively in focus. It looks like it's the walls,
the stone slab flooring, the ceiling. The flooring is red, the walls
are red and black. In places it sort of shows you gray on the
map because that's just how it is. But for the most part, it's
red and black in here with all that arcane writing over it. The arcane,
tiny little flex of light of arcane writing kind of shimmering and out from
your vision as well, and I think it gives you a very sort of
odd, disassociated feeling for a moment as you try to focus on what is
going on with this room, but you're I think you're probably struggling to move
around. It's almost it probably would feel to us like we were passing out
or something. But nineteen is a warf watch, so that might be a
little different for him, but it's getting increasingly worse. While you're here,
got a dog that does literally steping on everything I need right now? What
would you like to do? You want to carry on? Uh? I
want to ask Stubby if he notices anything. Stubby kind of turns around,
and in what way do you ask him? Do you say that he's do
you ask if he sees that it's blurry or yeah? Yeah? Basically he
he does like a three sixteen, and I think he's relatively perceptive himself.
He's kind of drunk, but he says, I'm not that place. Everything
looks all right. You know, it's weird. I never seen nothing like
this before. Only taps the ground. What is that just saying? If
the ground is doing weird things, I don't know. You tell me you
are the ones that brought me up in here fighting demons and sent to some
evil place with some big bastard that can fly. M I think it's starting.
I think we need to go, and I think we need to go
now if we're going to stop it. It seems like it just could be
second Sorry from could I roll a check to see if this makes me like
assume that maybe the rituals almost done. You can give me an arcona check.
Okay, fourteen man, my roles are fucking fantastic today when you when
you were out side and the mountain exploded, Since then it's been kind of
calm like the area there hasn't been a lot of like dangerous rumbling and underground
crunching noises like you got when you were outside fighting. I think on a
fourteen you can assume that whatever ritual they were they were casting maybe came towards
the end there, and since then they haven't really been doing anything else.
What is happening to you is almost definitely not related to whatever spell they're casting.
Okay, it seems like something else. I think you feel probably more
like it's more akin to the actual gait itself as opposed to their spell,
specifically stubbing. Something's happening to me. I don't know what it is,
but I fall where I disappear. You make your choice. You leave out
that door where we came from. Were you head down those stairs event your
brother from Now? I assume that we move together while we can. Yeah,
we just lost a few troops there. Captain this demon am I expecting
journey nineteen would would I need help from my crew? Was there any point
in time where nineteen would have known what Death Singer is? I mean,
I don't know if I actually knew you did, it would probably only have
been down to whether you learned anything from from Really, yeah, you weren't.
You weren't involved in the combat. I can imagine you guys sat down
for a decent amount of time before you went into this gate. Do you
think you guys would have filled in nineteen on what happened, at least in
a rough way? Yeah? I do. I don't know, actually,
only because he was like, we don't have time to talk. But you
did sit down for four I think or an hour. I can't remember what
it was exactly. Sorry, yeah, I think it was like an hour.
Catch Yeah, then i'd say, yeah, told him about what happened
after in Darkfire in the deal probably, I doubt we would describe what Darkfire
looks like, you know what I mean. I don't think we get into
that kind of detail. So I think all I need to know, all
this I need to know right now is did somebody explain Death Singer to me?
I think you probably have an idea that death Singer is a man.
He seems to be kind of like a powerful wizard of some sort something like
that. He can cast a lot of spells. He's the leader of the
cult and they encountered him, and he was pretty fucking tough back then,
but they managed to stave off, you know, killing him. So,
yeah, I think you have an idea. Say you have an idea,
but not maybe exact. So the only thing I can tell you is that
it's a very powerful sorcerer by the name of Death Singer, I would assume
by the sound of his name, although I don't know much. Do you
have any ear plugs, ah, ear plugs? You might want to consider
making some makeshift once. I don't think it would have the same effect on
me, But the name death Singer just screams at me and tells me that
something he does, I would just be very careful, right, But like
ear plugs, let's see if fashion something not you have quarks from your battles.
Nice, Yeah, I'm going to give him advantage to fashion some of
the ear plugs. He he grabs a two a cork, who splits it
into and then sort of whittles it down into like an ear plug. Shape
and plugs him into his ears and then says, do you need it now?
Or do you think I should just hold on to them? I would
wear them, I'd just keep them in a Can you hear me a little
bit? Good? I give my thumbs up. I can hear the noise,
the bit I use no gold lips, shakes his head, points towards
the stairwell, and Stubby heads down towards the stairwell and just says, right,
I'll be quiet. Are we going straight down? I go like this
to gesture to pull one out real quick. Hi, Thank you Chubby,
Hi, and my best to keep you alive. Right, okay, got
back and thank you for coming with us. You're going to want to drink
more before we head down there? Uh not it? Sure that's possible.
But pops his ear plug back in, takes a big deep swig, g
grabs an arrow, and starts to head down the stairs. Kind of,
I'm going to give him a spell before he goes down. I'm going to
cast resistance on him before he goes down, all right, absolutely, Also,
I want to do one other thing before you go down. I want
to see how well his ear plugs are made. Okay, do you want
to do an investigation check on him? Oh, I thought you were going
to do something specific. I am probably depending on how well they're made.
Yeah, I mean what are you doing to first? While he was making
them, you were just checking to see whether they were I'll just maybe see,
like he said, he really couldn't hear me ring where that is.
I just basically what it comes down is, if he's got more than one
of those, I want to use mending to mend them together, to make
them better. If that makes Yeah, I don't know if that's how that
spell works. I think that just breaks something is broken that isn't like magical,
It just fixes it back up. But you can give me an insight
check for when he was when you were speaking to him about it twenty four.
It seems like you can't really hear anything. But he was responding a
little to you, making noise. It didn't seem like he understood your words.
He could hear like real muffled like kind of noise. Maybe then we're
good on need to do anything, but yeah, I'm just gonna cast resistance
on him then before we go down there, so he has that on the
way down. And yet we're good. He has mending as resistant time.
So it's just one okay, and you guys head down the stairs. Once
you once you get to the bottom of the stairs, there it goes.
It goes down a little ways, but it's not so far you it's only
like two or three flights before you before you get to the bottom. Let
me roll one dice and then I'm gonna roll one other dice at disadvantage for
Stubby's ears. You can't hear anything, and you can give me a perception
check if you want, for when you come out at the bottom of the
stairs here nineteen nineteen of course, um yeah, you come out at the
at the bottom of the stairs into a very small room down here. You
can tell, but it doesn't affect you that the heat is it would be
unbearable. It would it would for a human being, It would kill them
very quickly. The rooms down here look very similar to the way that they
were upstairs, but you're having this issue at the moment where the room itself
is kind of odd and blurring out. I think a couple of times you
almost maybe stumble down the actual steps as you go to step on one,
and then it kind of moves a little. As you continue to move down
further and further into this down this stairwell or on me a constitution saving throw
please seventeen. You can feel that this, this place down here is something
else. It's give me another arkana check. That's an in based thing.
That's high natural one. Yeah, you don't. Yeah, I don't think
you get any any sense of why or what's happening, or what the difference
is between the previous levels to this level. You can tell for sure that
it's different. It's operating on a whole other thing. The sense of a
stile felling kind of heat permeates the fact that you're immune to fire damage,
but would probably give you a level of claustrophobia almost. I think as you
come down these stairs, the walls are vibrating in and out, and ahead
of you at the end of a corridor you can see four cult members and
they don't appear to be setting a trap or anything like that. They just
they are just stood there. Two of them are in masks that looks similar
to a blank version of the masks that you all received before they are received.
I don't think I ever got one. Yeah, but one of those
and then two other cultists who have the robes on. One of them is
a halfling. The other three are humans maybe or or you know, it
could be t th things or something, but it's hard to tell with the
mask and the robes and things, but they look kind of like, you
know, average sized. One of them is for sure a halfling. He
has the hood down and a smile on his face. As you guys has
approached the bottom of the stairwell and look down this corridor. There stood in
what looks like an open corridor at the other end with the with the fire
light underneath them from that small gap that you get with the flavor underneath it,
and Stubby kind of brings up an arrow. The halfling says, now,
now, not yet. We've been expecting you. Well, not you,
dwarf, you nineteen. I'm going to bring you over to the map
just to give you a slightly better idea of the of where you are.
What do you do to react? Anything? I do attack? What do
you mean you've been expecting me? Well, we've waited a very long time
for your arrival, and therefore we were expecting you. Explain yourself. Why
were you expecting me? That would be because you're here to help us,
are you not? Yes, I am interesting. So your comrades, where
are they? And who's this dwarf? This dwarf is my close friend who's
been helping me along my journey for a very long time. Now. I
wouldn't go anywhere without him. My other comrades, they did not make it.
Give me a deception check about the dwarf twenty He says, well,
I suppose. He kind of turns to the figure next to him and looks
up and says, oh, things have been strange since we came in here.
Very well, if you'll come quietly, we'll take you to the gate.
And he turns and points north on this map and our gestures this way
very well. But first, is he ready? I think the question should
be whether you're ready? Of course I am. I didn't float in space
for nothing. M the he didn't come back for nothing. Stubby kind of
looks back and forth, and he says, am, I you want me
to take care of him? Shake my head. No, that's the arrow
back over his shoulder. They friends yours, and yes, they look like
the fucker's up there. He doesn't respond. See if Stubby understands what's going
on, and it's a Stubby trusts you enough to know what's going on.
He does he he puts the bow over his shoulder, but steps back a
little and kind of gives you a nod and then just stays relatively quiet and
lets you do whatever you want to do. He'll just follow you around.
Turned my fan off chat as I walk closer to the coultists. When we
get over by them, may I do a perception check on them to see,
especially the masked ones I'm just looking for. I'm trying to think of
how I let me think of how I can express this. I might have
to rethink what I'm trying to say. They look like they've been waiting for
me. I want to do an insight check on them. Is really I
think what I'm trying to get at. I want to do an insight check
to see if this is some kind of potential trap or if it seems kind
of like Stuffy do with me, if you coul trust me. I don't
want to see if I could trust them. Quote unquote all right, yeah,
give me an insight check. Yes, one, you can trust them?
Okay, they seem it doesn't seem much like a trap. They are
armed, and they seem relatively prepared for you to do something crazy. They
don't let you get too close. I think they move away from you,
but they kind of gesture ahead. When you get close enough, you can
see that the masked individuals look a little bigger. They might be Orcish or
half hawk, something like that. The one which is directly ahead of you,
next to the halfling, is almost definitely a human underneath the under the
robe. He's got like a rugged beard that you can see a little of,
or like a five o'clock shadow, which you might not usually find on
an elf. And at the end of the corridor one way is what looks
like another chamber just or like the end of a corridor. It looks like
it turns left and right into smaller chambers. At the far end. On
the other side, though, you can see the figure known as death Singer.
To you. You're seeing him for the first time. Oh god,
if that's correct. I think he saw the image of young death Singer in
the town. Oh yeah, you saw the younger version of him, and
this is him here as well, and he doesn't have a mask on.
You can see this aged version of the the young man that you saw in
that temple. He does have a scar on his face, and he's wearing
no armor or anything like that. When when you all saw him previously nineteen
you didn't see him, but you saw him in this snow Snow Singer.
To keep with the varying names that people gave him in the discord, he
had like decent armor on, like he had come from or came prepared kind
of somewhat to to fight short sword and shield style. This figure standing before
you is is just wearing a robe and it's open a little bit so you
can see the top of his chest, and he's he's either naked under it
or he's got like very little on under there. He's wearing trousers and boots,
and he's standing just amid one of these He's on top of a kind
of plinth that raises up and they would normally presumably be flava or something inside
a bowl. There are several of these bowls around, but inside this one
there's some purple fire which is kind of burning around the bottom of his feet,
sitting up wisping up around his robes and the back of the cloak,
and he's standing there. He does have his masks around his waist. You
can see that he does have the sword that he's always carrying, a relatively
nice looking ornate sword that for sure works. But still, and other than
that, I think he's just kind of stood there. His his hair is
normally tied back as well, but it's down and loose, very long around
his shoulders, and he's smiling and casually stood there. He ushers you forward,
look for it. You guys probably all start to walk up towards the
area, and he's elevated there is uh, let me see if I can
just move everyone as one's he's elevated a little ways up and you probably step
up onto the stairs and in front of this this plint where he is,
give me an investigation check. Twenty six, twenty six. This is not
him, but it is him, but it's not him. It's it's a
projection of him, or a projection of his consciousness or something like that.
As you get closer, you can see that that fire looks real, the
purple fire underneath him, but it's going through his legs and up through his
body, and he's ever so slightly incorporeal. He looks very physical and real.
He doesn't look like a ghost. But he he the fire is going
like into his legs and stuff. It's clipping basically, so you can tell
that he for sure is some sort of yeah, fourth geist and he but
he looks down towards you, and he says, you finally made it.
Then I finally made it. Then we've been expecting you. We weren't expecting
this newcomer of yours. Where are the others? They are dead? Nope,
that can't be they are. I gave my people strict instructions they would
never ever then what it appears as though something else that was a part of
one of them attempted to kill all of us. Needless to say, I'm
the only survivor. Didn't happen that long ago either, mm hmm. Unfortunate.
I rather hoped that I would be the one to draw the final drop
of blood. You would have been the one to drop the final draw of
blood. I wish I could have wrung Wren's neck. Yeah, deception,
Jack's lying eleven. He ah. He seems to be distracted as you say
this. He's kind of like he turns away from you as you say these
things, and then he turns back as you say it. And he looks
down at you and says you, Yeah, Yes, I suppose they abandoned
you, didn't they. It's not about the abandonment, it's about the principle.
Did they even try and return you from wherever it was you were sent?
No? Hasmo sent me there right as I was apparently about to seek
and meet somebody that I think would have been somebody very close to me.
He's dead? No, you referring to Hasmol, Yes, give me a
wisdom saving pro eight. Oh, the room around you is starting to really
zoom in and out. It's starting to really you're starting to struggle a little
bit to see this room, this place, and the people around you.
You can see relatively well. Even the kind of projection of death singer in
this fire stays relatively stable, But the room starts as shift and turn that
Dolly zoom effect. I do a check and see if this is fucking has
more. You just did your check and best Singer continues to speak to you,
but you his voice trails away from you as he says, I spent
a long time out in the desert by myself as well, and his his
voice trails away as he continues to speak to you, and you hear a
voice that sounds similar to Hasmore, but also sounds a little like your own.
It has an element to it that that is for sure that of Hasmal's,
but there's also an element to it that makes it sound like almost your
own thoughts or your own reflections of your own voice inside the inside the voice,
and he says, do you know who I am? You know what
I am? Can I speak in my vote in my headdoom? You can?
M yes? But is it really you? Do you know what he
is? I don't think so. We never we never really, we never
really sunk into if he's like a god? Or on those lines, he
says, where where am I? What do you mean? Where are you?
Tell me where I am? It appears as though you were inside of
me, inside of a temple the great? What's of the Great? I
need you to prove to me that this is assmall a wat. You have
a failed your pursuit, haven't you? You already know that I did this?
Then you already know everything that has happened, what happened after the interloper,
after you were granted my energy? Tell me of the gate, Prove
to me you are hasmol, and I will tell you all you want to
know. Ask me anything more, something that only I would know between us?
Who is she the one that brings you from She is a guardian,
something like this, something like I am, but for a room, more
like Dogfire than I. It's God, something that allows the life that flows
through you to keep your bung together. I used it, I twisted it,
and I brought you back with it. I'll go I am nineteen,
better known as Phantom in certain worlds. And whoever you are in my head
until you can prove to me who you are, I can tell you no
more. Anyone could know that, especially and I would like to say that
in the form of where I'm at in that room, I would like to
look up at where des Singer was standing. Best thing that is still speaking?
You hear the voice in your head kind of directing voice, aspirtedly say
I will I will return. What do you need from me? You?
You which? Where are you trying to talk into the brain again? Turn
your attention to you can hear be singers say Lord dark Fire and his pursuit
will begin its final phase. Together we shall usher in a new era.
And he's doing his villain monologue, as you kind of fade back towards the
voice in your head, and he says, I will return, but you
must grant me more time, mortal one, how much time do you need?
And do you know if the others are alive? How long has it
been long enough? Yeah, I'm beginning to feel, beginning to see I
must I must rest old wrong, bortle one, I will return. H
I think they the sense that you don't understand that you don't feel this thing
around you as much begins to kick in the room around you, and the
slabs and stuff begin to stabilize a little. It's not so much either.
You can still see that it's kind of a little weird trying to focus on
anything physical in this room that isn't the other people. It's still a little
tough for you to do, but it definitely feels like it makes it a
little easier for you. And death Singer is still speaking, and he turns
down towards you and says, yes, the second age of the magi,
Yes, the second stage of the match. Eye, my life's work.
How many years has it been for you? Too many to count? Almost
as many as there are on the calendar. M hm, how much more
time? He holds up his own hand, turns it around, give me
a perception checks. He kind of my fucking god. Also, is anybody
else? Is that happening for anybody else? With bread for a second?
Okay, I wanted to make sure that wasn't just me. I thought maybe
it was me because it a swarm perception motherfucker. Thirteen. You can see
that as he moves his hand around. A perception check, by the way.
But I'll tell you about it why in a minute. His hands look
uh, kind of old and kind of calloused and used and broken. The
symbol that was on them previously, the symbol that was on the left hand
is gone. And he says, I have already overstayed my welcome, and
I doubt you have much longer left either, you think. Do you think
it will happen that fast? Can I roll a perception check to see if
there's anything that is keeping him and bringing him up right here? You can
give me another Arkana check to work out what is going on? Okay,
twelve. He's for sure casting an illusionary version of himself. It's strong enough
that he's able to speak through it and aim it towards this area. He
can't be too far away, that's I think, or you can gather he's
he's projecting it from nearby, but I don't think you know exactly where.
But he's got he's got to be relatively close. You're in a relatively long
hallway. Beyond this fire that he's standing in is another room as well,
and you can kind of make it out from where you are. You'd have
to move closer to it. The hallway continues on and you're in it.
You're in like a big, like open chamber, but it's it's narrow in
the sense that it's there's nothing here. It just looks like the type of
hallway that you might walk down. What else do you want to do?
Where are you? And why are you not? Why are you not here?
I wasn't sure how rash you would all be. I had to be
prepared. You understand, you understand that it would be different. The other
three will wis me. They're not like me. I am sure that is
the case. They can be rather emotional, yes, very emotional. They
make terrible decisions when they're emotional. He grabs his throat and then he says,
come, then, let us end this, and he turns around and
as he turns around, the projection disappears into the flame. The flame rises
up, and the halfling kind of points at the hallway beyond. The halfling
says, you can go down there, But the dwarf says, here the
dwarf, he's with me, get or alive. Halfling looks back and forth
towards the others. Give me a persuasion check. Come on, I would
actually like to continue speaking to potentially trin that into an intimidation check. If
you would like to try and intimidate him, you can. The dwarf has
been with we, and I think you know your place? Halfling? Do
you or do you not know your place? He says, Oh, I
know my place. My place is right here. This is my destiny along
with yours, and mine is not right here. And this young dwarf young
the halfling hear the the dwarf, Oh no, yeah, he's he's red.
Cont he's got it plugs in. Halfling says, this is not this
is not his destiny. He shouldn't be here. You think that you choose
his destiny or anybody's more than myself was a great one? Is that what
you think that you control it more than me or docks Fire himself. His
eyes widened the name. Yes, that's what I thought you were. Stay
in your place, Dwarf. Not the plan. Give me an intimidation check
ten, you're older three. He says, this was not the plan.
But he kind of looks over towards one of the masked cultists and they nod
their head and fine, then go with him, Dwarf and Stubb. He's
just standing there looking around. M hm. I not do him in gesture
that he's coming with me. Basically, you're just following you. Do you
head into the next chamber? I do? Nineteen heads into the next chamber,
and I think you noticed that the the others don't follow you in.
The cultists that were behind you, they they walk with you somewhat, but
they stop themselves at the entrance way. And you continue onwards down some stairs,
and you can see that the chamber at the at the other end here
has some some more people inside. You can you can make out a few
figures that stand a little further in. It looks like you're walking into a
room a little more similar than to the one that you first met Hasmolin.
It kind of looks like it's opening up, and it has a couple of
little elevated areas and then some chambers that that push out from from either side
of the hallway ahead of you, and the center of this much larger chamber
room there is another pot of fire. This has got the purple flames coming
up out of it. At the top, there's a there's there's two sets
of stairs that split left and right head up and around the chambertween an upper
viewing floor kind of that's not too far up, but it's it's got its
own pot of fire. It's maybe only about twenty feet off the floor or
something like that, and you can make out for a few figures down there
as you begin to walk down this hallway, give me another constitution saving throw.
I'm gonna off the stubby as well. Stubby is fucking unbelievably strong,
and so are you. Yeah, the walls remain relatively stable, and you
step forwards and through this hallway and into the next area, and that is
where we flip. Good because I got a pet real bad group. Yeah,
I have no idea what's going on with the sound as well. I
think you eat yourself, tiger, because I think it's you've got a fan
going. That's a lot really loud. It sounds like we're at the ocean.
Yeah, that's just how flava sounds for everyone who's cum. Yeah,
it's gone. It's just it just means it's my fan that's in the other
room. I can go trula, all right, flipping to the other crew.
Weird that it picks it up. It doesn't pick it up. You
bring my video back? Yes I will. Good shout. Uh where is
it about doing this? Okay? Yeah, you can discuss it briefly if
you want. It was crazy ship? Oh my god? So what is
happening to whang? I don't know. You guys are not dead. We're
in fucking shadow real man. Well okay, you're like the damn you know,
like you're in that real quick. That's gone right, yes, yeah,
thank you, please forgive me all right, listen, it's hot all
right at you. Okay, So the other group the last thing we saw,
you jumped off of the thing. Yeah did you not? Yes?
You did? I did, and mute him again. I can hear it
twice for sure. I can see it lighting up you because I had the
volume turned up a bunch the you. You jumped off the thing, drift
and you fall. You begin falling, and so does the others. You've
got little little tokens, little tokens on this green and that's for you all
to roll initiative with, if you wouldn't mind rolling me an initiative fighting in
the air as each of you jumped from this horrible chasm in this shadow realm.
I'm so excited from the bridge and I shall roll for for some reason,
I can't click my token alright, just you don't need to add maybe
drift the fruit. I don't know, Yeah, I don't know. It
doesn't matter too much. Just roll me in and I'll change the number.
Awesome. The first roll of the night from Wren is a natural one.
I got first rolls. Why so he goes first? Oh god no,
so it is his name. Just to set up how this looks, drift,
you just hm, you jump off and you start falling. There is
a moment where you can see from the very small amounts of ambient light that
were coming from these pillars that were around by the bridge, maybe a couple
of fires somewhere, there's this huge Gothic landscape, these old ruined buildings some
of them appear to just endlessly burn dark soul style, and you jump into
this darkness. For a moment, you can see with your dark vision with
the light available, the rush of the wall that runs along the side of
the chasm, and then it's gone even for you with dark vision on.
You are now just free falling in what feels like pitch blackness. You can
feel the rush of the air. You can feel that you're falling still,
but for the most part it's kind of blackness. You hear the first shout,
I'm like away, no, and then he does the same thing.
Actually doesn't run. He kind of just glides because he's levitating. He glides
away as fast as he can and leaps off of the edge as well.
Rinn has her moment and then does the next Were you nectually? Was he
right? She leaps off the edge, and then Iero deer. A few
seconds later on, you all experience the same thing, that rush of the
air that you see the thing going, and each of you begins to free
fall at different rates. Some of you kind of crush inwards, like collapse
your body inwards so that you get more aerodynamics and fire down. I assume
drift you're doing anything insane in your first moments as you jump off the edge.
No, I was, I was, I was ready, I was
answering that it was My only way was to jump off and him come out
for me. Yeah, and yeah. You start falling. You suddenly then
you sense the presence, a presence behind you, I think, are above
you, and you can turn and look up if you do, and you
see this much larger form, this huge form of the first he's falling towards
you. That kind of robe that he has that is made of like a
weird coalescence of blood that forms around his body is just it's like not even
like flapping like a cloak wood in the wind. It's just falling apart as
if it was liquid blood. And you can see more of his body,
this kind of huge gray stone, giant almost form, this humanoid mostly muscular,
and the blood cloak kind of for the most part peels away from him.
He has these horrible ears, this massive mouth filled with very sharp and
long teeth, and this giant form with these giant clawed hands, and one
of them is reaching out towards you. Is he falls downwards, he screams
at you as you're falling and says, don't don't do it. Can I
speak while falling? Yeah? Okay, it's the only way it has been
like this. I am too close. I never agreed to this. I
never agreed to all of this. You agree to precisely every single part of
this. I lend you my power. I will avenge your family with you.
This was the price, a price I'm not willing to pay. Then
you should not have made the bargain. He turns whom and faces upwards and
the other two you can see it falling down towards him, and he brings
his hands out and opens opens them wide as he ends his turn, bringing
us to u drift. The sake of just all of the mechanics here,
you guys are relatively close to each other, depending on how you want to
use your movement. I'm going to say you can slow down by like opening
your arms, or you can speed up by like turning yourselves into like an
aerodynamic bullet. But I'm not going to give you any specific stuff. We're
going to fear of the mind this for the for the sake of the fact
that you're falling, and it's just going to be a nightmare, and you're
you're all relatively close enough and you can for sure cast your spells again.
You are falling very fast. You guys start to fall and you fall,
and you're falling fall and you're going. You're going like as fast as you
can. We're hitting terminal velocity very soon. It is your turn, Drift.
What do you want to do? Did I notice the first was starting
to look at Ren and Eero in like an action kind of manner, like
he was about to cast something on them, or do I like I flips
over as if he wants to fucking get them? Yeah, I think you
can. And I see ren An Eerro from where I'm matt falling. Yeah,
okay, so just I've blamed on so you can see me. Okay,
So Marina, you're in a sort of magical darkness down here. For
the record, it's not really like the darkness spell, but there it's it's
not right, your vision is wrong, but you can. You're close enough
that you can see each other unless you start doing funky things. Okay,
then I'm just going to I'm gonna unleash two elderd splash blasts on him as
I'm falling back. Dag leave him alone and you just see me shoot out
the one out of the left hand twelve twelve is a mess, and then
one out of the other hand. One shit, that's a natural one Romni
a D twenty. If you kind of launch these two spells out, please
be something that won't matter because I'm in the air. Twelve twelve. Let's
see here on at twelve you you you like throw an arm upwards and you
don't realize how close you are to the side of the chasm, and you
hit it. And as you're moving that quickly, I think you just slam
your your hand into the into the wall and all way at full strength and
roll me a D five one. I think you break a finger. You
just bang. You probably break like your index finger as you and you hit
hard. You drag it down the side of this wall. A few rocks
tumble off and send your send your aim off roll me in D six one
one. You take one point of damage, but you also have disadvantage on
attack rolls until you finish a short rest. Oh my god, uh,
which is horrific. Wait wait, wait all attack rolls. Yep, you
crunch your arm into the side of this thing. Rocks fall down, dust
gets in your eyes, your fingers snapped bent weirdly and awkwardly, and you
miss your attack role, bringing us to eero. Unless you want to speed
up or something your movement, and your movement is speed up or slow down.
That's what your movement turn does mechanically. Here, okay, last question
for you. That's an attack roll using like oh my god, using spells
as well as a yeah, all right, I'm just gonna scream one more
thing out as I as I completely messed myself up. I'm just gonna hand
it quicker, and you're just gonna see me speed up. Yeah, you
like you hit this wall, you spin a little as the debris falls away
from you, and then you just turn and you begin to speed up and
you start moving away very quickly, m bringing us to ero. What do
you want to do so eero? From your perspective, you can see everyone
below you. You're at the top of this thing, but they're not so
far away from you that it's impossible for you to do anything or anything like
that. All right, I'm I see the group falling, and I see
the first and I say, that's my family. Leave them alone and I
will cast a healing word. At level three on the first damn Jesus,
fourteen damage. Fourteen or fourteen deal? I guess said fourteen damage. It
is for shore damage on the on the fast, all right, so fourteen
and then I will I will activate no that I will use. I will
use my short bow. I will fire my short bow down towards the first
okay, twenty three when he frees it here for seven more piercing damage.
Nice, Yeah, and it fucking hits him. It hits him pretty damn
pretty damn square in the middle of the chest thing because it just moves like
with the extra force of the gravity as it pulls it towards him. He
turns around and hits him where his heart should be and deals an extra bit
of seven damage. And do your turn there. That's the end of my
turn, yes, Ritin, I am speeding up. I just want to
catch drift. Okay past the first he's kind of in your way? Is
that goalkeeping? Can I rule something to try to move around him, Be
agile as fuck and try to get around him to get to drift first.
I don't care about damaging him. I'm just trying to get to drift.
Yeah, I think you can roll me and should be able to disengage.
I mean you could try that. I mean, I'll use a key point
to do that if I can. I'm going to give you a piece,
all I guess, but I don't know how you're doing it. Like he's
just kind of like swimming in the air, well not really swimming, but
yeah, I'm making myself smaller to be, you know, super aerodynamic and
then probably just twisting to kind of get out of the way so that I
can fall like a meteor straight towards drift. All right, so you just,
okay, give me a give me an acrobats check. Okay, come
on? What? Yeah, you sort of like move away from where the
first is and he reaches out to grab at you, and you, yeah,
swing past him and launch down. He kind of follows you down and
then he lets you go, but he turns back upwards and sees sees Irrider
and opens his arms out again. As he lets you go past. You
are now underneath him and moving towards drift. Drift is also moving extremely fast.
Okay, Yeah, the first has a turn. He says, I
can I can save him to you hero, I think probably because he's looking
up at you you'll hear it though you can save us all. It's your
choice. Perhaps it would be yours a bargain then no bargains very well.
And he opens his arms out again and slows himself down. He starts to
move quickly towards you, like he's like coming up kind of thing rift your
ten h God damn it. I'm gonna and I see Wrin coming down towards
me. I'm gonna say, ready's going after ero, And I'm gonna put
my hands up to slow down my speed a little bit, and I'm going
to, yeah, just throw two more. Actually, yeah, I'm gonna
God damn yeah, I'm gonna throw two more. Elderts blasts with disadvantage,
all right, So sad, so sad. Eleven eleven is a miss.
Fourteen fourteen is a miss. I think they just wildly fire off. You
see, maybe you don't even you hear like a wh as you crumble something
like nearby, these things go off and just they hit parts of the chasm
away from you, and I think all of you are starting to lose a
little focus as to where you are. Like if you had seen the chasm
hit by this this rock, it sounded like it was a little too far
away. You're moving and drifting away from the side of the chasm itself.
Anything else you want to do, Nope, okay, brings us to you
again, hero, all right, I cast invisibility on myself. Cool,
and I speed up. Oh okay, hmm, all right, and then
I will use well. First of all, as you speed up, you
get close enough to him that his action goes off, which was a ready
to action to attack you when you were close enough. But I turned myself
invisible first. That doesn't mean that he can't attack at you with an action
when you're close enough. You're technically close enough. He just can't see you
as disadvantage. Right, that's what invisible does. I believe it's up to
you. I thought there is no specific thing. It's that any anything i'd
be just become invisible. So invisible, an invisible creature is impossible to see.
The creature is heavily obscured. The creature's location could be taken by any
noise it makes or any tracks it leaves. Attack rolls against the creature have
disadvantage, and the creatures attack rolls have advantage. So I just I assume
that it would be disadvantage against me. Yeah, I'm gonna say he can.
I just rolled and he got not a natural but a twenty on his
perception check to just kind of. I was just gonna roll it. See
if you can figure out where you are or smell you. He's very animalistic.
He has a very good sense of smell. Unfortunately, but the wind
is rushing past. However, you get close enough to him that he's intelligent
and he's he's got a good sense of smell. I think he's just gonna
wildly swing at you in an attempt to get you. Unfortunately for you,
this is horrendous because he's he has four attacks, so the first one coming
in sick. Oh, this is ready to action. Yeah, okay,
yeah, that's it. One hit. I'll roll each one as we go.
Oh my god, seventeen piercing damage. Yeah, that fucking hurts.
Can you roll me a constitution saving throw as well? That's a one that
is a fail. Hmm What is going to be the most useful thing for
this situation? Ummm mmmmm, oh oh oh no, yeah, I think
roll me a three D six nine nine. So for the next nine rounds
you can repeat this Constitution's saving throw at the end of your turn to try
and shrug it off. You have something called coloric flux. Oh no,
no, melancholic flux, which means that you are incapacitated and slowed like the
spell for nine rounds again you can you can attempt to shrug it off.
I don't know if it's gonna matter too much, because he's still got three
more attacks than you hit. But the the clause, I think he just
throws them out wildly and you're unable to move yourself out of the way of
them quick enough. Even though you're invisible. You feel these claws rake down
your side as you pass where he is. This blood kind of put pouring
out of you becomes visible as it spills from you, and uh he hits
you with this this uh disability? Does it break your invisibility spell? Be
hit by stuff? I think, I mean, I have to make a
constitution saving through. But let me see what what did it make? Me?
Give me what condition? Uh? It made you? It made you
incapacitated, which means you can't move, take actions or reaction, and it
slowed you, which means your speed is halved. Irrelevant. You take minus
two penalty to a C and deck saving throws. You can't use your reactions,
so it's so that's a I did a con save of the twelve to
keep the spell up, so it is a concentration. Yeah, I think
you stay invisible. You managed to remain invisible, but you you're hit by
this thing. But he knows where you are. He's still going to make
an attack without without with disadvantage. As he swings his other claw over on
a natural one. It's a ship at twelve. No, no, no,
because this is rained, yours was ranged. This is melee. You
see him like spin around and he he misses you completely and it spins him
around like three point sixty in his claw breaks into the wall in the same
way. I need to make a strength check for him. Just roll that
real quick as a fail. And yeah, he spins around and he's his
hand breaks kind of on the wall a little bit and it slows him dramatically,
and you shoot pass. Since he failed his check, he doesn't get
another attack on you because technically he got stuck. But yeah, so I
think, yeah, I think you've got fucking lucky. He uh, he
spins around and he just his hand slows him as he As he drags his
claw down the wall, all of this debris falls off the wall above you.
You see all of these rocks and small bits fly past you. And
then he turns again as you hero incapacitated, slowed, be up, scratched,
invisible, win you past him, and he wildly swings again and misses
you completely, long long after you've already gone. Ah, your fools.
You would kill yourselves. And for what I can't talk. I'm incapacity.
I can't take actions. Well, it says I can't take actions or reactions,
so free action would qualify, I believe. Oh no you can.
You guys can all speak out of turn a little bit. You don't ember
full on conversation. He yeah, I mean it's your choice. Is that
any your TURNIERO? Yeah, that was the end of my turn, Yes,
it is. Rin. Do I catch up to drift? I think
he since he's slowed down. Yeah, yeah, okay, I just want
to grab him. I just want to wrap my arms around him and uh,
I got you. And then I'm going to try something absolutely insane.
I want to slow fall the both of us, and I also want to
open the fucking hasmal door the way it opened for me the first time the
Hasmal door. Yeah, if we have the power of Hasmal, this is
what I wanted to do before maybe I realized he's not dead, but that
might not work. But if we get the power of the place, then
I want to open a door for us and like just fall right through it.
All right, Well you're slow falling, which means that you reduce any
falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your monk level.
Yeah, my help, I guess the h And then you're trying to open
this door. And when you say you're trying to open this door, what
are you thinking? What are you feeling? What's going on? I'm imagining
the I'm imagining what the door looked like. And I'm accessing the fire because
something that that God said to me has been sitting with me, that there
is a fire burning in us, or there is something in us. So
I'm trying really hard to It's the only thing I've ever wanted is to save
these people right now, So I'm trying to access whatever greater thing he said
I have. Okay, give me a wisdom check, not a saving through
a check, just a wisdom check. Okay, how do I do that.
Just click on the wisdom stat on the left. God fourteen fourteen you
lay higher than everage. It's so good. That's really good. My head
like, hell yeah, girl, it is good. You try and access
this, this door, this ability that to try and bring yourself back to
the to the gate the way that you guys previously did. I think you
don't see any change around you. You don't teleport, nothing like that happens.
But you hear a voice suddenly speak to you and say you need a
second? Is it loud? Like? Can we all hear it? Or
is it in my head? Only you hear it? Oh? Okay,
okay, it's a loud hasmo m. Yes, most of all, Please
please help me. We're falling. I don't know where we are, as
do I hear her saying all this? I'm speaking out loud for sure.
There's no way I'm focused enough to try to hide anything from you right now.
Drift Uh, some creature came out of out of drift and took us
somewhere. I don't know where we are, but it's dark and we're falling,
and I need your help. We mean, what of the gate?
It's it's in danger. There's purple fire running through where it shouldn't be.
We don't have it. You feel that person to disappear within you? Oh
fuck? And he rolled low the and your turn there, yep. I
will just if I feel the presence leave me, then I'll probably just hold
drift a little bit tighter, and I'm just gonna really quickly say like,
are you okay? I am now you you start falling. You're holding on
to each other, eero, kind of invisible. There's a trail of blood
that just keeps appearing every now and then splotches in the air. I think
you're quite near them as well. The first is above you, and he
leans forward and begins to move down towards you as well. I did not
want to die have to do this, and he begins to transform. That
is where we're going to go to our break. Oh my god. Thank
you very much for watching the the the the action will continue after a short
break. I need to pee, maybe you do as well. Thanks for
watching. It's not over yet. I still don't know what's gonna happen.
We're gonna find out in the second half. Everyone go do a quick whatever
you're gonna do. Yeah, you've got three minutes. I'm sure whatever it
is you need to do, you can do it. When we return,
we'll see what happens. Thanks for watching. I'm not shouting nothing out.
I'm just gonna go to a break and we'll be back. See you in
a few minutes. And we are back. Everyone got their snacks, You
won't need them for long. Even have snacks? Oh what's that? Kaheen
on pineapple on my go, but having pie so good? Well, what
that is? It's a spice. It's just like it's like a salty kind
of it on the pineapple. It's delicious. Uh. You guys are falling,
and as you fall, those of you that are looking up towards the
first he reaches forward and mutters to himself that he doesn't want to do this,
and says and and says, and begins to transform. Sorry, I'm
fucking stupid. The the the arms that are outstretched, you see them pull
backwards as his body twists between from his from his elbow down to his his
considerable ribs. The blood cloak kind of pushes down across his back and then
begins to coagulate and harden into these kind of stringy, veiny, webbing things.
For a moment before stretching out further. His clawed hands grow larger,
but they pull back inwards as his arms turn into giant sort of bat wings.
His back bursts with hair and spines. His ears, which were relatively
pointy and you couldn't see them maybe before, push outwards from the side of
his head. His mouth protrudes forward to those teeth make a little more sense
inside this bat like face. As this kind of this pinched nose pushes forwards,
his legs shrink a little and pull up under under his body, making
him a little more arrow dynamic, and he can fucking fly now he turns
into a bat are just a well what I called it on the hand out
was a hideous giant fat all. He turns into something that looks a little
bit like that. As he does so, he slows. For he's the
same size relatively empire, he's the same size. He's not he hasn't he
isn't he's the same size. But where he's got this wing span, he
looks much larger. Although his wings are kind of pulled inwards, he opens
them and gives a flap of them, and you can see that he can
move a lot quicker in this form while flying. He now has a fly
a flying speed, which is outrageous. And as he does this, you
hear this horrendous screech from him as he kind of and sends out this terrible
screech. All three of you will need to make me a constitution saving throw,
please, Oh my god. Twelve fourteen, twelve and twelve fourteen is
a make. No, there wasn't a fourteen eighteen. Oh twelve twelve eighteen
two twelves are fails. The eighteen is a make Those that have failed have
become stunned. You are hit by this stunning screech as it these this sort
of wave of noise and energy and force hits you drift. You're still moving,
but you feel Rin kind of full limp. She ragged dolls away from
you and begins to just fall naturally spiraling a little bit ero You're probably knocked
out of the invisibility, and you suddenly see him near like off three feet
away from Rin, kind of spiraling in the same wage drift. He's got
blood pouring out of him as well from this horrible wound. And then the
form of the first this bat just disappears. It flies away from you and
into the darkness, and it's moving very fast away from you and spirals downwards.
That is the end of the first turn, and it brings us to
you drift first. I'm just gonna look at Rin Rin, and I'm gonna
like kind of like wall in here, just like grabbing under what I can
grab on to, like kind of like shake her and look up? Can
she say anything? I interpreted? This isn't like I got smacked knocked out.
Stunned is the worst one. You can do nothing. I'm easy going
GM and say that. You can blink. I'll just roll plapurposes. If
I can't do anything, I'm just gonna interpret it out. Yeah, you
can't. You can't do nothing. Stundar is kind of a ko yeah.
So also I had I have earshit, So if he used a someone like
sound bad then I'm fucked anyway. The uh yeah, the two of them
appear to be completely unresponsive. What did you do to them? As I'm
falling? Obviously there is no response. Do I see this thing? No?
You can roll me a perception check with this advantage to try and hear
him. Yes, that'd be great. I roller twice. Yeah, twenty
one, twenty one and twenty two on your rolls. Yeah, the twenty
one you you hear the rush of the wind and everything, but you can
also hear this kind of of these batwe that they sound like they're off maybe
ten feet away from where Eero is, and they're moving down and passed you
quickly. This thing is flying like away from you and down. You have
a very kind of vague idea of where he is. He's he's above Eero,
correct you kind of? I think he's probably on level with Eero.
Wait if you you guys are on the same kind of level. Right next
to you is Rin maybe three four feet away from her is Eero free falling,
and then maybe ten feet off in the distance and moving downwards fast is
the bat? First where I hear the bat, I'm going to cast.
I'm going to throw out another elder splast against the wall where I think the
bat is a little in front of them. Okay, that's the disadvantage.
But you can roll me in a tank roll and you are trying to I'm
trying to hit like rock so it like will throw him off of his fly
or like a right hit him, crush him under some rocks. Give me
two attack rolls or whatever. Crush him, but you don't want to crush
him. I mean, I'd love to crush him, but there's gotta be
Yeah, yeah, crush him. Sure, all right? Does advantage correct?
This advantage? Still? All right? Left hand? Ten? Ten?
You do? You for sure hit the chasm, but it's way too
far up. You can hear the rock stuff breaking, but they might catch
up and stuff. But it's pretty This is the one you hear. It's
kind of sound, but yeah, nothing not good now it's too far away.
Right hand? What same thing? These two shots, they're just they're
veering off wildly. Something's wrong. The pain in your hand, the confusion,
the rush. You've definitely got something wrong with your eyes as well.
I think where you've got like dust and bits of small stones or something.
Maybe hit you in the eyes with that attack. Can you ready? Reactions?
Reactions are always kind of ready, okay, I can. Reactions happen
when the triggering thing happens. Usually it's damage. We just get one of
them around. I will. I'm gonna hold on to rin still. While
I was doing this, so I was like holding her in just left hand,
right hand, and I'm gonna keep holding onto her, and can I
try and reach out to Eero as well with my movement? I think you
can do that. Yeah, you can, kind of really getting them too
much, but you're holding onto them so that you can one in each hand,
kind of stable. Don't don't give this please? Yeah all right,
let's see next is Eero. So you pretty much just need to make me
a con save. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
sorry, you guys are stunned until the end of the bat's next turn.
What sorry, I read it wrong, So you're actually still stunned? Rin
you are still stunned and Drift? Am I stunned? Maybe? Well,
you're you're knocked out. You're being worked on right now by a dwarf up
above Stubby, though Stubby's chilling is adding is you can just hear the soft,
faint pitter patter of nails going into your body or whatever it is doing
to fix you Drift. Make me either a dex there is the acrobatics or
athletics check they're busting might great versus I'll roll it on the screen. I
don't have a thing, but I feel like it's important that I roll as
much on the screen as I just get low, well, John, get
low, get low? Are you rolling first? You on met? No?
You roll me first? Okay? Normal or disadvantage? Just a normal
one? Great nineteen nineteen. Here we go. That's good. Fifteen from
the back below you. As you grab out of these two, you feel
this rush of air. You feel these two little legs, these feet grab
at you like an eagle, as if it's trying to grab at your your
body. You maybe feel them like scratch at the air nearby, and you
shrug the thing off just in time. It maybe brings you forward. You
grab onto the other two as you do so, and the back flies past
as if it was trying to grab at you, and moves away. You
hear me be a screech in the distance as it disappears into the darkness again,
and that is the end of its turn. Drift your turn? Did
I see where he went or it's all hearing, It's all based on hearing.
He's for sure doing the same thing, but you can't see him.
He flies away from you, and he's kind of coming back around again as
he looks like he's trying to get you. This is so frustrating, just
falling, dude, Yeah, and they're both knocked out and stunned. What
do I do? They're not stunned anymore. Oh oh, I thought it
was the end of his next turn. That was it? Oh? Okay,
okay, just really both wake up right now? I think at this
moment, Yeah, they kind of you see them like wren drift drift.
We're still falling. Can you see yourself? Save myself? How can you
save yourself in any way? You have any sort of way to grab onto
anything, or can you save yourself as we're falling? Well, I'm gonna
try to maybe make it not It hurts so much when we hit the bottom,
if we ever hit the bottom. What were you thinking I can teleport
one of you hero? No, yes, we're all getting out of here.
Don't you understand that thing needs us? It needs us, it needs
me? No, it needs all of us. And what do we do?
Yes? We always fight always. As he says that, I'm throwing
another elder, just blast, same kind of idea. Want to hit it
where it's going down, right on the edge. Hopefully some rocks will crush
it or surprise it and throw it off, maybe, you know, knock
him off his trail? All right? With disadvantage. This is thirteen.
I'm gonna say thirteen is a close miss the creature. You can hear it.
This eldress blast goes off on a of the of the rocks, and
you can hear this kind of as this creature essentially for us at home,
we can see that it hit the rock explodes behind it as it flies barely
out of the way. Okay, I will, I'll use my right hand
now that was my left, same thing. Come on, this has to
be it. I just like keep hearing what Iro said. We always fight,
we always fight. We always fait seventeen. All right, give me
the damage because that is also what's going to affect this three three. I
know your elders blast can do a lot more than that. You hit the
rocks underneath where this bat is. It's flying close and turning as if it's
going to kind of try and once again curl around, come back and grab
at you. When this giant rock above it kind of breaks off and catches
it on the wing, it knocks it off kind of balance and it has
to adjust itself, allowing you guys to fall much faster. It kind of
has to turn and loop over and once again fall back down towards you.
I think you slow it a little bit, but it's very fast Romia D
six five five. Anything else? Am I gonna be told what that's for?
Okay? No, it's the end of my h Well with my movement
I now, because I gotta go the same piece as them. No,
I'm sticking with them. I'm just making sure they're clothes, holding onto both
of them. Still, all right? Brings us thick here. I think
you kind of come to you realize what's going on. You know this thing
is a bat or whatever, and you can hear that it's closer to you
than anyone else. It's get struck by a rock or something. And then
you can hear the creature move away a little, but it's still fucking near.
Can I all right? I would like to use minor illusion, however,
instead or you Beautiful, instead of an image or a visual illusion.
I can also create sound, and I would like to create a sound with
the volume of a scream. Now, I'm also an actor, Brad.
I happen to be able to mimic the speech of another person or the sounds
made by other creatures. I would like to mimic the sounds of this bat
with my minor illusion. Yeah volume the uh yeah, it goes off me
just a charisma check. What the fuck was that? In doing that?
You've deafened the bat for I think probably for this round as you until like
maybe the end of your next turn to give it one back. The creature
like you can't see it, but you hear it screech, and the screech
is way too far away. You suddenly see this kind of like form close
to where you are, but it's not even trying to grab at you,
as if it doesn't even know where you are, flies past and then flies
upwards into the darkness. You guys are now free falling. It sounds like
the bat isn't near you right now at all? All right, and then
yes, I'm going to try and shake off the condition. There's a conceive
the incapacitated one. Yes, yeah, those at the end of my turn.
Yes, okay, sixteen sixteen, and you need to beat I know
it's high. Unfortunately, you don't remove the condition unless let me check if
he if you still have it for any reason. No, yeah, you
still have it. Yeah, you you remain incapacitated, You remain slowed.
You have a minus two to your A C and your debt saves. You
can't use reactions and you're incapacitated, which is honestly, it's not too bad
while you're falling, but it's not great. Is at the end of your
turn? Yes, your turn? You see all this happen, but you
guys are still falling fast and I can't see the bat anymore. No,
we're here, Okay, Okay, I'm going to try something insane again.
I have something in my inventory that I've had since day one. It's an
arrow that can't be broken, and I would like to while I'm holding on
to drift an eero. Yeah I still have it. Oh yeah, you
wouldn't have it because we lost all of our ship. Oh yeah, okay,
yeah, then never mind, I don't you don't have any of the
out but find out next time if we did have that item, what would
have happened on a special Yeah? Okay. In that case, then if
I can't see it, I want to blindly cast a fireball, I guess
in the direction of where it where it is, try to like firebolts things
we have all right, yeah, okay, you can we have that.
I'm gonna try it all right, make me an intank roll with disadvantage,
firing for the dark. Okay, wait where did it? Did it pop
up on the screen? Okay? Oh my god, Oh my fucking god.
Alright, Peebee, I don't know what the hell is going on with
you and your roles lately. This is honestly worse than peach picks late and
I can't there're all one natural one? Is it only this show? No,
it's it's been exceptionally bad on this show though. Row a D twenty.
Okay, it winded me up now, Okay, please don't get a
twelve because then we're just gonna lose the final boss if we even Okay,
no pressure that I have no control over this thing. Don't get a twelve
because you need confidence. That's why I've that's fine secret to all of my
roles, unadulterated confident. You give me, uh, give me a D
four? What or you take four damage as when you fire this thing off
like it twists your wrist an awful action, and it kicks your hand back
too much and it strains yourround expecting it. Okay, yeah, you take
the four. We'll say bludgeoning damage. I don't think it matters as you
as you fire this thing off? Is that the end of your turn?
Oh yeah, oh yeah, I guess I'll just roll a check. But
I don't. I think you're just you're gonna get yourselves a free turn for
sure, probably like way above you. And it sounds like it's way too
far above you now like you guys have fallen really far you hear like her.
But that's it. That's the end of that term. Brings us to
drift. Okay, I would like to actually use my action. Well,
no, not until you tell me I have to. I want to look
around, can I can I see what are we? What's around us?
Are you were saying maybe there's like spots of fire or are there any like
No longer, No, that was way up at the top. It is
pitch blackness around you. There's the rush of air. You know that nearby,
like somewhere over that way, maybe fifteen twenty feet over that way is
a chasm wall. You know that maybe five feet to the other side of
you as a chasm wall. Have you ever been in like complete darkness where
there is zero light at all? It's weird and you really, really,
very quickly lose any sense of like left and right. Let alone. If
you don't have your legs on the ground, you would lose the sense of
up and down. And I think the only sense you have of any kind
of up and down is that you heard a screech somewhere out that way.
And also you are falling, so you get this sense of gravity and kind
of idea of where down is, but it's not helping you too much.
And you're very very dis Yeah, you're very dis oriented, and you you
for sure can't see anything. You've drifted away from the wall. It wasn't
right next to you. You can maybe move closer to it if you wanted
to kind of maneuver in the air a bit like rended, But at the
moment, I think you're just surrounded by darkness and you've seen nothing, any
natural light or whatever it was. All the lights that were being given off
were long. They disappeared almost like at the end of your first round.
So for the flame on, we can sort of tell that it unnaturally ends,
like when we were in the aquatic dungeon. Yeah, you're in like
magical darkness. Agreed a minute, you can and you can see each other
because I'm just going to be giving you the benefit of the doubt that you
can kind of see each other within like maybe three feet, but I think
it ends at like five feet. You know, rad, did I see
how the first morphed? Did I see what happened? What he did?
You did? How was that? You look like you turned into a giant
bat. I want to turn into a giant bat because I am the first.
You want to turn into a giant bat? What check do you need?
Make him roll a one, two, three in a row to do
it? Well, no, I just listen. I've been doing it till
so far. Today. Give me a wisdom check. Yeah, yeah,
mm hmmm fifteen pain, I'm gonna roll the dice, drift, your arms
begin to change. Oh my god, this is one of those times it's
gonna be like shut shut up. Um, so we come back mh to
the gate of fire at this point. Yeah, it's me. It's nineteen
everybody. No, it's me, Tiger writer, it's everybody, Tiger.
Yes, what would you like for me? Father? I'm not sure if
everyone can see this map, so let me. I can't even see the
map. No, no one, no one can see it. Yeah,
they want to see it. Shut to me. Let me have it.
Please. This is going to be the voice of my next character, Indie.
Indie. Let me just do one quick thing while you're doing that.
Whay can you turn that back on real quick? Because this is all I
think about right now, is Isa? Come me, hey me? So
good to me? It's so good. Oh go and throw you for a
loop. Brad. Nope, not at all. It was one of the
if we were demonetized. Alrighty, we're gonna save yourself. M let's see
so let me bring you over to here. Everyone tell me if you can
see stuff? Can you see? I see it? Others other planets.
It's only for me other players. Alright, it's good. Line nineteen and
Stubby. You walk into this chamber and you walk up and you start heading
forwards. Ahead of you is a pull of fire. Behind it is the
real Death Singer. He is dressed and standing in exactly the same way he
was before. The masks around his waist. Behind him are two pray terrat
and coltists behind them. Up on that kind of viewing area on this in
a in an empty bowl, sat like kind of on top of an open
flava paul with purple flame coming out of it. You see the figures of
Athena, who I don't think anyone met. Just remind me, no one
actually met Athena. We just saw a scene of her, so we know
who she is as an audience, I think, But you guys didn't actually
meet her, interact with her, or even hear about her, right apart
from maybe Rinder. I heard about her. I heard her name dropped,
but I don't know what she looks like. Now, okay, the she
has stood on to the teeth. She is an old teethling woman and very
old. She's unnaturally old. She has like her skin is paper thin,
brick red. She's got these kind of does she camouflage into the room she's
got No, she's not that red, but she has I don't know why
I can't show anyone anything on the screen for some reason, rolled twenty police.
There we go. Her horns are kind of old and eroded in place,
is almost like an like they're chipped and like old bricks would be.
She has this set of resplendent kind of armor, but even that looks like
it was made for like a king or a queen, but has been completely
tarnished over time. She's unnaturally old. Next to her is another cultist that
nobody would have seen. You definitely wouldn't have seen nineteen. It's this another
teethling. You can see that his horns are a little larger, his build
is relatively slender, and he's wearing the robes that Death Singer is wearing that
the Pratarians are wearing. He has one of the masks on that that death
Singer has around his waist, although he has a copy of one of the
other masks there. It's on this mask and it's the same as the ones
that you had. There is a strange sort of set of shapes, but
it's mostly you can make out like a star with all these ancient runs and
symbols around them, and you can you can make out that other people are
in the room. What do you want to do first? Just in case
you don't want to move further into the room. Here you're walking down a
corridor towards them, and they all kind of just seem to be standing awaiting.
You are looking at us. Oh, for sure, everyone's waiting for
you to arrive. I'm not going to take my eyes off of them.
I'm gonna keep my eyes forward and only look at them, and I'm not
going to look at Stubby in the slightest Stubby's just following you. I think
if you move ahead, he moves ahead. Off you, Stuf he stops,
And yeah, you can move up to the end of the corridor and
position yourself pretty much wherever you want to go. I think I'll just throw
Stubby here for now, and you probably walk up a little further. And
I would say, by the time I get stairs, can I A do
a perception check, B do another ar kind of check for kind of what
we were going over earlier, for the blurring in and out thing. Yep,
And we'll do those two for now. So I don't you know I
have come fast? Yep. Seventeen. Are you looking for anything in particular
or you just want to see what's going on around you? I want to
see what's going on, I mean, and I'm also looking to see.
Firstly, is that the gate where they're standing. I'm looking to see if
that would be the gate, Like if you can give me an idea of
what that looks like, and also if everything seems real in here, and
like if everything seems like like the people that are saying like death singer if
I can see him the cultest everything. Does it look like it's an image?
Does it look like it's real? You know, that'll be an investigation
check, So give me that as well, because that is its twenty five
for sure. Everything is real the US Yep, everything, the walls and
everything kind of are still doing that weird blurry thing for you. But it's
not too bad. I think it's not enough that you're taking any penalties to
vision necessarily. It's just that you can see that it's still affecting your vision
a little bit. You see that there are other members in the room,
most of most of them are just prayed Territans. But you can see that
that the figure that Rin was kind of followed by the draw woman that was
following Rinn in Rose Guard and kept meeting with her is also in here,
and they're all standing around. And when you walk in, I don't think
you know there is no gate. Yeah, there's no like big door.
There's no gate that it looks like an actual gate or anything like that.
This just looks very similar to the chamber that would be kind of above you
area. It opens up like you'd expect this. This looks a bit like
one of those kind of drawing rooms in a mansion where the stairs go up
and around with a with a viewing area, maybe more like a church where
you would have pews along the bottom side, and then sometimes they have those
secondary areas that you can view from, like a viewing thing above you.
But for the most part, there's really not much in here. It is
just this pool of flava in the center with this relatively large plume of dark
purple fire coming out of it, and then the same thing up on the
next level behind them. The only other notable thing that's going on in this
room is that best singer is standing forward again. He seems completely unarmed apart
from the sword he and seem to have any armor on the others. The
cultists look very similar to the ones that were upstairs. They have those robes
on their eyes look a little milky. Athena, the Drow and the other
masked figure don't really have the milky eye thing, don't know. It's the
one to the left that has white hair. Yeah, that's the Drown.
So I don't think you met her, but her name is Zare. She
followed writ around a bunch written interacted with a few times, but you you
for sure didn't. And she's standing at the on the second level, not
quite all the way up to the highest fifteen feet up right on the stairs.
There through some numbers for you in case you need them. So these
figures standing around are each holding something in their hands. It looks like a
cube. Each one has like a what looks like just a glass cube,
pretty much nothing else going on. It would look like like a Minecraft block
like that kind of thing, just pure glass, very fragile looking, and
each one holds it very carefully in the center of their hands. All bars
repeat. Can you repeat that again? I want to I want to understand
a little bit better what you're talking about about them holding on to something.
Each one is holding a glass box. Basically, each each person that is
in this room, each person apart from the figure with the mask on,
okay and death Singer, is holding a glass boat. So Athena, the
one on the stairs, the one of the stairs that are right, and
the two perterarians in front of me are all holding glass boxes. So a
total of one, two, three, four, five glass boxes, five
glass boxes and six six glass boxes, six glass boxes. Six Do we
doing mass right? One? Two, three, four five glass boxes.
Okay, so Athena and the masked one, they're not holding a glass box.
The masked figure Athena is the market test singer in the mask cal Okay,
sorry, sorry, sorry, the mask I feel like the mask figure
isn't holding one, but he is holding something in his hands. Is what
would look to us in the future like some sort of rocket launcher maybe,
but not any not made of like metal, stamped with anything on the on
the side of it. But you can see that it is that kind of
like a tube with strange like a bit a bit like how you got your
dwarven plate, these big kind of interlocking plate sections that run along a single
chew. But at the far end, though it doesn't have a hole,
there is what looks like a giant great crossbow bolt or a ballister bolt kind
of thing in there. The thing is pretty big, the bolt is ginormous,
and there are these kind of odd runes that are running up and down
the side of it. I think you can make out from here this thing
looks like a ridiculous weapon, and he's he's kind of aiming it down at
you, resting it somewhat on the bowl that he's saying, I think,
yeah, what would you like to do? First? Talked about the investigation.
We talked about the perceptional w rold, the arcana. What was that
for for the dizziness that I'm having happen and the has mobotential stuff and seeing
what's coming from Yeah, I think you you're still experiencing that weird blurry wall
thing, but not anything nothing more over than that. How much times went
by since you walked through here? Yes, since like because you went to
the fight and stuff. I mean obviously there's time frame a minute, just
a minute unless you walked super slow. How long has it been since potential
hasmol spoken my brain? Two minutes? Two minutes? Okay? Oh man,
I am walking slow. I would say that I'm walking slow and I'm
looking forward, so I would say, being straightforward that as I walked through
that hallway, I would say I took to two to five minutes to walk
through that hallway looking straight forward at them, just to just to get up
to these stairs. And now that I'm at the stairs, I stop and
I just kind of like, as you were doing the perception checks and stuff,
I'm just looking around at the room kind of I want to say that
with the most you can see of Nineteen's face, he looks, uh.
I wouldn't say amazed, but he looks kind of stoic. He's just looking
around, like I guess the best way to put it is, he's looking
around like he knows what the fuck is going on. And because he's doing
that, he's slowly taking his time. He's kind of almost like I don't
want to use the word cocky, but like once again, he's trying to
act like he knows what's going on, like he knows why he's there and
all that kind of stuff, and he's just kind of he's just kind of
looking around because he also feels like he needs He feels like he knows that
they need him, so he's kind of slowing it down, especially slowing it
down to see if anybody calls out to him. I think when you walk
in, you take your time. Everyone's watching you. Death Singer is kind
of just standing in the villainous pose with his fingers kind of together, and
he's watching you. He may give me an insight check before he has like
a kind of a twitch of a smile on the side of his head.
He seems to be pretty happy with how this has turned out and what's going
on. As you walk in, he starts to walk around towards you and
says, so you're just going to help us, are you? I don't
suppose you have any idea what that entails? Were forged scares probably blankly for
a good thirty seconds to a minute, Adham, Does it really matter what
it entails? Or does it matter more that it's done? It certainly matters
that it will be done whatever you are planning. But have a foolishness you
have knocking around in your tin mind. If I was going to kill you,
I would have done it already. You would have tried you underestimate me.
But none of that matters anymore? Does it me? You? Them?
We don't matter. I think we both know what really matters. He
stares intently at Stubby for a moment. Stubby kind of shifts, shifts uncomfortably
naturally, brings a hand down towards his short sword, and he says,
no, that's not your O. Dear tell me, where are they?
What's really going on? I actually was telling you the truth, regardless of
what you think I am kind of looks down for a second, looks back
up, almost certain that they have died. He looks at Stubby for the
first time. Walk into this room, and I know you don't know this
one that's with me, but he can also vouch for the fact that most
likely the other three are dead because they seem to have jumped to their fate.
Jumped to their fate. I'm supposed to believe that moments before attempting to
stomp me, they killed themselves. I wouldn't quite say that they killed themselves.
He looks at Stubby again, looks back at death Singer. From what
it seems to me, this one, the dwarf who came in here with
us. As you probably already know, we were all taken somewhere else.
I don't know how long we were there. Myself and him were the only
ones to come back. From what I gathered from him and from what I
gathered, because of how powerful what it was we were against, I would
assume that they are dead, and truth be told, good riddance this creature
you speak of. I suppose it is something from somewhere else that grants the
Tiefling his power. From what it seemed, yes, and you faced it
directly correct, And what was it? In the end, m he takes
a couple of minutes to kind of process once again. A couple of minutes
bread and I think you get a couple of minutes as long as you want.
What if it becomes uncomfortable, he'll he'll probably speak to you again.
I would say, like forty seconds to a minute goes by. Then I
looked at directly in the face. Actually, I would be told I'd never
seen anything in my life like it. But it continued and continued and continued
to say that it was going to be the ones that thought it was going
to stop us. Oh. At one point I had counted on it being
an ally. What exactly is it? If I can ask you, I
am not so on myself. He kind of leans casually back against this like
pall of it's like a stone fountain almost, But he's got like a little
live that he can lean against, the little with the fire and the flower
inside. And he says, some sort of creature from some other realm.
There was one I counted among my ranks. It was grooming him for something.
It seems it chose Drift. When Drift stabbed him dead in an arena,
would say, stabbed him dead in an arena. That fight against Walter
took me a long time to train. That man Drift took him down as
if he was nothing but a petulant child. Yes. Also, why I'm
fight consumes just to what was going on when we were there. So John's
saying to me is that it was Walter. No, it wanted Walter for
something in the end. I never trusted him, and I wasn't sure.
But whatever it is, it chose Drift seems, and then turned against him.
As you say, such as the way with borrowed power kind of looks
down. He looks down at his arm, and he has a a bracero
on and it's golden, like the one that you had previously, or each
of you guys had. He brings his robe down over it so that you
can see half of it, and he says, yes, yours were gold
weren't they like this? M He pulls his arm up, fool, Yes
they were. It appears as though you still have yours. He waves his
hand over it and it turns black like the same design, essentially the same
size, but it looks like it's made from like a black metal or obsidian
or something. It just looks very sleek and frictionless. There's a light glow
from the fire in it. There's a single gem in the top of it,
which looks like a cracked and broken ruby, and he says, yes,
borrowed power. He covers the the brastro again and says, I know
of it very well, but I welcomed it, as did I at first,
until I realized what it was going towards, not on the right side.
And you failed and yet you returned. How that and it looks around
That has been the hardest part for me to understand. And the only way
I can really answer that is I assume it's because I was meant to be
here with all of you meant to be here, that is for sure.
And how you came back is what I want to know. If you have
failed your suit, shouldn't you be dead? I can tell you what's happened
to me specifically, Brad, I would say that he tells the story,
and the story probably takes a little bit of time. He probably tells the
story of him floating in space. He probably tells some of the things that
he saw in space. He probably talks of the those phantom like creatures that
tried to attack him. He probably tells him everything. And it's not a
short I mean, it's not long, obviously, because it would get interrupted
by as much time as you can, but I by time, and then
I end it was kind of And then as the phantoms were attacking me,
I'd expressed to them yet again wherever I was, that they were not going
to take me. And as I did that, something happened, something much
large as in them south in front of me. It told me that the
only way I would get out of there was to join it. That I
denied it because I knew that there was something bigger, much bigger than it.
Even something happened and suddenly I started flying at speeds I'd never known I
could, and then I crashed back down here next to my compadres. I
had a feeling when I was out there, I had a feeling that that
everything that had happened was not only just supposed to happen, but me being
out wherever I was it was very black dark. Every now and again i'd
see something, but I just floated. Any other me immortals that would have
went out there would have died of suffocation or something of the like. I
had a lot of time to think. I had a lot of time to
think of what I was put through and where I was taken. Another reason
I am here to complete this. I understand how you felt for me.
Has been a long wait. Your comrades left me in a broken state,
in an empty place for a long time. I passed myself back together as
I pieced together this mask. He brings up a mask. It's the same
one that he had on with the life room that you recognized nineteen is the
one that you saw on the mirror. He puts it back on his hip,
and he says, I was alone. But my journey began there all
those years ago, owl many years ago, exactly it would be on us,
would you say? No? No? Eons? Not long after,
I was just a boy. My friend and I began to search for fun,
look into these magi, these people that came before. In searching for
them, it set us on a course that has led us all here.
During that time I met your comrades and another what of me? What of
your friend? Of? And mad week week makes sense? Probably another reason
I'm standing here and the three other are not weakness. Perhaps continue though it's
nice to feel like I've finally been able to relate with someone. He nods
his head and says, my journey has long since not been mine. My
journey was merely the path of Lord Darkfire and his of the magi that came
before him, the magi that made him. I think, and you can
correct me, and this is just a hypothesis. But before I was taken
out to the wherever I was thrown to, there was a woman. She
reached out to me. She spoke to me. It was the first time
I had felt warm and safe since I had come too, if that makes
sense, since I was able to understand that I wasn't just a role.
Well, whatever we are as war forged and apparently I have that sneaking suspicion
with whatever these mag I are, it is because of who I am,
too. Then that would be foolish. You are a creation, a tool
to be used. A little more, you still think I'm a tool to
be used. We are all tools to be used. Now. Yes,
you're here at the end. I am not sure what will come after this.
Yes, but again, does it matter what we think about and what
we care about, the only thing that matters is it it's done properly.
The first time. But I must ask you, how long do you think
we let this one live? He looks to the dwarf Stubby is standing there
kind of looking at you both, and he points at his he is nods,
thank you, shall take him out. I just shake my head now
and look back at death Singer. He says, I had not counted on
this one. Truthfully, I had not counted on you either. You should
have because I have brought another one for what we probably need. We don't
need him. I don't know who he is. Yes, well you are
with us now. Welcome to Preterritor. Welcome into the service of Lord Darkfire.
Yes, that is where I stand, it is where he will stand.
I'm going to ask you to do one thing now. We have done
all the hard work, the many years leading up to this. The seals
are all but unlocked. Now we just need the Guardian to allow us to
open the gate. Lord Darkfire will be able to pass through. You know
what that entails? Nineteen? I want to roll a check before I do
anything in or anything. What do you want to roll a check for?
Say what he said one more time? Do I know what that entails?
Do I know what that entails? At all, Any idea whatsoever you can
give in our Karna check with disadvantage for this infract twenty one twenty one is
weirdly not really high enough. But I will give you as much as as
much as I think you probably can can ascertain from just piecing together anything here.
He said that the seals are all but unlocked, and they need a
guardian to allow us to open the gate. You know that the I am
the guardian. The energy of Hasmol is within you. The gate cannot open
without you opening it. You are the key to the lock. And whatever
it is, there's a reason that there isn't an army of people down here.
There's probably a reason that you guys weren't all murdered at the gate,
and you clearly willingly have to do something for him. I assume this time
was coming soon. Do you care if I take a moment with him?
He looks back up to the the others, Like the other Bratarnians Pratertans are
all standing around. He says, M whatever you are stalling for time for
you get one moment more. I have nothing to stall. I just know
my fate and I know that once this is done, there will be no
more nineteen. There will be no more me. And I think you know
that as well, do you not? Truthfully, I have no idea what
is to come. I just know what I have been promised to. What
is it you've been promised? If I may this new world, the second
age of the Magi, I will have ushered it in. I assume that
must count for something. I think you are correct, and I think you
will get what you long deserve, and I hope that you do. I
wish only to look upon one with my own eyes, witness that raw power,
only for a moment. I as well want to see that power.
It's the only reason I'm still here. All I've ever wanted to do is
feel like I was a part of something. That's all I've ever wanted,
and I know that I've found it here after however long I was. Now,
pardon me. I wish to tell this dwarf, and I wish that
you let him leave so that he can tell the story. He like turns
away from you and just waves a hand over his shoulder dismissively. I'm gonna
go over to Stubby. He's just looking at you and looking back and forth
and looking around kind of warily. I am going to lean down to Stubby.
I am going to on my own accord, reach to his ear and
take out the ear plug in his left ear from Stubby and I'm going and
I am going to say quietly, in fact, I'm not going to say
anything, Okay, I'm going to look at Stubby with my back turned to
the rest of the people behind me, and I am going to wink at
Stubby and nod my head, and then I'm going to start rambling to Stubby
about random ship. Yes, you can be free, or you can stay
and choose to watch all of this. But if you stay to watch it,
you must understand, right. I think he was implying that he didn't
take out his ear plug. Yeah, I did not take out his Oh
you didn't take it out. Sorry, No, I thought you took it
out and woke at him. I left it in. And now I'm just
mumbling onto him and I'm continuing to talk to make an anyside check for Stubby.
But okay, carry on, Okay. I just nodded my head yes,
and then I am going to be in whatever form you want to say
it, Brad, I am going to be continuing to talk to him,
and continuing to talk to him, and continuing to talk to him, and
continuing to talk to him and contain I think you get about like thirty seconds
before that singer says, your time is up. Come now follow me.
I turned back. I understand, and I will be there momentarily. I
think you, understanding myself, understand that you need me, so you will
be patient. Haven't you been patient? I need you indeed, But if
you will not come willingly, I will drag you into the fire myself and
don't move again. Wish you could drag me. I'll be there in the
second one. Make me a wisdom saving throw with this advantage. I'm turning
around a walk towards him, just as a note. He that, yeah,
you show me to roll it absolutely, yeah, twenty disadvantage Right at
twenty, he says. He clicks his fingers as you turn around, and
you feel this wave of energy pass over you, and he says, oh
wait, no, you have disadvantage. Roll it again. Okay, wealth,
you feel a wave of energy roll over you as he casts dominate person
on you. Okay. Essentially you are charmed. He has a telepathic link
with you. He can issue commands to you, even if you're unconscious.
He can get you to do things, and he can use his action to
take total and precise control of you. Basically depends if those things are well
well. I mean, there's no It has nothing to do with movement.
First off, does this ability allow him to control anything? I think?
I don't think. The first thing I do after I realize he's cast a
spell on me is before I start moving, before I say anything to him,
I reach out to the voice that was in my head. M give
me a wisdom check, just a standard, good old fashioned wisdom check.
Seventeen. What do you want to say to the voice? The time has
come, it's now or never. You better hurry all of you the uh
and then speaking of death Singer afterwards, the voice of a hasmal responds but
quietly and almost weakly in your mind and says, I you'll not have the
energy yet. Then this is up to me, he says in his head.
Whatever you do, you'll not let his fast through the g and the
voice is gone. You can't speak to test Singer because he snaps his fingers
and points up the stairs, and he forces you to walk up the stairs
to your to your left. He forces you to walk up all the way
up and he follows you up there as well, to the edge of the
fire, which is up on the on the top level. Just a quick
just a quick note. So I have literally zero control over any kind of
movement. Correct, I will tell you why the rings? Yeah, yeah,
yeah, it was the ring. The ring is That's why he said,
welcome to pray. Character the you're marched kind of up the stairs and
he once you're close to him, you can see he looks old, he
looks tired. His movements are exasperated. He's not he he seems to come
across as kind of flippant or or relaxed, but he's not. He just
seems exhausted. It seems like everything he's doing causes him maybe like effort,
not like necessarily physical effort, like he's on death's door, but just it's
just taking him a long time to do things, and he's exasperated with this,
with this, this task in general. He walks you up towards where
the to where the fire is, and while he's doing so, he's speaking
to you. He says, we have planned for as many comes as possible.
I had hoped that this would be one of the others. Frankly,
I wasn't sure if this ring would work on you. There was another When
I went back, there was a terrible, broguish figure. He hurt me.
They all hurt me. Points to some scars that are on his body.
You can see all these varying scars. He points at the one on
his cheek and says, this one, this one that came from acquiring that
ring. You can't speak. You're trapped inside your own mind pretty much,
he says. He kind of like he's issuing. You'd tell a commands.
He holds his hands up as he stands you before this pit of fire.
And now you see that there's this flava, Paul, it looks like you
would step down into it. As opposed to some of the others that have
an edge, this one doesn't. It has a little bit of a lip.
And then there's flava down there. The flava in here is filled with
that kind of purple fire. And he says, you must step into step
into this fire. Now. Soon it will all be over. You will
have helped us, You will have brought about a new age. We will
remember you. Nineteen Phantom, A war forged of life. You will bring
about everything I have worked for, everything we have worked for, all these
long years, much longer than you could ever know. Lord Fire is trapped
in an ageous place, trapped in a vortex of time itself. This gate
will open. This gate will bring him to us. Together we will rise,
and it will all be thanks to you. Step now into this fire,
Step in and open the gate, Guardian he You may make me a
wisdom saving throw with disadvantage to try and disobey this order if you'd like.
I would like to. But I also want to ask you two things.
First thing, you were pretty already answered this, I think, but there's
literally no movement that I can do around like my hands. I can walk,
right, He's making me walk, But can I do anything with my
hands? Nop okay. Secondly, I have something that has been used for
other characters. I would like to ask if it's something I can use for
myself in this instance because of the instance we're in and I'm going to roll,
but I would like to ask about Hasma's blessing that I have right now?
What does that la you do? Well? What it does allow me
to do is allows me to a creature than thirty feet of you makes an
attack role. You can use a reaction, but basically what I'm asking you
is for cannon because it is Hasmall's blessing. If there would be a way
for me to use something like this on myself, even if it's not that
effect, even if it is that effect, whatever it might be, even
though it's not an attack role, basically it's asking because I got hasthma on
my side to a certain degree, and it's a blessing. So I'm asking
for anything. And if you say no, it's fine. I just I'm
trying to come things I could say. It doesn't help you in this situation.
So then a wisdom saving throw with disadvantage as plays that would be a
four team you have to be much higher number. I think, Yeah,
I assume this is like nineteen to twenty two or something like that. Why
that high? But it's high? Can I look at him and basically I
just like, I don't know, Like can I try to fucking can I
try to like talk to death Singer without talking to death Singer. I'm just
trying to think of other cool ways I could get Like not really, I
wouldn't say get out of it. But like I have ideas in the back
of my head that I don't want to speak out loud about unless you know
I were able to. But basically something like, you know, like gesturing
towards him to kind of let me do it on my own. What do
you say to him? Specifically? Do you think that I could do this
on my own? Considering I've been shackled most of my life, this would
be the last choice I get to make on my own. Accord, I
think you understand choice. Would I make this choice considering I know that you're
controlling me right now? I think we see a visual of nineteen inside a
cage inside his own mind, manicled and shackled to the cage as he speaks
into the void and death Singer does not respond. We see nineteen lift a
foot up as he's about to step into the fire, when we also see
a fucking great, big fat appear all of a sudden. Can I be
playing the Immigrant song on my fucking flu The fly of the Valkyrie is in
the center of the room above maybe where this fire pit is. There is
a shimmer of fabric as the realities part for a moment, and this monstrous
disgusting half teefling, half bat breaks through through from the shadow fell and into
here, I think Drift. Even as you pass through, you cannot hold
onto this form. This is at best a kind of druid wild shape here,
which you can do like once a day. You have managed to fly
your friends up and out of that chasm. You may be spent a while
trying to figure out what's going on and how to get back. They're holding
on to you as you're holding on to them, and you, guys,
flew out of that chasm. And then as you are flying upwards, there
is a moment where you feel this energy rush over you. This this wave
of energy. Eero and and Rin most certainly would have heard a voice in
their own minds. Just stop them doing and do not let him step into
the fire. Like here's a literal more time. As you burst through into
this room, Drifts suddenly shrinks and shifts again into his form, lands crashing
into the ground. Eero splays off to one side. Rinsplays off to the
other side. You guys are back in this place. You see best singer
kind of do an air motion. You see nineteen just kind of arms down
at his side, robot light walking towards this fire. You see this masked
figure with the star above it lift this weird artifact up with a bolt and
aim it down towards you, and suddenly bark and order at the others.
You see everybody spring to life. Athena suddenly leaps up out of the out
of the bowl thing that she's in and jumps off of the edge as if
she's leaping down towards you. Destinger turns immediately and shouts you are too late,
far too late. And that is where we end today's session. Thank
you very much for watching. You successfully made it to the end of today's
session. Good God, I say it. Can you say, well,
what do you want to say? Final? Next week, isn't it?
One hundred percent? The finale will be next week forty nine and fifty will
be the roundtable discussion. Oh my god, it was out really well.
I honestly swear to god, you would have died if you had dropped to
the bottom. You had six more rounds I think, or five before you
got round. That's how long you had to work it out to figure out
a way. I didn't know what you were going to do. Whatever it
was you can you could figure it out. I thought that you. I
did have a plan. I had had a plan. I figured that you
would come up with something eventually. But if you didn't, I had a
crazy eer plan. I was very very prepared for you all to smash into
the ground. And if all three of you died, I would have just
seen what nineteen died done, and this would have ended either ambiguously or whatever
would have happened here would have been would have been the end. Nineteen would
have walked in, opened the gate and it would have been over it.
You would either that or yeah, I mean it depends. Obviously, the
roles could have changed. It could have been different. The last scene.
It would have been like nineteen with a sword and shield by himself going in
to deal with this alone. And it could have been this Like I was
like so prepared for all these kind of I guess bad endings, but you
you figured it out, and that's all I really wanted to wanted to do
anyway, My god, it was we're also playing as the first because the
first was also kind of representing me, like I was trying to save you
and pick you up and fly you up to the top and stuff. But
I also know that it was like it was like me trying to diocex mac
and A you like, come on, let me do it, and you
guys are like, no, man, you're evil, get away, And
I'm like, come on, let me just pick you up as a mat
and fly you up. That's a good question, but yeah, go on,
go shoot. Sorry about the ring by the way, Yeah, yeah,
I assume that he must have made the ring because originally the orc was
charm proof, that the Orkard was charm proof, but not dominate person proof.
Yeah, that's kind of why I assume there was a difference there was
the ring gives The ring gives you disadvantage on dominate person saves. That's what
it does. Okay. It also gives you some other ship like being super
intelligent and maybe other things that we'll find out next week. Yeah, I
have very big curiosity. Is there's something else about that ring and we just
don't know it yet. Yeah, so intense episode. It was very intense,
and I'm right here with you. I feel like the weight of the
world has been lifted off me as well. We get one more session.
There's almost no way that I could see this going on for two more sessions.
I do not know how you possibly could do it. It's it's down
to this. You've got a week to figure out what you want to do.
Now to scare you doubt our ability to delay, Yeah, I'm going
shopping as it's episodes of gameplay. Yeah, well, we'll see about that.
We'll see that. I'm not going to write it off, but I
can't imagine that it will be the case. We're going to jump in the
fire and then we'll do a shopping episode, so conngratulations episodes, it would
well, I don't like that we're going to do that round table it'll be
them. I've got OCD. I'm not allowed to do things that are all
perfect and neatly done. I need to exposure therapy myself to stuff. So
it's probably the best way I can do it. Let's do a quick round
of shout outs and then we'll we'll head on out and we'll see you next
week for the almost definitely finale of gameplay, and then and then two weeks
of round table stuff. Just make anything up to fit in. Let's start
with the man who started us off today, mister Tiger, right, where
can people find you? And stuffs Hi, you've probably heard this before.
You can find me on twitch at twitch dot tv forward slash tiger Writer like
you're writing a piece of paper in front of you, not like you are.
Oh what finished statement on a tiger on a tiger? Oh oh,
I see, I thought you were just wanting me to talk to you for
a second. I'll always talk to you anyways. You can find me over
there on my Twitch channel. I have a Twitter and Instagram all that stuff
too. If you just google tiger writer, you'll find all the things you
want. Thanks for watching our campaign And I don't care how much this might
people sad, but I am deeply disheartened that the next week is our final
episode. No, I am doing it because of the truth and I like
reality and I'm a realistic On top of that, I'm okay with it being
the last episode as much as I'm not okay with it. I'm okay with
it because I understand that things have to end because that's a part of life,
like I'm gonna die someday. But I'm also really sad about it because
I don't want that, just like I don't want to die someday. So
it's all wrong. Makes perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Yes,
just perfectly perfectly balanced, like your fucking dominate person stuff you wudn't come.
Yeah, God, a bullshit one. Yeah, well, I'll discuss
I'll discuss all the all the reasoning for things eventually, but we won't do
it now. We'll do it on the on the fifty first episode, never
the fifty second. What if my little what if my little what if my
little my little fairy would have gotten the ring? Would we have fought the
little fairy instead of the orc for the round table, for the round It
was all just to get get the ring to nineteen's finger or whoever picked it
up or got near it, and whatever could have been, any of you
could have been, any of you. Nineteen didn't pick it up, he
would have not been charmed. The whole way this worked out is crazy.
The whole way it worked out that nineteen was the only one that went back
because it was separated from you for a while, and you know, it's
all it all just worked out really well thematically or whatever. But yeah,
amazing. Anyway, John, where are you at in the week? What
are you doing? I honestly, I'm all I'm going to be doing this
entire week, is thinking about next week. So if you guys want to
join me on that energy, I'll be in the discord just watching you guys
type theories because I am not as smart as most of you in the Discord.
And I don't say that with like you being like, oh, John,
you're smart. No, no, no, I just don't. That's
not where my mind thinks. I have like, yeah, I don't go
there. So I listen to all these theories and I'm like, this is
genius. Yes, this is exactly what's going on, and I love it
because it helps me understand the world and lore and more so, please keep
it up because I am lurking in there. I check it on like it's
part of my regular It's like all right, Twitter, all right, Instagram,
all right. Discord is like it's it's in the regular, like not
any other discord, not even my own personal discord, like that Discord,
that Dark Buyer Discord is all I do. So make sure to go in
there if you're not in there. And I love you guys. I've literally
been everything in this show. I've the curse breaker, vampire turned into a
bad like this has been one of the most eventful dn ds I've ever been
a part of, and it's so cool. So I'm gonna be definitely a
little sad next week. But all things must come done in things must come
doing. Yeah, there we go. I also am not as intelligent as
half the people in the discord, so that probably can be really disappointed to
be like it doesn't make any sense. It's not making a nice sense.
My end, I'll be like, yeah, because my brain is dumb.
Someone else whose brain isn't dumb? Payby? Where where can people find you?
Oh? Can you skip me? Please? I'm feeling my constitution.
People need to know where you're gonna be in case I don't turn coming out,
coming up blame so on Wednesdays, whack go. I don't think you're
done yet. We all got like a minute. Oh I do have to
go on. She's gone wax Stephen, Hi, everybody, I'm whack Stephen.
And normally I'm the GM of Doom. Normally I dragged players kicking and
screaming through adventures. Instead, I do my best and hardest to make Peebee
cry during the fast. Is it happening? I think it might be happening.
We're going to be messy. We did it, we did it.
Read it. Uh, this is so mean of this. It's not mean.
It's cathartic, is what it is. You know, people cry.
It makes me, but it's tears of it's tears of joy. How good
it was, because the show is so good. I've had those tears before
putting clear waters on. It's the Uh, it's an ultimate episode. This
is it. Yeah, so yeah, thanks everybody for watching. As always,
I hope you enjoyed me playing Ero Deer for you and the scream of
Doom and uh, I hope that we'll catch you guys tomorrow for Nocturn that
PEB will be doing and you should absolutely follows. I won't cry on it.
You can't promise that it's fine. It's not even on the Bingo cod
because it's just guaranteed there's not the bree space in the middle. That's fine,
but make sure you available next week. Make sure you tune in for
tomorrow's Nock to her An episode because PB's been knocking it out of the park.
And Thursday we got probably ragtags. I don't know if we're on if
we're on a bi monthly schedule with Ragtags at the moment, but I think
I think we're good for Thursday, and uh, if you missed it yesterday,
we showed uh in the day before, we showed that Katie peters Plays
is going to be doing a special one shot all the last transmission because you
guys hit five thousand dollars in the Saint Jude charity goal, So congrats on
that. We're gonna have Katie peters Plays very first GMing experience ever like that,
and she's doing a she's doing a special horror thing, so check that
out. That's going to be in July thirteenth, and we've just got a
ton of stuff going on, so stay tuned to Table Story this month.
We've got a lot of announcements and cool shit going on. There's going to
be stuff changing and all kinds of all kinds of insanity. So if you're
not following us on on discord, on on the Twitter, on YouTube,
on twitch, do so make it happened Table Story on all the places except
on Twitter where we're at a table Story, Instagram, Instagram, table Story,
RPG. Correct. Thank you, and I forced them to take selfies.
You're welcomes terrific. Thanks very much for watching. Everybody we'll see you
next week for the almost definitely I'm calling it. It's definitely the finale.
It's definitely the finale, the last one, you guys. The journey began
kind of here and it will end here, and we'll see you and this
lot one last time. Next time. Peace out,