What's up? Everybody? Welcome to Table Stories, simulacrum. How's it going,
Welcome to the show? Hello, Hello, good morning. Hello.
I get to do that now because I used to edit the podcast versions of
the show and I hated it because I would always say hi first, and
I hate the sound of my own voice. But now I don't do it
anymore. Noodle does it, so Hello, Hi, Hi. Everybody.
Your voice is fine, peebe, you don't have to worry. I think
everybody hates the sound of their own voice, unless maybe maybe not, maybe
not. No, I love the sound of my voice. That's amazing,
fantastic. I get that too. All right, cool, I'll just go
die in a hole over here. I hate my voice. Your voice is
good too. Shut up. You all have great voices. I could listen
to all of you talk, all this fantastic voices all across the board,
all across the board, all around. I am. I am upset though,
because I went. I got I got my vision tests and everything this
week, and I got some new glasses. But uh, I go to
this place, this local place that's nearby. I used to do a lot
of work with them when I was a graphic designer and uh, we just
have a good relationship. They give me like massive discounts. When I go
there, they take like a huge chunk off. But I have to wait
a long time for the glasses, so I'm bummed that I didn't have them
for today. I'm like, it's like I'm also waiting to go because I
gotta I gotta update my driver's license and I want to like take a new
picture with my new like nice hip glasses and you know, and and actually
not look like a slob. When I go to take the picture my most
recent driver's license photo, my like, my eyes are wide open. I
look like I've just seen some like a ghost or something. It's great.
I love it. Sorry, I didn't mean I mean to be fair.
Peebee, you do make that face like a solid sixty to seventy? Yeah,
do the hand thing? Yeah, all right, now look at the
now, look at them, No, look at those all right? All
right, please don't smile? All right? Great? Wait? What was
that anyway? All right? I guess we're printing it. Do you have
any fact because you should now that I should now and now that I do
the hands, I should just I should just have one and the other flapping
hands you go. Yeah, yeah, you should get one of the movie.
Like the animated emotes. Are you just falling out of your chair?
Yeah? Yeah, that's the best way to I feel like those The best
use of emotes is just have the combo emotes. Those are always my favorites.
Yeah, those are my favorites too. I love the combo emotes.
Hunter had had the triple tongue emoe. Right, that was a great Yeah,
oh man, that was great. Those are some of my favorites.
So did everybody else have a nice week? Yeah? Yeah, I had
a real good one. Yes, no, pbe I did. But I
just am terrified that that you know, you're asking us so that you could
then destroy us in the show. I don't know, Yeah right, I
wouldn't do such a horrible thing, villainous and cruel. No, a GM
of doom. No, not this GM of do same man that took us
through identity crisis and house on a bound him. No, it should be
fine. I mean, it's definitely not Friday the thirteenth today as well.
I knew it. I'm destroy fine, it should be fine. Why don't
we Why don't we go around the room and introduce all our lovely players today.
I'm sorry. Did you disagree with that? No, I said,
oh boy is and I'm so nervous, like oh boy, okay, like
gross now as in Oh a Day. It was just very delayed. Sorry,
okay, it's the Friday, the thirteenth, jitters. It should be
fine. Don't worry. Jay. Hi, No, thank you, Peb.
It's me and you're and I'm here to play now. Yeah, I'm
doing that, Thank you so much. I'm Jay. I'll be playing Jay,
the intuitive Jack who rages and now goes. The only thing that I
have to say is, it's such a shame that Jay in game doesn't know
that you can look up coffee time now on Spotify and see it. It's
just such a shame. Poor Ja won't have I'll have to forget that in
my role play, you know. I'll just have to forget that, unfortunately.
But you don't have to forget it. But you used to go check
it out. Thank you, Jay Man. I listened to the first two
episodes in my car. It was great. Go do it, Go do
it coffee time with Protato, because if you just look up coffee time you
might not be able to find it. It's good it's it's coffee time Protato.
No, no, going to the next person now go oh sorry,
okay, coffee time with Brotato. I'm just so automatic on Spotify. Wow.
Great, I am so excited. I can't wait to be here.
I wish I had something to say that I can promote. H If if
only myth in game knew that you could look up coffee time on Spotify,
I think it would be a it would be a it would be a whole
new ninth world. And uh, I think everyone should go check it out
because I am anyway. My name's myth Thematic. I can't wait to be
playing today we're doing I'm playing myth Thematic, playing are Al Rick Shiloh,
a risk taking right who dances with dark matter. So I'm excited to do
that. Uh. And I think we're probably gonna be dancing with find at
thirteenth today, So thank you very much. Nego orgx Hi, I'm nago
Orx. I am playing nago Orx, playing Una O'Leary. I am a
gregarious jack who speaks with a silver tongue, and I am very scared for
today. WAC has been smiling a lot, and I don't know how to
feel about that. Yeah, I'm I'm I'm very nervous, thank you.
Hi. I just will just leave a little dead silence there for to make
it more ominous. Pocket him pocket and I'm tired. Yep, there you
go. That's I don't have anything. I've been working on a lot of
cosplay lately. I'm in I'm in a crunch mode, so it's crunch play,
crunch play for that and so yeah, that doesn't it. Guys.
I need a plenty of coffee, so maybe I'll go check out Coffee Time
on Spotify. But that's all. That's all I have. You're a little
seams stressed. I'm not much. Wow, Wow, I'm stressed. Oh
it was good. I was topped here. Wow. It was really good,
very impressive. That's why I like you all, because you guys compliment
me on my puns. Now, if you had made that, if you
had made that pun somehow in game, I would have given the XP for
it. But oh, good experience in life. Now I have a new
goal, just the experience to make as many puns as possible. That might
work out for you. My chat loves my puns, thank you very much.
They don't face palm me ever, so I'm gonna do that. We'll
see excellent Pebe, also known as the Mistress of Face pomp. Hello.
Hi, I'm Pumpkinberry and I am playing Pumpkinberry, playing CORALI a mechanical delve
who talks to machines. And if only I knew about coffee time with Protato
on Spotify, I would be so proud, Like Pebe in the game,
would be hunting J down to be like, I'm so proud of you for
doing this. It's so good. Don't hide your screen, Jay, I'm
so proud of you. Yeah, so you should. You should totally check
that out because I wish I could do that in the game. I wish
I knew that it existed. If only, if only I knew, you
could tell us Yeah, we next saw the Hey Jay, your podcast up?
Are we alive? Who cares? You're on Spotify? Matter Spotify?
Oh my god, speaking of podcasts on Spotify, I do actually have a
podcast on Spotify that you could check out. It's called The Deep Dive.
Do that thing? Join both of them? Click follow. That's it.
That's all I got. Thank you, pb Thank you. I'm Wax Stephen
and I will be the administrator for this uh, for this evening. Normally
I am the GM of Doom. Normally I dragged the players kicking and screaming
through adventures. However, here in this in this show, the players do
that to themselves. They do that to themselves via horrible, horrible roles.
But uh, we'll see what happens today. I will say that today is
a it's probably going to be a really big episode. I don't it's hard
to time. I mean, it's hard to time things appropriately. Uh,
when the players are just so good at doing nothing, they're just yeah,
it's called man, you sound like my mind. Thanks, I'm sorry.
I couldn't not. What were you going to say, Peb say it,
say it. I wasn't gonna say anything. You had it, you had
something ready, I saw you. Whatever it was, it was not as
good as the burn Jay just did. So I I submit, Chase is
better. That's fine, that's fine, that won't backfire at all. If
you haven't seen the show before, anything, still your fault. Freaking me
out, Sody, Okay, all right, I gotta call him now.
If you guys haven't seen the show before, you're probably gonna be weirded out.
This is definitely a weird show to catch if you've never seen it before.
It is a it's a strange concept that I came up with quite a
while ago, where the the players are playing themselves trapped in a virtual world,
and uh, they are in New min Era of the Ninth World.
They've been given beta access to these virtual reality rigs called VRT rigs, and
they've been given beta access to this to this world, New min Era,
the Ninth World, the world that is about a billion years in Earth's future.
It is Earth, but it is a very different Earth. The landscape
has changed dramatically, and the damn man for Fox a PB Can I flip?
Do you know if I can flip it? No, it's fine,
it's working here. It's so mind it worked fine, it worked, It
was working okay, Well it's mirrored for me, so I wasn't sure so
anyway before I was so rudely interrupted. The world in general is a very
different place from the Earth that we know. Anything that you can imagine that
might have happened to the Earth in a billion years has probably happened. There
have been times where humanity has left the Earth. There have been times when
alien presence presence. Alien presences have sort of existed here on the Earth,
and there's been times when artificial intelligence has lived here on the Earth, and
it's sort of become a part of the landscape, a DNA in the people's
DNA, like there are there are crazy automatons, and the animal classifications that
we have have sort of been thrown at the wayside. You know, you
will see animals that are part robot and part mammal and part reptile, and
it's all a big mix, and there's not really the same system of classification
that you can go by. There are things that are incredibly strange, things
that do not make sense. And there are nanomachines that exist all across this
world, and there are people that are in touch with those nano machines.
There's an actual type sort of similar to a class in this game, but
still different nanos, and they they can sort of interact with the with the
nanomachines that make their way across the world, and people see that as a
sort of magic. It's their interpretation of magic, seeing nanos interact with these
nanomachines and seeing them create all kinds of wondrous things. The people see as
magic, and the world is littered with devices known as a New min Era,
a combination of technologies that are beyond the people that live here. Imagine
sort of giving an iPhone away to someone in the Middle Ages. It would
serve as a flashlight. It wouldn't really serve as a phone or you know
all the different things and apps that can run on it. It would it
would be a light until the battery ran out, and then it would get
discarded, maybe used as a paperweight of some kind or an impromptu hammer.
It's not going to be used the same way, and that's the way that
a lot of these devices function. They'll get one shot, one use,
and then they're kind of discarded or taking apart and reimagined into other devices by
skilled people. And that's the kind of world that we're living in. If
that sounds interesting to you, then well, hell, we're actually sponsored by
the people that make this game for this game that we're playing here. Monticak
Games are the wonderful creators of Newman Era in the Cipher system. These are
the two core books. Got Destiny and You've Got Discovery, either or both
of which can help you get started with the games that you want to get
running. They are stunningly beautiful books in general, and they have information on
character creation, the different kinds of characters that you can make, loads of
different descriptors and folk i and types which help you create your characters. It's
kind of like three parts of a phrase that help you create your character and
give it its own personality. They have creatures, they've got lore, they've
got information on locations, adventures, all different kinds of stuff in there.
It's a it's just a fantastic bunch of information. And we have a coupon
here for you. If you want to go head on over to the Montica
Game Store you can use the coupon Table Story and give yourself some money off.
We also have some We also have a coupon on our Patreon, and
there is a ridiculously amazing bundle on the Patreon right now that's got like fifty
dollars worth of stuff on there. If you're a three dollars patron and up,
so go check it out. Here's one of my favorite books, this
is The Priests of the Eons. That's part of the bundle in PDF format
on the in the in the bundle there, go check it out, I
don't, I like, I don't know who was responsible for reaching out and
finding all the artists that you guys work with at Monte Cook. But the
artwork is always phenomenal, it's amazing, it's so ridiculously good. But go
check out all that stuff otherwise, uh, chat, it's their last day
for the shores, right for their career. Yes, thank you Liminal Shores.
If you were curious about the nanos that I was mentioning earlier, the
nano machines and the thing called the data sphere, which is what the nanos
can sort of tap into to uh get their communicate with the nanotechnology across the
world. The Liminal Shores kickstarter that we've got in our chat right there,
the Monte Cook is running is all about that. It explains why and how
that exists, and you need to, uh you need to go check it
out. Head on over and and check out the kickstart, go support.
There's only two hours left, under two hours left? Is there? Is
it a spoiler to ask if that's sort of what the what you're doing with
the chat being able to see us, it's probably a spoiler. I probably
shouldn't ask that, uh, because I think more Wise, wouldn't that explain
how we're able to how they're able to see and we're able to talk to
that world or the outside world. I'm gonna say no, Okay, I'm
going to say no learning right as long a tonight she is that sound earlier
sounded like my It sounded like booboo when she goes to watch the birds in
the morning. That but is everybody ready to hop into the game chat again?
If you are new to the show, if you've never seen the show
before. Chat will also be rpeing the uh the people that are here on
the show there, they're simulacrum. They're sort of avatars that are moving throughout
this world, are visible on Twitch. They still have Twitch dreams that are
going and Chat is sort of role playing from the perspective of watching their their
Twitch dreams. So they've seen everything. Uh it was described what was described
to you was that they've seen what was going on. I'm gonna vomit,
so Sam, we will uh pop back into things chat. You can get
ready to uh role play here by chat. I love you players. Uh.
We're gonna start with Pumpkinberry today, have fun later. So players,
if you can Okay, your headsets and close chat bye, pe me good
luck you think you thank you? Okay. So when we last left off
with Pumpkinberry, uh PB. Yes, you had just left the ship where
you had a pretty horrible experience in general with the person known as Fang who
had kidnapped you and had threatened your life. Yeah, you had. You
had done everything that he had kind of asked of you, and it didn't
look like it was going to work out. Well, you took things into
your own hands and you stabbed him when he was asleep in his neck,
okay, killing him. The ship still had a day worth of travel that
you had sort of stayed awake through. You powered through, kind of guarded
the door, and you snuck off of the ship in uh probably anticipation of
them finding Fang, and well you uh getting in trouble for that, I'm
assuming made your way off in the city of Bridges and you were heading to
the area known as high Port. One of the fish vendors in town had
sort of pointed it out towards you and again just to just to reminisce a
little bit here. The city, as you can guess by the name,
is made up of bridges and sort of a lot of buildings sort of stacked
up on top of each other. It's very large. There's a lot of
small shacks and houses and things that are all kind of built up on top
of each other. There's a lot of salt damage, you know, from
the from the ocean and such. From the map, it looks very like
it might be covered in rust, and everything's made of iron and things like
that. It's very cool. There's also a lot of places that aren't rust
damage, metals and things that you've never seen before. Maybe they should have
they should be covered in rust, but they're just not. And uh,
it's it's fairly busy, and it's it's right before night. It's probably right
about dusk at the moment. And I really wish that these sounds would be
playing, but they're just not working right now. Let's try and reload World
twenty see if that fixes it, because I have some great Harbor sounds that
I uploaded and they're just not working. I hear them, I don't and
the stream doesn't. And uh, no offense, but I want to.
I just was trying to help you troubleshoot. Okay, Okay, there we
go. Harbor sounds are playing, so uh, you make your way towards
the area known as high Port, which is a little bit more built up
than a lot of the rest of these places. You Uh, you can
see there's a bunch of docks that are sort of down. You kind of
have to climb some stairs to make your way up into this area, and
you can hear there's a few people that are just trying to sell the last
bit of their wares before it goes before it goes dark, there's lights that
are starting to get illuminated, you know, kind of like street lights.
As soon as dusk starts to happen, they sort of kick on in various
places around the town. And you were, I believe, looking for some
kind of in this fish vendor sort of Yeah, I had. I had
asked him and he had pointed the way, and so that's I kind of
went to the inn and yeah, I probably would have just I don't know
if I would have slept right away, I would have does food come included?
I don't have to rp this part out if you don't want, like,
I'm happy to uh curious, Uh, the the it probably would have
cost we can say three shins, okay, and they maybe would have given
you like a meal and that would be for the night, okay, okay,
So then I definitely would have very nervously like counted out my shin and
had them help, you know, kind of like make sure that I was
doing it right, or and then I would have I would have eaten because
I'm starving. I would have bathed because I'm filthy and I smell terrible,
and then I probably would have just wept on the bed for a while,
and then I probably would have fallen asleep eventually, Okay, wake up with
a headache. Do you think he can fall asleep? It's tricky. I
do have a past history with insomnia, and sometimes the weirdest thing will keep
me awake. But I imagine I was actually crying pretty hard, so I
do think I probably would have fallen asleep. But I probably wasn't paying attention
enough to drink a glass of water before I went to bed, so I
probably wake up with a headache. And yeah, I probably was able to
sleep, considering I spent like two days not sleeping because of the high pressure.
And now that that high pressure situation is over and I'm in the inn,
i'd be thinking about. You know, I feel like I know the
logical thing to do in that situation. You know, he'd stabbed me,
he threatened to kill an entire ships worth of people. He was going to
sell me into slavery in an unknown world. I feel like, logically that
was definitely the right thing to do do. I think I could have gotten
out of there not taking advantage of the fact that he was sleeping. Probably
not. I don't think I can. You know, I'm smaller than him,
I can't best him. That was my best option out of there.
This is an MMO. I it's a game, but what if it isn't?
And that's probably what's keeping me up and upsetting me so much, is
that if I am stuck here and we do feel the consequences of our action
here, then I I potentially killed a like, you know, thirteen year
old kid, which I find incredibly upsetting. But I think what I find
more upsetting is that part of me probably was like, but you don't know
if that's actually the case, and the odds are that this is still just
a game and he got logged out after. But what haunts me is I
didn't actually know for sure and I still did it. I still took the
risk, and that's what's fucking me up. I think, Yeah, your
room in general is pretty small. I think it's a little reminiscent of the
room that you actually had aboard the ship. Oh A lot, A lot
of the construction around here is kind of similar, similar to like materials,
some metals and things, and it has that sort of jewels varnish kind of
vibe to it that's sort of ten thousand leagues under the sea kind of look,
I think, with a sort of brass colored metals, and that's almost
steampunky kind of aesthetic. And there's you know, there's a there's a window
like out out and outside, you know, sort of and you can you
can see it's it's gotten dark probably before you can even really think about it.
How much shin do you have left? I had twenty five, so
the room was three Okay, so not a lot. Okay, I'm assuming
literally everything costs more than what I have. And this was mostly his money,
right, I don't know what I rubbed from him, actually, So
I didn't roll for that or anything. You found that you found that device
on him, that name and era, you tried to sort of understand it.
Do you take any more cracks at that before you go to sleep?
Not before I go to sleep, now, probably in the morning when I'm
feeling a little bit more refreshed. But to be honest with you, it's
you know, I know how I am after a very stressful, fright night
when I'm playing a scary game, and afterwards I just need to shut down
and then I and then I usually sleep like the dead, So that's probably
exactly what happened. I spent two days stewing in my own sweat and vomit
and blood, in the smell of a decaying body for two days. I
think I would eat, I would bathe, and then I would just cry
and sleep, and then in the morning I would probably wake up and go
my friends don't know where the fuck I am. I am lost, I
am alone, and I don't know what I'm gonna do. And then I
would probably play with the device because I have no idea what I'm going to
do at this point. Okay, you go to sleep. There's a sort
of sound of harbor that wakes you up. It doesn't even feel like you
slept. It's one of those nights where it's just the sleep happens, and
then you like wake up. It feels like you just woke up right away.
Okay, there's a large sort of like foghorn kind of noise out from
the harbor and lights pouring in. I sit up, I look around the
room. I remind myself that I'm oh, yeah, that's right. I'm
trapped in a fucking video game. There's probably a small amount of hope that
I'll wake up with a VR headset on in my chair, and every day
that we wake up and that doesn't happen, I just probably get a little
more depressed about it. And then I would sit there thinking about how I
was taken by this fang person and how we traveled across the sea for days,
and my friends probably have no idea where I am, and I am
alone, and I don't know how to get out of this game, and
I don't know what to do accept slowly starve to death because I don't have
a lot of money to get food every day, and I don't even know
how I would earn money to make food so or get buy food. Just
like all this stuff, I would just be thinking about what I would have
to do to just survive here, I guess, and yeah, then I
would probably pull out the device and give it a shot and see if it's
see if I can get it working, and if I can't get it working,
then maybe I can sell it. I don't know. It looks pretty
complicated, so maybe it's worth something. I don't know. Okay, your
recovery sort of resets back to normal and Cora Ali, you are trying to
understand the piece of new Minerra that you have. Is this correct? Yeah?
I mean what does it look like? Nol. I'm literally moving it
around and hoping lightning strikes. Please try to understand a new Manerra using your
intellect. The difficulty is six. I'll use some effort as well. You
have rolled a natural twenty. Not only do you understand that this is a
communication device, but you understand how it works and you're positive you can reach
out to the rest of the group. Yes, absolutely, I will do
that if I understand this device instantly and how it works. Are there consequences
for reaching out to my group? Is it going to put them in danger?
I think your understanding of the new min Era would tell you that the
way that this works is that you picture the person that you want to speak
to and a the nanomachines in the world will pick up on the signal that
you send out from this sort of spherical device that has almost like one of
those mountain climbing grips on the back, which you figure out you kind of
have to like squeeze and pull to make the to make the device kind of
like start the connection, and you basically like just push the push the piece
back in and it'll stop. And does it work infinitely? Like I can
continuously use it? No? You can communicate with that device for up to
five minutes maybe, yeah, but with one target. And then when that's
done, can I do a different target or only the one target? You
can switch targets for as long as the devices were, which is five minutes?
Okay? No? Does does a major effect happen here as well?
If I turn this on? Can I save that? Or does it have
to happen now? Can I bank that for when I use the device?
I think? I think null possibly responds shortly after. This device is a
cipher. You unfortunately will only get one use out of this device. However,
as a major effect, the time that you would normally get out of
this device being five minutes will be extended to ten minutes, and I have
to use the ten minutes all at once. Correct, I turn it on.
We switched scenes. Take off your headset. Let's get the other players
back. Hello. Okay, so you guys, you were all kind of
getting ready for bed. You had set up a you had set up like
a watch for the night. And who was on the watch again? I
believe I believe that Ulrich was sort of ready to pass out right. It
was taken last. I know, I think I was first, so then
I was I guess I would take a second. Yeah, okay, okay,
you were your friends. Coda and her two children, uh Sam and
Donnie were obviously very upset at what had happened the previous night, just like
all of you, and they were I don't know if they were able to
try and sleep. I know that they definitely tried to huddle up by the
fire, and I don't know how how Coda is sort of reacting beyond the
fact that she's trying to protect her children. I think she's generally probably pretty
wound up, and I don't know if she'd actually be able to sleep,
even though they're probably very tired. So I'm sorry. First watch was techno.
Yeah, okay, techno. Please make a perception check based on your
intellect difficulty to Okay, you have rolled a nine. Your watch goes by
without really any problems. The planes in general are just not really very active
tonight. There's a little bit of wind, beyond beyond that, it's really
not a lot going on the Are you stoking the fires? Yeah? Okay,
so yeah, I think uh, I think you can probably see that
the Dannie and Sem have sort of passed out with Coda after a few hours.
They just kind of collapsed in a heap by the fire. You're all
kind of like leaning on each other. Just absolute exhaustion from them knock them
out. And uh, as far as the rest of the group goes,
you all some of you have like sleeping bags or like a like tense I
don't think really all of you do, but I know that you're all probably
trying to sleep on the ground. It's a it's not the most comfortable sleep
ever. You know, there is a lot of grass, but there's a
lot of sort of rocky parts. It's hard to find like a nice wide
area that's just soft and comfortable. Are you walking around are you like patrolling
technome? How are you doing this or you're sitting I would say, like,
just like in the fire area, I'm not going to go into the
darkness at all, okay, m m. Yeah, so it's uneventful,
it doesn't nothing really seems to happen. Does that make you feel worse or
better? Uh? I think I'm happy as long as nothing happens while it's
on my watch, since I'm not necessarily a brawler by any means, so
I wouldn't say I feel worse. I think by the end of my shift,
I kind of feel relief that nothing happens so far. Okay, I
mean after what had happened taking this watch, how did that like make you
feel? You volunteered for it, so I'm assuming you knew what you were
doing, But was there like a lot of terror involved in that decision?
I mean there'd be anxiety. I'd be anxious about it, like, you
know, this isn't something I necessarily like, I don't want. I think
it'd be one of those like I would start to get tired towards the end,
I'd be anxious and like even the slightest mo I'd be like, what
was that like, oh, I'm ready. What was that like? Just
like on guard, I'd say I'd be guarded. I wouldn't be like terrified
or anything, not particularly in this instance, because I'd have people with me.
So that always makes me feel a little more comfortable, even if it's
false security. So okay, well, the the time goes fairly slowly,
but it is uneventful. A few hours pass, and uh, you're ready
for the next shift. I go up and I I go up and I
I I lean down and I like shake Jay's shoulder. I got wake up.
It's your turn your watch. No you're not. I'm really good.
Okay, sure, Yeah, anything happened, No, nothing, I kept
the fires going. I didn't. I didn't see anything. There's some like
maybe some animals and distance. That's it. So what kind of animals anything
to worry about. I don't know. I couldn't see them. I didn't
go out there and check. If you want to go out there in check,
you can which direction? Nope, I don't go out there. That
was I want to go, but like which direction? And I just kind
of point around like all of the directions. It's like there's animals everywhere.
Man oh man, Yeah, go to bed. I'll go over. I'll
start to stoke in the fires, but I'll check on everyone first. I
just want to take a take a look, see, make sure everybody's doing
Okay, how the rest of you think you're sleeping? I am curled up
into a ball in the fetal position, kind of hugging my own knees to
my chest and trying to to lay my head at an angle like that,
just trying to make myself as small as possible. Okay, what about you,
Alric? I think Alric's probably laying down, face down and like a
log like, probably snoring. Actually yeah, it can't be snoring, but
yeah, he's probably starts coughing because there's dirt just inhaling into his into his
mouth, and I roll over and then I start snoring. He's out like
a light. He spent the last night awake. It was probably hard to
fall asleep, but once I was able to, I couldn't really turn my
mind off willingly. I had to just give into exhaustion. You know you
ever had that where it's like you are so tired, but you can't sleep
because your mind's racing about something. It's kind of what how he is starting
to how he would fall asleep, and then I guess just maybe a breath
or so, and then finally just gives in and passes right out. Okay,
Yeah, so I'd check on them and then go stoke the fire,
check on the fire, and just kind of sit down and start to survey
the surroundings. Okay, Jacomerson, please make a perception check based on intellect
difficulty too. Yeah, okay, now to you have rolled a sixteen,
Holly, I did, so your shift goes well. Again, there does
not seem to be any craziness that happens. There's there's definitely like a few
weird animal sounds that you hear kind of like off in the distance that probably
like creep you out a little bit. That's just you know, you're probably
used to the sound of like crickets or cicadas or something like at night,
and there's different noises here, you know. I feel like that's one of
the things that would get me, you know, just sleeping somewhere else and
then there's different noises at night that's like a that's a trigger probably for me.
I live in the city too, so I'm just used to fire trucks
and sirens, that's that's it. If there's silence and it's weird. I've
lived kind of in a lot of different places personally, so I've wherever I
am all adapt to it. But it's just kind of like a you know,
if you live in the suburbs around in the woods or something, and
you're used to the sound of like some crickets and whatnot, and and then
you just hear this like strange bird robot creatures the distance. Alien noises are
probably the scariest. Frog cows too many. But otherwise several hours pass and
there doesn't seem to be anything that happens. Everyone's sort of sleeping soundly.
Can I do something on my watch real quick? What would you like to
do? I would like to pull out Footchchat once again. Just start to
fiddle around with the tablet, kind of flip it around, see if there's
any buttons, Try and understand whatever this is. Jag Emerson, please make
an intellect based check in regards to understanding new min Era. The difficulty level
is six. Yeah, Okay, you have rolled a fourteen with one effort.
Unfortunately that is not enough. Still not quite sure how this thing works.
Ok, it's gotta be away. Yeah, and uh, I let
the hours go by then and wake up whoever's next, who is next?
Who know? I would wake her up, just come and uh just crawled
up into a little ball. Yeah, I'd grab the boot like, I'd
just like kind of poke your boot, like next, what I got?
What it's time for? Watch? You you good for it? Yeah?
Yeah, all right? Pocket Technom said, there's some like animals around.
I don't know, nothing crazy, but do nothing weird nothing so far.
Okay, yeah, go go get some more sleep. Yeah. Yeah,
And I'm just going to check and make sure that the fires are still going
and hope that they are, because I have no idea how to get them
going again if they die out and start at night. Yeah, it would
be tough at any time of day for me. I don't know what I'm
doing. I have no survival skills, and I'm going to start doing as
quiet as possible, kind of like some small little laps around the area that
we're in. But I don't want to step outside the farthest reach of the
light from the campfire. Okay, how do you feel being on watch at
night here? After what happened? I'm absolutely terrified. I feel like every
horror movie I ever saw before getting stuck in this game is replaying in my
mind. I feel like anytime I'm not seeing a friend directly in front of
me, like when I walk away and turn my back on them, I'm
immediately like having these vivid visions of them getting pulled off into the darkness and
hearing them scream. And I am making my anxiety so much worse by thinking
about it over and over and picturing all of the ways that something bad could
happen on my watch. Okay, do you blame yourself for what happened to
Katie? Absolutely? I feel like I reacted as quickly as I could,
and I should have taken the time to pay attention to where I heard her
shouting instead of just being tired and going on instinct and running in the completely
wrong direction. And I am absolutely terrified that something's going to happen to someone
else, and that the exact same thing's going to happen, and I'm not
going to react fast enough or I'm going to do something wrong and I won't
be able to help. Did you how far away are you moving from the
fire? Just in general, not very far at all, Because I'm super
afraid of being caught in the dark here. Essentially, I really don't want
to go that far. I just want to be a couple paces away.
That way I can hopefully hear a little better of if there's anything moving out
around us. Okay, Luna O'Leary, please make a perception check based on
intellect difficulty to you have rolled in eleven. So as you're sort of doing
your your laps around the fire and whatnot, there's probably like a few little
sounds that startle you. Maybe sem or Donny moves or something, and one
of the other ones get like uncomfortable and they make those sort of like sleepy
groaning noises, And would that startle you. Oh yeah, I'm a really
jumpy person and loud noises or sudden movement freak me out as is, So
it would be ratcheted up like ten times. Is that why you ran?
So yeah, there'd just be like little like m kind of noises that maybe
freak you out a little bit. And there's the strange sort of animal sounds
that happen at night as well. But as we get closer to the end
of your watch, you can see that the that dawn is approaching it's starting
to get a little bit lighter out. Do you feel safer in the daytime
here? I feel a lot safer in the daytime. The nighttime really freaks
me out, especially so soon after what happened to Katie having happened when it
was dark. Okay, as we're sort of like approaching dawn, the the
campfires are starting to die out unless you're constantly like stoking them. There's probably
just not enough fuel there in general, but they're starting to die out.
If you, if anybody here has a fireplace, it takes a shit ton
of wood to like keep the thing going like all the time. Just you
know, you need like one of those Dura flame logs or whatever to make
could like last for a ridiculous amount of time, but it does. It
takes a lot of fuel, So they'd they'd be dying out probably halfway through
your your shift or so, and dawn is approaching. You make it through
your shift and everything seems okay. You weren't really interrupted by anything at night,
just kind of your own thoughts, which can be their own monster to
deal with. Dawn hits everybody probably right in the face. I don't know
about the rest of you. But I can sleep as long as no light
is smashing me in the face here in the middle of this field. Wam.
It's uh, it just blinds you know. It hits you right and
square in the face. As soon as dawn starts to pop up over the
horizon, I'd be up. Oh, I am like the worst kind of
person to try and wake up. I am like like waking up a sleeping
giant, Like I am just a giant grouch, and I'm one of those
that I'll just take like a piece of my clothing and just pull it over
my face and then I'm good to go. I can keep sleeping for ef
I can keep sleeping forever. It doesn't matter. I can sleep anywhere,
and I can sleep forever once I'm asleep. So it's bad. So Jay
wakes up, I'd be up. I'd be waking as well. I'd probably
do the same. I'd probably grown and be sluggish for a bit. But
I think I think my brain would wake up a bit and I'd remember where
and what is going on, because I feel like that's what would happen to
me. I'd probably be like, yeah, oh, never mind, all
right, I know what's going on, and I'd wake up and I'd be
alert and ready try to make some breakfast or something, or or at least
maybe go ask Coda if that breakfast is available. Okay, Coda would probably
wake up about the same time as you, as soon as the sunlight came
up. She probably would have woke up a bit with the start, and
the kids probably would have still been sleepy and just kind of slumped over like
like Technome right, and uh yeah, the three of you are up and
you see Technomes just kind of passed out, maybe using her wings to block
the light. Coda. Coda says, good morning, good morning for Yeah.
Yeah, we should get moving soon. I have a little food to
share there, but we don't have much. We're getting close to our home
now. Good good. We can be no longer a burden of yours.
After that, Thank you for everything. Yeah, she's kind of she's like
politely nodding her head. Thank you for keeping us alive. I don't think
that we would have survived otherwise. Likewise, you provided it the wood.
I wouldn't have kept the shadows off without the wood, probably also would have
starved. So yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you, thank you.
I'm gonna go over to technom and just kind of start lightly poking her a
little bit, just like no, it's not no, just just just let
me sleep a little just a little bit longer, okay, just okay,
just keep talking. Just let me sleep a little bit longer. Okay.
We have to leave in a minute, though, just as that want one
minute, a five, five more minutes maybe, yeah, five more minutes,
five minutes, but then you have to if I give you five,
you have to get up in five okay, yes, okay, okay,
just roll over it. I'm gonna look at the guys and be like,
just five, just five, yeah, put it with my alarm clock.
That's is there stuff that we need to help them load up before we head
out? Have have we unpacked a lot or not? Really? Not really,
I mean they probably have this. They probably took the satchels to be
to be fair, they probably did take the satchels off of the onion.
They wouldn't they wouldn't have left those on during the night like constant. Yeah.
Yeah, so they would have like the satchels of wooden things. So
there is a fair amount of wood that's strapped on and it's heavy. I'm
just gonna take a couple of minutes to help them start getting things situated again
and kind of getting our stuff together. Thanks relieving in a bit, I'll
be right over. I'm just gonna pack my stuff. I'm gonna pack all
my like a bedroll and all that and everything, put it back into my
big old explorer's bag, and then help them pull everything up. I guess
I'm unpacked. Are you guys good? Yeah? Uh? Do you want
to wake pock it up? Or should I? I like, I'm awake,
I'm awake. I'm awake. Well I and I sit up. I'm
like, I'm up, Okay, I'm awake. I feel you. Jay,
There's something strange that starts to happen in front of you technome. As
you start to like wake up, as you start to like grumpily wake up
and rub the sleep from your eyes, you would notice that the nanites that
are around Jay have started to move, and it looks like they're sort of
coalescing into some kind of strange Did your fart? You got some weird stuff
all around here? Right now? Did you? Are you pat? That's
gross? Man? What is this? What did you do? This?
Is you right? No? I didn't do any what No, I thought
it was all you man like, I don't know, you see magical farts
going on or something. I don't know. Day so you start to hear
Peebee's voice and you start to see her face. Oh goodness, show up?
What the fuck you're in the wind? I guess this is working.
You're okay? Happened? Can you guys hear peep? Can? Yeah?
Listen? I don't have a lot of time. I'm I'm in the city
of Bridges and I'm in I'm in like a hotel. What the fuck?
Okay? Hotel? What hotel? What hotel? It's like an inn,
right, I honestly I can't remember the name. But if you just get
here to the town, I will wait for you here what you're still at
the town? I am I I just got here. Oh we're like half
way the fuck there, City of Bridges. Okay, well I can Bridges
Hotel? Somebody remember this? Okay? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we're
gonna wait. What happened to be fine? We'll be fine. Who's with
you? No one? Are you safe? Okay? Good? I think
so. What happened to you? It was terrible? Actually, but I'm
okay, now what do you mean? No? No, no, what
do you mean? What do you mean we can talk when we get there.
We just the details of where she's at. I don't have a lot
of time. I don't have a lot of time in the City of Bridges.
Yeah, I meant I'm at the inn. What was the inn called
wax Sorry, it would be called the high Port in It's the high Port
in port in port In. I'm like writing this down, like on on
it, like in the dirt of aside I poured in City of Bridges.
Okay, we'll we'll double time and then we'll we'll make sure we get there.
Just stay there, anything stupid and be safe. Oh can I do?
Oh? Oh? Oh? Can I use my cipher? I had
plant on her while she's like, while we have connection to her, What
does your telepathic implant do? You A good question? I guess it sounds
like it would work. Oh I have to inject it in someone. That
sounds lude. Sorry I'm mature. Okay, never mind. I have to
inject it into her and I can't hang it. I was hoping it would
just like who is there? Is there anything we can do for you?
Peeb Just get here fast? Okay? Have you heard from twitch? Chat
what No, Okay, why I don't know? Hipport high Port, high
Port in Yeah. Honestly, it's the first one I have to go because
I want to try something else here with this cipher. She wants to try
soay, because it's like a collect call. You're making like a collect card
of I only have so much time. If you are like the king of
not appropriate questions for some really important questions. They are really important questions,
and I'll call you back if I have any time left. Okay, Okay,
but awesome, You're awesome. Keep being awesome and we'll see Okay,
be safe, I love you too, Okay, all right, Okay,
we're going to switch to PB oh oh game ship. Hello anxiety my old
friend? Okay, PB Yes, who do you think of? Uh?
So? Before I called them, I one hundred would have tried to use
the device on my husband because the way that the device supposedly works is I
can just think about the person and then try to contact them. So that's
who I would try to contact first. I'm assuming that didn't work. You
can't remember what he looks like? Well, that call would have gone very
differently then. HM. Then I would like to try something else. Oh
my god, I would waste I would waste minutes. I would waste some
minutes. I'm gonna be really honest, I would waste some of those ten
minutes. Kay, I want to try to think of I'm thinking of the
fucking creator of this fucking game. Yeah, m hmm. When you think
of them, what do they look like? Who are they? Uh?
What was the studio name? Like? Do we even know? Or do
you want me to just make it up? You can make it up.
I would have assumed that Monty Cook would have worked with them, okay,
to do this, but there was probably a studio that actually made this this
game, Okay? Do I understand the way the cipher works is that I
have to visualize what they look like. Okay, this is so fucked up
and weird. But I know what Monty looks like. But I don't know
what any of the other you know, creators or anything look like that other
than Darcy. So I would actually probably try to reach out to Darcy.
That's super meta and weird. But I know what she looks like and I
know her and I've spoken to her, and I can visualize that. And
if that's how this works, then That's who I would try to reach out
to if I can remember what she looks like. You can't. That cipher
would just go to waste. I can't remember who anybody looks like. I
can't remember do I remember you? Do I remember Brad? Do I remember
anybody that knows me and my you know, husband's phone number in real life?
Like? Do I remember anyone? Do I remember Miranda? You remember
less of them, but I still remember them a little like what they look
like? No, okay, you can remember what the creator looks like?
Okay, what does the creator look like? I think that the they did
like a joint press conference with Monty Cook to announce this game. In general,
you probably remembered Darcy being there. And this is all kind of triggering
you all at once. Oh yeah, because I would have had to have
called Jay first. There's no way I would have been composed after. It's
not really what I would have tried to do first. But whatever. Okay,
when you when you think of this person, they still are recognizable in
your thoughts, just like Jay Jay Gimerson. Do I even remember his real
last name too much? Probably? Not? Okay, Okay, you can
remember tidbits here and there. Okay, And when you think of this person,
you remember them from this sort of joint press conference. I think they
were. They were just a like a I think, just an ordinary looking
woman, you know, nothing sort of uh stands out. Yeah. And
her name was Melissa Cale. She had sort of brown, curly hair.
She was tall and probably fairly thin, sort of uh, one of those
people that nothing really kind of jumps out at you from there there, the
way that they interacted the crowd and whatnot. It's one of those developers that
you would see, like at a game conference that you're like, oh,
why can't they be more like uh, Todd from what's what you might call
it Bethesda, right, you know, have that super charismatic personality. She
was probably like low key, but everyone was still really hyped about the game,
and she was kind of like soft spoken. Yeah. I try to
I imagine Melissa then, and I try to reach out to her. Okay.
It takes a second, but it works much the same way, oh
my god, that it did with Jay. Oh my god. You see
a different face pop up into your head. You see what is quite clearly
a simulacrum, a sort of I think an obvious nano someone that has these
sort of glowing like orbs sort of flowing about them. They're kind of different
colors, kind of like a like a blue green and a red orb that
are sort of floating around behind her. The face is different, the eyes
are different. You just kind of are able to recognize this person. They're
simular crum kind of right away, and you kind of just you kind of
just hear, like, hello, Melissa Kal Who is this? Ah?
Do I remember my name? Oh? My god, Okay, I'm I'll
tell her my name. I'm obviously not gonna say it live on stream,
but I would tell her my fucking name, and then I would say,
I'm I'm Twitch streamer. My handle's Pumpkinberry. I'm the user CORALI in your
game and I can't log out. Me and my friends can't log out.
I'm contacting you from within the game using a cipher. Can you please tell
us how to get out and what's going on? I can't get out either,
Oh my god, where are you? I'm sorry. I'm not going
to tell you that I don't know who you are, and there have already
been a few attempts on my life. Well, look, I don't want
to make an attempt on your life. But you're our best chance of getting
out of this game. If anybody's going to get out of here, you're
going to get out of here. I don't want to kill you. I
want to party up with you. I can't know that. Okay, Well,
you can't do this alone. Do you remember anybody? I can't remember
my husband's face, and I'm here by myself, either, can I.
I don't know what's happening. Okay, Well, the only thing I want
is to get out of here. I made this place to be somewhere that
everyone could get away. I don't understand what's happening. I can't remember my
husband either. I don't know what's happening. I'm sorry, it's okay,
it's not it's okay. But we're all in this together, and we have
a better chance of surviving this if we actually work together. You know this
place better than anyone, and we can barely get information from null. Please
help us. Please make a persuasion check based on intellect difficulty for you have
rolled seventeen right. I thought one of the safest places to be. I
thought one of the safest places to be would be in one of the major
cities. Do you know where Navarene is? Do I please make an intellect
check in regards to geography. The difficulty level is three h So do I
use my navigation serendipitous landmark. I'm not sure if I can use these things.
I don't think I can use serendipitus landmark. That's more of an inch
Usian community navigation. Okay, okay, thank you. Uh and this is
witchpool your intellect. The difficulty is for please roll from your navigation skill,
please please, please please? You have rolled in eighteen? Yeah you know
where Navreen is? That was on the starting screen when you were making the
map. Okay, the capital city of Navarreen is pretty far from you.
It was pretty close to where we started, though not really. I mean
it's closer than where we are now. That's for fucking sure. You went
the wrong direction. Yeah, okay, okay, yeah, I I I
sort of can remember that from the starting screen map. I'm in Charmond,
Charmond, Okay, I can I can remember that the capital city of navarreene
Okay, this this cipher is only going to last for a couple more minutes.
My my party is uh Jay Gamerson. Uh Oh fuck, technome.
I'm trying to remember their user names, and I really think I would actually
struggle with it versus their real names Una O'Leary, Oh jeez. And there's
one other and I can't remember what his user name is ooh something or listen,
be careful when you travel. Traveling is one of the most dangerous things
in New Minera. Okay, what else do I need to know? There's
so much I can There's only so much I can tell you in a few
in a few moments. How long does it last? Ten minutes? I've
used about six I've tried every single back door that was programmed into the game
to get anywhere. None of my GM functions are working, working, nothing
is working. Yeah, we couldn't get to the menu either. I guess
we should just stay safe and wait it out. I guess we'll try to
make our way to yait what out? I don't know. Someone's got to
be working on something, right, Okay, I can't just stay in here
and slowly forget everything. There's my worst nightmare. I'm so sorry. I'm
so sorry. Just stay safe. Will you see her fade out trying to
make it to you? Oh my god, I just collapse and cry and
you have to switch scenes because I can't keep going. All right, we're
gonna switch scenes. Okay, So we, uh, you guys kind of
lose the connection with Pebe after she says all this stuff. What do you
do? What the fuck was that? I I don't I don't know.
She said it was a cipher, so I guess it's yeah. That could
be the only time we see her. Does she look weird? Do you
guys? Or does she look okay? I don't know if I well,
I don't know. She looked sounds okay, I don't know. I don't
know. I don't know. She said she had a pretty terrible time,
so I don't She's okay though, and so we just gotta get going.
We gotta get there. We're taking too long. We gotta do there.
Yeah, she's there. She's there. And if some if something had been
threatening her, if something was following her, like if there was a reason
why she would be leaving soon, she would have told us. So at
least we know she's not like in immediate danger that she's aware of, but
we should still probably try and get there as fast as possible, and we
know where to meet yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, do we ditch
the frog cow things segabaut a coda, And then I guess we could travel
with them, but didn't they say that we were almost at their house right
till their house? Yeah, and then we go okay, okay. I
don't know what to do after that, but yeah, find some fucking gallon,
strap ourselves to them. Yeah, point them west. I don't know
we should get there in like a day, though, we should try to.
Yeah, we'd have to run. I don't know. I just yeah,
uh are you are you guys ready to leave? Yes? We are
ready. All right, let's let's head out. Yeah, we should go
all right, start to head out. And that's a good place for us
to take a break. He had us, and then he let us go.
I was so ready. I was like, let's do it, let's
go. We have three more days. We're terrified. Let's do it.
Clear the chat, clear the chat. I'm coming in the chat. Yeah,
Peebe. I don't know she's ready to come back yet, but she
can. She can come back if she wants. Okay, and uh yeah,
hi Pepe, oh, I've got you needed sorry let me. Yeah.
It's a hell of an episode, so far guys, and uh,
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group. Here let's hop back into things. So warning has come and off
you go. The group is going to head out. Are you trying to
do anything before you head out? No, I'm good. I just want
to I think we're all fucking off as fast as we can. Yeah,
alrighty, So off you go and the trip with Coda, Sim and Donnie
lasts for a few more hours. Nothing sort of strange happens along the way
here as you begin to reach this area past the scarred monoliths, that is,
there's just a like some streams and things that kind of intersect, and
you can see that there's like a house that's been built, uh near the
streams, kind of partly in in some rock. And uh there's like a
couple of foothills around here, and it's a very modest looking sort of place.
But Coda, Sem and Donny would have sort of like signaled to you
and said, that is our home right up ahead. It's beautiful. Yeah,
wow, it's it's probably a combination of stone and thatch. It's it's
it's a it's a weird thing because the the house is partly like in the
rock. It's it doesn't look like it's been carved it kind of looked like
it like almost like it's been built into the rock and it juts out a
bit. It's there's a bit of a foothill, so it's it's kind of
like an incline. It's not really like a Hobbit home, but it's kind
of close. There's a rough shot chimney that's that's a sort of on an
angle that's coming out of the of the ceiling and part of the thatch,
and you can see there's like like a pen for some gallon and some money
in and just kind of like a few like like a like a garden that's
around the home, just kind of like fenced in with some some wooden planks
and whatnot. All around the end, there's a there's a just like a
metal, uh sort of wire that's kind of keeping the fence together that's running
along, and there's like a like a a wooden sort of door with a
latch on it. How many gallon are there? Seven? Okay, I
guess we would dismount whenever Coda kind of announces for us too, but I
would call for everyone to kind of come to me whenever we do dismount.
Whenever we do sure and if we If we do, then I would huddle
everyone in and go, we can. We can. We should ask for
this gallon we can ride? Do you think we should? I mean,
the last time we tried to ask for help with transportation, we all failed
miserably, back to back to back. Should I just use lucky break or
something and see if we can? No? No, I have an idea.
Okay, when we played and I mean and I mean we as in
like whack and eye in like when we did newmon Era in our Patreon one
shots, there was something called like a shin obligation. It was like the
utmost like the most important thing ever. It's like a responsibility, like a
promise. So like maybe if we make them a promise, or or if
we if we promise them that we'll bring them back, then they might give
this them to us. Or if we offer them a shin obligation on behalf
of the heroes of Kford, maybe they might take that. But I mean
it's a stretch. It could save us like two days, right, yeah,
I mean, taking ten minutes to save two days seems like a good
idea to me. What do you guys think? Yeah, I don't know.
Mith knows more about this system than I do. Though, No,
I think that it's a great idea. You're good with words. I'm pointing
at math like I don't. You're really good at persuading people to do what
you want them to do in a good way, not in like a manipulative
way, but like a really good way, like you appeal to everyone's better
nature. Good safe. All right, I'll uh if you want, I
could try. But yeah, dude, you stop a dragon if you've got
the lucky break, right, can you? Is that a thing I can
lucky break? We both do. Yeah, maybe combine the powers of our
luckiness if you stumble or something. But I feel like raw or is lucky.
What does lucky break? Do? You just get like a it's something
something unexpected happens to your advantage essentially. So yeah, it's not expressly stated
how far that reaches. But I feel like this isn't a crazy ask.
We're not asking to discover, like a a different means of transportation or anything,
you know. Yeah, just can we use your gallon? We will
turn them on a shin obligation, and if they want money, I have
twenty four shins. There you go, And if we have to. Okay,
so you're paying and we have to take them by force. I mean,
I don't know. I'd rather not take them by force. That's kind
of field. They have kids. Yeah, yeah, let's let's let's try
the the the let's try asking who wants to ask first? Not a good
try, myth, I'm yeah, not it could, but I mean it's
also it's kind of it's kind of your character. Yeah, it's kind of
your specialty. You know. Oh, it's definitely my character, and that
has not stopped me from failing every check I've done for I believe in you,
though. You gotta believe in the roles. You gotta believe how Okay,
the cold hard facts myth just somehow appeals to everybody's empathetic nature of the
get go okay, okay, I'll stand next to you, and if you
need me to hop in and make a role, I will speak up.
But otherwise, let's see what you can do. Yeah, no pressure,
I guess. Yeah, okay, So Coda, Sem and Donnie would be
sort of just unloading this stuff and they would be super happy to be home.
Just in general, you know, they were making the sort of you
know exclamations as soon as they could see it's home. You know, oh
my god, we're here. You know, the super just ultra happy feeling
that you have when you see home. And they would just be unloading stuff.
I guess I approach it. I help them unload while they're talking.
I'm gonna help them like I'm gonna take the easier stuff though, because yeah,
whatever, make it fast. Hey, coda, when's the next time
do you guys go? The City of Bridges? Offered? Is Is that
a part of your router? Are you only going south? Well? I
don't think we were going to go anytime soon. We usually make a trip
out there a few times a year. It's a lot easier of a trip
than going to Cahord. Well, that's good to know, because I so
you're saying that the last, the hardest part is over for us. She
kind of. She says, most of the time, traveling in general is
can be very dangerous. Do you normally get supplies from the city or sometimes
it's needed Without my husband, now, it will be difficult to live here
for too much longer. I think I'm gonna kind of nudgmit and say that
sounds like something maybe we could help with if we need to head that direction
anyway, maybe we can pick some stuff up for them, save them the
trip and we'd have to come back. We can cross that bridge when we
come to it. It's the city of bridges ah Pun. When did you
When did you lose your husband? You don't mind. It's been about two
years now. It gets harder every year. It's not something I was hoping
to hear. I'm sorry. He was very good man. I lost my
sister last year. I'm so sorry. It's okay. I hope it gets
better, and I know it will for you. I'm really sorry about what
we've done or anything that's happened or this. The memories that send and just
your little ones are gonna remember from this, and I'm I'm I'm very sorry.
It's it's not something that you get to necessarily move on from. It's
just something you have to live with, you know. It's hard with children
living out this far. My husband liked the the quiet and the isolation here.
We've lived in Ghane our whole lives. It's a beautiful place. But
yes, he was very stubborn. He'd liked living out here. What happened
if your mind. He was a very curious man. He would always try
to find something that was something that would make us wealthy or something that would
ease our burdens. And he went he went out into the field one day
with some of our gallon, and maybe an hour or so later he came
back and he told me that he found this, He found this cave in
the ground, and he saw that it was full of these gems and strange
vices and things, and that if he could maybe take something from there and
sell it, then we could make a lot of shins and maybe live in
some really beautiful home, maybe somewhere in Trowless or I don't know, Navarreen,
maybe build something on the coast near the city of Bridges, I don't
know. I told him it was too dangerous to go by himself, and
maybe he should see if he can hire someone from Cafford to go with him.
And he didn't listen. He I'm sorry, it's okay, mind if
I hugging, I'm all right, okay. He didn't come back. You've
never seen him again. I found the gallon where he told me the cave
was, but the cave was gone, as if it were never there.
The gallon were tied up to a rock. H Okay, well we're going
to City of Bridges. Do you do you have any friends out that way,
or an old family friend or maybe even a friend of your husband?
All right, yes, there are there are. There are some friends of
our of our family along the way. Yes, okay, I have one
more very big favor to ask of you. Can we borrow to gallon?
And we can? Because this is going to be a very hard trek,
Please please make a difficulty three persuasion check. In regards to intelligence, I
have something called pressing my luck. If as long as it's below six,
I can automatically pass. Oh are you using your pressing your luck ability?
I am, But it's also an intrusion, Buck, Why do you say
these things? This will trigger a GM intrusion. I kind of look at
Una very in the slow mode time we have and then I just say,
yes, very well, so the uh you see you see Coda think about
it for a second, and she says, yes, but you must returned
them. I can trust you can't I? Yeah, yeah, it would
be easier if we left them at in with friends in the City of Bridges.
I mean, we use the gallon for our I understand. We use
them for the they shed their skin. The skin is usable for for clothing
and and if times are very difficult, we use them for meat. And
we also use them to help us gather things and food and whatnot from all
around. We need to have them back. Okay, we'll bring them back.
How far? How long of a trip is it here to at the
city of Bridges m maybe two days? Okay? She uh? She like
puts her hand on yours and she says, I'm trusting you to bring them
back. You'll have them back. Word. I'm very sorry about your sister,
very sorry about your husband. Thank you, Thank you, be careful?
You there anything hey I did? Is there anything that we should know
about these gallon before we head out? Is there like a like a word
or something or like a command word? Or how long can they usually travel
before they need a break. We don't want to wear them out. It's
a better question depends on how fast they are running. If you run them
as fast as they can go in two hours, okay, If you let
them rest and you don't push them so hard, they can travel longer.
But you need to rest anyway. Thank you, Take good care of them.
You might be able to get there a little less than two days if
you push them harder. Okay, we'll bring them back. We'll see you
in some days, I guess. She kind of like hat your hand,
good luck, thank you. I hope you'll find your friend, Thank you,
and I hope you are able to someday build that house on the shore.
Thank you. She looks I think, more hurt than when you initially
brought up her husband. And when you say that I didn't. I'm sorry,
It's all right, good luck. We'll see you again soon. Phil
nod her head, and she says, Sam, Donnie, they're leaving,
say goodbye, Donnie, and Sam kind of like walk over. Say Sem
like walks up to technome and says, are you coming back soon? Uh?
Yeah, I think, well I don't know how soon, but we're
coming back. We're gonna borrow your gallon and we'll bring him back. Well,
you just gotta get our friend first. Sem like kind of leans in
like conspiratorially to you, and he says that one bites. I look back
and I look at me, and I'm like, hey, that one bites,
let's not take that one, you know, just or you can have
that one, but I'm not. I'm not writing that one, okay,
thank you. I reach up to my my, my wings that you know
are flowing behind me, and I pull off a feather and as I'm like
bringing it down towards him, it starts to glow gold. And I hand
it to him, just a little bit of hedge magic on it for now.
So and then I ruffle his hair and I'm like, you'd be good,
take care of your mom. Wow, I will. He's like looking
at it, like and he starts like, you know, he's it's doing
the big brother thing where Donny like rushes over like I want to see it.
He's like, no, it's mine. He gave it to me,
you know, like that sibiling thing. They're just running around and he's like
playing keep away, no it, you know, like just kind of all
rushing around like a celebrity like a god. No no, no, no,
it's not no kind of I mean, they're kids. I mean,
you know, you just gave them a feather of you're like a god dude
magic well hopefully makes their day a little just a little bit better. And
I'm just like lean over and I'm like, okay, that one looks nice.
I think I want that one. I'm just like, who's writing with
me? How many do we get? Two x two? We'll get two,
all right, Well I will do two each now and we'll figure out
what's to do when we get pep you back, Yeah, okay, So
you climb up basically barebacked onto these gallons there, don't They don't have like
any saddles or anything. Yeah, I am not a pilot. You are
the pilot own a. I am not the pilot. You got it.
And then I like climb on behind her, and I just like wrapped my
arms around hang on sight, I fold my wings in so that way they
don't get like caught in the wind as much, and just like fold them
into where they're at my back. And then yeah, Coda probably would have
said, there's there's like from where you are, there's a bunch of foothills.
She would have pointed in the general direction of like where to go for
the city. But otherwise it's she she would have said, I mean,
two days is far. I mean it's not like you can see it from
where you are. It's it's a it's a it's quite a bit of a
ride, Okay, so just to be clear who's who's leading the way and
who is guiding the gallon. Uh, I will be like the rider directing
the gallon. The pocket and I are on. You're in the front.
Yeah, I will make myth ride sorry or guide. Does anybody have anything
that uh, you know, contributes No, I'm more of like sense of
direction? Yeah, does oat? I can? I can guide us.
I can. Also I can do my dagger singing in case any like frog,
cow flying wide burden bugs try and fight us or something any what.
I don't know, whatever the world has, you know, like what if
whatever anything happens, Yeah, like with it. If anything with seven heads
and wings attacks us before I pissed my pants, I'll throw the knife.
Okay, that sounds good, you know. But she said west right,
it's just through those trees where the sun kind of was at one point.
Yeah, we'll follow. Okay, so I'll navigate for us. Una O'Leary
and Ulrich Shiloh. Please make animal handling checks. This is a speed based
task. The difficulty is too. However, due to the GM intrusion,
the difficulty will now be three oh quick questional. I have something under special
abilities that doesn't denote it costing one XP next to it? Does that mean
that it's an ability that's free to use? To which ability are you referring
people person that is? Correct? Got it? Unrelated side? I'm allowed
to do this once per rest just throwing a curveball at you here, I
would like to use my people personability please and thank you very well. The
difficulty of this task has been eased by one. Therefore, you can consider
yourself to have one asset while making the role. So difficulty three one asset
correct, Thank you based task both you and Ulrich Shiloh. You have rolled
an eighteen and a ten, respectively. Jay Gamerson, please make an intellect
based check in regards to navigation. I have a my flex skill with navigating.
I'm gonna U said, okay, now very well, what difficulty?
The difficulty will be four due to the GM intrusion intellect? Do we even
ask that because she gave us the direction? You do? Fuck? Yeah?
Okay, so uh shit, I'm gonna restart this role a big brain
moment. How this is happening? Could I uh quickly just sort of cover
once? Yeah, you have rolled a nine? Off you go you can
recover? Yeah, that would have taken one action. Yeah. I actually
also uh advanced to do to do a plus two to my recovery roles.
So yeah, just change it in that in the circle there. Oh,
I can just do that. Yeah, you can just change itage. Yeah,
so that would have been a seven instead of a six. Great,
okay, thank you, and off you go. We're gonna switch scenes.
Ah, let's get Pebe back. Oh oh is it safe? Yeah,
you're good, come on back Peebee. Okay, alrighty, so this is
a different sort of feeling here. Oh, thank god, thanks, Yeah,
you just got off the call. Okay. Well, with Melissa Cale,
I would have I would have just collapsed and wept for a couple of
hours and just I would have just gone to sleep. Okay, I wouldn't
have done anything. You would have gone back to sleep. Yeah, unless
I needed to get up and pay for my room again, in which case
I would have done that at some point. But then I would have I
would have just I would have skipped food and I would have just laid there.
Somebody would have come by and mentioned like, no, there's fresh fish,
we have breakfast. I wouldn't have probably done anything. I'll get food
later. Maybe I ate a little bit. I would have to pay for
the room for the day. Yeah, I'll pay for another night. I
would happily do that. Okay, be another three shins and again. Then
they said they said like four days though, right that they that they were
away four days away the group. Yeah, yeah, okay, so yeah
I would Yeah, I would go ahead and pay for another I just wanted
to make sure I had enough money, okay, and pay for the day.
And you're just going back to sleep and you're not doing anything else.
I mean no, honestly, I would be. I think I would be
pretty occupied with the information that I just learned, and I would be I
would be trying to remember what I could remember and just focusing on that.
It's like snippets, I think, like non important stuff which is the most
important, just like the normal bullshit, you know, like what are you
having for breakfast? You know, like that kind of stuff. Yeah,
I'd just be repeating those thoughts over and over again. Okay, do I
lose any I don't think, you know? Cool? Can I write them
down? Yeah? I would probably write down everything that I can remember.
At least we'll say, maybe they give you something, you know, you
maybe ask the innkeeper for something to sort of like write with or whatever.
We'll say that that costs you maybe one or two shins. We'll say two
shins. Okay, oh yeah, then I uh I write down everything I
can, including including the information that I learned from Melissa. Okay, just
in case for some reason I start to forget that as well, like where
to go and most importantly that we're all going to forget and just become MPCs
pretty much. One thing that I think you can remember, or one thing
I should say that you notice when you are trying to remember things and people
and stuff, is anyone that's in this game you are remembering much more about.
I was gonna ask that, like, do I have memories of a
childhood I didn't have? Like is this? No? I mean people that
are in this game Jay, like j Pocket and Nega you can remember more
about those people. Wait, those people or their characters that they were playing
both. Oh okay, you can remember the normal character interaction and stuff,
just like fine. Oh. I just meant like, when I think of
Jay, for example, do I first think, oh, yeah, Jay,
he's the you know when you think rogue like Berserker, do I think
that? Or do I think my friend Jay, who's the GM on the
table story? Like do I? So when you think of the way that
Jay looks, your first thought is Ja Gamerson pops into your head when you
you can still remember the things that Jay has done, and it's more prevalent
in your head than people that are not playing the game. Okay, I
still probably write all of that stuff down everything, so we can say that
maybe you don't really sleep as much as you think. Maybe you're doing a
lot of writing because it's a lot of info to just kind of keep track
of. And I know you as a person who I don't know you anymore,
so you associate these tasks you You give yourself these tasks to I feel
like you do these things a lot so that you occupy your time. That's
literally why I became a photographer. This is like, my actual worst nightmare
is losing my memories like this. This is trauma, This is traumatizing.
I would be writing down absolutely everything that I could and just going through every
single memory I can remember of my real life and trying to document it.
Okay, did the sounds of the water outside and the sort of warmer temperatures
remind you of anything does it? Do I remember where I grew up.
I think maybe you can barely distinguish Okinawa from Hawaii. You know that those
are significant places to you. Well done. I wasn't expecting that. Then.
I suppose it probably feels comforting without me understanding why. So most of
the days spent like this? Are you staying inside all day? Oh?
Yeah? Oh yeah? Can I see? Like? Do I have a
window? Oh yeah, there's a window. You can see. Yeah.
I would probably sit and look out the window, but I'm not I'm not
moving from this room. Probably. I don't really know what to say other
than this news is pretty devastating. So I would just wait for them,
probably a couple of days worth. I would try to eat, and I
would wonder how I'm gonna tell them, if I'm going to tell them,
Okay, I would try to imagine how Jay would react to that information,
if I even have the right to tell him. Will they even care by
the time they get here? Okay? Like what they what if they forget
the people and their lives but they remember that they forgot? Like what is
worse? Should I just not say anything and let them for get it?
And then we just become MPC together, and I like die with that knowledge
by myself. They won't know the difference. That's Those are the sorts of
things I'm thinking about, probably, and it's just rough. Be honest with
you. I don't want to go outside. I don't want to interact with
an NPC. I don't you know the fucking thing in the castle? No,
just shoot me. No, I'll stay in my room and all way
after a couple hours. Ah, there is a GM intrusion available. Will
you take the GM intrusion or will you pay one XP? You cancel it?
I'll pay an XP. GM intrusion has been canceled. I look out
the window. Are you looking for anything in particular? Like? What the
fuck was that intrusion? Like? Is somebody gonna try to rob me?
I'm paranoid? You know I was kidnapped, fucking tortured. That's it.
I'm done. Check me out. Please make a perception check based on intellect
the difficulty. How much time has gone by? Like will I have gained
some of my poolback since I used? Because I used a lot to use
the new min era? If you uh, if you use your recovery role,
you have you have to spend your recovery role. Yeah, okay,
so it's been a couple of hours. Yeah, but I mean the first
one is one action. Okay, so that's only a few seconds. Okay,
okay, all right, let's see here. I actually need more than
that. So can I also then do the ten minute one? Yeah?
Okay, perfect. Please make a perception check based on your intellect. The
difficulty is five. I'll use an effort. No, you have rolled a
seventeen. All we had to do was traumatize Peebee to get her role.
Well that's all we had to do. Say it's real life because apparently this
whole time you know that the roles are good. Man, jeez. So
outside my wife in danger flying all about the city of Bridges. You see
one of these creatures whoa flying about? They're actually there is one person on
the back of this. Do I recognize them or what do they look like?
Oh? Definitely not. You don't recognize them. They kind of look
like then, Melissa, I don't know they're wearing. They're wearing what appears
to be some like armor. You can see that there's a shield strap to
their back and there's a sort of like tattered cape behind them. They're sort
of doing these loops around the city. This reminds me of something that I
can't quite remember. I probably start humming something to myself, but I back
up when I close the blinds and I just stay in the room. Okay,
sorry, it's boring as hell, I know, but it's totally what
I would do if you're not doing anything else. Another few hours are going
to pass, okay, and it's about mid I would say, like you
woke up probably by around dawn. It's probably a little bit past noon,
or what we would perceive is noon. I mean the days are twenty eight
hours here. No, we'll come back and say there is another GM intrusion.
Will you accept the XP and take the intrusion or will you pay one
XP and past I'll pay an XP very well, GM intrusion canceled. So
several more hours pass. There's probably like a knock on your door that says,
like dinner is about to be served. Great, thanks, I'll probably
be saying another another night as well. All right, that's fine, you
can pay tomorrow. Okay, great, thank you. Do you want do
you want me to bring you anything? Or you've been in your room all
day? Yeah? Yes, I have I'm very, very tired from long
traveling. Understandable. Yeah, all right, actually too terrified to leave my
room. So even though I hate asking for things, U, I would
actually love some dinner if you don't mind bringing it. Sure thing I can
bring? Oh that that sounds wonderful. Thank you. I'll bring it back
in a little while. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, and
uh, I think you you recognize this voice. This is uh probably one
of the people that works here at the end. The person that you met
that runs the end goes by the name of Tibby, the woman, and
this is probably just someone that works there, one of her employees. This
is Cohenna. Maybe that's who you got your the food from before. Okay,
Okay, So nighttime comes around and you've been writing and maybe resting here
and there. M When I go back into my journal and I read,
do I remember all the things that I wrote down? Like? Can I
recall all of those things? Yeah? Okay, yeah you can. I
will do this every single day. I'm trying to determine how quickly they're going.
Okay, and then I try to sleep, Okay if I can.
Oh, man, I wonder if I'll lose my insomnia. If I become
this NPC, does this NPC have insomnia? I'll be thinking shit like that
while I'm trying to sleep. Please make a might roll in regard to endurance
difficulty too, well, that would be a plus difficulty to bam. Oh
yeah, you have rolled to sixteen. Yeah, so if you're trying to
go to sleep, I think you can. I mean, your brain is
going for a little bit, so it's not instant, but it does happen.
I count to six hundred. I do that in real life. I'm
not even lying to you. I don't count to six hundred. I never
make it past three hundred. Works every time, go to sleep, Sleep
for the next three hundred and twelve. Okay, Don hits you in the
face. I'm imagining somebody who works at the end named Don. It'd be
better if this is D and D right and they're like, it's Don,
She's a dwarf. Smacks you right in the face. You wake up?
Okay. I I'm still waiting. I'm not. I really don't want to
leave and risk doing what Jay says is like haunting my brain. Don't do
anything stupid, which could be anything in this world as far as I know.
Also, I you know, was like stabbed, and you know,
I just like I would one hundred percent hermit myself into this fucking room and
not leave. I might offer to help around the inn, if I have
deemed it appropriate enough to do so, depending on how well I know Cohennah,
I mean it's up to you. I mean it seems like you've been
pretty shut in. Maybe you've said hi, just to get your breakfast and
and maybe dinner or something, but yeah, you haven't really done very much.
Yeah, and it's been two days now. This is the second the
third day, okay, second day? Okay? Uh? In that case,
I to be it's been two nights. This is the second day,
so the third day. Wait, I'm confused. If it's been two nights,
then it would be four day. You weren't there for the day on
the on the first Oh okay, okay, that makes me want two nights
and two days? All right, Yeah, then I I would. I'm
still waiting. I'm still waiting. They said four days, so I have
enough money to Are you trying to help around the internet? Yeah, if
she accepts my help, I'll help maybe cook dinner or do something or ask
if they need any help inside the inn. I'm not going out. I'm
not running errands. I'm not doing fucking delivering flower to one person to another.
I'm not doing any fetch quests, none of that. I'm staying here
waiting for them. But if they need help, like cooking or something,
I can do that. But so you you get out of that, you
walk out of your room, you go down. Oh no, no,
no, Only if she comes like to give me more food, I can
be like, do you guys need any help? Like, I'm I'm writing
something, I'm chronicling my adventures and I could use a break. Do you
need a help like, you know, with the with the soup or something
like that. That's how I would offer. I'm not going to go see
what. It would have only been cohnnah. That came Karan, Okay,
then yeah, I would have just asked cohnnah. Then if if they need
any help specifically, what are you saying to him? Oh? I thought
I was a sorry, So I would have said to him, you know
I needed Tibby was the tall woman? Oh that was downstairs? Yeah,
I would have just I'm I just need a break from writing. Uh,
do you need any help around Deann? Is there anything I can do to
to help? What kind of help would you be offering? Well, I'm
pretty good at fixing things. Maybe I think I know a little bit about
cooking. I've just just thought i'd offer you know what, It's never mine,
not a big deal. Are you okay? That was all in character?
Yep? Or myself? Yep? Alrighty awkward? He just he says,
are you all right? Yeah, I'm okay, just okay, thank
you? All right, if you want to speak to Tibby and about it,
I'm sure you don't want me to mention that. Okay, No,
I'm good, think thank you. This is such an awkward encounter. I'm
gonna definitely close that door. I regret it instantly. Then I sit in
my room and I wait for them. Okay, another few hours pass.
You are being offered another GM intrusion. No, will you accept it or
pay one XP to cancel? By this point, I'm probably not even flustered
by this. I'm still writing in my journal and I just say to no,
thank you. No. I don't know what it is, but no,
thanks. You are canceling GM intrusion. Yep intrusion canceled. Okay,
and you continue to write, We're going to switch scenes. Okay, sorry,
Okay, let's get the other people back. Okay, let's see you
all die. Uh oh. You all have been traveling for some time now.
The first day passes and you camp. The second day comes about mm
hmm hmm. It's about mid day or so on the second day since you
left, and everyone, please make a perception check based on your intellect.
The difficulty is five. Jacobmerson has rolled in nineteen Huh would we have had
time to rest once in that amount of time? Yes, absolutely, it
would have. You would have had a night. It would have been like
another camp and a watch and everything. So could like I could have made
a recovery role before this. Okay, since we're traveling with each other,
I would like to use my people personability again. All right, And you
said that adds one aspect, right, Gods and difficulty five? Okay,
yeah, damn. You have all succeeded on the role. Guys, well
done. Wow, So thank you. In the sky, you see a
familiar shape, stark white set of wings flies above you. I'm Celia.
Oh my god, oh my god. She is anybody, anybody have anything
I don't know, uh, like a flare or something, cast a beam
of light upwards. Use hedge magic. Let's take a look like just not
harmful obviously, just like to distract or catch attention of did you melt her
in hand? Or like? I can't. I can't use hedge magic to
hurt anyone or to attack anyone. I can only use it to like,
so you can change the color or basic appearance of like a small object.
You can cause small objects to float through the air and the reins of her
z Drake to glow gold us too far, too far actually to be fair,
to be fair, Let's let's have your role for it. Okay,
in your attempt to use hedge magic at a large sorry, at a long
distance, please make an intellect check. This is in regards to magic difficulty
five. Okay, we'll see Nope, at least on perception. So unfortunately
it's just too far away. Yeah, you just it's just too far.
Can I try and reflect like the light at it or something or using what
what light? What means of reflection? Chat? I would like to use
twitch chat. Please make a speed roll based on new min Era difficulty five.
Do I get an asset because of twitch chat. No fuck, you
have rolled a natural twenty. Yes, I have major effect, so I'll
turn out. Uh yeah, what do you think is the major effect for
this? I'd I think the major effect is is it hitting her in the
face immediately and her turning and seeing two gallon riding in, whether or not
she knows it's us. I think that is what I hope the major effect
is. Oh yeah, immediately because the twitchts. You said it's a tablet
too. It's a big fucker. We get a honker we're talking about here,
right, Yeah, it's uh. You just kind of like angle it
up and you can hear you can hear the the sort of sounds in the
air of this thing. The she drake sort of Oh god, it's gonna
eat us. But it worked. You see the seat the she drake start
to circle around and start to go on a decline towards you, large wings
flapping work. You just see this massive thing. It's bright white, shining
in the sun as it flies down towards you, making a huge spiral mm
hmm, and she drake claws into the ground ahead of you. The gallon
probably like rear back a little bit and you see night secret and Sulia on
top of the she drake, she made it Smith. Okay, you gotta
go work your magic. You gotta go like seduce her or something. Again,
that's not what happened. Okay, all right, And Venezuela and Sulia
in Cinculia doing great? Is that you did? He just call? Oh?
I didn't, that's us. Hey, hi, man, I am.
We are glad to see you. You are well. Well, we
were not there yet. Did you find her? Where is your other friend?
Oh? She died? Yeah? The chivern? Yeah, there's this
things called chivern and they got calls foul creatures. Yeah, we killed a
few of them. I'm sorry for your loss. You don't seem too upset
about it, though we set our peace. Man, We're too concerned.
We got to find our friend. We still have someone are missing. Unfortunately,
I did not find your friend. Not. I searched all around the
city of Bridges, but Weroco and myself could not find her. Got we
can't word from her, right, we can't word from her. So we
did we did. We did what guys like you were able to communicate with
her. Yet you had me fly all the way there. Correction, She
communicated with us. Good save we we can't reach her, but somehow she
was able to reach us for just a brief moment and told us that she's
staying at a hotel in the city of Bridges, Yeah, and that she's
had a pretty terrible time, but she's okay for now. I don't know
what that means. I mean, it means she's okay. And she said,
but I don't know what the terrible time was. So and Sulia looks
up towards Moiroku, telling me us, well, I told the truth.
I mean, I wrote it all down in the dirt back there. Obviously
I can't travel with the dirt, but I remembered it photographic memory. So
very well, Thank you very much, thank thank you. If I had
nothing to do, I would have gone to the city anyway. It is
the only reason that I assisted you. Oh, thank you so much.
Thank you. We know how valuable your time is. Yes, very valuable.
And I will call on you again and you will answer happily. Okay,
just be sure to call on him. And I point to Ulric,
he's the best at answering. Don't call on him, and I pointed you,
yeah, I don't do that. Just not reliable this one. No.
No. For all we know, our friend and danger could have had
people tracking her, people following her, people meeting her harm and if they
had seen you flying searching for her, your presence alone could have been the
reason why she wasn't harmed. So, regardless of whether or not you found
her, your time was not wasted and we appreciate it. Thank your the
good I got you. I just came up. That's good. Do you
think that I can hear that? We can hear you, chickenaers. Well,
we will be off then, but if you make your way to the
City of Bridges, yes, that's where we will be, hopefully by tonight.
Right. Yeah, if you make your way to the City of Bridges
and you find your friend, you should consider speaking with one of the priests
that are there. Priests. Yeah, we will join your priest. Oh
we need one of those. Yeah, yeah, well we'll join the religious
Order of Eon. I think that's what she's alluding to, is there.
I mean I will join, and have you seen me? I will join.
I'm trained and healing and I would love to learn. Yes, I
will do it. I will speak to them. There are a few in
the city of bridges. But speak with corn, Corn, I start writing
that down in the dirt. Corn, so with a k, or a
sea with a k? Okay okay, okay, Corn here, Okay,
priest, I'm like scrawling it in the dirt with my finger. Porn is
very loud. You will not be able to miss him loud miss oh so
Ja and him will get along. Wholl what do you mean? I'm literally
not loud, just rambunctious. O. Corn has very wild hair, wild
hair. You can often see him eating crunchy fruits and fruits. So he
loves crunchy fruit. Nice and I have that in common. Is very mm
hmmm, lengthy, lanky, definitely all. Is he short? He is
tall? Tall? Okay, tall and lanky? Okay. Is this a
dangerous place? And Sylvia, if you are smart, then every place is
dangerous. Okay. I'm good, okay, okay, thank you. I
can't we can't thank you enough. I wish there was more we can offer.
As I said, I will call on you, you will answer.
I'll put my hand on my chest. We'll do yeah, the hand thing,
moiroku, let us hunt for your food. Come she like does the
fucking like uh uh legalless like thing where she just like jumps up the side
of of uh Moiroku and uh it just makes no sense. It's like,
what the fuck, It's like, you can't jump that way. That doesn't
I know, I should have won it. Alf Yeah, and she she
kind of like hops on and all the sort of like grass and stuff.
She's like wafted and kicked up into the air, and Moiroku and and and
Sulia start to fly up and she says, don't die before I call on
you. Okay, promises Jay, you can die. It's just you know,
all Rick, he can't die. I'm actually gonna die, and you're
gonna be really sad about that. I might. I'm the DPS of this
party. We have two tang, one healer, one DPS. If only
it worked like that, maybe Mostly I stare down at the what I scribbled,
and then as I stand up, I sort of like like do a
quick like breeze that just makes all the dust go away, like all the
letters I wrote the words. Okay, let's go find this, Let's go
find Peb. And then we got to find this Choru guy. We shouldn't
tell Peb when we meet here. The kid you said, no, No,
we don't know what's happened in the past couple of days. You know,
I think we'll have so much to talk out. Why why not?
No, I don't think. I think we should focus on getting to the
priest as soon as possible. I feel like it might be to the detriment
of the mission if we tell PB, because it will create emotions that are
hard to overcome in the face of tragedies. So I think that it'd be
better if we just get to the priest and try to see what we can
do once we meet a priest. I yeah, what she said. Yeah,
that's just my that's my theory. If we want to make this fast,
we should probably keep going. Though, yeah we should. Well,
we can keep going. We can, we can walk and talk. But
I don't. I don't think keeping it from her is a good idea.
We're yeah, we're walking and talking. Well, listen, Peebee is really
fucking emotional. Man. If she finds out Katie died, Katie, it's
gonna be it's gonna be a hard hit and someone's gonna have to take care
of that. So that'll separate the party even further. Instead of making a
mission of finding an eon priest to help us and teach us. Okay,
well, what happens if we lie to her and then later she finds out
we're lying to her? Then tell her the one that said lie to work
because she's fucking emotional and yeah, tell her Jay said to lie to her?
Yeah, why don't we tell her the truth? And then we go
find these a on priest to help us with getting her back. I'm not
telling her flog that. I just feel like when we are reunited with her,
we're going to want to hear what she's been up to, and it's
not going to come up until later. Anyway. I don't advocate lying.
I just think that we should check and see how she's doing. First,
learn what she's been up to, and then make sure she's mentally and emotionally
okay, before we talk about where we've been and what's happened to us.
I have an idea, And then how do we how do we thwart that
question when it comes I don't. I don't personally, I don't think we
do. I think she's ye, why do you look, Katie's resurrected right
now? Aha, she was never dead the whole time. It might just
end up being the case where maybe Jay and I go look for the priest.
I have this telepath, the implant. It does last a while.
I got to inject one of you with it. You go find her,
you guys, tell her the truth. You tell her what's happening. You
find out what's been happening, You relay it to us with this telepath the
implant while we try to find the priest and meet up again. Yeah,
and I have a visage changer cipher thing. If I can get it to
work, I can like be an eon priest and be like, hello,
brother, would you like to come resurrect another fall in person? Maybe?
Oh my god, you'll be the best priest, best priest ever. Thank
you. Probably fit right in with this born guy. You know, I'll
keep it from her until the question rises, But I mean, I'm not
going to just be like, Hi, she doesn't even know that we were
with Katie. Well here's the I think that if you guys agree, this
should be maybe the plan where Jay and I go find this priest and then
you guys go find uh p B and I inject one of you, and
we got five hours to be separated. We got to meet up before the
five hours. No, yeah, she won't she know what Katie? All
right? Yeah, well, just I think we find we find the emotional
side you guys. You know, hopefully by the time that we find the
priest, then we can be on our way back, all of us.
I don't think we should split up. But also we're pretty capable, so
we can. We can do this, just like going to a going to
a convention. Right you're in the new city for the first time. Just
at least got to stay in pairs. Can't no singles? Ye, single
ladies. Okay, okay, it's a great song though. Maybe we can
break it out if we ever get in a tough situation. We have a
dance song. You got it. See, we're gonna win this. I'll
beat it. Okay, Okay. I think we should probably get going now.
I get back on the gallon. I don't even know if I ever
got off, but I think, well, you guys rested for the day
and whatnot. But as far as when and Sulia came down, probably I
don't know. I've been up to you. Okay, are you still saying
the same sort of formation? Yes? Okay, Jay Gamerson, please make
a perception check based on intellect. The difficulty is too oldarry old ricksha please
make animal handling checks. The difficulty is too what does that need check?
Thank you know you have all succeeded nice, so the rest of your trip
goes without problem. You arrive at this massive bridge leading out across into the
water. In the distance, you can see all these bridges and these buildings
built like on the water. Basically. Ah. You arrive at the City
of Bridges, and again this kind of like massive bridge is just leading towards
the City of Bridge. You can see it has these sort of support structures.
I'd say it's almost reminiscent of the Golden gate Bridge. It's not red,
but it has this sort of same suspension, I forget what it's called,
but the same suspension aspect to it. Distant future, the Golden gate
Bridge becomes this City of Bridges. This is so cool. Looks like this
just goes on and on. This is like the first time that you guys
have gotten a good look like at the ocean since you've been here. I
mean, it's it's kind of like a very sort of beautiful site. You
can hear the sort of sounds of the harbor and the water. Are you
crossing the bridge? Do you stop in front of it? What do you
do? I think we cross right, cross unless a bridge like the Golden
Gate that leads to this end. Yeah, cool, yeah, cross unless
anyone we crossed. Yeah, okay, take mental pictures. I'm just doing
this. Yeah, screenshot wow with enough that she doesn't know. It's just
the back of her head. This is this has been like a long trip.
Maybe we just if it's maybe we just go to the hotel. Guys,
take a So I have a question for each of you. Okay,
while you've been making this sort of long trip, have any of you been
thinking about home in general? Oh? Yeah, I have you been thinking
about anybody at home? Oh? Yeah, okay. When you think about
people at home, you can't remember what they look like. Your memories of
people at home are sort of jumbled. I don't know if you've noticed it
happening, but it's been a long trip, and I just imagine myself making
a long trip and just thinking about random things. Maybe since you've been doing
this trip and you haven't really been bothered, there's been more opportunity to think.
I'm not gonna lie. I'd probably equated to tiredness. I have a
fucking horrible memory. But if I actually can't picture anyone's face as ever,
so I don't think that would be uncommon. I mean, even Vio Jay,
that's I have a fucking bad memory. Probably I probably noticed it if
I was trying to think of vio might catch me there. But for pretty
bad memory when it comes to that, yeah, I just feel like i'd
repress that, not tell anyone. It's just it'd be in my mind.
But I am an anxiety boy, so it would be that would be pretty
constant the entire time, NonStop. Yeah, A lot of the reasonaly I
was quiet this whole time is probably because I was thinking about my family and
such. That also just changes the entire four days too, because it's like
what well doesn't really change, but I mean like it's still just helps with
the struggle of what I've been thinking about, like how did I get here?
What am I doing? Meeting Coda, who was such a reminder of
this whole last year so and then and then not having any imagery for it
is terrifying. So if I can't remember Bossco, then I'd be weird to
know. Is it just that we can't remember faces from outside the game,
or is it that we can't remember faces from our past? Like can we
remember what Pumpkinberry's character looks like? Like CORALI do we remember what she looks
like? So you can remember When you think of Myth or Pocket or PB
or J you think of their characters first, their faces in your head,
and when you think of them, you can remember things about them outside of
their characters, better than people that you were very close with in real life.
I think Myth, you probably noticed this when you were talking to Coda
especially, Yeah, And then I think also just in that moment, I
see the I guess the moment a day ago or no, a moment earlier
in the day. No, yeah, a day ago with Koda's kids just
being kids and adults or being kids and being mischievous and thinking about my siblings
and thinking about my brother, my twin, and not being able to remember
his face. And that's crazy. And I think that's probably also why I
stay super silent a lot of this when you think of him, And I
mean, he looks like you, right, you see your character's face,
I see my characters. I think, Yeah, that's odd, but I
guess it'll have to do. But yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't change
my stoicism. I think I'm probably still going to be very quiet about a
lot of this. Okay for the most part. Right now, h are
you trying to look for the place that Peebe told you about. You're trying
to look for me, And I think we can start to make our way
across and towards the hy pork in wherever we know where that is, we'll
travel. I won't even make you do a role for it. I mean
you can just kind of ask somebody. Yeah, Okay, you see that
there's a lot of these places are built on top of each other. There's
sort of like a lot of shacks and found items. There's some parts of
this place that are very rusted, and there's some parts that are made out
of metals that you've never seen before that apparently don't oxidize. And uh,
it's it has a very similar sort of feeling to some of the ships that
you saw when you were in Kefford. It has a lot of that sort
of same look to it. Almost it almost looks like a lot of like
jewels varnish, you know. It has a sort of steampunk kind of look.
It has a sort of feeling. It's like ten thousand leagues under the
sea kind of look, you know, sort of bulbous shapes and like spherical
glass and whatnot. So you're able to find the high port in you see
the I guess there's a place to tie up your gallon outside and there's kind
of like, uh, there's a there's a woman uh at a at a
sort of desk at this end, and she's kind of tall. She looks
very bored at the at the counter oday. Go talk to her as you
did. Okay, I'll walk up, being an asked ford. Heah hie.
Hello, we're looking for a red haired woman. Walk bye, red
hair like got a hostess? Counter? Yeah, walk right by. Excuse
me, Hi, I'm sorry. I lost a friend and I think they're
here. That's I understand. Four days on the back of lizards. I
think she's here. And if she's not friend, I I like her,
and I whisper known as ear. I sneak past you should sneak past ractum.
Yeah, where do you lie? Is her name? She should be
here? Coor li por li cor? Yes, what does she look like?
I don't I haven't seen anyone with red hair five feet tall, like
super obsessed with machines. Freak out, maybe really emotional, might start crying
for no reason. There's a woman with uh yes, yes, yeah,
yeah, she didn't say her name. Do you know where she went?
She has a room with us. Can we know the room? She's up
two floors on the left, on the left. Thank you so much,
Thank you. Sorry for barging in, but it's been a hard thank you.
Yeah, how dare you gosh sorry, up the stairs. I'll put
like a shin on the counter as well. Uh do you have rope?
But anyone have rope? Rope? We got to rope things? I think
we do? We didn't we tie the gallon up outside? Where you have
gallon? We have gallon? Do they do you want us to feed them
or anything? Definitely? That would be great. All right, that'll that'll
cost you one shin per gallon. Okay, okay, thank you behind over
three two for the gallon, one for her. She yawns. It's almost
dark by the way, okay, up two floors to the left. It's
probably an awesome sunset. Okay, let's go, all right, we they
knock first. The loud noises all right, okay, uh oh, he'd
be back time. Can I come back now? Okay? So how are
you doing this? Wait? What I think we're going? Going upstairs?
And then whatever, I think we're going as fast as we can. And
then just we kind of are like or he we're hooping it up there too,
up on the left, and then we'll just like I'm kind of looking
around the hallway watching the other doors. How about the two more days?
You can hear some like clomping up the stairs. It's really loud nighttime,
right, okay, it's almost uh yes, dinner, Dinner's fine, thank
you, I'll be I'll be right down. It's us maybe immediately get up
and I run to the door and I just opened the door and I just
start crying, and I immediately hug all of you as fast as I can
go. Bug, I thought you were gonna die. Are you okay?
Are you okay? Me? What happened? You want the fuck? Did
you leave? I didn't leave? What had happened? Another player from from
twitch chat took me wait from chat? Yeah, another player who was in
our twitch chat and I banned him one time and he came in and that's
stream sniped in this Yeah, that's terrifying. What happened to the player?
Do you dead or she? Oh? Okay, let's here. Maybe we
retired for the night. Guys, will I get yeah? We continue the
group? Hug. I assume I'm sorry. How did you escape? I
sat there on the boat and waited two days with his dead body on the
bed, and then I snuck out. And I've been hiding in this room
ever since. You're okay, now we're here. I have to tell you
something. I uh that cipher that I used to talk to you. I
was able to contact Melissa. Oh shit, I can't remember her last name
anymore, the creator of the game. I was able to contact her.
She's she's also stuck in the game. She's in a different I wrote it
in my book. She's in a different area of the world, and we
should try to get to her as soon as possible. But more importantly,
I think we're turning into NPCs. I can't remember my husband or my best
friend. I can't remember my twin or my family. I thought I was
just tired. Yeah, I have to think about the last couple of days,
and I just they couldn't I see my best friends every day and they
can't picture their faces. And I don't know why. Well, now we
know why? Is there a way to get out? Are we stuck?
Are we just Did she say anything about that? Find a way. We'll
find a way. We'll talk to the creator, We'll find a way.
Did we want to still find the person here? Yes? What person?
Now? I don't know. We don't. I don't think we do.
If we if we interact with more people that we that the world tells us
to interact with, we need that priest, priest, yeah, to ye
our priestly ways, Wait, did did the creators say for sure this was
happening? What do we know? Do you have more details, sir?
I don't really have any more details. She is also trapped in the game.
She's tried every exploit, every back door, every everything, and she
can't get out. So her solution was to hold herself up in the safest
area on the map. What is that? I don't know. I wrote
it in my book somewhere. I told her we would try to go and
meet her there. I convinced her to work with us. She said people
have attacked her and she doesn't trust anybody, and neither should we, And
to be very careful while we're traveling. I think we should keep interactions with
the locals of the Ninth World to a minimum. I agree. You like
to add Director Coralai to the party? Yes, yes, except Coralai has
been added to the party. We need that priest. Why do we need
a priest? Hey? Why do we need a priest? You all gain
an XP? Are you okay? Are you sick? We're all fine,
it's not It's not us, it's do I have to say it? We
we we found Katie in the game Katie, which which Katie? Katie Peters?
Okay? Is she all right? Where is she? She got attacked
while we were camping out one night on our way here, and she didn't
make it. They attacked her first. We did all we could to save
her and to save we were with a family of NPCs and we were We
made it out, but she couldn't make it out. So we can resurrect
her if if a priest will help us. We have to get a neon
priest to help us, and we got a name of one that might be
willing to, but we're kind of on a time limit now. We buried
her out in the fields about two and a half three days away. It's
not the fact that I don't want to have her back. I just don't
want to be tied here and then that death being in vain because we've interacted
too much, because we are tying ourselves down in the web. That is
the code. I don't know if it's the interaction so much is the time
limit that we spend here, Like if we spend more time to find or
resurrect her, then we might just be better off getting immediately to the creator
seeing what she can do. Well. I mean, if what if we
resurrect her and then she comes back into the game, like what if she
got out? We don't know. We don't know what happens when when you
die in the game, like what if she woke up? We kind of
know what happens when you mess around with someone's body, right, I I
don't. I was you know, I was temporarily uh disconnected, and I
don't remember anything. But these guys actually got to talk to chat briefly,
didn't you. And I look at Jay and I was like, so they
they were what did you guys say? Did wait again? No? Oh,
it's the same. I don't It's all I was there, but they
didn't. They didn't say anything memory because we're getting written into the code.
I agree with you, I think that. I think that's what's happening.
I do think we're turning into NPCs, and I don't want that for me
or any of us. But we just gotta choose. Do we go straight
to the creator or do we try to get the young Priest and get Cardie
on the way there, because I imagine that's on the way, It's on
the main path. We need that priest. Okay, I look at I
look at miss and Una and carl. I. I don't want to be
an NPC, but if that is what the story is that I tell with
my life, then so be it. So I don't really care make your
decision, but I'm sticking with you guys, no matter what, we've already
found out that this is basically like Soma. We're just basically ourselves in a
game. And if we can, maybe if we gave, if we get
Katie the fuck back, then at least she can fucking live in this fucking
world, even her selma form, whatever it may be, the leftover.
I don't want that. I don't want that. How do we know that
that's what Katie would want. If I'm fucking done in this game, you
do not bring me back. I don't want to live my life here as
a fucking NPC. Are you kidding me? You're okay to just forget?
That wasn't that was? What is your wife's name? Jay? I don't
know. I don't know my cats, I don't remember them. But we
had to come and find you. That was important. Now we have to
go get Katie. That's important. We're here now, Hey, welcome to
We're the hero is a cappard. They welcomed us to the city. We've
been the part of the fucking game since day one. Guys come to terms
with it's to go place for us to end the session today? Holy ship?
Mm hmm yeah. I feel like that would be good. The hotel
room too. It's really quiet right now. There's that happy music. Yeah,
my music stopped midway through that, and I wasn't sure if that was
intentional music with it. Yeah, it likes it stopped midway through and I
was like, is he just making a sit in silence right now? It's
so uncomfortable. Is if there's no music you gotta refresh? Oh? Yeah,
well, I was too into it, so that one. That one
was me, Oh okay, it's just like a crazy thing because I don't
know how I would react in this situation, because I part of me thinks
I would be like, you know, I don't want to be here,
I just want to get out, and part of me things like, well
if I'd rather just live no matter where it is same, So so I
wouldn't know, especially if I'm starting to forget everything then and I became more
a part of the world, I feel like that part of me that wants
to get out would become less. Yeah, that's exactly what would happen.
Conflicting moment of where it's like what do we? Where do we? What?
How does what? It's just ye and we have to move quickly otherwise
we're going to wake up one day and have breakfast and just be satisfied having
breakfast and going out and like, you know, do an MPC shit or
whatever. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's that sense of urgency. I
made a really cool character. So that's cool. But the best I'm fucking
rolled the default avatar. I was like, yeah, it's gonna be great
character. Ever, fuck you guys, God pretty much man, So I
gotta tell you guys that I I that device that I got. Way the
way WHAC described it was like you can contact anybody if you just think of
them. So I spent however long you were in your scene, thinking like,
oh my god, I'm gonna I'm gonna contact my hobby. That's the
first thing that I'm gonna fucking do. And he's like, you can't remember
what he looks like, and it just totally took me by surprise, and
I just started bawling my eyes out, and I was like, no,
that is my worst nightmare. Slowly forgetting everyone I love and care about,
no no eject, no spot on the the I would just try and not
acknowledge it to be strong for everyone. I have a question, whak what
it affect people differently though, because I even mentioned earlier or in the episod
midway. I have a really photographic memory, like a very good I remember
faces way more than like names. But I remember face is insanely well.
So would that not would it come into play? Like if you're good about
it, I have to wait and see. Okay, fuck, that's why
you were you were saying that, and I was like whack this. I
am the one person I can think the worst person to do that, to
even think of it. I asked for Bosco because he's a black fucking cat.
That's the easiest thing to remember. He's a black cat. Like I
can even remember people's voices in my head that I haven't seen in like five
ten years. I'm way better at that. Like I can even be watching
a TV show and hear somebody's voice and be like, oh, they were
in some random episode of Star Trek like two, Like I recognize that voice.
But good with that with critical role voice actors name them all. Yeah,
but that's it. So good job everybody, Good job that was that
was all of a session. Well done, well done. Yeah, it's
intense, and uh, you know it's it's uh it's difficult to think about
a lot of this stuff for sure, So I'm I'm glad that you are
able to do it, and uh, you know, I hope even though
I know it's intense, I hope we can kind of like think about some
things that maybe allow you to expand your minds a little bit and maybe help
you deal with some of those things as well. But regardless, uh,
well done and let's do some shout outs. Let's wrap things up. Pbe,
would you be so kind as to start us off? Sure? Hi,
I'm Pumpkinberry and I had an emotional breakdown today for you. Seriously,
though, I appreciate the opportunity to explore something that makes me reflect on myself
in such a way in a safe environment of table story with you as a
community. And I am not in chat yet, but everybody was in the
discord during the break to be like, are you okay? And I appreciate
that, and uh, the players obviously for giving me a safe space to
explore, and for whack or putting me on a fucking tropical island and surprising
the shit out of me with that. I've I didn't do it. You
guys did it well? Okay, okay, you guys shows gone if you
miss an episode here, but you die. That was very well done.
I was very impressed. And yeah, just thank thank you for putting in
a place where I have an emotional breakdown live on the internet. I guess
it's pay for my therapy, thank you. You hear that? Everybody,
make sure you some to b me to pay for therapy. No, I
meant you personally whack. Yeah, you know how much I make. That's
not happening. It's September. We need your help chat It's September, thank
you. So anyway I do, I do things on my own channel.
I didn't even talk about any of that. Pumpkin Berry. You can find
me at twitch dot tv slash pumpkin Berry. I'm also here a couple of
times a week. Next up Sunday for Dying Order. It's a show that
just started. D and D five D pockets in it with me, very
very very exciting. Yes, it's so fucking good. I got it.
I'm just gonna do a little shout out to Disparix because holy crap, her
character is amazing. It thlew me away and I'm just like, like,
this is I can't wait. Yeah, she's a sur good. She's such
a she's such an opposite my character, which is great. It's so good.
And it's only episode two, so you can either catch up or you
can just hop right in. I'm sure there will be like a quick summary
from Brad as to what happened in the first episode. This episode is a
good uh get to know the characters in setting. So I think it's on.
It's on the YouTube's go watch it. And then I'm also here on
Wednesday's GMing Nocturne, which is a mystery thriller about a group of people stuck
in a time loop. Also pretty dark show, so come check that out
if you'd like. And that's all I got. I'm going to go cuddle
my cats and husband now. Thank you for having me. Make sure you
remember is the first thing that I did when I got up walked away was
like I walked over there, and he's just looking at me bewildered, like
how upset? Not real? I'm right here, and I'm just like I
hear his voice. Oh whatever it is, who I am? I can't
help it. Thank you, Pocket, Hello, Hie Pocket. Hi.
I play your friendly protective nano who works miracles on this show, and not
so much working miracles so much. It's just trying to pretend like I'm a
fake god to children because it's fun. Why not. If I were a
magician, I'd probably do stuff like that all the time and start charging people.
But I stream every day. But mondays, I've been doing a lot
of cosplay because I'm on a cosplay crunch finishing Moxie from Borderlands and then going
on to Ale from World to Warcraft. Yes, yes, by so much
stuff to do, easy peace. I have well novembers play, but I
have to get that fifty done by in five days. So Sam wish mabe.
Pocket is here two and a seven days of the week. Now,
if we keep going, we can push it to be the new meme where
she GM's every new show instead of Katie are promising you to be on shows.
We'll expect you there, no pressure. Thank you so much, Pocket,
uh nega orcs Hi. I am sorry, I draumicized you. It
was the saddest Hie ever. I'm naga ors and I cried a lot today.
This was awful. We please make a simular them like teaser trail.
I hate it, Therapy, Michael. This is the most emotionally scarring tabletop
RPG experience of my life, and I'm so grateful to be a part of
it in any way, shape or form. So thank you so much for
that. Uh. I literally cannot stop thinking about this episode, to the
point that I don't even know what to tell you about what I do on
the internet, because all I can think about is what happened today. I
Hi, Hello. I also stream on my own channel, Naga Rix on
all social media, and I will be at Twitch Con two weeks from today.
I have the most full schedule I've ever had for any convention ever.
So please please please come to something and say hello to me for the first
time finding like plushy rabbits, because that's what I would do. I would
bring a rabbit to you for you to sign, like a white little can
take and arrow, and I actually have something kind of similar. Heads up,
heads up, I haven't said anything about this yet, but uh,
y'all know, I'm doing my first ever like official through Twitch meet and greet
this year and we get super cool. They used to be called Kapa cards,
they're called streamer cards now. It's essentially like baseball cards for streamers.
And without giving anything away, mine may involve the last of Us and rabbits,
so come by. They're totally free. All you have to do is
stand in line to say hi to me. I'm super friendly, I don't
bite, and you'll get a really really cool trading card for it. And
the art is amazing. They just showed it to me the other day and
I'm freaking out over it. So come see what it is and say hi
to me. All it what stream cards? It's a Streamer card now instead
of Kapa card. It's always that's like, that's like saying, you know,
Packs West isn't packs Prime Prime cards, so it's a Kapa card if
you've in collect to them for a while. It's a capricard and I will
sob when I see it because I never thought i'd get one, and it's
spoiler alert. It references my last of us means. So if you want
to see it and get one, come get one. At I met greet
at TwitchCon. Thank you for having me on the show and making me cry
so much. I'm very sorry that I cried in front of you so much
today. Why are you guys apologizing for this? That's great. I mean,
it's not great that you're crying. I'm not saying that, but but
it kind of is somportant that you're crying. To be able to do that
in a tabletop situation, you know, I mean's eliciting emotion from you.
I'm someone that I have a very hard time crying unless other people are crying.
Then I start to get a little emotional, But otherwise I'm like one
of those. I don't cry like I don't like crying. I cry if
I'm too excited. I cry if I'm too sad. So if I'm too
happy, I like get that anxiety shake and tears start to go because I
am so excited. If I see something that's really beautiful. If I are
a really pretty piece of music, sobbing for a fifteen second commercial, yeah,
double points if it's the pretty music over the fifteen second commercial. If
something's too sad, I sob. If a puppy gets adopted, I sob.
If I see a cute cat, I sob. I am a crier
and it is drink a lot of water. I'm constantly dehydrated. I have
to say, quote quote myth anyway, thanks for having me. That's we
thank you, congratulations on your CAPA card, thank you. Here we go.
I trying to trigger this was intentional tears. I will cry when I
see it. Yeah, I know, it's like it's one of those things
where you never thought you'd see your name somewhere or you know, get perm
or whatever it is that you know your goals are and so congrats. I
just wanted to say that's all. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank
you, Thank you, Niggs myth Oh boy, what a day, what
an episode, What a Friday the thirteenth. My name is Mythematic. You
can find me over in my channel, Twitch dot tv, slash Mythematic or
Twitter of the same name dm me. Let's chat about the game. It's
a lot of fun. I'm probably gonna go off and play the Forest right
now, so you guys want to, you can while I figure out if
I enjoy the game or not. I don't like scary games, so this
will be fun kind of maybe, But I don't know. I don't know.
I think I think I've got a bunch of my friends are playing it,
so I'll join in and see. But thank you everybody for playing with
me. Thank you chat for playing along as well. Thank you for having
me for this wonderful experience. Yes it is. It is intense, but
it's intense and all the good ways. Thank you. I don't know.
I am. I'm a person who is I'm a person who's It is very
much about leaving a great story. You able to like convince yourself like I'm
a person. I'm a person, A person who I person. I don't
believe you yeah, I cannot compute error error. So anyway, I was
gonna go on a rant about storytelling and where we are and what happens.
But it was definitely threw me through a loop today, especially the fact that
like I can't remember my family, my twin brother, my sister, my
my entire family. I just it's crazy. The closest thing I have right
now, and that's nuts. I always think about I always think about characters,
and I think about backstories, and I think about stories for other characters.
But it's sometimes it's really good, like today to think about your own
backstory, and if you can't, that's scary. It's the title of the
episode, by the way, my own backstory. Yeah. Anyway, thank
you, thank everybody. Honored to be here. I love, I love,
I love emotions. I love I love seeing emotions. It's been a
hard year and it's good to feel these emotions again. Peebee. When we
saw you, I was genuinely, I was genuinely the happiest I have been
in a long time. Yeah, that was such like an amazing moment,
and I just thank you all for being a part of it. And I
thought there were two more days left. I Honestly, I've been holding up
in this room, just rolling against GM intrusions because there's some fucking foulcore flying
overhead, and I'm like, I don't know what that is. I'm just
gonna fighting. The best part about that was she was trying to look for
you to tell them that she found you. I'm sorry. I was like
tortured, and I'm gonna stay in that room. I knew that you were
going to react that way. I'm really rack inside could look for her.
Yeah, No, cuddled under three logs and a blanket, like clawing open
the doors. What are you? Honestly, yeah, I was just terrified.
I I had no idea what it was, so I'd rather I'd rather
hide in and wait for you guys. And now that you're here, all
I want to do is sleep and rest for the first time in a long
time and just cuddle pile. Yeah, we are hungry anyway. It was
so great. Thank you once again. I mean, I can't wait for
next week. Thank you. We've got only two more episodes left, I
know, but that's me. Thank you mith Jay. Hello. Laughing at
that Dirpe took actually so much energy out of me. That's hilarious that it
was looking for pbe. She was fucking terrified. I'm Jake, forget I
am the gamer here on story what Jay has been Brotato from Coffee Time with
Rotato on Spotify. Trust me chat nos let me tell you they know you.
Coffee Times on Spotify. You know what I'm just saying. Look at
a DP down with Rotato. Do me a flavor. All of you in
the chat right now. Make Noodle East and Kogio love you so much.
Please type exclamation point up time. The moms are gonna love you guys so
much. I love you, I love your cog That wasn't even me.
Were you locked in? Fix it? Let's get a cast or command for
Katie Peter's place in the chat. Thank you so much. Apparently she died.
What the fuck? Yeah, apparently that breaks our bought though, so
oh no, oh no, sorry, oh god. I love you guys.
Oh they fixed it. Okay, okay, okay, but not the
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five show. We're on episode thirty three, but we just have like an
arc reset somehow. It's a good point. Oh god, it's so good
for the end of the show. There's like eight episodes left. Wow,
you got triggered PB again. I was gonna say, just activated activated the
Ragtags trap card. I actually I really enjoy that show. Like I have
a routine, you know, like when my day on the Thursdays you start.
Thank you Jay, I'm watch Stephen. I have been your administrator today.
Thanks as always, chat. We appreciate you, We love you.
Thanks for hanging out with us, Thanks for all of the wonderful RP from
you, and thank you for just participating and being awesome. And thanks for
the fan art and all the amazing stuff. I'd love to see fan art
of the epic group hug. Let's get some super positive, happy fan art
to outweigh the emotional turmoil that I have wrought upon these five individuals. I'm
so happy. It was crazy. I was like, oh well that was
the goal. I was trying to. I was trying. I was slowly
like increasing the volume on the music. The whole time. I was just
like trying to trying to make it as epic as possible sense of friendship and
family and then only coming to realize it then and there was just such like
like who is around me? You know, it's such a maybe this is
our family now exactly exactly. Think the the weirdest thing about it for me
is that I'm just gonna It's just the knowledge that I'm going to wake up
one day and not care that I don't remember anymore because I'm not even going
to remember what I for what I need to remember. I'm just going to
wake up and just be like, oh, look at that. It's a
beautiful day in the City of Bridges. Yeah. I hope, I hope
a beautiful day doesn't exist in New min Era. Yeah, you know what
I said. My first reaction was like, I wonder if my insomnia will
be cured, Like if I just roll into this NPC, do I just
get like a whole refresh and restart, Like, yeah, it's tragic,
but I just want to point out that Peebe's going to turn to mister Rogers
when she becomes an MPC full fledged I think so I probably would. I
probably would. Actually, I'd be that. I'd be that fu Oh my
god, I'd be that MPC. You come into my house, you break
all my pots, and I'm like, oh, yeah, that's frue about
right, straight out of a Zelda game. Okay, have a good day.
Oh you found my cigarette stash of five roopies over there. Okay,
that's my safe. You got it. I guess it's yours. Yes.
So thank you so much to myth pocket, uh Nega, orks, Peb
and Jay for being awesome role players. I appreciate you. Thank you for
trusting me to do this, uh and making you feel horrible. I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry. But at the same time, it makes her some
damn good twitch. That's some content. Thanks everybody so much for watching,
and thank you Monty Cook Games for sponsoring the show. Make sure that you
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of this world if every human death gave her a vision of her husband one
last time. God, watching Peeb read that was like, oh my god,
how could he say that? Yeah, he's right, I mean I'm
not I would be tempted. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay.
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