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this wise, I love that that. Don't do that, Paul, Paul,
you need the other no, no, no speaking. Oh he just
posted today. You need the Yeah, you need the standing up corruption.
Oh, the one from yesterday. Speaking of corruption, there's a bar the
bottom right hand corner, which you can clearly see we are already corrupted.
Uh. That bars has two purposes. One is when that bar fields dot
gets what the hell she wants to us. But two, every single dot
that goes into that barn goes back Here is one of the beauty from Nason
players. You see here before you. That being said, I'll turn these
ord a dot to take us into the world like choreo. So hard.
He is trying so hard to get through this, and there are so many
times I just really wanted to just stop you the audiolf. So okay.
Um, last time we the party h after receiving information and deciding from from
a shared vision between twel and Tamirror that they needed to um go down to
Little Algal. Most importantly, if they're going to go to the swamps um
and bypass trying to bypass everything in between, which seems to be what the
parties like mutual agreement is um they need a boat because the swamps cannot be
traversed on foot. UM unsure if the crawler will make it or might be
too heavy, A boat seems to be the right option, and so they
head down to Little Algal, a docs district at the base of the mo
a lift. It sits on a delta and where a couple of rivers basically
meet, one of which is possibly the trail that the pods have been shipped
down, and one of the rivers seems to be a means of transportation,
and they end up in Little Algal in this warehouse district. But none of
that really mattered last episode, because when they got to Little Alagle, everything
turned to a pool just ripened space pooh as, Yes it did, because
their individual traumas and issues seem to come to the surface. Yeah, I'm
going to say that to Mere found an interesting item that seems to give him
a deeper look, most importantly into Luma and the growing darkness that sits at
her core and center that seems to be seeping its way outwards, and they
got down there and witness to murder an assassination of the woman that samere and
Tal saw in a vision and decided to take action, and in doing so
caused a strange series of events that led them into an empty warehouse where there
are no pods and one end of it is on fire. Literally. Soul
did have a little tiff with a rather well equipped agent who tried to make
off with the data pad and failed. And I believe who's got the data
pad? So let's got the data pad? Okay, yeah, And we
left off with the sound of cracking bottles like maltaugs on the far end of
this old, rotten, wooden warehouse, the entire end of it. The
opposite door goes up in flames. All of you look right and hear a
similar crack as the door that you all came in also now lights up in
flame. The only way out are the garage doors ahead of you, very
large, attached to a chain pulley system. They are on lock. Lumara
runs over to the dead woman. She takes a look at her. I'm
going to spend some darkness points. Actually, here's what I'm gonna do.
I can't find my darkness points card, y'all, and I'm really upset about
it. I have kept it this whole time. So what I'm gonna do
is keep track of what I spin, because let me tell you, I
got darkness to spend. I do remember that much, and then when I
find my darkness card, I will subtrack from it so that I can have
the correct amount. So I'm going to spend some serious darkness points here,
like one two. This will be a two spend. As Lumara leans over
this woman in a rather strange and personal way and looks her kind of dead
in the eyes and kisses her. And as she does, the kiss lingers
for a moment, and as Lamara pulls away, you see there is a
wisp and essence, a sliver of something that connects between their mouths. And
as Lumara pulls away, the woman sits forward, her eyes filled with blackness.
She looks right at Lumara. The walls around you are beginning to burn.
What do you all do? Find evidence as fast as we can before
it's gone. Tamir's gonna go, fucking guy, He's gonna How often do
those glasses stay activated? How how long? As long as you wear them.
It's like it's like putting on a pair of sunglasses with a lens sitting
on them. They just are until you move them or change them. Yet
Goo Google, he hadn't taken them off. Um. Yeah whatever. If
there's any trace of the emissary, any residue, he wants to find it
and will risk a little bit of burning to roll an investigation with a with
a plus two. I'm gonna actually give you a plus two with these glasses
because it'll be very obvious tells essentially, just looking between Malik and Lumara panicked?
Do I do we do? I know this? Oh? Fuck?
Okay, no, okay, okay, okay, hang on, I'm on
on the right page. I'm sorry. Um do we noticed the garage door
being the only way out? Yes, it is right now, it is
not on fire. Basically, picture this kind of a long, narrow building,
maybe like a could be a boat dock, but the ground is solid,
and there are two massive garage doors like roll up steel doors that are
on a pulley system on the ends where regular oak doors that you open with
like a door knob, but they're on fire, and the fire is moving
inwards on the building. I'm gonna put the data pad in my bag and
run towards the door. You said it's based off of a Pulley system.
If it does it look like if I pull down it opens it or it
being built down. There is a lock on it. There's a massive lock.
You can try to break the lock. Yeah. Can I turn on
my well, I am What I want to do is I want to turn
on my mercury mercury mercury dagger. Yes, And you like try to try
to try to burn through it, try to melt it, okay, okay,
Well, since it's O no, no, since it's not a you
know, a light a sword, um it uh is just a mercury sword.
It's gonna take you second because you're literally melting steel. Uh this yeah
uh And so hey, you hold it to it. It's gonna take you
until the end of next turn to burn through the like you bolt that's on
this set of chain. That's what I work on. Then Malik, who
was absolutely not done yelling and everyone uh sees the need for temperance at this
moment. Uh. And he actually like runs over to Lamara um and like
kind of like attempt to, like Scooper, because she's clearly not aware of
what's happening. So like he like, if she's like kneeling down, he's
like gonna try to get like one arm like under towards her stomach and like
bring her away from this corpse. She puts a kind of puts a yeah,
yeah, She puts a hand kind of on you, like don't wait,
don't move me kind of a thing as she kind of maintains and locks
eyes with these just black pits uh in this woman's skull um and she sits
up kind of pasty white Tao, what do you do? God? Now
she's she's literally just standing there like I don't know. Great, she's Lumara
looks at this woman and goes, tell me where are they taking them?
The body goes as its mouth drops open, and this kind of echoed sound
over ripping flames beginning to get very hot, and the smoke is becoming difficult
to breathe. Um Lumara does not budge, so she does grip your shirt
a smidge tighter there. Uh, I hate this, I know you do,
I know you do. I can't. It's it's human instinct. And
at a minimum. Will he kiss a human? He is? He's standing
there bar. Yeah, it's the low bar. He's there, and with
the weirdness and the scream, there's just that that snap and he looks at
this creature with its black eyes. Okay, I need yeah, you do,
Um, I need you to make me a role. Actually, what
hards do we have to play? Shit? Do you have the faceless?
Oh no, don't do that. It's the misfortune car. I'm gonna play
that. I can't. I'm sorry, I'm so bad. Okay, So
I'm I'm gonna have you roll. Um, this is gonna be like a
mania. This isn't one of the sicknesses off the tigle. You have to
roll a D six. Um, you pull it really quick. Question.
Um, oh that's a vampire book. That is definitely yeah, I'm not
rolling on that table at all for the record. That okay, okay,
okay, um, okay, it's back here. He's bad guys, because
oh here we go. Okay, yeah, so roll me a D six.
Okay, here it comes here, comes here, comes here, it
comes here, it comes for three. Okay, Um, don't make that
noise. That's somehow worse than the first noise. I don't like that noise
at all. You know what, I'm gonna spin a darkest point. How
do you reroll? Dot? I'm gonna she just really didn't like that one.
Okay, go on, so we already have it in play. I'm
gonna do something here, Dot that I'm going to hate. So you use
the faceless card, which means I need to draw a new card. It
does. I'm gonna go ahead and put the new card I drew on the
board for you. Oh I got a connection? I did. I did
too. We all refresh the reach and then don't think you're getting out of
this reroll. I just it might be worse if you look at the card.
Fuck, okay, you would be so okay. So here's my question.
Did you see the card? No? Okay, I want to know.
Are you saying played this card for me to play this card instead of
misfortune? No? I mean like my role might be this card. I
see, Oh where does? I can't I could double play? I can't
see cards? Where am I? Well? Twenty? Please? I just
want my Oh no, I can't my card. My card is gone.
Um just it. I'm gonna I'm gonna put it in the in the chat
to you, because I'll be honest with what the card it's very here.
No, no, no, the card I drew the card I played face?
Yeah? Which one did? Okay? Ye tell me which one?
You? I just put it in chat for you. Oh you did?
Yeah? Cat? Why? Oh my god? This is gonna be yeah,
okay, fun fun, but it's it's I'm not wrong that d be
a better option than what fuck? Okay, I will let me let me
pull that card so that it's in play. Okay, great, thank you,
so that it's there so everybody can see it. Huh sweet combat scene,
so that I'll chat and see this one. Malik pulled the Gin card,
which seems all too appropriate, since the darkness that is raging through the
undead that h Luma has risen is in fact, um you know, she
is in fact kind of turning into a Gin. And so then grabs hold
of you. You can't uh move. You seem locked in place, staring
into this deep black void and your cored, your spirit, your soul,
whatever it is, Malik calls it, the essence of your being falls into
an inky place, a place of darkness and nightmares. And as it does,
and you hear yourself simply cry out in your own ears. The rest
of you see as Lumara holds eye contact. This creature is like ah Taber
is frozen, I mean, Malik's frozen. Um Lumara begins to pull something
from a fucking ball due a kind of blue mist begins to kind of leave
his orifices, and it seems to be absorbing into into Lumara as if feeding
her or sustaining her in some way. Now you don't see this soul because
guess what, you're busy cutting the lie. Could I hear it? You?
Could you hear that? And if you turn around, you see this
happening to mirror you were busy at investigating. I'm gonna cut back to your
critical success before you hear any sounds or squeals. You find a location with
your critical success and these glasses on. You can see it, the place
where their coffin set. The It's it's as if it's as if a point
tollism holograph of just dust and particles in the air that make a space that
once was their pod. You can see it there. H that's about all
that you can see. There is um just a place and then you can
see that it was definitely moved, and there is a little bit of a
trail. Though at this point you have to back up because the fire on
the far end is getting really bad um and is pushing in UM. So
as you kind of step back and see it, you can see the trail
is going out of one of the larger bay doors, in fact, the
one that Seoul is currently trying to cut open. But then your ears are
pierced with a strange squeal as out of your peripheral vision you see your brother
freeze and something strange begin to happen. Town. You are the only person
free to be able to do anything in this exact moment, So I can
I see the trail leading to Lamara. You see a trail leading to Seoul
like out the bay door like they took they took its pod now you oh
you mean Lamar? Oh yeah, fuck the emissary. Yes, you can
see it. You can see some kind of strange like it's like your brother's
like frozen, um and she's like pulling something out of him and she's absorbing
it. How I was gonna ask, am I allowed to stop doing what
I'm doing? Um? Yes, yes, now, But I want tal
to react and then everybody is free. We'll go into free action. H
I think the fact that she sees Lumara pulling something from Malik, She's gonna
say, Lumara, what are you doing? Don't do that? Ah?
Can you stop the sound? Please? Being okay, you say, can
you please stop the sound? Lumara doesn't move, Malik doesn't move. The
creature doesn't move, but their mouth remains rather a gape and open in an
unnatural way. But the sound is silence. What are you taking from blink?
Oh? My god? To mere barrel down and tackle Laura to the
ground. You sure can, because he can see what's inside her right now,
and it is. It is. It's as if something at her core
is undulating and like growing, and it's beginning to seep into her veins.
It grows as if you've dripped ink into water. Ah yeah, yeah,
okay, take her down? Yeah, okay, I'm gonna okay, So
I'm gonna let you roll. What would you like to do? Um?
I'm also going to answer a very important chat question that came from chat.
I just feel like this is the perfect time. The corruption bar is hey
mechanism in which you can give me power to cause chaos. That is what
it is. You fill it with your kind and generous bits, tips and
things UM and or donations. And when UM the bar fills, I bring
a little bit of chaos. Sometimes I'll play one of their cards that's on
the table. Oh, by the way, since I've played both of these,
now you're gonna need to draw another one. Be like death. Keep
blaming Mike, Keep blaming Mike. Yeah, am I able to stop doing
what I'm doing? Um? Yes, you're only have you are halfway through
the lock the first one. Let's go, you'll be able to remove it.
I'm gonna yell at how And because he's the closest, right, or
is Tamir the closest, I would say to Mers, Probably closest, because
Tamir's running for Lumar Okay bolting to just Na Kuld. I see his projection
of where he's going, Like, does it look like he's going towards a
perception? Can you perceive this moment? Can you figure out where he's going
in advance? What do you mean? I'm sorry? Uh? Is there
a perception? Perception? Right? Or observation? Observation? Observation? I'm
sorry yeah, right, eventually, I'll be honest. Yes, you are
very he is very clearly running at Lumara. This is this is a fucking
hard situation. Okay, what did you want me to roll to tackle her?
Uh? In this case is Oh my gosh, I'm gonna have to.
Yeah, I'm gonna yeah, it would be a force and I'm gonna
have to because you're not really trying to like do damage. You just you're
just trying to tackle her and stop this. Okay, cool, got it?
So you maybe try to knock her out like like, okay, that's
a whole Okay, I's so stopped right now. Okay, so yeah,
rolla. I'm gonna let this be a force or melee combat. I'm sorry,
this is a melee combat. I like force batter I know you do,
but it's not. It's a melee combat. I don't know this is
she's also gonna roll melee combat. I'm gonna a failure to fail. I'm
gonna give you. I'm gonna give you darkness. Yes, this is this
is this is my brother, Like, okay, damn it, Okay,
um you run to tackle her? Um Man, I know this is like
a fucking high tense moment. But I just imagine that comically right, just
like like you have you have engineering nerd to me or just running through the
thing and just like he like like he like dives over her like dramatically and
completely eats it or just too far like too short and eats ship. That's
exactly like to make. I would like to make a move, but I
want to I'm gonna wait until after whatever happens Joey. Okay, so she
also failed, so I am going to give it to you to me or
you do not knock her out, you do manage to grab her ah and
remove her Like basically she was kind of down on her knees like in front
of this woman, so you're able to like tackle her and like I guess
put her into a position prone position like you tackle her over You're not very
far. The thing is right in front of you. Just still, Okay,
I wanna I'm gonna be like Tao helped to me or and I'd be
like point at the ah. Thanks. At that point, I think tal
just kind of snaps out of it and tries and says Lamara stop and tries
to break Lumara's grip on Malik and pull them apart. I need all of
you, all of you to roll a How do I want to do this
kindly? No, Um, this is going to be Um. This isn't
even your mind, This is just your your strength. It's it's getting hot,
very hot. Um. This building is going up very quickly. Um.
Your time for escape is slimming. And more importantly, there is a
lot of smoke. Um. It's beginning difficult to see, and more importantly,
it's beginning difficult to breathe. I need all of you to make strength
checks. I did end up taking Rugged, Right, What does rugged do?
It's three armor against natural damage. Then it's not affected. Then it
is not affecting you yet. Can I use the forces actually, like brute
strength to move something? Yeah? Okay, now it's getting pretty bad.
Did you learn manage? You're managing through the other two of you. You
cannot do anything for a coughing spit. Okay, I'm only this popcorn.
Yeah, I'm I'm just gonna try to break Lumara's grip. It's not hard.
Sure, body immediately goes limp. The dead body that was sit forward
flops to the ground. Their head smashes to wood. Okay, they go
on limp, eyes close, I speaking. Oh yeah, Actually, I
gotta have one more role because this is gonna be important for you. Malik.
You're released from whatever dark, deep place that you were in. Um
I need you for I need you roll wits for me. Okay, just
straight up wits, just straight just wits me. Can you can your physical
body is is having problems? Can your mental I would fucking hope so mean
too, brand Wow, I'm gonna give you a darkness point that's like my
I have so many I'm loving this. All of those crates early in the
game, for the matter, it's happening. Two failures, you got it.
The leak goes limp, all three of them flat. Great. I
put Lumara over one shoulder and I start trying to get to mirror up.
How you can roll a force? Okay, oh, by the way,
that I probably wouldn't have stopped with the Yes you watched how haul maraa over
her shoulder? Wow, you gotta go. And I pull the scarf up
over my mouth. That covers a little bit better. You ruin them all.
We gotta go. It looks at the lock that, like Luck has
had one piece like freeze so you're able to like finagle the walk off.
Somebody's gonna need to pull the change. As soon as that's off, I'm
gonna just start pulling roll a force. It's heavy. Yeah, I'm rolling
it again. I'm nice. Give me that darkness, okay, okay,
yeah, Slowly the door begins to come up this heavy metal. It is
just like he eat the flames and the smoke begins to pour out. I'm
going to spend the darkness point that apologist gave me to say, will you
open up this store? Fresh oxygen pours in. I need all of you
to make dexterity or I'm sorry, agility checks. I will take it as
a dexterity if you have it. Don I'm currently unconscious you are, so
you can't make one. Okay, cool, I was moving to get Would
you like to protect him with your body? I would Okay, I'm still
going to take a dexterity, which is my worst skill I have to day.
Oh god, oh I would I have noticed because I wanted to have
run out first. If I think a moment, would I see that like
Molik? Not there? Uh? What do you mean? Not there?
Like not with I'm assuming oh you would have. You would have seen them
all probably flop down as you're like trying to pull this door open to let
them out. I mean their bodies went limp and then you took action,
so you rob, you would have seen them passed out. Am I able
to run towards them? Um? Not without dropping the door? Yeah.
Tal's trying to trying to help get everybody up. Oh okay, so the
Tal has Lumara on her shoulder and she was running for the door. She
would be first out. No, I was trying to make sure that everybody
was getting out. Uh. Then yeah, you see all three of them
smacked the door smashes down. But before any of that could happen, the
flames do lap they build, so I got a dexterity from everyone that could
take one. So, no, protect your brother from damage, but you
take it instead, and the flames uh catch holds of the sooth you're wearing,
um, and they kind of lap up and over you. Um and
heat up very quickly. Um, and it boils the skin a bit,
So you're gonna take some burns to the skin. UM. I would say
probably too. I don't know what fire is in this game, but skirt.
I'm gonna say, probably too damage to just fire damage period. Usual
should be able to armor three dice three. He has three, specifically four
natural armor from natural that's right, that's right, Yeah, so roll them
up. I'm just gonna roll strength because it's three die. Okay, yeah,
that's fine, So just pop up. Uh you failed, so you
take the damage all of it too. Um as you see that when you
run over sewell, uh taw succeeded. She managed to get her and Lumara
like out of a massive flame that kind of lapped inwards. Um. You
are all kind of now huddled in a pile near kind of the center point
of this warehouse, staring at one of these doors. Um, all near
the ground. There's a lot of flame and smoke on top of you.
Pieces are beginning to fall, especially near the end where the flames started.
I would like to try to pick up to mirror. Oh wait, is
he on the ground. I would like to make sure that the fire is
out off of him. I don't think he cares. He's gonna just try
to get up to I would say at this point, he's not like he's
not on fire. It's more that he has sustained second degree. I'm gonna
try to pick up a leak then, okay, roll of force. He
is a he's a limpis he's a he's a heavy limp fish man. Yeah,
I got two. Um you fling him over your shoulder. All three
of you can make it too, kind of um. Hovering and walking to
the main door. Somebody needs to open it to me, is the only
one with hands free, so he'll try to fumble to open up the door
for a second week. I will try to hope y'all are ready for this.
Y'all were thinking this was gonna be some emotional rpy would would one find
these holes? Holes? Holes? Actually has already hit all of this and
kind of ignited it so it doesn't go up as much, but flames do
lap around the edges of this door. As to me, or hauls it
up. Strength strength, strength, Um. The four of you are able
to escape. People are standing around gasping, some people screaming off in the
distance. You hear a strange siren, probably somebody coming to put this out,
Tamir. You get the door high enough, you're gonna have to make
an agility roll a dexterity to dive to make it and not be trapped.
I was gonna say when when he gets the door open, I say,
okay, I I hold the rope. I say, okay, go ahead
here take lumara. Somebody's on got to be on the inside. He can't.
You have to roll it in. Probably would have. You would have
to roll a two to hold it, and if not, it would close
and like out help. Okay, just go. You both have people on
your shoulders. SA mirror needs to roll okay, a dexterity check to dive
out behind you. Come on, you can do it. I would just
go. You can do it dexterity if you've got it. A camera,
okay, it's okay, it's okay. It doesn't have to be pretty,
it doesn't have to look good. You just got to get out the end.
Give him a darkness point, Just do it. We need the engineer.
Nope. I We'll spend a darkness point after putting all of you through
this. I play a card. Wow, what is happening? Oh God?
I play a card and I will play Samr's card. What was that?
Samir has been completely selfless in the midst of all of the chaos,
and though he is struggling with his humanity. He still took damage for his
brother. Fuck and more importantly, he was the one who held the door.
So the deck hand, knowing what hard work and sacrifice looks like better
than anyone, gives to Mirror something nothing big, not even a miracle.
As the police system breaks under the force, and as it does, it
does not cause the door to drop, but to fall open to mirror at
a single moment. You know this is not how physics work, but it
does not matter. The deckhand has given you another chance. And as you
crawl your way out of the dense black smoke that pours from the open mouth
of this warehouse, the five of you, now covered in soot, stand
on the docks. People point, but you are left with a moment to
breathe fresh swamp air. Can I run over to ta mirror and like kind
of pat the fire out on him? Yeah, there's like some there's like
some embering pieces that you can like put them out. I'm gonna trying to
see if Lumar is okay, Malik just throw on the floor. She is
breathing. Uh, it's heavy and you can kind of see she kind of
coughs, but her her eyes remain rather closed. Um, Malik is the
same, all right. Yeah, Tamir would be like, like soul,
get off me and like just go to his brother, Yeah Malik, and
he's like like cradling him, like just lifting him up and just you like
to make a metacurgy check. Can you make a metacurch can't make a metacourgy
check. No. The only people who have ever made metacurgy checks on this
show out. Oh yeah, leek who took it last level up? Huh?
This is yeah. I would say that um working on this ship and
in engine rooms and WHATNOTU tal has seen small fires before and generally knows common
knowledge stuff for it. Um, I don't know. Um, so does
it? Look what actually is outside here? Basically ashould come out. There's
another warehouse there only one row before you reach the like open market area where
you were at three two corruptionsle two corruption bars. Awesome, thanks chat little
algal police. You can hear them, We can hear them, but we
don't see them, right, Uh so will you do? They're beginning to
part the crowd. Do you hear them going step back? Step back?
This is this is unsafe. Uh clear. We must evacuate the area because
the docks are now beginning to burn. Great, this is wooden warehouse docks,
really really trying to go get a boat? All right, Uh oh,
we need to leave me you know, we need to go. Now,
come on, all right, let's go. Um is anyone unconscious?
Yeah, Malik and Um, I will take Lumara. I'll get out.
I'm just I'm before I don't even say him's gonna go and just pick up
Malike. No, no, no, no, I'm holding on to his
brother. You will not be allowed to touch him. Okay, Well I
come up like, are you do you? Are you sure? Come on,
let's go. Okay, Well, the deck cann can give you some
things, but they cannot give you everything. And now the little Algal police
show up very quickly. You actually have to run in the direction like around
the fire and deeper into the warehouse is to be able to lose them,
because the streets are full of people that are beginning to crowd around this area.
This this now crime scene. Yeah, you move at a pretty slow
pace because you carry in two people. Now I am going to allow one
of you, one of you, because I'm a kind of you to roll
the infiltration to stay and unnoticed and unseen carrying two limp bodies through a crowded
street. I mean you're both holding bodies. I guess I have that's partially
buried but sold. You've got You've got the best infiltrate right, I have
nothing. Okay, you roll it, roll the infiltration, Paul. This
is your area of expertise, Paul. So this is your moment. Get
us out of this really shitty situation. Buddy. I I'm I'm gonna say
so. You gotta get us out. Limited success, goodness us about people
are very distracted, very distracted. The problem is these are deep warehouses.
You're gonna have to go back out into the crowds and cross across to the
docks to actually get to boats. But you could potentially stop here and rest
for a second and be unnoticed. You're far enough away at this point and
deep enough into the docks. Smoke fills the sky and you can see actually
a large plane, like low hanging like aircraft is flying over and they drop
a mass ton of water over the area behind all of you. There's like
a misting that fills the air, making the dirt and now kind of muddy
on the docks. So if I look back, we are at a safe
distance. Correct. So I'm gonna tell I'm gonna walk over to the towel
and be like, take a minute, make sure everyone's okay. I'm gonna
go see if we can find a way around this. And then I would
like to try and not go far, but just like scalp the area and
see if I can find I want to find the best possible route to go
unnoticed and towards like the ships, because my mind as we're still trying to
get this ship. Yeah, you're still trying to get across the boat.
Yeah, you're gonna need to You're gonna need to roll another infiltration. Okay,
oh okay, critical very nice. You see that they're, like I
said, the crowd's kind of moving. You wait for the perfect moment to
cross a rather large street like would a dirt and wood path that cuts across
to the actual like water's edge where the docks sit, and you see a
boat. One boat. Uh, it is large enough to carry all of
you, though it will be a tight fit, especially with anything that you're
carrying with you. Um. It has a single like kind of large fan
on the back and it seems to potentially hover above just above the surface of
the water. Seems to be the way that it functions. Um, almost
if it glides on the surface, like the way you toss a rock.
Um. And so it um. It is unmanned and you are able to
get to it. Somebody needs to start it and you have no key,
can I, Jerry rget I don't know can yet? I don't. I
don't have any like, I don't any like tech or anything um with my
knowledge as a oh am am, I the only one there right now?
Or oh you you basically moved the party and you got to ussure everybody across
everybody is at the boat. Yeah, okay, so yeah, I'll immediately
just go start looking at it to see if I, first of all,
can drive it, and second of all, um, if I can start
it. Piot roll a pilot roll. Yes, you have no problem hot
wiring this thing. Yeah, I just start bottom of the barrel piloting one
oh one, um and you do. So I start looking at it and
I'm like, yeah, actually dat and I just start I get down and
start working on the wires. I'm like that, And I actually took one
of these apart one time I was like nine or ten, I think,
and uh, just start I start talking about that as as I'm you two
together, you hear that, like and then the whole craft the craft like
boots up and like a puck on like an air hockey table. It floats
just above the surface of the water. The fan begins to spin and tal
begins telling stories. Um, so you're able and to me or you're able
to load Malik and Lamara onto the boat, no problem, though they do
still lay and hang limp. Yeah, well whatever he can to just like
he is ignoring everything else at this point he is with his brother. If
there are any bird mark like he's treating the like like like first responder style,
like anything that he could take care of. But like it seems like
your brother talk to him, Yeah, cald he see anything? Is there
anything with the glasses? But like how good call good call stuff before you
actually have to maybe mess with your settings a little bit shit, oh okay,
and you you're like you don't see anything. You're like, well,
screw it, I'll you gotta beat through the multi settings. And then it
does something kind of pangs a little bit. Um. Uh, since I've
used a lot of darkness points. I will not make you give me one
for activating them. He's already had them on. UM. I'll be kind
and you look kind of at your brother. This is um. It is
it going through the layers of an uh like an X ray or of a
body, as if you're flipping through like UM, transparency sheets for all you
young uns out there that don't know what a transparency sheet is, like Google,
but like you're flipping through the transparencyets up. Oh you know, Okay,
I'm gonna say it's like flipping through the transparency sheets of an encyclopedia.
Another thing you should go look up UM and you flip and you flipping,
you flip, and you get to the one that seems to be almost like
a CT scan of Sprain. It kind of looks at the neurological activity that
is going on, UM. And what you see is that, Um,
his brain is active and in uh relatively normal ways, but deep in in
kind of in the cranium, like in his skull. In his brain there
is a very small black dot. It just lurks there. I look at
to mirror anything I know, it doesn't. Is there any inkling as to
what that is. I'm gonna take the boat off a little bit, just
to another location, kind of in the direction that we want to go,
but not like where we stole it from. Good call um, tell,
are you gonna just take the boat out while all of this is going down
and you're gonna start moving? Yeah, I'm gonna warn everybody first. Hey,
um, I'm actually gonna steal this now and we'll take it somewhere else
where we can talk and stuff, but we need to go. Um,
Doug, this is Coriolis free. Um yeah, uh um, please clear
fall of that because that's chief material spice dance. Uh so, uh gosh,
so many things are happening right now. Okay, Tale takes it out.
Tale make a piloting check. All right, I'm good. I'm so
scared. And then Tamir, I promise I'll answer your question because I don't
know you're ready for it. Okay, No, this is not what you're
used to driving at all. It has like a single like stick that moves
the fan that adjust this craft as it hot like just like slides along the
top of the water. It takes a second. Things are a little bumpy,
y'all. There's some turbulence as you try to get out of this area,
Um soul, I'm gonna let you make the survival check to navigate through
the swamp to know which direction to go to. Mer As you stare deep
into your brother's brain and you stare at this black dot, you are not
You are not a physician. You are not a medic. But if this
is the CT scale layer, like scan um, it seems to be that
there's possibly a tumor or something growing there. Also thought, I don't have
survival. Great errors were all of survival shit. Sorry, ars, I
don't have survival either. I have what I have a talent called quickness route.
Can I use that? Yeah, that's our that's our group talent.
And I was going to ask, absolutely, okay, you didn't actually want
to like take the safest route to get to the temple that we believe is
the correct one. However, I'm going to kind to make a bit stop
along the way someone that seems to safe to just sit for a few moments
and gather okay to me or I do also need you. I know this
is a lot right now. I need you. Don't also draw a deck
canned card just so that we have one in play. Oh my gosh,
because I think I left hers on the table. Yeah, I didn't.
Did it? Did it? Do it? Did it? Did it?
Oh? I'm I'm sorry. I'm growing on different layers. I don't see
one. Uh did you dry? There's a ship that's the one that I
played. It ran out of cards. It ran out of cards. Oh,
I need to I need to um. Sorry, that's okay, shuffle
try now, Okay, there go in play. We have start us.
Okay, I'm gonna take that card. Thank you. I'm going to put
a ship back because that's how it works. Now use the group talent to
navigate your way through. I'm gonna change our map real quick. Back to
the overlooking kupa map, or at least around the monolith. Okay, all
right, here we are in little Algal. This is the rather large delta
that you are currently leaving. You already had a general idea that the Sultra
swamps are where you are headed. This is actually rather north of where you
are currently located. You have quite a ways to travel through the swamp,
and unfortunately, there is only one river that really connects directly into the swamps
that navigates out of this delta, and that is actually this one right here,
the mission or the midsion. I don't know how to say that.
I can't even see it. I don't even know if that's an iron l
I'm so blind. It's so old. Yeah, mission mission, the mission,
and basically it runs off the maps. You can't see it. But
if you can see my pointer or it kind of comes up out here and
loops up into this kind of open bog back this direction. I said,
I can draw on this, can I Oh my god, looky, looky,
that's going to do a thing. It kind of comes up and loops
up this way and it kind of dumps into this, uh, this bog
out here right. Um, don't make fun of my water, y'all?
Okay, So you're able to kind of follow it up and around, and
it's actually not until you get to the bog that you're able to take a
break. So you have about forty minute boat ride north around the city through
open swamp or through like open river up towards this swamp and it is dead
jungle and forest unforgiving. Um, since we just dealt with a fire,
I will not play anything here. Instead, we see the camera cut to
to meter during this ride, who is spending time with his brother to Beere's
anything else you'd like to do? Actually, let me roll for something really
quick. Yes, yes, I forgot. I have an environmental scanner.
I don't know if that's useful or not. Here it is useful. You
use the environmental scanner. Um. It tells you that the humidity like the
humidity levels three the third darkness far. I'm sorry, I won't ease it.
I'm sorry for you get it, I take it back? Okay,
you begin skimming through the environmental scanner. The environmental scanner acts somewhere between like
if you base information and a light encyclopedia um. It lists a few love
me, I gotta pull some things up. It's time now, y'all.
Um. It list a few creatures native here um. You also list what
are known as a few tribes that are native here um. In a way.
Uh, you know that the Znithians you would be aware of this.
Most everybody is we'll say soul though dense has general knowledge of his people.
Is that not the correct term? Seul? Take dark this point for that
one does? Oh? That was really good. I know you ate it.
You earned it. You really came in with that was that was like
even Suel knows, bless his heart, bless his heart, but he is
a flare had the Znithians when they departed the ship, the ones that settled
here, some of them spread out amongst the jungles and kind of became one
with them in some ways. They started different lifestyles and those that live at
the base of the monolith and definitely those that live in the monolith. Yeah,
yeah, thank you so much, Doug. This is gonna be I'm
very excited for this. Samir. My question stands, what do you do
while we traveled down the river for your brother? Other than from once you
can tell there's nothing that you can do. That's what. He's in a
sleeping type state, not a proper coma, but just needs to sleep it
off. I mean, what else can he see? What the glasses on
and Lamara tall. You want to look at Lumara. Yeah, he's a
little angry because she fucking did this. You look at Lumara too. Her
brain activities seems rather normal, as if she is sleeping, she's breathing.
But when you switch back, like there's you run a CT scan. She
is a very healthy woman. She has really good lungs, her pulse,
everything that's kind of showing up seems to be right. But you switch back
to the other setting the first one. The void in her chest of blackness
is definitely larger than it was the last time. Can I try to wake
her? Sure? Uh? She yes? She startles away. Where are
we? He has her by like the cow? What did you do to
my brother? I don't know where are we? Do you feel that?
Lamara? No? I need She like kind of shifts her so she could
see Malik unconscious. Oh, Malie, you don't do that? And did
she canna do? I don't know. Let me fucking him and she kind
of like swapped her hands to the side. She crawls across the boat.
Um, she's breathing really heavy shoes. What is it? What is that?
Do you feel that we're on a boat? Lamara, it's it's fine,
it's fine. And she kind of crawls over to to Malik. Um,
she's gonna run a proper diagnostic on him in since she can do that
because she's a doctor, a doctor, doctor of psychology, a woman.
She begins to look him over. She checks her pulse. She says he's
he's breathing. He seems to be in a deep sleep. What are you
talking about? There's something in his head. You put it there. I
did not put anything in his head. You were certainly removed from something.
What are you talking about? Hey, hey, everyone needs to relax.
We're on a rickety boat and you guys going crazy. He's making me sea
sick. Okay, now, Lamara, focus here. Do you remember anything
that just happened. What's the last thing you remember? A woman? She
spoke to me, Sure she she told me that? And the camera cuts?
What the fuck? To Malik? This episode just be called jump Scares
Malik. Yeah, when the darkness let hold of you, you were able
to kick your way to the surface. Your body starts to breathe again.
But you aren't in little Algal. Your conscious mind seems to be somewhere else,
in an empty black space. You could hear the slight sound of dripping
off in the distance, the rusty pipe into a bucket. And against the
darkness is this clear silhouette of Lumara. She stands there looking at you,
and she she she smiles, and she reaches out her hand. She is
effervescent and glowing, and all I see around me is just abject darkness.
It's abject darkness. Do I have any like it? Cognitive reasoning? Do
I do? I remember what just happened in the warehouse. You remember the
fire and the dead woman, and you remember her sitting up? Okay,
and now you are here? Does Lamara have my SHEI mug scrap tie on
her wrist? She wears it actually around her neck like tucked under her white
doctor's coat, which is pristine and untouched. It's Chris all the way to
the end. And it matches her like very form fitting white suit that she
wears underneath it. This is not the last thing she was wearing. Yeah,
I think I feel like Malik realizes that because he is the one that
put the shimag scrap on her, and like there was a second where he
like put a hand out towards her, and then it like recoils because he
sees that whatever this is is different than the Lamara he knows, and he
just stands there and he says, what is this? Um, I don't
know? Very quiet, Well I'm Lamara. No you're not. Yeah,
I am, You're not the Lamar that I know. Well, that seems
rather unreasonable because in the fact that I'm the lamar you created. What does
that mean? Well, it means that, cognitively speaking, we create.
Visage is for the people in our lives. It's how we dream with them.
It's how we interact with them in a subconscious way, on a subconscious
level, so that we can deal with other things. I feel like fucking
hate sometimes, he like he processes this and then like looks at this Lamara
and realizes the mental changes that have been made, and he goes, ah,
fuck, that figures. How do I get out of this? How
do you get out of all of your dreams? I wake up? Correct?
How do I wake up when you're ready? Do I just like say
I'm ready to wake up? You said it? It does not seem to
have worked, all right, I'm a lout of ideas here. That does
not seem like human leak. You're right, And he like reaches over and
like pinches it. Fuck. Okay, that did work either. So could
try some kind of physical spark, could potentially, you know, reignite the
brain to connect with the body. Wait, is this like lucid dreaming kind
of whatever? I want? Here? I don't know, can you?
I don't know you're like a construct or whatever not equally unhelpful, and he
like thanks for a second and then fuck it. And he like raises his
arms and like puts his hands down as if he just so, I'm into
keyboards. I can see if this works, and he just starts typing on
nothing. You do this thing, I'm going to have you roll wits perfect?
Do you have the wits to to actually manifest this thing? And you're
Lucia dreaming? This might be my favorite scene ever us mind too. I
do you put your hands down? No keyboard appears, but as you type,
you really you really, there is no spoon you really try for this,
this this moment where you you try to manifest and nothing comes up.
There are no keys, You don't feel anything but like ghost typing, but
a hood screen in front of you. Lamar goes, well, I guess
you're right. Huh. Can I ask you a question? I'm I I
don't know how that works, but yeah, sure, But you don't know
how questions work. I mean, if you're a part of my brain,
isn't that just me asking my own question to myself? So that wouldn't you
already know the answer? I? Yeah, ask the question we got.
Why do you think you're here? I don't know. I think I might
be dead. There was a building on fire. Trust me, this isn't
nothing like death. Well that's not reassuring at all. I don't know.
The building was on fire, maybe smoke, innilation, and I passed out.
And this is just the worst a bout of unconsciousness I've ever had.
It's really the worst. I mean, it's a black void which I've never
been in before, and I've never loose and dreamt, dreamed, dreaming.
Sometimes extreme trauma can cause that to happen. Was there extreme trauma? Possibly?
Possibly? Do you know? Or no? I don't know. Oh
all right, well this is why I said possibly, because I do not
have this answer. I mean, she's been really crazy. That lady gets
shot in the day that died, and then I was yelling at everybody,
and then this building on fire, and then it's been a it's been a
I'm talking to myself, I mean, my own head, talking to myself.
Why do you think that I am not who I am? You look
different, she she goes, so do you he like looks down for the
first time. Maybe uh inch taller, wow, dot wow, I'm just
making that personal definitely, uh, you know, nicer clothing, that little
tighter fit fitted um and lu Mara has a moment where she says, well,
I think Malik looks down and goes, I look pretty much the same.
I guess you could be a figment of my subconscious Yeah, I mean
that's kind of what I'm afraid of, because, like you know, the
whole gin situation, I'm not a gin. Well apparently mental construct. You
doesn't believe it either. You say that word, it echoes into the empty
void until it turns into a humming sounded, a buzzing into emptiness. Lamar's
ear begins to bleed. Um, you're bleeding. She kind of like touches
her ear. Oh my goodness, I feel like I do you hear that?
I don't heard vibrating kind of thing. I'm not feeling so good.
I think I'm gonna and she and splashes into water. Malik when she's gone,
um off in the distance against this black void of nothingness is a much
smaller figure, a child like the child, I mean, not the not
the Star Wars one, but like our child, Yes, our little gin
baby. Does he look like his normal self? He looks way more annoying.
I don't know. Tell us, Malik, what does the child look
like? Oh man, if it's your manifestation, yeah, if it's If
it's Malik's manifestation, he looks like the writers, thank you for the ray
if if you, if you took like you, here's here's the let's let's
date ourselves a little bit here for a second. You remember Cynthia from from
the rug Rats and how she always that Mike, fuck you, yes,
Mike, we all know how fucking old we are. So yes, you
remember how she's like always looked like a fucking brat. That's how he pictures
this kid like a fucking brat. Like he has that like one hand on
the ship on the on the hipcot bag and he has that like like I'm
gonna tell on you that face. Yeah, okay, so he's got it.
I thanks Mike for really ruining my beautiful, picturesque moment. He stands
are kind of with like his little kid hipcocked and his hand down to one
side, and it's row a little furrowed. He's a little pudgier in the
face. Uh, probably than an actuality, but he's got this little gruff
rascally look and again he does not, of course speak to you. He's
never actually spoken you simply hear his voice in your mind, and the gym
says you called from me? Uh no, I didn't, Yes you did?
Oh God, are you real or like in my head? Real?
Care? What or what? What do you want? I was summoned to
remember, I didn't summon you. I said that Lamara was a gym.
And then she exploded, Lamara is not a gin. She is a sprout
of what she could be and now she's a human woman through and through.
I don't like the way you said that at all. Are you on kua?
I am? What are you doing here? You summoned me and this'boy's
kind of raise is like, this is the third time like you said mine,
you called for you called, you said jin and a dark void.
So the gin has come, I think. Malik instinctively reaches to the Invisi
keyboard and like turns down the volume out of habit like rolla, wits fucking
perfect, Oh this is your dream. You turned down the volume. Um,
you know he was peaking. Of course the volume comes down on the
kid a lind Kid's voice a little bit. The Gin's voice, and he
Luis is fine, we are backed in your void tummy, Malik, and
he kind of begins walking and he lines his footsteps up with a sound of
that water drip off in the distance m blom. The floor is shiny and
black like fixated oil, and every time he walks, m blink. And
when he is close enough, just before being able to reach out and touch,
he says, what is it that's your fear? Lak? I hate
you do? I know? Uh? Cool? Okay. Uh. So
we're in the scene in Malik's void, which is I hate that um and
I think in the city, I'm just gonna fill that void. Yeah,
yeah, I think in the same like the same kind of like it's it's
not like it like the instinct of just turning the volume down is the moment
he asked the question what do you fear? Almost like VID screens just all
pop up and they're all playing scenes through Malik's eyes of everything that happened on
El Goal, and it's like atrocity after atrocity, explosions, like pulling friends
into places that they're like wounded. Like it's it's like walking through field hospitals.
So it's very much like a like a war movie, happening seven times
simultaneously. In these multiple like you know, movie theater size screens, tad
screens pop up as far as the eye can see. They light this black
void up with blue essence just appearing in the sky, one after another,
as if somebody hit the wrong link, and the spam windows just won't stop
popping up, and they blinking blink in. Each one is visceral and violent
and hard. And you hear his voice, though you no longer see that
child. You were far too affixiated with your own memories, your own trauma,
but you hear the gin. He says, no, what do you
really fear? And a single hoodscreen pops up in front of you. It's
a slow motion take of your brother, the two of you running for a
ship, your ship, your way off of Algal. He looks back to
you, his face covered in dirt and dust and blood of other people,
and the Gin pauses it in a single moment on your brother, and he
says, ah, of course, now I know what you fear the most.
I must go now, like it might be done for you to wake.
He reaches over like I think, as the Gin is saying it's final
words. Malik's done with the conversation and is trying to exit as much as
possible, and he just like again, slides fingers off this nothing keyboard and
attempts to type the equivalent of like dot slash end program and turn this off.
Controlsily, control Outily. You're trying to shut the system down, and
windows are trying to close out and pop up, and as you are trying
to stay ahead of it, there is one window way off in the distance.
It is offset from the rest of them. It is an image through
your eyes. You're in a swamp on a boat. Lumara leans in a
little too close. As she's checking your eyes. You can almost see her
the way that some coma victims will say they have kind of out of body
experiences kind of thing. And you have just a moment, just a moment,
and the camera cuts back to our crew. Malik still lies there,
unconscious. Lamara checks his eyes. His pupils aren't even dilated. I don't
I don't know what I mean. We could always just and she's gonna rear
back and slap you. That makes sense, Well, she hits you.
It's not very hard. It's a pretty wimpy, whimpy slap. She does,
though, have a med kit, and she reaches in the medkit for
a nice big adrenoline shot. Cool. She goes here we go, and
she jabs it into your arm. There's a release sounds, and we see
your eyes zoom into this single screen and you pop back into your body.
The smell of brackish water, of rotting wood and swamp meets your head and
your face in a rather dense way, and the whole crew is there.
Lumara is right in your face. Oh, she goes, oh, malak,
and she kind of patch you. I feel like he accidentally hand abuts
her right because I feel like the adrenaline rushes through and he oh yeah,
immediately like sits up, and because she's so close, there's like definitely like
that that head smack, and he's fuck, what the fuck? When she
removes it, there is a single line of blood that begins to run down
her skull just a little bit um. She doesn't even notice. She was
we were so worried, Millie, weren't we everybody? She kind of turns
around. The crew looks waited when she focusing on driving, so you probably
just see her back do I see the drop blood. Yeah, you've seen
the stream of like very thick, dark blood begin to kind of run down
her forehead. I wouldn't. I'm just gonna have a grab a piece of
cloth from my little pocket and just, without really saying anything, just wipe
the blood off of her face and then kind of like try to create a
little bit of distance between She goes to stop you, but doesn't as you
finish wiping it off her head. That's that's great. Tw you reach a
very open area. It's fine, it's fine. It's probably a good thing
you wiped her head. Sow. You reach a rather open area in the
swampy these massive trees, their roots grow directly into the water. It's so
dark that you have no idea how deep it is. The boats still just
hovering just above the surface, not even causing ripples on the water. Really
very light touch, and you're able to kind of stop. You can even
turn the boat off if you wanted to isolate for a while while maybe the
five of you recover. Oh. Also, I want to say thank you
for that third corruption bar you can. It brought the gin into the picture.
That really really sick scene that we just witnessed was because of that.
Thank you. That was beautiful and I mean that in the most since there,
it's way possible. Please start us more anyways, just tearing you up.
Oh and you know what, we forgot to announce the top bike.
Good news everybody, if you love this show, we're going for an extra
hour tonight. We have only had way there. This is the phase where
Mic remembers that we agreed to do one extra hour of the show. Yeah,
that's right, as our gift to you, it's every Oh gosh,
thats for me. Sorry, I'll tell you this as our gift to you.
We m chatted us. We've had so much support from the audience in
unbelievable ways that we chatted and decided to from now until the end. So
that's this episode and three more. We'll be running extended three hour episodes,
so you're going to get extra four hours worth of content that you were not
expecting in season two. We h. I've also found out personally that if
you harass the entire cast of a show, they'll eventually come back for another
season, So avoid season three twenty twenty one. That's just that being said.
We also have an extended run of the show and Dot has a hot
to paint because I'm human, So I will be right back. How about
let's take just a few minutes. I could just release. If anybody needs
to go week does it? Literally have them go, and then the rest
can just talk to Chat. Perfect. That's perfect. You guys talk with
Chat. Give me like three minutes. How's it going, Chat? How
are you feeling? It's shouldn't heavy? Short intermission? Yeah, just a
quick moment. Everybody else, I'm muted. This is the full time intermission.
Go, grab popcorn, grab a drink, come back. Stretch your
legs. In fact, yes, this is a great time to stretch.
Grab some water. Don't make me put the game mom hat on. Yeah,
I'm not gonna do that. I did one hundred and thirty five today.
I'm done for the day, so I will say encounter roleplay. If
you're still here, thank you so much for the raid raiders that joined in
and stuck around. Thank you for the raid think you're sticking around. Sorry
I didn't address earlier. We were in a heavy roleplay scene and Chat seem
to have it handled for me. Thank you for being here. If you
guys like and kind of roleplay. We do similar things here. We have
tabletop RBGS three nights a week. We have amazing cast. We focus on
narrative style improv games with a beard pretzels, kind of laughing and joking while
we're telling these dramatic ass stories. UM. So, if you like that
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YouTube and then boom, you can do that only you know you can.
You can do the dabs. I can't do it. My arms hurt from
all the pushing up. The good I did, I did, I did
like triple your push ups. See you a bit. Colin highlighted their message,
So I look at that, see it. Look we're as ready.
Hold on, I got I got you. Let's go. We'll do this
right hand like oh, dabs in chatl oh Man. Yeah, so this
that was an intense scene, guys. I didn't expect that at all that
was beautiful, so good. I don't that was all Dot. I don't
know what happened there. Um, I had your decisions though, yea perfect
I think so I had. Now that Dot's back, I had one more
VID screen scene planned and it just didn't seem right to just interject the scene
was going so perfectly. So what I'm gonna do is I'm going to tantalize
Chat and tease you with the fact that I will reveal that scene in the
after show tonight post game. So if you want to see that what that
scene is, joined us over on Patreon where you can see the after show
for this show and all other shows this season and all seasons continuing forward,
where you can get an insight into the cast, the play that you know
with the character is the GM what's going on all that fun stuff? Um,
yeah, we'll do that. That being said, I'm gonna pause for
ten seconds then we can jump back into the game so I have a good
clean cut space Dot. So I needed to finish my friend Fry, Okay,
I so wanted to interrupt that ten seconds so bad. You know what,
though, it's actually an o'clock, it's to the five of you to
the five PCs that sit there in a boat kind of hovering and isolating on
a dark swamp. The leak, the still surface of the swamp reminds you
of the empty black space you just stood. Yeah, I'm going to keep
an eye out for any ambush at all, especially because there was the word
bisher was thrown around and they sound pretty terrible, So so you kind of
Actually, the piloting seat itself does sit above everybody. I imagine this looks
like a futuristical version of a fan boat, like a proper swamp fan movement
bright And to Paul, it looks like it's like a small boat. Okay,
this is this kind of high tech propeller on the back end of this
kind of thing. But now you sit up higher than everybody else, kind
of below, and you able to kind of look out over this swamp.
Even the light doesn't come through the trees here. Um, everything overhangs in
this kind of draping canopy conversation. Anybody Malik sits up or is sitting up
by this time, but has been uncharacteristically quiet um and he kind of like
smirks, and in his best Malik attempt just says to like, no one
in particular. So what I miss? Oh you were in my dream.
I mean you're usually in my dreams, but I mean, like like actually
in it. It was crazy. You were talking to me like I was
there? What did I say? Um? I don't know, you were
kind of weird about it, um being there? That wasn't really anything else
there? Uh huh uh. And then oh and then I was just about
to tell everybody the dead woman. She spoke to me. So what did
she say? He just he just holds up a finger. Anyone else?
What did? We dragged you out of the warehouse, stole this boat,
and now we're here? Should we perhaps discuss what triggered all that? Lamara?
Do you recall what you did? Oh? Yeah, well no,
I just got this very strange feeling looking up the dead woman on the ground.
I just had the urge to ask her a question, but I knew,
I mean, I couldn't really do that because she was him. Then
and then I kissed her. Oh, and then she spoke to me.
Look at everybody like, so apparently her kisses, her magic or something probably
stopped doing that. I'm sorry. At this point this is a kissing.
People might be a selfish question here, but probably how did I get?
What happened? Soul picked you up after you passed out? Lamar, what
did you do? I passed out? What did she say? I don't
know? Why are you asking me that you? Okay? So what happened
after you kissed her? Okay? So how do I kissed her? She
started speaking to me in this dark void like a I don't know, like
um, like an emptiness. We were just there talking to each other in
it. And I asked her who was behind all of this? That's what
I learned. She told me all about where are the shipping the bodies too,
and how they're separating them. So some of the bodies, what did
she say? She's it's some of the bodies go to the palace to be
sold. Any of them that are not proper mistakes are basic Well, they're
they're basically sold into slavery. Um and then um. And she kind of
like takes a moment realizing like it's all coming back to her, you know,
the way like you start talking through a dream and it begins to kind
of like settle into place, that memory of it, and and she says,
and then I don't remember and then I felt this pain in my head
and then the leak was there, and then yeah, and then he started
like making screams appear. How did you do that? Wait? Who's behind
it? Though? You said? There? Oh right? Where are they
going exactly? The misting are then taken into the swamp to the temple that
we've been looking into. Um. It seems that this was the last shipment,
the one with the emissary, and the last few people that came through
were to be the last ones. Seems they have acquired what they were looking
for you or who they are. The Order of the Bria is not behind
this. They are front to catch the fall um here. Wow. Politics
are not my specialty. But this woman spoke fast and quick. She said
a lot of the answers were on her pad, her data pad. The
trauma sols like rises into screen. I just like give it to I'm gonna
I'm gonna actually like pass it to Malik Leek. Would you like to roll
your your data jians. Yeah. Malik takes it from Seoul and just sort
of like puts it down on his lap and just quietly begins typing. I'm
gonna raise a brow at that, but not saying anything, uh kape yeah,
okay, okay. Well, at a critical success, you find a
lot of things on here. In fact, she was trying to hop a
boat. Had you opened this earlier, you would have had the credentials and
the information to simply take her boat instead, which was much nicer than the
one that you're currently sitting in. Fine, we got we had a bit
of a situation here. I gave any chance at the warehouse to pop that
data pad open. But it's fine, It is fine. Fine, five
are in the airboat. Now you're in this fan boat. I will say
this. So Malik takes the pad and silently begins typing, and like he
hooks his pad into it and begins typing onto it. And then as soon
as he gets in, like as soon as he cracks it, he like
unhooks his and just hands it back to Seul, also still quietly. I
don't know how to do with that. So you you're you're sitting through a
lot of information, a lot of files, a lot of permitting um hidden
things that um you know. Also you just like you like unlocked it for
me to read. Oh you can make a lord, this is a wits
roll. Can you like, manage through this information is really what this isn't
piece it together? I think, Seuel, we'll just look at the data
pad and be like, you're not going to look through it. I acted
anyone going through it's reading. I just grabbed the pad from Soul and start
looking at it because we don't have time for this ship. You can roll
a wits. There's a lot of information here. Yeah, I really didn't.
Here's what you find like, this is just flat out what you know.
Um, no pieces are really put together. There is a shipping manifest.
It is in some kind of code. Her code. She was the
person that sifted through people and sorted them between being a mystic and not a
mystic. The last shipment that seemed to include the Emissary came through. She
had a special log note that stated that she was allowed that she was with
one of the Commando Martyrs, one of the higher up Commando martyrs. Woman.
She did not know her name, but she brought it in the coffin.
This one coffin, unlike all the other coffins, was asked to check
it on the spot. Could not open the window slide piece on it at
all. She could only run diagnostics and when it was marked as a mystic,
it was immediately moved. It had a double battery pack, which means
it ran on its own power and would not need the same care as the
other pots. It could go for longer. She was not told what it
was. In addition, there were a few other people that were shipped through
descriptions. No names are given, and one of them does in fact meet
the description of priests Showley in the same shipment that went out with the emissary.
That is all you get. The rest of it seems to be political
jargon and like I said, permitting for like this big building and it's got
people's names and stuff that is seems to be a little bit out of your
reach. Yeah, ah, I don't understand any of this. Um Well,
they were definitely closing up. Um Yes, I would say you and
Sewell probably both put together that if this was the last shipment, the reason
they burned that building down and killed the woman is because they were cleaning up
blue sins. Should we possibly return that data pad to whoever we're supposed to
send it back to? What's that guy's named the judge or judicator or that
rich guy that had a lot of big tables, Samir, Do you want
to look at the information? Probably after everybody else is kind of he's exhausted
me. I'm not gonna I'm not looking at it. I don't care.
Do you want to do want to process this or do you want to just
send it? Let me take a look at real quick rolla wits poor Samir.
Yeah, that's what I was looking for. Great, it's a bullshit.
Say a lot has gone down. You know that when you peel the
suit off that you're going to have second degree burns. If you can peel
the suit off, if he can peel the suit off, I transported a
lot of patients. It's not you did that for your brother. You are
feeling a lot of things that you've not felt since you left al Goal all
those years ago. Um and unsteadiness of vulnerability. But there is something very
comforting and information and knowledge. It's always there. It is what it is,
It does not lie, it cannot be other than it is. And
as you scroll through it, it's not the shipping manifests that interests you.
It's the political documents. The homogene and the order have been at odds in
the past. What better way to unsettle a government than to say, start
an internal civil war before making a massive attack. The order of the prior
seems to be from what you can tell and based on a deep documentation of
the judicator Kausha, that they were assigned to you Biteau's father to assure that
you believed the order was behind this. Um, they're actually maybe more information
that I can give you, even deeper information. How deep you want to
go? I'm gonna leave that up to you, Joey, how how deep
do you want me to? Like? What? What do you want?
Dot? Just twist the knife. Let's go. Okay, Okay, let
me pull this up because I want to make sure I don't get this wrong.
This is the actual plot here. It is right for you and like
hard fast information. Okay, already I'm clicking clacking. Wait, why isn't
this why I want you guys to know. This is the moment where all
of our questions are about to be revealed. Okay, I gotta find the
right document and then I got to go click the thing. Okaybody bear with
me. Um yeah, we'll say to mirror is actively digging through this is
gonna take some time. As you sit in this this open swamp. Anybody
else have anything to say? While I pull this up that way, I
don't stop time. Um, I'm just gonna sit down and kind of like
take a deep breath and just kind of like drift off, keeping an eye
on TA mirror as well as the rest of like scanning the surroundings for anything
moving, anything at all. I'm so fucking paranoid. I feel like,
so we're in this this airboat right, um, and I feel like Ta
mirrors on one side of me, and then Lamar would be on the opposite
side of me, given how they were both hovering and in this awkward quiet
where Malik is not being anything like Malik and Sewel is trying to get some
some combat rest in Um. Malik sees tame or working through it. And
I can see like the furrowed brow as he's scrolling through things. Um.
And he like very quickly, it's like three seconds. He like places a
hand like parentally on Tamir's knee and just squeezes for like a second and then
puts his hand back on his lap and then he like slides his other hand
over on top of Lamara's hand, and that's all he does. And then
just sits there. Really she she uh like a kid on a school bus.
She kind of stiffens um a little bit and she she she grasps your
hand back and he continues just staring out the side of the boat. Um.
She does lean in a little bit and she says, are you okay?
And he just kind of shrugs. So she leans and she'd like feel
a shrug, I guess, and you don't want to talk about it,
and he just shakes his head. He's trying to do his best to not
draw attention to how awkward he knows he is. Right the second she sits
for Lumara very still and seems relatively in tune to your feelings in this moment.
Again an EmPATH, right, and she kind of simmers in your stasis
as you watch your brother. She watches you watch your brother. I also
feel like if if Sul is awake enough to like even glance at Malik,
his countenance is completely different, but it's one that Seul might recognize as like
possibly his own reflection or like one of his brothers. It's like that post
combat stare of like I'm still processing like the PTSD of what just happened.
But it's a face that Malik hasn't worn in a long time. But I
think it would be recognizable to someone else who has seen some shit. Joe,
I'm gonna give you a choice, could I'm gonna I gotta get I
gotta get it. And then and then by all means yeah, do you
want to notice your brother or do you want to finish putting the information together?
Leak's awake. The data is comforting. You don't notice your brother in
a state of post traumatic stress, that look of a boy in his eyes,
lost after violence and the harshties of the real world have stripped away innocence.
But you don't see it because you realize that the First Horizon, the
White Butterfly, since having broke through, is using the missing Emmissary as a
way to poor Salt in a very old wound, to unsettle the people,
to make systems quakey, and your mind cuts back to an image, a
still frame, a single momentary second in time that she was a miracle that
you found, that shows a tear rip, a hole, a door to
the first Horizon, and on the other side weights an army ready to come
back to start the Portal wars. All over again to fight the third horizon
on its freedom. And the last file that you sift through, it's a
series of medical files. This is on her data pad, but seems to
not be her file. She is by no means a doctor, She's an
administrator, but these seem to be part of the operation. They are extreme
medical files on the experiments to cure mystics, unlicensed testing to a very high
degree, and every file of every mystic that has gone missing over the last
six months all are stamped the same way, deceased and maybe as your heart
drops to your stomach, realizing that maybe the immissary is already dead, the
camera cuts to Town, who has been on lookout for quite a while.
Yeah, would I be able to say something now? The a good time
if you want to cut silence? So when I would I want to say
that, like I don't know, I have to roll back whatever, like
going to like looking at because like Soul would kind of like see the presence
and feel He's more of a feeling type of person, so he feels the
air very stiff, but he would look over to Malik and kind of see
that reflection of I don't want to say if his brothers, but definitely himself.
It's like he's looking at a mirror and well, for whatever reason,
Seul feels an odd sense of weight on his shoulder, and he's going to
just in a very like his best attempt at a comic, calm and like
relatable tone. It's definitely artificial, Like you can hear him failing at it.
He's gonna say, Malik, for whatever differences, I think you should
know you would be proud of your brother. And he like awkwardly kind of
like quick looks away and like just gets up, like he stands for a
minute and goes fuck and he just tries to find a spot that he can
walk away, not realizing this as both small as fuck, and he's just
like, why can't sit down? So I'm just gonna walk over and there's
nowhere to go. You basically spitted a circle and have a seat exactly where
you started. A giant metaphor for how it feels to be traveling in space.
Yeah, and then I was gonna like put my head down and just
and just look just like round and rounds we go. What time of day
has it done? Is it nighttime? You can't tell because the canopy of
the swamp shields out all daylight. Oh it is dark and misty reads poke
up and it's not pleasant. Yeah, it's very dark here cool even better,
cinematic bullshit is my. So when Sewel says this, there's like a
very light like squeeze in the hand, and then because it's so dark,
no one sees it. Just one single hot tear and he continues staring out
the side of the boat. A little shit. Lamara squeezes back, trying
to meet you in that energy, and she sees a single tear in the
darkness, rolled down your cheek. She as she mentioned she could see in
the dark. Oh, yeah, she hasn't yet, has she. She
sees the single tear rolled down your cheek, and she as it kind of
cressed and the apex and begins to roll down. She leans over and simply
kisses your cheek to stop it. I think the moment there's any kind of
contact, like any sort of human comp act at all, that's it.
And he is just silently just sitting there and they're just streaming down his face
as he stares out the side of the boat. Right how your team below
you is falling apart, but you are hyper aware at the moment your eyes
look out. This is the prime place potentially for an ambush, but it's
also rather safe considering the fact that you're in the center of the swamp,
of this kind of open area of the swamp. You begin kind of looking
out your eyes part across. There's something moving in the tree line. It's
been circling you now for about twenty minutes. I thig does it seem the
hunter in you knows that you don't want to alert them, yet if you
make a scene, it could attack. It seems to be sizing the five
of you up. You're also inland like inside of the water, which means
it may be like deeper. So this creature seems to be walking on kind
of the soggy ground bits near the edge of where the tree line starts.
Big yellow eyes cast every once in a while, iridescent, catching the light
cutting against the darkness. You have missed everything below to mirror Malik Soul's awkward
turnaround like a dog trying to find the right spot on a bed, because
you keep watching it as it circles you. At one point, I'll say,
extremely calmly, there's something watching us. It's very big. I wouldn't
make any kind of a fuss if I were you, but you're ready to
be attacked. I'm not sure if it's going to wait for us to leave,
or if it'll get brave enough to come out here. I'm not sure
if it can swim. Lamara goes where Lamara deep breaths, Darlin, it's
a little quakey. I don't really want to point at it because I don't
know how much it can do, but kind of tilt my head slightly towards
it, very casually, so everybody else can make an observation if you want
to try to see it. I hope that you're enjoying yourself tonight. I'm
so sorry I've not been as vocal. We've been a bit busy. It's
fine. I love you chat, thank you for being here. I feel
like this is one of those on the edge kind of episodes. So I
think we're good. Let me tell you all of you individually were so excited.
You guys were like, we're gonna come in and we're gonna people are
gonna threaten other people. We're about to get like hot between you know,
like people's feelings on what happened last time, and I was like, have
you all forgot you're in a burning building? Yeah, yeah, I didn't
forget. Great, just have that up the whole time until you get to
the point where none of you have the energy to fight one another. Now
that's when you know that the darkness is scraping in. Yeah, go shoke
us. Well we all shukeus. Um it's nice. Um I failed,
okay, um, any if you rolled, you're gonna have anybody else going
to try to see this thing. So that was your that was your three.
Okay, you don't see what she sees, Soul, which is rather
um, neither do you? Um let me that was That was Lamar.
Oh, that was Lamara. She doesn't see it. She doesn't see it
at all. In fact, um, neither do you. So it's actually
rather impressive, um that you don't see what she's talking about. But I'm
gonna have you reroll for Lamara because she can see in the dark. Yeah,
so add a plus two to that. If Soul's looking confused, I'm
gonna say, hey, Sul, I got you a night sight. Lamar
goes it's so big and she watches it. You watch her watch it.
She can see it clear as day now walking through the tree line, Can
I the night sight? You also get a plus two? I wasn't say
can I. Yeah, I'm gonna like you can roll it again with a
plus two? Is that going to be too obvious though? Like I mean,
it's just a night sight. You're just like two D two at the
top of your sheet where it says positive or negative, on the top of
your shoe says positive, click the positive up to tea, and then reroll
your observation. Gotcha, okay, people, I still feel Oh that's okay.
You kind of crank it in and you begin kind of looking across with
the night's site visions, which tells you one that Lumar's night vision is different
than what you're going to get through like a night's site. As you pan
across, the creature stops, freezes, blends with the background even in the
night vision. As you kind of pan across, and you miss it entirely.
Margoes, what is it? No clue? But I have a feeling
it's trying to figure out if it can eat us or not. I can't
swim. It doesn't appear too I'm sure if we stay here we're fine.
But I see those claws. They're so big. Trying not to think about
that, you're yep, yeah, how clearly can you see that thing?
Pretty pretty clearly? It's big. Um, it's furry, it has a
tail, its head could it's jaws could swallow say my head hole. All
right, perhaps we should go deeper into the waterline just I mean, we're
as deep as it gets in the center. Yeah, you're kind of in
this like, um, if you're looking at that map, you've made it
to this open like this kind of area here, so you can go deeper
in. Um, you're gonna have to actually cut into the swamps proper.
You guys are kind of in like a yeah, there's another section of the
swamps. You're not the swamps. Oh you know what were I also want
to give you one more thing that you would have across. Can't take anymore,
I know this is like this, Okay, this is an important one.
If you want it, you can take the mind point. But I'll
tell you this. You come across historical documents about the temple itself, you
can see there's like some planning documents that they put into place, like how
they wanted to repurpose the space. But more importantly, there's historical documents on
the swamp and the city that was here before the swamp swallowed it whole,
swallowed it whole, including all of the people that lived there. Local lore
says that in times of great tragedy, the darkness is able to appear more
readily, easier, and in the side of a mass grave. Well you
know what happens at mass graves. You saw it at the mining camp in
Talent. And it is rumored that the dead walk the bottom of the swamps,
the core lie beneath. But this, of course is just hearsaying,
for no one that's ever seen them has actually returned. We need to go
back, go back where leak. We have to go back. There's there's
no point in going on further. Why what is it all of the mystics,
they're already dead, None of this mad. There's emissary actually was the
emissary's name on there. It looks like the last shipment is not catalog,
just part of the deceased line. It's like they're the final shipment that has
kind of come through. So there seemed to be um. Emmissary included thirteen
that are currently are in transporter or have been transported and are at this facility.
The ones would remain. They're just going to end up that anyways too.
They've wiped them out, they'll continue to wipe them out. And honestly,
none of that even mask. Did you see this? And like hell?
He'll show the data to Malik, assuming there is a video to be
able to understand a little bit better. There is a video from a drome
and that's part of this historical file. Malik, do you press play,
yeah? Play on this this video file taken from a drone as the entire
town sinks into the swamps or rather impressive feet. But you are distracted from
even trying to comprehend what's visibly going on, because audibly the sounds of a
town's worth of people, an entire village hundreds as it sinks below a swamp
is actually what takes over your ears. They scream, gurgle if you actually
escape as the kind of large temple, you can see it in all of
its beautiful glory that sets at the end, begins to sink down and only
the upper portion of it stands. Remaining bits and pieces of the highest structures
stick out over the waterline as the screams ring out towel becomes visibly of sets.
Turn it off, please stop, and the distraction you lose sight of
the creature. Malik plays the entire video through. In the end, the
last thing in sound is a rather large bubble, the last of air escaping
from some sunken tower, and as it hits the surface, it looks capturing
maybe a last scream. And within a few seconds the top of the waterfalls
still silent, as is every one of those people never existed, taken by
the void. You need to go back. There's only dark this year.
Please. If he closes the video, is the roster the last thing that
was up? Sure? So he closes this tab and he places the roster
on Tamir's lap, and then in that same like meticulous stillness, he reaches
down to his bag, which I assume was taken off of him and this
whole thing, and he pulls the flat back and pulls the draw string open
and puts it next to the leak, or next or to me or rather
and tamer you can see that his bag contains only his computer and a bunch
of stuff to make explosives, and he just calmly looks at you and says
there's thirteen left, but there's an entire they're razing. We do what we
can. We do what we can, Tor. Can you transmit that information?
Please? Not from here? There's a signal to get that hey,
dot question. Actually, in fact, why don't you as you roll through
the swamps? Are are you moving? Are you still stare arris? I
guess I need to know you're so solidstening in the middle, because there does
seem to be some radio interference. It's not enough that you couldn't get a
signal out, but you definitely with this interference could not get it to Correolis.
You could get it to the monolith. There seems to be something within
the area, probably the swamp proper, that is blocking radio signals a leak.
Could you get it to my ship just in case something happens to the
data pad, not just the ship leak everybody. You can get it to
my information too, And like Tibury will pull out like a stick that how
are you report? How are you getting? Okay, so you're expecting people
to read a multi page report and the images and there, so yeah,
okay, okay, uh, you can try to broadcast it from here try
to get the information out. He holds it up to the leak as he's
his hand is hovering over the bag of explosive. This is a trade.
Take the stake and he'll make the bomb. He takes the steak like he
like, pushes the stick back into your hand, and says, I have
everything you have and more on the ship that send it when we get back
to the ship. More than as soon as we get back to the ship,
he's gonna pull the bag from you and go I don't go sit by
towel and start making like a record on repeat, something that you didn't think
you'd ever have to do again. Begin to break the pieces out and put
it together. You can make the science role if you'd like, or technology,
whichever you'd prefer to put the bomb together. I could probably also use
gear head. Yeah, yeah, you could use your head if we If
dB, I guess I can roll and then do you get your hand?
Um. Oh, By the way, I did use a healer the Lady
of Tears card for her earlier. That was how she brought that woman back
from the dead. As probably a good thing. She didn't actually keep her,
by the way, y'all, that's just too perfect. I'm gonna take
that. I'm gonna recall that. Oh God, I'm I'm gonna playing all
kinds of cards tonight. So as I look at the bag, um,
I'm gonna ask Mollie, did you get everything you needed? Close enough?
What are you missing? He liked, glances for a second at the holes
in his shoes. He says, acid. But we can make it work.
Do I have a technical question here? Do cell batteries have anything that
they can use to make bombs? I mean, yeah, you can use
batteries to make bombs. What would it help with whether whathever he's missing,
because he says he's missing acid? Is that what you're missing? That was
the thing that Lamara threw at me. That's the final thing I couldn't find
in the marketplace. If she realizes that you go searching through her bags.
Lamara, looking rather ashamed, like a child, unable to control the temper
tantrum. She kind of digs her foot into the bottom of the boat and
she releases her hand from wars maligue momentarily as she reaches in her jacket and
pulls forth another small vial of acid and she hands it over and she puts
it in your hand, and she wraps it up, and she says,
I'm sorry, I can't help myself sometimes I just get so wound up.
There you go, He just like he looks at her for a second and
then hands it to Tim. Here it's a very small vial of acid.
Oh yeah, big, just enough to set it off. You've got enough
here to potentially take down you have enough here to make a single bomb that
will take down a building if put in the right location. It's kind of
like a it's like one of those like C four pieces. So if put
in the right location, especially in the place that's already crumbling, you should
be able to take a building down with it. More than likely you would
know that to me here, you would know that. Now your eyes still
search for that thing that hunting you, it does not appear again. Instead,
you look through the trees, seeing kind of their silhouettes against this kind
of foggy, dense read high read and grass forest or swamp. And as
you look out, it's as if these gangly trees like like these smaller ones
are getting closer. The empty space between the tree seems to be dissipating.
It's creeping in on you. I don't like this place. Lumar goes,
who is that? Oh? Where they're in the trees? They've she goes,
oh, And about the time she goes to speak, figures kind of
step out of the shadows. A group of people surround you. They seem
much better prepared for the swamp than you. They wear strange shoes on their
feet that seem to kind of keep them above the mud and the muck from
sinking in. Their clothing is made of reeds and grass of sorts. They've
been woven together to make rather kind of beautiful and extraordinarily well crafted attire,
considering the fact that all of you have synthetic clothing made on coriolists. But
they do all have weapons in hand. Do they look like actual people or
yes? They are? They are human, They are like are these sept
They don't look hostile? Um, well, I say, they don't look
hostile. They have their weapon strong and they kind of encircle you though nobody
has attacked. Um. Yes, ye, yes, um, I say
kind of loudly. Were don't mean to take anything from you. We're just
resting on our way through. Kind of line up of these people split and
let through a rather tall and voluptuous Amazonian woman. Her head has shaved entirely.
She has a large scar down one side from combat for sure. Um,
and she wears a mixture of kind of this uh rebait weaved clothing and
um kind of some harder repurpose plating from old uh like soldier attire. Um.
She steps forward with a kind of curved sword in hand, and she
says, what are you doing in our swamp? Well, we were just
sitting here for a few minutes and then, well a little bit longer than
a few minutes, but we were just sitting here for a time, and
then we were going to continue up the river. Here, we're looking for
a temple to free something some people. She kind of tips her head a
little bit and listens to you say these words. They look. She looks
around. Where are the pods? You usually travel with pods? We're actually
looking for the people who were in the pods. Then I'm sorry. She
points to a small opening that kind of leads out of this open area.
She says that one there will take you most directly to the social Swampy.
Aren't there any dangers that we should keep an eye out for? Yes,
it is a swamp. Tell me your name? What do they call you?
Tao tal? Yeah, I'm Hawthorn, the leader of these people.
It's nice to meet you, Hawthorne. Any other day we would hunt you
through the swamps, help you and leave you as bait to get a much
better creature. But today, tell you and your team have spoken the right
things. We do not like them passing through our swamp till ask them who
they are. I whisper m well, I certainly wouldn't want to violate your
home. Um, dud um are you? You're not part of the city.
Who are you? With all the jump and the jungle is cool?
There? Wow? Um pass through here, Tew and your concerns of the
dangers of the suits for swamp they're wise. Thank you. Um. I
hope you have a good day. And if you, um, if you
have any ideas on the maybe which side of the temple would be the easiest
to get into M might help. We do not travel that far north,
it is too dangerous. That is where the worms feed worms. How big
are these worms? Big enough? Cool? Thank you? The su swamp
is corrupted. Time has not been kind to it. It is a curse,
a stamped place. The icons have forgotten it. There tell things grow,
things that you could not imagine. There's a reason they take the people
of the pods there, because it requires a place that dark to do what
it is they do to them. I have only heard stories, but I
pray you are not looking for someone you love. They make a couple of
sick like hand gestures to the group. Their weapons lower, so anything they're
carrying, from spears to kind of these electric straight bows, swords, anything
that they have daggers come down. A few of them again take these unnatural
positions with their hands and their weapons as they creep back into the forest.
And as they do and move into the trees, they begin to become tree
like silhouettes, slowly moving and disappearing into the forest. She is the last
one, and she simply looks at Tal and she says, do not come
back this way, tal oh, and you are being hunted. And she
steps back into the tree line. Wait by what and disappears into the misty
fog of the swamp. Who was that big thing with the claws? And
I get that the kitty cat? What says Lamara just kind of under her
breath. Ye fact, I told you guys that would be a space cat
on cool. I didn't tell you you'd be able to tame it and keep
it. I think you misunderstood our request. But I've requested a cat from
Corrillus. I wanted to get one movie. We're there, You're like,
but there's cats on ki? Okay, fine, yeah, great, going
to a dangerous swamp. Wait, I have something for all of you.
Mike's gonna hate this. Yes, beautiful, it's battle time. So good
that well, now, and tell what do you do? So? Um?
I just kind of looked down into me. Or are you gonna be
okay if I start moving? I feel like that was kind of a dismissal.
Yeah, one chance dismissal. Yeah we should probably. Yeah, I'm
gonna I'm gonna start moving. I'm gonna try to be careful. I don't
want to rock the boat. Don't rock the can can ta miror like stand
up for a moment and just kind of be a little bit closer. Um,
Hey, are you okay? That's I just kind of look around.
That's a loaded question. Um, sure, are you okay? We're alive
right now? Okay, okay, that is a true statement. Yes,
we are alive right now. Yes, okay, Um, we should definitely
get moving. Did you need to do something or oh no, I'm sorry,
and he'll like sit back down. Okay, Um, kind of shake
my head and start moving again and going in the direction that they pointed cutters
up. Uh. As we go, I'm gonna say, keep an eye
out because we are being hunted. Could I attached to night scope on my
carbon or does that require like a workstation? No, you could probably do
it here. I'd say, you have a small set it tools him and
you're on the boat and it's dark, so it's gonna be kind of difficult.
It'll take you some time probably the rest of the travel through, but
you can like get the weapon ready. It's gonna take a little bit.
Uh you got it's got like screw driver tiny screws long. Then I'm just
gonna I'm not gonna bother because I want to I want to like be be
ready Overwatch. I guess yes, Okay, so you go into Overwatch.
It doesn't like I was gonna say, attaching a scope should only take a
couple of seconds if you're interested in attaching this skull, because I think I
imagine it's got like tiny screws on kinds of shit on it. Maybe it
doesn't. I think it's a clamp them like they're clamping it. Sure,
it's magnetized, whiches it just like it clicks on and you click the scope
on. It's the future. It could be whatever I want it to be.
Okay, I'm gonna do that, and then I'm gonna use the night
scope to like keep Overwatch. And so you keep Overwatch with the night scope
as you kind of like look out trailing behind you, Tam or are you
still wearing your glasses? Yeah? Probably he hasn't had to. He hasn't
readers to take him off yet. You maybe you look up from this research,
or maybe you're finally kind of getting it together, and you look at
Luma. She sits next to your brother. She holds his hand, and
maybe she even lends a head on his shoulder or something. They kind of
lean into one another to hold each other up as you travel through this misty,
scary ass but you witness something, the black inkingness. It stops cracking
and growing from around the edges and begins to pull into itself, as if
dissipating just a little bit. She looks up longingly at Malik smiles a little
bit. Eventually you cross through a small series of rivers to get through here.
Basically you are here, right, You're going to pass into this kind
of swampy island area through here. How you navigate these small they're not really
sandbars, they're like mossy floating bits. Some of them are actual trees that
have rooted themselves. And you pass through a small inlet, this this one
right here. As you do, the edges get close kind of for the
first time, a little tight, you might say. And so you're an
overwatch. And as you pass through this area, the grass along the banks
of the river, it reaches for the boat, leaning in to it,
as if being drawn to it magnetize to all of you. As you pass
through this area, right, what's leaning into the boat the grass along the
banks of the river as you get close, like tall pieces of Yeah,
you can look you look over and you see it. It's about a foot
off from you, like you could reach out and touch it if you wanted
to. But as the boat passes by, like as you calm along the
banks of the river, because it's it's kind of gotten tight, right,
it's passing through the grass is like leaning in. It's like reaching as you
pass by. It Is that normal? I say in character? Lamara goes,
I don't know. I've never been to Kula. Don't you have like
a little um a scanner? Oh yeah, I'm gonna grab it and I'm
gonna toss it over to Lamara. Oh did she catch it? Oh?
Rolla, you didn't think roll uh? I would like to say, gentle
underhanded throw. Okay, okay, okay, nothing extreme. I don't think
you overhand. I mean you're not tossing a fastball. Okay, she got
zero? No, no, he's good. God what you got one?
She could have thud very heavily against her Jessica, okay, use that kind
of leans over. It's almost like you hold it like with a hand on.
It's got like a screen on it. She kind of leans it over
and um it comes up, and she says, um. It seems to
be some sort of grass augmented um. Oh the edges don't touch it,
they're sharp. Okay, is is he going to fuck us up? She
reaches out and this blade of grass slices her palm. She pulls it back
in and her palm is now open and actively like bleeding rather quickly. Um,
she looks at it Longinglymara cover that. Oh, I'm sorry, and
she reaches her grabs Malik's uh smock and like wraps it around her hand.
I'm sorry. Why why did you do that to test a theory? You
said it was sharp and then yeah, I mean better you than me?
Right, No what I said, I mean better me than you. M
Um. Well she looks at her and sharp objects again. Yeah, fascinating
though it's as sharp as a scalpel. No more, no more experiments.
Well, I guess if you need a weapon, don't, don't use that
soul. You've put your gun down. I did long enough to play with
the grass. Wait I did? Yeah, you said you had to put
it down to like toss a thing to her. And as you go to
turn to pick up the gun, there is a crack from the woods,
a breaking of a branch, as a large creature jumps out and lands on
the tip of the boat. Four legged, furry, large paws, even
larger claws, double sets of teeth. As it opens its massive ball and
you see it as it balls, it drips this kind of sticky, guey
essence. Lamar screams had a question, and I was on high alert.
Can I quit drawn? Shoot it? You sure can? And always on
overwatch. You also get a turn as soon as it lands on the end
of the boat. Okay, hold on, let me find this. Oh
gosh. Also, guess what the bove does. It touches water for the
first time as it lands on the end, the fronts and you see it
and ripples lead out from the top of the boat, describing to God.
No, h now, hello kitty, Yes I create you, Yes,
yes, I create you. I imagine it just ain't like lands and it
grouls a little bit and towels just like and fire off as fast as she
can. That's amazing. Okay, um, it doesn't really have any armor,
so it fails. It takes all three points of that damage as it
you hear like, wow, it was falling into the water. What is
the krit range of your weapon? Town, Oh, that's true. You
might have done extra damage. How much extra damage did you because that was
so it's three So that would have been my vulcan pistol. So Chris is
one? Yes? Three? Yeah, so you did all three pistol?
Huh? I believe it's right? Is I believe, so the accelerator pistal
is okay, so the vulcanian okay, a vulcan christ. I keep the
vulcan pistol on the side so I can draw it with my dominant hand,
and the accelerator accelerated crystal is on the other side. Okay. So it
is a three and you rolled a three, then I believe it's just a
regular hit. Okay, great, Then so it does two points of damage.
Deal the creature goes falling off. It takes a pretty hard hit as
it tumbled off the front of the boat and splashes with a rather loud noise
into the water. It as it comes to the top and begins like this
wet creature begins of kind of paddling through the swamp. Soul, your eyes
were on it. I'm gonna let you take a turn and then I'm gonna
tell you what happens. Does do I get to take a turn before it
falls down? Or um? I would say, no, tal fired um,
take a shot, because that's what you're gonna want to do, right
It is like shoot it? Did they drop when they drop my gun,
I've tend to pick it up? Or yes, literally it jumped to the
top of the boat. You picked the weapon up and she fired first.
So you're gonna get a fire like shot off if you want one. Yeah,
I'll keep up with my carbon accelerator. Carbon. Okay, that's some
big weapon. Yes, it's long range. Does that work? Or no?
This is strange. He's he's five feet from you. In that case,
I would probably not pick up my weapon. I would just go for
my mercury sword. You pull the mercury sword, but not soon enough,
as tow fires that shot up and it goes flying off the front end.
It splashes in the water and it begins kind of paddling itself with its paws
now wide is it's like, and it's breathing for air as it's paddling towards
the shoreline. But so you are at the front of the boat. You
were on point, and with your sword now drawn, you see something interesting
as it bleeds out into the water. You actually see its blood kind of
simmer across the surface, and a rather inky looking hand reaches out of the
water and grabs this cap by the ear, pulling it under. It screeches
as it goes down, and it comes back up as a second and a
third hand began pawing at this creature, pulling it down under the water.
It it's panicking. You can see the look in its eye. It has
gone from predator to prey very quickly. I think I will start moving faster.
Yes, you you put boot the boat into four. After seeing that,
I probably put the sword like slowly back away, kind of like shocked
at kind of watching what's kind of a terrifying scene, even for Sewel and
he's can put the sword back and then I'm to pick up the carbon slowly
and just kind of keep an eye on the edges of the boat to see
if there any more of those hands. Um. Yeah, it seems that
the majority of the energy has been spent. Whatever it is there is focused
on the cat. And as the boat speeds past you hear a final cry
of this creature as it descends into the darkness. For good, Am I
too far to shoot it? You can shoot the creature if you wanted to,
like, because I want to aim for like a mercy kill. Okay,
yeah, do I just roll, just roll, reine shoot. Yeah.
As long as you don't fail, we'll say you get it. Since
they can't. I really want tonight, please motherfu fuck is hang on?
Don't panic? This is a fun way to do you have am I able
to use my judge talent? Or is this does have to be before I
got you? I got you? Okay. The last time I played this
card, it was in revenge against all of you. This time it's soul,
in revenge of something else. Sou fights back against the darkness as it
tries to consume this creature, and in a mercy killing single fire I think,
single shot, blast out of the end of his barrel, and the
cat goes limp as the hands finished pulling it under, it disappears, and
there's silence once again. If you look behind you, where there should be
ripples from such activity, the swamp place still again, as if nothing was
ever there. Towel's boat or the boat the towel drive speeds off very very
quickly. Sul draw a new card. Let me shuffle your hang on,
Let me shuffle your judgedick. I would like to. As Suel lowers his
weapon under his breath, He's just gonna kind of say, fuck the swamp,
and then I'm gonna draw one. Just draw one rights, draw one
card from the judge and then drag it over to Boop and there you go
a soldier. Oh well, I know how I'm going to play that one.
Oh do you? Oh? I do? Actually, let's see.
Yeah. As as we drive off, I say, thanks Soul. That
kind of is not in my head and I'm not looking. He's kind of
just like kind of confused with his actions though, like because he's not familiar
with this kind of action of like mercy killing. So Suel is just he
feels relieved, but very like questioning like why did they do that? But
is it really the first time that Soul has mercy? Hasn't has mercy killed?
Knowingly probably like actively saying like, wasn't your brother's killing a mercy kill?
Yeah? But like in his mind, in his mind, it wasn't.
It was in that mind is like this is my only choice, but
in this mind he had to choice to do that for the cat. And
as the boat continues, the swamp gets, if you can believe it,
darker. This little alcove that you've passed through spits you out into the sultra
swamps. Here, there are no crickets or bugs. The grass does not
blow in the breeze. There's no bubbling or dripping. There's no sound of
the trees or birds, only the sound of the boat that you ride on.
That as if this place is devoid, just like space of noise,
more than likely hyper aware of yourself. As you come around the northern corner
of the Sultra swamps and deeper into the western end where this ancient city or
this city is said to be sunken, and you see it. In fact,
you can't miss it, since it is on the outer edge. Sun
actually hits it. Malik, you are able to answer your question. It's
clearly still daylight outside. You don't know how long you've been in the swamp,
but sun hits a sunken city, rock crumbled, ruin lay everywhere.
It's funny. You just pass through an area of small kind of green islands
and inlets, and this mirrors that. But it's man made and Kua has
reclaimed it. And there it is at the far end of the city,
well what's left of it. You can't miss it, the top of this
temple. Sol Do you stop? I mean, how do you stop?
Or do you drive straight through? Stop for a moment if I don't feel
like there's any anything dangerous around in particular, anything that's a threat to us,
I should say, I mean nothing more than before. Even with the
daylight kind of coming through the swamp area now lighting up specific sections with beams,
the swamp is still ikey black. Well, yeah, I kind of
look. I stop and slow down and kind of pull pull into a shadowy
area, and I say, what do we want to do? Then?
Well, what what's the plan? Are we going in? Saved those thirteen
and then get out. I don't think thirteen people can fit on this boat
with us. We're gonna have to find something else to leave with. If
they were transporting lots of pots here, they probably have something on site we
could take. Yeah, yeah, yeah, what she said. She looks
at someone kind of smiles. Um, she appreciates she giving her a little
bit of credit. I like, look away, it's a beer. The
blackness in her strengths a little bit. I've never stolen anything before, twice
in one day. That this will be fun. Yeah, well, at
least we know it'll be worth it. Yeah, like a kind of stone
labyrinth is what the city looks like, just poking atop this dark, akey
water. Do we want to wait till nighttime? Isn't it dark? No,
it was you came through the canopy and realize it's still daylight out this
area here as you kind of do you see the out you kind of you
come up through the ultra swamps here kind of north this direction, and you
are basically heerish inside of this sunken city piece. You can actually see way
off in the distance the parts of the city proper like on mainland, but
it's quite a ways out. Obviously. Well, if we're going to wait,
we should probably find the place to camp out or something not maybe not
just float in the middle of the water. To me, this place has
got to be filled with artifacts. I was just gonna ask if I can
see anything or hear anything, you can ro um, go ahead down a
stick m h. I mean it's usually easiest to stack up on something with
a night right, That's that's when people do stuff like that. So,
um depends. But in this situation with our current group, shade of night
might be more beneficial. Yeah, I mean we don't really have the best
equipment or the most knowledge. Um is there any like area? Yeah?
Yeah? Yeah, So basically your think about this is kind of like,
Um, I think that it's almost like, oh, an old Aztec city
that has like sunk in below. So some of the buildings are tall enough
for the top still reach. So like they create these kind of inlets and
islands where some of them are completely sunken. Some of them you could probably
walk in and they would be like heavily water damage. Some of them are
crumbled with age and wear and tear. But like, yeah, there would
be a place you can pull the boat up easily and like get off if
you wanted to. I would like to look for the best looking one that
provides the most cover. Well, Tom air, as they're talking and plotting
and trying to figure this out from a distance, there's a humming in the
air, a calling a lost artifact somewhere inside of this sunken city, long
forgotten left it needs to be claimed. Do you tell them where it's coming
from? I think maybe just trying to play it off a little cooler.
Okay, Um, if we have to enter it, probably wants a head
in that direction, and that'll be in the direction of the art kind of
points what does it look like that where he's pointing to. Does it look
like it's like uncover or yeah, they're sinking. There is some kind There
are a couple of structures here. Um, there is one in particular.
It's a little bit larger. You can actually see like a doorhole poking up
where you can like pull the boat and you potentially could go inside. It
may not be completely covered in water. There's, um, there is one
in particular that looks rather good. All right, we'll head that way that
that looks like a good spot to sit anyways, may be able to get
off this boat for a moment. To me before I tell you where you're
headed. And once you walk up on, roll me a sixty six two
D six. Tell me the number, and I need to pull up my
chart my artifacts trying away. That's all my that's my that's my pdf.
You need two D six and then tell me, Yeah, the numbers side
by side six two sixty two. Okay, the artifacts chart says, oh
my god, don't we already have this? How does this keep happening?
I can't read it either? Is now we have two of them? Don't
if we really don't need that? Uh yes, please, okay, I'm
gonna have you roll until we get something you don't have. That's hilarious.
Of all of all the things. It's the very first artifact I gave okay,
two interesting, okay, let's um okay, okay, okay, for
a second there Gnome froze with the worried face, and you stopped, and
I was like, oh sorry, I had to I had to read it
and think perfect how daftly pulls into this kind of up next to this what
remains of this building, The majority of it is far sunken, but the
top of it is rather interesting. It is circular in fact, and has
a lip that's about a foot and a half tall that runs around the side.
In the center is a hole that looks down into the murky black water
that has swallowed the rest of this building. Possibly if there was a fire
inside of this, it would have come up through here. But what's interesting
is that even with the wear and tear of time, you can see that
there are still grooves in the flat surface of this circular top where people used
to sit and a circle. And as you dismount that ringing gets clearer.
They chose the spot you knew they would, And as you get off,
it's just so evident, and oft in the corner sits a small rock It's
about the size of an austri jag. It has rounds carved into it.
It's much tucked in the corner, almost hidden behind other stones to be long
forgotten about. And as you all take a moment to rest, I'm sure
you are drawn to it. To me or oh yeah, yeah, just
like the glasses. You walk over to it and you toss all the other
rocks to the side. They don't sing the way that this one does,
and you pick it up. It is dark egg shaped container. You realize
glyphs carved into the exterior kind of shell, and these thin slits that long
run along the sides. You only roll the one. Lumara walks over to
you and puts a rather comforting hand on her shoulder, and she says,
can you see inside of it? To me? Or can you cannot?
It calls you. You know, this is an artifact which you cannot see
inside of it. She says, it's so beautiful. It's glowing woods with
light and Nanit's it's so warm and welcoming. What do you think of this,
Lamara? She touches it. The edges light up a little bit,
but not a lot, just like the kind of rains and edge. She
goes, I don't know, but whatever it is, it is good,
so good. She almost cries, saying it to this kind of wispiness in
her voice. Are you okay? Yes, I think so, And she
kind of kind of I just touches it, like, kind of brushes her
hand down it, and then she stops. But I hear something else,
something that's not full of light. What is that? Are you carrying the
urn? M Her eyes dart to your bag. What's in there? Materials?
It's a vial gear equipment your bag. It makes me uneasy. It
feels like the heart of this swamp, dead and empty. Don't open whatever
that is, please to mirror, and she looks at you so genuinely.
You know that the only thing in there that you could open is the urn.
And the camera pans out on the five of you sitting on the top
of this isolated structure, inside of the sultra swamps, your boat nearby,
maybe a single beam of sunlight coming down, giving you a little bit of
light on this area, and somewhere out in the swamp, a cry rings
out of pain of terror. It echoes through the vast emptiness and pangs off
of trees, and fog. Another mystic died tonight they began working on the
next one, curing them one by one, and as the camera pans out
over a swamp that is not empty, it is very much alive, with
the undead, with troubled tribes people, and with the rings and the cries
of pain and terror. Five simple humans are the only thing that stopped that
cry from ringing out. You're there to receive it, to hear it,
gave it life and purpose. Next week we'll come back and finish our journey
through the sunken Tempo city to the Temple, and hopefully, under the guise
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