M well, well, when I saw that you back there picking your nose,
it's gross. Don't do that while you think about the error of your
ways. Why don't you sit down, shut up, and welcome to From
a Far Podcast. Last time on From a Far Podcast. Come on,
Spit spin it, spit it out man, wait here alarm bent branches doesn't
doesn't whale outside. I feel like it's trying to say something. Oh what
my friends call me Frank and the dream ward and says like she is everything.
Do you think that we can can trust also water just our own selves
to do. We will do as you ask. It's just oh that we
can deliver, not this point that I banked the differ. You're definitely coming
with me. Earn that dog locker's club. W you see what looks like
Dear Kippa struggling is absolute hardest to get out of this slitch. Ars pulls
out his wand of switch ru. He points at what he says, Neil
get ready to catch him, and then he reactivates it um and then she
runs over and she custs wall of light, You're not taking my place,
not another one today, And Kippa and Neil grab his hand and even Elvin
puts you all whole and whole and you feel rious, just come free.
Y'all are back together a seven months being separate. Things have happened, but
y'all are back together. One night, one of my old roommates argued with
myself and two of my other roommates and he said, beyond meat is made
of homeless people, made of animals, no animal products. So we went
on the track of like, how many burghers can a human body? I
mean, how many homeless people are there? To be fair, be fair?
And this is not can like add I mean, to be fair,
there are a considerable out of homeless people out there. There are so if
it were true, they where you don't Yeah, I don't know, man,
I see a lot of it. Yeah, but like but that's what
I mean, Like if if if it were true, and I really fucking
hope it's not and it never turns out to be, yeah, I mean,
they would technically be a free range source. Oh no, I'm just
saying, oh home on the I mean yeah, like I could I could
see it like some kind of like arch villain like master plan of some sort,
because it's like, I mean, even here in Vancouver, like we
don't have that many homeless like stations like we have. This could be like
a snow piercer type exactly. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, Like it's it's
like again right, like not not giving credence to it, and I you
know, I don't believe it at all, But it's like if if it
were to like that point where someone did develop like a way to like make
burgers out of people, which sure there might be so conspire. The theory
choice would be that lizard people run the government, and if that one were
true, I could see them serving kind of is to me, like every
time I passed like a vacuum store or like a sofa store or like a
super specific oh my god store, I'm just yes, the vacuum stores are
always like how do they stay in business? It is say money, land
ring flight like it has to it has the connection I was trying to make
that. I feel like like every time I passed like one of those specific
stores, I'm like, there can't be enough people buying vacuums to make this
vibe. And I feel like my family in my entire life probably went through
through two, three, three vacuums, and like where my mom is still
using the third Yeah, but like my thing is like there, maybe I'm
wrong, but I feel like there's not the amount of people in the world
becoming homeless each day to keep up with the demand veggie burgers, like that's
might be surprised. Maybe, yeah, no, and when when the lizard
people start, you know, like I think David's one hundred percent correct.
Yeah, I think I don't think there's anywhere near amount of homeless people like
generating. You know. Anyway, this has been a fun Yeah, well
I'm not that. That wasn't sarcasm. Sorry, sar cat. That wasn't
sarcasm. That wasn't sacarasm. The saccharin, sar. I feel like I've
asked you this several times, like all of a sudden, words just like
don't sound right in your head. Happens with blue a lot that one blue
blue blue. Um, it wasn't sarcastic. This has been very fun.
But are you guys ready to do this thing? You're ready to jump back
into this It's just just just just just a story. Yeah, it's only
been twenty minutes. I'm part of us, it has only been twenty minutes.
I'm also proud of us. So with that, are you already to
rumble? Are you all ready to rumble your way through the curtains of reality
and arm wrestle our way into this story? Yeah, dude, let's congo
line our way through. Let's all right, we're gonna congo on. Everyone,
grab your partner's shoulders in front of you and two three kick, one
three kick, and we're here. We made it, We did it.
We story time. Yeah. So you all are sitting sitting standing, leaning
over standing on your head, breakdancing, jumping, that's what y'all are doing,
ye hi, chin to just basically catch your breath as you just uh
kind of quickly and unexplainably ran into your friend Kippa saved him from a sludgy
black nightmare corruption And y'all are kind of like on your hands and knees,
panting and trying to catch your breath. And Sebastian and Sapphire both say really
cool things and they're very distinct and unique voices. Love those guys. Yeah,
and uh, but yeah, what do you all say anything? Because
I didn't really give you any time to like, oh, okay, shut
up, dam oh man. You guys are real right, this is the
real you. This isn't some sort of nightmare thing. As as Kippa talks,
two things happen everyone except for Kippa. Because Kipa, you can't see
your own eyes. Everyone notices. I think, Arius, I think you've
seen this before. No, I don't remember if you have. Um.
Kippa's one yellow eye sometimes will kind of phase over and both of his eyes
will become yellow. I think you said that I noticed it when eyes when
I WoT when or when I caught him I guess in when the switcher roofing.
Yeah, even now, his eyes are still yellow. As you notice
that, Arius, you reach down and you kind of like grab your sort
of shoulder collar bone area where you were you dug into your own skin with
with your dragon claws. Yeah. Can you make me a either perception or
investigation check, or a medicine check, or a religion check or an ORKNA
check any other option? What what do you got? Conception? You said
that was the first one you got a five on, like trying to like,
Yeah, your your neck is so thick, you can't who. Whenever
Areas starts to look down, his knees get wobbling. He goes cross side,
So I don't notice. I just noticed that what I'm slash. You
notice your slash and you notice, you know, when like you drop some
like water on like really hot or dry sand and just like like dissolves and
like dries up. Yep. Yeah, you you notice a little bit of
like almost similar to that, like a little bit of that kind of black
sledge like going in but areas like approaches kippa like a little a little cautiously
husband like, hey, buddy, um glad you're back. What where was
that? What what were you doing in there? We're out, We're gone.
I don't know if we're out. Got well, as far as I
know. It's a place it's called Kushmar. But they're raptured done threw me
down there you were you were with rat? Oh he's right, okay,
was he wasn't there? Was he in? Oh? Not that I saw
you, guys, I means clear that you're all right and we're not in
the same we're not in phantom peak anymore. Well, I just wondered to
walk keep us talking? Or his eyes still yellow? Are they? Yeah?
To your to your not like slowly faded? You can you roll me
a history check anddy nine. Yeah, they're they're staying pretty strong, and
it is can It is confusing because his eyes aren't normally that color and like
it's not like it's not like, oh like just like yellow, like like
yellow colored. I was like, they're actually kind of glowing. I'm gonna
say, is just like on the floor still, just like trying to catch
your burn. She's she's constitution very low to everybody else. Uh. Absolutely,
yeah. So Arias, do you are you like announcing that, Kip?
I don't. I don't think what's there to announce everyone. I think
everyone seeing it. So then as you kind of take in your surroundings and
taking your settings, Christian you or Kip, Yeah, you're you're seeing this
for the first time. You were in Kushmar just a moment ago. Your
journey was a little bit more confusing because you you dove behind the nightmare beasts
into this like smooth black glass pool and then you were you were walking and
then all of a sudden you were like you couldn't breathe and like you were
traveling through the sluedge, and all of a sudden you see Arias and Nail
like silhouetted through this like this sludge, and then you got switched out and
now you're now you're here, and as you look around the veil of dreams,
it looks very very similar. It's a Koushmar, but like not like
inverse colors. Basically everything in in Kushmar is very like desaturated, if you
remember correctly, like the sky you saw it. Look at those like veins
and connections and all these different like almost like neurons, right, you see
very similar sites to that, but now like certain of these neurons and veins
are like color and bright, and you see you can see into a few
of these like pools and connections where these like pathways crossed, and you can
like you see all sorts of fantastical worlds. And you're all standing there and
you see Sapphire kind of go to like the black sludge, and he's looking
at it, and he kind of puts a paw up and like just touches
it ever so slightly and brings his paw back, and it's kind of wet
with this dripping, dripping sludge stuff. And he turns you and he says,
oh, this is not necessarily good. I know, things were already
kind of high stakes, but it seems like things are out of balance here
and the veil of dreams, and he points to the side that Nil and
Arias came through and says, this is like everything that exists in this world.
There's there's two parts to this. There's a light side, a good
side, the more positive side than he points over to the sludge the Kippa
came through, he says, and then there's the dark side, the evil,
negative side whatever. Usually there's balance between those two things, and usually
it's okay. But it seems like he looks back over at this like kind
of growing, undulating black sludge, and he says, whatever's down there,
whatever Rapture is doing down there, is he's throwing this out of balance.
And this could be not great for a lot of people, not to add
more conflict and tension to an already conflict intense situation. But we should probably
get moving if he I mean, yeah, do you pulls out a little
water skin? Would you like some trees? Water? Yes? Thank you?
You know, just throws back, give me give me a hit of
that. Who's who's you mean? What do you mean? I'm sorry?
Are y'all seeing this? Yes? Yes, yes, it's it's it's hard
not to really is like looking around everything like you give it? You mean
like everything or like something? I mean, I guess kind of. Yeah,
can we address what is wrong with you? Kippakipper? Can you can
you roll me a arcanic check? Please? That's a natural one. Okay.
You you're a little too overwhelmed that you just traveled through chocolate pudding out
of a nightmare round and now you're in Mario Kart Rainbow Road with your friends.
Your head hurts a little bit, but like you don't, oh,
you don't really know what's going on. As as as you guys hand the
water skin back to a fire and he looks at it sadly. You know
there's there's nothing left keep first of all. Or you're all right? You're
you look a little um, yeah, dashing, Its distressed, Its stressed.
Yeah you're going to the eyes again? Yes, right, withered?
All right, Well, good to see you guys too. Wait do you
do you know who? Do you know what we're talking about? Or is
this news? Just do you know what you're saying? I look horrible?
No? No you never no, no, not terrible. Just I mean,
come on, we've known if you don't need to beat around the bush,
and if you look awful, you look absolutely awful. Okay, thank
you for the honesty you did say. Anyway. Um, yeah, right,
Well, are your eyes normally both this bright? Are they crossed?
Oh? Bright? Wait? What aris? Yeah, your eyes are kind
of glowing. I like they this just happened before, but just the one
I mean on occasion. I just assumed you knew that. I mean,
it's not like I was visiting the fade when I was down there or anything,
but I was. Oh, I ran into some old friends. I
mean, I hope they're doing all right. Maybe they might be able to
help us in some way. Maybe from the other side. They're pretty pretty
pretty skilled gentlemen and ladies. Meals like rooting around in her bag for like
a mirror or something. As you all are talking about it, and as
kids, as you're thinking about it, your your eyes like fade fade back
to their normal look. Does the being able to see these other things if
that fades away? Oh okay, yeah, no, I guess I've all
right. I've come. I'm back back to normal, back to me.
Um. Interesting, it's just kind of scratches his head and just kind of
shrug. You know, I don't know what, but I wasn't feeling act
av activated like stops your searches. Oh oh, I see you roll me
one more arcana check please, Yeah, but unnatural. Um As your vision
shifts, you do realize that you were seeing extra extra bits of information you
were seeing. You're not entirely sure what it is. It looks like some
of the pools that where the neurons are crossing have kind of grayed out and
faded out a little bit, but you also see several other Now you no
longer see several other connections and almost like tears and rips in reality. And
it's strange because, yeah, you've seen you've seen some stuff like this before.
Usually it's been at moments of just like high high stress. And while
this was a pretty stressful situation you just went through, you don't feel the
same way that you used to. Yeah, but that is neither here nor
there. We can figure this out later. As Sapphire turns to you,
all, he says, Okay, so this has been pretty wild. This
has been pretty pretty cool, pretty fun. Honestly, we we I'm proud
of myself for jumping through that many dreams that quickly to get here. Uh,
it might be a little bit slower going back, but for the most
part, I, for one, I think we should get going pretty soon.
Back to boat, back across the ethereal see and you gotta find that
city. Yeah okay, yeah, you already got a boat everything. Wow.
Yeah, yeah, we met some dream boardings. They're actually much nice
and expecting. But wait, we can we just go? Do we have?
Safar says maybe? Maybe? Um, I got some of my juice
refilling my my proverbial magic cup. Is that the found that is refilling it?
Like, he's like, I don't want to hear anything about your biology,
right, don't. We don't talk about how do you how do you
think cats into back sea work? I don't have like a cup. I
don't want to hear about those liquids? All right, No more liquid talk
magic? No gross, gross, It's okay, So I understand, thank
you. No, you are great a great wizard? Are you a wizard?
I know David knows you're not a wizard. No, No is telling
him that he's that she's not. It's magic user. Wait is it there's
a difference. Yeah, there's Like I thought everybody thought you just use magic?
Or do I really? No? No? So wait you thought you
think I'm a wizard? Well you sing songs? How would you be a
wizard? Are you not? But there's magic? I love this development.
What else is there needing? What? Yeah, it's magic? Arius is
a sword the same as a knife or oh god no, yeah those are
very different though it's nothing like magic. But they're all weapons, right,
yeah, that's those are those have different names? Deep well, the same
goes for magic, third sorcerers, warlocks. Those are just all different pretensitions
of the same No, no, no, no, no, different dialects.
I'm hearing the same thing. Imagine, right, A wizard is like
an apple? Alright, alright away as you as you walk away, Nail
Sapphire leans too and says, I was tracking with what you were saying that,
thank you, thank you? Do you have an apple to eat?
Or just metaphorically, I just realized before this trip, I've been a prisoner
for weeks. I haven't even oh you know, just time, skin and
bones, star haven't taking a quick inventory of about myself. I have realized
that I am am almost from starvation. Any food do you have will keep
me alive? Look in the plot, armor just just falls off of s
It's like Professor Quarrel when when Voldemort leaves his body. No no, he
said, no, it's no, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no no. It's fine. As we can, we
can walk into a good adventures. You have rations and stuff. We'll give
it to Sapphire. But as you're walking away, I have rolled us a
comfortable meal. Oh yeah, because you have. That's right, yes,
wonderful Sapphire, like you see tears like He's like, there must have been
onions in this, because don't worry. It's a chock full of onions.
It's I understand, I understand. It's an it's an onion stew. It's
a it's a wonderful onion tear fields too. Don't worry. It's so nice.
And as you're having this this weird French onion meal, and as Sapphire
realized he was about to die, Sebastian, he's already there has been Verst
for the last several episodes. He used them all of his minutes. I'll
give each of you one, yeah, he used of all his cell phone
plan. There is one other NPC that we've forgotten about. I'll give you
all one guest to figure out who it is. Nope, no, it
would it should have been. Is it the is it the knife? Nope,
that isn't that is another one. No one. Yeah, that's just
an extremely um grammar. I hasn't made an appearance in a very Wait a
minute, am I. That's right. Arius doesn't have any of the grass
stuff on him. In the theory of plan we said, you actually have
like dragony claws that you Oh god, oh, it got really confusing.
So I'm just I just kind of let it. Yeah, it's just it's
just somewhere Paul Paul still exists, and your grass ring still exists, and
in the not ethereal plane, your arm is still like grotesquely covered up with
with this grass. But because the clause I have are from the grass,
like I don't know the w I kind of thought about it when you went
to the ethereal plane. It like sort of like imagine if all the grass
got like covered by like like flash, you just have like a big,
like a big hulk arm basically with big dragon clause. That's why I thought
about it. Um. Anyway, as as you leave and Grahamarai actually this
is the way it goes uh in phantom Peak, he shrunk down to like
the size of an Origami samurai like Kubo in the Two Streets. And he's
just been sitting on your shoulders. That's conveniences in my pocket. He's in
my pockets, in my chest. It's just he's just like he's he's on
a baby byard. He's just like he's an a little pocket square. Yeah,
he's a little pocket protector. He is a pocket protector. Anytime anyone
gets close, he does slices and dices him. Ramai turns into a Ford
f one fifty. No. But as you all are leaving this this uh
reunion, the spot where your reunion was as you were walking through the veil
of dreams, is leaving this sort of corrupted uh Megatront is coming say I'm
going to turn into a truck now we are here. That was really good.
Thanks. I used to be able to. That was one of my
favorite things to do it improv. When we used to do in improv shows,
I would bust out the optimist prime voice and people built. This message
goes out to all other autobots city, to all my homianes, come over
for pizza and beers at birth house, sir. No, So as as
you all are walking one, two, three, four house lane combination to
my locks one one. Anyway, y'all are leaving, they'll never suspect to
one digit. We aren't on a different level tonight, y'all. I mean
we're a different plane of existence. I feel walking as you leave this sort
of corrupted gateway in the Vale of Dreams to the Nightmare of kushmar Has.
It's taken about forty five minutes to walk through. You see, you see
ever so slightly, the gate and the portal and the entry way. I
sort of kind of grow out like a couple of feet, like you know
in Avatar when soccer and guitar and the creeping crystal, and just occasionally it
like grows a little more a little with King Boomy. That's the rock candy,
the rock candy. Thank you. Yes, So this is what's going
to happen next. So we're walking back into where crisis came from. No,
no, no, you're you're walking away from from Thank you for the
clarification. I appreciate that, okay, And you're you're walking back towards where
you and nil came in. Okay, yeah, you you're a lot farther
away than you were. So the way I'm kind of imagining this veil of
dreams is this literally like you're kind of standing on top of this like ethereal
space, but there's like these like sort of hard light connections kind of zig
zagging all across where like wherever there's an intersect, there's like the sort of
pool that you can go into, and that's that represents a different dream that
people can jump through. Sapphire used a lot of his abilities to like zip
you through a lot quicker. I don't know, I don't know if you
remember that. So we like move so we're like we moved faster going in
work, we're getting out slower exactly. So what I'm gonna need from from
you? What can all three of you roll me a D twenty please?
Yeah? That's an eighteen? I got eight eight okay? No sorry?
Four? Four? Oh even even better? And Andy, would you get
at eleven? Eleven? Eleven? Okay? Cool? So we're looking for
nineteens and twenties. Yes, oh no, so no, that's actually it's
actually we're rolling random encounters. Let's go, we're rolling random encounters right now.
So as you as you kind of make through, you make your way
through this first area, Sapphire is able to like get enough of his get
his mind ride enough, get enough of his strength back that he's able to
like zip you through a couple more of these little little dream sequences. Um,
you all kind of dip dip into one portal, dip up of another,
and jump out of another portal a little closer to where you entered in.
Can I get another role? How do we know to come here again?
How like I'm sorry to dream wardens. He specifically told us these specifically
toal is where to go right? We did the last bit really fast,
But basically the way it was is you were trying to find a way into
the Vale of Dreams, because Sapphire was saying that there's a probably pretty good
chance you'd be able to get into Kuschmar through the Vale Dreams. The dream
Warden led you to the valor Dreams as you were, as you stepped into
it, you saw like deep within it like this like sort of pulsing black
thunderstorm, where Sapphire is like, that's where it is. We got to
fucking go now, and like zipped you over to it. There's a lot
of logical jumps that we've been taking with this one. Well, I mean,
it is aial plane, and it's like it's the dream war. It's
kind of made to not make sense. Yeah, So then what are those
numbers you all got again? One? Nine, three? Oh? Cool?
Again? You're you're moving very like slowly, but like at like a
steady pace. Um. And you're moving moving slow enough to be careful.
Um. And you're not you're not getting into any of these extra pools or
any of the pools that sort of look more nightmarish or a little more dangerous
than some of the other ones. And then finally, let's do one last,
one, last role, all three of you please. Yeah that was
closed twelve twelve. All right, cool, So you you don't fall into
any unless you want to. You all don't fall into any unwanted dream space,
and you eventually get back to Was it gonna be combat or just like
I have a couple prompts written down, I was gonna see where we go
from there. It's gonna be a scat battle, allright. The dice roll,
the dice roll, one of one of them was going to be like
an old like Kirasawa style like Samurai train heist that you had to get through
damn. So but basically what I was, basically what I was gonna have
to do is I I've written out a bunch of, like I was trying
to be very fluid with this one, written out a bunch of like potential
scenarios and whether or not they would logically have a mirror in them, because
the goal you have to find a mirror to be able to get back into
the to the that's cool, that's cool, I said, no, yeah,
yeah, we were all we were all the dice. So it's all
good. Yeah, sorry, it's all good. So then so then basically
you you all very expertly and very carefully and very goodly navigate your way through
these neurons, through this very ethereal um dream space, and you eventually get
back to areas and note where you remember entering into You're you're kind of standing
at the at the right up against this like shimmering curtain of light right right,
and now I'm remembering it now. Yes, it's just like a beautiful
turquoise color and it's sort of like imagine like the Aurora bore alice right sort
of shimmers and it's beautiful. Never thought it'd be happy to see this place
again. The same with that, you all hold your breath and you pass
through, and as as you're passing through, you feel this sense of you're
witless for a second, and then you're very cold for a second, and
then you feel then you're very your pants, you share your pants, you
all, you all make up that you were, that you were on where
where the dream warden led you to the vand dreams and you all wake up
and you're sort of on. Yeah, And a couple things you notice are
off the bat the shimmering turquoise curtain of light that you just passed through,
it looks a little bit different. It isn't as pure turquoise now. It
looks as if like like drops of ink have been dropped into this water.
And there's like these sort of spider webbing veins of black inky sledginess sort of
spreading through this beautiful curtain of light. Um, you notice that you also
notice keimt but you wouldn't remember this, but nail and arius. Um,
you notice the water that you are on in the ethereal scene is much much
choppier. Oh, kimp, I just kind of under his breath. It's
just like looking over at that the veil. I don't remember the ride being
so so bumpy, and arius air is laying like completely flat. It's like
it's way worse than second ago. Yeah, Like she's like holding onto the
side a little bit like I don't I don't remember it being this bad.
And as you say this, this, this was way worse. This is
why worse than it was a second ago. All three of you can all
please roll me. Let's go either arcana or just straight intelligence checks. That's
gonna be a seventeen and a twenty four for me. The twenty four wonderful.
I don't know eight nine seven, twenty five three he got seven seven
nol as as Arias says, this is why worse than it was a second
ago. You think back to your studies, and you think back to the
times, and you've done things like this, and you you know that a
lot of times, like plane hopping, especially within different planes, especially planes
within planes, you know, you know, time can get real funky.
And as you look around as this realization, as this realization is starting to
come to you, you notice the dream Warden is gone. The supplies and
things he left on the boat seemed very like wet, as if they've been
rained on. You get the sense that you you actually were in that vale
of dreams for a lot longer than you than it felt. How long?
How long have we been gone? She's just like kind of like like upon
realizing it, it's like she's just like loving home, and she's like starts
looking through all of like the supplies and all the things, trying to figure
out a way to like determine that I guess. Yeah, Ki Kip is
hearing her, and he's like, Sapphire, don't y'all, don't you people
have a way of like telling how long you've been gone or something? Do
you just ask when you get back? And Sapphire pulls up his cell phone
and it opens it up in a newspaper falls out, and he's like,
huh, he says, Safa says, it feels like we've been gone longer
than He's like looking at the veil of dreams and you see he's very concerned.
Look, he says, this is there's a there's a lot that's not
right here. Something's definitely I think we might have been gone for a couple
of weeks. And as he says that knoxy or no, you look down
and yeah, all the rations and stuff you got from Fansom Peak, it's
all all kind of rotten. It looks like your food and your supplies look
like they've been just sitting out in this boat for a couple of weeks,
right, um, And he says that's not good. If we were if
we've been over a couple of weeks, that means he's had a couple of
weeks to to just be in sense and take over or control or kill or
do whatever. It could be a phantom Peak all over again. Well,
I'll be quite honest with y'all. The brands I mentioned running into they were
talking like they were coming from some sort of a time when Mapure had already
been there and been doing his thing for quite some time. Now. I
think we need to just keep moving forward, unless anyone has anything else they
want to say. Is there a way we can move back? I don't
know. It just sort of came to me anesto back in time, possibly
back to the future. I don't think that's It's dangerous enough jumping across planes
in different other thresholds. Sure, but if we think about it, it's
not exactly out of the realm of possibility. Yeah, I'd just be worried
about what it's taken froms each time you go in and now. Uh and
while while you're while y'all are having this conversation, Uh, you're very much
on like a little tiny rowboat basically in the middle of a store. You
see the veil of dreams, the turquoise curtain of light. It looks like
it's getting more and more diluted with this black substep of the horses. They're
still with They're still there or did they start? Also, they just like
the poker they were they were eating. I imagine I like them. They're
playing cards and sports the painting of the playing dogs. Yeah, they'll have
beards now, just like a little little extra beards. Um all right,
Like yeah, they they're there. And Sapphire jumps up to the to like
the reins of the ship. Uh, and he says, I'm we gotta
go. I think I think you might be on something now. If if
things are way worse than they seem, maybe maybe we can jump into someone's
nightmare or do something. I'm not sure how to go back in time.
But I'm sure the four of us, five, six of us who would
lose all on this boat again, raise your hand if you're on this boat.
Oh is that a grasshead? No? Will, why didn't you get
here? Believe those five, he says, with the five of us,
I've seen five and a half of us. I've seen us all do some
pretty amazing things. So maybe if things get that bad, I bet we
could find a way to jump back. I just, I just, I
just I don't know if the thought just pain to mind and it doesn't ye,
or we freaking jump ahead a hundred years or something in the little future
and then we're really fun. I'm is dangerous. I've done a lot of
dangerous things in my life, and I'm okay, she says, with like
a like a a weirdly like crazed grin. Yeah, well, nil,
I also hear you talking about all these worlds you visited and how they're all
dead. Yes, I love the just Yes. Yes, So Sapphire is
gonna take the reins and start taking the horses to to send z nless anyone
else tells him otherwise, or unless any of you want to do anything else.
Cool I'll take that as a note. Um, this is the scene
I want you to imagine. Sapphire is up on like the imagine like like
a stagecoach of a carriage. Like he's like kind of flicking the reins and
the horses to drag this boat across this like extremely turbulent sea that you're going
up waves and then down the other side. Do you see like thunder crashing
off in the distance, rain is coming down? But also occasionally you see
what looks like almost like like a almost like a ghost like flying right at
your group. Um, And sometimes they pass over you and you all for
a moment, guys, these specters kind of pass over you. You are
transported into like the remnant like fragment of like a nightmare, and like all
of a sudden, you're just falling and then you come back out in your
in your your back on this ethereal scene, and Sapphire is just like charging
the horses and you look around. You see all these like sort of floating
sort of specters. Um. They look to be just like like fragments of
nightmares that have somehow escaped and are just sort of like floating around and and
and dashing around they yells up to Sapphire, was like, fuck man,
shit, prowd of dodge those Sorry, sorry, I was asleep. I've
been driving for sixteen straight hours. Wait, you've been asleep this all times.
It's where it's where as dream dancers get our power. We sleep all
the time, constant, thick, uh no, no, he yeah,
he's I'll do better. Yeah, he's like just the light. And after
after a while of this, after a while of this, you all eventually
like he the storm calms and you eventually you see like a silhouette of what
looks like a fairly large rock formation or island in front of you. As
you all, as you get a little closer, you see u on a
pretty decent sized island, like right up to like almost like a cliff side
that like drops right into this ocean. You see a pretty large city.
It's surrounded by a wall, and it was like the wall is made of
like mismatching metals. It's like one section of like bricks, and there's other
section on it's a bunch of like metal plates kind of slapped up against each
other, and there's one section of somewhere like wood. It's all very tall,
very thick, and very sturdy. You have no doubt that it would
even though it's mismatched. It would take take some doing to get into.
And as you look out over this wall, as as your boat is coming
in closer to this site, you see the roofs of several buildings, and
again, very much like the walls, these roofs are mismatched and some are
domed, some are flat, some are slanted, different heights, different materials
that are made out of. But the thing that catches your attention, you
see lots of light coming from this city, like some are like multi colored
spotlights come of shooting up in the sky, some like neon signs, and
it's just it's very bright and very mismatched all across the board, but it
is bright. And you see towards the center of the city the buildings get
taller and taller till it ends in like one shiant spire, and you see
a sort of cathedral area in the middle that has hundreds, if not thousands,
of different colored spot or different sized spires, but there's one right in
the middle that reaches up above every other building in this city. Um and
at the top of this building you see you know those like electric ball,
crystal ball, things that haven't like hot topic or like spencers or whatever where
like you touch it and like all the electricity goes to like oh yeah,
yeah, right, yeah uma or whatever, like a tesla Like yeah,
like a tesla ball. You see at the very top of this spire,
there's almost like a thundering storm. Um. You see like flashes of white
men coming out from from the inside of it, but you also see tendrils
of what looked like this black sledgey missed all kind of being sucked up into
this spire in the very center of the city. And Sapphire says, oh
shit, this is Senza and it looks super fucked. Oh this isn't normal.
No, And you all remember, actually you've seen this city before,
all three of you have seen this before your dream and it didn't look like
this. It definitely looked like very mismatched and very kind of haphazardly put together.
But like all these like inky spiral misty tendrils kind of going into the
city that that isn't We talked about how we all saw that, or did
we I don't remember, I don't remember I remember that I was I don't
think I don't think you guess that that was a while ago. I think
I think we all just kind of like collectively saw it and then just kind
of had like a general reaction. But not I think we ever talked about
seeing the city before in a dream or behind a turquoise door. Right,
Oh yeah, we talked about this, Yeah we did. I think we
did talk about because we were all in the same dream together. Yeah.
Oh yeah, okay, all right, so all right, so this is
it? Does that mean that then we saw the future? Well it didn't
look like this. That corruption wasn't in my did you guys see corruption?
I didn't see an yet. I mean that's some hopeful thinking. Maybe I
know. I'm just hopeful, But I don't know. I'm just saying because
I remember, because it's been about three months. As y'all having this conversation,
Sapphire is bringing the ship towards You see like a dock that looks like
it's just like a dock for like a single boat. Like it's a very
small dock, and let's go. There's nobody there. Well, that's convenient.
You had a parking spot right here at the front, right at the
front. Are sure it's not this? It might be for handicap. Handicaps
are that's what I'm at the No, no, you're you're right, you're
right. Fuck And he goes around like the right side and you see just
miles miles of boats parked and he's like, shit, no, that's fine,
that's fine, it's okay. I don't wonder about it. They won't
mind if we just there's one time and a quick they might not even notice.
And you look back and you see another car, another ship is parked
there, and it's like a it's like a bunch of people that that need
access to the space. And he's like a ship on wheel. It's exactly
a ship on wheels. And Sapphire says, I mean you can go back
and try to fight them and take that spot. Now you want us to
go and kill the I don't know what you guys want. I just ate
for the first time in like six months, leaving the spot. The person's
leaving the parket spot right there, right there, left side of the My
horses all light up. He's like, okay, and uh yeah, you
guys can scales light up. Good parkt spot. And as someone's leaving,
but they do that thing where like like your guys are your boat is clearly
sitting there, like clearly wanting to park in this spot, and like they're
in their boat and you can see them and they're on their phone, like
putting in their music and like getting their map the map quest, getting their
Google maps all pulled up and making their seat just right. And it's it's
a good like eight minutes that you guys, y'all are there? No,
just like leans out of the boat door and just can you hurry up?
We're a bit of a pickle. Huh No, no, what what what
we need to lose? What a way to go? And you see you
here his boat turn on and sails away, and uh, you guys park
well parking puzzle. Uh you'll park at the dock where there are thousands and
thousands of other ships at dock here. But you are like you're like seven
away from like the like the like the stairs leading up to Sunday and Sapphire
Parks you all, and some attendance attendants run out and immediately take your you
my horses and start like, well, we'll take these off to the stables
for you young masters. And you start like heading them and making out with
that gross Um, the way we take care of these horses, we don't
have to trees. Alright, alright, alright, everybody sit down, Sit
down, Hey, you sit down, but stop sending up. We're going
through the middle of a storm right now, so buckle your ship seat belts.
The next part of the story, well, not the next part of
the story. I say that after a board speaking where Oh sorry, no,
I was over here. When did they get to the part of the
dream world where they have a lot of the cool sexy dreams? Uh,
that was in the next town over. Actually, Senza was very pure and
controlled by a rapture. The next one was sex. Say that's the that's
the neighboring and they, oh, what a what a fumble on their part.
They could have ended up at sex a man. Yeah, sex a
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David, I'm gonna have to tell you that. It was about ten years
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But no, So basically, um, you all are at the docks and
all the extraneous stuff is going to be taken care of, and I'm gonna
take this opportunity to quickly sort of refresh everyone's mind because this this arc in
particular Killer has kind of got a little off the rails. But hey,
you know, it's all good. So as you all are sitting here talking
to Sapphire and Sebastian yourselves about what's going on. You realize you remember there's
a couple of things you have to do. You need to figure out if
Rapture is here, figure out if he's in power. But most importantly,
you need to find Miday, the Moonstone Gem person. Oh, we believe
from our visions and the games and stuff, sensing that is that is what
you last time you all saw this city, you basically were invited by a
mysterious voice. It's not a lot like Prisms to come journey into sense and
partake. I forge exactly what we said, but it was partaking some sort
of race. Yeah, I know. We talked about the race. We've
talked about how Raptures using the race to like do things exactly. We don't
worry. I've been able to connect everything. I feel like fairly well worry.
I have it all under control. But a couple of things happened.
As you all are kind of remembering why you're here and what's going on,
you hear occasionally it sounded a little bit like it sounded a little bit like
thunder a while ago when you were farther away, But now that you're like
here, at the base of the city, like at the docks of the
city. You hear occasionally it sounds like just just a wild cheer goes up
from inside the city, like imagine like like a citywide sporting event. Like
and once actually while you all are here, um, you see something strange.
Um in areas, I'm gonna need you to roll in the history check
preemptively rolling the history check please as you see these sort of metal ships because
this was in my this was in my telescope, is what I'm actually very
impressed that you remember that so quick. Yeah, yeah, no way,
yeah, so you see so it doesn't it doesn't click at this point in
your mind, but for the audience at home, you seem we see these
like several about eight of these fairly large basically look like metal pirate ships,
but they're like eight person or race cars basically that come like tearing out of
the city. At one point, they're kind of on this track and you
hear you see like it's often a distance you can't see, but you see
what looks like these eight ships coming just tearing out of the city, and
there's this kicking up dust and you see several figures on each of these metal
ships like some people they're like strapped, and you see the one with these
big hooks turn like hook other people off. You see you hear the sounds
of cannons going off and laser gun type things. It looks like a very
intense mad Max Fury Road style like fight. But you don't have any context
what I just said, Um that that happens, You're like, what the
fuck is going on? And then the very last thing that happens sort of
in this like very quick sort of refreshing momentum, all three of you feel
you feel a presence. You feel like a warm sort of is it benevolent
or mode level? What's the benevolent? Is a good one like benefits?
Yes, you feel like sort of a benevolent presence sort of press on your
on your minds, and all three of you realize a couple of things that
you felt this presence before. It was in your dreams about sense and it
feels familiar. It feels as if the times you've you've come in contact with
either Minus his mind or prisms mind. You feel a sense of relief that
you three have arrived AARs like looks at like Nail and kippo. Yeah,
that's what That's what I was going to say, like Nil, just kind
of like like on on, like I guess like feeling it. It's like
the way I imagines like all three of them like kind of like react and
then just look at each other like what like you felt that right? Like
that? Yeah? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah it was that, Marai.
That's all I can imagine. Who else would want us to come here?
Interesting, geez, the reason why we're here, yea, as as
we might be on the right track, let's let's get into see what we
can find. So then what do you how do you all want to go?
You basically are at like the like the edge of this city. There's
walls all around it, several foot high walls. You see a couple different
pathways leading into it. Um, but it doesn't it doesn't look like there's
really anybody out here. It's gonna say, do we see like anybody else?
Not really for the attendants, the attendants who are just making out with
your horses, we catch a glimpse of them through like a crack door that
wasn't closed over, and they're just like, yeah, plan the door real
quick, and uh, we'll address that later. But no, you don't.
You don't really see you Like I said, you hear the occasional chair
of this out. You hear like the roar of these motors as they sort
of circle around the city. Can't really place exactly where it is. It
looks like after like a pretty easy walk, you could get up to the
main gates. The walls look scalable, you could, yeah, anything you
want any way you want to try to approach this situation the first most path.
I don't think we in danger. I don't know. I mean,
we just go walk in, right, we can just I don't think so.
I don't think you're in danger, all right, you're not. You're
not in danger. You you you all adventures. You don't feel like there's
not like a welcoming party, like, oh my gosh, you guys are
here. This is fucking great. Yeah, get in here. Um,
but you also there's not you don't like see guards, you don't see like
workers, or it's like it's like suspiciously easy to access. Basically, yeah,
pretty much holiday or something. Oh yeah, maybe there's an event going
on in the role. Isn't it the thirteenth of Blevin's Day? It is
oh it is just thirteenth of Levin's day. Um but no, yeah,
so uh, unless anyone says any think different, I'm just gonna have you
all sort of you you three Sebastians and Sapphire. Uh, just walk up
to the front gate. You you are standing in like the sort of the
mouth of this gate, looking at over like a pretty large City's probably the
biggest city you've been in since probably like never winter. Even bigger than Hunt
Celestia. Oh I forgot about that one. Yeah, probably even bigger than
Mount Mount Celestia. Wow, it's this big. It's a big city.
Yeah. You look at it looks like the city's more or less deserted.
At this point, you're starting to see. You're starting to see a couple
of different people, maybe a few shop keeps, maybe a few just wandering
people around or people want to look like do we look at a place?
No, you don't because the people you do see there is no consistency of
the way they look. You see like a spirit at one point, you
see like a giant like rock goal. Also cool. You see like a
group of like you see three cobol Is in a trench cap. But it's
style. But it's with wise, it's three three, it's so about this.
Yeah. So one in one arm, the other in the other arm,
and one in the middle. Yeah, and they're just trailing this long
duster behind you. At this point, you all feel that sort of presence
again again, not like invading, not pressuring, just sort of really relieved
that you all are finally here. And it feels like it's it's a kind
of beckoning you to toward deeper in towards the city. Oh is it?
Is it like guiding us further? Oh? Yeah, Yeah, that's a
better way to say that. It feels like it's guiding you in deeper towards
the city. Nil. Nil turns to to the to the boys, and
just all three of you feel it. You feel like it is it is
pulling in towards that like Credit Shaw style castle in the middle of Creddic Show,
Creddick Show, Yeah very much. For those of you don't have Brandon
Centers, that's the castle in the sport. Yeah. I imagine areas would
not stop walking. I mean, I don't see why we would. We
Once we get in there, there's no resistance. It's like like we're like
walking into a town and it was like this like, oh, like some
sort of like voice that we hear just around each coin we've already established we
all we all hear it, so like areas and like we know that's what
we have a strong suspicions, right, So yeah, areas would just keep
going, I mean not like sprinting, but like we would when we encounter
like a fork in the road or something, we'd all kind of like look
at each other, yeah, point and be like, yeah, that same
road. And do we hear like the sound of engines, Like is it
getting louder as we're getting closer. I'm imagining that we're going to the uh.
Well, so the way that the engines are are kind of kind of
happening, um, is it sounds like they're moving all around the city.
So like when you when you walked in and like they were like kind of
up here, left and then you think the whole city is the track basically
yeah, basically um, and you get and they got really quiet as they
got farther away. Then like they came back and you probably saw them at
one point as you're walking through the city, like a bunch of these like
big metal ships just near like dash pass like an outbuy down of like farther
and you hear the crowd barrier um and uh. You're getting deeper and deeper
into into the city of Sense, and it is strange you are. You
are seeing people for the most part, it looks like everyone is primarily focused
on this race, and you're kind of following this this presence and this like
alluring that sounds wrong, like this like kind of siren's call for lack of
a better word, and you're just like kind of following this this tone and
this song and this feeling um and uh. As you get to like the
base of this castle, which we will call Shreddick Crop. As you get
to the basis of this castle, you hear like a resounding like earth rumbling,
like cheer, but from this crowd, and like at this point,
it feels like it happens from all around the city. After like a few
minutes, the crowd, the cheering dies down, and then you start to
see people like start to mill around the city and start to go back to
what they were doing. It seems like this race is more or less done.
Yeah, that's it. You missed it. You missed the race.
There's no way the story is done from them, but you, um,
yeah, okay. After a few minutes of the people kind of milling about
the city, kind of going back to the way they were, you guys
find yourself at the base of this of this castle, and you you are
greeted by all dressed all in black. Looks actually quite similar to the way
the dream Dancers were dressed back at back at Phantom Peak. You see another
teething just not Rapture, sort of see you all in bows, and it
says, finally, Rapture has been waiting for you long follow me, and
he starts to oh, I want to follow. Sapphire starts to follow,
like, but you don't have to follow if you don't want to. Oh
God, maybe it's worse than we thought. Maybe yeah, I don't know.
This has moving kind of fast for me, tell me try. I
mean now, I mean unless we kill this guy. Uh and he's just
like right over there next to us, So I mean, then Rapture's gonna
know that we're here. Pretty sure Raptures known, he probably knows me good.
We we're here, what we got here? You all see the this
uh, this ti fling dressed like one of the dream Walker dream dancers kind
of ascends the stairs leading up to this big epic kind of Gothic style castle,
and uh sort of went through there and looks back and is sort of
watching him. Well, it might be too late anyways, So harlans and
says, that's Bill. He's kind of a pushover. Oh, don't don't
tell us his name. I mean, yes, true, I prefer to
know the name of the people I kill. I'm not trying to humanize him.
He just gets really annoying with how much he talks about his kids and
all the volunteer work he does. It don't at the hospital, and he's
he's honestly a good guy, but he doesn't if he steals people's dreams.
See, that's what I was gonna say. He's part of this pretty evil
organization. Yeah, but I mean maybe he's just trying to do what he
has to do to provide for his kids. Yeah. His kids are also
just giant assholes. It's fine, It's okay, literally or metaphorically. One
of them is an actual physiological button. Oh no, that that's gotta suck.
That's some garba. It stinks. It does, think it does think
Bill. Bill's a complex person. Damn. I was hoping he was more
just like clear cut, wow, we should murder him type. You all
look up at Bill and he just is like he just is like emptying his
trash of his pockets of litter, just like put it trash all over the
and then he helps an old lady up like she's like trying to walk up
this She's like, oh, I'll help you out, and he helps her
up and then he any peas on the wall. It's just like, you're
just like this guy is so he's very well, very active, very active
in whatever it is he's doing. He's constantly on it. Yeah, whatever
it is. Yeah, So sorry, what are you all trying to do?
Do you do to think it's safe? Probably I don't think like i'd
like I Kushnar, you know, yeah, he did end up nearly of
hell of the ideal plane. That's I wanted to say hell, but I
said Kushnar because it wasn't hell. But that's why I said it was the
hell of you. It is kind of a hell because and it wasn't like
that. But well, okay, and you see Bill like like shining someone's
shoes and on the sps on he's the reason they need to be shining.
But creating his own knee, his own supply and demand. He's got every
stage of the process covered. He's going out and putting like spiky objects on
the ground so people need shoes, and then he spits on them so that
they need to be called trops everywhere. Sapphire turns feel, I says,
okay, um, I think Arius had a point. I think we are
We're obviously known. It's known that we're here. So either we turn back
and leave now, or we continue on with this. That's a good point.
We've already come this far. Yeah, whatever, let's just do it.
But I mean, if if do anything, oh yeah, I mean
we're on the same page. We're fighting back, right, yes, oh
yes, of course unless unless, yes, great, great persuasive benefits.
I think that's really I'm just saying deeper minds of it. But all right,
let's go. Okay, I have a price. I can stops the
most unarious. I can be bad where you stand, Um, out of
curiosity, what is what is your price? Um? Inflation maybe has increased
the number, but it was ten okay, ten back win. As you
all are talking about the price, it will it will you will be able
to be bought with. Um. You walk up the stairs and you you
get by Bill who He's like, oh, well, all right, there
you go. Your shoes are shined up, you old fucker me. And
he starts to walk off the deeper part of that. I can I get
a read on that guy? Unpredictable from s to finish. Hey, he
turns back to you and he says, who never never let him know your
next move? And he has you all a lollipop and he uh, he
walks like, come on raptures, like what rappers are waiting for y'all?
Is this poisoned? Is this poison? It might be? Um and uh,
you all walk through the castle and roll me insight checks if you want,
you all would or investigation checks. Sorry, investigation checks place Andy,
you've been rolling like dogshits in fifteen natural unnatural twenty uh and a fifteen yes
okay, So um kippa, I'll start with you. You realize there are
a lot of people here and there are you get the sense that there are
a lot of folks dressed like the dream dancers knocks or nil. You as
you're looking around and as you're walking in past, these dream dancers and pass
these other these other residents of sense, you start to see the signs of
a recent shift in power. Imagine like Emperor's new groove. Like someone's painting
over all the h oh right, yeah, yea, all the vases that
have Cusco's visage on it, and they're putting a new visage on it.
There's the colors are all being changed. The Yeah, it's basically you get
the sense like there are there are kind of two separate managerial systems here,
but it seems like they just shifted recently, and seems like there's someone new
in charge. Yeah, so she she leans over again areas and people like,
it's Fantomy call over again. You're so stealthy about the discord, didn't
e Wow, sorry Audacity probably picked it up because I saw it. But
basically like it's fantom be called over again. Oh man, I thought we
already did this. And yeah, as you're walking through um you start as
Nil kind of points it out to you, you get the sense that,
yeah, like this rapture's members have increased, and it looks like he is
now in power and that is about to be verified. As as Bill gets
to a door and he looks back. He just has his hand on the
door for a very long time. He looks, he looks back to you
all, Bill, you get he leaves. He says, y'all thought it
was going to open. That door was open. He opens the door,
throws it open, and you're kind of in like the great hall, like
the throne room of this castle, and you look through the myriad of attendance
and you see two people, two creatures sitting up on the throne room.
Up on the throne of the throne room, you see Rapture lazily sitting there
with his cad band style hat, eating rapes off of just the lake Christians.
Can't quite get it in his mouth, you know, like when you're
trying to get your your straw from a fast food without looking at it.
Yea, the entire it was gonna it was gonna be a very like like
epic and dramatic reveal. And he's like, oh, I've been I've been
waiting, you know, hey, Eric, put the great lower lower lower.
No, my eye, it's my trying to like give the grap He's
like, all right, fuck, well that just ruined that. Um,
Welcome to God. It's just it's ruined now fuck, I'll run. Hey,
y'all, you your dummies, it's me Rapture. You bet you weren't
expecting to see me. I'll run this place now, um. And he's
sitting up there and everyone's like, yeah, I'll walk in and be the
other person. You see, there's a dude over in the corner with like
the applause signs shit man where there's light applause yea and yeah, rapture.
You can see it's kind of frustrated that his his reveal to you didn't go
as well as a plan. But you see sitting next to him, and
as this sort of reveal doesn't go over super well, you see sitting next
to him wearing a kind of like a forest green like not like an Elven
gown. Um, just because I don't I want the vibe of sense and
this to be pretty much cyberpunk. Ll no, chill is cool, like
pretty much like cyberpunky. So she's wearing like really cool cyberpunk clothes that have
like a three forest green and a cool mohawk, uh kind of going back
over her head, shaved sides, tattoos on the sides of her head.
She's given me some junker Queen fives. Looks just like chunker Queen, actually
full on my junker queen, except the only difference is in the middle of
her forehead is this is a very large moonstone. Guys, guys, did
we just get set up? I don't know. You see her kind of
like crack of smile as Rapture can't quite get his entrance right, and she
looks she like her her eyes locked with all three of you as they sort
of wald by sort one just opens up to moonstone just like she reaches up
and draws a little sharpie on the moonstone and that's her third eye looking at
you all, um, and she you all hear kind of echoing in your
head, um, and you all know it's coming from this person. She
says, says, welcome. I glad you Kane. I very much need
you to help. Oh shit, guys, Raptures up there, that's it,
no way, she's got jam on the mine space and Rapture can you
see why high as like Arius is like like looking to you guys and is
literally like like point going ahead and everything interruptions like what the fuck are you
doing? Nothing? Greetings, Yeah, no, we didn't expect this is
a surprise to all of us. I don't know. Well, okay,
we don't need to be sarcastic about it. Oh dang, And you see
him to get a little disappointed. It's like, funk, I thought maybe
the entrance went better than I thought. Anyway, my grapes grape, you
know, I just like grapes image it does, you know, a good
welcome, Welcome to Sunday, my city. Happy to see y'all here,
Uh right to be here. Well, what I'm decided about is a couple
of things. It took you all a little longer than I thought it would
get to get you here, But that's fine because it gave me a chance
to get set up, gets settled in. You know, honestly, I
was just kind of angry at y'all for kind of blowing up my spot at
a phantom peak over there. But you've had time to you know, you
said, it's been a while. You've probably had time to let that just
roll off your back, right, you know. Yeah, it was so
long ago, I barely I don't even remember what we did. Well,
I think it was. I think one of y'all brought down some sort of
Cthulhu beast on me. You almost killed my genie. You he's fine,
he's fine. I mean, he's great. It took the whole kind of
city from me, which I mean, you know what, yeah, you
know, let's let up bygone. But hey it could you could it be
argued maybe that our taking of that city from you is really what, you
know, gave you the confidence and motivation you needed to take over an even
bigger city. I mean that that's one way to look at it. I
think I'm gonna choose you're welcome. Well, I appreciate you saying that,
but I think I'm gonna choose to not look at it that that way.
That's a shame. It's a shame. Well, we're all entitled to our
own choice. It's true. What's wrong. But so a couple of things
here. And while he's talking, um, you you get you all three,
get this voice inside your head again? And Arius can Harris, can
you roll me a performances? Three? Oh my god? No natural twenty
baby? Oh really? Oh you're You're cool as a cucumber as as this
voice comes into your head. Um and the and Mirai she says, all
right, Um, he's gonna he's going to pontificate for a little while he
was better than you about how he beat you. But he's going to come
to a point there he's going to challenge you in in one of his races.
He's going to challenge you. Okay, he's going to capture you when
he's going to say the only way you can get your freedom is if you
race and beat him in his race. Um. But he's really just stolen
for time because something happened to hiss U first of all, something I mean,
I I know why you don't hear him? Oh yeah, bro,
you do. Well, You're you're gathering my brothers and sisters. Oh okay,
you do. You can't get that many beings of that power together without
causing ripples, and that anyway causing nipples ripples? Oh is he always nipples?
And the whole time, the whole time Mariah is talking, Rapture is
talking to Rapture is like he's model, yeah, like he has like at
Bard Yeah yeah, he has like a little model of phantom peak. And
he's like showing you how like he could have been you and like if done
things differently. Um. Its a rule in twenty on that Arias is like
is like standing there like like hand like head in his hand, like looking
very thoughtfully as if he's in like conversation with Rapture. Yeah you know.
Um and Marai says, I just sorry, I just imagine them like all
I'm like, you know, only one of those um oh, one of
those scam organizations multi level marketing. Oh yeah, just like all three of
them are just like in like a presentation room, and he's like just going
off and off about how cool he is to sell us on cut Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, and we're just like they're just like trying not to fall
asleep. Camera goes back and he's slicing a tomato. Yeah. He's like
he's like a knife propped up and he's like hitting it with a steel pipe.
Yeah. And then he cuts like a shoe in half, and it's
like, look how good this knife still is? Yeah? To cut another
knife competitions knives? How come no knife company has ever done that. We're
better than other knives. You know why we know that because our knives cut
other knives the old it was reculling. Yeah. So Raptures doing this whole,
this whole uh, this whole thing, while Marai's just in your guy's
mind. She's like, I'm being quite flippant about him. He's quite powerful.
Now, long story short, me and him used to be in some
sort of arrangement. No, no, no, no, no, he
would he would help ferry the people to me. I don't know if I
remember this, but there was a whole thing about lost souls and where they
go and blah blah blah. It was here. I was, I was
taking people, and he for a while he was I was giving people at
home, were given him a place to be. Um, but change,
well he did. Um. He was tricking me. He when he would
take folks back or two and from he would he kept putting them down in
his nightmare realm um and kept I don't know if I described it last time,
but around the Nightmare Beast, if you had stayed there and actually you
would have found that it was kind of matrix style harvesting people and kind of
siphoning off their power. So you just roll the history check. Good job,
you saw those like sort of matrix style columns. She shows us some
images. So he was literally doing a column, yeah he was. Yeah,
it's written written from the same the same brain. Yeah. No,
so Basically, she explains to you that, yeah, he for a long
time it was working. He was he was bringing folks here, giving them
place to I know, I would give him a place to stay. And
then just a few weeks ago, he rose up and he had the power
of something stronger than Vada James, and he took over. And here here's
the thing. I would go with you. I will. I would go
back with you to the rest of my family if you can help me eradicating
from this city, because this place needs to exist. My time is done.
If my family is getting back together, we can find someone else to
take over the city for me. But it can survive without you. I'm
just I'm just here. I'm not. It's not like, oh, it's
the city is actually my body. No, it's I've been doing a good
job. I'm not. I'm not going to say it. I'm not gonna
sugarcoat it. I've been doing a wonderful job. But if I'd rather it
survived and me move on, then for the whole thing to fall, and
she like sends an emoji in her mind it points to routure trouble vote.
I'd rather move on and let someone else take over. And let this asshole
run it into the ground. But I mean, I think I can speak
for all of us when I say thank you for making this seem so simple
and being so amenable to the last last year's sailing. I don't know how
close you have with Gollum, but that dude's a bit of an asshole.
Made it real difficult. Yeah, against the dark storm cloud come from like,
yeah, rapture things. It's like him disagreeing with one of his points.
Yeah, okay. Just between Arias and Marai, she can feel your
your mind starts to kind of go a little bit turbulent and like very dark,
and you feel this like very calming presence and very like like soothing presence
come over you, over you, and she says, I'm sorry, and
my brother did that to you. But you're you're strong. You're you're strong.
You made it through and it's something to be proud of. And she
says, it's an honor to lay it down quite simply for you. Because
I think a couple of these adventures are come in a little bit off the
rays, over convoluted. Here's my play. I'll go if you play a
long and tend to get captured by rap chair. It's kind of fun rapture
capair and and races him and beat him. I'm this is just strange.
This dude heep's getting weirder, you know. Yeah, I mean no,
no, not that, but I know he's like looking at you. All
right, thank you for listening there, all right, and now I'm on
to my forty seventh point. Yeah, she's posed that question you said to
you all, she said she she will help you if you all agree to
help if you all agree to this his stupid idea and you race him,
Neil and Kida, that sounds like the best plan we have at the moment.
Sure, and I mean areas. I mean, we can't speak for
nail Man. You were kind of veterans of these death races, aren't we
flashback to neost Man getting dragged behind our boat. Oh shit, what was
that? No? That was that wasn't never chat. That was the that
was what got us in prison. I literally was like scrambling. I was
like, what did we do? Yeah? So was I I was like,
I don't remember any of that. It's recorded. We just haven't released
him because not It's three of us were in one room. One of us
was across the country on sky. It was also like seven hours. It
was like it was like it doesn't matter, um, and if if I'll
contact you again, if y'all agree, I think I think we need to.
He's wrapping up his his conversation, his presentation. He's gonna try to
capture you. Make it look believable. Oh that's a little difficult for me.
I believe backing on a Rapture music and I know it's hard to believe,
but I've actually taught myself how to do a standing backflip. And by
the end, all three of them are just this poor guy wants to make
himself so relevant. Does care? We're like that, like nice, try
dummy, the whole story, bro. I was all right, sure,
all right, as you all agree to go along with Marai for the moment.
Rapture is like in and that's why I brought you all here to capture
you. He snaps his fingers and like a bunch of dream answers like coming
around you can you all roll? He performance checked, because I tell you
you're not gonna You're gonna not resist rights racious. Oh my goodness, I
did not see that's coming. It's unnatural twenty Natural twenty twenty four and what
ten ten ten? Oh no, Arius doesn't sell it quite as much as
everyone else. Um, but there's here's here's Arias punches punches like one of
the guys who had his cloak on, he was like trying to hide as
like a guard, but I as a civilian. You punch him in the
face before he even takes his fres like, how did you how did you?
Oh no get him and like throw a couple of couple can Trip goes
on like oh no, no one, no one. Kier is like,
oh no, we're in so much danger believable enough. And Rapture turns to
one of his advisors and I don't have any more. Yes, We're all
like, oh Rapture, you're so evil. How tall are you? Oh?
I don't know the horn and there's no money, no, but you
you all eventually, um, look, you put you put up a good
enough fight that Rapture isn't isn't onto you all? Uh. And he takes
you down into the into the dungeons. Uh. And you all are sort
of rudely thrown into like a holding you you feel like that presence from me
right again and it's just like a thumbs up. It's like we'll be we'll
be in touch. But you're thrown into a cell again for like the fifteenth
time on this adventure. Um, all of you are thrown into a cell
with Sapphire, who's just kept like using the momentum of getting thrown in and
rolling across the ground just like turns that roll into standing up and immediately just
starts feeling the different edges of the rocks. Investigation check. But it's gonna
be around here somewhere, trust me. It's a nineteen Yeah, you find
um it's like a like an old school video game cheat code controller. You
find up, up, down, down, left, right, ab start
whatever whatever that code is. You press those buttons in the wall. Uh
and uh it activates big head mode, god mode. Your heads are big.
No, you don't. You don't find anything on this But as you
as you're looking around, Kipper, you see um a young halfling woman wearing
uh kind of piecemailed armor doesn't match at all? And Arius, can you
roll me another history check with advantage please. Andy's eyebrows do be raising well
as she as she stands up and sort of dusts off her her kind of
hodgepodge armor. Uh. She stands up and says, well, I got
I guess I got new roommates. Um, are you all here for the
Death Race too? Oh it's called the death Race. Well that's news,
that's new information. Oh yeah sorry, oh yes, right, yes we
didn't in the race. Um and Mara kind of knocks it your mind.
Sorry, very very dangerous. But you're all great adventures. Fine, and
she leaves you all have your license right by mine expired some ten thousand years
ago. Um, I don't believe in numbers. This this halfling woman.
She smiled and says, oh, it's all right, it's it's all right,
I'm not yea, yeah, it's gonna be fine. And she reaches
a hand out to shake your hand, shakes Kip his hand, shakes,
and Nail's hand. She shakes Arius's hand. She smiles. She smiles at
you as she says, Sebastian and Sapphire, don't forget this. She doesn't
shake their hand. Oh, She pointedly looks at him and then swipes a
hand through her hands, like, have you ever been for East? You're
just you're ringing a bell and by mine, so far west again? All
right, yes, thank you so far backwards now, I haven't I haven't
done that. I am from Balder's Gate, if that means anything to you.
My name's Alatasia Ella what Tasia like Fantasia? But Ella Eletasia? We
just can we just call ut Asia? That's fine. We could have just
called it Ella. Why didn't. This is my brother's We'll get into this
later because we're about to end the episode here, but as long as we're
here taking up weird names. My brother's name is Dennis Sean. People either
call him Dennis or Sellans Sean, third of his name, rightful Ruler of
the third House. Um. As she shakes your hand and says her name
Eletasia Arius, you h you do remember you've you've met this person before,
she as she smiles, Or you've seen this person before as she smiles you
yeah, you you remember her from the telescope. This she is one of
the people from your visions in the telescope. But this, this lady,
she was in my the telescope when I looked in it, you know,
the one way in the under underwater city with Holy cow. Yeah, i'd
seen her before. This was in the telescope. Are you gonna let go
of my hand. No, I'm so sorry. Yea cool play casual,
don't don't overdo it. I'm gonna be thinking about your hand for a long
time a little. It's got strange. Well, uh yeah, nice to
meet you all. And that's where we're gonna end. Just sion. I
feel like that's actually how that would happened too, if like you just the
people come in there. I saw you in a telescope once. Are you
creeping on me? Are you looking at it? Wait? No, I
mean no, you weren't. I wasn't looking at you with a telescope.
Were you were? I've never been in right scope that I can remember.
Hamed it right at you in your house through that seems really disgusting. I'm
just a driver here in one of the races, and I'll probably be driving
for you next time. Bye, and she goes sleeps in the corner.
Um. Yeah, that's it. Sorry, that was a lot of fun.
Dennis Shanni either goes by Dennis or sh Hello. I'm Andy Tilstra with
Mini Tilstra playing areas, so see you later. You always do yourself fast.
I'm like, damn it, no ideas. M Hey everybody. It's
Christian Spanella. I've been playing um Kippa the goober willow Wind, Yeah,
goober, and I'm here Escobar playing no. I uh just yeah, she's
just here. I know. I don't know what to say. That also
went by too fast. Oh yeah, this is an interesting one. But
hey, everybody names David Telstra. Thanks so much for listening. I've been
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