Speaker 1: It's not here.
Speaker 2: Whoa's loud?
Speaker 1: I knew it? Why was it loud? New music? You
betrayed us?
Speaker 3: I said it would be.
Speaker 1: When Oh jeez, hello everybody, Sorry about that. Sorry about
the incredibly loud, fucking stressful music that just started up
as soon as we got this going. And welcome back
to session forty two of Gilligan's Grave. You'll notice that
we don't have Braden. We ate them. They were actually
bread turns out. And you'll notice that we don't have
justice because there's none in the world. We're left only
with these three.
Speaker 2: That was smooth, well done.
Speaker 1: They're gone now yep, this is a world without heroes
and so my world without justice. And also it's a
world where I'm nibley. So I ate bread. Yep, I
believe bread.
Speaker 3: Was she overall a be get Yeah?
Speaker 1: Your bread?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: That true?
Speaker 1: Nice. It was like a little bit of pumpkin spice
mixed in, because if Branden had a flavor, it would
include pumpkin.
Speaker 2: Spice to be a pumpkin spice gingerbread.
Speaker 3: Yeah that actually sounds. Yeah, it was lovely.
Speaker 1: It wasn't there's nothing left.
Speaker 5: You can't have any yeah, Yeppe.
Speaker 2: Justice is the perfect time.
Speaker 1: Justice. We just started the opening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Justice, Justice always comes to late.
Speaker 1: I was saying, there was none of you in the world,
Old Justice. What do you say to that. I'm tired?
Are you? I was the main character?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: I don't like being the main character.
Speaker 2: I get that, But you're already playing scarn Oh ship.
Speaker 1: You see what I mean? All right, Justice? Three things?
I have three things for you. Thing. The first, you'll
notice that we all have these snazzy little channel tags.
You should put one on it. You should. You should
become a nineteen channel tag.
Speaker 4: Don't listen to him, don't shut up, car don't be.
Speaker 1: Like them, don't be CARF, don't be them, listen to
the peer pressure.
Speaker 3: You don't have to have a tag. You don't need
to be.
Speaker 1: You don't have to. But we did get one. I understand.
Speaker 5: Thank you.
Speaker 1: I'll put it in this in the closet with the
rest of them.
Speaker 6: You.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's real enough, not enough his affiliation.
Speaker 1: For my affiliation. You would look it would look so
good with it on. He's such a handsome boy.
Speaker 3: I think you look good and handsome.
Speaker 1: I think that too, but you're the extra handsome handsome
plus wow, handsome plus I'll think about it, handsome asterisk
and then the bottom it says, the fucking this stat
is being boosted by items.
Speaker 2: How much more money will you give Justice for his
discord affiliation.
Speaker 4: That nineteen money out of logan laid loss pocket.
Speaker 7: I I I fucking fucking shed tears and sweat to
keep this this mall running. And I do you think
I make money off I'm past this mill, this mill,
this jacket mill.
Speaker 1: So you can all have jackets.
Speaker 3: I would give you twenty hard go smell his armpits.
Speaker 8: No, don't do that, or at least you can't because
I because these the want the water resistant, not nineteen
jackets that Justice isn't putting on.
Speaker 1: Justice.
Speaker 2: I'll give you twenty of my own dollars.
Speaker 1: Breatheable so I don't. I don't work out. I'm not
even in CARF. I can't be on CARF.
Speaker 2: You have to be in CARF.
Speaker 3: Don't be carved so certain that you are in CARF.
Speaker 1: No, don't do it.
Speaker 9: I'm looking at my server tags, I see no CARF.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're not a CARF.
Speaker 3: That's outrageous.
Speaker 1: They're in nineteen. I have a lot of these, and
there's Jesus Christ there's.
Speaker 3: I will give you twenty of my own dollars.
Speaker 2: Wait, I can't wait till we buy like I will give.
Speaker 1: You twenty of carries dollars if you do.
Speaker 3: You fucking won't I will? I can't wait, Yeah.
Speaker 1: I will. I will give this to you for today.
That's fine. I shall be unaffiliated again. I'll be sad then.
I'll be sad then and you can deal with me
being sad then. But for now, I'm happy.
Speaker 2: Damn the moment.
Speaker 1: Am I going to be devastated?
Speaker 5: Yes? Am I happy?
Speaker 10: Now?
Speaker 5: Yes?
Speaker 1: Am I happy? You're not a corf? Yes? Don't be
a messed up magic card corf. He's special, need h
He has one move it's splash. He can't even do that.
It's not splash, it's splish splitsch.
Speaker 3: That's right, right.
Speaker 1: His moves are just individually splish splash taken bath all right.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 1: The other two things I had for you to do
are signed into Fantasy Grounds. Looks like you've done that.
I think a good job, very good, the excellent wonderful
and the thing the third is going to be kind
of actually super easy for you in my opinion. Mm hmm.
The dice did exactly what I wanted. It's tell me
what you did last time. And honestly, this is so easy.
I ain't got none of that.
Speaker 5: I thought.
Speaker 1: That's about it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 1: That is it, right right, everybody, that's it. That's all
I got.
Speaker 5: That's all I got.
Speaker 1: All that happened last time. It's true.
Speaker 5: That happened.
Speaker 3: The mail Pepper used banish and then it carried. They
carried the rest of the fight. It really did.
Speaker 1: Yep, it's true. There's an unlucky universe. There's an unlucky
timeline where Desmond is dead, the one where they're a human.
Speaker 3: You know, I can't move it out. That was so good.
Speaker 5: That's gonna cry.
Speaker 4: I was gonna cry people at home.
Speaker 1: So we were just getting going. So that that's the recap,
basically is everybody fought some people. Uh So, we've missed
most of this month due to COVID and due to
some other stuff that's happened. So we missed two games
and we're doing today's game. Today's game is probably only
going to cap out at around two hours two and
a half hours, because we don't want to get in
the way of a charity thing happening later. Reminder that
next week we have that off because it's Saturday. And
you know, this is that one out of every three
months where we actually do it our day off on
the day we say we will, so we won't be
streaming next week. We have a bunch of cool things
coming down the pipeline that I can't tell you guys
about because a lot of them are secret. But we
are on the cusp of a whole bunch of really
cool non D and D stream things like special shorts
and other projects we've been working on with other groups.
There's a lot of really cool things coming out. And
speaking of cool things coming out, Dead Saint Record is available.
Oh it's Pride month. Speaking of cool things coming out everyone,
but heck in reminder that Dead Saint Record is out.
You can find it on drive through OURPG. There's also
a monster deck for it and a feature spells Abilities
Traits deck that you can buy for it. Also, we're
working on three gentle sins, which you know how to
donate for it if you're out there in the chat.
Even if you donate off stream, just send me a
message telling me that you did and I'll take your selections.
What else the Tuesday guys, in case you didn't know,
they were playing Pathfinder, but they've switched to playing Fabula
Ultima for Star Clutch. So if you've been interested in
that system, which I have because I want to steal
stuff from it, But if you're interested in that system,
go check out those games. They're doing the incredibly confusing
thing of running a Pathfinder module in Fabula Ultima on
that nineteen Well watch them struggle. You'll love it because
that day of the week has no branding consultant apparently
don't worry about. But they're they're doing that and they
seem to be having fun. We're trying to get them
more on track, but yeah, three gentle sins, go focus
on that. It's coming along cool already. If you want
to be a patron, we just released for vestagen Bound,
the Forged Tier. This month's vestigen Bound contained a new class,
the Blood Minister, So if you want to check that out,
then go check that out there. And beyond that, I
don't we don't really have allowed else to talk about.
Beyond that, we're gonna play today.
Speaker 2: We're gonna non.
Speaker 3: Not nineteen related news.
Speaker 4: If anybody's gonna be in Lansing Michigan around the beginning
of July. I believe it's July tenth to the twelfth. Uh,
the Sweet Boys are gonna be there.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be me, Spencer and Chase can come hang out.
Speaker 3: We're gonna show stuff. Got previews for all three shows.
Speaker 1: Baby Baby Time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 3: Come hang out.
Speaker 2: Also check out and his charity stream after our stream today.
Speaker 1: Yes, those of you we're watching live Ana, we'll be
doing a charity stream and why an you tell them
a bit about that?
Speaker 2: Hey, the charity stream will be for gamers.
Speaker 10: Outreach is a organization that provides go karts.
Speaker 3: That's so they're called that.
Speaker 12: They give two children in hospital so they can enjoy
video games and have some social interactions with people while
they're having their extended stays at the hospital. So I've
got some fun little incentives, like I'm gonna be plugging
in my ASMR MIC. If you donate for for a
little short amount of time, you can turn me into
an animal crossing villager and that'll be very annoying.
Speaker 13: When people are playing cooperative games with me. You've got
hecking little custom voice messages that you can get if
you choose to donate certain tiers, or we've got Dinden
who's donated her art talents.
Speaker 10: You can get little emotes for Dindon for twenty dollars.
They're back, wherefore they're pretty pretty in demand.
Speaker 13: And then we've got fun things like if we hit
certain goals, we've got spicy noodle karaoke, and if you
want to make it worse, I can put the bomb
hot sauce in there too, because I want to die crazy.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, yeah, Court you do.
Speaker 13: We've got things like heckin funny gummy you laugh, you
lose if we hit a certain goals.
Speaker 10: Let's see what's another goal.
Speaker 13: We've got like previews of other stuff that I've got
kind of in the work.
Speaker 10: You can get little leaks of that.
Speaker 3: We've got heckan if we if we reach.
Speaker 13: Certain goals, I'll play Elden ring with a heart rate
monitor because you know, I'm so good at these games, right,
so good at games.
Speaker 3: You're so much braver than me.
Speaker 2: Fuck oh shit, no, no.
Speaker 13: So so so a bunch of little fun incentives, and
it's also for a very very good cause. I'll be
doing it tonight sometime after Gilligan's grave. I'll be doing
it tomorrow on Sunday. It's mostly just a weekend thing.
But yeah, and right now, it's the same foundation that
Hayden is currently streaming and donating for. But oh yeah,
a little a little bit of a little bit of
each of us has our toes dipped into that.
Speaker 10: Well, yeah, that's uh, that's what we're planning on doing tonight.
And I have I got a hecking cute little summer
outfit for this.
Speaker 2: For this, you guys should come.
Speaker 5: You guys should chat.
Speaker 2: It's so cute.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Actual fire they're burning, donate to put them.
Speaker 2: I'm on fire ready for shummer.
Speaker 1: Don't either to put them out or to increase the
intensity of the flames.
Speaker 10: D Yeah, that's it. It's fine, good cause, don't do
your name on my body, hob.
Speaker 1: On it all right with that? I don't think do
we have anything else do we want to announce that
would be relevant to the next few days or so?
Speaker 5: Shout?
Speaker 1: Oh no, what's it you?
Speaker 3: This is my wife to It's.
Speaker 5: An internet thing.
Speaker 1: I know, I missed my wife tales.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that other come to make.
Speaker 1: It the same thing.
Speaker 14: Yeah, is a bitch ass motherfucker.
Speaker 3: You pissed on my wife.
Speaker 1: I guess I never heard that part nice.
Speaker 4: So sure Chase put that on a fucking soundboard somewhere.
Speaker 5: Oh for sure. It's all my.
Speaker 13: Wife tales I want to let's not put on Twitter
dot com.
Speaker 1: What's uh? Yeah? So all that stuff donate to Three
Gentle Sins. Zegaltas is coming along. Playtest material went out
earlier this month and more will go out next month.
That's moving along. It's all cool, good stuff on the Patreon.
Lots of images and stuff if you don't, if you want,
if you're at any tier, you can get like wallpapers
for that nineteen stuff. Got a pride one that should
be going up. I think today hope today.
Speaker 5: Are can you find the stream Twitch dot tv is
that's sweety yell now? I mean, I don't know if
you want to break afterwards or if you're going right
into it because we can just read into you. Depending
on how.
Speaker 14: I'll see, I'll see where, I'll see where time, where
time stands. Yeah, but yeah, I'll also be announcing on
the on the project mouthwatch Discord as well as someone
someone who's network Discord when I go live.
Speaker 1: So ye, it doesn't, it doesn't stand time never stands
still because it has no legs. It marches onward, relentlessly.
Click at the button, switching over to the game.
Speaker 5: It's me, God, but.
Speaker 1: Goddamn, this is my audition for Mario. It's a me Mario,
got it? Yeah, all right, all right, everybody. We also
don't have Brayden today. I think I mentioned that earlier. Yeah, right,
I ate him mmmmm a little bit left, I lied.
I just didn't want to share. Alrighty so so so
so so so so so so so so give me
one moment, so like it.
Speaker 5: Go that all right?
Speaker 1: So, you guys, we ended last session with the collapse
of Gotham's coagulant mass, the creature that vill Grace had become. Uh,
you guys defeated them, and thereby put an end to
the remainder of the cult that was occupying the town.
Did you put an end to the final Blood Reverend
who had been championing the court of decay within Gilligan's pit? However,
there are still the horns. You are still stuck. That
situation has not been resolved. I don't have much to
say at the onset of this game beyond that we
are going to pick up exactly from where we left off,
from that exact moment in time, from that place, that
place you all know so well. Some of you are
a little bit fatigued. That will go away when you
take a rest. Combat fatigue. That is new rule to
help make games more exciting has found in Lyra's Guide
to Retia and affiliated books. My favorite thing about Mega
man X is that it teaches you how to play
without text. Anyway. I'm gonna give you, guys, it's a
joke from yesterday. I'm gonna I'm gonna turn things over
to you guys immediately. Who's controlling Pepper? If mechanics are
required from Pepper, who's got Pepper?
Speaker 5: I presently have their sheet from last time.
Speaker 1: It looks like you're a Pepper, all right, all right,
in such a case, have at it, gang, You're in
control now.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, for real, you're a good kid.
Speaker 2: No found it?
Speaker 3: Yeah no.
Speaker 2: Over a little magic left and even less blood.
Speaker 5: Oh the upside, I think just about everybody would have
been here is here and just kind of kicks the
pile of dead bodies not getting any dinner. Mm hmm, maybe.
Speaker 10: Probably getting grosser though.
Speaker 5: Be a little quick, so if you can find your
boy toy.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're right moving forward in appropriate?
Speaker 3: Dude, you really got her.
Speaker 5: I just said what was in my mind.
Speaker 1: She doesn't deal well with you know, accuracy.
Speaker 5: Oh huh, should work on this.
Speaker 3: That's unfortunate. Okay, where the hell were going?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 3: A summer? I can lie down.
Speaker 5: It's a prison, kid, so I wouldn't recommend it. But
there are cots in there. Pretty sure they're not all
covered in viscera.
Speaker 2: A character.
Speaker 3: Yeah, out of character.
Speaker 4: I have two hip points left, and I have two
first levels slots and one fourth levelot.
Speaker 3: That's all I got.
Speaker 6: Love.
Speaker 9: Yeah, Yeah, we're gonna short or we're gonna rest. I
think we should, at least at this.
Speaker 5: Take a small breath here. I mean, I feel like,
if not exclusively, all of their forces here were here, and.
Speaker 9: I mean that they need yeah saying that he needed
all of those to try and become Gotham, which he
failed to suck.
Speaker 1: I think they're out of here.
Speaker 5: So I don't think we're going to get any more
trouble here at the very least, and I'd like to
not give the young one out there chances to reset
up those charges. Granted the damage you dude, it's going
to take a couple of days.
Speaker 1: Is the group short resting or are they opting for
unattempted long rest which will take longer because it's long?
Speaker 3: What that's crazy.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't long rest here. Trying to sleep in piles
of corpses sounds like a great way to get the
black play.
Speaker 2: Not daring, aren't we, Aaron, We're here to play, You're not.
Speaker 5: I'm here to play D and D. I'm not here
to kill myself.
Speaker 3: I am. That's what I thought D and D was.
I didn't think dying of bysentery was going to be
the thing though.
Speaker 5: That's the organ trail. Yeah, it will probably I've been
moved out here before, maybe after they were killed. I'm
not sure. But there's definitely gonna be cleaner spots to
sit down.
Speaker 3: Okay, I like that.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, So which direction you guys going up in
towards the crag? All right? And you're heading into the
crack rot heading for Because you guys are at the
entrance right now, I'm gonna just throw the map up
on the heck in things of the players said, I
can see it as well.
Speaker 5: One if we can get so out I mean I
only saw him fight the ones, but he seems pretty tough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like any help, you know.
Speaker 1: M hmm. I'm just gonna get that hold on just
getting this.
Speaker 10: So do you not want to get I didn't. I
didn't say that. I said he I'm agreeing with you.
Speaker 15: Okay, Okay, you made it sound like, as you guys
head properly into the crack rod.
Speaker 1: I would like the group, let's say, sans Pepper, just
for the same of the fact that Pepper's not here.
I like the group as they proceed inward to all
make investigations. Yeah, I'm going to fail this one chat.
Just let you know.
Speaker 3: What do you mean?
Speaker 1: Investor Gratian, Well, I know what my inst is.
Speaker 2: How does the thirteen grab your logan or fifteen?
Speaker 3: Sorry?
Speaker 5: What the fuck you?
Speaker 10: Why is it?
Speaker 3: Where are the rose for my for my things?
Speaker 10: So fat?
Speaker 1: I don't know you up. Yeah, I'm bad at videos.
Oh my god, they're huge.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're very well.
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's because the extension. I
think it's the extension that causes the little the thing
underneath it. I think it's that is it is that
on everybody's Yep, it's fair I think it's because of
the combat fatigue, because the compensation for it is like
doing stuff combat putting a fat in fatigue.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: Did you just did you just get a negative four
negative three? Yes? All right, everybody, incredible I got.
Speaker 14: I had to like look at it like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Now you're like your result, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Results, sorry said thirteen here negative three eight?
Speaker 1: All right, this actually makes sense. So the eighteen has
As you are looking around Desmond, as you proceed through
the crack rod, you come to notice that the places
that should be filled, the cells that you would think
would be most conveniently filled with like the people they
had captured, not only do not have people in them,
but you see signs of combat in which you see
there are long slash marks that look like a weapon
that might be like a sword, dug way further into
the walls at certain points than you would imagine someone
would have the strength to do. But nonetheless there's marks
from a blade that are far deeper into the walls
than they should be, that appear to have destroyed many
of the gates, keeping a lot of the cells closed,
and there do not seem to be any prisoners.
Speaker 5: Here, but keeping anyone at least in these I mean
they couldn't.
Speaker 1: Like escape or.
Speaker 5: The only way that could have gone out would have
been the way we came from, and that place was
flooded with cult takes. Yeah, maybe the primary Q, well,
the HQ itself was locked off, but if the tunnel
between it and the crack routs still open, they could
have fought their way in there and kept the cult
at pay. Perhaps there's a lot of defensive measures in
there to make sure that prisoners can't stage an escape.
I mean it's built for that, and so if they
could get inside, right, yeah, it's our best shot. Keep
your eyes out in case there's anyone hiding in the cels,
but it doesn't look like.
Speaker 16: It, Desmond, Assuming that your plan is to head toward
the undertow Primary HQA, I'd like you.
Speaker 1: As probably the only person who's ever been through here
and navigated your way through the labyrinthian pathways of the
crack Rot, I would like you to make a survival
check with advantage okay for making your way through here
toward it, because this place is designed almost intentionally to
be confusing to traverse. Help we not almost intentionally, just
intentionally twenty three oh shit, you dropped a nineteen gatt
my day. This is this is Desmond's day, fatigue even
doing it, fatigue minus one, good old money day. You
just look at how the fatigues interacting with you giving
doing something for me? Yeah, I think, actually, what do
you what do you? What do you normally have for
for that skill? What is your what is it? It
was wisdom? Right investigation?
Speaker 5: I'm talking about normally a plus three looking at.
Speaker 1: Yours is normally a negative three, and you had a
negative Yeah that's about right.
Speaker 13: Yeah, yeah because of negative one fatigues.
Speaker 3: But I also have an effects plus one. So that canceled.
Speaker 5: Valcacaon was doubling up last time.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure it was all calculating properly.
Speaker 5: Cool.
Speaker 1: Uh so yeah, you I mean that twenty right. So
you you managed to navigate through the crack rod. You
find your way through it.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: There's points at which those that are coming with you,
that being the entire party, that they do find that
the paths you're taking seem almost counterintuitive. Sometimes you guys
get a bit turned around, feel like you're heading back
toward the entrance. But Desmond knows the way and.
Speaker 5: Don't yeah, you probably won't. Probably probably never come here again, honestly,
but worry about it.
Speaker 1: As you moved through, you do eventually get to the
other side. You do get to the I'm gonna drop
Desmond's token on the map. Just you get to the
other side. The tunnel that leads from the crack Rot
up toward the underte Primary HQ. The long stretch of
a couple hundred feet a few hundred feet of a
tunnel that you guys proceed through. And now as you
guys get close, I would like everybody to make a
perception check.
Speaker 10: We all.
Speaker 1: Air percept if you can find them in your fat
skill page.
Speaker 13: I got him in my fat skill page and I
rolled in eighteen for twenty three.
Speaker 10: Woo. I rolled the twelve for eleven.
Speaker 1: It's not Deadmin's day, you say, after getting in that
twenty Damn.
Speaker 5: Because that's what I said. It was Demon's Day, Okay.
Speaker 1: I found my way through. Oh it's dark.
Speaker 13: I may not know where to look for for my
boyfriend's fat tits, but I'll find them, damn.
Speaker 1: So apropos of nothing. Look is you eventually come up
onto the Undertow Primary HQ, a place that is built
of an entrance both to the outside and have a
entrance down to the crack rod. You come to the
large castle like fortress like gates that normally seal off
the internal section since you know, unless people are passing
through with permission, normally only prisoners and such would be
worried about passing through here. As you approach it, you
see this massive set of stone doors have been closed
are sealed like the like the gates Demoria have been
sealed closed. There are no torches lit in the area,
and with the very dim light that you guys have
to see in uh Lilia, you are the only person
to catch that there is a shadowy figure who appears
to be sitting back against the scene of the large
stone doors that are behind them. You do catch there
is a figure who is sitting with a single blade
resting on their shoulder kind of on the ground that
as you guys approach, as your shoes and little bunny
feet and such scuff along the ground, causing rocks to
clatter about, you see this shadowy figure stand you hear
a mild You start to take notice that there are
bodies scattered around the area that have been pushed up
to the sides of the cave that all look to
be cultists. As you look around, you note that there's
at least a couple dozen of them, and then you
hear the clattering and kachunking of the metal of a
blade as the shadowy figure points it toward the group. Briefly,
you hear a apprehensive if you're going to approach then,
and then they stop and you get close enough you
recognize that you are looking at soon Is standing clothes,
a little bit more disheveled than usual, a little bit torn,
but blade pointed out toward all of you, and they
seem to recognize that it's all of you as well.
But Lily, you are the first person to recognize that
Soon is there. And as soon as they say see
that it's you, they stop and they lower their blade
in a very tired fashion. You being here, it's either
very good or very bad.
Speaker 10: You're a lie, I think, I guess just running on.
Speaker 2: Were so worried about you.
Speaker 1: They have a socially awkward moment very briefly where they
don't know what to do. The moment they're hugged, and
then they raise up one arm and they put it
around you. I'm tired, but I'm fine. You're that or
all of you okay, ish.
Speaker 3: Okay, here's a generous word.
Speaker 10: If we've been better.
Speaker 1: If you came through there, I trust that it means that,
since you're not currently being restrained, you went through the
cult to get to hear.
Speaker 5: M hmm.
Speaker 9: I don't think there are any more cults around right now.
Could be wrong, but they were.
Speaker 1: Dealt with. That's good to hear. I Uh. I came
here hoping to wage an assault against them, and I
was mostly successful, but there ended up being enough of
them that I wasn't certain that I could make a
proper dent in them. So I grabbed as many people
as I could, fought my way to hear, pushed them
out of the HQ behind these doors, and I've been
trying to protect this place for the past couple of days.
Speaker 5: Good work, Yeah, I mean, anyone who didn't get through
these doors is dead, so everyone behind there's a lot
of thanks to you.
Speaker 1: Yeah. For the most part, I managed to get most
of the prisoners townsfolk for the most part, as well
as a few people that I think you all know.
The main person that I had trouble getting back to
here was that man with the helmet, but I managed
to ferry him over here after some time.
Speaker 5: That he did see to him.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you're here. Inside. Dendron's been recovering and he's
been trying to plan an assault back to get us out.
I had hoped when we came here that we could
push through here and then leave, But well, you can
take a letture here too. He nods, walks over to
the gate, takes out the hilt of his sword, and
he slams it against it several times in a very
distinct pattern, hitting it about just twelve different times. After
he does this, resounding knocking sound comes back from the
other side, the sound of mechanisms built into the gate
gave walls begins to churn as these stone doors in
front of you are pulled each to the side as
a large section of what looks like more like domestic
cave area, like the ground is more made of dirt
than it is of stone, and there's several buildings around.
There's a barracks off on one side of the cave.
There's effectively like a fortress built into the side you'reon.
Lays ahead of you. Moonroot does shine down partially on it,
but because this particular area is at ground level, there's
not actually a lot of it in this area, so
it's lit more by torches. You see a couple dozen
people littered about this massive courtyard that's inside and on
the far side where the exes are. The area is
contained in by at least one hundred solid feet of
the thorns that you have come to see coated in
the same lotus flowers that you're used to seeing as
this happens. Soon steps in, you see several undertow members
looking from the area, guns raised pointed at the doors,
ready to attack or defend against whoever walks in with sooon,
and as Soon looks out to them, he raises up
a sword, puts an arm out toward all of you,
and then raises his voice and speaks very loudly. Those
who had left us have returned, and in their return
have defeated Bill Grace. We're now free to leave, and
there is a moment of hesitation, followed by an almost
pitifully sparse cheer from the people who are in here,
one that should, if it was a larger crowd, feel triumphant, yeah,
but feels disconnected. The main people you hear from our
undertoon members be like, yeah, in a very tired manner.
Speaker 5: With that, Len and I were the last ones. It's
good to see there's a few of us left. Not
many now, man, he's better than none. I'll take you.
Speaker 1: Where's my family? Yeah? In mine?
Speaker 10: You've got to be here somewhere.
Speaker 1: Right, So scarn. This is going to be difficult to hear.
Where are they? Your family is here? Those who are
still alive, they were brought here. I believe they're in
the barracks. We haven't retrieved yet because I couldn't. And
I'm sorry if you have to hear this this way,
but well, the first thing I'm going to do is
your father's body. When I was freeing prisoners, they had
kept it. They had kept it inside the crack rod,
probably to try to use it to barter with you.
Of course, I'm going to go with some people to
retrieve it. I obviously couldn't bring it along with me
when we were escaping.
Speaker 17: Probably the best idea, nods, I can go see the others, Lilya,
I don't think I saw your family in here.
Speaker 5: They were they never got captured, really left right. They
came back after the crack Rock was already mostly on lockdown,
so they're probably in the town somewhere still. Yeah, either
in Lowtown or down in World town of the recluited pits.
I had to guess. We didn't see them at the church.
Speaker 1: There were some people who were a bit outside the town,
several Undertail members and B and B members who had
been outside. We assumed that if they did come back,
they probably hid.
Speaker 5: On the outside. They weren't around the cult, so they
should be okay. Only the vines are going to come
after them or anything. Yeah, you've already used your sendings
done today, right.
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 10: I recall Papa talking about a big ritual circle, and
if there isn't one here then then of course they
wouldn't be here.
Speaker 1: That talks me about the one that was in Lowtown.
Speaker 5: We had to pass by that. Yeah, I'll start looking there.
I'll want to get some a little bit of here
at least, even.
Speaker 10: If we did get there, I can't get rid of
the thorns without rute bloom.
Speaker 5: A lot of time's clear. We can look around there
just fine, even if they're hiding. It might take a while.
It's a pretty big pit, but.
Speaker 1: Get rid of the well find them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's they're so tough super.
Speaker 1: So, then you have an idea of where these came from.
Then I think I know where they came from. But
he looks like perplexed. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that all
of you will be much help even if I explained
it to you.
Speaker 5: You can talk to us now, Yeah, yeah, started a
problem with our memory. Friend. I'm trying to be vague,
so I don't make any of the guards catatonic.
Speaker 1: How did you do that?
Speaker 5: Very grumpy general and gave us a hand.
Speaker 1: So you can you can process the effects these things
have and you can address them and think about them.
Speaker 10: M Oh, not that it mean anything right now, but
you could probably also tell me about that grave site you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to go get Scarn's father. If you
can all talk about this, then that change is the
position I've been in for the past ten years.
Speaker 5: Must have been gotten lonely.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I assume it's only you. The rest of the
town hasn't been able to do much. If I try
to explain it to them, the same things have happened
for them.
Speaker 5: You some see magic beyond magic stuff I see must be.
Speaker 1: Must be what Greg talked about Sure, i'll be back soon.
Once I am, I can fill you in on what
I think the best thing to do is. But if
all of you are able to address this, I might
have a way that we can deal with the thorns.
Speaker 5: Sure, well, we'll see to his family. Do you know
where that do? You said? They're in the Eric's right, Yeah,
all right, I'll take him there.
Speaker 1: Also, the man with the helmet, he's been speaking and
mumbling ever since he got here, about Pepper and about you, Lawrence.
Speaker 3: What's he been saying?
Speaker 1: I was saying that he's waiting for you to come back.
It's been mostly incoherent. But I guess you made a
deal with him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, shorta sorta said that you had the key.
Speaker 1: Asked what too? He wouldn't really say. He said a
bunch of things that I think were just distinctly untrue.
The key to his liberation.
Speaker 5: That helmet makes him speak a lot of nonsense.
Speaker 1: I assumed that it was about the helmet.
Speaker 5: We might be able to get him out of it.
I think we do have that key, I kid, I
think so.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well, we'll talk to him after we talk to
Scirn's family.
Speaker 1: This was he raises his hand and he makes a
motion toward a couple of the other people, a couple
undertow people, and a couple of just regular individuals who
look more up and at it, makes emotion for them
to come with him, nods to Scarn, and he turns
and he scabbards his sword, and they walk back into
the crack rot with a bit of haste in their step.
Speaker 5: Desmonal as soon as they start like turn to leave,
Desmal start walking towards the barracks. This way all.
Speaker 1: On alrighty, you guys, head toward the barracks. A relatively
open building. As you head toward it and you enter
into it, the building is for the most part, one
large chamber with a cup with basically a hallway that
stretches around the outside of it that leads to a
bunch of secondary rooms, mostly storage. The inside is a
gymnasium like large room that has an archery range built
into it and has a variety of small little arenas
clearly meant for practicing drills and combat maneuvers and such.
There are fenced off areas, there's a track running around
the outside of it. It seems to be all purpose
training area. You see some family members, some townsfolk are
in here, maybe a dozen leaned up against different walls.
A few of them are like in a circle eating rations,
and you do, scarn. I'm not going to have your
role for something so mundane. But you do see what
appears to be on the other side of it, your family,
on the other side of the track fence that runs
around the inside of this area. You do see your
mother and the remainder of your family leaned up against it,
sitting down in like a semicircle with something between them.
Speaker 9: Scarn kind of just like trudges over there, not not.
Speaker 1: Really thoughtfully, just.
Speaker 9: Silently walks over to them, and once there, I'm back.
Speaker 1: As you approach them, your tall figure, normally tall even
among a crowd, but especially tall in a large empty room.
As you approach them, they see you readily. They stand.
There is a moment of silence anticipation from them all
there on the other side of a track fence from you.
As you go toward them. Your siblings, your two younger siblings,
Sophia and Dairy. They both just jump and they climb
and jump this fence and run over toward you, both
of them yelling out at you as they do. Cabrado,
who you guys met near the start of the campaign,
the young delivery man. He stands and seemed more a
bit taken aback. There is a wave of relief that
washes over his face, but he does not seem to
head toward you immediately. He seems to mostly just have
relief pour over him, and he almost seems like he, oh,
I just threw a bottle cap across my desk. He
seems to almost not knowing to do with himself. And finally,
your mother Luma. Using all their names because we use
them so seldom. They stand. You see them put their
hands together in front of them. They let out an
exhale that gives the impression that they've been holding their
breath for a week, as air just seems to leave
their body. Your two siblings make it to you. They
throw themselves at your legs, yelling your name. The two
of them start effectively sobbing and crying as they do,
and your mother starts walking around the fence toward you gingerly,
almost cautiously. They moved toward you. Ah. They open their
mouth as if to speak, They don't seem to find
the words to come out for a second, and they stop.
They their eyes trace over you, and you can tell
pretty readily they seem to be looking for any kind
of wounds or injuries. Ah, and there are a few.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and you see a look of relatively fine, but
like you see a look of worrys.
Speaker 1: Their eyes trace over different holes in your armor caused
by attacks that may have you may have recovered from,
but they still happen to you. Oh no, the holes
are still there, the blood loss is still there. It's
it's real. You're okay, that's okay, as I'll be.
Speaker 5: It's been.
Speaker 1: It happens very confusing.
Speaker 9: There's too much going on. There's so much going on,
and I'm in the middle of it. I'm in the
middle of it.
Speaker 1: She walks over to you, This cappy hotto woman who
stands at tallest half your height, walks over to you
and puts their arm around you. And despite their diminutive
size compared to you, the hug feels warm and massive
collapse to my knees and cries in my mother's arms.
They would start crying in kind m this happens. Cabrato
would walk up to the mass of family that is
here and also hug you all, you guys get a
sense that they're dealing with this in a slightly different way.
They seem to be assessing it a little bit separately
as they walk over and they put their arms around
the group and hug their mother to younger siblings and you.
They look up toward the rest of the group, toward
the rest of you guys, and they slowly break off
from their family after patting Scarn on the back, and
they walk over to you guys.
Speaker 4: While all that was happening, I would have like taken
Pepper's hand and I'm barely holding back to yours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, so you guys all made it back. Okay,
that's we had faith that you would. Apparently people are
saying they're having a hard time hearing justice. I heard hype,
I can hear you just fine here and yeah, you
I don't know, I'm gonna turn it up. I mean,
I was being actively soft because he's sad. Yeah, fucking
it's only one person, though, I think, hopefully, hopefully that's fine.
We'll can hear you. Yeah, Chad Pester memore. If justice
is unhearable in a way, that's unacceptable for the situation.
Other people say they can hear you just fine, Well,
now you have a boost justice and now now you
get you in the front of the mix. Yeah. I
hate that you guys managed to make it back. Okay,
so did did you guys get brought in? Like were
you running from the cult or did you clear the
way or scarn stands up. We took care of them, yep,
at least who was left.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh, and you see it, just again a wave of
relief you get. You know that he's more independent, he's
been like trying to live a little bit of her
from the family. He's always not quite as emotional as
his siblings. But you do see just this wave of
I have to be strong for my family leaves his
body and he doesn't cry, but he sort of falls
down to his cappy bar and knees and let's out.
Just along. Oh, how's the rest of the town doing.
Speaker 10: We're all surviving.
Speaker 9: Everyone's here that we have at least, but the town
is covered in thorns.
Speaker 18: M h Yeah, they said when when the.
Speaker 1: When soon came? He said that it was like that
outside too. We thought the cult was doing that, but
I guess they weren't.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: I'm so glad you guys are Okay, I do you
do you know? I don't. I heard that you'd been there,
do you? Dad is I'm sorry, but he's gone.
Speaker 9: I saw it happen in front of my very eyes,
and I couldn't do anything.
Speaker 1: To stop it. It won't bring him back, but you
got them back for it. I got them both back.
That's something. That's something. I don't want them to take
anything else from us. Uncharacteristically, he just kind of stands
and runs over to you and puts his arms around you,
hugs you in a again. This this is uh, this,
this has very much been the I'm the independent brother
member of your family. Traditionally, this is a moment of
weakness you're not used to seeing from them as they
settles over them and you can hear suffocated sobs coming
from them. Mm hmm. I know.
Speaker 5: I know.
Speaker 1: I hadn't let it hit me until now either. But
he's gone, isn't he?
Speaker 5: Yep?
Speaker 1: He uh?
Speaker 18: I mean they eventually found us, but he yeah, he
helped us to get away initially, and whenever people were
just running around murdering and killing, it's only because of
him that we didn't get caught.
Speaker 1: Up in that.
Speaker 19: And I think I think the cult has said that
they wanted you, and I think that the only reason
they took us alive was because of you, and I
think that they would we would have died if Dad
hadn't helped us initially.
Speaker 1: But oh, he did what he was meant to do.
Speaker 9: He protected his family, and trust me on this, I'll
make sure I keep protecting.
Speaker 1: He nods. He gives a series of affirmative but scared
bish nods.
Speaker 5: He tries to.
Speaker 1: Cross, uh cross process the many things he's feeling at
the moment. Liliah, we I, uh, your family, they didn't
get brought here. We looked for them and soon Suon
said they're probably okay.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I know, I know they're point. I've been able
to check up on Papa and everybody. He's past couple
of days.
Speaker 1: That's good. You're you guys were always really intrepid. You
guys were always really prepared for everything.
Speaker 10: We're made for situations like this. Oh, I know everybody
will be fine. Just like I promised, i'd bring Scarn
back to everybody. I'm gonna I'm gonna make sure my
family see.
Speaker 18: Yeah, I guess if I guess, if the.
Speaker 1: The cult, those people are gone, we just need to
figure out how to get out.
Speaker 10: Yeah, we have a way to call the thorns. It'll
take a bit of time, but I know I can
do it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you got this.
Speaker 10: Yeah, everything will be fine. As long as I've got
rupe Blum and some pepp and my step I'll get
rid of all these thorns.
Speaker 1: Really.
Speaker 9: Yeah, scar and grabs Lilia's hand. You're seeming way too chipper.
Speaker 10: Now, I'm always chippers.
Speaker 9: This isn't I know. But you can cry. You don't
know what's happening, your family's not here. You can feel,
you can feel your emotions.
Speaker 10: Uh h h, it's fine. I know they're okay.
Speaker 13: I we even found Stoon, and I knew this whole
time he'd be fine.
Speaker 10: I'm fine.
Speaker 3: You're allowed to be worried, Lulia.
Speaker 10: I know, and I'm really worried. But I know deep
inside that they're all right. Dad's Papa's really dependable and
knows his way around these pits. There was no person
more suited.
Speaker 2: To teach me the legends own right exactly.
Speaker 4: But as much as that's true, you're still allowed to,
like scorn says, fail your feelings and cry if you
want to.
Speaker 3: You don't have to put on a face for us.
Speaker 1: No one's blaming you. No one's blaming anyone not here.
I know. Trust me, We'll find them and I'll get
back to normal, right, Yeah, you will. M.
Speaker 9: Just don't break because the way you're sounding right now,
it's only a.
Speaker 1: Matter of time.
Speaker 10: I've been able to hold myself just fine. Skin. Don't worry.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna worry.
Speaker 10: I can't cry right now, even if I wanted to,
I really can't. Nothing comes out that.
Speaker 9: I get that sentiment more than you know, more than
you know. Crying is not gonna help us.
Speaker 1: Right now.
Speaker 9: It's time for action. M. It's our next move. We
have to figure out who else is.
Speaker 2: Around, right, I gotta tough the buckethead.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Also, don't we have key? We have new key. Right,
you have the key and you have his book. You
have the both of the things.
Speaker 5: You want to get to the bottom of this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's in peppers stuff.
Speaker 4: Yep, noises Pepper, Noises Pepper.
Speaker 1: The emotionally overwhelming situation, Pepper has turned into a Caidsadria
and will remain as such. They turned into their Fox form.
Speaker 5: Turns out, if Chadre is too much of their magic,
they just become foxes for a while.
Speaker 2: Yep, that makes sense.
Speaker 4: It's like fruits past rules if they get overwhelmed.
Speaker 1: Actually cool, that was how they were rules.
Speaker 4: Yes, if they get overwhelmed, they turn into their animal form, right, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Go might always be a fox. I'm always overwhelmed.
Speaker 3: Tune me too.
Speaker 6: Oh my god, consents you with anxiety.
Speaker 1: Damn, there it is. I found it.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, good, I'm glad you find whatever you were
looking for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, me too, fine, and thank you.
Speaker 5: We can unshackle our friend and we have information to
get out from him. Have you guys seen I guess
it's worth asking. There's a there's a man of Runs
of Clothing shot named Maurice. Have you seen him around here?
Speaker 1: I know Maurice. No, I haven't. I haven't seen him.
Speaker 5: Sorry, he's been missing an action.
Speaker 1: If they didn't catch him, that's probably good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but no one's seen him.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's good.
Speaker 5: It's better than some alternatives.
Speaker 1: The problem right now is if he was hiding in
the town, or if he went outside the town, then
we got to get word to him that he can
come out.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean I I'm pretty good at getting around once
we're out of here. I can try to help look
for him if he's around.
Speaker 3: I would really appreciate that he's a family friend.
Speaker 1: Okay, I can do that. It's better than staying cooped
up here.
Speaker 5: Well, if we're feeling a little arrested, we should go
talk to Buckethead. I guess I'm going to get that
rolling as soon as we can. If we're gonna get
rid of these vines, yeah, and then we'll probably take
some time so it's gardener. His family can have some
time with the body. Can I'm sure there's a spot
around here. We could probably get them a proper burial.
Speaker 1: Mhmm.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: The ground here's dirt because we're basically level with the outside,
it'd be easier to dig a grave here.
Speaker 5: It's not perfect, at least do for now. His death
wasn't perfect, that's true.
Speaker 1: Any burial would do him great.
Speaker 9: My father wasn't a man of materialistic things.
Speaker 1: I think he would be proud with whatever we do.
Speaker 5: I also need to check up on Dendron. I'm glad
to know he's okay, but he was a hit pretty
bad last we saw him.
Speaker 10: There's a uh in a check if he still knows
the word after all, this time.
Speaker 5: I barely do, but we could try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the good commander is held up in the infirmary.
There's an infirmary here. It's not really stocked, like, he's
not being tended to by many people. We don't really
they don't really have staff.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we usually just make do with what we have. Yeah,
I'm sure he wouldn't let the move if there was.
Speaker 1: There's that guy that's been talking about you, You and
Pepper Lawrence. He's uh, he was. He was out here
before and he started causing a bit of a fuss
and hitting his head against the fence. So we we
put him in one of the side rooms, so he
was kind of out.
Speaker 5: Of the way.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like we said, he he rambles. He just says
all kinds of nonsense. Yeah, all right, I guess we'll
talk to.
Speaker 5: Let's start with him, all right.
Speaker 1: You guys are gonna go commit to going to where
buckethead be.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh god.
Speaker 1: You guys head toward led led by Cobrado. You guys
are led into the hallway that kind of runs around
the edge. I gotta stop saying kind of that's one
of my one of my fucking anxiety to stop doing it.
It's not a big deal, but my my speech would
be a lot stronger if I stop saying kind of
it's a padding word.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: I do that too, like when an NPC is about
to start talking and they go beforehand, like not throwing
them under the bus. But that was always one of Cody's.
He doesn't do it as much anymore, but he used
to do that.
Speaker 3: I'd just be like mom was like before I start
talking to So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. We all have things like that, and those
they're fine to have, but they're also good to try
to combat.
Speaker 2: Also, I do um everybody does.
Speaker 1: But that's not a reason not to fight it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like you can fight it, but don't be too
hard on yourself.
Speaker 1: Soon you head toward the side room where they are
keeping a bucket head. As you head toward it, you
hear from the other side of the wooden door to
this what is functionally a storage room. You do hear
this like tapping, like someone is just hitting their hand
on wood very lightly, and just the mumbling of it's
just not it should be you shouldn't kidding. It's not
that difficult. Just no, no, no. Cabrado opens the door
and steps away. From it, makes a gesture to it
as if to invite you in, and it's like, I'd
rather not actually deal with this guy. He's sort of
sort of freaks me out a little. So you got this,
that's okay.
Speaker 3: We've handled him before. We'll be okay.
Speaker 1: As you go in, you see he is sitting legs.
He's just on his butt, legs sprawled out to the sides.
His fist is just in front of him, hitting the
wooden floor, not violently, just rhythmically, and his head is
cocked back and swaying as he's muttering to himself. But
as he hears the door open, he does stop. Really
has the time finally come? Are you here to kill me?
I knew one of you would catch up with me eventually,
but now you're as trapped as I am.
Speaker 3: Is there a reason we should.
Speaker 6: Kill you.
Speaker 1: The boy? No, No one would ever have. Why would
Why are you here to kill me? Boy?
Speaker 3: Again? Is there a reason that we will kill you?
Speaker 1: Of course not.
Speaker 9: Let's not mess with the man with severely broken mental faculties.
Speaker 3: Super trying to mess with him. I'm just trying to
see what what what's going on?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 1: You did try to kill me?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 1: This, I would rise up again more something you wouldn't
get rid of me.
Speaker 3: Strike me down, and I should come more powerful.
Speaker 2: Imagine.
Speaker 3: Hmm, Okay, what you guys want to.
Speaker 5: Yeah, we can't make a deal with the unfortunately until
we'd let him out anyways, right, has sense?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 5: If we let will you help us fix this? I mean,
you know, I don't even need to say that he's
as stuck here as we are.
Speaker 1: I made a deal with the young man.
Speaker 5: Already.
Speaker 4: He would tell me everything that he knows about my mom.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't like Yeah, No, I don't like that at all.
Speaker 1: He's had my finger tips. Why shouldn't I laugh?
Speaker 3: I mean, like you can laugh joyfully? That was maniacal?
Do you know what it again?
Speaker 5: I think it's so? What's the helmet? We don't even
know who to pay yet?
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, is there a way that we can.
Speaker 3: Okay, like logan, is he locked up just sitting there?
Is there a way that we could like.
Speaker 4: Restrain him and then take us home it off so
that he'll still, like, you know, be sort.
Speaker 3: Of captured while we're interrigating him. Can we do that?
Speaker 1: You'd have to describe to me how you're gonna do it.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I'm asking like the group I figured, yeah,
I think you're asking God and confused.
Speaker 9: I scar can try and just be like, hey man,
full full Nelson, just like, hold this dude down.
Speaker 1: I mean, what's happening. Okay, but we don't know.
Speaker 4: We don't know how strong he's gonna be, like, I mean,
yeah we should.
Speaker 1: Maybe you're larger than I thought you'd be. I am
larger large. Yeah, it's a different.
Speaker 9: I am a different boy. Am I actually restraining him personally?
Speaker 1: Because I'll do it that's us to do.
Speaker 9: I mean, I don't know if we have anything else
around that we can restrain him with your adventures.
Speaker 1: You have rope. I just thought about that.
Speaker 9: I looked at all right, instead of full I'm still
full nelsoning this man right now.
Speaker 1: Wait a second, I have rope.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, let's go.
Speaker 1: Let me just let's go hands you are talking about okay,
you're talking going to tie his hands? After this? Did happen?
This is in the story.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, I have rope?
Speaker 1: I should use that?
Speaker 3: Which time up?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Time up is a better call?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Which tie his hands up? Yeah? Just sit him down
in a nice criss crossed apple sauce or just on
the wall. I don't know.
Speaker 5: I don't want to.
Speaker 1: I don't know how as you wish to. But I
assure you I I pose no threat to you. I
bet you don't. But I like to be safe in
times like this. My dad's dead. I'm fucked up. Gang.
Speaker 9: Yeah no, mm hmm, so yeah, restrained yep, Pepper of universe,
Pepper no get.
Speaker 1: To it, produces the key in the book. Pepper has
the book and again I think Lawrence says the key.
Speaker 3: Okay, I need you guys to know.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 4: I have Scarn like selected on the map, so like
his you know, the little golden like.
Speaker 3: Token thing that kind of spins.
Speaker 4: It's spinning around him, and Katski sees it, and she's
doing that thing that cats do when they see birds,
the little.
Speaker 3: Scarn's token. You think Scarn's a little bug?
Speaker 1: Ye I am a little bud. What about it? She's
playing the screen. The girl leaves Scarn alone.
Speaker 3: He's going through it.
Speaker 1: Leave them alone? Am I going to have another murder?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 3: Leave them alone? Sweet girl? Okay, I'm sorry. Back to
D and D.
Speaker 9: That was just so all the women in my life
keep killing my family.
Speaker 10: I haven't done it hit.
Speaker 1: Yeah yet yet.
Speaker 3: He's got his eyes on you, bitch.
Speaker 1: I think I'm traumatized. Pepper Box produces the book. They
just like they shake a little bit, they bring their
tail up, they flick their tail and their large poovie
casadrea tail. The book emerges from it and lands on
the ground.
Speaker 2: Hell yeah, flop tail of holdings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, okay, logan, do we know what we need
to do with this book?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: You already?
Speaker 1: Well, he just he wants it. It's his book, his book.
That's that's the book of like secret things that were
written in code that was stolen from him and decoded
to find the way to the temples. He said he
wanted he wanted to get free and wanted that back,
and those were the conditions for him telling you the stuff.
Speaker 3: Okay, is this what you're looking for? Holds out book?
Speaker 1: I know that I might not seem uh okay. Young
man who is currently u has has tied me up.
Are you still beside me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: What could you do me? Sure?
Speaker 5: Sir? What you need?
Speaker 1: Tap on my head? All right, give me a second.
I can't see.
Speaker 2: That was great?
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, I cannot see. Yeah, you're blind, very blind.
Speaker 5: Ah, you're gonna usually key.
Speaker 1: Keep get the key, get the key.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, okay, give me the key.
Speaker 1: You have the key?
Speaker 5: You have ever has the book?
Speaker 1: You have the key?
Speaker 3: Is it in my inventory?
Speaker 1: I don't. I think we just said okay, we just
said that I had it. Does Ultimately anybody right now
could say they have it and I would nod my
head at them.
Speaker 3: Honestly. It's one of those things.
Speaker 4: Okay, cool, I Lawrence, have the key.
Speaker 1: Good job, Lawrence, Thanks man.
Speaker 3: Okay, you know no funny business. Okay, I'm gonna try to.
I'll try to do this. Everybody, have my back bur
nervous right now.
Speaker 1: Okay, you got a kid? Okay here, okay, I'm literally
sitting right next to the man. Okay, cool, cool, cool.
Speaker 3: If that has any funny busess, snap his neck. Okay,
here we're going.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do that.
Speaker 3: What what if.
Speaker 5: He doesn't? If he doesn't take us down, then he's
gonna die here too, exactly.
Speaker 3: Okay, green of fnny business. IM unlocking this now, slowly
put the ki in and try to helmet slide helmet all.
Speaker 1: Oh, bless, bless you. You put the key in and
send me the circular key into the secondary hole. Turn
it the key section breaks off inside the lock. You
hear a come from the helmet as the sections of
it on his head seem to separate slightly from each other.
He tilts his head forward, they part in the back,
and the entire helmet falls down to the ground, hitting
it with a clang. This individual, this what appears to
be elvin looking man that is now in front of you,
who comes across as being perhaps a bit younger then
you might have expected from him, eyes closed, looks, has
his head tilted toward the ground, messy brown hair that
is just matted with sweat. After being in that helmet
for as long as he was in that helmet, he
like shakes his head a little bit and you just hear.
Speaker 6: A oh ah, goodness, that was absolutely dreadful.
Speaker 1: As he tilts his head back and opens his eyes.
And when he does, you see, in the light darkness
of this room, you see his eyes seem to catch
what little light there is, and an ominous red glow
reflects back from them like a predatory animal of the night.
As you see, as you see, oh my god, it's
gonna be big. I'm sorry, I couldn't make it. I
couldn't shrink it in time.
Speaker 2: Oh, just give.
Speaker 1: It a little extra time. As you see the face
of bad for the first time I knew it. I
assure you there will be no funny business from me
now that that blasted thing is off of my head. Okay,
good ken, My name is Aristo. A pleasure to finally
properly meet you.
Speaker 3: Why, Laurie, Well, Lawrence, we're not friends yet, Lawrence.
Speaker 1: And tell me, Lawrence, what is your full name?
Speaker 3: Like my full full name?
Speaker 4: Mm hmm, Lawrence Ludwig Valerian Valorie.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds awfully close to what to another certain
man I know. And I'm a man that I'm sure
that you know about who, a man that I would
go as far as to possibly say, is my best
friend Quintus Valerbilt.
Speaker 3: You know Quintus Valerbilt.
Speaker 1: Like I just said, I'm practically his best friend.
Speaker 2: Miriam is furious somewhere.
Speaker 1: He spent a good long time with him, and we
parted unpleasant terms, pleasant enough that I imagine he doesn't even
realize that I left. I made sure he was well
taken care of.
Speaker 2: This is so fucked up.
Speaker 1: Logan, Oh my god. Oh, and you know you almost
even look like him.
Speaker 5: Like kids got to get a buffer.
Speaker 3: I look like him?
Speaker 1: Really? Mm hmm. Is there any way I could convince
all of you that I don't mean you any harm.
I'm trapped in here just as much as you all are.
I prefer not to be tied up. If that was okay,
I have shit. I forgot about that. I'm sorry. Man
immediately gets this guy out of his stuff.
Speaker 9: This was just a preventative measure, just in case you
went crazy and started trying to kill everybody around us.
Speaker 1: Oh, I assure you I am no danger to anybody
that's ills. No weapons, not a hint of arcane power
in this feeble body. I assure you this feeble all right.
I'm not gonna ask. I'm just trying to illustrate I
have no means to do anything to you. I came
here with nought but my wits and a set of directions,
and that is what I plan to leave with.
Speaker 3: When you say, like this feeble body, look it's me.
Speaker 1: Don't I look pathetic to you. I'm malnourished, no muscle
mass at all. He like touches his own arm. It's
like I can look at look at it. I can
tense it, but no, let it go flabby, not even flabby.
It's not even flab, it's just bones.
Speaker 5: This is not not your body.
Speaker 1: I didn't say that.
Speaker 3: Well, you're treating it like it's not.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not. I'm just saying that I'm not particularly
fit compared to all of you, and not my body.
Speaker 5: You're trying to freeze.
Speaker 1: What a strange line of questioning, your specifically grilling me on.
Speaker 6: Laurie.
Speaker 3: You would have no idea what this is. Shut up,
stop being better about this, Carrie.
Speaker 5: A little bit.
Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm trying to fucking pinpoint anything I can to
be like that's me you.
Speaker 1: Want, but fucking yeah, no, I'm a kidd. Meta questions,
gonna get meta answers, that's all.
Speaker 2: You're right, you're right, bits, you're right.
Speaker 3: Get my ice.
Speaker 4: Must of very distracted because Katski's decided to hunt my
toes right now, girl, can we calm down?
Speaker 1: If you go down, no one's going to lunch at
me if I attempt to reclaim what is mine? Right
and he like puts his hand out toward his book
on the ground, Oh no, one, it's your book. Go
for it.
Speaker 5: Very first book. Second. Yeah, hmmm, I have a ten
berries in my hand.
Speaker 1: Oh berries first.
Speaker 5: For me, for you.
Speaker 1: He sits back down and takes some of them. I'm
never one to turn away the kindness of others. Thank you.
Speaker 5: Well, you know.
Speaker 1: There's society of ours. It runs on people cooperating and
sharing their skills. I've frankly been very impressed by you
all down here in the pits. I thought that you
were all going to be far more what would the
term be, more swamp folk, but you all turned out
to be very civilized.
Speaker 10: So you're racist.
Speaker 1: Racist. It has nothing to do with who you are.
It has to do with the fact that you're living
in the ground.
Speaker 2: That you're sectionist.
Speaker 1: Oh did you just make up a thing? Okay, I'm
the first sectionist. But I'm happy to have been proven wrong.
Speaker 3: Proud of that sounds bad.
Speaker 1: I understand the error of my ways. I've been proven wrong.
My assumptions were incorrect. Hm.
Speaker 10: I can't believe that it is called a pic.
Speaker 15: Chuck you are you promised me and bunnies lives in holes,
you know, to make The bunny made.
Speaker 1: It. Then, slowly and carefully, after he finishes eating berries,
reaches out and picks up his book.
Speaker 5: He then lifts He's gonna be healthy as well, Dawn.
Speaker 1: He opens it and starts shifting through the pages. They've
marked pieces of it. Not a shame, but it seems
they didn't get all that much out of it, especially
since only about two pages in here actually have anything
to do with here. Hmm.
Speaker 3: Tell me what you promised me?
Speaker 1: You would tell me about your family and your mother. Yes, well,
he deserves some answers. Absolutely, I fully agree, and I
intend to make good on my promise. He shifts through
the book and he closes it, and he puts it
into his vest I understand that my situation may leave
me being a bit hard to trust, but I assure
you I have nothing to gain from fooling any of you.
After all, it is the very same cult that you're
against that put that stupid thing on my head. If oh, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, you know I'm giving the right opportunity, Maybe you
can clamp that on Ethicus.
Speaker 1: In I don't believe I want to go near Ethicus again.
I'd like to give him ah. He's gone to both.
He's gone to a place I don't prefer to be
a place you don't prefer to be after I tell
the kid everything I promised I told I would tell him.
I will also share what I know about that with you.
The place that he went to, after all, is the
very same place I came here to reach. But now
that he's gone there and has gotten his dirty, little
undead hands all over it, I don't want to go
there undead. Well, yes, he could peace the because he
is undead people and such. He's not undead, I don't think,
but you know he touches them. I mean like, yeah,
then I guess he does have under or so against
turn of phrases. You know, y'all are very literal. I
there's a lot of stuff going on. I like to
make sure you were.
Speaker 3: Just making sure that we have all the information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, your mother, I encountered her while I was here
because Ethicus tried to rope a certain amount of people
who had a certain set of skills into helping him
reach the place that he was going. As you probably
already know, I've explained part of it to you already,
and you rescued me so you would be aware I was.
I came here and I tried to find my own
way down with a local explorer to go into the
caves to find something relevant to me. But I was
captured by this cult and I was forced to use
my knowledge to decode parts of my books so they
would know where to go to reach Agony's throat. Your
mother was convinced to help guide Ethicus down there. I
believe I didn't see her much during this period, but
I believed that it was likely threatened that her past
would be revealed. Also, her past makes her a competent fighter.
Seeing as how your mother is a knight, my my
monson Knight. I didn't see her much, but I lived
in the land away for quite a while. As I said,
I was very close to the valor Bilts. They even
meet welcomed me into their home, and there were occasions
where I would bump into your mother. After all, she
did come around often during a certain period of time,
coming to visit one of the valor Bilt boys. I've
taken from what I've heard that you are under the
assumption that you may be the son of Quintus Valorbilt. Yes, well,
if it were so simple, there wouldn't be an issue.
But I can tell you you are not. I spend
time hmm, do you know who my dad is. I
think I do, but I can't be certain. My time
with the valor Bilts was not. It didn't fully overlap
with the time that your mother was there. I'm aware
she went there because I coasted around. I held various
positions with the valor Bilts over a certain period of time,
but I wasn't in let's call it a privileged position,
during the period that your mother was there. I only
came to be close to them and a bit afterward.
Speaker 10: M m.
Speaker 1: But I knew that your mother would come to visit.
The various Knight families of the land Away, the ones
that have seats on the Lion's Council, they all had
pretty strong relationships with each other. They would attend feasts
and dinners and contests, tournaments and social gatherings. And there
are no two families that have a stronger relationship than
the Runecrow family and the valor build family.
Speaker 3: The family.
Speaker 4: The two of the name I want double check Loan,
is that one of the names that was in the show?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: It was, Yeah, I know, I made a note of it.
Speaker 1: I can't remember, but the Rune Crows and the valor
Bilts are considered to be the two families that founded
the land away functionally.
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, yeah, thank yeah, Okay, go ahead.
Speaker 3: You think sorry.
Speaker 1: When I would see your mother, someone who, let's go
out on a limb and say, is a tad too
old for common sensibilities to have had any interest in
Quintus valor built. When I would see your mother, she
would be serving beside the head of the family, Marthandlis
rune Crow. She initially only came to visit whenever duty
dictated that she should, and usually only as someone who
was there to support her brother. But a tragedy struck
the valor Bilts a long time ago. The head of
the valor Bilt family, well, the previous head of the
valor Bilt family, suffered a terrible loss, the loss of
his wife. I can only imagine he must have been
so lonely. My position wasn't close enough to inquire fully,
but I saw from afar your mother come to visit
more and more over time, Loose and valor Bilt and
your mother were seen together quite often. Do you know
that name? Yes?
Speaker 2: I mean, like, do I know that name?
Speaker 1: Role history? Let's find out.
Speaker 4: I don't think I do, because I oh no, but
I looked up a lot about the valor Bilts.
Speaker 3: My mom said that, yeah, cool.
Speaker 10: Cool history with Avantage.
Speaker 4: I've been page the story of no Modifier Swan this
fucking adventage.
Speaker 3: Ye oh, that was almost a twenty nineteen and New seventeen.
Speaker 1: Lucien Valerbilt was the former head. He's dead now, but
he was the former head of the Valerbilt family. He
is the fier.
Speaker 3: Carry know this.
Speaker 1: She's the father of Quintus Valerbilt.
Speaker 2: Yes, I carry knew that.
Speaker 3: I wanted to know what Laurie knew. Okay.
Speaker 1: It is my assumption that because you look so much
like young Quintus Valerbilt did, but you are clearly the
son of your specific mother, that he must have taken
her on on the side. He must have been lonely
and she must have been there to comfort him. He
had been without his wife for a very long time,
after all. But such a relationship would be hum based
on what I remember of their politics, without being legally
sanctioned and recognized and given the proper ceremony befitting of
a Knight family, it would have been seen as something
of a tryst, and it would have meant that the
Runecrow family and the Valor Bilts were joining together in
a time when they were preparing their next heir to
take over. So I suspect your mother did not want
people to find out that they were going to bear
the child of lucent Valor Bilt. This was a course
back when he was still alive. He didn't lose his
life until later. It's also possible that, given that it
would have been an illegitimate joining, perhaps he threatened her
and she fled. I of course don't know why you
ended up here or why she came here. Perhaps it
was fear of retribution, of retaliation from either of the
family heads involved. Perhaps there is some secret element to
those two families. I don't know. It's even possible that
the two might hate each other. I can't read minds, well,
not not in a way that matters. Yep, Okay, I'm
good at deducing people's thoughts, is all I mean. But
you have to spend a lot of time with someone
very closely to learn them like that. And I didn't
spend that kind of time with Marthandlus.
Speaker 3: You said you were Quintess's best friend.
Speaker 1: Yes, I spent a great deal of time with him.
We would play, we would party, we would go on
our own little adventures. I practically got to watch the
young men grow up.
Speaker 3: If lucent Field wrote was my dad, then why did
my mom see Quintus's name before she died? Jesus Christ Katski.
Speaker 1: I could not tell you, though, if she's if she
was perhaps inflicted by something affecting her memory. It is
possible that sends you almost look like the spitting image
of Quintus last when she would have seen him. Perhaps
it's merely a matter of that you grew to remind
her of him. If I wasn't aware of how much
time it's passed, I would even go as far as
to say, you're the exact same person. Do you know
what they did to my mom? Ethicis you mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I believe that your mother was successful in helping her
find Agony's throat, and I believe that the reason I
came here took a toll on her. Agony's throat is
a certain pooling point. By this stage, I believe you're
aware of the latch temples in what they do. There
is a place where the waters gathered by them pool
and crystallize, and they form something of a buffer. That
buffer has a great deal of uses. It collects energy.
It holds back a certain debilitating mist. But it is
one of several places across this world where a terrible
phenomena is held at bay one that I bet you've encountered,
omnis amniusis, yes, But more so than that, Agony's throat
is also a place behind which a specific consciousness is sealed.
You see, Amniusis spreads via a stone called mesite, a
special crystal. If you've encountered the creatures that spread it,
you've seen it. It is a sort of thought form.
It's not a proper material. It's made of the mist,
which is itself difficult to explain, but to keep it simple,
it's more of a supernatural influence given shape than it
is an actual mist, just like the disease isn't a
true disease. But occasionally the mist will pool and form
into a sort of stone called mesite, and then mesite,
if allowed to remain for long enough, will eventually take
on life and become what we call a mesite animation.
You've probably bumped into them. They're creatures with a joint
consciousness that want to continue spreading Amniusis and stealing memories.
Foreign alien looking creatures made of strange, fibrous bodies, cover
in stone, covered in crystal. When enough of these form,
there is a certain shadow that appears, one that connects
them all. We call it the pale shadow. A woman
in white, a woman made of white. He like looks up,
which would be more appropriate? Uncertain? I think I saw her,
this woman. She is one of many. There can be
many of these pale shadows, but they serve as the
hub of the thought of a certain hive. The animations
are all connected together through them, these consciousnesses. They're dangerous
because they add intelligence to these beasts. They give them direction,
and they can eventually cause them to evolve into greater
or more terrifying beings. They are also the thing that,
when given intentionality, permeates the minds of those who have
as this goes into their brains and starts scooping out memories,
inserting themselves into the experiences of others, learning them, and
then taking them, the purpose for which is a little
bit beyond your station. But it's not good for any
mortal mind, I'll tell you that much. Their purposes are
aggravatingly ah floaty. But Agony's throat, its main function beyond
holding back everything I mentioned is that the charms there
serve to cause any pale shadows who would form to
be functionally locked within and on the other side. That way,
they can't better command the animations that are created there.
You could think of it as the pale shadow's mind
is trapped on the other side. However, that doesn't stop
it from reaching out. They can step into the minds
and dreams of others and start stealing memories. But if
they choose to inhabit them, they can influence and direct
them as well. They don't like to do it. But
if one needed a body, and there was a capable warrior,
a clever woman who had been inflicted with amneusis, nothing
would stop a pale shadow from inserting themselves into their
body and trying to take active control of them. But
what would they do with such a body, I wonder.
I imagine if somebody was in Agony's throat, had realized the
great stores of power that is concentrated there, and was
trying to take control of it. For example, temple Ethicus,
who the cult has not heard from in quite some time,
if he happened to be there, if he happened to
be trying to seize control of the power hidden in
Agony's throat. If I was a pale shadow, I might
need a capable body to aggravate him, because if he
slips up, if he tries to control it the wrong way,
express too much power, he tries to seize it in
the wrong way, especially if the various temples were being disrupted,
if the Colondrites were destroyed or incapacitated, and the seals
that kept Agony's throat sealed were to fail, by with
a capable sword arm, a pale shadow may be able
to force that whole seal, that whole lake of crystal
to crack. I'm going to go out on a limb.
Your mother appeared to die and then she disappeared, didn't she?
Speaker 15: Yes?
Speaker 1: I imagine the last person who would have seen her then
was probably Ethicus. And tell me, since you've been exposed
to it as well, and I can see it in
your eyes, you've encountered the pale shadow as well, haven't you?
Speaker 10: Yes?
Speaker 1: I imagine it likely encouraged you if you were to step
into the temples to try to do away with those
terrible calandrites that the cult was trying to use to
their benefit. Didn't it.
Speaker 4: I I thought it was my mom.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, I thought it was my mom telling me to
do it.
Speaker 1: Poor poor Mave. I am truly sorry. I didn't know
her directly, but she seemed like a good woman, and
if LUCENT saw anything in her, she must have been
one with a strong sense of integrity. There is one
final piece of information you need consider, young Runecrow. Some
time has passed since the seals have been weakened. Ethicus,
if he had been pushed to the edge, would have
cracked Agony throat open by now. And if he had
done that, this town would already be overrun with the
mists that carry these creatures. If your mother was taken
there and was used to aggravate him and try to
push him over the edge, we would already have seen it.
Which leads me to think, and you must prepare yourself
for this reality, that Ethicus may have been able to
deal with her without going too far. The pale Shadow
was unable to accomplish what it wanted. Your mother may
have been disposed of, or, more likely, given Ethicus as
m O, he might be trying to make use of her.
Speaker 4: It is he going to make one undead creature?
Speaker 1: What is he going to do if he's trying to
seize control of Agony's throat and the great amount of
idomantic do you understand idomancy? Has anyone talked to you about?
That is a thing that you know, it's the sort
of you. Well, we've had an encounter. There's a great
deal of energy stored up there. And if Ethicus is
trying to unlock it, a clever man if he saw
that there was a being thoroughly attuned to the crystal
in Agony's throat, rather than kill them, may choose to
use them as a divining rod of sorts, may keep them,
make them part of the ritual and mechanism, a sort
of control rod.
Speaker 3: But please don't talk about my mom.
Speaker 12: What good?
Speaker 1: It's a grim reality and I wouldn't wish it on
a child. But I did tell you I would tell
you the truth.
Speaker 3: I know, it's just a lot.
Speaker 1: This also, unfortunately, moves into what I promised i'd tell
you afterwards, which is the purpose of Agony's Throat, which
I believe I've done.
Speaker 4: Yeah, sorry, I'm kind of overwhelmed.
Speaker 3: Do you guys think? Can you think of anything else?
We need to know that you might know.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry, I guess the most prussing thing. Yes, how
do we get rid of these thorns? I figure it's
dealing with the big creature. Oh, we're gonna need to
get there fast before anything else happened.
Speaker 9: Thorns, Yes, thorns. The entire town is covered in thorns.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They mutter something to themselves intensely. Anyone that's not Lawrence.
If you want to make a perception, check to see
if you hear what he mutters.
Speaker 5: You can.
Speaker 1: It's very quiet, cool, Lawrence. I assume you're distracted.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I'm I'm overwhelmed with emotion and trees and air.
Speaker 5: Stepsion got a fifteen makes sense? You're right behind him, Yeah.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. The fifteen scarn Yet you just you
hear him mutter that bitch. But I'm in here. Oh
so the town's not viable then, hmmm.
Speaker 9: I don't know if I should worry about that or not.
But you seem like you know something about.
Speaker 1: The Third Temple, the one that I presume that you
all haven't been to. There's a there's a parasitic being
that lives there. There's an art fay one that likes
to tamper with the memories of others and to perform experiments.
I'm going to simplify a lot of things in telling
you the reason I'm here is because I wanted to
check if Agony's throat was still secure. I wanted to
see if it was cracking or breaking. And part of
that was I had to go to that third temple
and I was going to check on the state of
it to see if that entity was pushing the colon
drike too far. I didn't know anything about ethicis whenever
I was coming here. Of course, I only learned about
them a bit afterward. But if the thorns have appeared,
that means the entity that is there who was previously
toying with the he like, stops. He looks at all
of you were toying with your meth. Don't worry about
it making them think things that you don't know you like.
He looked back and forth all of you. You're not
zoning out? Good, I don't. You must have been. Your
connection must have been loosened. Oh yeah, that could be
good for you. But if that's happening, if the thorns
of a appeared, that means that likely because Agony's throat
is in jeopardy, and this whole place is going to
be destroyed if nothing's done about it. That being is
likely considered this place to not be a viable experiment anymore.
It's plaything is broken, so it's decided to seal everything
in until it kills itself. Oh great, we got another
the idiot and I'm in here. What am I supposed
to do?
Speaker 5: How do you think we feel you could lead us
there to start?
Speaker 1: No way? No like this, No way? Then? What the
hell do you need to go there? I'm not going there?
Yes you are, I'm not. I can tell you i'm not.
Nothing's not happening. I'm not prepared. I'll die. Then, what
the fuck are you here for?
Speaker 5: I told you you're one of our best chances of
getting there, and more of those messype things are going
to be making their way up. We've already make guards.
Speaker 1: I can give you instructions, but I should not go there.
It's always instructions with these idiots. They don't want to
do the fucking work themselves. I think I've been very
helpful to help us out by going down with us.
Speaker 9: Do some work. Be on the fucking ground. I'm out
here fighting everybody.
Speaker 1: I tried to do that, and then the cult captured me.
Oh wow, they captured you. I killed them. They're very
mad at me.
Speaker 3: He's just mad in general. Right now. It's not just you.
Speaker 1: The fact, so the fact, the fact of the matter
is regarding me. In order to get Pepper and Lawrence
out of that cell they were in, I had to
compromise myself. I had to use a certain trait of
mine that I'm not I've never used it that way
before to coerce some of the guards, and it's had
a bit of an effect on my head. And I
fear that if I go near those mists or anything
else that could affect one's mind, I fear I may
lose myself. I'm already a bit shaken, and so I'm
afraid that I would be a hindrance that and I
wouldn't really serve any practical use. I can tell you
how to get there. I am not a combatant. I'm
a negative combatant. I'm a what's a what's a great
word for it, hinderance. I am a coward mm seems
like it, and I take great pride in my cowardice.
I wish I could do the same, but I do
think I'm just about out my limit mentally, so I
need to use what time I have left wisely. But
like I said, I could definitely get you the means
to go down there, And I have a feeling that
there is another here who would love to go down
there with you, that lovely Elven swordsman. Oh, worry not,
I'm dragging him down if he wants you are not
even in my adult state, I could still feel he
is like the parasite, and that makes him perfect for
dealing with it.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 1: Yet, that man carries a darkness in him so unfathomable
that even the effects on this town, the effects that
are an experiment in depriving mortals of the things that
would torment them in the night, a thing that would
take from them their greatest traumas and replace them with
happy and encouraging memories. His darkness is so thorough that
it can't even touch him. This parasite is afraid of
him because they are too alike, because the traumas in
his head run so deep it risks hurting itself if
it were to touch them. You should take him, oh.
Speaker 10: All, Mike Scarn said, we planned to Hm.
Speaker 1: I do hope for your success. I just hope for
it from afar.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna walk away from this guy before I heard him.
Speaker 5: That's fair. Yeah, if you can give us notes on
how to get there.
Speaker 1: I.
Speaker 10: Have a book here. You can write a map or
directions or something.
Speaker 1: Absolutely I can. Immediately he produces a quill seemingly just
like flicks his hand and like a magician, just a
quill appears. I would be happy to They will be detailed,
they will be concise. I will do what I can
for you. But I'm not an adventurer. I am I'm nobody.
I'm not a thing.
Speaker 5: Well, good luck with that. I'm going to see to
the commander and then we should get looking for your family.
Speaker 4: After a quick rest, real quick, can we, like, can
we have your helmet because it could come in handy.
Speaker 3: We could put it on somebody.
Speaker 1: I think that the way the keys inserted into it
made it inoperable unless you know how to remove them.
But he like kicks it across the like toward you.
He sort of just with his fudge kicks it across
the floor rolls. But you can one hundred percent have that.
That was terrible over Maybe you'll figure out how to
make it work.
Speaker 3: I don't know, you know, maybe yeah, we know some
magic peeps. I'm pretty good.
Speaker 5: Yeah, let's keep it on the upside. At least this
is the last time you'll be stuck in something that awful.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Aaron, I hope so.
Speaker 4: But if I'm not allowed to meta, neither you Okay.
Speaker 5: It seems like a perfectly reasonable saying that.
Speaker 1: It's good thing I'm out of there. And that's the
worst thing that you could encounter. I couldn't imagine something
being worse than says says Aristo, looking at the screen. No,
that was a perfectly fine thing to say.
Speaker 3: Justice and Anna lost.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're just like whatever here.
Speaker 4: Sorry, God damn it, Logan, he's got something to do
with the Greater Universe.
Speaker 9: I don't know about the greater universe. I don't know
about the greater universe in the real world. I don't
give a ship.
Speaker 1: Do honestly say, Yep, you're just you're just You're definitely
not talking to the main antagonist of the other campaign.
It's definitely no, no, no.
Speaker 5: No, tell.
Speaker 9: I can tell I already hate this guy. There's a
reason I immediately was this guy. I'm gonna leave before
I start killing.
Speaker 1: Him slash also Matthew's character from the other campaign. Yeah,
they'll kill him.
Speaker 2: A lot's happening too.
Speaker 1: I did. In fact, Yeah he came back.
Speaker 5: But get about it.
Speaker 4: I cannot believe you got a two for one special
on a dad.
Speaker 3: That's crazy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's wild.
Speaker 1: As he begins writing stuff, as you guys begin like leaving,
he does call after. Lawrence is like, I'm not certain
what happened with your mother or why she felt the
need to come here, But I will say this, a
woman of such integrity and thought likely would not have
left you without some idea. She probably kept a journal
or something of that nature. The secrets to what happened
to you are likely still within your grasp.
Speaker 3: Everything seems to kind of be coming together.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's all coming together.
Speaker 5: Let's see about getting you some boots.
Speaker 1: When things are bad, when they're at their most dire,
when you're feeling the most grim, it's best to be cheery,
because at the very least, even when you feel nothing
and you feel hollowed out inside, you can put a
smile on your face and pretend to be happy, and
that's just as good. That's how I feel.
Speaker 3: It's not just as good.
Speaker 1: Hmm. Sometimes you've got to.
Speaker 3: I don't want to pretend m my mom did this
to keep me safe. He threatened to unveil.
Speaker 4: The truth of who I am, So she did this
to keep me safe.
Speaker 1: That's true. I wonder if this is related to why
your dad is dead?
Speaker 3: He's dead?
Speaker 1: Did you not know that?
Speaker 3: Would I have known that? Would the books be that.
Speaker 1: Up to date? Well, you just seem not to know that,
so I guess maybe you don't know that. Also, No,
you would not have.
Speaker 4: I kind of figured that's what I'm saying, because everything
I know about them is from like books.
Speaker 1: Lucent valid several quite a while ago. Now I understand
that they died in a military operation. There's a war
in the land away against an Ogre led army, you see,
and a certain leader claimed the title Knight Slayer by
taking Lucent's life.
Speaker 3: So I'll never meet my dad.
Speaker 1: But you might meet your brother.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And currently their seat on the Lions Council is being
taken over by what would he be your uncle.
Speaker 3: Lucent's brother?
Speaker 1: Mm? Hm, who's that?
Speaker 2: Would I know?
Speaker 3: From my research?
Speaker 1: We're only another history check.
Speaker 3: With a Vanka.
Speaker 10: Sure, hooray.
Speaker 3: Double thirteen's for an.
Speaker 1: Eleven War hero named Corvas.
Speaker 3: Yeah again, Terry knows that he's probably.
Speaker 1: The most famous living valor Bilt. So the Windwall they
call him Corvus.
Speaker 4: I've read about him.
Speaker 1: He is currently claiming the seat while he waits for
your brother to be mature enough to take the seat
on the Lion's Council from him. Corvus used to hold
it he's much older than his brother was, but he
passed it along to Lucan, who held it for some
time until he met his demise. Corvis does not wish
to sit in that seat. Why, Oh, he retired. He's
out of retirement because he believes that young Quintin's valor
built is not up to the task. But he would
much rather retire and kick up his feet.
Speaker 4: Everything I've read about Quinta's vallability seems pretty awesome.
Speaker 3: Why doesn't he think he's ready?
Speaker 1: A bit of a fuck boy?
Speaker 3: That'sn's wrong with that?
Speaker 1: All right, depends on if you're Corvas or not. Some
things happened, some stuff in a swamp, And.
Speaker 3: I try to tell him what happened in the swamp?
Speaker 1: Oh, you'll find out when you're older.
Speaker 3: People keep saying that to me.
Speaker 10: What the fuck did on Christ in front of the child.
Speaker 3: M damn.
Speaker 1: All right, but anyway, my sentiment was only if you
feel avoid inside, if you feel downtrodden, fill it with
what you'd like. Keep your head up. I bet your
mother would want you to be happy.
Speaker 3: You know that she would.
Speaker 4: She want me to be actually happy.
Speaker 3: She wouldn't want me to put a fake smile on.
Speaker 1: Oh well, you can't go back to writing it, just
mutters I never understood the difference. Shit, thank you you're.
Speaker 3: Telling me all of this.
Speaker 1: Thank you for getting the bucket off my head. Yeah,
and thank you in advance for getting rid of the thorns.
Speaker 3: Well that's probably not going to be on me. Looks
to Lilia.
Speaker 1: The annoying guy done talking, I think, so.
Speaker 3: Okay, So like, what do we just leave him tied
up here?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 3: What do we.
Speaker 1: He's now writing stuff for Lilia. He's not writing a
detail account of how to get to the Third Temple.
Speaker 5: I'll go check in with Dendron and see if I
can find Barristo. Right, so, if I can find him
some boots.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, my piggies they're just out.
Speaker 3: Oh that's gone on free damn.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 5: In this economy.
Speaker 3: Crazy, yeah, right, crazy.
Speaker 1: As you head out and you had to find Dendron
to speak with them, and as you guys go about
doing what you're doing. We've just crested two hours, and
I feel like if we continue, we're going to get
into a whole lot more roleplay stuff, and I want
to give that time room to breathe. So for the
sake of making sure everything is given adequate time, I
would say that we should wrap up there today.
Speaker 5: So my biggest woe of today, yeah, is that I
didn't get to hear bread scream every time something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I am a bit sad they weren't here for
the reveal bucket head who they thought, especially because they
were like the last person to figure it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, damn stuff would have had them fucking yell them.
I know that if you're watching this, this is after
you've already seen me all this stuff. But this is
me now saying go back in time and record you
watching it, and I can watch you watching it. We
all need to know at least give us live posts.
Speaker 1: Yep, finally got you, finally got that, fucking You're finally unfeebled.
Matthew slashed the big bad yeah.
Speaker 4: Also I messaged Cody being like, well, I don't get
to call your daddy anymore, and then I sent him
the fucking gift from Mufasa, like fucking my brother.
Speaker 3: Like he's like, no, damn, oh, well so stupid.
Speaker 1: I need to actually watch that movie and like I don't.
I'm not going to. But I want to know of
in context that that song sounds better than that one
clip sounds, because you know, sometimes like sometimes I was like, oh,
it was just like a quirky part of the song, okay,
rather than being like, this is what the whole thing
sounds like. I bet it still sounds bad.
Speaker 3: But I don't know, I mean fair, I just yeah,
I don't care.
Speaker 1: So as we as we chill up here one second,
I'm gonna push us over to we should uh get
right out to Cody, people at home, people people at home.
First of all, Happy Pride Month is gonna be a
last stream during Pride Month.
Speaker 10: Happy Pride Month, Pride, Happy Pride, begay, do crimes, yepgay crimes?
Speaker 2: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 10: Uh being good but also being gay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's also totally allowed. That's totally allowed.
Speaker 1: But why would you do that?
Speaker 5: And about it?
Speaker 1: You only tell about people about.
Speaker 13: It if it's I don't want to I don't want
to do crimes in twenty twenty five America, you.
Speaker 1: Don't have to know that happens. You can still be gay,
I don't, you know, be gay, do peace, you know,
just be gay. Yeah, bekay, be gay twice.
Speaker 3: Don't give them more reason.
Speaker 5: Just be gay.
Speaker 1: And then twenty six Yeah, hopefully hopefully do crimes. Hopefully
everything comes down and we do. Crime is a treat, yeah, true.
Make sure is submit your stuff for Dead Saying or
not Dead Saying record for three gentle sins uh and
and and by dead Saint record and uh check out
and his stuff here in a bit.
Speaker 2: You do and come to Michigan to hang out with me.
Not next weekend, but the weekend.
Speaker 1: After we Yeah, be too gay everyone. Everyone has to
be bisexual for the remainder of pride. That's what being
two gay means. Yeah, be gay twice, be gay both ways.
Speaker 4: Aaron, this it kills me that I'm not going to
be here for your birthday.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, Okay, I'm here to give him.
Speaker 8: A birthday gift on his birthday during a birthday, on
his birthday gift happy birthday.
Speaker 1: So that was so funny. When we were at fucking
fucking Just Expert got his texted him being like, hecking
is your birthday thing? So I got you, and he
just sends the textback it's not my birthday thing. We're
just here. I was like, what, I get that idea?
Speaker 4: Then, dude, I wouldn't have asked Aaron for the money
for his ticket if this was his birthday.
Speaker 5: I don't know, happen happening and that was my birthday. Thanks.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was complaining those two things in my mind.
We got those as like a birthday gift for you,
like last year that we were gonna do when it happened.
And listen. I was also like like three or four
Margarita's Deep world at that point, so we're in it.
I was going on vibes. That concert fucked. It was
so funny.
Speaker 5: So once the Chucks came out, I knew it was
gonna be unparalleled.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, dude.
Speaker 4: I knew fucking when they started doing the tribute to
Corn and I was the only one at the table
fucking freak on a leish.
Speaker 3: I was like, I'm either.
Speaker 4: The coolest your lamest person at this table for going
real hard into freak only you can be both, that's true.
Speaker 1: I think I think that coolest and lamist at the
table is a moniker we all wear occasionally.
Speaker 2: Fuck yeah, dude, No, I was going hord when.
Speaker 3: They were doing.
Speaker 1: That was the first concert I've gotten to where by
the end of it, I was definitely like I could
not hear myself, but I was singing my heart out
in spite of the fact that I could not hear myself.
Speaker 3: Yes, it was so good, but yeah, that's a great rate.
Messages you are not your mother, and then gabbing Laurel.
Speaker 1: After not so as you are not the father.
Speaker 3: Yeah you should, yeah.
Speaker 1: You are before before you rate out. We're gonna end
the We're gonna end the actual We're gonna end the
actual stream so or the recording, so people, we'll remember
people at home. No game next week, and then we're
back on a normal schedule, the kind of kind of
without carry a little bit for one week, then for
the rest of the next month. So we'll see you
guys around.
Speaker 5: Oh good bye, everybody.
Speaker 10: We love you.