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listening and enjoy. His wings periodically beat a gust of wind,
rushing across your faces each time they do. His enormous
form holding place above you, his tail lashing below him,
dripping green flame and black ink, is huge body, a
twisted nightmare of scales, flesh and fire, spikes running up
his back, over and across his broken face, red eyes
regarding each of you. Mordrill speaks his mouth open, dripping
green flame. Pieces of his decaying flesh fall and turn
to wisps of black smoke, becoming one with his surroundings
as the inky blackness spreading from him like an infection,
moves across the astral sea.
Speaker 2: Your plea helf beer An said, I you sare it
has been so tho Lord since failt.
Speaker 3: Said sal fault. Is this what you to say?
Speaker 1: He looks towards you, sarahs.
Speaker 4: What I desire? I've told you what I desire?
Speaker 1: What is to end.
Speaker 4: Peacefully?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: M hm hm try But if not?
Speaker 3: Off to point? Is you.
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: To fight hard? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 3: Do you have enough.
Speaker 2: Power to stand against this inevitability?
Speaker 4: I believe that we are as inevitable as you are.
Speaker 2: I understand you want desire to witness your world, probably
to the marsh about you, to witness the form of yourspecies,
to feel the pain of loss. On such a glad liver,
I can grant you this mirable life, strength, vitality. If
you wish for this to end peacefully, lie, close your
eyes accept.
Speaker 4: I guess we don't all get what we want. Then
you can.
Speaker 2: Thrash and kick and scream and fight your fate as
hard as you like it. You prolong the inevitable.
Speaker 3: You are avoided. You're not deloy me forever.
Speaker 4: Again, it seems we are as much your fate because
you are ours. Neither of us know leend.
Speaker 2: M of those that have tried, even in the mark
that this came before, I find with humans to pay
the most fascinating, and you mash.
Speaker 1: His red eyes fixed on Thrack.
Speaker 2: So few before you have flocked at the leave, but you.
Speaker 1: Profit looking again at Cyrus.
Speaker 2: Your strength, liars, and your ability to harmonize with the angels.
The two of you make a powerful combination. It is
no wonder you stand before me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, at the end of your world, you see perhaps
that you are different. We are not so different.
Speaker 2: I have thrashed, ACKed, screamed, I have thought, I have died,
I have been reborn, I have sought.
Speaker 3: I have found.
Speaker 2: I have a send. Survivor is not enough. You must
have purpose.
Speaker 3: My fight.
Speaker 2: My purpose places me before an impossible task, before a
power greater than my own. Soon I will stand before
my creators as you.
Speaker 3: Stand before me.
Speaker 2: Soon I will slash, kick, scream, and fight again. You
are prand we are not so different. But you will
fail unless unless you join.
Speaker 3: Me, join me out. Together, we will.
Speaker 2: Face the gods for what they have done.
Speaker 3: Mh tokure them. We will destroy them, to kill them.
Speaker 2: We will we write existence, and will we create your old.
It won't be fair balanced. There will be no choice,
no glance. I offer you this final choice.
Speaker 3: I am tear.
Speaker 4: My eyes and look at the other three.
Speaker 5: Nie, new world you post to create? Where would you stand?
What is your place? Would you not be the most
powerful being? Would you not be a god?
Speaker 6: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: Right, bring me an insight check, right?
Speaker 5: Ah? Yeah, so I don't have disadvantage anymore.
Speaker 1: You're fully healed. Everyone is fully rested. You've been given
like miracle rest. Sarah's going to interpret that however she wants.
So that's fifteen. At fifteen, this creature is hard to read.
His huge form continues to beat its wings. The long
neck on this dragon is curled over and looking down
towards each of you. The red eyes that fix on
each of you as he looks across you one by one.
There is the slightest flicker of his eyelids as you
ask him where he would be, he would rule as
a god. I think you get the sense that there's
you've pulled a reaction out of him, but he's trying
to withhold a piece of information from you.
Speaker 6: What is the intention here? Exactly? Sure, I understand I
empathize with wanting to kick and scream at those above you. However,
now perhaps maybe I'm reading wrong into this, But so far,
all we've seen is wanton death and destruction. Is the
goal not just to visit this death and destruction? Above these?
Is there no further plan? Is oblivion all that matters
to you?
Speaker 3: And there is no bottles us speakcording the process. Did
you think you want to live? For?
Speaker 1: What's the saying? Again?
Speaker 6: Not here for a long time, but a good one,
I don't believe. Well, like any good story, I suppose
that will be left to the end of the side.
So far this book has been so so.
Speaker 4: Is that it then you wish to die and you
seek the only way you know how.
Speaker 1: Rommian Inside Check again.
Speaker 4: Twenty five.
Speaker 1: His I mean, I don't know how this really looks.
But his face is skeletal and gorn. It's not quite
a dragon, He's kind of He's a dracolicch so he's
what skin and scales are on his face are like
pulled and taught. The skeletal form underneath really just kind
of being held together by whatever magic is holding him together.
There is some elements of green flame that kind of
pulse through his body here and there. His eyes are
red and with an element of slight glow to them,
dim for a moment and the flames dim across his
entire body. It's almost as if his features soften before
kind of reigniting. And it's just a flicker that you
might not notice just to look at casually, but I
think you pick up on this, he says.
Speaker 3: Flashed.
Speaker 2: As god.
Speaker 3: Record.
Speaker 4: Oh, I think tears start to stream from my face.
I don't know if he sees him or notices them,
but they're they're going. And I'm suddenly reminded of how
he believes, not believes, but as the angel of death,
he's also the angel of life. And I'm trying to
think of a loop hole to his thinking a little bit.
Speaker 1: M mm hmm.
Speaker 7: Then only stand if it is a group that accept.
Speaker 1: His eyes. Look to you, Jilden, I think for a
moment he you almost get the sense that he forgot
you were there. Isn't There's a strange dissonance between the
way that he interacts with Thrack, Cyrus and even Seer.
But his sort of neck cranes down, looks to you,
his head kind of slightly cocking to the side as
you speak. His form lowers a little more, coming down
a little close so towards the you know, quote unquote
ground here on the astros saying. He says.
Speaker 2: That the wrong to share, Oh have.
Speaker 3: No power.
Speaker 2: Of a horse share.
Speaker 3: Or trusious.
Speaker 6: Well, seeing as we are already at oblivion, so to speak,
since we do have time to talk into discourse, I
wonder if perhaps maybe you would be willing in that
case to come to some sort to the core. If
it weren't useful to you in one way or another,
yet you would have killed us, I'm sure. So here
is my question to you, I say, not looking at
this stracolage in the face, my eyes darted somewhat to
the left, disconnected, and I say say that we were
to follow you above and beyond, say, we were to
raise the gods wherever they are, if they even are
up there?
Speaker 1: What next?
Speaker 6: You are the angel of oblivion? However, as you have
just proven to yourself right now and to us here,
you are also an angel of creation. To be possible
for you to unspoil this land free from not only
the angels, but the gods above them. I don't think
anyone here would necessarily be too against assisting you if well,
where we came from is what we can go back to?
Speaker 2: What alo?
Speaker 1: What can I offer you?
Speaker 6: If you believe that to be true, I wouldn't be
here standing in front of you, a great one, as
you speak to us. For yet we are not in
the material world right now?
Speaker 1: Are we yet? Here?
Speaker 6: Wherever here is still holds power.
Speaker 3: Now they're all cultures and are surf have an death.
Speaker 6: I believe we have been acquainted with a few of them.
Speaker 2: Yes, to are entped yourself is to live an death,
to require a sore lest you become a moiss.
Speaker 6: I've grown rather quite accustomed to being alive. However, it
has come to my attention, and that's well, as cura.
We all here have souls, what the kind you speak of?
Speaker 2: It has been a millennial. It was not until I
crossed into this world. Let a sleeper should come for
us with another man. For a thousand years I anxisted alone.
If I were to face the thoughts, it is mutual powers.
Sing what you will come with?
Speaker 3: Ye?
Speaker 1: Well, I've been known to be quite the party.
Speaker 3: Laughter.
Speaker 1: Why first, I take it back.
Speaker 6: I am the life of the party. That's that's the one.
Yes that you see punts. Sorry anyway, at this, at
this notion, I take a step back.
Speaker 5: You get it.
Speaker 6: The life death should have been a barred anyway?
Speaker 4: May I ask you a question?
Speaker 1: His eyes shift to you, he says nothing. You were.
Speaker 4: An angel of your world. Yes, people pray to you.
You answered their prayers as you did mine.
Speaker 1: Just now.
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: If you.
Speaker 4: If you kill all people, you kill all angels, you
kill all gods? Who do you serve?
Speaker 8: And what was it?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 4: For life and death? This oblivion that you seek, there
is not one without the other. In order for there
to be death, there must be life. In order for
there to be life, there must be death oblivion. I
don't know if it's possible. If if I didn't have
an angel to pray to, you didn't have the gods.
It is a long line, it is a circle. What
do the gods pray to? Are you sure there is
an ending?
Speaker 3: A shaft? Shaft there?
Speaker 2: My sister, these.
Speaker 3: That I was laughed to shift mm hmm kah, the
thought a shoe? What shaft? Yeah? What a show?
Speaker 7: Purpose?
Speaker 9: And what will be your purpose when all is done?
When you have killed the gods and create a world
with no gods, no interrows? What is your purpose?
Speaker 7: Then? The oracle is right. You are a liar.
Speaker 9: Everything needs purpose, Everything with life needs purpose, and by
all accounts. You are half full of life, even if
the other half is full of death. You'll need purpose
the same way we all need purpose. You have nothing
left when you do this, You have no adversaries, You
have no reason to keep going. Might as well curl
up and tie yourself for.
Speaker 3: Source.
Speaker 9: Hur's great heart, you must have spent all that time
of falling in love with yourself.
Speaker 7: Listen to you, this is ridiculous. Have a proposal. You'll
you'll have these abilities you're granted or wish.
Speaker 9: You are full of life. Grant us that life. Grant
us your ability. I will wish for it, if necessary,
granted so that we may help you. If you wish
to kill the gods, but then to continue in perpetuity
as your adversary, as your balance, as your purpose, I.
Speaker 3: Will quarantee this your promise, your power.
Speaker 2: I won't give you as much power as I have
to give. If you can joy that.
Speaker 4: Allow us to release you.
Speaker 3: I will not be chained to this life any longer.
Speaker 7: H english the power should we can try.
Speaker 3: Shore the torture of more ter Sure, sure, normal purpose,
that's fun.
Speaker 1: So what is your weakness? Then?
Speaker 6: In that case, if you so desperately want to die.
That's no fun now, is it? Can you make yourself
a weakness? Make this a fair game, make this fun?
Speaker 3: Try?
Speaker 2: Oh, I've alf floor also aunul your circa.
Speaker 9: Then why are we here? Why are you having this
conversation with us? Then there's a spark of hope in
your somewhere. You think something can change for you to
even be entertaining this.
Speaker 5: You wish?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do not need to God access to.
Speaker 2: The longer wispered talking.
Speaker 3: Sirs.
Speaker 5: While this conversation is happening, I would like to be
studying the weave that is between the four of us.
And what I am attempting to do is I'm trying
to learn how Jildin has connected us in a way
that mechanically we share health fools, so that I can
enhance it in a way that will give us a
great advantage in a fight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can make me an arcana check or really
whatever check you want. But I'm guessing and arcana check
will be the one that you'd go for.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm using my marking knowledge to study the weave
that tethers us.
Speaker 1: Twenty three twenty three? What are you doing.
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: When is happening? Are you physically doing anything. Are you
thinking in what is happening?
Speaker 5: I'm just looking at the weave that is connecting the
four of us, that's causing us to share our health
ball right now when Jordan did that. So I'm not
physically doing anything. I'm just looking right now. I'm trying
to figure out if there's a way that I can
bolster or enhance this connection between the four of us.
Speaker 1: Yeah. OK, what you're looking at is a silver string
that runs between each of you. There's there's these four
strings that run from your bodies, presumably out of your backs,
that run way off into the distance that bring you
back to your bodies. This thing is like an umbilical cord.
It's called a life string. And m the Moudrial has
one as well. Is not silver. It is black, and
it's thick like rope. Where's yours look like very thin
strands of string. His is like a thick rope thing.
Looking over the rope, it's almost like iron the his looks,
whereas you and your silver string is kind of a shining,
thin looking thing. Jilden has sort of connected you all,
not not really through the life string exactly, but has
sort of bolstered the fact that you're all connected through CUA.
You each share this bizarre bond that is divine in nature,
that is super ancient, powerful magic. It's whatever a soul
is in magic terms. To you, the strings that are
connecting you with one of them connecting you and Sea
as well, can actually be bold that Mordre has reinforced
his You could do the same. You could make them stronger.
Speaker 5: I could make the strings between myself and see you stronger,
or the string between all of.
Speaker 1: Us stronger, so they're harder to break, harder to cut.
What Jilden has done is not too dissimilar in that
there is this kind of umbilicus between you. You're you're
just sharing life force and energy between the four of
you as a group, which could easily be dispelled by
you if you wanted to.
Speaker 5: No, I want to strengthen it so that we share more,
that we uh connect and even deeper. That's what I'm
looking to do.
Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, give me a mind check of some sort
in wars or charisma.
Speaker 5: It's a safe or just a straight intelligence check. It's
just a straight check. Okay. In eleven?
Speaker 3: Not great?
Speaker 1: What do you do this time? You're doing anything?
Speaker 5: M hmm? I think if I was actually trying to
if I was actually trying to mess with the weave
in here, I would first discreetly cast a spell major
image over myself, and it's just me standing there listening
to the conversation, so that the real me can sort
of behind that image, be plucking out the weave and
trying to see if I can manipulate it in a
way that gives us an advantage.
Speaker 1: All right, I guess I'll make an investigation check to
see if more drill sees through this major image.
Speaker 5: Yeah, uh, I think.
Speaker 1: He's got anything in it. Investigations. It's just an in
check at nineteen, What does he have to beat?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Sixteen, you do cast this, then you're not aware that
he sees through. You cast a major image, and then
you begin to attempt to strengthen this bond, and you
ll you rolled that twenty three for this. No, I
rolled an eleven, just a straight intelligence. Oh that was
what the eleven was for. Yeah, I mean, yeah, this
is a failed.
Speaker 5: Why I think I think it just tanks. It's too complex,
it would take more time and need more time.
Speaker 1: It's unbelievably complex. You're the way to think about this
is that there are multiple things happening at once. You've
got the astral sea, which is influencing everything around you.
When you're thinking of things, sometimes they're manifesting nearby. It
will be a flash of a memory or something. You
might actually see a face in the distance, or you
might see a tree that you remember or something like that.
This is happening for all of you, and everyone will
see it. So if you think of something very clearly,
it's very possible that the astral sea will manifest a
memory of that thing nearby. So you're having to compete
with that. You're competing with the fact that you're still
connected to Seer. You've got all of sears. Bullshit, there's
an element here in fact, give me an insight check
a natural one, natural one, never mind, there are other
elements at work that are very difficult for you to
figure out. While it's a little bit like gambling, you
have the astral sea could very much enhance your abilities.
It can open up your ability to be able to
cast spells in such a way that they are moldable
to whatever you imagine. You can enhance a very simple
like cantrip to do you know, like a fireball could
become a fireball if you can successfully contain all of
these variables. The problem is that that monkey's poor thing
where it's possible that it could work against you as well.
And I think that's what's happening here. It's a bit
of a crapshirt trying to interface with the elements that
are going on here that have been created and exist
because of the astra sase of things like the live
streams and the health pool sharing that kind of thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, right, well, I suppose that's all I really do.
Speaker 1: I'm not.
Speaker 5: Participating in the conversation right now. I'm just trying to
work on that, Okay.
Speaker 6: I would like to be doing something similar. Since coming
to the astral Sea and being connected with the others,
I don't believe that I feel entirely myself entirely hopeful
more than one reason, of course, the one with the
binding to Thrack, but also with the conjoined umbilicy umbilicuses
of everybody else.
Speaker 5: I would.
Speaker 6: I think in this moment, I would have probably given
into the fact that we are connected, not again just two,
but four, and so I would like to, in this time,
in my own way, try to.
Speaker 1: Share my.
Speaker 6: Key, my presence with the others by way of channeling
my key from my body through them to try and
make a circuit of sorts too, hopefully. And the goal
here is to balls to them should they need it,
should they need a boost?
Speaker 1: Should I? Okay? Uh yeah, make me a mind check
into Whiz or Charisma.
Speaker 6: Mine's check in quiz Charisma.
Speaker 1: Thirteen? Uh not a save? Does that affect it with
that effect that if it was just not a save?
Speaker 7: Mm?
Speaker 6: I don't think so. I think it's the same. Okay, Yeah,
it's the same. Where were you natural twenty a second ago?
Speaker 1: Where were you?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I at thirteen.
Speaker 5: M.
Speaker 1: I think this is also a fail. It's close, you
know what. I'll let you give Thrack a key point
if you want. I intend to sever that as soon
as possible. Okay, but right now you're trying to share
your key with everyone, and it would be a fail.
But I think I think the DC for the other
two is higher than the DC for Thrack. So I
think you can do this with Thrack, but you can't
do it with the other two. Fair enough to start,
I guess. So what was the intention to be able to.
Speaker 6: Split to use to use this connection as a network,
so that when one person tries to do something, it's
not just my key my presence, but I want to
be the driving force to help push that will their key.
Everything everything around them has key, you know, like not myself,
not as me, you know, but the stones outside. But
we're sitting around or huddled over like you know, catatonic messes,
my clothes, my you know, my everything has key, And
so I want to be able to, now that I'm
connected with them, drive it.
Speaker 1: You can kind of do it. You can do it
with rack.
Speaker 5: I think, all right, ah, what does.
Speaker 1: Sorry, what does KeyPoint do for me?
Speaker 6: I'm not we're not We're not in five the mechanics anymore.
It would do nothing otherwise, But I would hope that
if you try and do something, I can, using this
ability now perhaps assist you mechanically.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I.
Speaker 5: If I can, I would immediately if I noticed, like
an additional a bit of power, I would try to
use it to give it another go the thing you
were trying to do before. Yeah, okay, is the major
image to a lot? Yeah, it's a concentration. Well let
me see how long it lasts. Up to ten minutes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can attempt this again.
Speaker 5: I'm assuming I wanted to say this. I wanted to
interrupt your amazing roleplay moments that you were having with
Leah in a sorry with your serious I've been doing
this while this conversation has been going on, is what
I intended. Yeah, okay, I's been pretty quiet for a while.
Speaker 1: You can attempt this again, another mind check. If you
want to use a key point. You have one key.
Speaker 5: Point, Yes, absolutely, I'll use that.
Speaker 1: I have no idea what that we'll do, but yes,
give you advantage. We'll give you advantage.
Speaker 5: Okay, and this is a straight intelligence check. Okay, I'll
go ahead and take that twenty two. And what were
you trying to do? Trying to boost trying to boost
our connection. I'm, for lack of more artistic term, I'm
attempting to make megazord.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's more from time.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you certainly can't make Megazord on a twenty two,
but you can you can do some stuff. I think
I think this works to a degree, and I think
you boost the connection that Jill than placed upon you.
Jildren just kind of did like a rudimentary connection, and
you came in and put a bunch of legit connecting
pieces in place, and you've Wi fi boosted this connection.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: What else would you like today?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 5: I would, I was hoping. My my aim here was,
since we're sharing a health pool like that, also love
it if we could maybe share some stats a little bit.
You are.
Speaker 1: When called for any of you can make the checks
for any of you.
Speaker 5: Yes, that's where I was going for.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you you can table talk it, but instinctively
whomever would make the check. Okay, Moudrill watches you do
all of this the whole time you're like doing that thing.
He's speaking to the others, but his eyes are on you.
As soon as you feel like you're finished, his eyes
turned back to like Cyrus or Jilden or whoever he
was speaking to.
Speaker 5: At the time, and I'll drop my illusion. You wouldn't probably,
I'd imagine you'dn't feel something. The connection between us has
been emboldened. It's stronger.
Speaker 8: I I.
Speaker 5: Don't know how it feels for each of you, but
I think for Crack it feels like tapping into or
unearthing a power that's already been there the whole time.
It's familiar in a way.
Speaker 3: Does modial notice?
Speaker 1: Ah, someone can make me an insight check on behalf
of the group.
Speaker 5: Who has the highest things to it.
Speaker 1: I think I do.
Speaker 5: Take either two.
Speaker 4: Eight, Okay, I'll do it.
Speaker 1: Audrill seems to be fully aware of what just happened.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, that Syria.
Speaker 1: No, he watches Thrank do it. You can never really
see Thrack when he's like messing with the weave or whatever.
Thrack can see the matrix code running down the screen
for all intons and purposes. You get the sense that
Modrille can also see that matrix code Rack, yeah, okay,
and the rest of it.
Speaker 5: Even if he didn't see through my illusion, would he have?
He would have noticed the change anyways. Maybe if he's
anod luck Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4: Can can I ask uh? I would like to remember
in this moment what exactly Thors said to me before
we left. I don't know, I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know. I remember a lot of it,
like I remember him giving me a new name, meaning
like champion of the people. Basically it was like an
acceptance conversation and like a you have to save us
sort of thing, because there's been a lot of talk
about joining him and like letting this world die. So
that we can go kill the gods all ti together
and then just like make a new one, as if
making a new one, you know, makes it better that
we just let this one die. And like, sorry, buddy,
that like everyone you knew died, but like I know
people and I don't want them to die. I have
a family too, brother. Sorry for yelling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a point where he said, you represent
our order regardless of your origins. You're one of us.
Your born name was Sirrus mace Hearth, but now here
to us. As one of us, you are serious live Boreel, lifebringer,
life preserver undervoreoles. Might you only have the small task
of saving this world? Little cloud? Was that the Yes,
that was exactly it, Lucky, that was one of my
scripted pieces of the video.
Speaker 4: We downloaded the cut scene. We have saved in the menu.
Speaker 1: Some of this cut scenes and some is lost to time,
and you would be better off asking twitch chat.
Speaker 5: Probably fantasy came back.
Speaker 4: I just thought I would. I would throw it out
there in case that was the case. Okay, I'm gonna
do Okay, I'm going to do one last insight check
on him. I'm pretty sure all he wants is to die.
I'm fairly certain all he wants is to die. I
personally think he's not so much after vengeance as he
is after a reason to give the gods a reason
to kill him, because they're the only things that can
kill him, is what I believe he thinks. But I
would like to see if there is any I'm gonna
ask him a question, and then I'll roll for the
insight to see if there's anything left in him that
could be brought over to the light. You know, and
you would not want to live if you defeated the
gods and gage your vengeance. You would not like to
create a new let the family that you once knew
live on in your memory and the memory of those
you bring life to. You want to snuff the very
last thing of them out.
Speaker 1: His eyes flash as he looks at you. His wings
give another beat, and he says, my existence.
Speaker 2: Has been war of death.
Speaker 3: It is all of Lord. The truth is that I
do not wish to boy.
Speaker 2: I feel it just as the water.
Speaker 3: Instead it's you as I do not.
Speaker 2: Want to die, but I do wrong want to have
as a formerly the never rest.
Speaker 3: Over ter past.
Speaker 2: There asked promise there is justice.
Speaker 3: There won't be in quality, there won't be a choice.
Speaker 1: I do this.
Speaker 3: Selfish man, but.
Speaker 2: That's self as.
Speaker 3: If the memories that's the foreigner.
Speaker 2: For or coin asses.
Speaker 3: Memory?
Speaker 2: If I've half four aware?
Speaker 4: So then why don't you go?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: Do you not have enough?
Speaker 4: Was it not enough to lose everyone you love? You
need more? Are you not strong enough to face them
as you are now?
Speaker 2: If it's not a question of shorts.
Speaker 3: Such much?
Speaker 2: What I.
Speaker 4: Dropped to a knee and put my hand on the ground.
We are in an astral plane, and this is a
place that exists nowhere in any real land, you know,
like it's not of Earth or Gaya.
Speaker 1: It's in between.
Speaker 4: It's in between. Can I find the gods?
Speaker 1: Let's say, make me a wisdom check or a mind check.
You can do it with any other stat I'm just
assuming you're gonna use wisdom. Yeah, I'm gonna use wisdom.
Speaker 4: Do I get any like sweet little bonuses? Because of
these guys doing their little do hicky things over the
last little while?
Speaker 1: Someone else can make the check instead.
Speaker 4: If you'd like, Oh no, I think probably.
Speaker 1: Well, if someone else has some way of helping you,
they could potentially do that. Unfortunately, the cube point thing
was only extended to Thrack. Thrack's ability has already given you, guys,
the option to kind of pick and choose who makes
the checks here and there. Okay, but then lawyer me
a little bit if you want.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna I'll I'll do the wisen Cha.
Speaker 1: Twenty the twenty.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you.
Speaker 1: Put a hand to the ground. Maudrille really cranes his neck.
Before he's just been using his eyes. He could easily
just use his eyes to look down at you, but
he actually turns his entire neck and head down to
witness this. As your hand touches the ground, there's and
the four of you would feel this. There's a bizarre
sense of connection that Cyrus has with first the angels,
I think naturally connecting to the sensation of voriol There
is a swift, icy, earthy cold that moves through you
immediately a connection with an angel, just a steadfast sense
of strength. Not strength like you could power lift, but
strength like how you would have to stand and hold
a shield. Strength for how you would stand against a
storm and be immovable. You get a sensation of the
undying strength of this being nearby.
Speaker 5: There is.
Speaker 1: An immediate connection that happens with Mordrial, the part of
Moudrial that is an angel, not of this Guya, but
still an angel. It's a cold sense of death, but
in a matter of fact way more so than a
sense of fear or horror or necrosis.
Speaker 3: Just the.
Speaker 1: Death is what death is. It's the only certainty in life, right.
That kind of sensation you almost kind of sonar ping
a couple of other angels. There's a sensation of knowledge
from the mirror. There's a sensation of kind of twisted life,
but life nonetheless. From the river of blood underneath the mountain.
There is a sensation of water from elsewhere in the world. Ah,
there is the sensation of I don't know how you
would describe it, just a cat. There is mostly a
sense of loss. There is there should be more of this.
There is a sense of emptiness to your world. The
elemental angels that live at the four corners of Gaya
are gone. The white violet of hills Far is gone.
Che Roo of the Deep Tunnels is gone, the Great
Condor is gone, Life Giver, the Green Walker Odd gone
gone gone. There is another Geya that you can feel,
the echoes of far away that is just an empty
land and in no place the astral sea gaya one
guya zero. Is there any sense of these gods? No
feeling of them, no sensation of them, no proof though nothing.
You do not find them? I am.
Speaker 4: I look back at him. And if they do not
come for you, if they are not here, and all
of this is for nothing, it is.
Speaker 2: West or will it's a baking.
Speaker 3: Turn more for a turn more for them. I'm not
can see them, I know, Lord until turn not sick.
Speaker 2: Defeater sing the not half tri.
Speaker 3: Define what this?
Speaker 4: You can feel them? Do you feel them stronger here
in this place?
Speaker 3: No, they are with man.
Speaker 2: That's the actual formaw, that's win.
Speaker 7: Now I will have to try every day very she'll
or not once have any chour. I tried to co
operate to look for them.
Speaker 2: Now was a war.
Speaker 3: It so the magic watch more do not gore him
that's lost before.
Speaker 2: This fall.
Speaker 3: I that's enough.
Speaker 4: I hold, I do not move. My face is still.
But you know that thing where you're like you suddenly
are paying close attention to one ear over the other.
Here I'm listening. I'm waiting to.
Speaker 6: Hear poker faces on my specialty.
Speaker 1: Does anyone say anything?
Speaker 8: How much do we actually know about rex time meddlink
because every time he's turn it back, we don't know.
Speaker 7: We've never seen that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I don't think he's ever said anything either.
Speaker 8: I was trying to remember if there was anything in
Hard's Tower that was mentioned that my.
Speaker 4: We have talked about it.
Speaker 3: We have.
Speaker 4: We did have a conversation I think in front of
the mirror about like if he could learn how to
change time and that the future Thrac would be inside
the tower and he would know that we would you know,
we did it like a conversation about time loops and how.
Speaker 1: We did about going back to the beginning. We've done
all that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it was the conclusion that Thrak doesn't know how
to do it yet but could.
Speaker 4: Do with enough time, yes, yeah, and ironic and so
there was this kind of yeah, discussion about if there
is a Thrac who does know how to do it
and knows that we would need that ability or something
that he would show up because he can or something.
I don't know. So I think we know that he
has the potential for ungodly time powers.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I'd like to ask the three of you a question.
I think I'd be watching you are as much as
I'm watching him while you're talking, and are you giving
body language joining signals that maybe you.
Speaker 1: Want to join him.
Speaker 6: I don't think Rak has ever read a single one
of seeing his body language is until this point. So
I'm gonna go with potentially now. But we have this bond,
so it's up to you.
Speaker 5: Well, we're the same person, so I think I'll frighten now.
So I think i'd know if you were like from me,
you'd be getting I don't trust this at all. This
is a trick.
Speaker 1: I think we're the only obstacle in his way.
Speaker 6: From me, you'd be getting something similar to that. However,
there is a bit of apathy as well, because if
everything you know when that is dead and gone, and
this is the only way, say for death, then what
is the point in fighting? As for joining him, I
am reticent, however, if there is another way.
Speaker 5: Do I would I gain anything from you?
Speaker 1: Two?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not a great observer of people, by the
waye But.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you've known me for like eleven years, a long time,
you know, so you would probably notice that my hand
has been on my sword, on the pommel of my
sword for almost this entire conversation. And I'm sort of
rolling my palm over the palm, all like massaging the
tissue of my hand with it, which I think is
probably a tell that you've seen her do if you
see me do.
Speaker 3: If I'm like.
Speaker 4: Trying to work out a problem, but also I'm sort
of falling into a comfortable like falling into my reactions,
my warrior soldier reactions, you know. So it's like I'm
trying to solve a problem, but like I'm leaning towards
my soldier ways during that, and just with all of
the questions I've been asking and just the sort of
way I've been looking at him, I've been looking at
him with like loads of empathy.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 4: At one point my I was like crying, like I
had tears running down my face. I think it would
be clear to you that I'm doing I'm trying to
find a solution where we do not have to fight him.
But ah, I think you know me well enough to
know that I would not forsake Boreal and kill the gods?
Speaker 5: Right, and what about what about little building?
Speaker 7: Is this a reaction you're looking for in general?
Speaker 4: For this whole conversation from a.
Speaker 5: Caste, Yeah, I'm just I'm like, what are you? How
you stood?
Speaker 8: Like?
Speaker 1: Are you.
Speaker 8: You know?
Speaker 5: I'm studying you right now and I want to I'm
trying to glean if it looks like you're leaning towards
joining him or not.
Speaker 3: I am.
Speaker 8: I'm standing as I seem to always stand lately, at
least both hands, a top, my staff, a short staff
as staffs go, just watching and I seem relaxed.
Speaker 7: Really, I'm not ready to fight. I'm not ready to run.
I just am.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 8: There was a point when I asked a question to
Modrille about whether he would take just one of us
or wanted the whole group of us, And you could
certainly sense that there wasn't a question of curiosity.
Speaker 4: That was a question of.
Speaker 8: Figuring out what I wanted to do and need to
answer that question. Has not fully been satisfied yet.
Speaker 5: Is our connection in this place strong enough where I
can communicate non verbally? Like mentally, I would.
Speaker 4: Be openly permitting that there would be no fight or
boundary between us. So if you were to attempt it,
you wouldn't find any resistance from me.
Speaker 5: You would have to.
Speaker 1: Make it happen. Basically, you'd have to conjure it Okay,
I'm going to try. We already have the phone line.
Speaker 5: I think I think, I think I could talk to
see her.
Speaker 6: Right, we're all connected by Jilden's thing. I mean, I
don't know if you can connect it not because I've
been trying to fund this entire I tell you you're.
Speaker 1: Not just in a discord call. Yeah, you know, everything
exists as it exists until you generate it, so you'd
have to conjure it. You'd have to make it happen.
Speaker 10: Okay, wow, mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: I would say I'll scratch that and say out loud.
Let's let's say you've got all the power of time
you could ever want, and what would you do with it?
Speaker 3: Then?
Speaker 5: Would you bring us all back before everyone you lost
was gone? And then what kill all the creatures on
your world? Would you stop there? Would you continue? Would
you still want to meet your guts?
Speaker 3: With time undermined the mind, I could do anything.
Speaker 2: It isn't the question of want.
Speaker 3: But when I can't go bad forward.
Speaker 2: Mistakes could be undone, attendants could be remade. Tell me,
could there be anything more powerful than the ability to
be wanted until perfection, until the desired outcome?
Speaker 7: What desired outcome. We've had so much time to think
about it.
Speaker 1: What would you do?
Speaker 7: What do you want?
Speaker 6: What if you could never control such a power? However
you could bestow such a power? Earlier you mentioned death
and how much you wanted it before you turned hill
on the topic. We've seen your great capacity for restoration.
What is there more can you grant power? What if
I was to say the curer had the power to
control time? If you gave us such a power, would
you bestow it upon us to go back before you
became that which you are and finish you there?
Speaker 5: Then?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: Then what do you want?
Speaker 3: The poor? Servitude? Huh?
Speaker 4: That's an interesting word you used just now. Before you
kept saying things like company, how alone you were? It
seemed more of a friendship, I suppose, But servitude makes
more sense, right? What can you offer us but death?
There's nothing between us in this conversation. There's nothing that
we can give each other the only thing.
Speaker 8: No, no, h.
Speaker 4: In fact, I was foolish enough to think that perhaps
we could help you, But I don't think that is
our feet.
Speaker 1: He attempts to burrow into your mind.
Speaker 4: I would like to prevent him from doing so.
Speaker 1: If I can, There is, as you finished that sentence,
a spike that burrows into your senses, as if something
grabs at the sides of your head and starts to
try and crack it open and burrow in like an infestation.
Anyone can make me a contested check here, let me
roll to see what number you have to beat. I
guess he just needs to make a a check of sorts.
Let's see how this works out for him. You've got
to beat a twenty three who would like to attend
to contest intelligence check. You can contest it with anything techniques,
but you know, whoever wants to contest this needs to
contest it with yeah, wisdom, intelligence or charisma.
Speaker 5: I'm contest I think. I think actually he's going to
have to try that again.
Speaker 1: You're making him reroll?
Speaker 5: Yes, holy shit, dude, Okay, I mean I feel this
happening right, We're connected? Do I know it's going on?
Speaker 4: Sorry, I cannot describe the level of honus it is
to have that conversation about time and then to just
be like, reroll your move.
Speaker 7: Just show him that you can do it and hope
he doesn't know.
Speaker 5: If I feel like if he burrows into her mind,
we're done.
Speaker 4: So okay, my mind is like cool and chill, dude,
for good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, here goes another row.
Speaker 5: It's twenty three. That's twenty that's funny. I'm all right,
well help a little good life.
Speaker 4: What is okay?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 4: What is your intelligence? Uh modifier?
Speaker 1: It's a plast five okay.
Speaker 4: My wisdom is a plus five. Okay. So I'm I'm
I'm gonna roll. I'm gonna roll my wisdom okay, and
hold my hand everyone, and we're gonna get through this.
That's gonna be fine. And with any luck, I'm gonna
just body this dude right now. Oh my god. It
literally couldn't have been worse. I mean, it could have
been worse, I guess, But oh my.
Speaker 1: God, could you roll that? Or is it? Once per turns?
Speaker 3: You could?
Speaker 5: I see what the limits are. I don't think I
don't think I would give it to give it the
one I'm done.
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: There's there's a horrible sensation as he burrows into your mind.
Here you feel him moving through your memories. This is
a horrible and invasive sensation. And again it feels like
an infestation, like little bugs are pouring through your memories,
through your feelings through your understanding of the world, and
you feel them seeking out a particular piece of information.
But they're tearing up, you know, the library of your memories,
just ripping books off the shelves, ripping up papers, throwing
things behind them. As these as modrial moves through your thoughts,
give me a memory something, he.
Speaker 4: Says, Ooh, he sees me walking alone through a land
that I don't know, and I am broken. I'm covered
in dirt and there's streaks clearing the dirt on my
face from where I've cried.
Speaker 3: But it's like.
Speaker 4: So long ago now I can't really remember when that was.
And I'm my feet are beyond pain. Everything is beyond pain.
Speaker 1: I just know that I.
Speaker 4: Am walking somewhere, but I don't know where yet. The
pull and I'm very hot. Maybe this is desert? Was
it desert? You can no longer recall.
Speaker 1: A hand takes yours in this memory, and there's a
sensation of relief from your feet and the heat of
this landscape. The yea that is standing next to you
is large, dark, kind of shadowed, the sun behind them. Perhaps,
and the figure says, dumb child, this is not the memory.
Walk with me to another he leads you to a
different memory. What is this new place, this new memory?
Speaker 4: Frigid cold, frigid cold. I've just been left on and
I see peer with instructions of where to go. I
just have to walk forward in that direction and then
I'll be done, and then I can rest.
Speaker 1: Maybe you are tired, Yes, you're struggle with peace?
Speaker 11: Hm rest, Yes, I know your pain. Will you share mine?
And I will share yours.
Speaker 4: I don't deserve it.
Speaker 1: Rest.
Speaker 4: I don't deserve it. I cannot share it. I must
carry it alone. And if you know it, if you
know my pain, then you know that you have to
carry yours as well. Beasts like us don't deserve it.
Speaker 1: Walk with me.
Speaker 3: Your hand.
Speaker 1: Why does it feel this way? You have a connection
like no others.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Maybe I'm useful.
Speaker 1: How did you learn this.
Speaker 3: Hour?
Speaker 1: I asked for it, Joe me.
Speaker 4: I lowered to the ground on my knees, and I
lower my forehead to the earth, and I yearn violently, yearn.
Speaker 1: And hope. I'm seeing the shadowy form behind you is
watching you as you lean to the ground. Red eyes
appear in this smoke of a sort of humanoid figure.
The arms and hands are too long. One of them
reaches out and though they seem to be sort of
impossibly far away, it reaches and touches your back. A
memory around you. Would you would you like it to
manifest a memory of you being sort of shown how
to communicate with Woriol or the time when you put
your hand in the manipole in the wheel in the tower.
Which one would you like to sort of display.
Speaker 4: Here communicating with Woriol? And like, the more humble the version,
the better. And I don't mean humble, you know, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I think maybe the mountain the ice lake
rom me a deception check.
Speaker 4: Then, Oh, I don't think I'm being deceptive.
Speaker 1: I oh, if not, you can just show the wheel.
Speaker 4: No, I mean, like I genuinely believe, but that's where
I got this power.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, but it's not what he's seeking.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but he's asking me where I got that power,
and I'm telling him where I got that power.
Speaker 1: You think that's what you're telling him, Yeah, but it's
not what he's looking for. Okay, deception, Yeah, good luck
to me. Three The wheel manifests about you. He looks
around this memory of you with your hand in this
wheel of children and sea kind of jumping down from
up in the rafters and of Thrack pushing the wheel.
He says.
Speaker 2: The orc.
Speaker 1: Is he all that he seems, all that he presents?
Or is he more? How can he have such power?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: What do you suspect if about Rack?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm gonna be honest with you. He's a wizard.
I know that he gains his power from the weave
and magic, but I think he is divinely chosen. If
he has that power, it's because it was given to
him divinely.
Speaker 1: So he is what he was made to be, what
he was made to be. The figure answers these thoughts,
even if they weren't surface thoughts. Yeah, no, he is
not divinely chosen. Tell me does he command time?
Speaker 4: Can I can I roll to see if I'm so
like I've been lost in these memories like I've been
reliving them? Ah? Can I roll to see if I
can become aware of who I'm speaking to and what's happening?
Or am I just completely am like still stuck in it?
Speaker 1: You can? You can? You can only really attempt to
lie to him?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 1: Kind of?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: You're you can be away to a degree, it's difficult
because he's in there, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, when
you're your own brain, you know, yeah, You're like, no,
I feel fine.
Speaker 5: So good.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry. What what did you ask me again?
Speaker 1: Whether he controls time, command's time? No, I mean that's
a deception check.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Can I do I know what's going on here?
Or is this all happening in a second?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you know what's going on here?
I'm sorry, he's in seventeen seventeen. Let's see what old
mortis got going on. Let's see if I can beat
at seventeen a ten? He says, what is this place?
What is happening here?
Speaker 4: This is starts? Oh, where he studies? He is an apprentice.
Speaker 1: There is a greater wizard than he.
Speaker 4: No, and even though I'm lying, I mean it. Yeah, okay, cool.
Speaker 1: There's something here, I know it. What are you hiding
from me?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: As you can see, I had nothing.
Speaker 1: Where is this place?
Speaker 4: I would like to recall one of the locations of
one of the towers.
Speaker 1: Okay, which one?
Speaker 4: If I'm trying to remember, there was a place that,
I mean, there there was a list one that is
already dead. So a place that's already dead and maybe
not definitely not the one that we're currently at, not
the one that's in the House of Knowledge, and not
the one that is by Moon. So any of the others.
Speaker 1: Okay, I remember which ones I gave you, guys. I
know we had it in our group chat.
Speaker 5: Is the one that's up in the snow and we
were doing that snow game. Is the wine that's like
there's one that's really fah.
Speaker 4: There's one in the Learning and Kingdom. There's one right
by the Learning and Kingdom. Right, yes, I say, I
think that one.
Speaker 1: Give me a deception check. I know that you're telling
the truth, but you're also concealing the fact that they're everywhere.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you have rolls natural one which is zero,
so she has nothing to hide, right zero? Sorry, guys,
I think I really tried the information this tower, Yeah,
you're trying to hide in say, oh, it's only in
the Learning Kingdom. But like something about the location, you know, manifests.
You know, it might be that it would appear like
a map of the world and that all of these
towers appear. It might just be a sensation. It might
be that the locations of the that you can see
through the windows above you in this tower shift and
change constantly. You see the red eyes in this sort
of dark figure, wisping of smoke, a kind of dart
around as if seeing more than what is present here.
And he says, no, you do not command time. It's position.
Speaker 5: Space.
Speaker 11: That is your secret, smart So that's how you've been
doing it, to think I thought you had surpassed me, mortal.
Speaker 5: Back out.
Speaker 4: WHOA, Okay, do I remember everything that just happened?
Speaker 1: Absolutely? Uh, the spell is cast Thrack. You're aware that
he casts a spell. I guess he almost like mind melds.
In fact, all four of you would probably be aware
that he has done something here to Cyrus. You get
the sensation there's maybe even a moment where Cyrus's head
knocks back, the dragon blinks for a second, and then
he recognized that he's cast a spell on Cyrus for
want of a better word, when the and it's a
moment that passes before he comes back. Cyrus returns, and
you recognize that he did some sort of spell where
he sort of psychically sought information and pulled it from
Cyrus's mind, He says, what you wouldn't.
Speaker 3: I?
Speaker 5: Yeah, go ahead?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, go yeah, you go Okay.
Speaker 5: I would like to at this time reach out through
our connection, hearing this plane for our connection as curer,
I would like to do something incredible and with the
permission of my three companions, I would like to take
some power from them to enable myself to do four
things at once.
Speaker 7: Hell yeah, I mean now you asking us, If you're
asking me, Cary.
Speaker 5: I am asking you through the connection. I'm saying we
have to stop him. Now you have to trust me,
lend me your power through our connection, and I will
stop him with the most confidence you've ever heard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I just like, immediately whatever. If I can just
send power, I'm sending it immediately. It is not even
a hesitation to be found. Boom, Yes, take it.
Speaker 6: The gate is open. It's what I was trying to
do in the first place with my key. So the
second I feel him trying to draw anything from me,
it goes willingly. And if that is in terms of
key or anything else that he wants from me that
I can provide them, then that is what I can do.
The addition of, of course, I've been trying to use
this line to help facilitate everyone as well towards where
it needs to go.
Speaker 8: Like a phone operator, there is a hesitation, but I
think you would know that it's not.
Speaker 7: And it's not me trying to decline it.
Speaker 8: It's me wondering if I have the ability to give
you that power because of where it came from to
begin with. So I would try to, but I don't
know if it would work, and even then it would
be But I suppose I'm not.
Speaker 7: You're sinking right now.
Speaker 1: I didn't sound my permission to me.
Speaker 8: I suppose it's more I'm not going to stop it
from happening.
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, what are you trying to do.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to use four actions simultaneously. I'm trying to
use their three in my own at the same time. Okay,
I will yeah that first of all, make me a check. Okay,
a mind check, just the straight intelligence check.
Speaker 6: Then okay, yeah, any argument for advance because all you're
helping him?
Speaker 1: No, you're lucky at I mean you make four checks,
I think.
Speaker 5: Okay, it's a thirteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what are you What are you trying to do?
Speaker 5: Like I said, I'm trying to do four actions at once.
Speaker 1: It needs to be a very simple thing, and you're
doing a very complex thing, so it's probably a fact.
But is it well?
Speaker 5: Is it a fail?
Speaker 1: Though? Let's find out an eight thing that's a little
better of My god, what are you trying to do?
Speaker 5: Well? I can describe it for you. Give me what
are you doing? So if I succeed? What would happen?
Is playing shifts and suddenly we're with yielding as she
is walking through the woods and a creature comes before her,
and she shifts into a bear and she slashes down
with a bear with a bear paw onto this creature.
But it's not a creature. It is a ethereal cord
tot in this realm. And then it shifts, and all
of a sudden, the image is Maya is a sea
who is using his staff bringing it down upon an enemy.
And then it shifts and it's Cerus on a field
of battle using her sword slash across an enemy. And
then it shifts again and it's Struck leaping through the
air in the planes bringing down an axe. All of
them have elements of fire to them. Sears, eyes are flaming.
Jilden's claw is flaming. Cirrus's horns are flaming, and thrax
acts is flaming as I cast four fireballs simultaneously directly
at the connection that Maudrel has to this realm.
Speaker 1: Okay, does anyone have any inspirations.
Speaker 6: Unless I can use this connection again to let him
have advantage? But I think you gave him one, right,
so no, I can't give him anything.
Speaker 1: I don't have anything. Okay, I don't think inspiration.
Speaker 6: I think I have negative inspiration for one thing another
campaign anyway.
Speaker 4: Okay, but like I am a piece cleric with the
ability to create an emboldening bond.
Speaker 1: Or you can't be doing that right now? He's using
your action, okay, you okay. Moudrill will attempt to contest this.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 1: He's going to try and make a mind spell of
his own to try and essentially dispel your ability to
pull three extra actions. And so he simply has to
beat an eighteen. Here, yets an eighteen?
Speaker 5: You're kidding me? You get one fireball, so I get
my own, or I get my own.
Speaker 1: Plus one, you get your own. He you needed to
beat a and just because it was so well done
and well timed, you needed to beat a twenty to
really do this in the first place. On top of that,
Maudrial witnesses you begin to coalesce energy, begin to prepare
to do this thing. He witnesses you interfacing in some
way with your other party members. He recognizes it may
only have been a fraction of a moment, but he
is ancient. He recognizes a shift, a change in some way.
He recognizes you interface with the astral sea, and he
immediately uses his own energy to contest what is happening here.
This is his reaction, and he attempts to disrupt your
spell successfully. However, if you want, you can let off
that one fire ball at his life string.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, okay, I'll do it. So these images sort
of studder out of existence, and instead you see Thrack
alone on the planes bringing down his axe on fire.
And since we are on the actual plane, this is
slashing damage enhanced magically by fire. Okay, because we're trying
to slash this.
Speaker 3: This cord.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's cast that fourth level, So that's ninety
six fire damage. Can I make the argument that cords
can't dodge you absolutely can.
Speaker 1: There are rules to the string, Okay, they are objects,
they have object rules. Which means they have an AC,
they have a HP, and they also have a damage threshold,
which means you have to do a certain amount of
damage to even do damage to them. This guy is
not just for his but for yours as well. Okay,
so it can't dodge, so you will just outright do
damage here?
Speaker 5: Not the best role twenty five damage?
Speaker 1: Do you want to do? You anything else to try?
Speaker 3: And?
Speaker 5: Yeah, if I have the ability, I'd like to use time.
I know this seems unfair since I've used on my
slots on my time bullshit, But we are on the
astral plane right, We're in the we're in nowhere. I'd
like to see if I can forego doing that damage
and we can just go back to before I attempted
this at all?
Speaker 1: Nah, too much? Okay done? There's nothing else I can
use your action for the mind check. You've used your
You've got kind of an extra action in that you
were trying to do the fireball anyway.
Speaker 5: You know what can I What about the bracelet? The
bracelet is that here.
Speaker 1: Here? I don't see why it isn't.
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, who's wearing it?
Speaker 1: Not a single one? Am I the only one wearing it.
Speaker 4: I think you're the only one wearing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, great, here we go again.
Speaker 5: Can I can I use it to try again? It
gives me an extra action? Yeah? I don't know what
was the rule?
Speaker 1: Yours is the angelic bangle of vole.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I can take one level of exhaustion for
getting an extra action, or I can do the spouse
for four levels of exhaustion.
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you simply exchange a level of exhaustion. It
doesn't cost you an action to or like a bonus
action or reaction or anything you activated by at any time. Yeah,
and immediately gain an additional action and suffer a level
of exhaustion. Yeah, it's a Sandeferstein.
Speaker 5: So can I do that to try this again?
Speaker 1: You can do it to do another fireball?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Noo the fireball Okay, then uh, that's I thought.
My god, man, that was my big idea. That's failed.
Speaker 1: I'll move This fireball launches towards Modrill. I think the
rest of you three recognize him trying to do something.
He begins to build up this fireball. His staff comes out.
The fire begins to coalesce, and this huge amount of
fire builds at first, and then it sputters out as
just a single fireball as opposed to the four that
would have been being launched here or whatever you're trying
to do as your four actions. This energy coalesces at
the end of the staff and launches outwards more Drill's
wings kind of slow mo here, probably as he turns
his head slightly, the fireball launching past and striking that umbilicus,
this cord that is stretching out from behind him and
silver like yours. It's thick and black and sort of
covered in scales, almost looks like iron or stone. As
it runs away from him, the fireball strikes it, you
see it kind of just not only does it explode
and kind of light part of Modreal's horrific face up,
but you see it blow away some of the inky
defenses that is on that thing, the magical fire burning
through this kind of rope that is floating behind him,
the ink launched off of this thing, and the fire dissipating.
You recognize that you've done twenty five damage to this thing.
You needed to do fifty.
Speaker 5: It's thirty damage. I missed the bonus five. But yeah, okay,
do we have to chew into these bracelets?
Speaker 6: Yes, what was it something?
Speaker 5: It's so I had to do to wait, I recognize
that in this moment that I only have to do
that much more.
Speaker 1: No, No, that was just now. That's why I was like,
are you sure there's nothing else you want to do?
Speaker 5: Do you want to try to.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'm trying to remember, desperately trying to remember if
I kept going on, because I remember putting it on
at one point.
Speaker 1: I find that I'm going to go with your instincts here,
because you're in mind palace that the three of you
suggested that you didn't have them on, and he suggested
that he did. That's how it is.
Speaker 4: Okay, thank you, hm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 5: Clearly that's a surprise town, right because.
Speaker 1: No, okay, uh okay Moudrilla, Yeah, okay, how far away
from him?
Speaker 5: I I moved as well? Should I move back?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: You can move? You start running? What are you doing?
Speaker 5: I I imagine that I'm attacking the cord up here?
We we we decided that his cord is moving north
and ours is moving south.
Speaker 1: All right, he has legendary actions. He's going to use
one here who is within thirty feet of him.
Speaker 5: That's probably everybody, you not quite mean all right.
Speaker 1: Let's see here, another one of those sort of psychic
pulses is let off from him as he opens his wings,
and this huge release of energy, this burst of energy
just launches out from him. His eyes say fixed on Thrack,
and he deals seventeen psychic damage to the life strings
of Jilden, Cyrus and Sear. Your life strings have an
AC of eleven, a HP of eight, and a damaged
threshold of four. And I very surreptitiously tried to tell
you that you can reinforce them. At the beginning of
the thing. The three of you, you see the strings snap.
It breaks the string between Thrack and Seer. The three
of you fuel your connection to your mortal forms severed.
The dragon is watching you, Thrack with those red eyes.
Back at the tower, we see Wriggle moving around in
this red grass kind of sniffing at Sea. When Sea's
body collapses, Children's body rolls over to one side and
Cyrus falls forward, the color draining out of their faces.
Wriggle suddenly rushes over to the three fallen. Thra's form
remains sitting as we follow that silver line back down
towards thrack again. The three of you are still here,
still present, but you've been severed from your mortal forms,
and Audrelle says, and that is where we're ending today's session.
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