Speaker 1: I sniped it, you son of a bitch.
Speaker 2: It was a little loud, and then I got it
as it was starting up. Luckily, Okay, I know that
I made At one point, I was like, we should
make a point of not talking about it every time.
But this one, the old one used to just start.
It was just like fucking bear bear. This one, it
like has a little heart build up. So well it's
building up. I could be like, no, you don't get
practice sneaky. Yeah, I'm pretty sneaky about this stupid thing.
Speaker 1: But the fact that you had to turn it down,
I was right.
Speaker 3: It was loud.
Speaker 2: It was louder than I wanted it to be.
Speaker 4: Yes, correct, that's right?
Speaker 2: All right, Hello, everybody, welcome back to that nineteen Gilligan's
Grave session thirty nine. We missed a week because I
was feeling no good. I was not doing a good
and it actually lasted pretty much right up until like
two days ago, so it stuck with me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one, I'm glad that you're feeling better. To do
you think that we'll have thirty more sessions?
Speaker 2: Why? What's what is relevant about thirty nine plus thirty?
Speaker 1: I'm just curious.
Speaker 5: Nice explain?
Speaker 1: I can do math, Guys, I can do math.
Speaker 6: We can stop making fun.
Speaker 1: Of you for not doing math. I did it.
Speaker 2: When were we making fun of me?
Speaker 1: When forever ago, when I was like, oh god in math,
and Spencer turned around and was like, that's addition, of course,
fucking Spencer a bottle. It makes fun of everybody for
an audition is math? Hey, that's your Beyonce? Oh dude,
I know I love him so much.
Speaker 2: Well, Brandon sends you can math. Can you explain to
me what will be funny about thirty nine plus thirty?
I'm at a loss. I don't get it, so I'm
gonna need you to fill me in.
Speaker 3: See, there's this beautiful thing called mutual filatio.
Speaker 1: Thank you justice.
Speaker 2: All right? Uh but Bill, there's not really a lot
for me too. Sorry what wait?
Speaker 7: Mutual filatio's gay?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Something wrong with that, Anna, Yeah, the other one. There's
there's two.
Speaker 3: There's two, two types.
Speaker 7: It's not just mutual filatio. That's wrong.
Speaker 8: It's one of the mini's absolutely right.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's not the old truth.
Speaker 3: I got to be not the only there are many truth?
Speaker 9: Is there is there only one truth you're trying to propagate, Carrie.
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think this topic has anything
to do with propagating.
Speaker 1: How comes like flacio or like propagat How come dick
sucking gets filatio? Is there anything going down on them?
Their mutual cut there you go be.
Speaker 4: Far away for this.
Speaker 3: We get it.
Speaker 2: You have cats.
Speaker 1: The energy the table is wonderful today. Let's know the
energy is great. Send me back to the er.
Speaker 3: I dare you.
Speaker 4: They don't want me anything so unnoticed. I'm leaving to
get my taco battle.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Announcements, announcements. Now the moment has arrived for announcing. This
is one of the last two streams where we will
be heck in still doing the dead s record stuff.
That book is set to be finished in about two weeks.
I don't know exactly when it's going to go up
on drive through OURPG because I kind of want to
wait until I can get the physical version and the
digital up at the same time, so people can choose
to do the bundle with the PDF and the physical
version if they want to, and not have to do
them separately. But more on that later. The point being
that today is one of the last days that you
can donate for that. You guys know the rules. I've
explained them before, and next game, which is the thirty first,
will be the actual last one. So if you want
to add stuff to that, then go ahead and get
that done. Probably next game we'll start talking about what
the next book is going to be, also in advance.
Because we took last week off, we are not going
to be taking the seventh off next month, so we're
just gonna keep on having Saturday games right up until
the fifth of July. So buckle in, buckeroose.
Speaker 1: Logan, I'm gonna be going to a con in July.
Maybe we'll talk.
Speaker 2: This is gonna be on the fifth of July.
Speaker 10: I don't think.
Speaker 2: Well then, well, the fifth of July is when we're well,
the point is we're playing all through next month. That's
the point.
Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm sorry, We're sorry.
Speaker 2: How many South Park references can I slam into this?
I already did buckle up buckeroos? Remember when that happened?
Speaker 1: Okay, whatever, what are you saying, Branden?
Speaker 11: Nothing?
Speaker 1: You keep doing your thing?
Speaker 3: What are you saying?
Speaker 1: Just fluttering to myself?
Speaker 2: Here's here's the microphone seeing one crowd. Crowd want to say.
Speaker 1: Self Park jokes right in books? Gingers a, Haha, you
should beat them moon mic drop.
Speaker 4: Those expensive that would be a hit joke in like
two thousand and eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they were hitting the jokes, Yeah they were.
Speaker 4: So I just got jump scared by our delivery guy.
But they thought he I thought he had left already.
So I was walking on the stairs and it's just
casually like whenever. When I grabbed the door, as I
opened it, he was just like point blank right there
with the food, like already handing it to me. Level
He's like, Hi, how's your day going? It was like god, Hi,
And then he turned around early fast and just laugh.
Speaker 2: Have a fucking Dwight shrewd fucking like self defense chopped
him in the throat.
Speaker 4: Have a good day.
Speaker 12: Holy Aaron, did you get a crunch Trap Supreme from
Taco bo I?
Speaker 3: Did good?
Speaker 1: Your correct correct order? Yes, I'm so proud.
Speaker 2: Of you already. But anyway, dead say record. You guys
can donate to that zych Alta's excellenter collection. The late
Pledge stuff has ended for that, but for the time being,
you can still go to the UH pre order store
for that if you want to get more stuff related
to it or whatnot. Also on drive THROPG, I released
a fuck ton of of decks, card decks, dex. Why
can't I say, I'll keep on to say dix.
Speaker 3: A bunch of card decks?
Speaker 2: You can uh the route? What would be the best
way to describe these? They're just general aids for subclass
stuff and for resource counters, like cards that say action surge.
If you flip them over, they say action surge spent
at the table, so you can like use them to
keep track of stuff. Also, one of them has just
spell slots, just a whole metric fucked ton of spell
slot cards that you can use. A hole, just a hole,
just get a box inside. There's a hole. Here's the
fun fire about it though. It's like a build it
yourself thing. The hole's not there until you open the
card box. Oh you make the hole yourself. Oh my god,
it's a build a hole.
Speaker 1: You get the cleric. If you get the cleric what
it has funris on it.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 1: I can't get I'm fucking ah okay, yeah, I well
I didn't know until the product photos were h posted
and I like hit the floor. Oh I concerned the
people around me. I was like, my baby, I'm good, Okay,
that's really cute.
Speaker 2: It's whatever, so buy them.
Speaker 1: I don't have any feelings about it.
Speaker 2: If you are having trouble finding them on drive through RPG,
if you go to the Lyra's Guide to Rettia page
and then you scroll down, there are pictures of all
the decks that you can click on and they'll take
you to their pages. Also two decks that are spell cards.
I would have made it one deck, but they don't
like it when you make decks that are over to
a hundred and fifty cards, so I didn't.
Speaker 3: I don't like you any too big. Thing's too big.
Speaker 2: Gotta down size it can deliver it. You can't find
a packet big enough to wrap it in.
Speaker 1: Damn.
Speaker 2: There's the decks are magic joke in there somewhere somewhere.
Speaker 1: You just have to remember every song.
Speaker 3: If you want.
Speaker 4: The Schaefer is New Zealand.
Speaker 13: So all right, but we're gonna get to today's game,
and I'm gonna have one person described to me what
happened last time.
Speaker 2: And I bet I know who that person's gonna be.
I have a strong inclination that I know. But you
know what, before I do that? Tired of this music?
Speaker 1: Seed to play Pamois whoever it is union.
Speaker 2: You say that, but people like leave you out to
fucking dry.
Speaker 1: So often they never do. Anna and Braden always have
my back.
Speaker 2: You maybe remember the time things have gone well. I've
remembered sometimes where everyone's allowed others to flounder. When you
find it funny when people flounder, you let them flounder.
I've seen you do it.
Speaker 1: That's fair.
Speaker 4: Comedian's worst weakness.
Speaker 2: It's Anna, Anna. What happened last time? Uh?
Speaker 7: I remember?
Speaker 12: Ok, you to have your back Anna, like you always
have mine. The only thing I remember is kath was trying.
Speaker 1: To cat himself.
Speaker 14: I had that, and then we had and then we
had a battle.
Speaker 7: Yeah, there you go, you.
Speaker 2: Did it?
Speaker 1: Tell us we wrong?
Speaker 7: God left and we had a battle.
Speaker 4: There you go, did there go?
Speaker 2: So what happened was thank you.
Speaker 8: We're short rested to recover from the moon. Theis fighting
and Lily is considering using the fucking bunny. I thought
I was going to do that. We lay back to
the fan that we're alive and we're laying low, get
back to the grave and trek back to the town.
Speaker 3: We're going to do that. Cathos try to kill himself.
Speaker 8: Cathos is like I'm gonna try that shit, and then
we gotta go out. We go and camp hastily abandoned
everybody on our way up.
Speaker 3: It's hastily abandons UNDERTOW and.
Speaker 8: BBT And we got to get up in that fight
with these crystalline monster guys that have been actually our guys,
but they're dead, so we murder them cold blood, no
fucking mercy.
Speaker 3: And that's what I remember, not.
Speaker 1: A single drop of warm blood anywhere.
Speaker 2: Only my notes just say, ah, guys, zomb guys, our guys.
Speaker 4: Dead guys.
Speaker 3: Yep. So that's what we did. That's what my notes said.
Speaker 2: Alrighty, that's functional, that's that's correct. That was good, Thank
you justice m hm hm yep. Last time you guys
proceeded back from the Terrist fight, you proceeded up. You
guys took a quick rest. You uh encountered some people
who have been afflicted with amnosis, but they are further
along and further corrupted than the ones that you had
encountered beforehand. Also, the mists, the mists are further up
in the pits than they previously were. One of them said,
a creepy thing was There was a short about it.
It was like children.
Speaker 3: All right, now.
Speaker 2: You are all bothered.
Speaker 1: I am I.
Speaker 15: Ahier baller Ball.
Speaker 1: Said, well, I just said you really slayed with that one.
You did that you were eating? Oh, thanks to keep
the weak energy. Speaking of what.
Speaker 3: Logan, Yes, I.
Speaker 1: Made myself up your bingo.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't get to mark that. No bingos for
you fuckers, No fund zone.
Speaker 1: And Bread won't get bullied today. This is gonna good.
Great books alone already checked off. Bread getting bullied, that's
already happened. I don't think I have logan gut on
on my bingo card. I just want to check a
feweral No, I don't.
Speaker 2: It's thanks for your concern, which was a thinly veiled
excuse for you to yell at me if I hadn't eaten. Yeah,
all right, everybody, You guys finished your encounter with the
amniatic soldiers that you would thought before the undertow who
had fled the town and had regrouped, and well regrouping,
had been inflicted with amnus as to such a degree
that their bodies themselves started to morph and shift and
take on a crystalline a crystalline appearance that is not
unlike but not exactly like the mess site animations that
you encountered before, but that we might as well pick
up exactly where we left off with like the end
of that encounter. You guys have the stage, you got
the floor. Here, you go, take it, do what you
want with it. Go ahead.
Speaker 1: Well, they're all not worse for wear at in that.
Oh boy, headache?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I got a headache. Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: How is everyone else doing?
Speaker 14: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Second, and have a drink about water?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Out of character?
Speaker 12: Is anyone affected by any street that I need to
fucking I think that's them?
Speaker 7: No, I think I think.
Speaker 9: I think Gallory helped Lilia with that, So I think
Lilia is okay, not I tiny child.
Speaker 4: Gured my omniasis, but my wisdom is still reduced. That's
I'm drinking my water.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then that's the same thing. Yeah, okay, it's gone.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're not affected by anything that I can get
rid of.
Speaker 3: No, this is just normal migraine ship Okay, Okay.
Speaker 1: I can't believe I'm the one to remind everyone, but
please fucking hadrate.
Speaker 8: Yea.
Speaker 4: Oh, we gotta keep like some of the magic water around.
Speaker 1: Spur very true. Mm hmmm.
Speaker 4: If you're rationing it way you can fix things when
stuff goes tits up.
Speaker 1: Ha drate with good as down. Uh. Everyone has to
make sure sorry.
Speaker 3: No, no, what what?
Speaker 1: Take SIPs of your work? Maybe not hadrate all the way, but.
Speaker 12: Does When you guys are looking like a little hurt,
do you do you want you for a minute or.
Speaker 8: Do you you know if you had the ability and
it won't be painful for you, I would love just
a little bit of health.
Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, let's fucking go, my man, just.
Speaker 8: A ten sy wings it bit a little bit of health.
Oh I'm just at nineteen out of seventy.
Speaker 1: It's fun.
Speaker 3: You play.
Speaker 1: You play a little for our friends, a little love
song and dance. You do that a little dance. I'm
just an expenser. I don't have my harmonica.
Speaker 12: Oh no, my heels are gonna be ass well.
Speaker 1: I make mouth noises?
Speaker 2: Do you have Do you have your comical sen.
Speaker 6: He amazing?
Speaker 1: You're doing amazing. Sweet.
Speaker 8: I'll look at it out of nowhere and you're like,
what the hell did you make that noise?
Speaker 3: I didn't know you had a keyboard.
Speaker 1: Okay, do I have my Yeah? I do, Okay, I
have to with bosels. Okay, that little dance smooth La.
They love when you do that little jig. Mmmm. Bust
it down, Laurie, bust it down.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can understand.
Speaker 12: Okay, I'm gonna let's see if this will help you
fucking better.
Speaker 8: Help you.
Speaker 12: Come on, Laurie, come on, baby girl, little high for
scaring Okay.
Speaker 3: You, I'm not totally dying now, be.
Speaker 1: Barrel get them bagel. Yeah, and that a little butter
barrel over.
Speaker 3: It doesn't.
Speaker 1: And I was just co did I do this card again? Nod?
Speaker 4: Good?
Speaker 1: No, that was okay, good making.
Speaker 4: Sure I don't need to sit down anymore.
Speaker 1: You guys are welcome. Pretty great.
Speaker 3: Thanks Bud.
Speaker 12: When I can't you when I can't find my harmonica,
apparently I just gotta go better.
Speaker 3: The power of perform.
Speaker 1: You're getting good, kid, It's true.
Speaker 11: Thanks?
Speaker 1: Wait was I not good before? No, I'm just saying
your lack really growing as.
Speaker 3: An art movement doesn't mean you were bad before.
Speaker 1: I mean does okay, but no, I get I get that.
I get it.
Speaker 12: Like like, but if she said you were getting better,
but she said you're getting good like I wasn't good before?
Speaker 14: It's what?
Speaker 1: Thank you for what I meant?
Speaker 14: Thank you?
Speaker 7: Thank you for the government.
Speaker 1: No, thank you, I get thank you down.
Speaker 3: M m yeah it was.
Speaker 1: I saw. Okay, does everybody feel okay?
Speaker 2: Good enough to go?
Speaker 1: Julia Pepper Bagel?
Speaker 7: You guys feeling okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 14: Oh, Bagel's fine anything, Bagels a champion, It's true.
Speaker 2: Bagels in a circle. Leona said nothing, she does nothing?
Speaker 1: How does she look catatonic?
Speaker 4: Literally catatonic?
Speaker 12: They look like levels of blood coming out of her body?
Speaker 2: Wise they were not touched or they were just on
topic of top of bagel.
Speaker 1: Okay, good, Google Google good.
Speaker 2: They're on tap of bagel. I can't talk today. They're
on alcohada scary.
Speaker 12: Maybe you won't have scary mogs today, logan, No you think.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I probably won't have to do anything. One second's
gonna warm up for an unrelated thing.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's your warm up.
Speaker 2: It depends what I'm warming up for.
Speaker 1: Oh this okay?
Speaker 2: What do we do?
Speaker 1: Where do we go? Uhh WHI which direction?
Speaker 2: Mm hmm?
Speaker 1: Looks at Desmond uh left or right? Head tilts to
scarn the navigators. All right, I guess all right, they
know where to go. We're good, We're good, LORI they
know where to go.
Speaker 2: I know how to go.
Speaker 3: Let's do this, let's let's hit this role.
Speaker 2: God, you guys, you guys are seeding to try to
go on your way all right, let.
Speaker 9: Me get your roles left along the way.
Speaker 1: It's true, baby, would you get.
Speaker 2: So Scarn is once again leading the survival check to
try to find your way back A yeah, okay, so
leading check, but Scarn, don't click it yet. If you
do get it, who's all participating in the attempts one will?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: I feel like going on Pepper and Laurie's like playing
a tune and Pepper's like busting it down, strike Land style,
strike luck.
Speaker 2: Yes, all right, here's the survival check. Do not click
it immediately, please scarn. Also, those who should have advantage,
which I believe is all three of you, please click
advantage whenever you're doing it.
Speaker 9: Boom fifteen for twenty one on Lilia.
Speaker 2: Hell y, all right, so that's both of those are successes.
Please add a plus two to your role, Scarn, and
then make your role.
Speaker 14: Got that you wal Lily is gonna check on Leona?
Speaker 2: Ye you should have had advantage.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, I said plus two. I put the press,
toss the button. You can't even stop me.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna you should have had advantage, so we're gonna
do it again.
Speaker 3: But button doesn't be anything.
Speaker 2: I guess I think you have to click it before
I send it.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I pushed the advantage. Do you want
the plus two on?
Speaker 9: There?
Speaker 2: No advantage this time because this one's just gonna account
for the second role. Plus two again, plus two again.
Don't get another one.
Speaker 1: They hate me today, maybe didn't.
Speaker 2: You guys are like navigating, all right, Scar lead the way,
we'll help to navigate, and Scards like you got it? Okay,
insert like Indiana Jones music in the background of a montage.
Fuck are you guys pressing through mushroom forest, jumping across
the cliff, entering into a place?
Speaker 3: Scards just like? And we did it.
Speaker 2: We're back at Tomoy's shrine. Wait, hold on, Scott, Yeah no,
I realized what I did as soon as I said it.
Speaker 3: I don't don't. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, So that is a twenty that is well over
what you guys needed to get. So with that, well,
I'm going to check the date. You guys spend the
rest of the day traveling, noting that you had already
spent some of the day traveling today, So why don't
we say that accounts for the tomorrow traveling since it
looks like you guys were at the end of the
travel day according to the time I'm going to actually
long rest us.
Speaker 4: Spend, we would have just ran off from the original
fight site and found us about to rest.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the next day, you guys do so good at traveling.
You travel so well. You follow the marks left by Lilia.
You use your BBTA and undertow skills to find your.
Speaker 1: Way up, and you find Pepper and Laurier are.
Speaker 2: There, and you guys are present, and Bagel is Bagel.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: As you guys proceed forward, you eventually come to a
path that leads you to the river the runs out
of the town. Realizing that you are now close to it,
you guys follow it, and you find yourself once again
coming back to the pits, emerging in the same area
that you left from the Deep River pit, with the
exception that as you guys get close to it, that
misst that swirling wispy white mist that had been present
here before is thick enough that you can only see
about ten fifteen feet ahead of you. Whenever you're in
this section, previously it was here, but when you were
here previously, it was very faint, faint enough that it
could have been mistaken for just missed coming off the river.
Now it's like it's a foggy European day but underground.
Speaker 3: God damn it European.
Speaker 12: Oh no, so it's it's gray gray.
Speaker 2: The color grating in the shots for today's episode are
very gray, except the blues have not been muted.
Speaker 1: The twilight.
Speaker 2: It's giving twilight. It is giving twilight, everybody. It's giving
twilight real quick.
Speaker 1: This is very important. Brainon the thing that I need
you to know.
Speaker 12: Chase informed me that the house, like the fucking bella
fucking house from Twilight went up for sale, and I
was like, yo, totally shit. Someone someone already bought it
and turned it into an Airbnb.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was like, honestly.
Speaker 2: Like print air.
Speaker 1: Oh sh For some reason, Pepper is is suddenly much Tanner,
totally Taylor Lautner. Taylor Latner will be playing Pepper today
and Pepper's lost her shirt.
Speaker 4: Apparently your shirt off.
Speaker 14: Naked, naked.
Speaker 1: I'm serious.
Speaker 4: Now, reality, we're.
Speaker 1: Very important for about the twilight. We're still giving twilight.
Filter though, yes, that colorists really pop, that.
Speaker 2: We're still giving twilight filter.
Speaker 14: I wait, you please ask for me back sometimes Vampire.
Speaker 4: Lily.
Speaker 3: So yeah, yes.
Speaker 1: That makes scarn Lilia. Where the hell have you been, Loca?
What I mean, what reality research?
Speaker 15: Oh my god, any reality reality, actual research.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have to cut through this somehow.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: This is just because we're here, and it's in the
front of my brain because we're here. That one place,
that house that was with all our heads. I mean,
if you were going to visit it and try and
figure out what it was doing. Seems like now's the time.
Speaker 1: There's a house that was measured with our heads.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's where Cathos learned how to funk with us.
Speaker 14: The trial stay came to mind, But I don't think
that was the one.
Speaker 4: No, it's one of the ones. Here. We all went inside,
started looking around, and we all went catatonic for a bit.
Speaker 14: Was it the Jericha.
Speaker 4: No, No, that's where we got attack. Now it's here
is the drafting creek.
Speaker 11: Draft and.
Speaker 1: Right in front of us. Yeah, let's go. I mean,
she's yeah, you're right, big mapp.
Speaker 4: Even like four days ago, how long it's been like
like five days over a week. No, because we got
lost with.
Speaker 2: You took you guys about four or five days to
get there, and then it took you guys like three
to get back. Did I mark that down? Did I
mark down when you dove the first time here? Hold on,
I don't think I did.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you're right. I think it's been a bit
over a week. Yeah, that's that's where he got the
idea to betray Ash when we got there, brother, he
probably already had the idea. But that's the the means
looking around in the creek, does it seem like there's
anyone still skulking around here? Because we didn't see a
ton of cult activity here in the first place, because
this place is already destroyed.
Speaker 2: Roll me an investigation check.
Speaker 4: And feel good at investigating.
Speaker 3: I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm a detective nine.
Speaker 1: Why the fuck is.
Speaker 12: Your investigation so low when you're fucking hop dude, I'm good.
Speaker 4: I'm a people personally. Oh no, I'm a people person.
Speaker 2: If I don't have to deal with people, I'm a
personality buyer.
Speaker 4: Damn, most are really good at shooting people.
Speaker 2: If I have there, it's because I'm so warm and approachable.
Looking around, you do locate the house that you've been
referring to. You find the the mostly destroyed house that
Scarn has had an adverse reaction to a couple of
times by now. But as you search around, you do
not locate any people, and there doesn't seem to be
any cult activity in this part of the pits.
Speaker 1: I wonder what was making y'all gloss over last time,
or the house is messing with y'all? Right? Can Pepper
get into the house and start doing what Pepper does?
Speaker 2: It's like old and destroyed, and the walls are barely there,
and there's like an underside of the house, and when
you go into it and there's basically not though is
the thing. It's pretty empty. This place looks like it
was once the victim of like a fire that didn't
destroy the whole thing, but it yea can left it
pretty desecrated. Assuming the whole group goes with you, though,
has Scarn approaches it, Scarn, you get an uneasy feeling
about it again. You get that same knock in your
stomach as you have every time you've seen this house
once again. Looking toward it, you get this brief flash
as if you are looking out from the underside of
the home, as if you were down underneath it looking out.
You see bright lights and yelling, and then it, whatever
this flash is, it goes away.
Speaker 3: What do I remember that house so badly?
Speaker 4: Lady screaming at you about this police being attacked before
and they were mistaking you for your father.
Speaker 8: Yeah, no, no, that I had a little bit more
personal country. This is like a childlike fear of like
the dark, like I shouldn't be there type of feeling.
I don't get it. I just don't like being here.
I can't particularly place it at all.
Speaker 1: It doesn't look like there's much here to figure out
or sniff out.
Speaker 3: Can I investigate anything anything? Is it worth it?
Speaker 2: Roll me an investigation check?
Speaker 4: All right?
Speaker 3: God?
Speaker 1: Can I aid him? Can I help him?
Speaker 4: Can I dramatically place your hand on a piece of
the burned wood.
Speaker 3: And yeah, that's what I'm looking for.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to like, given the context, and Robel probably
can't help Pepper.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Describe to me what helping would look like. You got
its card, like, go scarn, You're so smart, go scarn.
Speaker 4: What kind of mine star? I'd like to give you
help action.
Speaker 7: It's happened helping.
Speaker 3: Okay, know you got it.
Speaker 1: You gotta get rid of.
Speaker 2: Say for the people the audio.
Speaker 3: Saying it's a er kill these I'm killing. I'm gonna again,
and I'm gonna get.
Speaker 1: A long sense of flush.
Speaker 3: You gotta you see that last one that was playing
with me.
Speaker 1: I would, I would for real, no, absolutely real, crazy.
Speaker 2: Crazy sufficing.
Speaker 3: Suffices to say, yeah, I don't got ship.
Speaker 2: Put your hand on a piece of would and think about.
Speaker 3: You can reroll?
Speaker 8: What is that.
Speaker 16: I'm trying?
Speaker 4: You roll the one next to me, and I'm very lucky,
so reroll.
Speaker 3: I can do that because I made you do it. Yes,
going for this time, I'll investigate.
Speaker 1: Because of the height.
Speaker 12: Thing like Desmond streaming up at him and Scar can't.
Speaker 1: Hear him so far away.
Speaker 2: What it's just everyone else be like fucking one. Meanwhile
you're in the background.
Speaker 3: I'm trying to help do.
Speaker 4: It, Okay, something in mind.
Speaker 2: Four burn sets of dice later, why don't you tell
the class what you got?
Speaker 3: Four burn sets later? And I got a.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I didn't change the dice color, so they still thought,
you know, it was cashed in. The hatred for me
was cashed in the dice. I gotta change.
Speaker 2: You know, technically, anybody know how to defrag your die?
Technically a two is infinitely better than a zero, right,
it is improvement.
Speaker 3: But just yeah, hey, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I hate it too, No, I hate it too.
Speaker 2: You put your hand on a piece of burnt wood,
you think real hard about it, You're like no, nahs,
like are you sure?
Speaker 3: And you're like, yeah, all.
Speaker 8: Right, that's spooky, real spooky. I'll say that it's real spooky.
This would right here.
Speaker 3: Would realre Honestly, it's still good timbers.
Speaker 1: Oh no, even it's given me the heated the gds.
We should get gone, all right.
Speaker 8: I guess something cool might have happened if I was
actually a you know, smart, useful person. Anyway, Let's go God,
ain't that a mood, the.
Speaker 1: Mood you're talking about? All depressed? Let's go.
Speaker 3: Love Laurie just being here. What's wrong with all these
old people?
Speaker 1: Like, damn, these are some sad fucking old people.
Speaker 14: So I'm just gonna think I'm just gonna tune in
to the sife while everybody's going at it.
Speaker 7: Oh you are, Yeah, he's gonna tune in to it.
Speaker 9: She's just been holding on to it because no one
else has been like yeah, we we we think we
can use this, and.
Speaker 14: It's just like, yeah, yeah, I know, I'll tend to this,
no one, no objections.
Speaker 2: Let's see where. I think it's in Scarn's inventory, but
I think that he passed it over to you, so
I'm just yeah, I passed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm pretty sure it might be still in my inventory.
Speaker 4: Let me.
Speaker 2: Here, did it go and look it out?
Speaker 3: I look it up my inventory.
Speaker 2: You took it out, you're gonna do there?
Speaker 1: Well then no, I'm kidding.
Speaker 4: No, I still have found it.
Speaker 3: You still have that was like, I still hold held.
Speaker 2: On all right, So we're just going to drag this
onto your thing here, Lilia. It should pop up as
its item description should pop up. Just familiarize yourself with
all of what that does.
Speaker 3: They go, ye, you go, it's so pretty.
Speaker 7: Oh oh wait, I made a couple for everybody. I'm sorry.
I was just trying to I was like, I want
to get the picture you.
Speaker 2: Did share with everybody.
Speaker 4: That's true.
Speaker 14: Yeahs so pretty.
Speaker 1: I need art of Lily holding it.
Speaker 2: You can when whenever you go to use it later,
we will decide. Well, we'll make sure it's all programmed.
Onto your cheap properly fun thing about it. By the way,
it is versatile, so you can hold it with like
one hands or two for a D six of damage.
Or is it either what is it? It does one
D six slashing plus two D six radiant or it
does one D eight slashing plus two D eight radiant
whenever it's used versatile.
Speaker 4: Back in.
Speaker 2: Also, it is a plus two enhancement bonus. And if
the thing you're attacking is exposed to moonlight, it has
advantage on its attacks. And you can use it as
a spell casting focus. And if you do your spell
attacks and spell save DC get a plus two bonus.
And also you can use it to attack things up
to thirty feet away.
Speaker 7: But but, but now here's a silly question.
Speaker 9: Ye, because it has it has a thing when when
moonlight is striking a creature, can you combo it with moonbeam?
Speaker 2: Yep, that's moonlight. Let's see you know what let's let's
be rules is written about this. I'm going to bring
up moonbeam. If it says that it is moonlight, doesn't.
Speaker 7: That's that it doesn't outright say moon silvery tail light.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna say that it would be against the flavor
of the item to not count moonbeam as qualifying it.
So yes, that will say that that that qualifies. You
want to leave yourself a note somewhere saying yo past
Logan says this works, then feel free because we all
know that Logan sometimes changes his mind.
Speaker 1: It's true, be that son of a bitch.
Speaker 2: So I'm just gonna make sure this is like. Since you,
since you attuned to it, I'm going to go into
your spells and I'm going to set the DC for
your spells slightly higher. You're already getting a plus one
from you're from root Bloom. Those wouldn't stack. You wouldn't
gain the plus two and the plus one. So it's
just the plus two because it's the higher of the two.
Speaker 3: So boom.
Speaker 2: That's how it works, because it's when you cast with
one or the other as the spell casting focus that
it does it. You can't cast it through both of them.
You can't like duct take them together and dave the
barbaria in your way into having a better item.
Speaker 1: Listen, I just love it when we can make our
characters fucking.
Speaker 2: Okay, time now. The main thing is you are a
pedal knight m so most of your stuff only works
when you're using a weapon one handed, So do we
want to assume that you are using it one handed?
When you use it, it's still like three D six damage.
Speaker 7: We will probably be mostly one handing it.
Speaker 9: Okay, cool, coo cool, But it's gonna be that thing
of like when I use root Bloom's double attack, I
can't then also just one siphe m, because usually when
I do my bonk bon I'll be like route bloom
root Bloom dagger.
Speaker 7: I can't switch the dagger for the lunar side.
Speaker 2: Let me, yeah, because you would have to unless it's light.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, let me, No, it
is not light, so correct, you can't do that, I am.
Speaker 14: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also, you don't get the two attacks with this.
Speaker 7: You have extra two attacks with a root bloom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you have extra attacks so you can attack
twice with this.
Speaker 7: Yeah that's what I mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Oh I could attack twice.
Speaker 3: With that too. Yeah.
Speaker 2: You got back at leg you got extra attack a
while ago, so you can do two attacks with anything
at this point.
Speaker 3: Them up.
Speaker 7: Hell, Okay, I'm just trying.
Speaker 9: I'm just trying to like properly understand because I know
rute bloom has the double attack, but now I just
have straight up an extra attack.
Speaker 2: You've had that for a while since like a like
level five is on there.
Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, I I think misinterpreting it.
Speaker 2: Well. The ones a pedal Knight feature. The others are
part of ruth Bloom. But no, all you need to
know right now is that you can do two attacks
with either, and also you can with either of them.
Because you're using it one handed, you can still do
your dagger from your off hand.
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 3: Okay, what will you lose out?
Speaker 2: I'm just gonna open up root Bloom and I'm just
gonna now the only one of the main differences is
that you I got to make sure I'm right before
I say this. Hold on, do do do do do
do do do do? Does it say the thing? Yeah,
so you have to use your strength as the attack
and damage. Nope, never mind, it can also use your
spell casting ability.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: This basically is most of the things that are good
about root Bloom also accept it as a cup of
other things.
Speaker 4: So, yeah, you're good.
Speaker 3: What's that?
Speaker 2: Will I set your stuff to wisdom Google boo boom
there done?
Speaker 3: Nice?
Speaker 2: Yeah, this can this can do most of the root
bloom stuff. Actually root bloom are you a light weapon? No,
it would have been funny because it would have been
like if it was, you could also make the offhand
attack with rute bloom, but you can't. All right, now
that you've done that, you're attuned to that. We can
if you don't understand anything about it, like during combat,
we can revisit it. But it's all pretty straightforward. Another
thing to mention, by the way, again just to reinforce this,
is you can use it to make melee attacks against
things up to thirty feet away, the same way Moon
Theras was. So that's that's you. And it also does
the three D six damage, so that's pretty good too. Now,
you guys said you want to make your way into town.
Where do you want to go? You don't hear any commotion,
You don't I don't see anything. Obviously. When you guys
exit the Deep River pit, the mists begin to thin
out relatively quickly. You do notice they're still there, and
they seem to be pouring more into the lower areas,
for example, the path that leads down to World Town.
As you like proceed forward, you notice that it gets
thicker again going down that way. But the further up
you go, the more it thins.
Speaker 4: Notts heavier than air. Good.
Speaker 1: I'm just glad it's clearing out. It seems like it
clings to the earth black regular myst I guess.
Speaker 8: I'm whatever is, whatever's making it might be further down.
Just all of this is pushing up. Is it coming
from right behind us or is it from an.
Speaker 2: Yes, it does so, it did. It is coming from
below ground. It does seem to thicken as you get
toward the town somehow, and then then it thins out
as you get into the upper parts of the town.
Speaker 1: No, that's just straight up peculiar. Nixt what I said before,
that is bizarre.
Speaker 3: They lost.
Speaker 4: The temple if we can mm hmmm. So and everyone
are still there, hopefully.
Speaker 1: We're thinking positively today. We're gonna be good. We're gonna
be awesome.
Speaker 14: We have a lot of questions from now cast bills.
Speaker 4: I believe it.
Speaker 10: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's those kinds of questions. I know,
I know, I just they like it. That's true.
Speaker 4: About one hundred feet a difference between the underloft and
the temple, though, so a lot of that should be
congealing down in the underloft pit.
Speaker 1: M have we been able to see the thorns yet?
Speaker 2: From where you guys are? You guys haven't told me
directly which way you're going, so I pretty much just
assumed you're only in deep river, like a little bit
out of it, pretty much where I put Lily on
the map is where I'm like, okay, heck, and where
where we're in quantum staging ground? Yeah, where are we going?
Speaker 1: Okay?
Speaker 2: But to answer your question, partially because of the mist
and partially because it just doesn't seem to be much here,
you have not seen these thorns that you've been told about. M.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 10: That means we're either we can't even see them in
like the distance or anything.
Speaker 2: Now you're still in the mist. Yeah, okay, all right,
even like where Anna where Lily is, you still can't
see more than like thirty feet or so ahead of you.
Speaker 5: Oh okay.
Speaker 14: And that can mean one of several things. That could
mean that this area hasn't been affected by the thorns
and is a possible escape route, or the thorns are
more concentrated inside and people are being essentially just gathered
up like cattle.
Speaker 11: Oh my god.
Speaker 14: And that also means that if they're deeper within, we're
going to have a hard time getting in.
Speaker 4: I imagine, given what happened to Darkland, the thorns are
mostly there to stop people from leaving. They're probably the
most collected at exits place, as you could leave the town.
Speaker 1: Back through the cracker Us and downtown to uptown. Probably
still we could.
Speaker 4: We'll have to see you. In any case, all the
things of this might help us sneak through. It's honestly
a bit of a boon, even if this is a
dangerous has fogg to be in.
Speaker 12: If we can get like a better idea of where
like everything could be going down, like.
Speaker 17: I have, I have, like my spying spill, Like we
can check some stuff that Basco is supposed to be
on the mapload.
Speaker 3: There's two of them, there's one, there's one there, ran.
Speaker 1: Logan log and give me my familiar explode.
Speaker 2: All right, I've been I've been waiting for you to
realize this. So you know what what I think that
you made the mistake at one point and you maybe
forgot about it. The last time Tabasco was around. He
didn't die, he was dismissed.
Speaker 3: He's back.
Speaker 4: Damn.
Speaker 1: I just wrap him around my neck like a scarf.
Speaker 14: Holy Ship wanted to look through his memories of the book.
Speaker 1: I'm the smartest warlock that's ever.
Speaker 2: M Tabasco.
Speaker 14: After everything.
Speaker 2: After a multi day sabbatical, he has returned.
Speaker 1: At first, everything I assumed.
Speaker 2: Were waiting for you to be like past find familiar,
so I could be like, you already have them.
Speaker 17: I didn't, but I assumed that if I got knocked out,
because like it's been so long, because I think it's
been since I got captured, right, I think, so, I can't.
Speaker 2: Remember the exact time. I just remember whenever you're like,
oh and they're gone, me being like they're not though,
just in my head, and then waiting for you to
figure it out.
Speaker 3: No, you correct me.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna assume that that's not my job.
Speaker 3: Ah damn.
Speaker 1: The worst part is I saw someone be like maybe
he's not even.
Speaker 3: You should.
Speaker 1: I'm just like I have to basket wrapped around me.
But I'm like talking into his belly like you cats, sometimes.
Speaker 6: You wouldn't betray me.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm good, let's do this. I feel so much better.
It's like one one very short raspberry.
Speaker 6: I'm ready to stop a cult.
Speaker 12: Eyes if we can figure out where most of this
is going down, can it works for like for like
a mile.
Speaker 4: I imagine probably a low town or downtown. But so
and I've run, will know better. We can get you there.
I can tell you what.
Speaker 1: Aby. I'm sorry. I'm still coming to terms with the
fact that I didn't know. Okay, I'm so mad at myself.
We're good, oh yehah, Yeah indeed, ye.
Speaker 4: You look like you bit your tongue and you're mad
at yourself for having bit your tongue. Are you okay?
Speaker 1: I'll fine. I am so smart, it's so good at
my jobs.
Speaker 2: So I keep hearing yehah. And we're going, but I'm
not hearing ye where we're going?
Speaker 4: Timple the moon Rabbit. I think the way we should
go Aaron leave Desmond for a moment is probably through
these tunnels here. But then instead of going to Underloft,
we could probably try and take it quiet through these
bushy back ends. Because the cult doesn't have a ton
of reason to be there. It'll take longer, but it
also stops us from going two hundred fucking feet down,
and it takes us a chunk of the way.
Speaker 1: I think that's a gorgeous idea, I agree, gorgeous ideas
from gorgeous individuals is through air.
Speaker 4: So we'll cut up to Low Market through these and
then make our way back down to the Temple of
the Moon Rabbit.
Speaker 3: Fascinating.
Speaker 2: So up to Lowtown, down through the tunnels, just kind
of grab the player's side. Up to low Town, down
through the tunnels to the bushy area, then up to
Low Market, then down to the Temple of the Moon Rabbit.
Speaker 3: That's the idea.
Speaker 4: It seems like the least violent way through the All right.
Speaker 2: Here's how that gets ruined. You guys, go up to
low Town and then you proceed down through the tunnels.
As you proceed down through the tunnels, you go past
the twisting pit. You continue to go down, and as
you head to one of the overgrown sections of the tunnels,
the part where the foliage and whatnot normally begins to
grow much more, you find that as though hijacking the
foliage and the trees and the moss that is there,
you do find what appears to be a field of
thorns Maleficent style. You come down there and you see
these dark green with like bright red tips, thorns that
are extending out and winding through the entirety of that tunnel,
connecting where you guys would split, connecting here up to
Low Market, as though the natural foliage that's here was
almost transformed into thorns. Seeing them for the first time,
you can see why they were described the way they were.
They seem almost bloody in appearance, just like naturally. You
could theoretically pass through these they're mostly on the walls,
but you do feel like you would be passing through
dangerous areas.
Speaker 4: If you moved through it, I feel like it might
hurt you. That would be like two hours of Yeah,
that areas off limits. We might be able to squeeze
into the underloft, it'll only take a few minutes, but
even then, uh, that's also place trying to avoid.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's when Laurie you said you had some sneaky,
sneaky tap magic.
Speaker 12: No, I mean, yeah, I look, I have the spy
thing I can I can like look inter a thing, Yeah, Lily.
Speaker 2: Rollly. A perception check as you guys travel.
Speaker 1: Not good.
Speaker 8: I mean.
Speaker 2: You notice in a lot of places where there's like
small underground flowers, the unusual kind that might respond to
the light from the moon root and whatnot. As you
guys travel, you see that a lot of the flowers
seem to have been changed, and there are sparse lotus
flowers that are sitting around on the ground now around
the walls.
Speaker 3: Of the pits.
Speaker 1: M this is.
Speaker 7: Does this feel familiar to Alilia?
Speaker 2: These flowers you have You've been around lotus flowers. You've
been You've been in a field of lotus flowers.
Speaker 1: Color?
Speaker 4: Are they.
Speaker 2: The lotus flowers?
Speaker 1: The color the color of lilias Prince? Probably and I'm
checking he can they would be?
Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm going to confirm if I need to
give a specific answer or not.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna.
Speaker 2: Not to endow this with importance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, witnessed because I'm definitely sniffing one at some point. Yep.
If they're white, there's bad stuff that happens at that hotel.
Oh hold on, thank you, Carrie. I love you. I
love you so much. White loads references there you're gonna meet.
Oh my god, we have much to discuss.
Speaker 12: Oh shit, dude, I haven't watched like any of season three.
I've just watched a react season three and I'm like, yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, I'm good.
Speaker 2: Try and find something.
Speaker 10: Hold okay, hold on, you're super looking up the meaning
of flowers.
Speaker 2: No, I'm not. I lost a thing, I lost an image.
They are mostly pink. They are mostly somewhat luminous pink
that seems to almost pick up, absorb and re spread
out light in the same way the moon root does.
Speaker 7: Is it able to be like picked up this one flower?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, you see a bunch of them, like as
you're traveling. Everyone else's kind of for the mists and
for the how single minded everybody is, and the most
people of the group just doesn't notice them, which by
the way, everyone lily is the one that notices them.
But so, yeah, we don't know they made the perception check.
Speaker 4: He can.
Speaker 2: But as you travel, you do you start to notice
them when you get near this passage of thorns, because
as the thorns thicken, so does the concentration of these
lotus flowers. And you can indeed pick one up and
it doesn't seem to do anything back to you. It
just seems to be a flower. But a strange place
for lotus flowers.
Speaker 1: M M.
Speaker 9: Not a strange place or a strange place it is
it is, you know, she's just kind of like staring
at this one just like there's like the one weird
like flick in her ear that can kind of like
hint that her mind is processing something.
Speaker 2: Keeping in mind that lotus flowers are otherwise known as
water lilies, normally only grow on the water or in
water like and like float on top of small bodies
of water, these ones appear to just be growing out
of the ground.
Speaker 1: No lily pad. Nope, m lily Patent't got it, lily patent.
Speaker 7: Lily padn't.
Speaker 14: Patented lily.
Speaker 1: She's doing that she does when she's thinking, no.
Speaker 2: Legendary lily pad.
Speaker 14: Yeah, these don't familiar. Oh no, these aren't native to
the pits.
Speaker 1: Wait are they connected to this a long time?
Speaker 4: You mean, are they connected to the.
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: You guys know something.
Speaker 14: These flowers don't grow on the ground. They grow in water,
and they're not from the pits. The last time I
saw these flowers, I was in a field of them.
How are you in a field of them if they
normally grow on water?
Speaker 1: You don't know.
Speaker 14: But when when I when I told people about the flowers,
they said it reminded them of a flower that grew
in water.
Speaker 1: You've never seen them where there's posts to be growing
mm hmmm. Uh, there were some of the shrine, I think,
but they weren't. They weren't like this pink.
Speaker 14: They were like, oh they were they were they were white, normal,
if anything, mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Mm Hmmkay you.
Speaker 11: Think this is something to do with you, Wilia, I
don't know.
Speaker 14: I don't think so. The flowers don't have anything to
do with me. More of me has to do with
the flowers, if that makes any sense.
Speaker 7: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Then of the place that have these kind of vines
and things around them, like the flowers Darkland, I don't
think you ever fell that far mm hm.
Speaker 14: And you never described the flower to me. You should
have asked.
Speaker 7: Who I can't remember his name at the moment, the
big guy that we saw from Darkland. Cag.
Speaker 16: Yeah, Gagg, I do love me some tauci.
Speaker 14: I only asked Cag if you ever saw a field
of flowers. I didn't think to describe the flower or anything.
That's me being stupid, but.
Speaker 4: Hardly something you'd immediately jumped to your soul friend.
Speaker 14: I don't know what it means for this to be here,
but it's definitely not supposed to be. And if it is,
why is it showing up?
Speaker 8: Now it's got it's got something to do with these vines.
And if you say it comes from water, the closest
large water water body I can think of other than
the rivers would be Agony's throat. Correct, God, am I
wrong or right?
Speaker 2: It's been described as a lake, but it's also been
described as a lake of crystal.
Speaker 3: M I'll take that as close enough.
Speaker 4: Down there crystal, I'm sure there's definitely water. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And also my my mom kind of wants me to
go there, so I want I want to go there.
I mean, I think that's so reach its comics.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna reshare this image just because, like in
Discord in the College yet, just because I'm like, these
vibes so sick.
Speaker 3: Yeah mm hmm.
Speaker 4: If you want to crawl through that, even if you
try and make it into the underloft, that's still a
good three four minutes of digging through it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and y'all might get stuck.
Speaker 8: Me.
Speaker 1: I wasn't saying you in particular, but I mean, none
of you guys can really How come you won't get
stuck fox because very flexible mm hm hmm. Okay, but
they're also really tiny. That's why I would do so
well because I'm small. But Desmond's small.
Speaker 8: Yeah, Desmond's not. Neither of you have literal catlike tendencies.
Speaker 2: Bagel stumps their feet a little.
Speaker 3: You're not small, buddy.
Speaker 2: Begel crouches down with the energy of a big dog
that thinks it's a small dog.
Speaker 3: I would love for you to be.
Speaker 1: Mmmm.
Speaker 3: Buddy, you're gigantic. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: I hate to be the one to tell you this.
Speaker 3: I love you, buddy, but you're gigantic. Bro.
Speaker 2: Thekel covers their eyes with their hands.
Speaker 8: You're a literal ton, A literal ton, bagelkay being biggest.
Speaker 3: Fun big boys.
Speaker 2: Bagel makes a big cathy bar noise.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about big boy.
Speaker 14: If you if you try to get through the lines,
who's gonna carry Lena.
Speaker 3: That's true.
Speaker 1: You have a big job, my boy, Big job for
a big boy.
Speaker 3: Big job for a big boy.
Speaker 4: Right there.
Speaker 3: I mean, mm hmmm.
Speaker 14: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: Do take your time.
Speaker 1: No, I'm just.
Speaker 4: Now with the cult having taken over basically everything.
Speaker 3: Bud, He's I'm not leaving, y'all. It's not because I'm afraid.
It's because I'm afraid.
Speaker 7: Just curiosity.
Speaker 18: How is LEYO not on Bagel is she just like
sitting on him like, you know, I thought it was
like slumped over like a drunk person on a horse.
Speaker 3: Basically.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they seem to be like physically aware enough that
they are like keeping themselves on top of bagel when
put there, but they're kind of just laying forward on
top of bagel.
Speaker 7: There's there's Lily gonna take the lotus that she picked up, and.
Speaker 9: She's gonna she's gonna put it on Leona's lap. So
it looks like she's looking at the lotus.
Speaker 2: Oh, Leanna kind of curls in on herself a little.
Speaker 1: I'm just thinking, if if we think that this way
is going to get us faster, I could I could
send Tabasco through h.
Speaker 8: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: But if we're all sneaking together through the underloft pit
to get through there, I think that probably is going
to take the same time.
Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: If not, market.
Speaker 12: Can meane like chopping the vines could be like cut
them down, or someone fire or something.
Speaker 1: I don't think you're.
Speaker 3: Gonna even with that.
Speaker 8: It would take so much time and make so much
noise that we'd basically be just asking the cult to
come to us. But fire though, you guys, so you're
willing to burn down the city.
Speaker 1: I take back mine exactly. I make those type of
misnumbers all the time. All right, my pet miss and
God are you here? God? Can you not chump in?
I'm gonna actually correct me on my ship.
Speaker 4: No mythomers all the time too. It's okay.
Speaker 1: M hm.
Speaker 4: So we're probably not getting through this, but going through
low Town in downtown that sounds pretty rough. Yeah, you
don't really have much of a choice.
Speaker 2: When you guys briefly passed beside Lowtown, I will know
you didn't hear anything. It just felt like a desert town,
like a ghost town. Not a desert town, a ghost
the town that had been deserted, but a ghost town. Nonetheless,
nailed that.
Speaker 1: If everyone's call becoming condensed and getting together to do
a ritual, I reckon, they're not gonna be anywhere down here, probably.
Speaker 4: Gonna be in the heart of downtown.
Speaker 1: That's where i'd cast something like that, not ignore the ram. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, The biggest problem is that downtown only has two bridges.
Speaker 8: M hmm.
Speaker 4: Getting across those involves being basically visible from anywhere in
the area. Anyone who cares to see you should.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have much choice.
Speaker 4: We're quick and quiet, we might be able to.
Speaker 8: Do.
Speaker 14: You think the undertow would know of secret passes.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The best thing's about this place is that basically we're
is known to you. If you want to take a
secret passage, I mean, point to the wall of thorns
spreading off to the north, be that that'd be the
That'd be the way I would go to avoid any problems.
But it's filled with death.
Speaker 11: Now mm hmm.
Speaker 4: I'm going to reach out and like test the uh,
the kind of structure of the thinner area moving down
towards the enderleoft pit.
Speaker 2: Like test the structure, do you mean?
Speaker 4: I just like look at it, against it, See how
movable it is.
Speaker 2: As you push against the thorns, they are much stronger
and more resistant than you would expect plant matter to be.
They do shift slightly, but when you push it, you
feel like you're trying to You feel like you're trying
to push more against like the trunk of a tree
than against vines.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these are thickuns.
Speaker 4: Yeah, are they like around because they made them? Right? Hey, fairy,
move these things. We're not leaving right now. The work, No,
it didn't work. Yeah, I'm gonna shoot them. I'm gonna
do it. Fucking with my dreams, they're fucking with my town,
the wild Nannigan's.
Speaker 11: Looking at my god?
Speaker 14: What about acids?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 1: It?
Speaker 14: It might be now, but it wouldn't take as much
as it wouldn't take as much time.
Speaker 1: Wow, I can't speak.
Speaker 14: It would take a lot of time, but it wouldn't
be as noticeable, and it would corrode and spread.
Speaker 1: Through, wouldn't that stage of the town though? Yes, and no,
I'm if these if these are founds that are made
by the arcane, and I'm inclined to so so, just
by how quickly they grew or lack some type of
effect that someone brought on, they might not react lack
uh Can I kind of can I can I take
a gander at these plants and you know, do a
guess animation if I think they were put here by
magical means or by we just grew real fast.
Speaker 2: I mean, you can just immediately know that these were
put here. Probably Okay, so it would be ourcane, but
it would be our caane in the supernatural sense, not
like these are the result of a spell. More like
these are the result of something that might be from
the Fay realm, or like they might be living vines,
like they might all be part of one organism that is,
one big plant creature. If you want to that is,
if you want to, yea roll me either nature or Arkana,
your choice, Arcana, it's gonna be okay.
Speaker 4: I have an idea affairs are stupid. I'm gonna knock
on it.
Speaker 1: That's an eleven.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 1: My general question, I guess would be, is any spell
or general tack going to affect these.
Speaker 2: Or these like these don't fall into any category of
things that you've researched or remember researching, so you basically
don't desmond shit knock on it. As you reach out
and you knock on one of the vines, one of
the large thorn like spikes, some of which are as
large as you. They don't react like aggressively, but you
do notice that as you touch one of them, several
of the vines of thorns that are around you slowly
turn toward you, like a plant turning towards sunlight.
Speaker 4: Well that I have your tension open, sesame.
Speaker 2: How wild would it be if I said that word?
Speaker 1: So fucking happy?
Speaker 2: Be really good?
Speaker 3: Honestly open sesame. I come with treats like these rations.
Speaker 4: That can be used. You can't rhyme thorns. I want
to let you on fire and be really easy. Think aloud.
We already have guarantee.
Speaker 1: We need to kick our ass.
Speaker 4: I mean they are kicking our ass right now. I'm
not trying to go forward and they're stopping me. That's
that's victory on the vine side.
Speaker 1: Yeah, very careful.
Speaker 4: M all right, vines. Okay, I'm gonna flip a coin. Ads,
I win, tails, you lose. If you lose, you get
out of the way. All right, you're gonna get them.
Oh you're gonna get them Desmond tails. You lose, all right, Sorry,
good game, Get out of the way. No, it's vines.
They don't understand words. Really banking on the ferry, like
being ever present or something. I don't know how this works,
jam root bloom. This is not my forte.
Speaker 2: Oh you gonna like stab the vines with root bloom. Yeah,
make an attack with root bloom.
Speaker 1: Just poke it with root bloom.
Speaker 7: Hell like vines meet root all right, only well, nineteen, I.
Speaker 4: Need you to.
Speaker 2: Real real fast, real fast, real quick. Roll that.
Speaker 7: Oh do you hont it o fat stacks like my ass?
Speaker 2: Yeah, can I just ask real quick which, like which direction?
Just like did you stab the ones heading toward to
the underloft bit or the ones heading up toward low market?
Speaker 9: Let mean, where's uploft in War's low market? We're trying
to get to the quick Temple, right and these are.
Speaker 7: In the way right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were originally going to go up, but that
would have been forty minutes through these vines, and that
would have been here.
Speaker 1: We're all together, that's where we are. Your token is
representing us.
Speaker 9: Yeah, oh okay, good, okay, good, Yeah, I want to
get into the into the underloft.
Speaker 2: Okay. As you stab that way, as you bring up
the blade and you drive it into one particularly thick
stalk of these thorns. As it pierces into it, root
bloom glows with this very faint purplish hue as if
it is doing the exact same thing as the moonroot
and the flowers that are around you. As it does,
you see various lotus flowers that are growing along the
path in front of you, that are growing like interspersed
among the vines. They all sort of wretch out like
they fully expand as though stretching, stop glowing, and wither away.
As they do, there is a very brief reaction from
the vines that are ahead of you as they recoil back,
as though shrinking back, as though a muscle that it
had like salt applied to it that contracts and the
way that heads down to there does thin out someone
what And you feel just this reaction from root Bloom
that feels almost angry, like a heat from the handle
of it as it shifts, as though coming into contact
with these thorns has enraged it somehow, not at you.
You get your It's intuitive enough that you don't think
it's mad that it was used in this way, but
it feels decisively like the weapon does not like whatever
this is in front of it, that it is just struck,
like a righteous rage is pointed toward these vines.
Speaker 14: Oh that did more than I expected. Oh yeah, oh
is that something we can use for now?
Speaker 11: I think.
Speaker 4: Enough to get us to the underloft.
Speaker 14: Whatever whatever these are, root.
Speaker 2: Bloom doesn't like it, and they don't seem to like
root Blue.
Speaker 19: And a feelings mutual thank you, thank you, yeah boom,
what a good sword mm hm.
Speaker 2: As you proceed forward, you do come to several points
that as you're moving the thorns that are around you,
I'm assuming you're going into the You're gonna proceed now
through that passage, okay. As you do, the thorns very
slowly begin uh repositioning themselves, like expanding back out from
the walls. Lilia. You get the sense that you would
probably have to do this at least a couple more times,
otherwise they're going to close in around you.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so she will do as such.
Speaker 2: I'd like you to do another attack role.
Speaker 8: And we talked down root Bloom because he's seeming a
little bit mad. I don't want I don't want him
to feel bad.
Speaker 3: Them. I don't know. We love.
Speaker 2: As you strike into it again, this time, it takes
a bit another moment. You see the flowers that are
ahead of you.
Speaker 19: Uh.
Speaker 2: Instead of immediately dying out as though the light's being
sucked out of them, they seem to fight back for
a moment. They seem to recoil and like shrink in
on themselves, and they glow brighter as they do. Your
hand hurts briefly. Root Bloom, though it's not made of metal,
heats up to a point that I am going to
need you to make real fast. I always say real fast,
because I'm buying time. I need you to make this
constitution saving throw me fail. Lilia, you take fourteen points
of fire damage. Please mark it down on your own sheet.
As it burns your hands. The glow from root Bloom
once again, that soft, pinkish lavender glow builds up, and
after a moment, as you push through, the thorns and
vines that are in front of you once again contract
back against the walls. But either they are more aggressive
the further you go, or root Bloom can't do this repeatedly.
It's more difficult for it. It's like substantially even on
this the second time I told you. If you start
to come, do you start to hear the sound of
shifting and creaking wood as looking back down the tunnel
where you came and forward, you notice that the thorns
and vines, even around where you're not separating them, start
shifting and moving as if the collective, if we're to
think of the thorns as a collective town wide organism,
the whole thing seems to now be aware that it's
being attacked, and it is shifting.
Speaker 1: Slightly, and that is our sign to get the freaking
fuck out of here.
Speaker 2: As you proceed forward, you start to see that you
are close to making it to the underloft pit, and
if I may make a call on your behalf, you
note that you are closer to the other side than
you are to where you came from, and both are
closing in. So please make me another attack.
Speaker 20: Roll right, oh, fifteen fifteen works. I will need one
last time this D.
Speaker 2: One hundred, roll.
Speaker 3: Crazy twenty three.
Speaker 2: It heats up more so than last time. One more time.
I need this constitution saving throw heay, lily.
Speaker 1: You take what's something where I can give them barck wait.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so many things I'm gonna I'm gonna give
you a litt cheek co out here real quick before
you do that.
Speaker 7: Before you do that.
Speaker 2: So they last time they got a fourteen and still
took damage or sorry, no, last time they got a
ten and still took damage. This time they got a six,
so you could get them higher.
Speaker 3: With it.
Speaker 1: The way that you just said fourteen.
Speaker 2: Though I was mistaken. I read the wrong thing. I
read the wrong thing is what just happened. Don't take
that as any kind of hint. I read the damage
they took accidentally.
Speaker 1: I'm an inspiring sting, like that's the right one, right,
What does Lily have to roll.
Speaker 12: To have them roll a die equal to your bardic
inspiration and added souw.
Speaker 2: It's sound to blow thorns down?
Speaker 3: We got.
Speaker 4: Down.
Speaker 1: Yes, well.
Speaker 3: They're gonna kill us if we do not blow thorns down.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Literally. Unfortunately that doesn't put you back above it. You
take another fourteen points of fire damage. Uh, technically more dice,
but I rolled the same total as you. Guys pushed through.
You almost let go of root Bloom from the heat
of it, but at the last moment there is a
minor like wave of arcane, this like natural druidic energy
that spawns out from it through the vines, and they
were tracked back as they do. Root Bloom is okay,
but you notice that it like loses its color a
little bit, as it seems like the organism that is
that weapon is exhausted. You guys rush forward, moving through
the thorns, and you emerge into the underloft pit, moving
past the reach of the thorny tunnels, which relatively quickly
close in behind you.
Speaker 4: On the upside, no one's following us. Mm hm the downside.
We wanted to go around this place. Yeah, the deepest
pit we could have down on the twisting pit world.
Speaker 9: Tone, there's just like the release of just like and
then you just hogs root bloom her hands.
Speaker 2: Or make sure you mark on your own sheet the
twenty eight total damage.
Speaker 7: By the way, Oh, I just took it out of
my HP.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's what I mean, that's what I want.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I did that.
Speaker 1: Ye Oh, your poor.
Speaker 14: It's okay, he got forward.
Speaker 4: Well, my corn trick is definitely not going to work.
Speaker 1: It might be a princess of the people.
Speaker 14: It might be a bit before I can keep doing that,
not re least so much meat. But bloom my thc
is needs a breather.
Speaker 2: Too, have exactly the right amount of healing the one time,
one second, let me kill Laurence just like literally.
Speaker 3: Lawrence is just like ah here too for real. Came
out with the perfect.
Speaker 2: You get from from your connection to the organic weapon
that is root bloomed. That it's not going to be
doing that anymore, at least today. It seems to have
spent it. Whatever reserve of energy it used to do
that gone.
Speaker 9: Yeah, she's yeah, that's like yeah, don't ask Rupelm to
do that again, at least for.
Speaker 1: To day, whatever you wish.
Speaker 14: Although based on everything we just saw, doesn't I have
a bad feeling, a really bad feeling.
Speaker 9: She just kind of like looks at where there would
be like withered and tattered up lotus flowers everywhere.
Speaker 2: Which seemed to start healing remarkably fast.
Speaker 1: Let's keep what's going on. Yeah, we'll get through it together, Lilia,
Yeah you will.
Speaker 3: I got you, all right.
Speaker 2: May I make an assumption that your your movement from
here on will be up through underloft pit toward Temple B.
All right, as you guys make that movement as you
head in that direction, were at about halfway through the game.
So I'm gonna say, let's take a really quick break
as of that. Also, Lilia, please game a point of inspiration.
Speaker 17: You already have one's fucking go I don't have one.
Speaker 1: I can only let them stand.
Speaker 2: Choose someone to get one.
Speaker 14: Then.
Speaker 2: The only people who don't have them are Desmond, Pepper
and Scarn.
Speaker 1: Oh give it to give it, I mean, give it
a Desmond scar I'm good with.
Speaker 7: I think I'm gonna give it to Scarn.
Speaker 2: I need it because I'm gonna fail, but everybody really
quick break, go ahead and get your drinks, refresh yourselves,
do your stuff, and we will come back very very shortly.
Speaker 3: I want you to know that yea, when I said
I had a headache, I was real and it just stopped.
But also good, No, it's like it's good. I think
it was the insta.
Speaker 1: We we just got a raid. Good? Yes, thank you?
Where is there Dave? Uh World eat a Rapunzel?
Speaker 7: What a name?
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lovely May I think it's still May. I think it is. Yeah,
it is me, it's still May. Oh may a baby? Ah?
Is anyone else here? Oh my god, have I been
left alone. Oh my god, chat, this is a dangerous moment.
Bread vamps are the greatest vamps. Thank you. I have
been sipping on Diet Dr Pepper all session. It's been lovely,
and I had a pub sub, which is I'm I'm
sure some people will not know what I'm talking about,
and other people will be like, yes, I hope you
all are having a good day as well. He can stop.
You guys are gonna give you a trouble. Black Ace,
get out of here, you scamp quick well while the
DM is gone. Shoot Ville Grace. Well, don't you know
that's what happened in the thumbnail that Orville Grace had
a very unfortunate accident with his bottle of ketchup. He's
trying to make a sandwich.
Speaker 2: I have returned.
Speaker 1: Hello Agan, Hi, Hey, hey hey.
Speaker 4: Water.
Speaker 1: Ah, you're right. Let me pour myself another crisp glass
of diet Doctor Pepper, Another.
Speaker 2: Crisp glass of water.
Speaker 1: I don't go there.
Speaker 2: You don't go to water. Uh huh, yeah, I should go.
Speaker 3: More to water.
Speaker 1: Yeah. One can dream that we will pepper one day.
Speaker 2: Hello, chat, hoy hoy.
Speaker 1: I've just been chit chatting and vamping, chit chatting I
think Bill Grace was trying to make a sandwich and uh,
he had to shake his ketchup bottle, but it popped
open and that's what the thumbnail.
Speaker 2: Splashed on his mask, and he's like, sandwich.
Speaker 1: Can a guy want a burger around here?
Speaker 3: Shines?
Speaker 1: Oh, you're recently watching Vestige Infinners and Tantia's early interactions
are very.
Speaker 8: Ah.
Speaker 1: I like that ship as well.
Speaker 2: I imagine you do. It's been so long. Every time
I think about the start of Vestage, I'm like, oh,
you're twenty year old babies need twenty year old babies,
except those of us that weren't twenty m.
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking so tiny, I'm still I.
Speaker 2: Have an a why so unrefined Mike's set up?
Speaker 1: If anything becomes I've become more immature.
Speaker 2: Music so illegal?
Speaker 7: Mm hmmm mmm.
Speaker 1: Those were the days, my friend.
Speaker 2: We thought that growing up right Brandon is about figuring
out how to be more immature.
Speaker 1: But like, correctly, I know I'm Benjamin, butden going going.
Speaker 2: From immature parentheses annoying to immature parentheses sincere.
Speaker 1: Yep, yep, yep, yep. I'd like to say I make
the I make the lads and ladies laugh a lot.
WHOA forgive me? I I recently I was on a
really cool film said if you guys want to follow
the Instagram for it's uh it's oh shit, it's something Watson.
Oh no, oh my dear Watson. Yes, I was costumer
on My Dear Watson and the leads and that were
really living for my sense of humor.
Speaker 4: Nice.
Speaker 1: I was not there one of the days and literally
as I walked in, they were.
Speaker 14: Like, yes, the funny jokes, Oh that's cute, it's.
Speaker 1: Me, the professional funny haha manh which is genuinely what
I tell people I do. Dude me too is explaining
your like I need I need to go write in
the ti ha haas mm hmm mm hmmm, being like
I'm an actor, but I'm also a costumer, but i'm.
Speaker 12: If I yeah, if I need to sound like an adult,
I'm like, I'm a video.
Speaker 2: Like but you just cut out on my hand, so
I need to sound like an adult.
Speaker 3: I say, I'm a video.
Speaker 1: I'm a video.
Speaker 2: I'm a video.
Speaker 7: I'm a video.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to tell you. I'm a video
video editor.
Speaker 2: I killed the radio star.
Speaker 1: Millions of you, You're welcome.
Speaker 2: Is this Watson in this picture Brandon that I found
in this gift? Is Watson? Is this dear Watson, dear
Watsons that.
Speaker 1: That's me? That's me when it's my.
Speaker 2: Sherlock Holmes but set in b stars and Watson is
a deer.
Speaker 1: When there's a demand, I don't write that fanfic, I'll
have to ask. You know, that's so funny because the
director when he was posting his like post my dear
Watson uh stuff, he was like, my days of writing
sweet life and Zach Uh Sweet Life of Zach and
Cody fan fiction has taken me so far. What a
wild fucking fandom.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: I asked him for the fan I asked him for
the fan fiction, and he's like, h gone to the wind.
Just such a funny, absolute fucking liar.
Speaker 2: That's lost to the ages.
Speaker 3: Password lock password, lock password, luck password.
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful l G B t Q story. It's
very fun, oh, very but like multiple.
Speaker 2: Multi gay.
Speaker 1: Is the best kind of gay, Yes, the Glee kind
of gay.
Speaker 2: Paragay.
Speaker 1: I've also been watching a lot of One Piece.
Speaker 4: The amount of like separate times in the last month.
People have told me in various ways of you know,
you'd kill it on Davy and I'm like thanks, but
I'm very straight and still incredibly single. So that's just
what we call a Shakespearean tragedy. Yeah, a famously gay
part of Vancouver. M Yeah, it's where we usually hold pride,
where apparently the only good poutine place in the cities.
Speaker 2: Now Gay Pine, and.
Speaker 4: And a bunch of really really sick bars, which makes
sense because if I'm gonna trust any any demographic in
the city to make fucking sick bars, it's going to
be the gay people, right bars.
Speaker 1: The best bars and clubs are in the gay districts
of wherever you are. That's just no ways if you're
if you're in Florida, go to Wilton Manors.
Speaker 4: Found out when my mom was living in the city
years back. They were dating a guy and he was
he didn't want like random guys coming up and flirting
with my mom, so he would take my mom to
gay bars just because it's like, yeah, I'm not going
to be interested in you, and something was like.
Speaker 1: An absolute insecure.
Speaker 4: From a random guy. I mean, to be fair, even
if you're not insecure, it is uncomfortable. Sometimes I went
to a bar with my mom, and I can't repeat
what a greasy mountain man told me in the bathroom,
but there was moments after he was absolutely trying to
like Lumberjack riz my mother, and.
Speaker 3: I was like, ew, I have to go.
Speaker 1: Sorry any anyone fair Jack's motherfucking sight, I'm sorry. I'm
her Walwa bodyguard.
Speaker 4: My mom's single. She was to hook up with people.
That that was her business. But I don't want to
hear about especially not from fucking like the man who's
made of slim gems.
Speaker 1: That is probably the best but worst descriptor.
Speaker 4: It's leathery and gross.
Speaker 1: Timbers. That sounds awful. I don't think people should never
be described as leathery. Yeah, it seems accurate, though. I
can't wait for a vill grace to be described as.
Speaker 2: I believe that everybody.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I did get a sandwich, I haven't eaten, and
well I had crackers, but I haven't eaten in like
three days.
Speaker 1: What the fuck is I threw up at work? Oh,
I've been there.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 14: Do you know if the brat diet anna, yeah, the diet, yeah,
he can.
Speaker 12: The brat diet is bananas, rice, apple sauce and toast.
Speaker 1: It's stuff that goes really easy on your belly.
Speaker 9: You should be well now, well now, and now it's
been a bit, so I think I should be able
to eat normal stuff now.
Speaker 7: Okay, so I just I just made I just made
a sandwich.
Speaker 1: But okay, if you have thrown that up, if something's
going on, just like, yeah, but.
Speaker 9: I've got I've got a backup planning case this doesn't
work out.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I was gonna say it, better not be
killed self?
Speaker 4: Where are God? All right?
Speaker 2: Roll call Justice? All right? Well I heard it, I
heard it. All right, Let's let's try this again. Okay,
hold on, Justice.
Speaker 3: I keep muting myself because like, hey, hey, how you doing?
All right?
Speaker 2: That's everyone all right? Are we ready to jump back in?
Speaker 1: Then?
Speaker 2: Everybody's good to go. Scarn has an in now. So
you know how you can spend that When you make
a twenty roller, you can choose to use it to
uh roll it with advantage or roll it again. Hecking
It was me changing the scene from the thumbnail to
that was me splitting the screen. Sorry all right, so
you guys, real hecking quick. I'm now aware of how
much I've said real fast and I'm trying.
Speaker 3: To get it.
Speaker 1: I hate when that happened.
Speaker 2: You realize you say a thing a lot, even if
it's just that day, and you're like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, fuck yeah.
Speaker 12: It's like just was like, yeah, Hayden was like telling
me the story the other night, and me and Chase
were both fucking just being like correct like all the time,
and I was like, oh my.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And then your brain.
Speaker 1: Is like, but that's that's the applicable thing to say.
That's what you want to say.
Speaker 2: It's a whole fucking thing.
Speaker 12: Dude, you don't do find something else, find another way
of saying that you're right.
Speaker 2: So another thing that you and Chase say a lot
is you'll right, So you would just jump from one
thing to another thing. I maybe it's just part of
my exact type of hecking evident neurodivergence, but I hate
it when things repeat too much. I don't like it
when things start to get wrote, and I've been very
vocal in the past about that. So whenever I have
a pattern or like a phrase that I use too much,
or I hear other people using them too much, I
start getting cranky about it. So I try to avoid it.
So my dad used to do that a lot.
Speaker 7: I would.
Speaker 9: I'd be a little kid talking about stuff and he'd.
Speaker 7: Be like mm hmmm, mm hmmm, mm hmmm. And after
a why I started picking up on you don't care yep.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Also I'm sensitive too to when like people have like
personal catch phrases that they use, like not that this
one is one, but the correct Like if I if
someone says a thing the same way a lot, not
necessarily repeatedly like in a day, just I am aware
that it is a predetermined response that they sort of
have practiced. My brain starts to be like, I don't know.
I can't tell you exactly what it is about it,
but my brain's like I don't like that in my
brain and everyone and everyone has these things. It's so
funny and everyone has these things, and like so I
get by it, like I don't make it the other
person's problem. I get over it. But my brain does,
for some reason take that as like a lack of
being genuine, and I'm like, I think it's maybe just
the neurodivergent part of my brain. Then sorry, Oh no, no, Braden,
I love you so much. There was a period of
time where you were one of the biggest defenders for
this fucking RNAR.
Speaker 3: To space and leave fu.
Speaker 2: I also I also dislike being able to predict people's
responsesn't that way because it makes me, and this is
gonna sound really pompous. I'm like, why do I even
bother need to have you with a conversation if I
know what you're gonna say. But well, it's like I said,
I deal with it, like I have these feelings, but
that I'm like, this is unreasonable and I get past it.
Speaker 1: And like you said, it's it's your flavor of fucking neurospace. Yeah,
and that's that's fine.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm aware enough of it that when I start
to get kind of cranky about it and start to
be like, I'm like, fucking get over yourself.
Speaker 8: Me.
Speaker 2: Come on, People say, people say things.
Speaker 4: There's I talked to Cody about it ages ago, because
they naturally were like when they're just agreeing with you,
or like when you're saying please keep talking, Like I'm listening.
But I don't know who in my family or someone
in my past. There is a part of my brain
that if you make that specific noise at me, it
tells me you're just not listening to me. Yeah, I'm like, yeah, no,
they're listening. They're listening.
Speaker 1: I need to just like, don't don't get angry at them.
They're listening.
Speaker 3: Days.
Speaker 4: But there was like a really early period who was like, oh,
do they don't like Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think there must have been something like early on
baked in me where either someone told me that I
had repeated patterns like that or something so I internalized
it as bad, or I had someone in my life
who like did that to a point where I felt
like I wasn't being listened to. I don't know what
it was, but I bet it was one of those
two things.
Speaker 1: But something fucking happened.
Speaker 2: For people like us most of the time when people
have like those sort of adverse reactions, either someone pointed
out we did it at a young age and it
made us feel bad, like like about us, so we
were like, well, if I have to feel bad about it,
other people can't do it either, that's only fair. And
then we forget, you.
Speaker 1: Know, and we project what do they think they're doing?
They can't do that?
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's I don't know, it's okay, I'm not
going to get into trauma things. It's like, how I
walk very softly, Like when I walk, I usually try
to keep my footsteps really light because someone very aggressively.
I was intentionally being a stompy little ten year old
walking down the road with someone when I was a
ten year old, and they decided to tell me that
the way I walked was embarrassing for them in general.
Jesus christy, they made and they may wait made that
way more of a meal out of it than they
should have. And so the rest of my life I
was like, better walks off, like fucking better, not ever
do that again. I can better, that's real better. So
I think that's actually when I started like toe walking. Yep,
I don't. I don't walk all the time, but I
toe walked for like from like ten to twenty one.
Speaker 7: Me and my brother to walk because we just like dinosaurs.
Speaker 2: That's also a good reason. Toe walking is one of
those like things that it's like, oh, your brain's spicy,
isn't it.
Speaker 1: How easy it is to shame a child and just traumatize.
Speaker 2: Them through that, yep, and create.
Speaker 1: Like one sentence can fucking ruin your life.
Speaker 7: It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Wanted. I wanted those fawn shoes so badly, you know,
the one. Yeah, so I like practiced. This also comes
from the era of me petitioning I would make a
great Mermaid, which I still petition, but.
Speaker 2: Of course would make an amazing mermaid.
Speaker 1: It's true. I know someone should buy me mmy tail
me yeah right, please please.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna tell a funny thing that I saw on TikTok,
and then we're gonna start playing. I it was two
mermaid ladies on the side of a pool with their
like tails on, and they were like just leaning outside
the pool, and they were holding hands and they were
just like fucking gay murder gamer girls. I thought you
said gay murder girls. Fuck yes, that's the fact that
you have the tip.
Speaker 3: It's still a mermaid.
Speaker 1: Please draw Jan Feneris's Mermaids.
Speaker 2: Okay, sorry, okay, let's get back.
Speaker 1: Someone already has already done Yeah they got it.
Speaker 11: Yeah, someone's already done this. I feel like I've seen it.
Yeah I wish no.
Speaker 2: I swear you find it already. Throw way that said
let's get a vision. Also, the part way through your
game didn't sent me. They're they're doing a thing. They're
out of con They apparently they're giving away free red
bull at their con and they're like, I wish.
Speaker 3: You were, like I wish I was fucking that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, goddamn, they have a NERF section. They have like
a NERF area and and free red bull. Oh my god,
why is this.
Speaker 3: This?
Speaker 2: Why isn't this con at my house?
Speaker 8: Logan, I need to take you to dance events because
you would go crazy for the literal multiple buckets full
of free red bull, and.
Speaker 3: They encourage you to take more home.
Speaker 2: First of all, yes, I would love.
Speaker 8: To do that.
Speaker 4: Let's go do that.
Speaker 2: Second of all, guys, I think justice, Justice, Just ask
me out, what do I say?
Speaker 1: I want to? I want to.
Speaker 2: I want to say yes, but I don't want to.
They seem to eager.
Speaker 7: Just take what you gotta do, what you got.
Speaker 9: What you gotta do is you just you know, don't
look directly at him, like curl your hair a little.
Speaker 1: Bit and be like.
Speaker 2: It's very short, it's very short.
Speaker 20: Hard.
Speaker 4: I'll try and be really with you.
Speaker 3: I'm very autistic. That does not work for me. Be
very direct. You gotta you gotta you gotta spell that
ship out immediately. I am the person that's gonna be
like being nice.
Speaker 1: You know, letting you know, now Justice if you girl.
Speaker 9: If you ever ask a girl or a guy or
anybody with long hair this thing, and that's the response
is like, kind of curl their hair and be like,
I don't know, maybe let's do let's let's figure it out.
Speaker 7: They're interested.
Speaker 3: No, no, no, I see that.
Speaker 2: I see that.
Speaker 8: But I'm still gonna be autistic and look at them
dead pan and be like, what do you mean by that?
Speaker 4: I love.
Speaker 8: Because they're gonna figure that out eventually in the relationship,
so I'm gonna start right there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I love the love the TikTok memes that
it keeps seeing going around kind of in that vein.
That's just that someone doing a cool thing. And then
the text sorry that I texted you back right away.
I'm an adult and I like you a lot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, give me that energy, dude, that energy while dating.
Speaker 2: Okay, I to her, Okay, d and d I think
we're here to play a game.
Speaker 1: So we're here to just be friends and talk about
how autistic we are.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that seems to be okay. You guys enter into
the underloft pit. Heck, as you enter into the underloft pit,
exiting from the way of the Thorns, and you look around.
You see that there is quite a bit of that
whirly curly white mist that seems to have settled here,
and you don't see much in the way of people
or life. You guys, I, unless I take your silence
as you are proceeding.
Speaker 4: To move through it, I don't think you have any
shorthand anything going on.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as you as before, As you actually into the
tunnels and you begin moving up, you a have a
brief fun memory of that time that you caught two
people making out in these tunnels at all. It wasn't
the game fun back then. And proceed on forward beyond
there you.
Speaker 4: Move those people are doing out there, okay.
Speaker 2: As you proceed up towards the temple area, the mists
do thin out as they were before. As you scale
the area up and get roughly one hundred feet elevated
beyond where you were moving toward the temple. As you
come close to it, you see that the mists seem
almost to be pushed back from the temple from the
pit that it's in, as if some kind of force
is causing it to thin out more rapidly. Heading toward it,
you come to the general conclusion that something about the
nature of a being a god's sanctuary might be protecting it.
As you move through, there is a very very light
amount of mist that is pooling, mostly in the lower
area of that pit. The temple itself, the sanctuary is
on an elevated section in the middle of it. The
areas below that elevated section are where the mist is
pooling somewhat. As you push in and head toward Karagasha's sanctuary,
you do start to hear the faint sounds of people
moving about, a noise, And as you come up under
the cliff and you move onto that upper plateau, you
do see that there are townsfolk. There are beds that
have been laid out like cought style, not caught style,
like makeshift beds that have been laid out. The injured
appear to be laying down in this area. The houses
are that are on the upper area appear to mostly
be open and seem to be heavily occupied by townsfolk
who don't seem to pay any mention notice to you.
As you enter into the area. This place, as best
you can tell, seems to be where most people have retreated.
Speaker 4: Two.
Speaker 2: I didn't say the last word of the sense it
felt wrong.
Speaker 4: It felt.
Speaker 2: Where we've retreated, to where we've retreated nice, to where
we have retreated. Your days are numbered.
Speaker 3: I will kill.
Speaker 2: Two you.
Speaker 1: I never would have guessed.
Speaker 3: Funny meme points that self.
Speaker 1: Who blushes.
Speaker 4: And there as we'll go in look for anyone we
specifically recognize.
Speaker 3: Alrighty, this is sorry? What the place was this? I'm
in my notes again. That's the word. That's what I
was looking for, Karen Gash.
Speaker 2: You guys have ben The main doors, which are normally
kept closed except when people are entering or leaving, appear
to be open consistently right now. As you proceed forward
and your head inside, it's more of the same, mostly
people trying to find space, people who seem to be
injured seeking medical attention. Is there anything in particular that
you are looking for inside among the amongst the very
light whales murmurs of those who are taking shelter here, I.
Speaker 4: Mean Lunella soon would be in our first spots, because
there are biggest points of contact here.
Speaker 2: All right, So you want to head it like deeper
into the temple, head towards Sooon's chamber. Yeah, okay, you
guys do, so you press inward nobody seems to be
there to stop you. When you entered into the area,
you didn't notice some people watching you as you came in,
but they stopped paying much mind to you once you
were actually there. Pressing in, you head to the inner
sanctuary and then passed it and head toward the chamber
at the back where so UoN was, where Sooon had
told Lilian scarn before about the parasite and caused them
to lose a night of their life. This sounds more
nefarious than it is.
Speaker 15: When I put it that way, as you ante, No,
it's because it was nefarious.
Speaker 14: It was supposed to be the night of my life.
Speaker 2: Lily was trying to lose a night I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: I'm not talking about the other night.
Speaker 2: Press forward. You come to the door that night every night,
which appear to be open. The doors to Sutun's chamber,
the large, ornamental, dimly lit chamber are still open, and
inside you do not see Sutton. Instead, you see Leonin,
who appears to be leaning at a central table bench
area that is inside. They look to be in better
health than when you left, when they were barely struggling
to survive. For those who do not immediately recognize the
name Leonin, being the moon Raiser, the head of this temple,
who almost was killed by moon terras whenever they invented
the one with pink hair. Yeah, that is correct. They
appear to be inside. There is a familiar one of
the temple knights that is next to them, keeping guard.
As they do this, their hand goes to their side
as if preparing to defend Leonin, but when they see
who's there, they stop. Leanin raises up one of their
hands as if to signal to them not to take
any violent action toward you, not that they needed to,
and Leonin calls across you, guys, their voice echoing through
the hollow chamber. You have returned. You have returned from well,
you have returned, hopefully having stopped monters.
Speaker 4: There's isn't gonna be a problem anymore.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: You all seem to be in relatively good health.
Speaker 1: Physically.
Speaker 14: Oh, you've also brought back the treasure.
Speaker 1: She's still.
Speaker 2: Good. Staff is one of not a unique one necessarily,
but something that those that stand against the attendants of
chan chand Kara. Gosh, sorry, I'm still not doing so well.
Apparently should not be wielding I'm beyond magical healing.
Speaker 3: I just need my body to recover.
Speaker 19: Hm.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I can take a bit more than a spot
of magic to fix what happened to your body.
Speaker 2: You have any trouble getting back, like through the city,
I mean, yeah, mind's a plenty. You've seen the thorns then,
mm hmmm. It's one problem after another. Luckily that problem
served to help us partially. I'm not sure what you've
seen of them, but the thorns are not on our side,
just as they are not on the side of the cult.
They sealed off some of the lower passageways, which allowed
us to bottleneck the cult when they were trying to come.
Speaker 3: After us here.
Speaker 4: I'm surrounding you.
Speaker 2: We managed to push them back and thin their numbers
until a few days ago. Anyway, that happened a few
days ago. A few days ago, the cult's behavior changed somewhat.
We presumed it must have had something to do with
what you were doing, either that Mountheris was on their
way back or that Mountherras would not be returning. But
in either case they stopped trying to force their way
into here. They just stopped trying to come after the
remainder of the townsfolk, who had been shielded here they
pulled back. We managed to push forward and push through
the sentries and guards that they left in low Town
and downtown, and for the most part those places are
safe to travel through, though we're having people stay here
for the most part, just in case the colt re emerges.
We pushed them back as far as the crack Rot.
Infiltrated them briefly and found out that over the past
few days they've been gathering the people they captured there,
what people they could take from the town, what bodies
they could find, and their leader, Ville Grace, has been
preparing a ritual using them. So Une has been instrumental
in all of this, instrumental in saving us and pushing
them back a couple of days ago, though when he
realized what they were doing, he made a point of
trying to push his way in, determined to either take
them down or fall trying. He seemed confident that he
couldn't be killed by them. But we've seen cult members
since then and can confirm that they've continued to prepare
for this ritual. So I can only assume that the
sheer numbers he faced were too much for him. We
haven't seen him since.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm, mmm, mm hmmm, but foolish.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at Lilia.
Speaker 7: No, she's not saying anything.
Speaker 3: If you got to hear I assume that you've been
through downtown. No, not yet.
Speaker 4: No, No, they came through the underloft.
Speaker 2: How did you manage that?
Speaker 14: I was able to while some of the thrown the
thorns with rute Bloom's amazing. Mm hmm.
Speaker 9: She just kind of like shows over rute Bloom, kind
of looking dull, not as shiny.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: That name sounds vaguely familiar.
Speaker 4: Bloom.
Speaker 14: It seems to react similar to the moon root in
the pits.
Speaker 3: Mhmm.
Speaker 4: Well did a number on her hand, though, and that
allowed you to move through the thorns, m at.
Speaker 14: Least long enough to go through them.
Speaker 3: Do you think they do.
Speaker 2: You haven't seen it, I suppose, but almost half of
downtown has been overtaken by them, much more so than
the tunnels.
Speaker 4: We barely got through the several hundred feet and to
get from I Root Bloom.
Speaker 14: Will need some time to rest before I can do
that again.
Speaker 2: We've been trying to formulate a way to get through
the several hundred feet pure thorns that are stopping us
from leaving. Given that the cult doesn't seem to have
left either, we assume that the undertow primary HQ has
also been blocked off. It's been beneficial because that means
that we've managed to sequester the remainder of the cult
and the crack rot. But also they're so concentrated there
that we're not able to do much of anything. So
we're at something of a loss. And he leans back
in his chair.
Speaker 4: Have we recovered any any of the patients from the
Resting Head clinic? There was one there when you to
speak with I don't know if that area is caught
off by the vines or not.
Speaker 2: So as a note, because I think it's what you're
getting at asking you. Are you inquiring about here? Bucketead
bucket Head was in the cells on the crack rod.
They were in the same cell as Pepper.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they got them.
Speaker 2: But for the purposes of having asked it, if anybody
is there, then they are trapped inside or dead.
Speaker 4: That makes sense.
Speaker 2: That section of the that section of the tunnels of
the caves, it was completely filled. He describes to you
the area that is filled with it filled with the thorns.
And I'm just going to quickly use a pointer here
on the map. Basically everything from there, from that line
toward the entrance, he describes to you, is nothing but thorns.
Speaker 1: Go on.
Speaker 2: It's kind of on the player's side on the yeah,
people at home can see it. He describes to you
that the exit from low Market up into downtown and
then forward up basically until the path the tunnel on
the other side is one massive wall of thorns, like
a few hundred feet of just pure thorn. He also
describes to you just's a shorthanded. That they did try
to go into the river and tried to go underneath them,
but the thorns have effectively gone down to the bottom
of the river as well. They've tried to dig around them,
and it seems like the thorns have entered into the
walls and go as far in as they are capable
of digging before the stone gets too difficult to move through.
Shorthanded their main ever since the cult receded. They described
to you that their main priority has been trying to
get out, but every possible way they've tried to including
moving through other tunnels outside the town, the thorns seem
to be intelligent enough that at any possible way people
could escape. They are blocked up off that these thorns
have very intelligently and deliberately set themselves up in places
that prevent the escape.
Speaker 3: Of the townsfolk.
Speaker 1: Jesus mhm, I don't like Faye.
Speaker 4: As of two weeks ago. Mm hmm.
Speaker 7: What I don't understand is.
Speaker 14: If the Vines aren't working for the cults and they're
not helping us, why do the fay want to keep
us here?
Speaker 4: Why do they want to keep people in darklands?
Speaker 3: Maybe they just don't Probably, yeah, they just this is
just how they do.
Speaker 8: I guess you, guys, Unless God tells me differently, I'm
going to live for that.
Speaker 2: You guys, don't you come to whatever conclusions you want
to come to.
Speaker 3: Don't bullshit me man with this fucking free willships.
Speaker 2: If you say you come up with a theory, you
don't objectively know if it's true or not. However, I
will tell you as you talk about it openly. You
do see Leonin and the Temple Knight that are with them,
You see them glaze over, and you guys have your
first instance of like, oh, that's what this looks like
from the outside. Fucking they You see that they seem
to become a little bit unresponsive. Most of you don't
know what this look is very like at the start
of it, Pepper, you're like, oh, fuck right, yeah, you
remember that. You remember the Cathos freed the people in
the party specifically from the effect, but that did not
extend to anyone else.
Speaker 1: No, it was the kind of thing he did, Jame,
I think we just about this the threshold of what
he was able to hear.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as soon as you start talking about the fae
and it doing this, they seem to glaze over. I
will also note, Pepper that this particular glaze over.
Speaker 1: Is more.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say layun alike, because I don't
want to draw a parallel between the two situations. But
rather than simply seeming like they become a bit absent minded,
they seem to just stare into space. It is a
more extreme version that before. If your friends did this,
it would seem like they were on autopilot, as if
they were going through the motions, and then when they
came back into listening, they would be like, oh whatever,
and then they conveniently forget everything. What you just saw
from Leyuna in the Temple night felt more like something
forced them to disassociate. They are not there until you
stop talking about it, and then they seem to come
back to it with no sense of anything any time
being lost. We're not sure exactly where they came from,
but we were in the middle of fighting over the
downtown area of the Pits, where we had reconciled, we
had gathered our forces, and we were trying to strike
back in the middle of a conflict between vill Grace.
Many of their cultists they're dead beasts, and those of
us who could fight. The thorns erupted rather dramatically, covering
up the exits soon. When we talk to him about it,
he hasn't been all that much help. He's been very
dodgy about it. He's refused to speak on it for
the most part. But he came up with one very simple,
detached theory. And you see like a confused look on
Leynin's face, as if they're trying to piece things together
you all. Just to give you a sense of it,
you're getting the sense of Leanin's not aware that Son's
probably said a lot about this. He's just unaware that
he has. But as he says says this, he's just
kind of tries to reconcile. He said, he thinks it's trying.
He thinks it's some kind of end game, like a
failed state.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 2: We asked him what he meant by that, but he
didn't answer.
Speaker 11: M h oh, yeah, so this is what it felt
like for him.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah. And they have a more intense case.
Speaker 2: I wish I just had like my soundboard rigged up
to like the inception for except like soft, so whenever
anytime you guys someone, I could just be like, bah.
Speaker 4: My god, yeah, I won'der whatever in and uptowns if
you don't like, I mean, they got hit early, so
we never got always probably already gone.
Speaker 2: We can only hope that the people that are in
Uptown that managed to fight back got away.
Speaker 1: Oh Gold dull.
Speaker 2: Up from the days surrounding the attack and after all
of you escaped from the crack Rot. We know that
a lot of the people who were captured in Uptown
were brought down there, but when the attacks began, many
people fled from the town and in theory got away.
We feel that we should have tried to escape sooner.
It was actually part of our plan that after the
conflict that we were waging. We were going to try
to get as many people together as we could to flee.
We were just on the verge of taking what we
could and leaving the town. When those thorns appeared.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna get blasted through the rock and vines at once.
I don't think we have anything that big anyways.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're almost at the point where we're considering contacting
the cult and the crack Rot and telling them it's
in our mutual interest to stop what they're doing and
try to get out. But any attempt to contact them
has not gone well.
Speaker 4: What imagine.
Speaker 2: We've sent messengers a couple. One was killed upon approach.
One when they spoke to them, was allowed to tell
them what we were proposing, not that we could ever
forgive them, but that we all even got out of here,
we needed to work together against the thorns. Their response
was to destroy that messenger's arm using their necromancy. Send
them back with a message, which is that so long
as they are here, they will not leave unless their
god walks out with a vessel, and that their confident
that if they can give him one, then he could
get through these thorns for them.
Speaker 4: Ahyat, these folks, nothing you're not committed.
Speaker 1: They're consistent the last.
Speaker 2: Ah.
Speaker 4: I don't know how much choice we have other than
to do exactly what's so ownedd.
Speaker 2: We know that they've set up this ritual in what
used to be the main staging and announcement area, the
execution block, which I believe is where you all escaped
from based on reports.
Speaker 1: I heard Grun's madness.
Speaker 2: No inside the crack the opening to the They've set
up their ritual grounds openly. They've set them up almost
as if to challenge us. And I've been wondering for
the past couple of days. If they have all the
materials they need to do it, why haven't they assume
since they began setting it up after Moontheris left, as
they changed their plans after they found out Moon Thearras
may not be returning, I assume I can only assume
they're waiting for something. And I hate to say this,
but it might be all of you.
Speaker 4: He's I don't think it's all of us. I think
it's one of us.
Speaker 1: It's one of us. Sorry, Well, they're not going to
get them.
Speaker 3: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 2: If the cult can't be persuaded to help us, words
that taste like bile in my mouth even to say.
But if they can't be convinced that we have a
mutual interest in getting out of here, we need to
focus on getting rid of them and ending this so
that we can move around in peace and try to
find tunnels that have not been encroached upon. That's true.
Speaker 4: Members of the leadership left.
Speaker 2: Now we know about m oh Yes, they also have.
They also have Dendron. We know for a fact he's
still alive. I know that when you left, you left
with Leona. May I ask and he kind of motions upward.
Speaker 4: So, okay, this is a weird time.
Speaker 3: For me to mention this.
Speaker 2: Bagel too big to move through the temple? Uh So
can we retroactively decide what Bagel and Leona did?
Speaker 5: Mmm?
Speaker 4: I mean there's a lot of people in the main area,
and in all honestly, Lena should stay here. Yeah, so
I probably probably would have had them put some more
comfortable there, gotcha.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you left with Leona as well as with another
individual I'm not familiar with. Have they returned with you?
Speaker 4: It was in the main hall.
Speaker 2: Is there a reason they didn't come back with you
to talk to me?
Speaker 4: They're having a hard time processing the loss of their sister.
Speaker 2: I can only imagine.
Speaker 4: I think they were affected by something when it happened.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: Going to go fix this, and I think they've done
more than their part.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 2: If the cult is waiting for something to come back
Muntheris and leyonas shere blood, it would probably be best
to be on the prudent side. If Leon is not
at full capacity, also keep her away from them.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 2: It goes without saying, but you may hold onto the relic.
It may prove more use for you than us. Pala
Paladins and warriors of Chan Kharakosh, as well as Chan
Karragosh herself whenever she lived in her pre divine era
used those weapons. They represent her will, and I feel
like if anyone's going to carry it out, that notification
sound was fucking loud. If anyone's going to carry out
her will, it's definitely going to be you. You've all
been more efficient at dealing with the cult than we have.
Speaker 4: Maybe you could be like, they're cute bunny Avadar. That
sounds way better than Gotham.
Speaker 14: Maybe they're cunny. Maybe they're cute bunny vessel.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 14: God seems to be really obsessed with those. Now, yeah,
vessel versus vessel, let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean, you fit the bill. Apparently everyone works at
care Gosh, gotta be stunning, so you'll be fine.
Speaker 2: That's true, if only that I've never looked worse, he says,
posing sparkles.
Speaker 4: Through a ceiling light.
Speaker 18: The slightest waft of wind.
Speaker 1: I am discussed. I am war torn, ah fucking he
or torn and rugged.
Speaker 14: You've never grown a hair of face in your face
ever forever?
Speaker 1: Hm, I can't stay in this any longer.
Speaker 11: You're saying, joking, side talking aside.
Speaker 14: We also still have our families out there that are
hiding from the cult.
Speaker 2: Hmmm, we haven't. We haven't encountered yours. But when we
send people to infiltrate the cult, we took stock of
who was there, and they weren't captured either. We assume
they must have fled to the tunnels.
Speaker 14: Yeah, but then they started telling they they told me
that they've run along thorns, that there's a ritual circle
in the center of town.
Speaker 2: Yes, they had been prepared something there for a while.
I think that was the location they were going to
do whatever it was. They were hoping that theras would
help them do. They abandoned that site a few days ago.
Speaker 4: Probably somewhere in low Town. If I had to guess, mm.
Speaker 2: Hmm, if you wish to investigate that former abandoned ritual site,
then you may wish to do so. It may give
you some idea of what they're doing, but give them
their entire mo I'm guessing it's one incarnation ritual versus another.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like we need to understand the specifics
of the ritual circle here. We only have to stop
it one magically inclined member anyways, and it's not like
it's gonna help us break it down. We've just got
to kill them until they stop unkilling themselves.
Speaker 1: Work so far, Yeah, sometimes you can battle magic with magic,
but sometimes you just gotta get some brute force in there.
Speaker 2: If we manage to beat them, hopefully if so Un
is not dead, and then hopefully so Un or Dendron
can formulate a plan to get us out of here.
Without Dendron and without the governors, we've been sorely lacking
in proper leadership. I don't know what rebuilding is going
to look like after all this. Well, we need to
get out that's the main thing. The Gilligan's Pit is
no longer viable as our home. It's become nothing but
a grave. We need to get out of it. Are
you get out of here? The old Peter Griffin on
the side. Okay, that's.
Speaker 1: Now you're going.
Speaker 4: Moment m hm. Well you shouldn't waste any time. Get
a little bit of the night, look up and look
at the roots. I don't even know anymore. Time is
time was a fucking life.
Speaker 2: Based on the light. I mean, in this particular chamber,
it's always kind of moonlight based. But on their way
here you got the sense that you're coming up on.
Speaker 3: About like five PM.
Speaker 2: I know you guys are still underground and technically not
exposed to the sun, but given the standards you live by,
you would at this stage when you came up to
the moon, like the moon route that's in the main town,
even with the mist, you would have been like, ah,
fresh air.
Speaker 1: Yeah, pepper, still vibrating. I need some real.
Speaker 2: Oh girl, is there anything that we can do to help.
We don't have much in the way of supplies. We've
burned through all of that.
Speaker 4: We've got some oats.
Speaker 1: Food, a new food other than oats.
Speaker 2: We have some, but it's not like we've been able
to produce more food ever since all this happened, we've
been running on what could be scavenged from the town
from the last couple of weeks. Yeah, I could.
Speaker 1: I can eat my oats. Everybody else should have what
you guys have.
Speaker 2: If you want better food, you could. You could go
to the force Gill estate. The governor is no longer
with us, but he used to keep a pretty splendid garden.
Some things may still be there.
Speaker 9: M h.
Speaker 4: It's not far from my house in any case, and
most of my stuff I keep is generally non perishable
since I've gone so long, or at least float.
Speaker 1: You look like you look like you'd have powdered milk.
They can do that.
Speaker 3: How do you powder milk?
Speaker 4: It's amazing you gonna where do you get that? Are
you not allowed to talk about it?
Speaker 1: Pepper's nose.
Speaker 2: There might be peppered milk, but in a backwater town
like this, it's just sleep. If they could manage to
do it in this world, do I say peppered milk?
Powdered milk?
Speaker 3: Milk?
Speaker 2: If they couldn't powdered work in this world, then powder, powder, milk.
I can't talk. I'm trying. I'm trying my brained milk,
pepper milk, pepper milk, powdered work. Powdered work is just
like fucking red bull that you could snort cocaine, cocaine, cocaine,
cocaine lays with uh No, powdered milk. Maybe could be
made in this world through arcane means, but in a
place like this, I ain't gonna find that cheese.
Speaker 6: Okay, whatever writs.
Speaker 4: That's like something kind of highwave.
Speaker 1: Could you suppressed with the strike lands get their hands
on every once in a while, I don't know, you
see never run no powder got it?
Speaker 10: Have have you taken like a sensus of everyone who's
still here or for.
Speaker 2: The most part, we know there's some people who are
still hiding out in the pits refusing to come out. Also,
we know that the the pit that's in the Cogston Quarry,
many people, particularly those that were working around that area,
of the people that were in Low Market, they fled
into there because they have a better knowledge of those corries,
and they also had mining equipment they could use to
defend themselves. We haven't been able to find them in
the tunnels that are in the quarry, but we presume
that they're there. Is there someone that you're asking about, Yeah,
your mother's I was just wondering if that's.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 2: I'm afraid there's been no no side of her.
Speaker 10: Was there a man, you know, Maurice Chapman, Maurice.
Speaker 1: Is he there?
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not here. However, I did talk to Maurice.
He did come back. He uh apparently had left the
town for a few days. He didn't tell me a
lot of what he was doing. But after the attack,
a couple days after you all left, he returned, said
that he had gone somewhere, that he had gone to
one of the hollow yards. He returned and found things
were like this, met up with us, asked what had happened,
and then seemed alarmed, as of course he should be,
as everybody was. And then I believe he went into
hiding somewhere in the pits. Said he had something very
important he had to survive for, so he wanted to
be sequestered and off on his own. He didn't mention
where it was, but he said that based on recent events,
he felt that there was somewhere they were unlikely to
go to search that he could fortify himself in, and
then left in a hurry. We asked where he was going,
and I will note that this all happened very fast,
so I apologize if it seems like we should have
followed up with him. But when we asked where he
was going, he muttered something to us about that if
he was wrong, he didn't want to drag other people
into it, and then took off.
Speaker 21: Okay, I thought for a minute, maybe my mom was
with him, but if he didn't want to drag other
people into it, thank you, Thank you for that information.
Speaker 3: I appreciate.
Speaker 2: I assume that he was trying to protect something. He
had his pack with him, as if he'd just come
back or was going to head out on a very
long exploration. He's a he's a good man, but he's
also just a man who would not have held up
well if he'd encountered anyone. I think that he was
concerned with safety shelter, as anyone should be.
Speaker 4: Yeah, thing's important.
Speaker 2: He did ask if you were here, and we said
that as far as we knew that, you'd left to
go pursue something dangerous, to go after members of the
cult who had gone deeper into the pits, and he
was very worried. In fact, that news made him a
bit frantic.
Speaker 4: Fine, he wouldn't have been able to follow us anyways,
he knew that.
Speaker 3: I don't imagine he did that.
Speaker 2: He seemed intentire that.
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't look think about where that might be.
Speaker 19: I I don't know.
Speaker 4: We'll look for him, kid, we'll find him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, just a hand, hand in Laurie's hand, give
it a big squeeze, mm hmm.
Speaker 2: But he's safe making offer you that, at least I
assume he is.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got whatever he needed to get. Not we
can get it off of him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I I trust that he s.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's get some food in us and
then we'll go check your place in his see if
there's any sign of where he might have been.
Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So you guys want to see out
nourishment and food and rest and such. Yeah, you find
it pretty readily. You are now among the number of
people who could stay here, take refuge here. Food is
presented to you, nothing fancy, but also you know better
than your rations if you wanted it. How do you
intend to rest.
Speaker 4: Well, probably wouldn't take a long when it's only fine, right, Yeah,
just chill, Yeah, take take a moment. I don't even
think I actually need a short rest because we haven't
done much here, unless anyone else needs.
Speaker 1: Anybody got to hit that we're all good.
Speaker 4: Do I need to just take a moment of.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, we're good.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: During all of this, Desmond is going to actually go
to his place and you gather up some of the
drive foods. If they haven't already been through his house,
then it seems like a place to go through.
Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like anybody's like get your stuff. Though
there's been some scavenging, it doesn't seem like it's been
like nothing's ran.
Speaker 3: Second.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as discreet as they've been able to, these are
despite the situation, these are still you know, the homes
of people here and the town that they are so
like they're not pillaging. The only places you've seen open
seem to have been entered relatively lawfully and opened into
and cleared out. Going into your place, most of your
food seems to be there. You take it, you get it.
Speaker 4: You'd bring it over and just leave it at the sanctuary.
Speaker 1: I would go with Desmond and then probably well, we're
gonna go to my house later.
Speaker 7: We'll do that later.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be like the same.
Speaker 4: But yeah, we're gonna go right by a store of
the mid Market complex and then we can just leave
frog to yours. Okay, the first two likely places?
Speaker 2: Yeah, and how about you? So those are the places
you're searching.
Speaker 4: Once we leave?
Speaker 2: Yeah, those are the first two spots we're gonna look
go roll me investigation checks you two? And well will
you do that? I want to know the other three?
What might you do during the let's say hour that
follows all this.
Speaker 15: Oh no, mhm, it's okay, sixteen, that's it's okay, Yeah,
it doesn't know what.
Speaker 2: You pronounce your role there is. Yeah, So Laurie, you
search the places that you feel along with Desmond, you
search the places that you feel that perhaps he might
have gone that he would think was safe. But you
do not find any trace of him in the low
Market area and other other group. What might you guys do?
Speaker 3: Is it possible that?
Speaker 8: I mean, I'm not sure where else to check, but
can like I just investigate. We're currently in like Moon
Rabbit area.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, you're currently in the sanctuary.
Speaker 3: Okay, are we trying to look downtown or wherever we
can be downtown.
Speaker 2: To also search for for Maurice? I mean, is that
what you're doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just yeah, I'm trying to.
Speaker 2: I'm also just trying to If you want to go
there and search, you can absolutely try to do that.
Is anybody just be a little stealthier?
Speaker 1: I I'll go a scar.
Speaker 3: I'm pretty stealthy.
Speaker 1: I'm not, but I can help you.
Speaker 3: Look, you can become a fault.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, Lilian, are you going as well?
Speaker 9: Well, Lily is gonna probably go check out the area
that Lannon said that Silon went.
Speaker 2: Okay, so you would head up with them and head down. Okay,
So then the so Pepper and scarn both of you,
please roll me stealth and then investigation.
Speaker 3: Yea, do I get stealthy?
Speaker 1: I'm Fox?
Speaker 3: It's uh, I don't think so what is that fourteen.
Speaker 1: Manage on dexterity and saving.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're going as a fox, you would have
advantage on stealth pepper, So that investigation, right, Yeah, let's
wait for the stealth roll real quick. Never mind, it's okay,
it's all right. Nothing broke nothing?
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm super stealth. Desmond was here, he'd be proud.
Speaker 2: I mean, and then roll the investigation.
Speaker 1: I will investigation fourteen. So we both got I was
an eighteen on stealth.
Speaker 3: Okay, fourteen for myself, thirteen for my investigation.
Speaker 2: As you guys head to the downtown area Lilia, you
would also briefly pass through it with them. As they
split off, you do come to see what was described
to you, that being this incredibly thick, massive wall of
these dark thorns, these huge, some of them being like
person sized thorns that are now occupying more than half
of the massive cavern that is downtown. As you guys
enter into it and see this Scarn, I'd like you
to roll me a D one hundred.
Speaker 3: Let's go. My body's about to be destroyed. Who eighty six?
Speaker 1: Oh shit.
Speaker 2: As you enter into it specifically, and as you guys
begin to search around Lila, you like peel off from
them and you begin heading toward the low town area Pepper,
you begin searching around Scarn. You begin searching. You guys
do not manage to find neither hide nor hair of Maurice,
but each of you does encounter a different phenomena. One
of them is Scarn. As you are searching. At one point,
when you come within like one hundred feet or so
of the thorn wall, everything seems too dull, Everything becomes
kind of vacuous. Sound drops out somewhat, and you hear
the distant echoing voice coming from the direction of the
thorns of the person you would recognize to be Conglo,
speaking seemingly from within the thorn wall. Distant but impossibly
loud for how far away this echo would imply they
are as you hear the words.
Speaker 5: Curious predicament, certainly, but with the right application of one's blood,
of one's right, perhaps.
Speaker 1: A way I could be found.
Speaker 2: I do wonder, And I do.
Speaker 5: Suppose you, more than anybody among your friends, has the
means to part these treacherous thorns, don't you think so?
Speaker 8: Scne You know what, I'm gonna have a conversation with
the crazy ghost man in my head.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Actually, I've already had the idea, seeing that, at least
the way that this is set up, I can see
the cult wants me. I'm not sure how, but they
seem to know a way to get through if Gotham.
Speaker 3: Helps them.
Speaker 2: So you said blood as you look toward the thorns
you see, and they are mostly obscured. You see only
the faintest glimmer of them deep inside, with this faint
purplish hue to their body, almost like a forced ghost.
All of Star Wars, every almost everything is obscured of them,
apart from a few inches. You do see congos standing
within the thorn wall, about fifty feet in. You don't
see them speaking, You don't see any movement from them,
but as you speak back out to them in response.
Speaker 5: Not your blood as it is, of course, but the
latent power that you have, that you've always had, the
position that you're in, the deals.
Speaker 2: That you could make the safety of the town. I
can't imagine it would cost you much.
Speaker 3: Yeah, y'all really love doing this whole thing about mine?
What about what I care about?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 3: Do I want to not become me anymore? Y'all? Just
y'all never think about these things, do you, doll? It's
all about y'all. This time is never about me.
Speaker 1: Eh.
Speaker 3: Crazy? I was crazy once right now.
Speaker 8: I was like, I'm waiting for Pepper to just like
kind of stop and look over and hear me in
the in the background echoing.
Speaker 1: Like I'm like I'm watching the show. I know this
happens to the scar Baby girl will figure it out.
Speaker 2: It's true.
Speaker 5: I can imagine you don't want to give yourself up.
Of course, an intelligent and creative soul like you.
Speaker 2: You see this mostly obscure conglo raise up their hand
to their chin, as if curious and like stroke their
own chin. Perhaps an alternate deal is possible.
Speaker 3: M an alternate deal.
Speaker 1: Huh.
Speaker 3: But of course there are loose ends yet.
Speaker 2: But remember, of course, this town that we have come
to love.
Speaker 5: So much, it is within your power to save it
and yours alone.
Speaker 2: And as they say that, the sound of rushing water
comes back to you, as you can once again hear
the lake coming back unmuffled, and your sight of Conglo
within the thorns disappears.
Speaker 8: You didn't see that, did you. Uh huh yep, yeah,
perfectly fine. Just you know, the dems within my soul
mm hmm. But uh, the demons are the demon's been.
Speaker 3: Yapping, they've been telling me you've been Yeah. I kind
of feel like I might be a key to getting
rid of these thorns in a way. Hey boy, But
it seems like, just like everything.
Speaker 1: Comes out of press, it comes.
Speaker 3: Out a price that seems to be myself, your soul.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, you know, Lily'll kick your ass if you
do that.
Speaker 3: Oh no, no, no, no, no, und percent. But like,
here's the thing. I'm all, we saving everyone.
Speaker 1: But trying our best.
Speaker 8: Yeah, but the way these are talking there doesn't There
does seem to be alternate ways.
Speaker 1: Sure, but we're not going to choose the one that
involves you losing yourself and all of that.
Speaker 3: You think I'm getting you think I'm losing myself.
Speaker 1: No, no, I know, not by your toys, of course not.
Speaker 3: But realize there's another way.
Speaker 1: In your visions, they're all like, sacrifice yourself.
Speaker 14: Sacrificed yourself.
Speaker 1: So that's my presumption, you know.
Speaker 8: What I'm saying, So sacrificed myself. But mm hmm, if
there's a way to say, folks, I want to try it.
Speaker 1: Careful when you give an in, she'd give a mile.
Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 3: We'll see how far I can control that. Mild. I
continue investigating away, very contemplative.
Speaker 2: As this is happening, you also hear a distant voice echoing,
not from around you, but within in the back of
your mind. You're here just as.
Speaker 3: Oh my, oh my god, you're finally back with enrage, Papa.
Speaker 9: The bluetooth is finally reconnected.
Speaker 2: Yeah, finally it would appear when you're finally back within
the town.
Speaker 1: Why yeah, I am Oh the cadence of your beautiful.
Speaker 2: I'm here to come for you, Papa. What has happened
within the town.
Speaker 1: Oh god, it's not great. There's a lot of th words,
which I think you said you were a privy to.
Speaker 2: I'm currently on the other side of them.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, what spell is this? So sally weird?
Speaker 2: I do not believe that this is a spell? Oh shit, Okay,
this is the influence of a foreign domain, the four
hal and huh ha. It is the effects of a
plane beyond this one allowing itself to encroach upon the material,
like like.
Speaker 1: Like I'm just gonna throw one out there, like the fan.
Speaker 2: Room disease would probably the best easiest assumption would be fair.
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, well I was thinking that would be the
most That's what I was.
Speaker 4: Shut up, You are right.
Speaker 1: Sorry. I love how he says her name, right. I
just figured because we ran into some of them, their
thigh thorns, and there's this whole up face situation going
on here that most of the people don't even know
about because when you talk about it, their brains get
off fuzzy wuzzy.
Speaker 2: But when we came here, we were investigating a magical
influence that has affected the town. Yes, it's been here
for quite some time. It's possible that this was a
fail safe. That they've been weakening the body boundaries between
planes for quite some time in case they ever had
to do this.
Speaker 1: That's what Saoon said to the other guy, But the
other guy didn't remember any of the other details except
for that Suoon said that Suon's like our beautiful old friends.
Speaker 3: I see.
Speaker 1: But yeah, he said that it might be like a
last die in resort or lack litter, indeed, what have you.
Speaker 2: It is possible whatever it is that has been toying
with the fate of this town has been doing it
for some time, and if it believes the situation has
gone from dire to unsalvageable in there due to the
attack of the cult upon the town, it may have
decided that it wished to end whatever this little experiment is.
And if it did, these thorns may be a way
to keep people inside. Also, I have further bad news.
I have attempted to use magic too. I have attempted
to use magic to enter into the town several times,
and it appears that teleporting in or out using at
least the kind of magic I'm privy too, is not possible. Oh,
I need to know from your side, and you think
of any way that you might be able to get
rid of the thorns.
Speaker 1: We got this one weapon that kind of calls them
to recede. It's called rupe loom.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 2: Yes, I was there, that was the reason that you
have it. Yeah, oh remember we went to visit the
college and yes, yes I remember.
Speaker 1: Now. Sorry, it's been so long, my brain is all jumbled.
I got questions I got to ask you, like can
you stop automantic radiation? And what automancy is? Don't ask
me how I know what that is now. But I'm
learning down here. But it's been a long while, but
I kind of want to know those things. But rue
Bloom was causing the thorns to pull back quite a bit,
but it looked like it was causing a lot of
expense to.
Speaker 2: Rootblum well, rute bloom as a weapon, it's a bit
of a tool that is meant to be a deterrent
against alien invasions. For example, the reason that it was
being used to seal away the aspect of Gotham that
it was within was because a deity like that is
considered a foreign entity. By placing it within the body,
it sealed it away, like extending the divine curtain into it.
Is one way of thinking about it. It could be
that because everything that is within this town, these thorns,
that is, because they are an outside force coming from
another plane, Root Bloom may be attempting to reject them.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think that is what's happening. Do we have
anything I can do that? Like on a bigger scale, we.
Speaker 2: Have root Blow, and I do not believe that it
is capable of enough power to get through this massive
wall of thorns I see before me.
Speaker 1: It got pretty burnt out. Just where where are are you?
Like up top? Are you stuck at? Like the top?
Speaker 2: I'm outside the cave. I'm outside them beside the river right.
Speaker 1: Now is goldoll Okay?
Speaker 2: I'm not sure. Oh, anyone who was in the town
up here fled none.
Speaker 1: Of them are left, then they'll probably be all right.
Speaker 2: By the time I had returned from my duties, this
place was already empty.
Speaker 1: That makes sense. Are you dodging my questions about adam ncy?
Speaker 2: You want me to explain idomancy to you?
Speaker 1: Now? No, what.
Speaker 6: We can skip that lesson.
Speaker 1: Let's fast forward a little bit.
Speaker 2: I know, I kind of do you not pay attention
to your lessons?
Speaker 6: How do you so?
Speaker 1: If I were to circumvent it, like let's say something
done exploded and and and a bunch of the energy
was forced into uh, like a body part for example,
is there a way to, like, I don't know, take
it and put it.
Speaker 2: Somewhere describing I dool like radiation syndrome?
Speaker 1: Yes? Or are or wait say that word.
Speaker 2: Again, idol like radiation syndrome.
Speaker 3: Syndrome?
Speaker 8: Es?
Speaker 1: Yes, I was just I was trying to shorten it
up ees.
Speaker 3: Yes, it would be e R s.
Speaker 1: But you do yes, God damn Tom.
Speaker 6: Is short up sally?
Speaker 3: And yet you need me to explain I don't Meancy, I.
Speaker 6: Don't need you to explain on omans we had to
fixed radiation?
Speaker 1: Who isn't it from it?
Speaker 2: And you don't even it depends.
Speaker 1: He's probably gonna figure it out himself.
Speaker 8: Ugh.
Speaker 2: If it was caused by the misuse of idomancy by
one not trained to do so, then it is unlikely
that it could be fixed. You would need an incredibly
powerful idomantic resonator to functionally fish out the damage, or
somebody who was incredibly proficient with idomancy who could reverse it.
Who could Uh if you imagined that the concept of
the body part had been corrupt through idomancy, they could
imagine it back into being.
Speaker 1: What it was. How do I become good at automancy, Pepper, Oks,
Come on you? Out of anyone knows I can do
anything if I've put my heart and mind and body
and soul into it.
Speaker 2: Come on, Pepper. Even if we grant that you are
capable of a great many things, I'm afraid, in your
position and with your understanding of magic, idomancy might be
a bit beyond you.
Speaker 1: Well, you have skipped chapters before.
Speaker 2: It is beyond most people. The idomantic web exists entirely
to protect mortal kind from using it. Do we have
a receptacle or what an idomantic resonator?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I said, right.
Speaker 3: No, then.
Speaker 2: Yes, the college does have some, but it's not It's
not as if it is a simple matter of.
Speaker 1: Signing a paper and loan and went out yes, Okay,
do we have anything or is there something I can
do to enhance group blooms abilities? To reject the thoughts
I'm switching topics. Now you know how my brain works.
Speaker 2: Root bloom all right?
Speaker 1: The other problem.
Speaker 2: There is a way that root bloom could be augmented.
Speaker 1: There is.
Speaker 2: I'm going to say some words that you don't understand.
Speaker 1: Tramm me.
Speaker 2: Root Bloom is a special item that is known as
a constella query.
Speaker 1: Constellary, Okay, it is a lesser constellaquery.
Speaker 2: To be specific, it is made of a very special material,
A very very special material, one that is related to idomancy.
I won't get into the weeds of how, but it's
made of theocite.
Speaker 1: I know. That's.
Speaker 2: Some of these constelloquary items are those that were wielded
by the idolins during their mortal life. Yours is. Root
bloom is not one such item. There are also lesser constelloquaries.
Speaker 3: Let me finish my lesson.
Speaker 2: There are lesser constellaquaries that were constructed for a myriad
of different purposes. Road bloom is one. Due to its
nature as a constelloquary. When it is not used for
a very long time, its power wanes. Constilloquaries need to
be used and exercised, and minds need to engage with
them for them to retain their power, so they become
dormant over time. Root Bloom in its current form is
in what we might consider to be a dormant form.
If it could be awakened fully and returned to its
former glory, perhaps it could exude enough force to part
these thorns. Okay, however, doing that would be very difficult. Sorry,
what are you asking me about? Chan karragosh, sachigosh?
Speaker 4: Eh?
Speaker 2: What about that?
Speaker 1: Saf that change chang chanko?
Speaker 2: I got really excited, siph Are you referring to a
lunar sythe Oh, they're multiple and they are not a constelloquy.
Speaker 1: We were just told this recently too. Don't don't yell
at me.
Speaker 2: Is this yelling?
Speaker 3: Some people say this sounds like yelling.
Speaker 2: Listen, if you intend to pursue that line of thought,
in order to awaken a constelloquary, you must use it
for the purpose it was imagined into. Being four. It
is like idomancy related to its odd nature with the universe.
It was crafted from thoughts and desires. Root Bloom is
an item that is meant to stop alien forces from
invading places they shouldn't be. In this case, in order
to awaken it fully, you would have to use it
for that sort of purpose in a very specific way.
You would have to use it to challenge a powerful
outside alien.
Speaker 1: Force, and the cult doesn't qualify it means like actual plainarly, though,
the aspect.
Speaker 2: Of Gotham that may come into being as a result
of what they're doing would be an alien force. The
point of Gotham's entire rituals, they try to create a
body that can blend in in the world that it's in.
Root Bloom would certainly be effective against it, but it
would not count as a truly alien force, because the
body would be made within this work, within this realm.
Speaker 1: It's al rat happens to me all the timas. However, Pepper, however, Oxalia, do.
Speaker 2: You not see it in front of you? There is
an obvious answer, huh, these thorns that root Bloom has
already showed it considers to be an alien source. If
you want it to awaken root Bloom fully, you could
turn it against the source of these thoughts.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, that in mind, we kind of have more time.
Speaker 6: Sensitive thing because the cold's trying to make a slur.
Speaker 3: I did not mean to take up more time than
I needed. You asked me a plethora of questions.
Speaker 6: I've got so many questions. I haven't even started on
my question.
Speaker 1: Really, I've got so I want to learn more. I've
been growing here, but I feel like I'm growing all
the wrong ways. I want to protect my friends.
Speaker 2: When you get out of it there, I can enroll
you in night classes if that's what you're asking.
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm asking for some advice from a from a
from you.
Speaker 2: What sort of ad fuss?
Speaker 1: If you were gonna get the drop on a call
or lack a group of people, and you had your
friends with your what would you do.
Speaker 3: Well.
Speaker 2: I don't fully understand the situation inside in regards to fortifications.
Speaker 1: So hear what's happening on kids.
Speaker 2: But yes, rituals to create bodies, aspects, incarnations of deities,
they are a sensitive matter. While in some cases infiltrating
such a place may be a difficult and complicated matter.
I believe that the time for nuance would have been
before they launched their attack on the town. Rather, if
you wish to stop them from doing what they're doing.
If you wish to catch them unaware, then I believe
the best course of action is the simplest one, to
brashly attack and interrupt the ritual they believe that they
are care carrying out.
Speaker 1: That sounds like where we're headed, sir.
Speaker 2: Sometimes to disrupt the nuanced whims of the gods, a
firm backhand is all that is required.
Speaker 1: I think that's the wisest thing you done, said.
Speaker 8: I.
Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I could, I could, I could give a
stern backhand, and if I can't, I'm scarn. Definitely can
and literally, whoof she got that thing? Unlong? Okay? Okay,
So we got to find So there are two ways
to awaken a constelloquary, But we're not gonna find the
thing that turns this constello query all fine and dandy,
because like, what would that be doing in the pits?
Speaker 2: What are you talking about?
Speaker 1: To get rid of the thorns? You said, like, it's
in a insenters sleep state and to wake it up,
either need to find like something.
Speaker 2: No lesser constelloquaries have no paired artifacts. You may be
conflating it with something else that maybe you heard somewhere
else when you were studying, or maybe that someone related
to you, perhaps they knows.
Speaker 4: About another thing.
Speaker 1: My nose starts to gush flood.
Speaker 2: It is true that idola constelliquaries resonate with one another,
and they can awaken that way, But lesser constell aquaries
are singular artifacts.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: The only way that you can awaken it is by
jostling it back into the state it used to be.
In this case, your best bet is to use it
to extinguish or defeat or drive away whatever it is
that's causing these thorns.
Speaker 1: We think it's a fae. That is likely, and there's
lots of missed.
Speaker 2: If root bloom has already showed that it missed.
Speaker 1: Hmmm, yes, oh oh oh, okay, another thing I forgot
to tell you. Okay, there's also this mist that's affecting
people's memories and is a completely it's lack separate but similar.
Speaker 2: Because yeah, yes, you had talked to Sorrel about that
when you were visiting, and I have been briefed on
your conversations. It's in the town, yes, yes, Pepper. If
you're locked in there and that mist is beginning to
fill that entire place, you are running on borrowed time.
Speaker 3: I know.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm telling you all of this, because there's
a call, there's miss there's fucking people, it's all down.
Speaker 6: There's your down.
Speaker 2: Here is not new, but it has also not reached
the surface in the way you're describing in a very
long time. It is possible that being near a constella
query and other idromatic sources of energy may have given
you all some very slight resistance to it if you've
managed to move through it. But if that mist manages
to fill the pits, then not only would it be
a lost cause to try to save you, but the
right thing to do would be to extinguish the pits entirely.
We would become a threat to the outside world.
Speaker 1: Let us handle this ratual first, please.
Speaker 2: Yes, you should handle things one thing at a time.
Speaker 1: Get the people we can out of here before we.
Speaker 2: I am going to go speak to the college regarding
your situation with amneosis. Well, I'm gone. You need to
stop that cult, and then you need to do what
you can to awaken root Bloom.
Speaker 1: Awaken stop awaken root Bloom, kick the phase.
Speaker 2: As Unfortunately, there's not much you can do about the mists.
They would be unrelated to either of those things.
Speaker 1: Well, and it's bound to get speaking of if there's
a timeline on that to Uh. There have been these
colon drafts that have been, from what we understand, purifying
the waters and stuff down here, and two out of
three of them are now put And I won't.
Speaker 2: Explain why the mysts are cordy. Yeah, so it seems that,
as we suspect there was a filtration system, these mysts
were always present in those caves. The difference is that
now what was keeping them at bay is gone. Focus
on your first two tasks. The third dealing with amniusis however,
for now you need to treat that as not being
an option. Helping the people of that town escape before
it becomes a bad situation is.
Speaker 4: What you need to do.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know.
Speaker 2: And if many of them have been infected by amniusis
I will leave it to the college and we'll leave
it to them to decide what might be best. I
will speak to them.
Speaker 1: One more time. You said it's retainers receptacles for this.
Speaker 2: Right, you will not find an idolic resonator down there,
I assure you, Well, that's actually technically not true. Bloom
is technically one, but it won't do what you need
it to do. What constello queries are idolic resident, I'm
not explaining I do fancy to you right now.
Speaker 3: You need to do those first two things and then
you'll tell me. Maybe you know what.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take those night courses. I'm gonna learn more
than you.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 1: Great, I'm mercy. All right, we gotta we gotta cut
this up. Indeed, this has been more than fifty You
got some big old magic. Yes, ox Alia, stay safe?
You too, you too. I know I've put on a
lot of airs, but I'm I'm scared about this situation.
I'm gonna try my best, though.
Speaker 2: We're going to get you out of there.
Speaker 1: We're going to get all these people out of here.
Speaker 2: You don't belong in there. We'll get you, none of
us do.
Speaker 1: Thank you.
Speaker 2: I'm off to return to the college.
Speaker 1: Then tell tell Sorrel. I said, hi, and I'll be
coming home soon.
Speaker 2: They will, hopefully, all right, stay safe, ox Al, you out.
Speaker 1: Oever out?
Speaker 2: Okay with all of that, Given.
Speaker 4: The time star walks, you're literally just talking to the.
Speaker 3: I was like, hey, I've I've got to like this
whole thing with being crazy.
Speaker 2: You you're just crazy.
Speaker 4: You're talking. That's just weird.
Speaker 8: I was like, hey, do we need to talk about this?
I don't need to because I'm going through it. You
I know you're going through it on your other stuff,
But like, do we need to do we need to
get into this, like I will help out.
Speaker 1: No, Hey, I know that I probably don't need to
tell you this, but if they ask you, like, don't.
Speaker 3: Become a sacrifice to Gotham. I don't know if you're
getting the same ship.
Speaker 1: I don't No, I got a Chevy potato talking.
Speaker 3: Real quick. Did your adoptive not Did your bio dad
put a rib in you? I don't know.
Speaker 6: You know, if you do, it's not a sperm donor multiple.
Speaker 2: Das as you had as you as Lilia heads down
to Lowtown and the others continue to search for more
reice as these two conversations occur and wrap up, leaving
some of you with more to think about than others.
Given the time, I think that that is where we're
going to stop for this week. Yeah, we're gonna we're gonna.
Speaker 4: Cut next week's parents and they'd kill some guiltis and
they'd kill that's probably not gonna have it next week.
But like sometime in the next week, if only Pepper
had mentioned I don't know, say a certain magic pond that.
Speaker 2: Oh you know, it's going to be the problem with
that magic pond.
Speaker 3: And you're gonna have to go through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's okay. The lava proof suit is here, the
bad the good news to totally resistant to lava. We
can use that to escape the bad news. It is
covered in lava, it's in the volcano.
Speaker 4: It does conduct heat.
Speaker 2: The suit is immune to it, though, so the suit
is good.
Speaker 1: It won't kill you the sweating mite. I'm sorry, Logan,
I can't imagine how much I stress you out?
Speaker 8: So fun?
Speaker 2: What if are you talking about stressing me out? I don't.
Speaker 1: I enjoy Sally and Pets. I love the thing that
Ana was doing with Sally.
Speaker 9: Oh yeah, yeah, say, Logan is the like vtwo Studio
has a little cat thing, so I will like, while
I'm listening, I'm playing around.
Speaker 1: With it, and I was trying to pump in it
with you.
Speaker 6: I'm trying to figure out what Sally is gonna talk
and it's it's in our call check.
Speaker 3: That's so fun.
Speaker 2: You were going like whenever Logan was talking, that's so funny.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like I need to predict when Logan can speak now.
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