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Speaker 2: Enjoy moon.
Speaker 1: The craft with you and core Gath is comeing down.
You can see the uh the shore growing below you.
Core Gath is freaking out a bit. He's saying, should
we jump?
Speaker 3: What do we do?
Speaker 4: Uh?
Speaker 5: Okay, look look, look, wait to hang on a second. Now,
let me think and I'm trying to like see how
fast we're plummeting. Is there any way I can roll
for that, just to say.
Speaker 1: Like, okay, absolutely a few seconds.
Speaker 5: Before this will impact the ground. Okay, So I'm going
to just insight maybe insight insight Okay, Ah, that's a thirteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going pretty fast, but you're you're two like
pretty hardy people. Uh you think you've got like a
decent handle on when to jump? Out and uh it's
probably coming up like pretty quick.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, hang on cargat that. I'm looking out the window, okay.
And I look at the door to his left, which
is gone at this juncture. It's just gone. Okay man.
When I say jump, you jump, okay, And I open
my door and I just kind of attempt to kick
it as hard as I can so that I also
have an exit point vehicle.
Speaker 1: Absolutely instead of opening it, just kick the fucking thing off. Yes, yeah,
absolutely might open check okay.
Speaker 5: Oh and I rear back and just thirteen.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's probably not like, as you know, like you don't
have a good, good leverage, but you're you're still able
to do it. It's just not as impressive as before
when you just fucking launched that thing right.
Speaker 6: Cross cord slap.
Speaker 1: You're just like just open the door, throw that shit open,
right okay.
Speaker 5: But it does open, right, okay, okay, okay. Uh, we
have like for six seconds, do you do you do
you know how to roll?
Speaker 6: I'll figure it out, okay.
Speaker 5: Okay, three two, one jump, and I launched myself out
of the window onto what I hope is land below.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's like snowy, and I mean it's horrifically cold.
You know. Uh, as you fly out of this thing,
you are maybe like ten feet up. I think you
know you pick, you pick a decent time to jump
out here, and uh, do you just try your best
to roll? This is gonna be I think decks and decks.
Speaker 5: H I want it to look really cool. Will that
cost me anything extra?
Speaker 1: It might? Yeah, let's let's see what you get open
check dex dex. Okay, it is not cool. It is horrific.
Uh how does this go horribly wrong?
Speaker 4: So?
Speaker 5: I wanted to not a fumble.
Speaker 1: It's not a fumble, so it's not the worst. The
five definitely don't.
Speaker 5: Look below number. So I'm I try to do that
like three point land, you know, were one hands on
the ground and like skid to a halt, and instead
I double over and I crunch my elbow and it
goes directly into my own side, and I'm just like oh,
and I like catch my elbow in my own stomach
and just start doing somersaults involuntarily.
Speaker 1: Core Gay doesn't look much more graceful. He just kind
of like hits his side. You can hear it, like
the wind get launched out from his from his mouth,
as you know, he just he gets the wind knocked
out of him. He's rolling like sideways, you know, like
he tried to land, so he would roll forward and
instead land sideways. And he's just like oh nice spinning
and like sliding.
Speaker 5: Oh, Corgath, did you did you make it?
Speaker 3: Dude?
Speaker 1: Sticks a thumb up.
Speaker 5: Terminator style? Okay, great? And I look around. Yeah, in
the distance, we have some kaiju near us snow.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the distance you can see a pretty terrifying site.
There are many kaiju sort of like wandering around almost aimlessly.
There's a red sort of almost like a factory looking
building with belching smoke coming out of smoke stacks in
the distance that you can see through the snow. It's
not really a common looking sort of architecture that you've seen.
If anything, it almost looks like it would be something
you would see on earth.
Speaker 5: Corgath.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 5: And I kind of stumble over to them because I'm like,
oh god, how I've really landed on my leg wrong? Hey, uh,
we got we gotta get up. We gotta go like
right now. And and and I point in the distance
that that's where we need to be.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, look, look that's the only shelter we're going
to find for miles. We have to drive. Yes, I
help them up. Come on, come on, come on, they're
gonna find us if we just linger here. Then I
start to like drag him along with hand.
Speaker 1: How do we get to them?
Speaker 5: I don't know. We're just gonna have to lay low
and I look off into the horizon. How far away
are these kaiju? Can I assess that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I mean you don't have to make a roll for it.
I mean they're just kind of like wandering around. If
if you imagine like hend animals like on a farm
or something, Yeah, almost looks like that. There's no like
hens or anything. But they're just kind of like moving around,
lumbering around.
Speaker 8: Like.
Speaker 5: Have they have you noticed us?
Speaker 1: You don't think so? Okay, they haven't maken any they
haven't made any sort of you know, motion towards you
that you can tell.
Speaker 5: Okay, Oh, corgath, I I think we just have to
lay low as as low as we possibly can. Okay.
I mean, looks like there's a fair bit of snow
around us at least, so you know, maybe they won't
see us, right, Look, wait, here here, and I take
off the sunbear cloak and I give it to them. Here.
Your looks are blue, dude, just take that for a while,
and we're just gonna have to huddle and make it
towards that. Okay, And look, it's glowing, so it's kind
of like it's kind of like a beacon. Right, we'll
be fine really fast. I don't think that's yeah, yeah yeah,
yeah yeah yeah. And and and we just keep I
just keep trudging through, and we kind of huddle together,
and I look back behind me, and I can see
through all of this like snow fog, this blizzard. The lights,
the headlights, they slowly start to get dimmer and dimmer
and weaker.
Speaker 1: Oh no, the vehicle crash behind you, maybe a second
or so after you jumped out. Oh yeah, the thing
blew up for sure.
Speaker 5: So I start to see the fires of the vehicle
explosion grow dimmer and dimmer as we walk and time passes.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 5: I'm guessing there are probably some explosions that probably would
have looked cooler.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it probably wasn't like a gigantic, you know, Michael
Bay level explosion, but it was It probably was like
a muffled sort of like.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, well, in any case, judging forward towards whatever,
that looks like some kind of factory. Very very weird
to have that out here to me.
Speaker 1: Give me decks and decks. Okay, let's do this. Let's
do a roll check here. Okay, difficulty is going to
be fourteen fourteen.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's a five. That is a failure.
Speaker 1: M You don't happen to have any traits or anything
that you might be able to invoke to reroll that.
Speaker 5: Oh that's a terrifying question. I do have invoke trait?
The thing is, I can.
Speaker 1: You don't have any traits that would justify rerolling this.
Speaker 5: God bye. I have to spend an ultimate point, mister DM,
and I only have two ultimateny.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just I'm throwing out there.
Speaker 5: Wait wait wait wait wait wait. If you're throwing it
out there, then that means I have to catch something,
and I'm gonna try it to catch a bed as
the kid, Hang on, hang on, everything costs money. Oh no, okay,
I'm gonna say, I'm going to invoke a trait, and
I'm going to spend one ultimate point to invoke one
of my traits and reroll.
Speaker 1: This what trait are you using to reroll?
Speaker 5: See that's the thing. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for you to lawyer it for me.
Speaker 5: Oh, villains don't follow the rules. Whack yeah yeah yeah,
thank you, thank you. Iris. See Iris understands. I okay,
you know what, I'm gonna take the failure instead.
Speaker 8: Okay, I'm not.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna I'm gonna keep that ultimate point. I'm gonna
hang on to that. Well.
Speaker 1: I got joyce that's been made. So as you begin
sneak your way towards this, this red factory, you and
core Gath are doing your best to stay close to
the ground. There's occasional like rocky outcroppings and boulders and things,
or just large patches of ice. And as you make
your way closer, you hear this cracking noise and your
feet go out from under you. You and core Gath
begin to fall into some sort of ravine. As you
were making your way closer, you begin to fall. What
do you do?
Speaker 5: Uh? Probably start to scream.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, core Gath is falling. Let's see which of
you fell first.
Speaker 5: It also depending on how long this fall is. Depending
on how long this oh no, oh, that's no good.
I imagine my wits will probably have gone out from
under me as well, so it might take me like
an I guess I want to see how long it
would take me to realize. Okay, I can, I can levitate?
Maybe would that be a thing you can? Okay? Cool?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 5: Well, would I need to roll for that? How do I?
How do I? How do I make this happen?
Speaker 1: Poor Gath is falling though.
Speaker 5: Okay, I make an attempt to dive after core Gath. Okay,
once I gather myself from falling, yes.
Speaker 1: I think again. Yeah, I think this will probably be
decks and insight. And I'm gonna say the difficulty is twelve.
Speaker 5: Okay, that's a five. That's a failure.
Speaker 10: Gosh.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 1: Poor Gath is falling down the ravine. You are flying
trying to speed up and catch him. He like, as
he's falling, he's trying to reach out and grab stuff.
He pulls out his axe, tries to like slow himself down.
But it's just like, you know, like it's not it's
not making it's not allowing him to grab enough purchase
inside the ice, and uh, it just kind of clatters
like flatters off the side. He connects with part of
an icy outcropping in the ravine, and you hear him
like yell and just kind of like echoes throughout the cavern. Here,
you can make it one more check to try one
more check.
Speaker 5: I already know what I want to do. I want
to spend an ultimate point to create some kind of
pond or pool, something that we can land into that
is water.
Speaker 1: I will definitely allow that.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, awesome. Now I spend an ultimple point as
I as I kind of go down like this like
a because I realize that I'm also going to be falling,
and I just hope that it's deep enough to catch
both of us.
Speaker 1: Do you make it deep enough?
Speaker 5: I think I do. Yeah, I'm imagining something that's giant, cavernous,
you know, maybe one hundred and fifty two hundred feet.
Speaker 1: How do you visualize this happening? What do we say?
Speaker 5: It's already it's not exactly like you know the Gandalf
scene in Lord of the Rings right where you're like,
oh man, that's just huge cavern. It's really quite dark,
and it's it's a lot more narrow. But this this
kind of like Clay starts to dissolve. We watch it
dissolve almost instantly, and there's this it looks like claymation,
the way it fills up almost immediately with water, you know,
like how stop motion water kind of has that droplet effect.
It looks like did you chink like that? And I'm
doing this and I am immediately you see this as
I sink into this water, like amah oh, it's cold.
It's very cold, and it's colder the deeper you go.
I didn't think about the temperature of the water. But
because because I didn't think about it, it's going to
be at least as cold as it is up top,
if not colder. What's interesting, though, is that it's colder
at the surface the deeper. The deeper you go, it
starts to kind of even out and not really get
much colder. In fact, it starts to get much warmer.
I don't experience this because I don't go as deep
as it would take. So I'm just like in this
water getting stopped, kind of like something in jello, and
I open my eyes to like complete cold, icy darkness,
and I just start, you know, cling my way up
into what direction I think is up.
Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to make a roll for core Gas.
Speaker 3: Where do you go there?
Speaker 1: He is, all right, this is going to be decks,
and might let's have a roll open check for me.
Speaker 5: Yep, h decks and my own No.
Speaker 1: Pore Gas got a nine.
Speaker 5: I got an eight.
Speaker 1: Okay. It's one of those things where you know, like
it's it's warm below the surface. You fell kind of
far and you did like one of those pencil you know,
make your body like a pencil if you fall into
the water kind of situation, and you went down pretty
far and it was like warmer down there. But as
you're like getting going up, like you feel yourself like
getting more confused and turned around, and the ice and
stuff all around the water is a bit like it's
not giving you vertigo, but it's like really hard to
orient yourself, you know, like you're going towards the light
and it's kind of refracting and reflecting and it's a
little confusing, and it's it's also snowing outside like up above,
so the your your mind is like paying playing tricks
on you as you're climbing up and you feel like
you're losing your breath a little bit. In core Gath
is just kind of like swimming as best as he
can up, trying not to freeze, and you can see
several like things like falling off of core Gath, like
the the sun bear jacket is like falling off of him,
like he's taking off like frantic, just trying to swim upwards,
and he drops like his axe drops the he drops
the jacket and he's just frantically swimming up. It takes
you longer than you're expecting, and you burst forth from
the surface, like almost completely out of breath. And you
can see like there's a little bit of blood trickling
out around core Gath as he as he comes.
Speaker 5: Up, I swim over to him as as I can.
Speaker 1: Where did that come from?
Speaker 5: We just we we landed in an underground lake. We
got really really lucky, and I look around for somewhere,
uh that we can maybe cross thought he wasn't there before.
Speaker 3: He wasn't there.
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, it's okay, it's okay. Just just concentrate and breathe.
You just concentrate on breathing. And I'm kind of like
dragging him along with me as my legs kick us
to maybe some kind of sure. I don't know if
I can see anything down here.
Speaker 1: There is light, but very little. It's just kind of
the white, you know, sort of moonlit reflection cascading down,
so it's it's very minimal, and the moonlight probably dances
across the the surface of the water a bit. And yeah, uh,
core Gath is just following you, just kind of like blindly.
He's just a bit delirious and like took he took
a nasty spill on the way down here. You can
definitely find like something to grab onto, absolutely, okay.
Speaker 5: And I eventually reach out a hand and it's some
kind of rock. I don't know. We can we climb
this corgath and I don't want to bring him over
to the sides that he can also put one of
his limbs on my ice.
Speaker 3: I didn't think I would need the ice pick.
Speaker 6: Okay, lost my acts.
Speaker 5: Shit, yes, yeah it's it's yeah. I look up.
Speaker 1: He's fumbling a bit for his ice pick. We need
to get.
Speaker 5: Dry, yes, yes we do. And I look around. Is
there any anywhere we can crawl onto and not just
like hang on find out we're going to what was
it insight and insight ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a place for you to kind of like,
climb onto, uh to get your footing.
Speaker 5: Okay, out of the water at least.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you made this pool, so there's probably
a place to stand on.
Speaker 5: I'm hoping, so I wasn't thinking about that when I
made it.
Speaker 12: So.
Speaker 5: Come on, and I kind of like help Corgath get
his hand up there. Okay, ready, you just have to
lift yourself and I lived and climb onto this I
guess platform. It's kind of craggy, but it's at least
somewhere we can get dry. And I'm just clawing on
because my strength is tapped. And I see him kind
of struggling, like okay, okay on two three?
Speaker 1: Oh, you can see like his his elbow is like
pressed really hard into his left side. I think I broke.
Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe maybe.
Speaker 1: Didn't.
Speaker 10: I don't know.
Speaker 2: We are I didn't expect to die in some raffine
would be inside can you stomach?
Speaker 5: Hey, you know, don't get too optimistic. Maybe we'll still
die inside of ca'd your stomach.
Speaker 2: Freeze to death soon?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: No, no, no, don't say that, because then as soon
as he says freeze to death, I remember that I'm
freezing and start chattering as well. Oh man, and I
look around. There's no way to assess how far down
we are, right.
Speaker 1: You can? I think I'll go off of your previous
inside check. You're maybe like one hundred feet down.
Speaker 10: Okay, Okay, I.
Speaker 3: Don't know if I can make the climb.
Speaker 5: No, I know, I know. I don't think I could either.
Speaker 3: Try.
Speaker 5: Is there any way how close are we to the entrance?
Speaker 1: The entrance? I mean you're down about one hundred feet.
I mean you're just in the ravine. It just collapsed.
Speaker 5: Okay, and can we see up into it?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 1: You probably have pretty bad visibility. I'll let you do
a check, but it's gonna be really hard. Like it's
going to be fourteen okay.
Speaker 5: For insight and insight yeah, okay, that's a ten.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you just don't have great visibility. You barely made
out the fact that you're maybe one hundred feet down.
Speaker 3: We need to keep moving. If we need to make
a fire, you have a fire, I.
Speaker 5: Can I make a fire. I should just be able
to make a fire. Hang on a second, Corcath and
I look at the ground. I system, yes, there you are. Hey.
Look I know I said for you to leave me
alone and not talk to me. Anymore, and that I
really didn't need your help. But uh now I'm stuck
in a cave with this guy who really doesn't deserve
to be down here. I kidnapped him and now he
might die. Uh can I I only have one ultimate
point left? Can I just can I just I feel
around on the ground. Can I just make a fire here?
Speaker 9: You have the powers of creation right right right right?
Speaker 5: Fire needs fuel, Fire needs fuel. Uh, I only have
one ultimate point. Oh, I look at core Gath, who
has like frozen snot leaking into his mouth, that's becoming
like a frozen snot beard into his braids, And I
use an ultimate point to create a roaring fire inside
of this ravine.
Speaker 1: Is it just like like one of those big beach
bonfire types?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, we're we're on the plat The area
that we are is large enough to where it can
have both of us but also have a pretty decent
fire going. And at that level of like I feel
this warmth immediately right, it's like wow, flame, instantaneous. At
the same time, all of my energy is just gone.
It's like sapped. It's like being next to something so
warm and yet you're just beyond starving. Like you just
cannot and I I just kind of sit back and
relax and say, whatever, what did you do?
Speaker 1: What did you do?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: Did you do that? Is that the magic?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Yeah, it's magic, Koryoth, you just I tap him
on the shoulder. You just stay here, Okay, I'm gonna go. Look,
I'm gonna go look around and you saw Look can
you swim?
Speaker 3: I can swim it?
Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, get your strength back. I'll go look for
something for us, maybe a way out, I don't know.
And I get up and I let my hands warm
up just a little bit by the fire, even though
it's like this inner coldness, and I start walking away,
just to maybe feel my way out into a cave
or something.
Speaker 1: Okay, Uh, you leave the Krgath by the fire says, wait,
what are you?
Speaker 3: What are you going to? Are you going to fight
to k without me?
Speaker 5: I turned back. No, stay stay put. They're up there,
we're down here. We're safe for now. I'm not fighting anybody.
Speaker 3: You are a strange woman. Yes, I never thought the
Savior would be like this.
Speaker 5: Me neither. Okay, rest up and I turn around and
walk away.
Speaker 1: Okay. And you're looking for some sort of what.
Speaker 5: At this juncture, is something not not just to not
just to tunnel our way up, but anything that looks
like it could potentially lead to another exit because this
is this is a lot of cragginess. I'm guessing it's
it's rock down here.
Speaker 1: Rock and ice, rock and ice. Need so I also
need a check from you. Okay, Okay, you're out of
ultimate points, right.
Speaker 5: Yes I am. I'm very audible to my points. That's
one reason I wanted to get away from Coregath.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm going to need a willpower, willpower, and this
is going to be difficulty twelve to start.
Speaker 5: It's a fifteen success.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're keeping it together right now, but you can feel.
Speaker 3: The need.
Speaker 5: I trudge forward, and I am fully intent on just
leaving Corkath there. I know where he is. He's hearty, now,
he has a fire and he has a nice pick.
But I can't be around him. I can't do it, man,
I have to come back for him. And I start
to like, I look at my hands and I can
see the veins in my palms and in my arms,
and things are just kind of like pulsing, and.
Speaker 1: You are effectively looking for what exactly away out Okay,
inside and insight Open check.
Speaker 5: Thirteen.
Speaker 1: Okay, up ahead, you can see maybe a minute or
two away from the fire, you can see that there's
like it's not like a switchback, but you can see
maybe some like pillars of ice and rock. And I
think you're doing a little bit of math to see
if like you might be able to jump between them
and maybe climb a little bit and jump and climb,
and you think it's possible, but it looks a little sketchy.
Speaker 5: I look over the edge. Can I see the bottom.
Speaker 1: Of the ravine? I think you're near the bottom.
Speaker 5: So jumps in? What threat does it present to me?
Speaker 1: Well, the higher you go, the more dangerous a fall
would be.
Speaker 5: M I start climbing.
Speaker 1: Okay, this will be might and might you think Open
check fourteen. Yeah, it's tough, but you're pretty fucking strong.
It's it's the equivalent of basically doing pull ups, and
you could probably do a lot of pull ups. So
slowly but surely, you begin making your way up ten
feet up, twenty feet up, thirty feet up. I have
to make a jump now, something else.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna try and jump. I don't even think about.
Speaker 1: It, Okay, I'll say, might in decks for.
Speaker 5: This is that open yep nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, you jump and you make it to the other side,
but you begin to fall as.
Speaker 5: You and my fingers are like clawing at the at
the edge of the cliff.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you begin to fall, I mean might and might.
Difficulty is fourteen.
Speaker 5: Twenty three success.
Speaker 1: Holy shit.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Uh, it's it's crazy. You You slide and you fall
and then you just yeat yourself back up. It's almost
like you forget how strong you are.
Speaker 5: And I'm like double jump back onto the surface. My
legs are kind of kicking air and it's like an
anime scene where all of my all my features are
just gone and it's like two little beady eyes and
it's just like just puffs of air. And I keep climbing.
Speaker 1: Okay, forty feet, fifty feet, sixty seventy eighty ninety and
you make your way to the surface.
Speaker 5: My legs are like kicking below me, like and then
I lodged myself one last effort, kind of like a
seal when they're like ooh, out of water like that,
just face first into the snow like oh, and I'm
my face is tomato red, sweaty as hell, like okay, okay,
where I look around?
Speaker 13: Where am I?
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a little closer to the building and the
kid there may be like two hundred and some two
hundred feet and some change away.
Speaker 5: Oh wow, just two hundred feet.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're still kind of like lumbering around. Give me
an insight and insight open check.
Speaker 5: That's an eight. Okay, gulp. I start judging into the snow.
Speaker 1: We see small her and making their way. Are you
being stealthy? Are you making a beeline for this?
Speaker 5: Oh h, I don't know if I was thinking about
being stealthy maybe m m, no, you're not. I also,
did you say there's a person?
Speaker 1: No, I said, we see you? Oh, Like it's it's
like a scene out of Shadows of the Colossus, you know,
like this little tiny person like walk trudging through the
snow and the yes kaiju, and there's thirteen of them around.
As you're walking straight towards them, there is no reaction
from the kaija.
Speaker 5: I straightened up a bit and I keep walking.
Speaker 11: Okay.
Speaker 1: As you approach maybe fifteen feet away, there's a smell
that you sort of recognize here, that smell of death
from Cryptia. And as you look at the Kaiju. You
realize there's bits of flesh and stuff missing from these creatures,
and they look a little bit less a beast like
and a little bit more humanoid like. They've got few
of them have like massive horns, and some of their
bones are poking through their skin.
Speaker 5: And they don't notice me, not that you can tell.
I just keep walking.
Speaker 1: And it's at this point, basically, when you're right in
the middle of the kaija, that you see something burst
forth from a door in the factory. Familiar shape.
Speaker 6: What the fuck are you doing here?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 5: Oh oh, Laser Craven More. Oh no, oh, no, the
last person I'd ever heard.
Speaker 6: How did you find me? I? I climb my aus
and call me Michael.
Speaker 10: Oh.
Speaker 5: I straightened up, as if as if rehearsing some kind
of like theater project. Yes, my arch nemesis, I was
looking for you the whole time.
Speaker 6: I know it.
Speaker 5: All. And I'm mumble out my breath this guy again, halt,
for it is I who shall stop you, and I
start to make my way forward.
Speaker 6: Laser Craven More, halt, I mean not into the secret oratory.
Speaker 5: I look around. What do I have to do to
get in to the secret laboratory, and I kind of
like look at him like.
Speaker 10: It's her password.
Speaker 6: Of course there's a bloody password, but I'm not going
to tell you. But I'm the one that made the
bloody thing. So even if you gave it, I wouldn't
let you in. What are you doing here? Have you
come to disrupt my planes?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 5: No, I don't even know what's going on out here? Please?
Speaker 6: Or what you?
Speaker 5: Why aren't these what? And I have a thousand different things?
But you built this place.
Speaker 6: This is my new entourage.
Speaker 5: This and I point at the kaiju that.
Speaker 8: That those.
Speaker 6: Impressive.
Speaker 12: Hey, I yeah, it takes a keen mind like mine
to go the extra mile.
Speaker 5: Right, Yes, look, I initially wanted to do business with you.
Speaker 6: Well that ship has sailed, I know.
Speaker 5: But now looking at all this, this is just powerful
and I need some of that power. Do you think?
Do you think.
Speaker 6: My power? Why would I give you any of my power?
Speaker 5: I don't know, because they're because I came all the
way out here just to just to track you.
Speaker 6: I'm still waiting for a good reason. Well if you
don't have a good reason, I suppose you'll just have
to die. Look no, all right, chaps, let's do me
about music, and.
Speaker 5: I stand out there like, oh, I throw out my hands.
I don't have any one points. Oh I'm so tired,
and I grab my shield and uh, I look at
his staff like, oh maybe maybe maybe maybe you can
kind of see me lick my lips as if I'm
looking at like a like a sandwich, like a turkey
club like, Oh I forgot you have ember stole in
your staff. Laser craven more.
Speaker 1: Mhmm, all right, you're even core gath lists.
Speaker 10: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 1: As laser plaps, the kaiju start to like straighten up,
and you can see all of their all of their
forms begin to look a little bit more menacing towards
you as they tower over you. Oh, let's do this
for effect. What do you say?
Speaker 7: Oh?
Speaker 1: Get that in frame there? Okay, shall we roll for initiative?
Speaker 5: Uh huh, I'm this will be fine. What's up?
Speaker 1: I said? I'm sure this will be fine.
Speaker 7: Hmm.
Speaker 5: As I look up, you can see me start to
like visibly shake of Oh, there's actually quite a lot
of these here.
Speaker 1: H thirteen.
Speaker 5: Oh, I look at laser. Is he doing anything in
particular right now?
Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, he's got his staff out and he's got
a big dopey smile on his face.
Speaker 6: All right, entourage, why don't you fuck some shit up?
Make her pay? That's what she gets? Well, I'll falling
from my pickup lines.
Speaker 5: You see me roll my eyes? Oh, even amidst the
exhaustion and fatigues like this, this fucking guy. And I'm
looking up at the kaduw okay on two, three, four
or fives? How many night down? Okay, there's just there's
just thirteen and I'm a little woozy. This is thirteen,
so be fine.
Speaker 1: We need an initiative role from you. Please, you go first.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'm feeling how close am I to laser?
Speaker 1: I mean technically in combat here? You're close enough that
you can attack him if you would like. Mm hm.
Speaker 5: Hm hmm. I I think I need to try and
take his staff.
Speaker 1: Okay, how would you like to try to do that?
Speaker 5: I back up slowly from Lo Kaiju and I look
at him and I I'm going to frisbee my shield
at him at his staff.
Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna knock it away from.
Speaker 5: Him and try and disarm him?
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, okay, yeah, I think let's see. I guess
this will just be I think this is probably a
might in decks.
Speaker 5: Okay, is this open check where?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Okay, let's see.
Speaker 1: You got an opportunity.
Speaker 6: How would you like to use it?
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, all right, all right, hold up, hold up,
hold up. It's been such a long talk about lutchcret Okay,
let's see. I oh, man, okay, I I think, oh gosh,
give me, give me a second, give me a second.
I think, if we can make this possible, if we
can make this possible, I not only disarm him, but
I destroy his staff, Like I think, I want to
use my shield to the point of like it dooints
it so hard that it shatters and the emberstone.
Speaker 1: Just yeah, absolutely, the staff just hell yeah, I mean
and this this is like a high This guy's got
high quality ship, you know. So the last fucking thing
he's expecting is this this staff to actually like shatter,
throw this shield so hard he like, you know, he
holds up his staff all three efforts.
Speaker 6: The last thing that would ever happen is.
Speaker 1: It just explodes, and the emberstone inside the staff you
just see like this red uh this red uh uh
shattering uh explosion erupped from the staff. He like gets
launched backwards and falls flat on his ass from the
explosion of the staff, and you can see like bits
of the staff like bed into his clothing and like
tear through them.
Speaker 5: Fop, I didn't think that would work. And I walk
over to him. Okay, I'll take this and I extend
an arm and.
Speaker 1: I do that on your next turn. I think, yeah,
I think that was that was That was it for
the turn you got to You destroyed the staff. That's
a big deal.
Speaker 5: Okay, I'll wait, I'll wait, I'll wait.
Speaker 1: Oh.
Speaker 5: I kind of stand there with like a shock Peekachu,
look though, like think that would work?
Speaker 1: Okay, And uh, let's see, it's gonna be the Kindu
that's closest to you's turn.
Speaker 6: Uh.
Speaker 1: It will uh first and foremost begin to stink. It
has a stench aura, and it will cause you to
be weak until the end of your next turn. You
are currently weak.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: It just has this overwhelming smell of decay and death.
Speaker 5: Oh that's rick.
Speaker 1: And let's see, it also has an aura of despair.
These aren't actually actions, by the way, this is just
an aura that they have.
Speaker 5: Oh.
Speaker 1: And you are also shaken as you see these kaid
you begin to approach, and this is for the entirety
of the combat weak and shaken, and then its action
is going to be I think a claw attack. It
will reach up and just kind of sweep a giant
claw towards you. That is a hit within eighteen and
that's going to be forty five physical damage.
Speaker 8: Oh I guess.
Speaker 5: Right in the child.
Speaker 1: We see you like spin and recoil from the hit.
Speaker 5: Oh man, how many more are taking their turn?
Speaker 1: It's your turn now?
Speaker 5: Okay. I look at Laser who I'm guessing he's still
writhing on the ground right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just like getting to his feet right now.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah. I want to try and absorb this umberstone absolutely.
Speaker 1: How would you have to do that?
Speaker 5: I walk over to him and I extend an arm,
and I believe it's still in like a sharred kind
of format, and I guess if I may it, we
can kind of see it liquidate and it turns from
completely spiky glass like into this like gas. And I'm
looking at it and you can see that there's this
red reflection in my irises, and I begin to absorb it.
Speaker 1: Roll me a D three please.
Speaker 5: Two.
Speaker 1: You gain two ultimate points back as you absorb this
semberstone and moon. Something else, very strange happens. As you
absorbed this emberstone. There's a moment where your consciousness expands.
First off, you gain a level. Second of all, you
get this strange, distant feeling. You've done a little bit
of exploration with your consciousness. As you do this, there's
a moment where your consciousness races away from you and
towards the storm veil rift. Something is wrong, and as
you absorb this emberstone, there's a moment where you feel
like a levy is about to burst. You sense the
rift and there is a feeling of maybe being pushed back,
a pulsing sensation like a heartbeat, and you recognize it.
You felt this when you were near the towers. The
rift is pushing against the towers, always always against this
pulse that is cascading out from them. You feel the
tower explode.
Speaker 5: Where can I tell.
Speaker 1: You can't? Please roll me a D six five The
tower near Plateea, the tower Implantaea in your mellow grove
has just exploded. After this tower explodes, you can feel
the rift grow larger. You can start to see the
sun coming up, and there is this reddish hinge to
it as you come back to yourself.
Speaker 5: Huh oh is there any more Emberstone left?
Speaker 1: You've absorbed it all from the staff.
Speaker 5: All of it.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 5: And I don't have another action, right, Your action's done.
I'm standing there kind of dumbfounded, and the certain feeling
of urgency and then not being there is very disorienting.
So I just kind of stand there like surprise guerrilla,
like who And that's how I end my turn.
Speaker 1: Okay, uh, I think lasers, just freaking out.
Speaker 6: This is impossible. That stuff was supposed to be unbreakable.
I don't believe it. I won't buy money back. Who's
going to pay for this? I know it'll be you?
Speaker 1: And he stands up and he says, all right.
Speaker 6: I was going to be nice to you, barely kill you,
and then resurrect you. But I don't even think I'm
going to do that anymore. I think now it's time
to unleash my full powers. All right, entourage, yollha, be
done with her. I've had enough of this one. We'll
get the costume when she's dead, don't worry.
Speaker 1: And the next kind you will rush forward, trying.
Speaker 5: To brace for impact.
Speaker 1: Yep, let's see. I think it is going to Uh,
you're basically not going to be able to take week
off because they all have stench aura. So normally it
would be at the end of the turn you get
to take it off, but these guys are rank. Okay,
I think this one will swing its tail at you.
It's got this horrible rech It's like mostly bone and
just the clumps of flesh still lay upon it, but
barely any and it sweeps its tail towards you. That
is a hit for twenty nine physical damage.
Speaker 5: Ah where do.
Speaker 1: Yeah? It just sends you like flying flying away into
another snow bank. Snow comes flying up.
Speaker 5: I skid into the snow.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is your turn.
Speaker 5: I need to escape. I need to flee this scene.
I got what I wanted. I don't know what's in
the factory, but I don't think I want to deal
with thirteen kaiju on my own, and now that I
have some ultimate points, I think I need to spend
at least one to make some kind of getaway.
Speaker 1: Okay, how do you think you're doing this?
Speaker 5: The first thing I can think of is that I
fly out of the area. I don't know how long
I would be able to, but at this juncture. It's
all I got And so now I'm running on. I've
got these Emberstone, I've got this fuel, and I still
need to get to No Sissia. So yeah, my first
my first thought, my first priority is just to leave, flee.
Speaker 1: Thanky DOOKI. As you begin to fly away, Moon, someone
else emerges from the factory, another familiar sight.
Speaker 5: You see my face like, oh, just contort into anger.
Speaker 1: You see white hair, glasses, someone that you've been looking for.
Speaker 6: I told you I could handle this.
Speaker 14: I have two fingers pointed upwards, and out of the
sort of tips of my fingers is a set of
sort of glowing orange code. And I say, why did
she destroy a tower?
Speaker 6: Destroy a tower? What are you talking about?
Speaker 11: This is going to accelerate the schedule a bit too.
Speaker 6: Much, schedule, What are you talking about?
Speaker 14: I look past laser as if he isn't there at Moon.
Speaker 5: You you bastard, you you messed you messed with this world.
And I change course and you see all my attention
is directly focused on Tim Krass.
Speaker 14: Now you have no reason to be here. What brings
you to this sunny part of the world Moon?
Speaker 5: And I look at him dumbfounded, like I hadn't clawed
my way up to this point. Nothing brought me here.
This is where I ended up. This is where I
ended up, after hurting my friends and ruining things and
kidnapping people, all because I'm just trying to exist. And
I zoom in closer. You brought me here, you bastard.
You brought me here.
Speaker 15: And this sniveling gutlass clown just shows up out of nowhere.
And you think I just just decided to be here.
Speaker 5: I abandoned everything that I knew.
Speaker 14: You think I'm some sort of puppet master. I don't
see any strings on you.
Speaker 5: No, Yeah, then then what's all of this?
Speaker 1: An?
Speaker 5: I gesture to the shattered staff. Why why do I
need this? Why do I need Emberstone to exist?
Speaker 8: Why are you.
Speaker 5: In this giant factory? Why are there undead kaiju running around?
How did I end up here?
Speaker 14: Well, much like you, there experiments, and you don't really
need the embers Stone. But it is making you much
more powerful, isn't it. You've become very powerful. Indeed, you're
almost a transcendent being.
Speaker 5: Straight work experiment, experiment, and I sort of land and
I'm a little lobbly maybe an experiment, but I run
right up to him with the intention of throttling him
against the ground.
Speaker 1: Okay, we I think we see Moon sort of like
rush forward and the kid you and like Laser Craven
more say no, no, none of that, and uh, they
will sort of step in between you and Tim Cross.
Speaker 5: I think, against my better judgment, I I will use
whatever I can to get to Tim Cross, whether or
not that's a conscious ultimate point. I use it.
Speaker 1: Very well.
Speaker 5: Like you see you will see like if there's if
there's a block, you will see me explode.
Speaker 14: Okay, I sort of half turned my back to her
as she rushing towards me. I bring up this sort
of strange digital display again and start looking at it perplexed.
Speaker 1: The hind you that are there get in your way
and you will let loose. Seems like some sort of explosion.
Is that correct?
Speaker 5: Yes? Okay, because I'm just so big mad, big mad mode,
Tim Cross only objective becomes like like a like a
red flag for a bull.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm gonna say that this is going to use
up your umberstone again. Your ultimate points.
Speaker 5: Make an attempt to buldoze through everything.
Speaker 1: The kaiju uh basically explode into a shower of meat
and rot. There's a horrific splurch of gore that happens,
and Laser can't believe his eyes. It's just.
Speaker 16: Horrific. A, my beautiful loves, what have you done?
Speaker 5: I don't stop until I get to Tim Cross.
Speaker 8: How did she do that?
Speaker 1: Rush towards Tim? I do.
Speaker 5: My intention is not to just rush and stop. I
intend to rush through him.
Speaker 1: Okay, she russes towards you, Tim, what do you do?
Speaker 3: She can rush towards me.
Speaker 14: I continue to sort of have my back slightly turned
towards her as I'm looking at a strange digital display.
Speaker 11: Seem a little perplexed.
Speaker 1: Sure, she's rushing like a freight train towards you.
Speaker 11: My plans are escalating far too quickly, frustrating.
Speaker 1: She's got the intent to turn you into a fine paste.
Speaker 5: There's like this freeze frame of like my fist just
like winding up like that in like mid slow emotion.
Speaker 14: Rush as soon as she gets within like a foot
or sir, just a slight flick of my thumb, and
I acted out the kinetic shield.
Speaker 5: As my fist goes in.
Speaker 1: As you strike Moon, It's it's like equal opposite reaction.
You're the strength and power that you send into this
shield is redirected directly back with the same forces.
Speaker 5: And you see me just knocked back completely good one
hundred and fifty two hundred feet and I skid into
to the remains of the Kaiju, which is very slimy.
So I've just got like guts on my face. I'm
breathing heavily as if I landed a punch, but it
just ended up being a punch on myself, and I'm
the wind is just out like.
Speaker 1: I should have looked.
Speaker 14: Towards her from like over my shoulder and then a
slight smirk. I'll be honest, I wasn't sure if that
was going to work normally versus anomally.
Speaker 5: I look up at him and I wipe the gore
off my face and I make an attempt to get up,
but I am just absolutely tapped, Like my body is jelly.
It's jelly. That punch was everything I had and it
knocked me onto the ground without breath.
Speaker 1: So I'm like, hell, rolls of fact, let's have you
roll a D one hundred please forty four forty four
damage from that.
Speaker 14: I wasn't sure. I was expecting a little more of
you by this point. But again, you seem to have
accelerated my plans. How did you do that? By the way,
at the tower, you understand what you've done, right. It's
rather frustrating.
Speaker 5: I'm laying on the ground, crumpled in a heap, probably
several bones broken, listening to him talk like you already
knew what was going to happen. And I look at
him and there's like froth coming out of my mouth
that I'm so mad she made me hurt.
Speaker 1: My friends, Laser is like making his way over. You
do know her, then, this is the one I was
talking about the same year.
Speaker 11: I don't really need you anymore, to be honest, if
you wouldn't.
Speaker 6: Mind, what what are you talking about? We had a deal.
I would provide you with Emberstone and you would provide
me with an Indian card You army.
Speaker 11: Right, Well, not much use for it anymore, is there.
Speaker 14: Your plan is to take over at Cryptia perhaps mill
the facts of course not going to be much left soon,
is there?
Speaker 11: So really you are.
Speaker 6: We're going to make those other two lich bitches die.
Speaker 11: Mm hmm.
Speaker 14: Now I was really only testing you, using you to
test her and her powers. I don't really need you anymore,
and I uh, I would just like to teleport him
into space?
Speaker 1: How does that? What does that look like? What do
you do?
Speaker 11: Raise my hand? Turn it.
Speaker 14: As I turn it, the sort of orange light and
lines of glowing code sort of spiral outwards. I turn
it towards him and it begins to just run up
his legs as I move my hand upwards until it's
fully palmed towards him.
Speaker 1: And what are you doing?
Speaker 5: The chickles? Oh, yes, he's rather and I look horrified, like.
Speaker 11: Right, I suppose we've got to figure out what to
do next. Those I'll have to make my way out
of here.
Speaker 14: M hm.
Speaker 11: How frustrating.
Speaker 5: H I spit onto the ground. There's a bunch of blood.
Where did you? It doesn't matter? And I attempt to
stand up.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 14: I wonder if you've understood anything about yourself in this time.
Then you seem to be blaming me for all of this,
But really this is all your own doing.
Speaker 11: I don't.
Speaker 14: Believe I had anything to do with you and your capture,
your ability.
Speaker 5: I look at the kuiju, who are you? Are you really?
Speaker 11: Tim Cross?
Speaker 14: Well, I'm not just this Tim Cross, I'm many Tim
Crosses in one but I'm still me and me and me,
much like you, I'm somewhat of an anomaly, although I
have a different ability to you. That being said, I
wouldn't mind yours. Sometimes you could tell me, in you know,
small words or something, what it is you think your
ability is really running out of time?
Speaker 5: It's written on my face how much I hate this guy?
But I respond I can, and it hurts to talk.
Speaker 1: I can.
Speaker 5: I can see what's almost everywhere when it happens, and
I can travel outside of my body. Yeah, but it
only seems to happen when bad things happen.
Speaker 11: Interesting?
Speaker 5: Are those words small enough for you?
Speaker 11: What about the absorption.
Speaker 5: That I don't know? It just feels like oxygen? I
don't know how else didn't describe it. I make the
attempt to stand again. Look, can we can we do
this without these things staring at me? If you know
I've traveled a little bit, maybe we could just go inside.
Speaker 14: Yes, I suppose we probably could pop inside.
Speaker 5: But it doesn't seem that I pose much of a threat,
So I'd at least like to be somewhere warm.
Speaker 14: Well, i'd say, really, you pose quite a large Brett.
But I have a few things that I really need
to tie up. So as much as I'd like to
sort of stand around and have a good chit chat,
I need to get out of here, get off of
Regalia entirely. Perhaps somewhere warm would be nice.
Speaker 1: Uh huh.
Speaker 5: And something crosses my thought and my brain and I
ask it without even thinking, and blurt it out. Can
you teleport me to Assissia? Look, you were able to.
I don't know what happened to Laser now, but can
you just put me? Can you just put me in Assissia?
Speaker 11: What's in Asisia?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 5: I don't know if you would really understand, because you
don't seem like the kind of person. But my friends
are there, and i'd like to see my friends.
Speaker 11: Very well.
Speaker 14: I don't see why I shouldn't do that, but only
in exchange for one thing, If you can truly leave
your body and see other things, really try and push yourself,
see if you can find another version of yourself elsewhere
in this multiverse. Maybe pop yourself over there. Don't worry,
I'll find you eventually. Wouldn't mind. A touch of your
ability really would make things a lot easier for me.
And frankly, you've really quite messed with my entire schedule here,
so don't find myself quite this frustrated that often I'll
see if I can send you off to your so
called friends.
Speaker 11: Which ones are your friends?
Speaker 5: Does it really matter?
Speaker 14: I suppose it doesn't, all right. I hold my hand
up and the same sort of orange light lines of
code spiral outwards, and I as I'm sort of turning
my hand towards Moon, and you see the code begin
to run up her legs. I say, you soon, I
turn my hand and senta.
Speaker 1: We switch scenes as we venture to know Sisia. We
find our group learning from the Ristlyth's new econom They've
just learned that Anders had died and a Ristlys had died,
and we're just kind of you think. We see the
scene where both are kind of recoiling learning that they
were on opposite sides during the war.
Speaker 3: That's what he meant. The troops in the blood constantly
kept saying it over and over again. The body parts
scattered all around him was comrades, spell hit them apart.
That's what he meant by the troop was in the blood.
But he was crazy. That's why you're screaming to get out.
The anger from Gold was denial. Complete destruction. He wanted
to destroy everything, and I was a knowledge, the spell bound,
and the one that was the one that suffered the
most lots, the one you call Frank, Yes, dealing with
all that inside and understanding, losing memory, intertwining with us
mine No all makes sense now?
Speaker 1: Mmmm?
Speaker 8: Well that's kind of strange, isn't it. You both died.
Kind of sucks for both of you, know. Oh m hmm,
how are you here? What happened? What happened to your
bodies after you died? Were you buried? Did you just
like show up again? How common is that?
Speaker 1: M hm?
Speaker 3: Truth in the blood mankled riddle?
Speaker 1: M hmm.
Speaker 17: I mean all that we know is that I at
least disappeared for ten years. I assume that it would
be the same for.
Speaker 7: You ers.
Speaker 17: That begs the question, though, then what is the case
with with OO and with Rue? Did they have a
similar situation happened?
Speaker 11: Or?
Speaker 3: Bigger question is this? Who did the summoning for each?
Speaker 1: You reckon?
Speaker 8: It's individual, it's all happening.
Speaker 3: Everyone's probably asking for an answer.
Speaker 11: Mmm.
Speaker 3: There's records of different rituals, and how there's I don't
understand it all.
Speaker 8: For one, I'd hate to be the summoner. Imagine spending
all that time and energy summoning people, only for them
to show up ten years later and where you don't
need them.
Speaker 3: Maybe there was a flaw in the summoning hm hmmm,
a component that wasn't.
Speaker 4: Maybe we showed up exactly when they needed us.
Speaker 3: Rue. Oh have you been here? You've been missing all
this time.
Speaker 17: I've been doing some thinking.
Speaker 3: How much did you hear.
Speaker 7: Enough?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 18: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Is there anything happening in there? Any memories of former
life or someone else's life, or eminences of family loves.
Speaker 4: I don't have anything. It's just been me this whole time.
I'm not seeing double like you are. I'm not hearing
voices or remembering things that didn't happen to me.
Speaker 3: Hm.
Speaker 8: No memorable fables.
Speaker 3: Then what about you? Bill?
Speaker 8: Hm hm oh hard to say. Nope, nope, just just
me in here or blue like.
Speaker 2: M.
Speaker 3: I don't know. You've been acting quite strange lately. I
just haven't said anything in pacing about you've been acting
more and more slime like.
Speaker 8: I mean, thanks for noticing. I mean I do try,
But what do you mean by strange? I mean it's
really boring and you're all reading and I'm just around
passing the time. Can't help me if I'm idle around
the place.
Speaker 3: You know, I throw a glance at uh seriously what
well he did sort of react as if you were
just a regular Oh, never mind.
Speaker 8: A regular war.
Speaker 17: Yes, you can finish your statement. It's okay. I will
not be offended.
Speaker 3: No, it's not you, it's Bo. The reaction between you
two was Was it not strange? Or am I reading
this wrong?
Speaker 8: I'm not sure if I know what you mean.
Speaker 3: Yeah, typically if you startle us lime or attack it,
its first reaction is too defined, it self absorbed.
Speaker 8: No, well, I mean sure, But also if you startle someone,
are they going to do the same thing?
Speaker 18: You know?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 1: I imagine there's probably like a little redness on a
wristlet's fingertips. She touched Bo.
Speaker 8: It's like a jellyfish sting.
Speaker 3: Certainly never done that before?
Speaker 11: Done?
Speaker 3: What h is?
Speaker 17: Omnios still here?
Speaker 1: Yep, just kind of watching and listening.
Speaker 17: I'll gently get up and walk over towards them. Are
they are they taller than me? Or are they kind of.
Speaker 1: Like average about the size of it of a stag,
so you know they're a little bit bigger than say,
like a dough or something, but about what you'd expect
from your average stag.
Speaker 3: Here's I have a favorite ask m ask it about
the in between.
Speaker 17: Omnios. I'll try to outstretch my hand, trying to gauge
whether or not it's okay for me to touch them.
Speaker 1: Just kind of watches you as you do it, and
as long as you sort of move slowly, they don't
seem to react, just.
Speaker 17: Very gently my hands kind of here on its chin.
Is there anything else that you can tell us? Anything
about the in between? Anything about my other two friends?
Speaker 8: Here?
Speaker 1: You begin to hear that chalk on a chalkboard sound
as it continues to communicate using.
Speaker 3: The chalkboard.
Speaker 1: And sort of like gesturing with its antlers. They say,
I know a great many things. What would you like
to add? What would you like to know? Specifically?
Speaker 17: I'll look to the others.
Speaker 1: And shortly thereafter, what are you ready to hear?
Speaker 3: You know, our story with the others.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure if I know if it's relevant or not,
you know, like, are we meant to be saving the world?
A little nervous.
Speaker 17: If you don't wish for this sort of insight to
come into our hands. And that's okay, Bo.
Speaker 8: Mom, and I'm cooling cool.
Speaker 17: We can also leave and let you spend a moment
with on yours.
Speaker 8: I'm cool. I'm cool and cool, comfy in my own membrane.
Speaker 17: Are you comforted, pable hearing what Omnius has to tell you?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 8: Yes, Maybe.
Speaker 17: I'll look towards Omnios and I'll nod. What is Bo's origin?
Speaker 1: Slowly scrolled on the chalkboard, it says BO died when
you died, as uh Omios says this bell mm hmm,
you begin to remember, oh, how did you die? Bow?
Speaker 7: Right?
Speaker 8: Okay, so I guess a long time ago, ten years back,
what before the war? It wasn't quite the way I
am right now. Slimes in this world aren't really individualistic.
What they kind of are part of a greater And well,
I was part of a mother's slime that was in Plataea.
And all what happened is swarms of slime. Every now
and then, small little blue things would leave and go
out and collect and go back to the mother hive,
kind of like bees or ants. Obviously, lots of slimes
never make it back. They're destroyed into gel, made into potions,
but this particular slime colony was a bit more voracious,
a bit more successful, so to speak. Eventually, other kinds
of colors would come out, red ones with the element
of fire, toxic purple ones, black ones that can corodama.
That kind of thing became a problem. Lots of adventurers
would be tasked with having to cull them because entire
villages of being engulfed by this tide in Plateaa. But
as he can see, I'm blue, and I had nothing
to do with me. I was actually, oh one day
out foraging and a strange individual captured me. And can
kind of see his face a little bit. I always
wore a big pasty white mug with dark black circles
around his eyes, kind of like a harlequin sort of thing,
A bit of a weirdow. He captured me in a bottle,
took me home, and uh, well it was a bit
of a shyster, really, I think I remember he went
well well, and then I kind of went well well back.
I think he was surprised, because I think I was
surprised before I knew it. He taught me how to
speak well words sentences, until one day he taught me
my catchphrase, you fool. You thought I was a bottle
of water, but I'm actually a slime. And well he
take me out around to the villages. Ye a bit
of a party trick, really startle people. Mugum. Maybe birthday
parties great with kids. Anyway, one day I remember, I
remember he put me inside a bowl. There were several
of them at the time, by now missed. He had
this big grin on his face. Inside I could hear murmuring.
There were bells something about a draft. At the time,
I thought they were talking about a draft you drink,
not not the other kind of draft. Anyway, I couldn't
get out. I was stuck real proper. He never came back.
Bill A while went by, grew weaker. There was movement,
a lot of movement, shaking, shouting, screaming, war lights, and
then someone saying she's down, help her quick. Remember being jostled.
I remember that finally being released week out in the open.
I remember the panic. Remember so many dead bodies, the
dead elf. Maybe before I could say, you fool. Well,
if I had the strength to remember, I remember a
spear and then nothing. What did it say? I wasn't listening.
Speaker 17: I'll look over to the chalkboard where Omnius has been writing.
Speaker 1: It's fading away.
Speaker 17: Now to clarify, was this simply Bo who saw this vision?
Or was it Omnius writing it out and having Bou?
Speaker 1: Remember, I think from your perspective, you only really saw
Bo probably introspective for a few moments, and then have
that action that I just had.
Speaker 17: Oh do you remember?
Speaker 8: I fine? What did it? Right?
Speaker 17: Nothing? Omnios didn't reveal anything to us for you.
Speaker 8: Oh okay, wait to clarify, So they have no idea
where they live because.
Speaker 1: They have no idea. It's not like Omnios spelled it
out for them. It was just just along the lines
of like Bo died the same time that you did.
That was what they saw on the chopboard.
Speaker 8: All right, Well in that case, rerickcor And then I
suppose the stuff I said I said out loud, just
as safe recapping.
Speaker 13: Okay, so then you were there too, I suppose.
Speaker 17: I see, My eyes will drift over to rue. You
don't have to if you don't want to.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't really see the point. Whatever happened happened. Right,
We're here and there's something we're trying to do, all right,
I suppose, and I look over if if we can
ask anything, don't we want to know if there's a
way out.
Speaker 8: That's a good question.
Speaker 4: Where we should be going and not where we were?
What's what's kind of what kind of difference is that
going to make?
Speaker 8: M Aren't you in the at least bit curious?
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 8: What your character was?
Speaker 4: No, I'm me, I've always been me. I'm Brightley, I
work in HR and.
Speaker 3: Asked about who you think you are? Who you are
very least bit curious?
Speaker 4: Well, it's what's the point, it'll just make me sad?
Speaker 3: Well, maybe I will. You don't know, and to ask
what you don't have to if you don't want.
Speaker 1: To mm hmmm.
Speaker 17: The way I see it, Riley, is for me, it
is honoring the person that I've taken the image of
to know their story. It's knowing their capabilities and their
history and holding them in my heart too, allowing them
to'll have some sort of life and some sort of
power within me. And if you don't want that, that
is okay. Let the dead rest. And I do think
that your question is very good. If Omnious does know
anything about where it is we need to go to
solve any of this it. I think it's very important. Yes,
how do we end this? How do we get back?
Speaker 4: I don't want to look back.
Speaker 17: I'll give you a gentle smile, omnious.
Speaker 1: Glances towards you.
Speaker 17: I know that this is a very broad and very
difficult question, but as my friend here mentioned, it would
be very very helpful to us if there's any information,
any guidance that you have towards pointing us in the
right direction for those who wish to leave, or to
stop all of this from happening with the riff, anything
pertaining to that.
Speaker 1: As you say this, Omnios is beginning to answer, and
there is the moment where it's writing out the answer,
and then this shriek cascades across the blackboard and Omnios
sort of like bucks and starts to recoil as it
begins to respond, and it's they start just freaking out
in the room at the moment, they're sort of kicking
over stuff, like knocking over books, and there is something
that begins to show up on the blackboard. A drawing
of the rift begins to appear, and you have it's
very like vague, just kind of outlines of the different
continents and you can see the rifts begin to expand,
and it's like a really low frame rate almost animation
that's playing out on the board. And you see Plataea
and there is like an explosion that goes off there,
and you see one of the towers has been destroyed
in Plataea.
Speaker 3: It's on the move already.
Speaker 8: Ooh, was it Moon?
Speaker 1: A very like fast scrawl.
Speaker 17: No, it wasn't her.
Speaker 8: Wait what does that mean? Someone else is bunking the towers?
Speaker 1: The rift grows more unstable.
Speaker 3: Dominofa.
Speaker 17: It might be breaking the towers now for powering them.
Speaker 9: Yes, don't have time.
Speaker 3: I have to leave. I have to leave.
Speaker 8: Wait did did?
Speaker 11: Did?
Speaker 3: Did?
Speaker 1: The goat?
Speaker 8: Things say if there's a.
Speaker 17: Way out, it might be too late for that.
Speaker 8: Now you say, like, look like a special keyword like arch, doorway, computer, alexa.
Speaker 1: Words begin to appear on the board. Moon is the key.
Speaker 3: It's key for what.
Speaker 8: The door?
Speaker 3: They just started all of this.
Speaker 1: She rose in power. Soon she will become transcendent.
Speaker 10: Mm hm.
Speaker 17: There is there a way to stop that, to weaken her,
any sort of ritual anything.
Speaker 8: But she's a key, so surely she can unlock the
whatever door this place has and we can leave. Right
if we want to leave.
Speaker 3: Regarded to as destruction, you mean to flee? Is that
what you want?
Speaker 14: Well?
Speaker 8: No, no more? I return home. Well I'm not a blob,
but I guess kind of.
Speaker 3: Right. I stand up. Hell, if you're gonna leave and stuff,
you guys can figure this out. I'm gonna prepare for war.
Speaker 17: I'm gonna take the scroll out that I have for Queen,
your lists from Ellen Drath, and I'm going to quickly
just scrawl. The rift has expanded. We need to prepare.
Moon is the key, and that's all I'll say.
Speaker 1: One more thing appears on the board, and it.
Speaker 9: Says Moon's choices will shape the future of this world
and others.
Speaker 4: Maybe maybe we don't need to fight her. Maybe we
just need to live long.
Speaker 5: Enough to talk to her.
Speaker 17: She can stop the rift, if that is what is
being said here. At the very minimum, we should at
least try.
Speaker 3: We tried talking to her before, and look what happened?
Are you mad?
Speaker 7: All?
Speaker 2: Are you?
Speaker 3: I'm contacting the Empress. Then I'm gonna contact home, get
all the troops together. This possible put a end to
this nonsense.
Speaker 8: We keep Does your home have dragons too?
Speaker 3: I don't need to have dragons home. The finest military.
Speaker 8: Is your military stronger than dragons?
Speaker 4: What do you think your swords are going to do
against the rift?
Speaker 3: Oh, we have more than swords. And then I stand
up and I turn around. You need to decide quickly
what you want to do, says that's leading too fast.
Started with her. It's gonna end with her either way.
And I don't want to stand around and hope that
we can talk to her.
Speaker 11: Have to.
Speaker 3: That didn't work the first time. And I don't know
how many lives I have left, but I'm not trying
to become paced once again. Do what you will. I
bid you well. I will come back for an answer soon.
See where you lie and support whatever you decide. It
will not become your enemy. But I will not stand idle.
Speaker 4: Do what you need to do.
Speaker 3: I nod, and I walk up the room to contact Impress.
Speaker 7: M H.
Speaker 17: I'm gonna flip quickly through my grandmother's notes on symbols
that I took from her house. Rue, may I may
I put one of these symbols on you? Yeah, I
think it might help us. And I'm going to go
ahead and I will put the symbol of rebellion on you.
If there's a villain present on the scene, any opposing
checks that you make for that villain are going to
be a critical success if they show the same number
and as long as they're not a fumble. So if
you get a two and a two, a three and
a three, it's a critical success for any opposed checks.
Speaker 1: If you roll doubles basically.
Speaker 8: And there's a lot of funny Bybee screaming somewhere howling.
Speaker 17: O, Yeah, I think it's like this got it all right?
Speaker 4: You see me clench my fingers into a fist.
Speaker 8: I'm just stress eating tapers. I guess it's just nuts,
but I think maybe perhaps it's the dialect.
Speaker 17: Really, I know you'll make the right choice no matter what.
We're with you.
Speaker 4: I'm not ready to give up on her.
Speaker 1: On the board.
Speaker 9: You see, you are heroes for a reason, all of you,
despite your pasts.
Speaker 17: Thank you Amus. I'll bow my head and I will
allow for the ARCon to bind fully with me. Having
Omnios disappear from the scene.
Speaker 1: The scroll sort of rolls up and turns to like
golden particles, and we see them flow towards a wristlet's hand.
Speaker 17: I'll grab it and I'll hold it close. We may
need more answers, so at least we have Omniosa's help.
Speaker 13: Okay, what do.
Speaker 17: We need in terms of preparations? We should get some
last minute supplies.
Speaker 8: Right, I guess what do we need? I mean, like
last time we thought, oh we were around noon, she
squished me. How do we stop that from happening? Do
we have light? I don't know. I don't know, A shoehorn?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Mmm, maybe we need to set a trap something. It's
it's the Emberstone, right, the ember strone is what changed her,
It's what fuels her. Maybe if we can focus on that,
stop it or hold it back.
Speaker 8: Well, I mean, is there any Emberstone here? Because I
mean if there isn't, then I guess that's a good thing. Right,
she can't just randomly power up.
Speaker 17: Oh that's that's if she's coming here. But at any rate,
trying to fight her not around Emberstone is a great idea.
I'm trying to think of anything that we could do
in terms of a ritual.
Speaker 8: I hm, hmmm mmm.
Speaker 4: Do you think you could summon.
Speaker 8: Her someon her? Why will into a trap?
Speaker 4: I mean we take portals all the time, right, I
don't think it's the wildest option.
Speaker 17: I mean, with the literature that I've been reading, it
is possible for me to teleport us. I don't know
if it's something that I could do for her.
Speaker 8: Like a reverse teleport, but into a into a an
orb or something so you can't break out.
Speaker 5: But I mean.
Speaker 4: Maybe you need information first, summon to her and she's
in the sky, I'm just gonna fall.
Speaker 17: Shouldn't asked if omnios knew where she was?
Speaker 8: True? Are you out of juice? How does that work?
Is omnious one of yours? Now? Can you just go
Omnio's what's going on?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 8: Is is that another case?
Speaker 3: Yet?
Speaker 14: No?
Speaker 17: I believe that I can.
Speaker 4: Oh, we're not alone here. I can try to ask
some of the people here for help.
Speaker 17: They are all scholars. I mean, I just don't know.
I mean Andrews had spoken of some sort of ritual
to try and either bind her or do something to
weaken her.
Speaker 8: I mean, I remember that conversation too, and I remember
agreeing with it, and I still think it's probably the
best way to go around things, especially if you know
she's all wa ha ha haa, come to me, my child.
Luck she was before, because that was weird and definitely
deserving of, you know, stopping right, both kind of shrinks.
Speaker 19: There's a reply on the scroll, by the way, you
probably hear that horrible sort of ringing noise, and you
can see that there is a response that says, we
have spoken with the Dragon Empress as well.
Speaker 1: Forces are being marshaled all over.
Speaker 17: You're working together, and I'll show him the scroll. That's good.
That's a really good sign.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 17: If some sort of binding is what we want to do,
I know it would be a lot easier with Enders's help.
Speaker 5: At any rate.
Speaker 8: And it's his idea, right, and I'm not against it again,
you know, hmm. We want to stop Moon. If Moon
is evil. If Moon is an evil, we don't have
to fight her, even if she's the key, right.
Speaker 1: Right, right.
Speaker 17: I don't know how this all will up. You know
that I'll do anything to protect you all. I'm going
to go and resupply and search for perhaps some components
for a ritual, should it come to it, some sort
of material for binding. I suggest you both prepare if
you need anything as well. M And I'm going to
go ahead and I'll rush off to the to some
of the stores in the area to try to resupply
and get ready for what's coming.
Speaker 8: It's kind of time to rule go.
Speaker 4: So this has been the worst game. I can't believe
you talked me into playing this with you.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a long time ago now, but listen,
we needed a support character and nobody wanted to be
a dancer. You made friends.
Speaker 4: Our lost friends too.
Speaker 14: Well.
Speaker 8: I mean, I guess we couldn't have predicted an apocalypse, now,
could we.
Speaker 4: Do you think we have to fight her?
Speaker 8: I certainly hope not, because transcendental or whatever that goat
thing said doesn't sound very good, especially since the Moon
was able to turn a dragon into goo dust. You know,
I don't know. Everything we've seen so far about Moon.
Even when she squished us didn't seem to be like
she was kind of you know, she didn't have full
control of her character, if you get me. Yeah, But
then but then then she did snap, and then there
was all that violence, and and those dragons, those poor dragons.
And I have no idea what and his family is
gonna do if they don't have dragons.
Speaker 4: But anyway, mmm, I suppose at the very least, at
least we've been through this together.
Speaker 8: Was that supposed to mean?
Speaker 4: I don't know it just we died?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 8: Yeah, there was that, But we're in love, so did
we really? I waggle a pseudopod.
Speaker 4: Do you think it could happen again? And maybe this
time Iris can't save us?
Speaker 18: Hmmm huh true, very true.
Speaker 8: Now that's a terrible idea. Bo let's not do that.
Speaker 4: What speak it?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 8: No escape plan?
Speaker 4: Maybe part of me has been wondering if all this
time for all we had to do was just go
into the rift, it spat us out? What if we
just need to go right through it again?
Speaker 8: That would be painfully obvious, and I think I'd be
really really sad if that was the case. But we
would need Moon for it, right, She's the.
Speaker 17: Key, right, hey, key the key to what?
Speaker 5: Mm?
Speaker 8: Ghost thing disappeared? But said Moon's the key?
Speaker 4: Half answers m hm.
Speaker 8: World ending problems, World ending problems.
Speaker 4: I don't have preparations to make. I've got and I
opened my inventory and just start pulling guns and swords
and dead fish out. What's this going to do if
the world's ending?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 1: Do you know if Greg approaches you and h puts
a hand on your shoulder, you can't.
Speaker 4: Reach my shoulder. He's too short.
Speaker 1: Okay, on your elbow. That said you were a hero
for a reason.
Speaker 3: Mm hmm.
Speaker 8: Our heroes kind of like gods, you know, like there's
there's tricks to gods and stuff, and there's gods of
not doing very much. Sure, and like, is there a
difference between hero and martyr? Because because I'm not necessarily
m there's so much I haven't done yet.
Speaker 4: Well, anything you want to do before we've got to
get turned into paste again.
Speaker 8: I never thought you'd ask. And you kind of seem
start to shake and jiggle and get bigger and bigger
and bigger, until he starts to elongate and becomes really long,
like a long worm. I've been wanting to try this
for a long time. I've been, but we've never really
had a time.
Speaker 11: To do it.
Speaker 8: I kind of turn this weird long blue worm like
app you know, it's form towards towards Greg and Rue. Okay,
you kind of see around where the neck of this
worm would be kind of like a saddle, kind of
like apparate on top of it, and I say get.
Speaker 4: On, I pick up Greg and I put him on you.
Speaker 6: Greg is trying to struggle away from.
Speaker 1: I don't want to. I don't want to.
Speaker 8: It's too late, all right. I've never tried this before,
but I've basically enabled my excavation module, and now I
can dig. I can burrow to the ground and move around.
Speaker 1: Sure, you're in the Grand Scribes office. Oh is that
where you're doing this?
Speaker 8: I suddenly realized that we're not outside.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you're You can't like strictly like fit perfectly,
you know from what you said. I mean you have
to kind of coil around.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you know this was a bad idea. Okay, I didn't.
I quite literally couldn't read the room what with these
slime eyes. And I kind of like can strict back
into my circular spherical small bow self again. Never mind,
Oh kay, I was gonna make it. Call me bo hulud.
We're gonna go on a journey maybe. I don't know,
do you have any spice in your backpack? But I
guess maybe if we survive being killed, then we can
do it instead. Right, That's that's fine.
Speaker 4: I've just been up the dead fish and I hold
it out to you.
Speaker 9: Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: That's all I've got.
Speaker 8: That pseudopod extends and grabs it and hm hmm, I
wonder what the rest are doing.
Speaker 4: Start putting all my ship back into my inventory. I
don't know they could be doing anything.
Speaker 1: Switch scenes to enders enders. Where have you gone?
Speaker 3: I think I walked. We're in the building close to
the tree, right.
Speaker 1: Well, you're in kind of like basically in the center
like the roots cover where this like Grand library is, right,
and the library itself is mostly like open floor plan.
And then there was the office that was kind of
like in the center where the Grand Scrimes office was. Okay,
but yeah, it's like a it's a very strange library.
You know, it's kind of like built uh with the
roots in mind, so like the walls aren't square, you know,
like it's just kind of an odd it's kind of
an odd situation. There's rows of books kind of built
into root shelves and whatnot. Okay, then it's mostly just
like open. There's like you can see the outside from
inside the library.
Speaker 3: All right, I'll go to a place in the library
where the roots are the thickest, I guess closest. How
am I doing? All right? And I've been contacting the
Impress and I even want to try to get in
contact with Professor drosc much everyone that I can contact.
Speaker 1: Professor DROs. I can't remember.
Speaker 3: I I want to say we did have a way
of contacting I don't know if I have it all,
if Iris has it. But I would ask the Empress
if she can contact my if she has any way
to contact Brohm.
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it wouldn't be a long wait for response,
maybe less than a minute before the Empress would respond,
and you'd see all all all countries have been contacted.
Everyone is marshaling their forces, right all right? Back rift
has expanded again. Has Moon arrived? No, she's not here,
but one knows where she is. M We have several
people performing rituals to try to find her.
Speaker 3: All right, I have a plan forbidden magic mult casting.
If I can rip a space in the void, if
we can locate her, we can possibly have aerslift perform
a ritual to target her locator. We can possibly trap
her in the name between and weaken her. Destroying her
outright is not priority. We have information that she's the
key to saving and or destroying. You would have to
trust us.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? Like Britain, like in like big
letters you know.
Speaker 5: Like.
Speaker 3: What do you mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you said you've got some information, Yeah,
like some kind of choice or whatever.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we have. Yeah, it's a choice. Basically, what I
tell her this is a the thanking her for the
forces and everything, but the end goal has to come
down to us. I finally, I'll say something like I
finally understand why we were, why we are cold heroes,
and we have to play our part, and if our
part fails, then take action, but stand by and ready.
That's what I would say.
Speaker 1: Very well, prove yourselves, prove yourselves to be heroes, and
this world will never forget you.
Speaker 3: And then I'll end with, please contact my family and
Bram and I'll give names. I don't even know if
my family knows if I'm if i've I mean, there's
been ten years that they can only assume I'm dead.
And then I stop and I scratch out what I
was going to say, because if I fail, there's no
need to put them through sorrowhod again. If we succeed,
I can tell them myself. I roll the scroll up.
I've had three books in my hand. I gripped them
with confidence. I've studied every night these spells. It just
comes down to doing it the right way this time.
And I'll turn and look and is anybody there is
liarly than anybody that's walking about.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean there's there's scholars kind of walking about,
kind of going about their business day lives.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just reminded that the rest of these comrades
of mine may not see what I see. But it
just fuels me even more seeing them go about their
daily lives, knowing that that can go away in an
instant that Listen, I listened to what yours left said
about not in the dead dress. But we're here almost
like I feel like I've been giving a second chance,
maybe at third at this point, and I gather myself
and I storm out of the open area where I
was to make myself.
Speaker 11: Hmm.
Speaker 3: I want to try to find the Grand Sage, the
grand scribe, granscribe. You're going on a sage subscribe, Yes.
Speaker 1: There are, they are sages. This person's specific role though,
is the grand Scribe. Yeah, it's probably not too hard
to find, uh, to find this person. She's she's been
uh kind of rushing about a bit. You can see
that she's uh speaking to several of the assistants and
scholars around the library, saying, and you're sure that the
illusions are intact? Good and the barrier.
Speaker 3: Good?
Speaker 1: Excellent? Ah, Hello, are you done with my office?
Speaker 3: Yes, but it seems that time has the time that
we thought we had is sped up another and I
look around and I get close. Not that tower has
gone down, the riff has expanded. Platea is now in trouble,
and time is of the essence. We spoke. We have
our answers, but we need a place to perform a
really large ritual.
Speaker 1: Very well, we shall. We shall find a place outside
the library, not inside. Ye, yes, of course, and praps
down by the water in case there is any side effects,
and away from any emberstone, if there's any. We have
no emberstone here.
Speaker 3: And I'll slightly grab unconscious, not even thinking, grab her shoulder.
I saw what was in the book that you left.
Speaker 1: Out your family history?
Speaker 3: Yes, in my end, it's still more pages can be added. Yes,
I don't think my end will stop here.
Speaker 1: I hope not.
Speaker 3: We must move with these, and I'll walk out with
the grand scribe. And if I see Aeroslith or anybody else,
most of them alone.
Speaker 1: As you begin to walk outside, you can see Eryslith
probably rushing with several goods in hand.
Speaker 17: H I just was doing a little bit of preparation.
I think I might have some things we'll need for
the ritual.
Speaker 3: Bray, come with us. We have a location. Let's be down.
I'll let the grandscribes describe it. May need to contact
the others as well.
Speaker 17: On it.
Speaker 5: Mm hmm roue.
Speaker 17: Yeah, we're we're heading to find a sight to perform
the ritual we discussed. I'll let you know exactly where
or if you two want to catch up. I don't
know if you're still in the office.
Speaker 1: We're on our way out right.
Speaker 17: They're coming. We should we should probably just wait a
moment for.
Speaker 1: Them own by the water. It is probably best. As
the scribe says this, there is this weird tearing sound
from up above. You can see the the area where
the valley, you know, sort of meets the mountains. This
sort of ripple begins to happen, and there is a
sight that I imagine that like Rue and Rislith and Bow
probably remember. It almost looks like code binary almost is
being written across what appears to be a bubble above
the valley and appearing in the air and falling towards sunshine.
Speaker 3: You see moon above us falling down. I grabbed a
grand scribe and stand in.
Speaker 1: Front of impossible.
Speaker 3: What is going on? Defenses are breached, something's fallen towards us.
Can I before this object comes into range of hitting
whatever ground or us? Can I cast a spell?
Speaker 1: You can always try.
Speaker 3: I want to cast stop.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's see what that does. Okay, So are you
casting this repeatedly because it will sort of stop her
for a moment, like a few seconds.
Speaker 3: I want to, yes, but I don't want to cast
it like a hundred times. I don't know what it is,
so in my head, I'm thinking it's coming down to
like hit or destroy a certain part of this place,
and I'm all there I can think about is protecting
the others. So once it becomes inevitable for it to
be dangerous, that's what I want to start casting. If
I have the casting three times, I will.
Speaker 1: First of all, all of you get a fabulous point
for a villain appearing, and you can all hear the
familiar sounds of your inventory notifying you of this. The
interface rings warning, warning, villain approaching.
Speaker 4: I would like to as soon as I hear that noise.
I'm rushing up with Bo and with Greg and Toe
and I like to cast a spell.
Speaker 1: Enders at enders, okay, so all right, so let's do
a let's do dex checks to see the order of
how everything happens here. Okay, So enders, please do dex
decks open, rue, please do dex dex open.
Speaker 3: Okay. I have law Master okay, which boosts my open checks.
And I haven't used this yet.
Speaker 17: Insight when you're observing.
Speaker 3: Something, Okay, all right, because there was a mod things.
I don't know how it works, right road to six.
Speaker 1: Dex decks x dex open. All right. Enders, they cast
the spell first, and you see this falling humanoid person
that looks, at least from a distance sort of like
move and Enders, you freeze this falling figure, And.
Speaker 3: Well, do I freeze the figure or do I stop time?
In general?
Speaker 1: Do you stop time in their space? So it's like
a bubble of time around them? So she just kind
of like stops for a few seconds, and then each
time you want to cast this that she will stop
in place for like, you know, five six seconds.
Speaker 3: Okay, Well, do I notice? Do I notice something's happening
around me? Behind me? Do I sense a spell going.
Speaker 1: Off, you can, I would say, you can make an
insight check and will say that this is just an
open check.
Speaker 4: I'm not doing this subtly right, I'm running at you
and I'm saying anders.
Speaker 1: My thinking is he's focused on this person falling. So
I'm gonna make you roll just an insight insight to
see if you notice, because I imagine you have to
focus to cast the spell that's instantaneous.
Speaker 3: But let's just flavors text. I say, I'm focusing and
I can't use that feature.
Speaker 17: Can you can?
Speaker 1: You can?
Speaker 3: Okay? So it says you perform mod This is new.
It says rolland attribute check on the selected actors, So
shift to configure the check beforehand. I don't think I
have it.
Speaker 7: Okay.
Speaker 3: Let me see. When you perform an open and check
you use insight insight, you gain bonus equal to scale
level of that check was just three? Okay, cool, We'll
just do that and I guess three. Okay. Then you
said open check insight and and just modifier three.
Speaker 17: Just so that this is being aware. In the background,
I'm watching the two of them unfold and what they're
doing to Moon in the air, and I'm beginning to
prepare the stuff that I am planning on using for
the ritual. So you'll see me take out this glowing
thread and begin to wrap it around my arm. I'm
assuming it's probably going to end up being a conflict
scene or something, so I'll have to do it over time.
Speaker 1: Okay. Yeah, so Enders, you definitely can sense Rose casting
a spell behind you.
Speaker 3: Okay? Is this back and forth term base or do
I notice it where I can do something?
Speaker 1: I think because Rue rolled a six on the dex check,
you can definitely you can always try to do something.
Speaker 3: Okay, So whenever I sense something is about to come
my way, I'm going to cast mirror.
Speaker 1: So this is a reaction basically, yes, okay, yeah, definitely
those spell ends. You can't offensive spells.
Speaker 3: It's up for a scene where.
Speaker 1: Okay, so this isn't a reaction spell. But I'm going
to say, because you've rolled higher on your dex check,
you just beat Rue to the punch. Okay, so you
cast mirror on yourself, Rue, what were you doing?
Speaker 4: I am running towards Enders, and you can see that
I'm pulling hours out from the folds of my armor
and I throw them into Endrews's direction, but they are
not my bladed roses. I cast acceleration, okay, and it hits.
Speaker 1: Your mirror, so it's an it's not an offensive spell,
so it doesn't get mirrored, so it actually does go
off on enders.
Speaker 4: Okay, I see the mirror manifest though, what does this
look like?
Speaker 3: It's a it's a shimmer, it's a glean. The reason
why this spell is past is because whenever I since Valkyrie,
I've already had a plan in my head and it
was to protect everyone. So the first protection is me,
so I can do all my other spell casting. So
the mirror instantly, Yeah, it's a it's a think of
a shimmer, like a crystal.
Speaker 4: So I've run up towards you. And as I'm casting
this and I throw the flowers out to you, my
face drops. I look startled to see that shimmer. Even
though my spell goes through, you can see that.
Speaker 5: I falter.
Speaker 4: I stop in my tracks and there's I trust you
you've got this.
Speaker 3: As I'm casting and I turn, I'm like, it wasn't
for you. And I'll throw my other hand up and
I'll turn in space and another clock will spin and
goes backwards as I cast another spell of stop.
Speaker 1: Okay, this is your second one, yep, or your third one?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: Yeah, so again and moon has fallen, you know, maybe
another like forty feet.
Speaker 3: How far is she off the ground?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: She was high up, so I mean several hundred feet,
So now much more. I would say she's probably got
like maybe like five hundred feet left something like that.
Speaker 8: Okay, are you breaking her full?
Speaker 3: We have to work together, right, don't stand around and
I throw another spell. Uh, I'm gonna let her fall
like a good bit. And I'm trying to explain to them,
get your heads together? Are you heerales?
Speaker 7: Are you not?
Speaker 3: And then I'll keep throwing stock.
Speaker 8: But she's flopping in the air.
Speaker 20: I'm running out of resources to start running, and I
will run as fast as I can to try to
be underneath her.
Speaker 8: If she's five or feet in the air, I will
to save rufe and being crushed by a terminal philosophy,
big woman, I'm going.
Speaker 6: To uh the way rude.
Speaker 1: We want to go though, to be fair, if you
take it from me, just turns. It has that like
super serious like chad face when she turns around.
Speaker 8: Because I can fly and we can grab it from
the sky and take it.
Speaker 17: In this moment, I'll actually stop the preparations that I
was doing. I'm going to go ahead and cast devination
on myself. What this is going to go ahead and
do for me is make it so that any creature
that I see when they perform a check, I can
go ahead and force re rules as long as they're
not a fumble or a critical success. So you'll see
my hands pause. I've got this this this shining string
kind of on my on my wrist, and I'm going
to whip out my staff and it's going to light
up and you'll see kind of like my eyes just
glimmer for a moment, and I will go ahead and
just keep an eye on the situation.
Speaker 6: Okay, and just tell me what to do.
Speaker 3: Make yourself something to break a fall. I'm running out.
Speaker 8: I fly towards her as fast as I can with
the intense to use one of my seats to grab
her and take her down.
Speaker 3: I will combo with him to cast my my stop
spell that I already spent that I'm letting her fall.
I'm gonna wait for him to get into position in
an all cast stop so it doesn't sure the fall Bo.
Speaker 1: I think this will be a Dex dex open check.
Let's see how well this goes.
Speaker 8: Okay, Dex decks open check. Yep, let's try it. No,
Ammi's eleven. Is that good?
Speaker 1: Uh? It is because Anders is slowing her down.
Speaker 8: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: We see Bo take off and fly up.
Speaker 8: The shape of my flying mount isn't really defined because
of how in a Russia I am. I'm basically like
a like a balloon that the end has been let
go of and flying towards moon. And there's just like
a weird like almost like a baseball mit on the
front of it. We're gonna catch up with.
Speaker 1: Sure, just so you have this like picture. I mean Moon,
I mean literally looks like like a falling angel from
the sky. Like this is kind of what I think
you're all seeing just right, you know, sailing towards the
ground and Bo rushes.
Speaker 8: To catch her right. I mean it kind of feels
like I didn't realize she was feeling at graceful, like
is she I've been giving an order. I'm flying, I'm
gonna get out.
Speaker 1: As you approach, the moon is covered in viscera, and
like she looks fucked up.
Speaker 8: I have no sense to taste or smell.
Speaker 4: Your taste?
Speaker 8: What are you talking about. I'm flying straight towards her.
You catch her, ignoring any compliments, and I grab okay,
and then I start to descend towards the ground towards
enders the water. Did you say that so I can
hear you?
Speaker 3: Did we make it to the site or not? I
don't even know.
Speaker 6: You didn't know.
Speaker 1: You didn't even make it to the site. The grandscribe
was still trying to get everything organized, and you basically
stepped outside the library and met back up with each other.
Speaker 3: As this happened, Guns, we went in the library.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 3: Did you break her fall? You're falling fast with her.
Speaker 8: Now i've her, I can fly, so I okay, flying
down back towards the.
Speaker 3: Ground when you catch her. I will when you catch
her during the time spell, I release it for you
to be able to and I'm just like airslith Now
it would be nice. I'm going to drink me a
pot if that's possible.
Speaker 1: Okay. So we see bow descending down towards the water.
Speaker 8: Crash me, crush me. It's flying towards the location.
Speaker 1: As you descend, who uh and land. Everybody's sort of
trying to catch up with you. The moon begins to wake.
Speaker 8: Up as she As she awakens, I'm going to let
go of her and shrink away back into my normal
slime self and kind of just make myself as small
as possible in the corner watching.
Speaker 5: I blink a couple of times, boh, what is that?
Are you? And I'm like, are you real? Are you real?
Speaker 8: I think so.
Speaker 5: I immediately I'm just speechless, like you're you're?
Speaker 7: Is this?
Speaker 5: Are we here in Nucissia? Is this Nissia?
Speaker 15: Are you?
Speaker 8: Yes?
Speaker 5: Oh? Is it just you are? Are you? Are you?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 5: My god, I'm so glad to see you. I just
I was just in a I don't even know where
I was, but I just tim Tom Cross and then
you just see my face like Tim Cross. I just
ran into Tim Cross and I asked him to send
me here, but I didn't think he was actually going
to send me here.
Speaker 8: And then I.
Speaker 5: Want for this the rift yeah, and and and and
boom and now I'm and now I'm here with you.
Oh and then I like sink to my knees and
start ralphing.
Speaker 8: You're covering guts and you're making more of them. Sorry, wait,
you asked Tim Cross to send you here? Are you
working together? You didn't inca hoots?
Speaker 5: No, no, no no. I tried to. I tried to
attack him and and and he just deflected it like
it was no Moon, like it was.
Speaker 8: Nothing Moon Moon Moon. The others are coming. Wait what
before the others are coming? Before they do, you need
to say one thing to me.
Speaker 1: You do you?
Speaker 8: You squished me?
Speaker 7: Moon?
Speaker 5: I I I remember. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for squishing you.
Bo I must have listed very good. I I don't know.
I'm still trying to figure that out. Listen, I'm still
trying to figure out where I am and if you're real?
Have been living off cave mushrooms? I left a guy
behind in a glacier.
Speaker 8: You want mushrooms?
Speaker 7: Moon?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: Oh my okay, tentatively apology accepted. Okay, the others are coming.
Speaker 1: We see everybody sort of rushing down to catch up.
What are you all doing?
Speaker 3: I'm casting a spell. I start with the words they're forbidden.
Speaker 5: The unknown just hear me like enders.
Speaker 3: Uh, yeah, I'm casting uh a heroic skill, spinding a
fabulous point. And I'm not casting the full spell. But
I'm preparing the sky will open up, will cut. You'll
see claws, these hands come up, these shadowy hands come up,
and once I give the final spell, it will be
in Syntharn and these hands will reach and scrape across
the sky and rip open a void. The void to
be dark. It will kind of look like almost like space.
Tentacles will start to formulate. As I'm crouched down and
I'm holding it there, and I'm just like, curiously, if
you fail, I will finish it. You don't have time
to talk here, and I'm beginning to cast comets Andrews. Wait, wait,
I've heard it before, Valkyrie. If you want to talk,
you will have to do it on our terms.
Speaker 7: Nami no iluma, I get to eat the I know you're.
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