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Y'all are awesome this week. We do have something, John, if
you wouldn't mind sharing what you got for us.
So Heller High Tiki in Denver had a minor fire.
They should be up and running again in probably about a week,
but go to the Electric Cure. Go to Honor Farm.
Those are their sister bars. Go support them there to help
pay for fixing the damages from the fire.
Also, Electric Cure is doing a really cool Valentine's Day pop
up And hey, kiddo will be doing a Valentine's Day kind of pop up
sort of ask menu the entire week of Valentine's.
We've got some shareable cocktails and we've got
cocktails for the lonely hearted as well, so come hang out with
us. As I pointed myself, thank you,
yes, the Lonely heart. Anyone else got anything?
Any alibis before we move on? All right, we'll take that
deafening silence as a no. So, friends, what are we
drinking? A lot, yeah.
We have a lot of things going. On let's speak, let's speak to
you guys. Let's just do 2 and we can save
more for later. If you guys move quickly, I'll
let you do all of them. OK, so I have what I call the
double tap because two of them and you're done.
Valid. One ounce plantation OFTD, half
an ounce of Kraken, half an ounce of Appleton, half an ounce
of Cantegra Negra, half an ounce of Saint George, 1 1/2 ounces of
Simply Apple Juice, and two dashes of pay shows betters.
Excellent. Smooth.
Put it in front of the camera. Oh, put it.
In front of the. Camera higher.
There we go. Yay.
It's a Pretty Little ground drink.
I. Did it in equity parts?
Build mezcal cocktail? It is 2 parts.
What kind of mezcal do we have, Curtis?
The the McGuire. Dumbaguy.
Dumbaguy 2 parts dumb Dumbaguy mezcal.
One part sues, one part some chili ancho ancho entre raz Two
dashes of paste shots, One dash of orange bitters.
Fuck yeah, and it should probably have an orange garnish,
but it's orange. It's delicious, though.
It's delicious. Yeah, that is good.
I did like a Cognac Manhattan. I did 2 oz Remy Martin.
Half an ounce of Chicharo, half an ounce of.
What the fuck did I use? I don't remember what the other
thing Oh, allspice stram. Yeah, Saint Elizabeth allspice
stram. And then I did like 4 drops Tiki
bitters, 4 drops Old Forest or Cinnamon bitters and four drops
of Molay Bitters. Stirred, Strained.
Garnished with a cute little cherry on a pick.
And I made a Barbosa sour. Delightful.
And it is pretty good. It's got 2 ounces of the Rhubarb
gin, which is called, I don't remember, I'll get the name
Rhubarb Gin. An ounce of Rhubarb row, which
is an Amaro with rhubarb. And then it's got 1/2 an ounce
of elderflower syrup and it's got a full ounce of lemon juice.
It's got a dash of pesos and a little bit of salt.
Then you put egg white in there. Dry shake, ice shake, double
strain. Just topple with a cocktail
cherry and enjoy. All right, my last.
Before you go, What is that, John?
What is it? What is that you got in your?
Hand, Whitley, Whitley, Neal. Handcrafted Gin.
Rhubarb and Ginger Gin. There it is.
All right, Jared, Now you're up. All right, this is the royal
lady. Kind of a cross between a white
lady and a crap. Oh my God.
Anyway, the purple drink Purple drink Anyway. 2 oz.
Butterfly pea flour gin, half oz.
Lemon juice, half oz. Dry Curacao, quarter oz Creme de
Violet quarter oz. Grenadine, 1 egg white Dry
shake, Wet shake express lemon peel on top and I garnish it
with orange flowers. The one here is very different
than the one that I posted on our Instagram.
Check it out. The one on Instagram is probably
the prettiest drink I've ever made.
It is super pretty. Yeah, check out garnish work, by
the way. And get that on.
Yeah, Glorious. It's beautiful.
I I am super simple. Tonight I am drinking Corina
from Eclectic Brewing Peach. Their Peach sour.
Oh. Nice.
It is amazing. Great.
Brewery out of Oregon. I don't like their Ipas, but
that's a like thing, not a statement on their quality.
They are very good so. Life are one of.
My. Favorite.
All right, again, alibis. We got anything that we want to
put out here before we move on to recap, I don't.
Think so. All right.
Also, thank you for it was Nate who was with us last week or
last time, I believe. Yeah, Yeah.
Nathan, thanks so much for hanging out with us.
Dude, you were a great guest. You were, you were perfect guest
that we needed. So I wanted to give you a shout
out, bro, you were awesome. Couldn't have asked for a better
guest. So thanks for hanging out.
And I'm super glad that you're a part of it.
So thanks. Thanks for hanging out.
Next time I'll make sure to do a better job of coordinating and
I'll see if we can like run a one shot while he's here and get
him into play that. Would be awesome.
I'd be down for it, yeah. But yeah, just make sure you
give us a heads up if you want to do that.
Yeah. So guest characters, That would
be interesting. Yeah.
Again, let me know. I'm always down for guest
characters. But yeah, so the last time that
we met, we had a fight that was fairly well manhandled by the
party. There was not a lot of success
from this end of the table. But yeah, they fought some of
the specimens that had been left that had opened out of the lab
as parts of power ripped out, as as essentially hit the green
button. After the fight, they went
across the hall after, you know, dealing with some of the things
in the lab, and they found what appears to be a room full of
different organs stuffed in arcane formaldehyde, which is
something that we definitely talked about, which is a wild
conversation that we have. FBI Please don't arrest me.
Yeah. Please.
I mean, if you're going to arrest me, it's going to be a
freaking yeah, but that's a whole thing.
So, And then as we ended, as you were going into a room to headed
to the north, the doors had opened up differently this time
instead of going left to right, they open from bottom to top and
there was a kind of mist that had been opening.
This room that you were in was very cold.
There was a a thing of like vapor and and cold air being
pushed out around. As you walk into this room, what
it is is that at first glance it seems that there's it's a misty
room. But what you're realizing is the
cold air is being pushed into this room and that is actually,
as you step across the throat, the threshold, it's returned to
a normal temperature. And I believe it was Sark who
was who was leading the way. Yes.
What's your passive? I'm.
I'm not even going to ask you to roll if it's high enough.
Passive perception. Yeah, that's what I thought.
All right. As you walk in, you noticed that
along the walls there are tables and high stools.
It looks like the tables would sit about maybe it.
It essentially looks like a laboratory where you're going
into a college science laboratory.
In the center of room is another setup of work.
And as you look around, you see items that are kind of like
silvery spider arms that are holding tubes of glass that are,
some of them are filled with still liquid materials, some
have hardened, possibly molded or fungus or something to that
effect. There's also a couple that are
not working or broken and there are spills and broken glass.
And this is what you saw when you stepped in.
As you stepped in, you heard the creak of of your foot across
glass. What are you guys doing?
Steps in, look around and just go.
We're never getting Elle out of here and just.
Hang my head. Hearing that L is going to speed
up and go into the room now. That checks out.
And then start trying to figure out how to make the arms work.
I Patrice walks, sees L on a mission.
He walks up and says hey even be with you and cast guidance on
him. Get an extra D4 on your next
check for a minute. For a minute.
All right. So for that, you're going to
make an investigation. Check Li.
Don't think you needed the D4, but I'll go.
I'll take it anyway. I mean, it's not a bad thing to
have, yeah. That's. 15.
Plus. I'll lie Nine.
I think it. Should be 9 that.
Was my perception. So it's only a 24.
OK. So you are looking at the base
of one of these items and as you were looking, you notice that
there are, there's still, it seems to be a power associated
with this there. There's some glowing diodes and
everything and there's some push buttons.
I'm sorry, I'm getting ready to sneeze guys.
So like I'm so it's like giving me that worst spot where it's
like I'm not sure what's going to happen.
You're seeing it's a circular base and you see a couple of
diodes. They're all flashing amber and
there's a couple of buttons that are there.
There is one next to an unfamiliar symbol.
It is has a straight line and a circle at the bottom.
And then next to it there are there are two more buttons, one
with a plus and a minus. Would I have a frame of
reference for an amber light being having any particular
meaning as opposed to like green or red?
Go ahead and roll a history check for me, please.
With advantage. Yes, this one.
No, that's only for arcane or magic items, right?
Or is that for technology as well?
Let. Me Double check.
I think it's just for magic, now that you mention it.
But is the technology magic? All technology appears magic if
it's advanced enough. Related to magic items or
chemical objects or technological devices.
OK, go ahead and roll with advantage.
Big win, Big win. Do.
You all forget your D4 on that. No, it's just the one.
No guidance doesn't just last, it only for.
Guidance is a one time bless. Bless is the one that gives you
D. 40 it's a. Camera.
Thank. You.
I could keep casting it, but that's not me, That's not me.
That's. Pretty.
Much. The only reason I did it was
because there was like you said something about Elle's never
going to leave here. And I was like, well.
Right. There was a narrative response,
so let's speed this. Up 29.
What was it? 29.
So, yeah, you. But because of where you come
from in Tinker Mirror, especially as a young man, you
would have obviously had made your way down into the Undercity
where you would really have explored advanced advancements
in technology with the dark gnomes that that set up the
majority of the technological manufacturing down there, which
really runs Tinkerman Mirror's economy.
So you would understand that Amber has a plethora of
meanings. Most of it though has to do with
either standby or waiting for instructions kind of things.
So that's kind of where you're getting with the the vibe you're
getting out of this right now? Then he's going to hit the plus
and then the minus button. Nothing happens.
OK. Then I'll hit the third button
and try it again. So you hit the as soon as you
hit the third button, the light turns green and you watch as the
arms, they're kind of retracted. For those of you who are
watching on YouTube, you can see my my arms represent the the
spidery thing. And they just kind of slowly
begin to extend out to whether they're not quite out there
straight. But they've got a little bit of
an angle. And you notice that there's a
pivot point there so that the vials kind of stay as they they
kind of naturally hang. And then did you hit another
button after that one? What's going to?
No, never mind. I'm good.
After you after you you said the what?
Did you hit another button L after that he?
Would have hit the plus button next.
OK, as soon as you hit the plus, it slowly begins to spin and
it's just a you hear this kind of sound.
He's going to hit the minus button.
As soon as you hit the minus button it it slows to a stop.
I'll hit it again, see if it goes the other direction.
Nope. Well, this seems kind of
pointless then. His face was visibly
disappointed. Is there anything else in this
room? Like what else is in this room?
I guess is the right answer. That's, that's a question.
How in depth are you? Are you trying to look there,
John? So I'm looking at this thing
that's got arms with claws on it, right?
That spins in. The arms move if somebody
manipulates this weird contraption that my tech
sorcerer buddy is fucking with. So I'm going to look for like
anything that looks like it would be put together or
dismantled by these arms. OK, go ahead and enroll an
investigation check. Hey that is going to be a 19 + 0
for a total of 19. All right, so you're while you
are not as as inundated with knowledge of technology as your
friend Elle is, you know, Scaled is a he has to be, by nature, a
fairly technologically savvy person.
Because the the high seas are are a place of of massive
technological advancement. As you as you begin to look, you
notice that this is really a kind of mono use thing.
It seems that the only thing these arms are good for is
holding this, holding something right.
And it looks like these devices only purely spin.
And what you're seeing is really just kind of a variety of size,
right, like some like the 1L was working on are smaller, they can
only hold vials. Now there are some in this,
there's two in the center table that look like they can hold
what would probably be, you know, a fairly sizable moonshine
jug size that kind of like the the the comical Triple X.
Bottle, you know. Look like they're designed to
hold receptacles. Yeah, and there are receptacles.
Every almost every one of these things are holding something.
Gotcha. L Would there be a reason that
you would want something inside a glass jug to spin really fast?
Because it could be fun. I mean, it sounds fun to me and
I'm down to hop on one of these bigger ones if you want to try
that out. But I feel like this isn't an
amusement park. Feel like they were doing some
kind of we should totally do it. Don't get me wrong.
I'm 100% down. Might get the creative juices
flown a little bit. We can think better you know
ideas will come to us. I immediately grab hold of the
arms of one of the bigger ones and I'm like spin me and.
So I. Started shaking.
Her head and just walked to the door that we came in.
Yeah. OK.
So also there are besides the one that you came in, there are
also two other doors and we'll get to that in a minute.
So L do you push the button? Yeah.
I got an 8 on acrobatics. Well, OK, I need you to roll AD
8 and let me know the number. 4. OK.
Let's go to the HP side of my I. I'm actually trying to.
I'm figuring I'm remembering which what it is that is in the
jar that you grab. Oh.
Nice, so. There's.
There's 8 arms and each of them have a container.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you grab on and L does the
same thing. He pushes this the power button,
he pushes the plus button and it begins to try and spin and then
you hear the the creaking sound of its not being able to hold
your weight and I need you to roll AD 100 for me real quick.
Yes, yes I shall. It's going to be a 45 big 4/5.
So as you are holding on, it doesn't actually lift you up and
you're just kind of being dragged and then all of a sudden
the hinge point that is holding on to the to the jar snaps and
you bring the jar down with it and you twist a little bit and
the glass shatters underneath your weight.
Excellent. And you feel a like it's not a
puncture. You feel a hard Press of a hard
object as you're laying on it and you lean up.
And I need you to roll a medicine check for me real
quick. Sure.
Hey, I got a plus one. It's going to be an 18 total.
OK, as you look down, you see something way.
Better than I was hoping. It.
Would as you look down, you see and you look at something that's
that resembles. A heart?
A humanoid heart. Roll an investigation check for
me, please. I was not sure how this was
going to go. You've picked the path with all
the roll. This is not biological material.
I pick it up. So you pick it up.
And I walk over to L, and I hand him the Not a heart.
It's heavy so but you don't have hard.
It's heavy for its size and L you instantly recognize it
because you implanted input one of these into the chest of Sark.
We got a spare heart for Sark. Fuck.
That does it look identical or? It's in shape and functionality.
As you look at it, it is identical.
The composition of it is slightly different.
If I remember right, Sark, you were you were predominantly wood
thin metal, Is that right? Yeah, wood.
Metal. Some sort of hide in certain
places. This one is predominantly like
so it is, it's about 50% Animantium, about 30% like hard
rosewood, like that purple rosewood and then the rest of it
is going to be steel. It's going to look down at it
and. Chill.
Hey Ella, you want a new or? Hey Sark, you want a new heart?
Sark is like on his way to one of the other doors, he goes butt
and turns around like huh. No one to play with one another.
A new one to put in you. Found a heart Sark walks over,
but it's weird. Extends his hand.
I give it to you. Pulls out a jug of water.
No one's seen Sark ever drink anything?
Yeah, start pouring it on to like, rinse it off and roll out
his medicine kit to start looking at it.
Nice. L Is this A Is this a Sark
Birthing ward? I'm going to pause for a second
and then pull out a hammer and go smash one of the other jugs
from that set of arms. OK, roll me AD 8, please.
I will also go start smashing jugs.
That's an 8. OK, so.
Eight as you. Oh, you hit.
That an arm rolls out. I Smash 5.
The same kind of. Same look, same look with five.
You get what appears to be kind of like a like a thoracic, like
chest cavity kind of thing. Again, same composition as the
heart. So they're all about the same
percentage makeup of the same material.
Yeah, I. Think this is all one person.
I was going to say 1 Sark, but we decided that's a measurement.
Force. That's right.
I don't want to confuse. People No.
I mean, I don't think it's a person yet.
There's a lot of a person here. We might be able to make a
person out of it. I don't want to go go start
smashing the rest of the Jarvis. So.
As you compiling the the eye objects up, helping compile them
into a human shape. So in in some of them you have
more parts than others, but as you as you open it up you get so
you get the chest, two legs, two arms, a head, as well as what
appears to be some sort of internal workings of inside what
would be inside the chest cavity for L This is all very familiar
and this is actually a lot more complete than what you had with
Sark. Like there was a lot of
investigating into you know other boxes and other coffee
tables as when you were putting together your new your new
friend. This one is looks like a fully
complete set. This isn't like some knock off
IKEA. This is the proper IKEA with the
good instructions. How?
How long did I? Haven't seen any instructions
yet, but I could probably put this together without them.
How long did it take you to put together Sarg for the first
time? I don't know.
He goes into fugue states. Don't ask him about.
That he's in the middle makes a lot of.
Sense I was really hungry, so it was probably at least 6-8 hours,
maybe a couple days. Hell, when you say you found
Surf in a coffee table, he didn't look like he wasn't just
folded up. He looked like this when you
found him. He was mostly disassembled,
almost entirely disassembled. But like this looks like but.
It wasn't actually a coffee table, it was being used as a
coffee table. Might have been a coffee table.
I don't know what the fuck it was.
Was it a? It was being used as a coffee
table or it had been used as a coffee table.
And you use it as a coffee table, is it not a coffee table?
Is it chair, chair if no one sits in it?
Exactly. Is it the real coffee table of
Theseus or what? Yes, OK.
What is a boat? Not a boat.
I mean he's he was significantly, Sark was
significantly. When it's a really annoying
metaphor. John.
What is it? A really annoying metaphor.
Well, I didn't hear you over Skelp.
Sark was significantly more disassembled when I found him.
OK, so this is we got this is a little.
Do you think this would take a little Are we going to are we
going to make him a brother? What's happening now?
I go look inside the head. OK.
Is there something specific that you're looking for or are you
just kind of looking in general? Does the head look and feel
complete like that it would and should contain a consciousness?
That's a question. That's a real question.
I don't know how I want to play this.
Roll insight. Is the head lighter because the
soul's gone? That's a great.
Question 16. Welcome.
To. The point?
Right. So.
As you look into it, you you feel like it's missing
something, but it's nothing that you would say that would signify
that if you were to put this together, this wouldn't be a
sapient creature, right? So however, at the same time,
this seems to be a more advanced construction than you, right?
So. Is there writing anywhere on any
of these pieces of any kind that I can discern?
Make an investigation check, please.
So, Sark, it's it's really hard to to decipher to to to have an
idea right? It's just that the biggest
problem is that you've never encountered this other than that
one time where you had that flashback and that was not the
actual creatures there. It was, it was some sort of
other thing that was breaking up this memory of those creatures
that you have been working with. So it's a little tough to see
so. 13 on the investigation. You see some numbers, Nothing
that makes sense. Gotcha.
Nothing that looks like any of the writing we've seen before or
anything like that. The script of the numbers looks
familiar, but it's just it's purely numbers like.
It doesn't like there's context missing to this numbering
system. Zark, you want spare parts or
you think we should try to wake it up?
Both can wait for now. We're definitely taking it with
us, though. We have a lot of facility to
cover. Do we have a bag to put this in
or somewhere to stash it I. Was going to start putting
pieces in the bag of holding there.
You go Remember your second bag of holding.
Yeah. Sark's going to put the heart in
his and just keep the head, you know, like hold the head inside
like his coat. I wouldn't.
I wouldn't have tried to put the head in the bag of whole thing.
That seems like a bad idea to him.
So Sark, this is something that you don't advertise but you know
about. There is a place that there
seems to be on all heads, at least your head, and that you
notice it on this head where it can be attached and clipped.
So it could looks like it could be clipped onto a belt.
Oh, Nope. It continues to stuff it in
like. OK.
I just want to make sure that's something that I I've been
holding in reserve until the right time.
So that is something that you know that no one else does.
I mean, obviously players know. Characters don't, yeah.
Incredibly creepy. There there may be a moment, if
we get into another fight where everyone realizes what it's for,
right? Right.
It's like Dustin stuffing his Philly cheese steak in a jacket
when it's cold out. Yep.
Easy way to carry it. Keeps it warm.
Amazing. Since you were the one that kind
of put your finger up, weight waggled your head and turned
around. SOA, if I can get you to make a
perception check for me, please. Actually, what is your passive?
Passive is probably not up to date.
Is it 10 plus perception for passive?
Yes. 15. Role perception.
That is less than 15. OK.
I just want, I just wanted to give you the opportunity to roll
higher you didn't need it but like I wanted to give you the
opportunity. You do notice that there,
besides the door that you came in, which is on the South end of
the room on the West and E walls equidistant from the corners,
there are two doors, one at one on each side, so.
OK, I'll go to whichever one's on the left from where we came
into the room. OK.
And open the door. So it opens.
This one actually opens automatically.
So it's going to swing from right to left for you.
And as you exit in you, you return to the the hallway that
you all started in that has the room to the specimen lab, to the
weapons room, and to the organ storage.
Pretty sure I'm the only one interested in this, but I found
the way out. I'm pretty interested in that.
Cool. So we're going the other way.
Yeah, I don't care. Yeah, we're going to go the
other. Way Why?
Why do I get help these? People, poor decision making
skills. All right.
Is there anything else that you now you?
Don't know what to do is. There anything else that you
guys would like to do? In in this room.
Everything he can't see into that looks like it may be big
enough to contain a body part. Say that again.
I'm going to go through and smash or look into every
container in that room that looks like it may be big enough
to hide. Hold the body part that he can't
already see inside. The only ones that are big
enough for that are going to be the other, the other large one
there on that center table and there's only five containers
there and you are going to get where.
How did I not prepare for this? I don't have any, so I'm going
to roll AD 20 for me please. What?
OK. So you find one leg.
Yeah. You find one leg, two arms,
torso, no heart, no head, no internal workings.
Are they the same like automaton quality?
No. This one is predominantly Oh my
wow am I drawing a blank on this type of wood.
There's there's a type of wood that is essentially black.
It's like the the Super, super dark and it's and it's not like
lacquered or anything like that. It's a type of wood.
I should know this. I created it for the fucking
world. But it's this, it's this kind of
wood. Elle would know what it is and
it's it's probably about 80% wood and about 20% silver.
Hey suck. I found some actual spare parts
this time. I don't think that we can make a
person out of this one. Suck's going to look at one of
them. Be like.
I'm curious to see if the arms feel different.
Feels weird to say that. Anyways, yeah, I'm willing to
plug one of each of them in and see how they operate.
OK. So we will, we will hold off on
that. And we're going to take our very
first break of the evening that is now 8:00, and we will be back
in just a few moments. Welcome back everybody, to
Campaigns Concoctions, where I'm just going to give a shout out
to Discord member Ben Ortega for the best fucking gift ever in
response to the double tap. Thank you homie.
I appreciate you and you're doing good work on the Air Force
Special Warfare Discord. So double shout out, homie, What
are we drinking? I made a what I'm calling a
Jepsen Sour because it involves 3/4 of an ounce of Jepsen
bourbon, one and 1/4 ounce of liqueur 43 and then 1/4 ounce of
Malort and then 3/4 of an ounce of lemon juice, egg white and
you shake this shit out of it, dry shake, then you ice shake
it. Then you double strain it and
you put a cocktail cherry on top in.
It does taste like vanilla cake. It's so does.
It's disturbing. God damn it, Curtis.
Give me a try. It's freaking Malort Cocktail.
Yep, I got you guys. I'll try.
This one too. All right, What else?
We got, oh, that is way better than it has any right to be.
Right. So I made, I'm going to call it
the good pirate Benedictine. So it's the two ounces of
overproof rum, one ounce of Aperol, and one ounce of
Benedictine garnished with the Luxor or cherry.
It's. Delicious.
It's so good. It's so good.
John thought of the Benedictine. So, and it's pretty.
It is very pretty. It's like the perfect shade of
like, not quite red, not quite orange.
Aperol's cheating when it comes to like, the color of your
cumber. Or something like that, you
know. Yeah.
Garnett. Yeah, yeah, There you go.
Yeah. I made a drink with the hibiscus
or what is hibiscus, right? Yeah.
Hibiscus ginger gin some. What's that?
Oh, rhubarb rhubarb ginger gin. Rhubarb ginger gin.
A little bit of butterfly pea flour gin.
Some Batavia Arac, which is effectively rum from the
Philippines I believe. And then I did a little bit of
slim of its plum Brandy, a little bit of cane sugar,
pineapple juice and lime juice and it turned out pretty damn
tasty dirty dump into a Colin's glass.
And then I topped it with some Angostura aromatic bitters.
I want to try the Mallard, yeah. Do we got anything else?
I need. That.
Build. That's because you guys are
broken. And no, it doesn't need any more
Malort. I guarantee it doesn't need any
more Malort A. Bit more, just a touch more.
It's a. Little too much cake, not enough
Malort. That's.
The name of the cocktail now. Take your death.
Thank you.
Oh man. As someone who watched a very
long video on Portal this week, Yes, Cake is a Lie is perfect.
Good job. All right, we got anything else?
Any alibis before we roll into this?
Oh, let's go. All right.
Oh, man, I forgot where we were at now.
Fuck. Someone was asking me questions
about. Oh, that was right.
Arms in sockets, right? Yes, it is a thought process for
later. OK, Sark is like this is a later
problem. We have more to explore.
Like, he's willing to try it, but it's not a let's do this now
thing. OK.
Now Elle started to reach for a Sark and then got visibly
disappointed when he said later. Yeah, more unknown to go find
out. I will drag you if I have to
you. Could have better arms.
Punch things harder. I could have worse arms for it
later. Just starts walking towards the
other door. OK.
So you the door opens and this one also is kind of reverse than
what you guys have been seeing in the hallway.
It opens right to left. So if you had been coming into
the room, it would have opened left to right and you enter into
a a hallway and much like the last time when you guys entered
into the last holiday, as soon as you step in light kind of
across right and it just it each of the they you know and they
don't cover the entire hallway but they gave you probably about
a good 10 meters on either side of you.
And as you step out and you look to your left and to your right,
this hallway is surprisingly empty.
This appears to be the only door on either the the wall that you
guys are walking out of or the one across.
As you look to your left, you see what appears to be the
terminus of the hallway with that you came in from the stairs
all the way for fucking real life months ago.
At least that's what it that's what it feels like.
Ben was going to ask about that. So I'm glad you already saw the
segment. As you look to your right, you
see the the the hallway end and it makes an A left hand turn,
but you also see a fairly sizable door there, like not far
after the the the hallway begins.
Sir, it's going to just pivot and be lying for the sizable
door. OK.
What's everyone else? Got.
Yeah, I'm going to be on. Stark's heels this whole time
and. I'm probably just going to be
like dragging all along behind me as I go.
No, you're not. I'm trying to keep up with Al,
Yes. Yeah.
His his little legs are going so fast, it's it's like a cartoon
where they're just going. To reach where you think he's
supposed to be and you're like. I didn't know.
You could. Fucking walk that fast.
What the fucker can move? All right.
So as you come up to this door, it is double the width and
double the height of any of the doors that you have come up to
before. And as you walk up, it does not
open automatically, which has actually been the standard.
It was just recently that as you were inside laboratories and
spaces where they were open up automatically for you.
You notice though that due to the right of the door, as has
been seen on the rest of the doors, there is A1 of those
Those things, push button things, activators works.
Wait in the middle of the door because he's expecting L to open
it, but I'm going to slide a hand into my bag of holding and
just hold the potion that I of growth I grabbed.
Because I'm like, this is a big door, big things go through
here. So I'm just like holding on to
my potion of growth inside my bag of holding, waiting for the
doors to open. OK, so as you do that, if you if
you want to, because you're preparing for it, I'll let you
do that with a bonus action. OK.
And potions of growth are are a nice light blue color, right?
I don't remember that much. I just don't.
Have potion of Growth. Just don't buy me gas stations.
Don't buy. Don't.
Yeah, nobody posts of growth at a gas station.
No, no bad idea. Not not, not if you don't want
your heart to explode. I almost.
Spit my drink out. Thank you.
That was amazing. Hold on, hold on.
Wait, wait. Oh, it didn't work.
Wait, Nope, didn't work. Off topic for later use, is
there an in world version of Four Loko?
No, I'm just going to say no, no, I don't want to deal with
the outcome of that. No.
I. Don't want the trouble.
I just really was skull steering after the.
Campaign going to start brewing the most terrible things in the
world and selling them to people.
I'm going to walk up to the to the activator and I think Sark's
the only one that can understand him in Gnomish saying please be
please be the power room, please be the power room, please be the
power room and hit the button to open the door.
All right. The the door opens from the
center and splits open and as you step in sterile white light
just, you know, it's you know how those like, I can't remember
what type of lights they're called, but like like the LED
lights or whatever, when they they make that sound that when
they turn on and you hear that as a ton of lights turn on and
as you step into a slightly chilled room nowhere near as
cold as the where the organ room was.
It's got a slight chill into it. I need who's who's stepping in
first. Sark is definitely like, is
there anything giant in moving into the room to make sure?
So with your fucking ridiculous, stupid perception, you walk in
and you see nothing moving. It's very still.
And as it's one of those things as you step in, there is it's
almost like walking across a pressure curtain, which you guys
know what it's like is you have stepped through portals that
have that, but this one's definitely gentler.
It's definitely the room is positively over pressured,
gently so. There's a of air as the doors
open. It's very much like a clean room
in that perspective, and instantly as you step through
Sark, you feel metal hit your shoulder, and as you look up,
you just see racks upon racks upon racks of war forged.
Hanging. And as you step through this
very small gap and you step into the center of the room, you see
fully completed hanging war forged.
Thousands upon thousands of war forged in this room.
This is a massive, massive room. It is large enough that I mean
just for our American audience, at least a football field size.
Is it Indiana Jones where they put the box at the end big?
It's not that big because that, I mean, depending on on your
idea of that world and its lore, that room essentially goes on
forever because it's magic. This is not that.
But it's big as fuck. And it's tall too.
It's it's about two stories tall, the the space of a
football field. And it is just filled.
Like there's a small space inside, like as you step in and
you look to your left and to your right, there's an opening
kind of where the racks kind of hang and avoid.
And it's maybe about 15 feet tall and about 20 feet wide.
And it goes all the way down. And as you look to your right,
you can see a door that goes out, that out to the right and
then to the left you can see what looks to be maybe a small
office. And you guys have been, it's
been very uncomfortable, the lighting in general, because
it's fairly sterile and everything this, this is almost
even more so. It's oppressive the, the color
of the light, as you know, I mean if anyone has spent any
time in a college laboratory, science laboratory, you will
understand it's closed off, no windows, no nothing.
And it's just this oppressive light with the hum of the light.
And it's just, it's oppressive. Yeah.
So Sid delightful walks into the room, kind of lagging behind.
I don't like this place. Yeah.
Who? Who built this army and what
happened to them? Have a really twisted idea?
Think we can reprogram them to be our?
Army. Is that something you mess with?
Is this is this worth doing? I mean, so here's my thoughts on
this. He's good on a boat.
We could probably either train these guys to be good on a boat
or they already are and we now have a full blown Navy or their
boat. Down with us.
No, it's not. We need more boats.
If we have this many people like shark, getting more boats is not
a hard thing. Well, and if there's something I
think skilled and myself knows how to do, it's acquired boats.
We're pretty good at acquiring boats.
And we have lots and lots. Am I Hang on?
We have lots of. Money.
I'm going to walk. We'll start watching towards the
office, yeah. That's no we do we have money.
Is not how you go about acquiring.
Boats, I shout after Oh, but is this right?
Is this? Something.
You understand? Can you control this?
Sark, I need you to roll a Wisdom saving throw for me,
please. Goody.
With this, we can wipe out all of the slaver ships and take
them over and use them. 19. OK.
Was it the Concorde Conclave? The the yeah, who who are the.
The bad elves? Definitely.
Not slaves? Oh no.
The conclave's gone at this point.
No, it's. There, It's just not what it
was. Sure, sure.
They and you don't want those ships because they are
essentially hollowed out flying whales and there's bad juju on
that. Yeah, I know, you know.
But take their ships from them and use them for good purpose.
But I'm telling you. I know.
Isn't there? Scald would know.
Gotcha. The essentially what they did to
build these ships is to take the bones of a flying whale and
there are massive sea stories about those exactly 100%
accurate depiction right there on the YouTube.
So go check it out on YouTube if you're listening to this on
Spotify or wherever it is you get your podcast from.
So cool. The stories that amount to the
pirates who have captured those flying ships you even you would
be terrified of them. Gotcha.
Well, we can liberate all of those ships and we.
Can. Put their bones to rest and we
could stop them from enslaving people, which I am a big fan of.
So. Sark, I feel like these guys in
particular would be on the same side as us in that that kind of
thought. Sark, as this conversation is
going around you, you feel this massive mental pressure and it's
just right on your temples and you're feeling it, and you're
feeling it, and you're not sure where this is coming from.
You turn and spin and turn and spin and all of a sudden a big
one thump brings you to your knees and you're just you're
resisting and fighting and fighting and then all of a
sudden. The.
View for you begins to darken and darken, but it's not black
that is enclosing into your on on your eyes.
It's red. And it's almost like feeling the
negative G forces as you were going backwards and the pressure
and pressure tightens up, tightens up until you no longer
see. This is way more uncomfortable
than what happened to you in that war Ford storage room
earlier when you guys encountered that vision.
You open your eyes and you see the same bright room that you
were in, but you look down and you don't see a corporeal form.
You're just kind of floating and you see and you look and you see
these kind of a familiar sight in that it is a set of kind of
like I guess the best description as I've used before
is kind of like AD evolved Ellodrin.
So it's a an elf with almost like leaves and flowers hanging
off of them and they are in almost like sarongs and togas
and they are walking around with some sort of tablet and they're
scrolling on it, but it looks like glass and the the racks are
moving and you watch as these war forged are are and they're
coming in and out of what you didn't notice before are small
holes at the top of each side as they are swinging in and out.
And it looks like there's something, there's other
machines that are be happening that are working on these war
forges. They are going by and you hear
conversation in Sylvan that you recognize the language but you
don't understand it. And then all of a sudden you
hear a whooping alarm begin to to sound off and red strobing
lights begin to happen and everyone is beginning to to
freak out. The actual this, the the elves
that are there. And then everything tilts.
You see like you're standing on a ship that is too rough of seas
and everything goes ass up The feet of the war forge as they're
hanging from these these rails are going flying upwards.
The elves are flying, flying, flying.
And what feels like an eternity is as just this.
Whatever you're at seems to be falling.
About 3 minutes later, a massive thud.
An explosion happens, the lights go out, everything rattles, yet
the War Forge seem to still hang, and then everything blacks
and you find yourself face down on the cold floor.
And for everyone else, as you're having this conversation, all of
a sudden you watch as Sark goes to a knee and then eventually
just collapses face first onto the floor.
I'll just turn around and start heading, start moving back over
as soon as Sark goes to a knee, and if he's not there when Sark
collapses, he's going to start running back, OK?
Yeah, I mean, I run back over. Sark, you're now awake or
returned, I should say. I'm still like face down in the
metal. I'm just going to like one arm,
like push up, move and it's very much that like stutter step
again, like when I first got assembled and like shake my head
and like slowly get up and then just wean and it looks to
everyone else like he's about ready to heave.
That's not something sarked up. Can do, yeah, yeah.
So. Cousin, I think we need to get
you out of here, because this place seems to be doing stuff to
you. You all right.
Sid will grab Elle's like chin like cup it somehow.
Elle or Sark? No, Sorry, Sark's face.
Sark, what happened? I pour some water from my water
skin into like a camping mug and I finger guns it to bubble and
hand it to him. Like an Alka Seltzer Sark's
going to like, see you and like, tilt his head like shake it and
then sign to you. He's not speaking outside.
Like bad memories, Not my own with like a question mark.
I don't even say it out loud. I just sign right back to you
and I I say similar to the vision you had before question
mark. The signing it?
No, the previous one was mine. This is shared violently.
A memory of this place. Yes.
I think I probably like kneel down and like help you back up
to your feet and like walk you towards a wall and sit you down
against a wall and shove the cup of bubbles into your hand and
and I'll turn to the rest and just kind of relay you know he's
he's having someone else's memories maybe it it might be
like community memory of something that happened here
that was bad and violent. So he doesn't believe it's his
own memory. Is someone here?
Let's is L. How do we figure out if one of
these guys is awake? I turned to Sark and I asked.
Does it feel like someone's trying to communicate with you?
Roll. An insight?
Check Sark. Keep rotating back 16.
So the answer to that is no. It feels more like memory.
Sark's impression of this, and he'll kind of sign it, is
collective ghost impression from the stories I've read and just
point at all of the rest of the war forged on the racks.
Because also, this is something that you may not remember, but
Sark would remember. It wasn't necessarily you that
had the the vision. It wasn't necessarily a vision
of you. It's just that you were
embodying someone who was similar to you when you had
that. So, Sark.
Took the first one as it was his memory.
OK, fair. Totally fair.
This one is definitely not his memory.
No, that's 100% fair. I want to make sure that I
didn't tell you that. No.
No, no. This is very much me
interpreting what you said as this was Sark's memory and this
currently that was perfect. This is not Sark's.
Memory. What languages do you speak?
No mission common in common in sign.
OK. I will also sign heard more of
the weird not elf Elvin from previous.
I signed back. Does this feel like echoes of
trauma? Like and then what I the word
that I use for echoes of trauma is like a celestial word that is
like ghosts howling, but also at echoes, right?
Like Banshees screams, but also the word for echoes and
celestial. And then I also use I ask is it
ghosts in the machine? But it's again, it's a it's a
celestial word. And I, as I like, say these like
I I get to the that point in the signing, and then I say these
words out loud. And then I realize that Sark
doesn't have a context for him. And so I sign echoes, echoes of
wailing ghosts in the machine as like the closest thing I can
approximate to the celestial words that I was using.
Roll insight on that one too. OK.
This may be the heaviest role play dice game that we've had.
It really is, yeah. That is a 22.
Dice. Oh, perfect.
So this is 100% Ghost in the Shell fill, right?
Like like day of sex Ex Machina kind of shit, right.
Like that kind of like it's definitely and this is perfect
because I I was hoping that we could get to this it you also
realize that this is only happening when war forged or
around. So it's something that really at
this particular moment as you were surrounded by thousands
upon thousands of war, forged that ghost.
When he says Ghost in the Machine, that's what hits you
and what's triggers you about this.
OK, circle sign back like a green ghost in the machine and
then like and also last gasp of a drowning group like his.
Thing is, I am now recognizable by the memories of all of these.
Their last gasp just got shoved into me.
I asked. Do you think, do you think that
these are alive? Essentially, when I when I ask
are they alive, are these I asked like, are they present and
alive at the same time? Right.
Like a word that kind of encapsulates that concept of
like, are they alive? Are they present?
Are they here? Sark's impression is that
they're more like mummies, and they are living beings at this
point, like they're just shells of what was once possibly living
does. That sound right, Morgan?
That's fine. Oh, we're I only.
I only asked because Nate was looking at you and you couldn't
see him looking at you, but he was looking.
No, I. I I will chime in if I feel
necessary. I got it.
You guys are doing great. Yeah, to see if you're going to
make me roll or anything, but no, that's what Sargent says.
OK, cool. It feels like mummies in the
sense of preserved dead. Are there any that we can reach
physically from where we're standing?
Oh, there's thousands that you can reach.
OK, we walk. I walk over to the nearest ones
and I kind of look, I'm going to look them over and I'm going to
pick one kind of at random. But I want to find one that
looks relatively similar to Sark as far as like material makeup
as much as possible and and and even like structurally like I
want to say like bone structure, but you get what I'm saying.
Make make a investigation. Check please.
Metal versus blood versus yeah. That's a six.
So they're these these are hilarious.
About Americanized. But in in this case, this is
actually it's it's not it's not that.
So you as you were kind of walking through the rows, you're
coming to realize that because this is really your only
experience with War Forge. The only person who would maybe
seen a War Forge before this would have been Sid.
And that's only a small, small possibility.
And you're coming to realize that War Forged are not only
just as diverse as any species grit makeup there is, they're as
diverse as the species themselves.
Like they are built slightly different and everything.
And then you also notice here that all of these are like the
one that you found in these, the, the machine room is that
these are all pretty much significantly more advanced than
Sark. So either Sark comes from a
different group that wasn't as technologically advanced, or
Sark is that much older than these and so.
I turned to Sid and Patrice and essaway and I'm like come help
me and I started trying to figure out how to get this thing
down. Who do you?
Want to help? SOA progressionally walks over
to help and also points at like do we need to look at what's in
that office? L.
I'll just go look at Sark and we burning everything in here or
are we investigating? Sark, kind of like there's been
sitting with the bubbles. Will that happen?
And then just kind of like not quite coughs but does the
similar like that's weird. I don't know yet.
It's at least worth looking in the office.
We can always burn it all later and sets the cup down and goes
into Lotus position and just kind of opens up to the room,
OK? I'll get to that.
In a minute. Scald.
Yeah. What?
What are you trying to do? I want to lift this thing down
and I want Ella to look at it when he's done looking.
In the control room. Sid pauses, but will help, but
like you can tell. Also.
Begrudgingly. Yeah, yeah.
And hesitantly like this is uncomfortable.
As fuck. When Sid don't want to fuck with
shit in here. Seeing that Skeld looks at Sid
and says at this point, this is no different from carrying what
is either an unconscious individual or a corpse.
Both you should be equally comfortable with and starts
hoisting the thing down. So essentially how this is going
to work is that you're going to need because it's heavy, like
for those of you who have, who have physically interacted with
Sark have had to lift him or anything like that.
He's a heavy motherfucker, right?
He's, he's wooden, metal. And So what it is is whoever's
going to help. I'm going to need all of you to
make a strength check please. And then this is a group check.
So it's going to be an average of of all of Y'all's.
No, I went with L because of. The straight strength, straight
strength, or like athletics this.
Is like strength dump the Hardy it is except for I didn't tell
strength. I'm pretty sure.
One's not 15 because I got a -1. Eight with a + 0.
I'm a stabby Bard warlock thing. Why do I need strength?
13 with a + 2. I'm going to use Flash of
Insight for for Sid as I'm walking away and add +5 to it.
OK. 13 So I'm at. 1818. So two out of three succeed,
probably. I for sure didn't.
I. Thought.
Hey, we should. We should do this, I'm.
Also going to middle manage moving this, yes.
That's exactly. I'm here.
Realizing. Here's what happens.
The rest of you need to lift with your legs.
So so. Scald is there and he's not sure
quite how to grab. Like he's he's trying to not be
disrespectful, but at the same time he's like, I need to get
the fucking thing down. And as everyone begin, everyone
else begins to grab and lift. He kind of twists and
unintentionally is like face first in the crotch of this
thing. And.
Kind of wrap. Around his back, right?
And he's just kind of like swinging and like trying to grab
it as. As the way.
I. Did.
I finally just realized this is how it's going to be and I just
wrap my arms around the thighs and use my face as a fulcrum.
To. Carry the weight of this war,
forge down like this is what's happening.
Fucking I don't care anymore. As Sid and S away, lift up the
weight and it unhooks and then they let go and it's just like.
I just got thighs around my head.
Yeah, it's it's like the worst porn you've ever seen.
And then eventually Skald's legs just kind of give out and then
he falls down on his ass as this, the War Forge hits him
straight in the chest, breath left, and then falls flat, and
then the War Forge falls to the side.
I get up, I I get up and I kind of dust myself off and I'm like,
well, I feel like that was even less dignified for this guy than
it was for me, which is the thing I really feel bad about.
Let's try to this time pick it up and carry it over towards
Sark where he's sitting and I lift a leg and I stand as far
away from it as possible as I lift the leg.
Out of context, really interesting question.
Which way do you tilt your head when you eat tacos?
Left, Left. Always.
Left my thighs hold my head in place.
I still to left. I have a very strong neck.
I don't know if you've seen how wide my neck is, but it's very
strong. Anyways, yeah.
Exactly Sid, Sid. Will try to go and grab I'm.
Going to shoulder. Well done, well done.
Yes. Cheers to that.
Oh my God. Too good?
Lovely. Love it.
Cool. So why don't we?
Why don't we right there. I think that's a really good
stopping place. We'll.
Move. We'll move to the the the war
forge to Sark. Sark's got his opening up and
then we've got Patrice and L in the office and we are going to
hit that after we take a a really quick.
Break. Welcome everybody to campaigns.
Welcome back, God damn it. I cannot get words right today.
Welcome back, everybody, to campaigns and concoctions, where
we think that the enjoyment of a story is way more important than
the factuality of it. What are we drinking?
Weird drinks? Weird.
Drinks. That's weird.
All of them are. Weird.
Well, you're just not. Mine's not weird.
We've we've had mine before. Yeah, it's still weird though.
I'm calling mine. It's a tiki drink.
Yeah, that's the name of the drink.
Yeah, it's a tiki drink. It's a tiki.
Drink. It has one ounce of Devil's head
Aqua meat, half an ounce of Adori, half an ounce of drill, a
pear liqueur, half an ounce of Jarrod's or jot, half an ounce
of pomegranate liqueur, half an ounce of pineapple juice, half
an ounce of lime juice, 1/3 of an ounce of lemon juice because
it wanted that much. I was going for 1/4 of an ounce.
It did what it was going to do. Four drops of tiki bitters and
six drops of saline solution. And it it is a.
Cheap tiki drink and it is delightful.
For the record, after Nate made this drink, I was like the last
one in the kitchen making my cocktail and Nate had to like go
through with our initiative board and write down everything
that went to there. He was like, did I use this?
Did I not use this? About a 5 minute process.
It was amazing. That's the sign of a proper tiki
drink, that. Is the sign of a.
Proper, all right. Tell me what you're drinking
and. Then me and Curtis will tell me.
Curtis and Gerald will tell Mars.
I made my honey bee my my honey liqueur bees, which I'm not.
Calling the Candy Man, Yeah. I don't.
I'm not like the candy man. I don't know.
It's going to have, Yeah. It's going to have a bee in
there. So I don't know.
Yeah, because the Candy Man is the fucking horror villain that
has bees around all the time. Because he worked on, I think he
worked on a plantation that had Honey, do you guys not know who
the Candyman is? You OK?
So I made I. Didn't watch work.
Why did you know the? Christ in that movie, yeah.
He. Was talking Sammy Davis junior.
No, I'm talking about the Candyman.
So I knew. Like, can you call him the Sammy
Davis? Don't say his name a bunch of
times. Whatever.
I've never watched the movies. Sorry, Jesus Christ.
OK. I made a drink.
We're calling it chicken in the corn.
It's got one ounce of plantation OFTD, one ounce of crack in 94,
Half an ounce of Cantagra Negra coffee liqueur, 1/4 of an ounce
of Elizabeth's DRAM. Saint Elizabeth's DRAM, an egg
yolk. You shake, you double strain,
you garnish with some grated dark chocolate we would have if
we. Had.
Some, but instead we put a little bit of chocolate bitters
on top. But it has no business being as
good. As It's crazy good.
It is. It's crazy good.
I I have a dark chocolate look up, I can bring dark chocolate.
Yeah, you should bring dark chocolate.
Just to be on the have some chocolate here for grating on
top of our. Beverages.
You have. To grate from me.
Yeah. Also that I can just yeah, just
bring more every time. Bring more every time.
I'm calling my cocktail Nog Cow, as in eggnog mixed with mezcal.
So it's it's 1 1/2 ounces of Del Maguey Vita.
It's 1/2 ounce of Creme de violette.
It's 1/4 ounce of simple syrup. It's 3/4 of an ounce of lemon
juice. It's an egg yolk.
It's 1/4 ounce of falerinum and molay bitters.
That would go well with some eggs Benedict.
It would. It's a breakfast drink.
For sure. Definitely.
It is definitely a breakfast beverage, yeah.
Like it's, yeah. I was actually a little
disappointed with it until I added the the moly bitters.
But like the egg yolk, like bumps up those moly bitters so
well. And then like the structure is
so good. You know, I could probably add a
little bit more simple syrup. I only did 1/4 ounce.
Wow, I do 1/2 ounce more sugar. I don't know.
I just feel like you would add like somebody or maybe like
maybe add something a little bit thicker, maybe add like some
Sherry or something like that to it.
Yogurt way. Oh, that's actually not a bad
idea. Or you would.
Just thicken it and you're going to add a little bit of tart to
it. Even just heavy cream where you
want to add a bad. Idea.
But yeah, the moly. Bitters up for I tried.
For the. 1st. Time.
All right. I I let that go long enough.
No more work. No more work shopping any do we
have anything else that we're drinking or or can we roll on
now? OK.
The definite sounds. Roll more and take more Malert
shots. Yes, I'm never rolling that one.
No. My body is ready.
All right, why don't you? Just yeah, I.
I really hope we don't roll natural 20s or ones, because the
only thing I have left is that bottle of the Family Jones stuff
that I don't want to open right now.
Oh no. I guess you're going to have to
drink some family, Jones. I know.
It's not like it's a bad thing. Family.
Jones So. Terrible.
You're you're just. Going to.
Suffer so much with that delicious, delicious family.
Jones A. A single barrel whiskey that's
been aged for 10 years. Oh no, Oh no.
All right so as the as Sway, Scald and Sid bring this war
forged body over towards Zark. Elle and Patrice are heading
towards the office. And as you enter the office,
it's fairly similar to some to many of the spaces that you guys
have seen in the in these types of ruins, these types of areas.
And Oh yeah, also, so just so you guys don't forget, you guys
have Rama Al Jamal following you and she is just fucking
terrified, right? I totally forgot that she was
following us. I thought she stayed open.
Go to God, there's. Nobody.
With us I see it's like. Just being ourselves in public.
Excessively negative attitude about the dumb ass shit that we
do. Or rounded Normie.
Oh my God. This.
Poor Goblin Woman is just completely rendered speechless.
She is fucking terrified and she has no idea what she did to
deserve. This right she's.
Standing there. She's going to.
She's going to tell the general to to not trust a goddamn.
Thing we do ever again. Do not.
Give them contracts. They're insane, incompetent and.
Foolhardy. Or she's going to be very
confident, but we've. Been lucky as far as an
observer. Can.
See. Not not for a young officer who
has no fucking clue she's also going to.
She might just say they're the best I've ever seen.
Also that that's that's a possibility.
And there's no one between, there's no one between.
But like that poor, that poor young goblin woman is standing
there in the door watching with huge eyes and just like it's
fucking terrified. So Elle and and Patrice as you
walk in to the to the office, it's it's becoming a site that
is fairly familiar to you. Elle.
As you look and you see an office that is set up with a
small technological board with a couple of chairs just like it.
This is obviously some space that is that is operating the
machine like you're getting so familiar now like you may not
understand what everything does, but you kind of get an idea of
what the overall vibe is. So you enter in and you see a
fairly large board sitting across a window that is looking
out into the space that holds all of these war forged you guys
doing. I was going to ignore the the
obvious control spot. Whatever.
For now, and in what is probably the most methodical method that
Patrice has ever seen, I'll do anything other than make coffee.
He is going to start. Good caveat.
To the left of the door and just go through absolutely every
square inch of the office, all right?
Go ahead and make an investigation check please.
And I don't do. I have advantage for technology
or? You have, You have.
Advantage because because Patrice is helping, Yeah.
It's like bring your daughter to work day.
You can't. I'm helping up here.
Look at me. I'm helping.
It is very much that you can't reach here, there.
You go, yeah. Yeah, a lot of it's called hold
this, hold this. Give me that back.
And he's like. OK, OK, here you go.
When you need that one, OK. That's a 28 or hold a 19.
So this room is is unlike all the other ones that you have
been into that there is nothing else here except for the board
and what looks like some sort of it's like a glossy paper that
has like kind of like it's kind of look.
It looks like whatever is on it has just kind of faded into kind
of like black and Gray blobs. Sometimes you roll high and it
doesn't get you any anything. It's going to very carefully
stack all of the papers off to the side, or have Patrice hold
them, probably. Yeah, I got it.
I got it. He's going to tell.
He's going to tell Patrice as he hands it to him to be very be
very careful not to smudge these.
On my owner. As he's pretty sure that he
can't actually smudge them, but. OK, we're back to take you
another to work day. He's he's trying to make Patrice
feel like he has something to do without actually giving him
something that he might screw. Up.
Yeah. It can't be something important.
But I think it's. Important, yo.
It's. Incredibly important.
And then he's going to walk over to the to the Control Center
screen, whatever, and start very carefully investigating it.
He's not. He's trying not to activate
anything, but he wants to see if he can get information from it.
So that this is probably the simplest of the control boards
that you have seen, especially compared to the one that was in
the in the specimen room that had all those buttons and then
everything there is a very large screen in the center and then
there are four buttons, one on or two on each side of the
screen. Do I have any any idea what the
buttons might do? If there is there any symbology
or anything? So there's there's nothing
actually that is that is written or inscribed onto the board or
anything like that and it actually seems that this board
does not have any power running to it.
Clearly, if it doesn't seem like there's any power to it, I was
going to push probably the top right button.
OK, nothing happens. L They were growing people and
building people. That's like two sides of one
weird coin. I.
Don't know they were growing people.
What then What did we murder? They've been in prison.
You want to keep them alive for later.
Maybe they were saving him the snacks.
I don't fucking know. I need me too.
So annoyed right now. Maybe they were there
voluntarily. One medical thing that went
wrong. Who the fuck knows?
That's kind of what like it just seems like they've got whoever
this this civilization was. They had they were they were
knee deep in in making like wasn't it.
It wasn't like they just made sarks.
They made they made stuff. We got this crazy armor and and
and like wow, I'm just like distracting you.
I'm distracting you, aren't I? You come from a fucking
shipyard? That's a fairpoint.
Yeah. Haven makes things they're knee
deep in making just. I feel like it's different.
I don't know, like, you know, like we made trouble, we made
booze, we made, we made out. Like that's all we did.
They. Made ships.
You made ships. They made people.
What's the fucking difference? A lot.
Sark is a person.
And if I put a brain in a ship, I can probably make it a person
too. You're one of them, aren't you?
A. Personist.
Yes, makes. Persons thank.
You thank you. This is so sad.
Voice. He's.
Trans personist and the only difference between you and Sark
is the He's got one metal and you've got me.
He's got the meat. I couldn't help it.
I. Couldn't help it, I could.
Stop it this. Is this is going to be a short
This is fucking happening. I couldn't.
Are you saying the? Outside of my.
Control, you know. Are you saying that?
Just because I just. Wanted to that much different
than Sark and everything. I'm not even close to saying
that. I'm saying like like I didn't
come off an assembly line. My mom was not an assembly line.
I mean, how many sisters and brothers?
Do you have one skelled who's not here?
He's not wrong. She was a people maker, just
like. Yeah, but like we.
Had a couple people, literally. It required multiple people.
They're. Not Irish.
They made a mechanical person. It required multiple people.
They need a beat person. It's the same fucking thing,
just one of them's intentional most of the time.
Patrice is me is what's for dinner.
I hope I was intentional. I mean, my mom.
My mom leads me to believe, but my dad doesn't.
And you know, I don't know how long do I need to hold these
papers? I just want to sit down now.
Both John and Skeld are pretty sure that they were not.
Intentional. God, I wish I was there for
this. I was going to start tracing
that looks. If he can find something that
looks like a power cable running to the console, he's going to
try to start tracing it. Make an investigation.
Check please. With advantage.
Yeah. That's in that 20.
Oh, drink, motherfucker. Drink, motherfucker.
Drink. Intentionally.
Are we going to do the? Yeah.
Let's do We don't do that. While we're going to.
Get No, it's not a natural 1. Shut up.
Have to open a goddamn bottle with the motherfuckers.
Oh my gosh. And this year, that's.
Helping out the trees, yeah. I think it's better when you
drink it than when you spray. It I agree.
Well, when it aerosolizes you just it's more bitter.
It's rough. Is what it so.
Here's. So this is really what's going
to pitch you off here. You don't find a cable.
Can I find anything attached to it?
Nope. It seems that there is nothing
that so that this this device itself is pressed up against the
wall, and it seems that whatever they have that is connecting it
is not accessible in an easy way.
It seems that everything has been built either into the
directly into the wall or something to that effect.
Or you know, it's just it's not dangling like you've seen in the
previous iterations. He's going to.
I was going to, as he's looking through at it, trying to figure
out how to power it, he's going to lean over, kind of turn
towards where Patrice is standing and say go see if Skald
can read any of that. What do you want me to do with
these papers? Go see if Skeld can read any of
them. OK, I I I walk out with my head
like half down, slowly shuffling towards Skeld holding papers.
I see Patrice despondently shuffling towards me with an arm
full of papers and I go bring them here buddy, I got you.
What? What are What are these
favorites for truth? Elle said that Skel could read
them potentially. I look at them.
Can I read them? Well, so as you as you parse
through them, there's actually no words or anything on them.
Oh, sorry. It's.
As as you kind of look at them, it's really hard to discern what
they are. It's kind of like a black
background, it kind of greyish blobs and it's really hard to
see exactly what it used to be. I'm going to try to what's the
light like where I'm at? It's it's still bright.
It's that oppressive, bright white.
So it's black with greyish blobs.
Hold on a second here. Oh, Patrice has a light gantry,
right? Patrice snaps his fingers, and
three orbs start orbiting around your head and they're a soft
white. So I'm looking at I'm not seeing
any words and I start like holding them in different angles
to see if I'm missing something. No, it you're really not as as
you kind of hold them up you do notice that there are where so
there's there's an edge of white around at the top and the sides
it's a thin white and at the bottom it's kind of a thicker
white. And as you as you're looking the
the part where the black and the Gray is seems to have thinned
out a little bit. So the light is kind of shining
through it and it shines through more through where the Gray
blobs are versus where the black is, and it doesn't actually
shine through where the white is, so.
I'm going to hold them up closer to one of the light orbs and ask
Patrice to stop them from moving.
Doesn't look like anything to me.
I'm. Not even going to ask you to
roll because you can't roll high enough.
It's no, it's. It's really hard.
To discern. I'm going to gather him up and
I'm going to be like, Patrice, come with me and bring the
lights and I walk back into where L is and I'm like, hey,
look, these don't say anything, but there's for sure something
on here. I just don't know.
I don't. I don't have a context for what
it is. What I did notice is this white
border is impervious to light, effectively at least the light
that we've got. The black doesn't seem to let a
whole lot of light through, but these Gray blobby areas seem to
let light through them. I don't know if this is like
something that you're supposed to like, put up and it shows you
something on the other side, like a like a mummer's shadow
puppet show sort of deal, or if there's like some information
within them that I just don't recognize because I don't have
the context for it. El El has not looked away from
trying to find a way into the wall until you say put it off,
like put it on something. Yeah.
And then he'll grab one which whatever sheet is closest to
hand, whether it's the one you're holding or yeah.
It's probably one I'm holding. I'm, I'm holding them all now
and I'm holding one up as and I'm like, I'm describing it to
you as I'm looking at it because I'm trying to like come up with
the words to describe what I'm looking at as I'm looking at it
because I don't really have a vocabulary for it, you know?
He's going to like just mid sentence from you.
Grab one and put it on the screen that's in front of them
and see if anything happens. Well, the screen is black as you
put it on so but no, nothing happens.
You know, push all four buttons. See.
Doesn't expect anything to happen.
We're going to push them one by one and see if anything does.
Nope, nothing happens. Do.
You want to see what the blobs look like in the light?
Sure, why not. I grab it and I hold it up
against one of Patrice's lights. Do I do I see anything in it?
Nope. What's the?
Wall made out of. Jared needs to wait a while for
a drive home that was twice in like 2 seconds.
So the wall would be player knowledge.
It's essentially concrete, right?
Like this is basically a a big concrete warehouse, but the the
closest equivalent that you would you would have seen would
be no, actually, you know, being from Tinkermere, no.
Kind of like it looks like. Shaped stone.
Shaped stone? Yeah, trying to think, because
you I just don't as much as L is awesome at technology, I don't
know how much L actually would know about like building
technology, like construction. Shit, not a huge.
Amount. Yeah, like I I know that Dustin
knows more than L does. I mean, at least in terms of you
would probably know a fair bit about like blast resistance and
heat resistance, but not materials for that.
Not not the construction of a structure.
The the wall reminds you of the inside of one of the managers.
Storage, storage, warehouses. They're out on the docks, right?
It's solidly built. It's painted.
You know it would. It's going to be solid, right?
In a skyscraper that was made by magic, you know.
Right, right, right, right. At least partly.
Magic where he? Found his best friend.
Yes. Also that I was going to pull
out some of his Smith's tools and start trying to chip at it.
OK, because. He doesn't have his stone
Mason's tools with him. So when you.
Were putting the Sark together. Did you know that he was going
to turn on I? Don't fucking remember.
So did you, did you make, Did you intend for Sark to be many
times to be born? I mean, I didn't create Sark,
but did you? I just put them back together.
He was. He was.
He was Sark. Before he did, L didn't birth
him. I kind of feel like he's his,
he's his buddy and his dad in that way.
No. I haven't hung out with your dad
a lot. Sark is a lot.
Older than I am. Well, that's.
He doesn't remember a lot of it at the moment, but he's a lot
older than I am. Also Sark.
Tries to keep him out of trouble.
I just. I feel like.
I never had a dad, but I feel like that's what dads do, is
keep other people out of trouble.
Do you intend for Sark to be your buddy, or was that like
just did it just happen like it seems rather?
I saw pieces that looked like they went together and then
there was a Sark that was talking to me.
Like, I guess you know. I guess for all who knows, who
knows? So I I need, I need L to roll a
fuck, I don't know, just roll AD 20 for me, man.
I'm running out of shit here at this point.
I have no. Intention.
Put together, yeah. By something.
I have no intention of having this many rolls tonight.
Gentlemen, I'm sorry. I know you.
It's not a bad thing. Patrice, there is no meaning.
Nothing means anything, and that means that everything means
everything. It's all just a happy accident
and we're all just trying to make our way through it.
And isn't that the greatest miracle of them all?
No. Well, I tried.
Oh. God, we just waved the room.
What did you get, Elle? I wrote the five.
Yeah, you are not getting through.
Like it's just it's not working for you, right.
Like there's just for some reason whatever you're doing,
it's just it's not working. And in a rare moment of clarity
where you are not hyper focused ADHD style, you realize that if
you wanted to get this done, you're going to piss everyone
else off because you're going to be here for days.
We'll very reluctantly put the tools back away L.
Might be willing to get away with more.
That that was Dustin very much buying into Morgan's hints.
All right while all this is happening.
So L or not L Sark as you get into Lotus position and you're
trying to open in yourself up, if you would please explain to
me what it you're what it is that you were attempting to do.
He's not entirely sure. OK.
He's kind of combining the weird, like, vibration thing
he's felt in other ruins, kind of feeling that And what he just
did to like revitalize himself in the fight would apply it more
to his mind, which ironically is not something that he's worked
on as much as physicality. He's trying to figure that, like
still his body, to put all of his intention and focus into
reverse engineering whatever just happened to him.
All I can hear in my head right now is Deepak Chopra.
You must turn the intentionality.
Like that's all I can hear. I need I need you to roll an
inside check for me please Sark 1. 82.
Nice. Sark's gonna actually turn into
like a no shit Monk. Just.
The way. Throw in, right.
So as you sit there and you you, you get this kind of and it's
the way that you do this is it. You create this physicality
within the pose, which allows you to open up your mind and
your space within this space, and you feel the vibrations that
you have felt, and you've come to realize that they're not
necessarily physical vibrations as much as manifest physical
manifestations of some sort of mental psychic energy that that
you were exploring. And as you broaden up and open,
you feel things kind of clicking and turning behind your eyes
that you haven't noticed or been able to control in a way before.
And you watch as almost like filters click in between your
eyes and you hear as finally something.
It goes faster and faster until finally it settles on this kind
of purplish, pinkish hue. And as you're looking, it's
almost like wisps of smoke that is flowing between each of the
war, forged right. And then you find as it begins
to. It all be the wisps begin to
coalesce around the center of the room and they seem to go up
and through the the roof of this room.
And as you continue to broaden and open yourself up and you see
that you have a very strong unlike the the the ones here
there's it's not a wisp. It's almost a strong energy
tendril that is tying into the center as well as the the
network of wisps of smoke from the war Forge.
And you're beginning to sense minds deep and far, far away on
the other side of the planet, and you can't really see where
they are. But you see this kind of like
Ovid shape, and there's little pinpricks where you're seeing
his energy connections and everything seems to be gathering
in this kind of just salt, energy and almost shared memory
space and intentionality. And right as soon as you think
that you have a grasp on it, it shuts down and you hear the
click, click, click, click, and everything kind of opens back up
as you begin to return to a particular normal view of the
world. Does Sark know anything about
the Astral Plane? Good question.
Roll a history check. 17. Not bad.
OK, hold on to your butts, Yes. My body is ready.
Ball pain one. Of the.
For everyone who can't. Quite.
See, four of the six players have both hands, one on each
cheek, and are just leaning forward, waiting.
For more, we're ready. We're holding on to our butts.
This is the proper position that nobody in Jurassic Park like
assumed during that line. And they should.
Have This is how you avoid getting eaten by AT Rex or a
velociraptor. They can't be dangerous.
The the there's a there's a unique space about the way that
that the the universe kind of centers around Liberarth, right.
And you know this because you have access to to a library with
the the manager that is unique to the space and you you know
that Liberarth itself is kind of this astral connection to the
multitude of the planes. It is surrounded by the in
between, which is kind of created as a protector of the
material and of Liberar specifically.
And then the Astral plane kind of flows in and out of the
Astral sea as well. And it's this kind of liminal,
luminal space that allows for movements between the big
planes. As well as some places that have
been theorized in places like the Zadmeyer and places where
it's like they're talking about like extra, extra, extra plain
ear spaces that have deep, guttural, permagenited energy.
That some of the people say that they're protected by massive
flying Dragons that really have no corporeal form.
But maybe they do. Maybe they exist in dreams, but
maybe they may exist here on the planet.
You never really know, right? And so it's like, it's this
really unique space, but it it it is almost like the force of
George Lucas in that it imbues you and everyone has access to
it. It's just more of a matter of
how you can access it and pull from it there.
Fuck. You John.
Fuck you. You just tainted all that
wonderful. Stuff.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry, I.
Dare. You couldn't.
Help myself. Morgan just said something
beautiful, and you're like MIDI Florian.
Yeah. It was almost like an unfold.
Somehow John returned. Yes.
And like slowly stand up and kind of look to the center of
where he saw the West move. Think about it for a minute and
be like no, that's not a physical.
Place I can get to. And then just like, look,
everyone else goes, Yep, pretty much a tomb.
I don't think my kind. There's a very big question mark
after my kind. They're in the pyrotechnic
funerals. So at this point, let's just
close it back up and find out what else is here.
So what's everyone else doing? Is it Omara That's with us?
Who's with us? The Goblin.
Ramallah Omara is the the commander of the Legion.
So Sid will be like Darling, come here.
This is this is a bit much for you.
Oh shit, we still have one. We'll have a conversation later,
but basically this will actually mold your future or destroy you.
Yes, yes, and you absolutely will.
You'll like slightly, like, lean over to grab her hand and like,
walk with her the rest. Of the That's the name of this
episode. By the way.
This will either mold your future or destroy you.
I need you to roll a Persuasion check Sid with Advantage because
you're pulling on some old NCO stuff.
Fucking brilliant. Good thing that was with the
advantage of 14, that's going to be good.
You got these in charisma, right?
That's like 20 three. Nice.
Fuck yeah. So as as many a young officer in
every military branch that actually has a professional NCO
Corps experiences, this poor young Lieutenant is fucking
terrified. Yet.
The sage and kind words that emanate out of Sid, while not
not erasing the fear and the terror, it makes her feel that
this Sergeant knows exactly what's up.
They have a plan and they know what's going on.
And it it calms her in a way that she's no longer looking
about and wild a banyan and being like how the fuck do I get
the fuck out of here? But she's.
From this shit hole. Yeah, it it's amazing.
And as someone who's actually seen this happen in the desolate
ruins of Kirkuk, she is now willing to do anything for Sid.
Like she will follow Sid into the very Nine Hells.
And it's interesting for those of you who are watching, you can
you can watch the change happen, right?
Like she goes from this defeated, scared thing into this
more confident, at least ready to face the unknown.
And then I'm assuming everyone else is kind of gathering as you
get ready to head out. Yeah, I.
Think we're all going to come back to the Central?
Room Sark. So.
So you're saying they're all dead?
You said tomb. Sark is like on one knee, like
posing, the one they brought down into like reposed position
kind of stuff and looks up and goes as much as I can tell.
Yeah. Like I'll have weird lenses in
the back of my eye. We'll get to that later.
But the What now? They're the spirits that are
here, which I didn't know I could see.
Spirits are moving to somewhere, but they're pale reflections of
what's with it me, so I can't imagine that they have the
strength to reanimate what is. Here they've lost their
peopleness. I don't know that as much as
they're beyond exhaustion, they've lost like death to me.
They've lost their aliveness. Unalived.
That's a good term. They're unalived.
OK. Yeah.
Yeah, a side note, Sid. I think we have the money to
take on hirelings and it looks like you've got a first mate now
just based on the look of adoration on this goblin space,
but you know that's for another time, probably in about 3 hours
when we get the fuck out of here.
I mean, the pyrotechnics were partially for them.
Also partially to keep other people from trying to do stupid
shit with them. Yeah, do you like?
But if they do no longer have, kill that. 1 Nine points at the
goblin. We probably.
Shouldn't kill we probably. Shouldn't kill her, but we does
their does their unaliveness mean that they cannot be
animated again, in your perception, I.
Don't know. I saw ghosts floating through
the middle of the ceiling. All right.
Well, that's a thing that you said out loud.
Imagine being the one to see it. Yeah.
No, I don't want to. I'm good.
Thank you for being the one to see it.
Yeah, we really need to check out those new lenses.
You're saying unless you're a techno necromancer.
So as as the the seven of you are together having this
conversation, you were you were slowly making your way out of
the the the doorway and that's where we're going to leave off
for this this session and we'll pick up in in a couple of weeks.
With. Exploring the rest of this space
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