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Allelopolis, Craig and Craig The Time the head the hand of Fate
tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up in the shores throughout the infinite Sea,
fading to myth until myths are forgotten.
And again, the hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins,
turns. Hitherto we left our adventurers
known as the Rum Rollers successfully returned to
sorcerities and having delivered the Dragon's Breath to Queen
Fiatta specifically through her business partner Ferris on the
On their way to definitely evade.
On their way, they had to definitely evade some some
massive tentacles and made friends on the sea with a total
race run by the on on multiple on three ships and known as the
crew of the gay book Sun. A night in the day passed during
that, with the shadow shadows of the horizon flickering behind as
they landed ashore to trade in there and they that's when they
OK back, skipping around in my notes here.
OK. Upon landing back in Socrates,
they found that it was besieged by the PNC, who they'd had a
contract with after meeting with the emissary of the PNCA
vampire, who didn't really give his name, but asked for them to
make an appearance and made sure that they had already conquered
Socrates. Which the rum rollers said they
have for sure. OK.
At this point, having returned to the ship, Nimaway appears
with Roro on the decks of a Dune and Grand Am in KIRO promised to
sacrifice 10 or 10 sacrifices to the PNC, which the the vampire
requested to be delivered to the Lava Tower in two days time.
After discussing next steps and Ryrel presenting to Nim away the
wizard formerly known as Matt's corpse, they decided to visit
Zenith. Seen this altar on the aisles
just outside of Socrates. Socrates so that they can revive
him, hopefully in his previous glory.
And a Yeah, OK, OK. And that's where we left the rum
rollers. Let's find out what happens this
time. You guys did manage to slay 30
of the zombies, too, of the horde that was amassing and
besieging the city. But we could we could have took
we could have took them all down.
Oh yeah, there is still easily blocking the road at this time.
Just under 1000 now. And.
And holy water. So the city.
Is under siege. By 1000 zombies.
Is that what's happening? Yep, been been under siege for
1000 or just under 1000 zombies now because thirty of them have
been killed. It's just been.
What a dent. Right.
And you guys were you guys just took a carriage.
That's what it was. That's what I didn't take down a
note of, I guess. But you guys just took a
carriage with Grand Am's help who popped out of existence at
this point as you come to the island of Zenith Altar connected
by one of the many bridges of Socrates, spanning easily 500
plus feet over the water and landing on this island.
I hope you guys can see where I just moved the map.
Yes. We should have asked these guys
if they have a bunch of holy water.
That's cool. I didn't.
Realize we were in like avatar land.
So most of the structures and especially those that are
supporting everything here throughout are a of a bluish
crystalline structure Underneath it all, it seems like that's
growing out of the rock as the you get out of the carriage and
take your surroundings in a hooded figure greets you right
at the bottom of the bridge before you even enter the small
almost castle like structure of these crystal crystalline place.
And just he says, well, rum rollers, we've been expecting
you. We thank you.
We have urgent matters that need attending.
I would say very urgent. Gestures to this beating to rat
corpse, I assume. Hello, this is my friend.
I hope they're the corpse up. That is unfortunate the lady
would see posthaste, but the just know that while you're on
the grounds that we would hope that you and you see some of the
Google eating out of the body. Keep a cleanly nature about
yourselves. The the the the goddess does
stand for protection of all things, but especially
knowledge. So let us let us go on our way.
And he leads you up the they're almost alleys into different
parts and sections until you enter through It almost feels
like a side door. But as soon as you walk through
the side door, it opens up into even more grand hallway.
It almost feels like with a almost Chapel structure at the
end of it and a a figure standing at what looks like to
be an kind of an altar, but in a different form of which one
that's almost looking like a podium too.
But the podium isn't turned to face the hallway.
It's turned to face out over the sea with books and other things
strewn about the hallway to give you, as well as some things
growing that haphazardly in, in and amongst all of this off the
columns and and out through the space, keeping it somewhat fresh
even though it looks like it should be musty.
Cool place I taste. Very serene.
The guy that's leaving leading you up to this point, says the
the high. The high acolyte will see you
now and bows and turns and walks away and the figure at the at
the end of the room doesn't turn to meet you, he just seems to be
flipping through pages as you standing there reading.
The morning. Her skirt a little bit and
rushes forward but stops at the base of the stairs.
She does not fully approach him. If she was making noise
approaching, she's going to wait to see if you heard her.
You I acolyte, you see no reaction as you run up.
And this is clearly the the individual that the the person
who greeted us was referencing would see us, yes.
There's no one else in the room. Excuse me, Sir, we've been
informed that you could help us with our friend here.
He's in dire need of healing. Huh.
What? Huh.
He, he He turns over his shoulder.
Oh. Didn't hear anyone come in.
She kind of does a a tiny little curtsy and she, I'm guessing
everyone else is kind of back towards the entrance.
Oh no, I would. I would have walked up behind
you. And that the the corpse is with
us. Yeah, it is.
And then me in your head is I don't like churches.
Well, sorry, but I I think it's your only hope here.
No, it's all right. And she, she gestures and she's
like, please tell me, can something be done about this?
She catches a drip. Before it hits the floor.
I just see him gagging like Oh my God I've only read about such
stenches in such a long time I haven't smelled something so
potent. Sorry, he was in that bag.
Yeah. It takes a little getting used
to. Oh yeah, we we apologize.
Normally proper funeral rites would have been done.
However, this is a well he. Is dead the butt?
However, this see seems to be extenuating circumstances so so
the lady has told me. He's just like holding his nose
while he's talking. But.
Why has her handkerchief wrapped around her hand, catching like
little drops before they hit the floor to kind of the mess?
Roll, roll a dexterity check for me.
But I I really appreciate what you're doing there.
Trying to keep our floor clean. I mean, we, we were told not to
make a mess. It looks like you you're able to
catch the majority of them and if you did, you do miss one even
it it she. Steps on it hide it.
I was just going to say that you're able to, to, to, to, to
wipe it up with the the handkerchief.
It's not getting overly used at this point yet and he just still
continues to hold his nose and goes.
Well, I'm able to probably like. OK, so the lady.
Has suggested a particular ritual, but she has informed me
that something I didn't know about.
It's not in my readings. I wouldn't expect it's in yours.
But anyways, the soul, as you might imagine, needs some way to
enter the body after it's been repaired.
I got the button. That unfortunately.
Is not an acceptable. Route.
Yeah, the eye, we have his. So.
But you're going to need eye eyes themselves that are
attached and physically work for the body.
Right. So like what if we use the rise
are like a restoration spell on him that would regrow his eyes
or like do we need to go get some And also are you using
yours? I am currently yes very best
using my they they were. Necessary.
I had to ask. You know, It's always worth
asking. Kind of gives Ross and a a
disdainful eye light, no? What?
Oh, sorry, behave yourself. OK, what if I gave him one of my
eyes? I could be a pirate with a cool
eye patch. That, but then you could be half
as effective in battle. Nimoy eyes a bowl of grapes on a
table next to him. I don't know if you want to use
one of your eyes, but that might work.
But the reviving or repairing the eyes could potentially work
too. But there is there are some
instances, at least that I've read, that the soul doesn't want
to enter the body if the eyes aren't proper.
He's here. He, he, he wants to.
Oh, that does make things a little bit.
Easier I guess. Point at the ring that Nimoy is
holding. He's right there.
He's just chilling. What's going on?
He's here. If you would like to ask him
anything I can I can relay your request.
That I mean it, as useful as that sounds, I don't know to
Does he know? I guess what?
What? Sort of.
Position he holds in the universe, you know like
positive, negative, neutral, those are the main powers that
be. No way.
Things in her head, Matt. That.
Like to ask him if he knows. The tarot card reading, I mean,
I never really did a anything like that, but I'm a, I'm a.
Tarot cards. I haven't read tarot cards
either. I would assume I would be in
neutral power. He claims neutrality.
That is the best one to try and get into a a vessel as they tend
to be. Splendid.
More attachable. But still we need some sort of
eyes. I don't know what you might if
you have contacted them, you might want to ask him what his
choice of eyes would be. But the the vessel does require
eyes. Like physical eyes or would like
a robot eye work? We've.
Also, I pull it, I walk up and I show him like the like the
markings along the side of his, the tattoo text on his face.
I'm pretty sure this gives him some sort of sight, but I don't
know if they're like eyeballs. No, they are not eyeballs.
That's the. Problem.
I think, I think at least as to how the Lady has told me, the
Lady Zenith it is. It is one of the requirements of
a vessel to have eyes. It is the IT is the entry into
the soul. The the the window.
The window. That's the word she used.
Window into the soul. Don't really know what to do.
Can they be technological or must they be organic?
I believe they could be technological, but you would
have to have some sort of testing phase.
And I don't know, I guess I could, I could partake in some
of that. It would be rather interesting,
honestly, but it might take a little while because.
You say that. President for that here.
Does it matter where the eyes come from?
And I think only in the essence of whether or not the soul
itself would accept it. So especially because they're
neutral, it makes binding other eyes to them easier.
But it has to be some sort of physical.
Like. Like an actual eye correct boy.
Matt, you said, you said we're on the island, right?
Island. Yes.
Awesome. We're on the we're on the edge
of a ledge that looks out into the sea, right?
You're inside the the of a almost Chapel like that hallway
lined with columns that come to an arcing Dome and then the Dome
that's at the end of the hallway is a bit more of of a glassed in
structure that looks out over the Bay.
But if that if that helps, I have an idea.
Rolson, keep your friend decent and Kiro's going to walk
outside. And muss his face.
OK, bag. Spreads his wings and he dives
towards the water. I.
Don't know what he's going to do.
I'm going to go Hunter. Sides.
I could also do that. From where you're at, at least
because you're inside, right You're you're on a on out
overlooking the Bay. But there there is glass that is
in your way, so you probably wouldn't to the glass.
Oh, no, no, no, as much as that. I figured you would go to the
glass. Yeah, yeah.
He he walked back. Oh, you're.
Oh, I apologize, I missed that in your description.
If you were saying that I, I was going to say that if you went to
the glass, then you were going to probably look at it and go
like touching trying to figure out how to open it.
And the the acolyte could help. But if you wanted to walk all
the way back out, Oh no, no, he doesn't want to try.
He doesn't want to trouble the the high acolyte.
He doesn't want to trouble him. He would see you leaving the
room then though and go do. You know where he's got.
Me right back. Oh, really?
Well, could you bring me like, never mind.
What if I got like monster eyes that could see really far or in
the darkness? Would he get those abilities?
It's hard to say. Sometimes those things come
through, but sometimes they don't.
Right, it's the. Eyes are very important to the
vessel that holds the soul. As you may know from constructs,
it's one of the things that is. You may not, but it is one of
the things that stops them from being able to hold souls.
That's fine. Let's see.
Interesting. What kind of wildlife do I see
like just kind of cruising downward towards roll me a
survival check and a performance because of your jump.
We're talking about somewhere in the range of like I, I wanted to
say it was like I wanted to say it was like 120 feet that you're
jumping off the Cliff. Cliff at the top is highest
point wings, man, I mean wings. And then I have to go to a
Google search. 13 for survival, 13 for survival.
What do I find? I have to find something else
first because I've jumped off of things that are higher than
that, or not higher than that but pretty high.
Stupid, but I did OK. Google just this.
Holy hail, You guys won't even believe this.
My first search was for wind is too high to jump into water, and
it just said 10 feet. And, like, I know that's wrong.
I've jumped off some things that are higher than that.
Yeah. And there's divers.
Wings, right? Oh you.
I guess you would need to look Cliff diving.
You do you did. You did say that I forgot kind
of about the wings. So that would stop your fall a
little bit, or at least control it better.
And, well, no, no, not, not, not not like jump.
No. Like opening wings and then
flying down, like flying. So you're flying over top.
I apologize. Yeah.
I imagined. I imagined straight dive.
Well, I mean, like, you know, I dive in like, you know, I
collapse my wings to, you know, speed me to the ground faster
than opening my wings to, you know, continue on forward.
But like kind of like in a, you know, how a bird kind of like
dives down and then, you know, has the, you know, get them to
where they're going faster. That's what that's what I meant.
I guess it didn't come off the way I meant for this.
We said no worries. Apparently the highest dive ever
into water that was survived and done on purpose was 192 feet and
11 inches, so basically 193. Jesus Christ, that's what I was
saying that you guys wouldn't believe.
I was like anyways, so how I something's got to be broccoli,
I don't know. I guess he had to break
something anyways, so that makes it a lot easier.
You're seeing a school of fish is probably the first thing
you're seeing, but the fish are relatively.
Small fish eyes. Hey, hey, I'm shopping, I'm
shopping. Give me a moment.
Shopping as as you're as you're kind of circling around and kind
of coasting nor near the coast, you see a a besides the the
clams that are evident there of of fuse star for starfish that
stand out. And every now and again you
catch a glimpse of a flicker of emotion that you can only assert
to being and see maybe once a octopus.
That'll do. Hero dives into to to hack and
slash acrobatics and it would obviously be a surprise around
and then yeah, roll the attack. But I, I need the acrobatics 1st
to see how you delve into the water.
How graceful am I? It is.
Let's find out. 13 hey, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm hitting right in
that middle zone suite tonight. Yeah, I'd say you're all right.
And then to attack you, dude, helping yourself, all right, 11
to hit him. Oh, I oh, wait, I get advantage
because it's surprise. I forgot.
You do. Yeah.
Let's make that 2121. Sounds nicer.
I'm pretty sure that's going to hit.
Yeah, yeah, I'm just pulling it up now.
All right? Oh, yeah, That'll hit 13.
Would have hit 2 Oh nice and he will take 9 points of slashing
damage where even. Oh yeah, yeah.
So how how are you killing the thing?
I'm basically, you know, flying, you know, looking for that
perfect moment where you know, I, I'm looking for the big
bulbous point where, you know, as soon as it's like it's going,
you know, how like a, you know, octopus like the, the, the arms
kind of contracting. As soon as I see the arms come
like up, like they're right. Like in preparation to go ice
II/IN and severing the, the top like just about a foot above the
ice. That part just cut clean off,
OK, And I'm assuming you pick it up with the other hand as you're
coming through and as you do it starts twining around your arm
and a jet of ink probably spreads across your arm.
The things I do for friends. And yeah.
He takes the octopus legs and eyes and flies back up to
deliver a pair of eyes. You fly back up to the ledge.
You walk in. They've been probably standing
there for a goodly time of an awkward you.
Know like almost. 20 minutes. I would.
I would actually love the gyro. I was going to ask the guy that
left if he was going to get some food when he came back, but you
know. I've been trying to walk.
Out. Rahl does.
Appetite remains intact. No, the guy kind of walked out,
referring to Kira. Oh yeah, yeah, exactly.
Yep. And I would.
I don't know what a gyro is, but I could have one.
They take this huge like mass of meat and they mush it all up
into a big cone and then they put it with the bread and they
sell their stuff. It's really good.
Don't think they sell it around here.
I was hoping for something because, you know, the ladies
had been funny for quite some time and I haven't had a had a
break for a little bit and I was hoping to get a snack.
I don't know if I have any snacks on me.
Hold on. I start going through my
pockets, my corpus pockets. No, no.
Oh, here we go. This is something called the
Welch's Fruit Snacks. OK, it looks like a bag.
I'm guessing there's stuff in it.
Yeah, I open it. I hand him one.
Why did you steal Welch's fruit snacks?
He's hungry, I point at myself on the floor.
He's not eating it. He takes one of the the the
things and it's just like squishing it in his fingers for
a second. Between his finger and his
thumb, he holds it up to the light and goes.
Well, I am. I guess you want to live once.
And he puts in his mouth and starts.
That's not true, it looks. Like the jellies we ate at the
summer house. Is it sweet?
You have a summer house. That is pretty good.
It is. It is sweet and he kind of like
picks his hand off his nose finely and goes kind of masks
some of the other smells too. The more I eat of these and he
puts another one in his mouth. Pretty poker, but and smell.
Got the red 20 in it. Apparently that's bad for you.
Red. 20 a red 3. It's like a chemical.
I don't know, I have a Nosebleed.
Wrong campaign. Colors.
I have numbers. Yeah, three of them.
Three sets. 3 numbers per color. Anyway, be cool if we got some
sort of like powers from this thing, right?
Like a vampire eyes. If he got the vampire eyes,
would he turn into a vampire? Or would his eyes just be a
vampire that's would they feed off of his blood?
Again, it's this is really hard to say.
There's not a lot of research been done on these topics.
I call my sister, write this down open research laboratory
into replacing people's eyes. Because in general, to most,
most people tend to keep their eyes and if they don't have
them, they're dead. And then if they're dead,
they're they're not coming back to life.
They're where they're not really using their eyes.
So you you kind of get my point here.
Yeah, but like, think about it. If there's a bunch of, say,
there's a race of creatures that has dark vision, like tobaccy, I
point at myself and they die, right?
Their organs could be harvested for a small fee after death.
And then those eyes could be transplanted into the eyes of,
say, like a regular and human, like a sucker.
And then we sell the eyes to him for the Chancellor that he can
have dark vision permanently. He gets like look on his face
when you're. Talking down, how much do you
think that would be worth? The lady.
Consent all the way around. Assures me currently that this
is not sacrilege somehow, but I think some people might disagree
with you. It's all about consent, man.
I, I, I, I guess so. I don't know how you have the
consent of somebody that's not using their eyes, but anyways.
So yeah, no the. Prior consent like you sign a
paper with us that says after you die we get your organs and
then your family gets sex. Amount of money I.
Don't know, it's like a. Pension.
Awfully necromancy cult of you. Hey, there's nothing wrong with
necromancy. It's about the person who uses
the power, right? And we were saying that why as
Kira walks in. Oh hey, man.
Necromancy in all of its forms are bad.
NEMA weighs what? Put away a sketch of a
necromancy based industrial factory.
Yeah, the world is not ready for you yet.
Not as long as heroes above. Not as long as heroes above the
ground. Here's the thing, I don't know
why. Like if you consent to it and
you sell your skeleton after death so that your pet fit like
an ancestors get the stipend of your work and then you forever
work in the factory, who gets harmed?
The cycle of life. I don't have the answers to your
moral conjuries, but I do have. He puts another fruit snack in
his mouth, The answer to this situation.
Cool. These eyes are acceptable.
And he points to what I'm assuming is Kira still holding
in one hand the twining, still writhing octopus arms and eyes.
While you harvest the eyes, I will make sushi.
Sushi what the actual octopus eyes look like.
I turned the name away and I just said tell him we got his
eye, some eyes for him, but don't tell him what they are.
It seems some eyes have been procured.
I'm sorry, sweetie. Go ahead.
What were you? Imagining is in the realm of
acceptability. I mean, here's the thing,
anything that doesn't let me die is acceptable, right?
Death is the only unacceptable thing, and in this world is
death. That's the only thing I will not
accept. OK, he says as long as they
function, they are acceptable. Does.
This piece and he he kind of looks up and off, almost like
over his shoulder, it looks like.
And then he breathes out, breathes out and goes.
I think it's I think that's pleased someone because the lady
is said that that might work in some of some of the the rules of
what she has to work in. But the only other things you're
going to need are some very pricey things.
But I assumed you came with those in mind knowing this
beforehand. Well, we came here right after a
war zone. We have to go shopping.
But if you will let me say I already did, I'll spend money.
Well, no, I'm sorry. I I think you're going to need
a. A.
A at. Least the we're talking about
revivify, right? Yeah.
A diamond of 300 gold pieces. Oh, we have diamonds on board,
or we had diamonds on board, didn't we?
You guys have the Astral diamonds, but I don't know about
picking up any other diamonds. That was the other case, Ash.
I mean like a whole slew of. We were able to use the Astral
diamonds, can I use one now just so we don't have to go back and
forth? And sorry, I'm guessing Raul
takes out one of the astral diamonds and asks him to use
this. Pulling out yeah, here's a
diamond. It's a little weird that shifts
in the reality, but that's fun that.
Could work holding up the piece that you're you are.
It was more fitting, actually. And he goes the only thing, and
he looks over his shoulder again that I'm hearing is that.
I look over his shoulder, I take a mask out of my pocket that
I've been hiding since Eurythmic and I put it on and I look over
his shoulder. You see a a being that stands
the whole height of the room. But I fucking see you.
And hello, she just go shrugs her shoulders and keeps talking
to him in a voice that you can't hear, apparently.
And. Who has seen this?
Roro. I have taken a mask out of my
pocket that I took from Franklin during Eurythmic and I put it on
and it's a mask of true sight. OK.
Wait, take it off and I. Is this a spirit you don't see?
No, it's not a spirit to answer that question technically
anyways. Yeah.
So he he looks back over to you guys after looking over his
shoulder and go, wait, wait, sorry, I was interpreting.
What was the question again? Use this diamond.
Oh yes, right. So she'd said yes, but you're
going to need some more than just that one, I think, she
said. 10. Was the minimum ten of them out
minimum? Is there like a maximum?
Is there a better chance if there's more?
He looks kind of like off to the one side and and yeah.
And then she she just goes or you hear him rather go.
She says that the more that you can provide, the higher the
chance. Yes, but again.
Like a point of diminishing returns.
I read it in a profit in a for profit book.
Well, that depends upon the vessel.
He just says on his own there to some degree.
And that's where I was just about to say, I think we're
going to need to at least repair some of the damages that have
been done to the to the to it as well.
Oh yeah. So, so if those, if that can be
done, I don't, I could have the capabilities, but the church
does well, the rather the, the alt, the the acolytes and
everybody do require a fee to be paid as well for our services.
And I assumed, you know, the the ultimate service would be the
culmination of the other things. I don't, I didn't think, I don't
know if you already have your own magics prepared to repair
the body so that we don't have to charge you another fee.
It's it's to go towards our studies and the preservation of
knowledge. To my apologies.
What type of? Fee, go ahead.
My apologies. Hi Abbott.
My expertise is keeping bodies in the ground respectively.
So the fee and he kind of looks back over his shoulder a little
bit and but just nods and says, yeah, so it's pretty much at
least for the the other one, it's a standard fee of repairing
any wounds. We, we don't charge a very high
price for something like that. You can imagine of of of like.
A. A silver just for the the time
that's involved with the ritual and.
OK, great. Let's do that.
But that's just the repairing of of the body, as I said, the
bringing of the soul back into the body and repairing it as a,
as a whole, as as I've already stated, for the ritual itself is
required a three the, the, the 10 astral diamonds that we've
already talked about. But the the actual price for us
to perform that work is going to take us a sizeable amount of
time. Is it because you need the the
spell cast? I hold up a ring.
I've got the spell of revivify in this ring.
Oh, if you have a spell of revivify, yeah.
That that is what it in there for me or me made it.
That is useful minute. Got the minute?
No, it says you touch a creature that has died within the last
minute. I have cast Gentle Franklin had
cast Gentle Repose on the corpse, which extends it by 10
days. Oh, right.
OK, Thank you. Thank.
You don't worry, I planned it out.
Ready. Yeah, honestly that would that
would solve some things. The the only so would would the
only question here be the price of the silver for repairing the
body. The price of the silver to
repair the body and then the price for you guys to do the
spell, 'cause I am not the cleric.
I have the spell in this ring, but anyone can cast it.
It's just you guys are, you know, like this is the shit.
You do this shit. OK, I see where you're at now.
I misinterpreted some of what the lady's already told me I
guess. Anyhow.
She should learn sign language. You could interact with other
people, I'd say to her. And she just shakes her head at
you and he giggles at an unspoken joke that you can see
her mouthing over his shoulder. He doesn't, that he doesn't
voice. And it just goes on to say,
well, the the normal going rate for something of a revivify is
especially because we have to to ritual cast it amongst a few of
us. It would probably be in the the
realm of 100 gold. We again, we don't want to be
too. Oh man, I'm fine with that.
But we we have to, we have to pay for the resources for those
folks and to keep everyone and but.
Listen, I get that there are children out there with bone
cancer. Like I look at the lady.
Why? And then I'll turn back to him.
So you need funding to like fight that because it's bullshit
that that exists. I look at her again.
And, and, and to make this more appealable to you, because we
are going against the natural balance, we will pay an
additional 100. Oh yeah, troubles that would be
excellent for the church. Or rather we're not really much
of A church. I've said, I've said that maybe
once or twice, but it's it's much more of a a college here.
That's a way better time without the why, but I feel better about
that. And, well, let's.
Do it. The the college, we'll, we'll
need at least 10 days to perform the ceremony after the repairing
of the body, the preparing of the eyes, and yes, making sure
that there aren't any inconsistencies with the pairing
of the body and the eyes. Sure.
I mean, if it's 10 days. Right.
You said you had the soul, so that does make things a little
bit easier. And then he kind of like starts,
looks like he's staring off into a direction and does some more
calculations. I think I could bring it down to
8 days if you since you already have the soul, because at least
two of the days we're just tracking down the soul in the
beyond. How much time do we have left on
this body? OK, Oh the. 10 day counter. 10
day counter? I don't know, but they could
probably recast the spell. Oh, should we we just do that at
the five day park like that's? Fine with me, but just to be
clear, you guys know that there's like an army outside,
right? Yeah, Yeah, we're aware of that.
We, we just plan to up and move. We can.
We're not very tied to this exact location.
Oh. That's fun, so I'd be fine with
that. I suppose you should probably
tell him that, but it's not my choice.
Do you need us to leave the soul here for an extended period of
time, or can we arrive with the soul when it's to be used?
I would insist on staying with him.
We we do need the soul and the body to be in or together for at
least two days with the eyes obviously already.
This is this is the whole reason the whole process takes a little
bit. Here is the situation you've got
going on. We've got to prepare the body,
got to put the eyes in, make sure they don't get rejected,
and then once all that's together, the soul's already
here at least. But then we can put the soul in
the body and slowly make sure that they are functioning
together as well. Will you permit one of us to
stay with the soul? I wouldn't want to leave it
alone. They only need it that the last
two days so we can have him until then and then hopefully
things calm down. She asks Matt how he feels about
that, not being able to talk to anyone for two days and being
alone. Well, at the start of COVID I
spent 63 weeks in my apartment alone.
You won't get that reference, but I'm fine with that.
I would only suggest that. You're going to be a ring,
unable to do anything about any situation you may find yourself
in. Nimway is very nervous about
leaving a ring containing a soul by itself to be.
Handled Oh I mean yeah, well at that Royal steps forward and be
like, well, I'm saying I once once the ring needs to be here
for those two days, I will stay with it.
Excellent. Thank you.
I watch it. He won't be able to interact
with me because it will probably be like on the corpse.
But you know what's my mind again?
I also will not let him out of my sight.
He's a very valuable resource and he signed the contract.
And I would hate to see a wayward soul not be tended.
So I will join you, Rollerson. Cool, thought to be fun.
We can get snacks. But I have snacks.
And he raises the rest of the tentacles in his hands.
Doesn't look good. Wait.
Oh yeah, Before we go, Mr. Parson, if we were to find
another pair of eyes that were more better, when would those
need to be here? Because octopus eyes are great
and all, but you know, if we happen to run across like, I
don't know someone who wants to sell their.
Nice. Well, the the honestly the
largest portion, the largest portion of this is going to be
figuring out to make sure that those eyes are compatible.
If we don't find that they are, I promise for the additional 100
gold that has already been promised that we can find
something laying around. Jeez, that's nice.
OK, but like at what point in the process do you start using
the eyes? Cause like maybe I'll just come
back with like a bucket full just to be sure.
And after the first day and tonight, the body should be
showing signs of complete healing.
And on that second day is when we planned to start with the
eyes. So.
Perfect, as I said. That it was going to be the
largest portion. Turn to KIRO.
That lines up perfectly when the ceasefire ends.
So here's my plan. Ceasefire ends, we go in stealth
style. Take out the boss, right, who's
a vampire, Steal his eyes, put the eyes in him, and then I
impersonate the vampire. Then we take over and we sail
everyone away, and then we kill them.
I don't see too big a problem. That's my plan.
I mean, making the PNC disappear also makes me happy.
Turn it in more Want to kill a bunch of people really bad.
Here's the thing. We have to talk to the Queen
because right now they think that we own the city.
So like, we could pretend we own it and then they could sail away
politically, right? And then we hit them.
We're not hearing you if you're talking.
Me. No, you addressed NIM away so.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't hear my name, so I didn't realize I was
being talked to. I'm sorry, what did you say?
Boy, that's a great question. You'd asked if you're if she was
read Ready to kill a bunch of people for 100 cows.
What did these people do to us? Really bad.
So they are. So they're a professional cult
of necromancers, apparently from hell.
I turn and look at the lady. Over her, over the guy's
shoulder. And what have they done She.
Knows is. That the local populace.
Pointed her. Fucking acknowledge me, you know
I can see you. Sorry, what was that?
What have they done to upset the local populace?
I'm pretty sure they're the cause of like, this entire
island losing their ability to cast magic and like, they're
dying I think, right? I mean, I can attempt to assist,
but I don't have much combat experience.
Isn't that what's going on? Oh, you're.
Socrates is losing his magic because there's something in the
water that's attacking them. You see the the the lady shaking
her head and talking theoristly to the eye accolate and he goes,
Oh no, you're talking about the, the, the man of thieves.
So we've been dubbing them from under under the under the ocean.
We haven't got a proper name from them.
We actually have haven't got that much information from them.
Even the lady herself, she's quite adamant that that should
be your next task. Although vanquishing the PNC she
understands, or at least nullifying them in some regards
is is pretty pertinent as well, as you've currently solved the
issue with the Dragon's breath being able to be delivered, but
not the root problem of what's going on with those many
thieves. So.
Oh hey, if you want to do. With the lack of magic, but do
they have to do with the siege upon the town?
Oh yes. I see, I mean I, I'm willing to
help, I don't think I will be of much help, but seen as all of
you are my my only chance of getting home, particularly Matt
here. She glances it the the decaying
corpse. I mean, your goal is my goal.
Right and just to verify our goal is not necessarily and I
pointed the lady over his shoulder.
Our goal, our goal is our goal, right?
Whose goal? Our goal is not our goal.
I put the mask on your face. Look.
She slowly tilts her chin up. You see a beatific Ebony
skinned, dreadlocked gold and and black robed individual
waving. How far away?
Just behind the high acolyte so standing in the ABS the the the
structure that you guys are that are looking out over there, but.
She Nimway slowly walks forward and reaches a hand up, as in she
can't shake her hand because her hand is too big, but just to
like make physical contact to see if she'll reach down.
You see her like with an eyebrow corked and her mouth moving as
informing words and the high acolytes is it.
She knows she can, that you can see her with that mask, but I
can't see her and she can't make physical contact.
She also wants you to know that her time here is limited.
She has many other tasks to be about and even just this one
limited form that she's been sharing with me as me rating its
time. Oh, that speaks into your mind a
minute having having knowing that like I'm in your head and I
kind of like am experiencing a little bit of like a
reactionary, like you're reacting to seeing a God.
I just in your head. I say this is an excellent
opportunity. Before she goes, can you ask her
something? Ask her if she's aware and
participates in the in the bi yearly kidnapping of thousands
of people to fight to the death for their entertainment.
I only have one question I've been asked to ask her if she
participates in the yearly collection or some might say
kidnapping of souls to contribute in a competition to
the death. You see her talking again, and
the acolyte forms words that he's somewhat unfamiliar with.
Then you can tell just because of the way he stumbles, but he
goes. I think you might be referring
to the. He looks up and mouths it first
and then slowly says figure rhythmic veracity that happens
apparently in time with another world's and ours time.
To kill each other. And she just, she's aware of it.
She's aware because it does interact with ours and she has
all knowledge that that happens on this world unless it is being
obstructed by another God on this world.
Is this someone you want to befriend?
This is all on your head. She unfortunately does, or maybe
fortunately, I'm not real sure what answer you're looking for,
but she does not partake in them per use.
In my world we have a police force protects their own, there
are bad members in it and all it takes is 1 bad apple.
And any God that doesn't stand against these atrocities is also
bad. And I kind of stayed in their
mind. She doesn't really quite support
them as to what she's telling me, more so she does support the
link between the world's is the main reason she hasn't fought
for it or against it rather I guess, but it's more so because
she wants the knowledges of these other worlds and she's
quite happy Matt's the wizard formerly known as Matt I guess
is here because she has access to far more knowledge with him
here. Is she saying that these links
or this link is dependent on these games continuing?
Seems to be, yeah, she says. Yes.
I'm relaying all this to Matt. Interesting.
It's a blood. It's a blood ritual.
Then they use our suffering and our blood to connect the
world's. It must be.
He's asking if it's a blood visual.
Blood for the blood gods. As contrite as that might be, he
seems to be translating almost verbatim at this point and going
on to say that that that doesn't seem to be the case.
It has more to do with the timing placed in ours and their
world and the space in between, as well as some of the other
interactions with the original creations of our 2 worlds.
Nothing about that such they must have us fight.
I don't think we should push this anymore, but we don't.
We shouldn't trust them. They know what's going on.
She seems to have. Trying to be a delicious little
voice in your head. Heard you, even though you don't
say anything threw him away this time and just you feel or you
kind of see the the high acolyte grab his head for a second and
her glow a little bit brighter through the mask him away and
you hear in your head as well as you feel in in your being
wherever you reside in that essence of the ring a.
Fiery eye. No.
A single utterance, that is that, that is, it must not be.
But if you wanted to change, you will have to do it yourself.
And she winks out. I.
Fucking plan on it. And the high acolyte slumps
against the podium. Well, that's.
Rushes forward to help him up. You try to like help him and
he's just like, I'm just going to rest here for a while.
If if you insist did, isn't him aware that Matt also heard the
voice? You have a suspicion at least
because the voice was in your head and it was a bit more of a
feminine voice. So it's and it one is definitely
not a dune. Are we aware of the name of this
goddess? Zenith, zenith.
Yep. So it it appears our time with
Zenith is done. I don't see her anymore.
And she hands the mask back to KIRO.
Was it that had the mask? I have it rural and then tucks
it in into into the corpses pocket so I don't forget he's
going to need it. Like you're still OK with us
taking the corpse currently right though?
Oh shit, that's right. Yes, but you have to sign a
contract that says you won't purposely damage him.
We can assume that's what happens when we pay you, but.
Well, you can. I have a wait, we can say that
and handshake under the altar here.
Anything that is said while touching the altar has to come
true. It is like a verbal contract.
Sure. OK.
Verbal contract. As much as we like are paid how?
Much do you sell these for? Oh.
Could that be more compact? Does the other person have to
know about it? There has it has to be very
simple in the meaning and yes, the other person has to know
about it and consent to it, hence the handshake.
And he puts one hand on the altar and puts, puts one hand
out, out to shake. I turn the URL, take notes and I
do it as well. And he shakes with the intent to
not harm or take anything from the body.
And you feel a kind of cold chill rush across you.
And the not the moo and not take it where I don't know where it
is or can get to it. You say that as the as it's
finishing out and he's finishing shaking your hand and he just
goes, well, it's only going to be here.
We might move it over to some of the side alters though, because
the stench is that's fine, pretty bad.
Even once we've finished repairing the body, I'm sure it
won't be pleasant for some of those that come to see without
the eyes. And then of course, and he looks
over at the octopus eyes that I'm assuming it's still attached
to the rest of the octopus. Because you haven't said one way
or the other, KIRO, that you've I know you were presenting them,
but I didn't know if you'd taken them out of the octopus anyways.
We'll figure it out. You're muted if you were
talking, but he. Yeah, yeah, no, he he he didn't
want to risk damaging the eyes, so he left them in and going to
hand them that. OK.
Thank you. And the tentacles wrap around
his arm. He's like, well, I'll figure
this out, I guess. But yeah, I have.
I'll just probably any points over to like one of the other
ABS on at the end of the hallway here that he's standing at and
draw a curtain across over there.
That just seems appropriate. But yeah, I'll be oh, I guess
there is one last thing and he goes over the to the book he'd
been reading picks up from like inside of it almost there's like
a little recess spot pulls out a piece of paper.
It looks like the size of the cards that have been used around
Dorker Tease and he hands it out to Hero because he was the one
that had him the octopus and goes, yeah, just let me know
when. Actually this isn't just for you
to contact me, but I can contact you through this one.
It's a two way or and I can let you know if it's ready sooner
than 8 days. But yes, otherwise expect to be
back here in eight days. If there's nothing else that you
have with my time, I it's been really like a better research to
figure out some of the things that he was and those fruit
snacks, I think you called them were.
Pretty good, right? Yeah, but not filling.
I do need something more. Like I've eaten so many of them.
Like too many, you know. So if there's nothing else, I
will be seeing you. Have a good one, man.
Good. Days we won't be late.
At this point too, it's getting later on in the evening because
you guys landed earlier in the morning, met with the queen, ran
the GAR, ran out, took out some 30 some zombies and came back,
went back over here. So it's probably actually sunset
while you're finishing those things up.
The nightlife in the city is opening up.
Think that could be a a place to call it for the night?
I think so. Wanted to get your shopping in?
Well, so I had a question. Well, number one, I assume Numoy
wants to research a little bit. Pricing is kind of difficult to
know like what you're generally looking for.
So Josh, I know you want to price things out specifically,
but with 10,000 gold, what it what is the average amount of
price like item that could be gotten with a 10,000 gold?
I don't remember what you did last time, but that would
probably be easier. Average amount of price thing.
Yeah, I mean, you know how like you there's by rarity.
Yeah. Essentially we have we have
$10,000. Who knows what you price things
at? Is Nimoy going to spend the week
looking at rare and legendary items when they're in the
100,000 range? So very, very rare items are in
the five to 10K rare are 1000, 2005, 500 ish range.
And these are just general ranges I can.
All right. Never before in D&D have I
gotten to go shopping. Normally it's just like you
start with your standard starter item and then maybe you pick up
like a scroll of something. So this is a completely new
experience. I have no.
Shop there. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, what's your, what's I, I, what I would do if I was you.
And I don't know if you've got like an idea of like the
mechanics of your class, but I would try to find items that are
like decent for whatever class you're playing if you're
assuming you're new enough to the point where you're trying to
figure out how to choose an item.
So what is what's your? Yeah, but what are you going to
play as? I'm a.
Druid. OK, so very cool staff, right?
They use stabs. Druid.
So I would just look at best items for druid and then see if
any of them fit your vibe, like abilities, spells, if you're
like melee arranged, all that kind of crap.
Yeah, the the best item I've ever had in D&D is like a basic
weapon plus one. That's the.
Best item I've ever had. That is not going to be the
cases if you continue playing alongside us.
I my main characters are generally artificers for a
reason. Yeah, I played a game once where
I played an they can craft magic wands.
Yeah. And there's a lot of spells,
level 1 spells that have like a duration like that doesn't
include concentration. Oh so if you're an artificer and
you spend your money in downtime crafting wands, you could have
before a battle cast like jump or a long strider and you know
you could have a whole series of like one one off spells that you
give yourselves little buffs. I've only played an artificer
once and it was for. I don't know if it was a home
brew or just like a a side type campaign but I think we only had
like 2 sessions before the group fell apart.
Yeah, that's that's not the best time to be playing one either
because they take a lot a long time to pop off.
Yeah, we were only like Level 3 or something.
Maybe it was level 7, I don't know.
It was the the other character I have here.
It also really depends on like how the DM does long rest and
like downtime cause like crafting a wand supposedly in
the game takes you know X amount of hours or days.
But if you're running in a game where you're long, resting 8
hours, and the entire 6 month span of the game has been two
weeks, then that ability kind of like decreases in value.
Yeah, yeah. I would change things if we had
people that were playing like that too.
So that's my that's where my thing is.
And I was just about to say too, because we were just talking
about it, that you guys would probably then choose at this
point to to go back to the ship, doing it as being the place that
you have to long rest at this point.
We'll get we're, we're like chatting about like what to buy,
like what we need, the fact that we have to go talk to the queen
desperately. Background tasks that you might
want. Reading to get the dune
restocked. Yep, Yep.
I'm always asking what's for dinner and who cooks.
Yep, I need to make a plan about how to make the best of this
next assault, all that crap. I think when you do go back to a
dune, though, you would find a a runner there, somebody that
seems to be of a messenger sort and and goes, Oh, Ferris had a a
bit more than just what he could send through the card to you
there barrel. He, he wanted me to tell you
first and foremost, if you were rather ask, I guess if you'd be
interested on a side business about your harness.
He noticed it the last time you were here, I guess.
And he told me that he was looking for something of that
nature to help in his researches along with protecting from from
falls that happened from his flying machines.
Oh yeah, we could totally do that.
I've got this idea where you take a big sheet and you tie it
to someone's back with strain. Oh, I'm going.
To. Be huge, start chatting with him
about that. Also you have to sign this non
disclosure form because I told you that.
I, I guess I could do that and he just signs it and goes, goes.
Well, Ferris then could talk business with you in the in in
his office. It you just have to reach out to
him for an appointment with his card there that you have
apparently already have. And then the other thing was he
with the extra breaths and everything he's been working
night and day to figure out, you know, the, the proper
separation. Of the properties.
For the for the antidotes and he's slowly getting the first
ones out and the the queen wanted me actually through
Ferris to give you the this and he holds out a bag.
This should receive your interest on all of the antidotes
that are distributed. Generally the accounts will be
finished at the end of the day. So, and he looks up as the sun
setting. You should have the first set of
antidotes 1% that was requested in this bag here.
Perfect. That's excellent, my friend.
Wait. I look at the bag and arrow my
eyes. You're telling me someone puts
money into a bag somewhere else and it appears in this bag?
Yes. I want one of these bag sets 2.
Sure that can be done too. We we we have Ferris is quite
industrious in some of his creations and that has been one
of his one of his original creations.
So it is quite prolific in sorcrities.
I could get you quite a few I if you just have to tell me how
much you want and I can give to give you the price individually
it's. Amazing.
Why? Why does shipping even the work?
Why is shipping even? I'm not going to say anything
and I walk away. Well, the issue.
I get really excited. All of my hair is on the end.
Is that? Revolutionary.
Each of each of the bags have to be in the exact location of what
the item is that's going from one place to the other.
First and secondly, there are limits to the the bag itself.
Usually it's you know what can fit into the mouth of it and you
you open the drawstr. When you looked at the bag, the
drawstring mouth is probably only about like 6 inches wide
because it it it doesn't. If it opens more than that, it
just stops working. There are limitations, but guess
what? We can use this because think
about it. What happens, my friend, if you
put the one bag and I hold the bag upside down and I put
another bag on top of it and I put their tops together and I
say what happens then? You have two bags, 2 sets of
bags. You put an item in one and then
it goes through to the next one, but the next one is directly
emptying into another one. Where does that one go?
You can create a new bonnet tube system with a pre pre station
the locations and some sort of contraption to like switch them
back and forth so that you can very quickly send it small
capsules with messages or like sentimental items or something
like that. He's just scratching his head,
going. I'm sure.
I'm sure Ferris will understand. Take out another NDA.
Sign this. Don't worry, I don't even know
how to tell people about this anyways.
Double thumbs up. OK, perfect.
God, first we were a pharmaceutical company and now
we're going to be a news company.
So are we on our way back to the ship?
You guys were actually at the ship is what I was describing
there at the dock. You're standing before you went
up to a dune and there was a the person waiting for you there.
That was that is talking with Ron.
The dune greets you guys though, as you came within range before
you were even at the docks. Hello.
Hello dear, are the others still in the common closet?
I think so. No one else is on my deck so.
Oh, it's the common closet. It's the one that you come out
of when you like, wake up and like are born again on the dune.
Oh, it's where you come out of. OK, that's better.
Don't use a black light in there anyway.
So who comes to go off to doodle?
I do. That what's for dinner?
Well, I think you would task fairest with getting goods, but
I don't think he's been back yet.
That was his runner, though. You, I think, I'm guessing.
And then as she's talking to you and you guys are standing there,
another dock worker comes up and goes to you guys, the room
rulers. Unless you're unless is about
the lawsuit. Well, not today.
I was actually and he he he's talking to you and like taking
takes his hand over his shoulder and does the like come here
gesture to people that are standing at the end of the dock.
It looks like they carry a couple crates up and he goes.
I was able to procure some provisions for your ship on
orders from Ferris. Perfect.
Wonderful. He didn't.
What do you want them Say what exactly he wanted?
So they are just kind of your basic breads and cheese and
meats that will all heavily salted or you know, preserved in
some way. Great.
I did throw in a barrel of dried fruits that from the region too.
For the price he was paying it was pretty reasonable.
And should we take them on on deck for you?
Yes, please. So kind.
Could could you send down the gangplank and donate?
Could you lower the gangplank please, Keto And then as you
guys are saying that the you see arms come up, come up off the
deck and lift the this more than just a plank.
It's kind of this whole gangway, at least three people wide
enough to get provisions up easily with the arms and just
lowers it down to the deck to the to the dock and.
Like arms coming off the ship. Yep.
Oh, do they look like tree arms? Do they look like human arms?
What do they look like? They look like human arms in
some fashion, although they probably are very wooden in
their movement and shape. Fascinating.
And the gangway settles and the the dock workers look over at
you like what the fuck? OK, anyways and.
The impressed rum rollers come work for us to pay no unions is.
That what Rahl says goes well I've got a pretty much prior
contract here for the docks, but I have heard tail that Ferris is
working on a air dock so I. We're going to have one of our
own, too. It's going to be great.
I think that's your dock that I'm talking about.
That's going to be bigger than the other dock, the biggest
dock, the bigliest. OK, that's great news.
I'm sure the greatest. News that anyone ever seen.
Will benefit from that I'm going.
To say what a gorgeous doc. So tall.
Magnificent. He's just like, standing there
awkwardly, like, OK. Give him a business card, come
work for us. Slap him on the shoulder.
Walk away. Dude, you can hear us started
opening some of the crates and trying to inventory what's being
brought on board and she goes well I with this I I could
probably make an OK sandwich that's about it.
It's. All right for it.
Now we can get more later, more exotics.
We open up some of that dried fruit.
Absolutely. There's the barrel of it here.
I'm assuming you guys have walked up on deck at this point
too. And she just gestures with her
arms and then she goes, oh, wait one second, and forms her wooden
body that you've seen her use before too.
So at least Matt and Kiddo have I believe.
Yeah, A. Human body made of wood that can
walk around independently. Yep.
Is it connected to the ship when it walks?
Constantly. Cool.
What does she what does she look like?
Like what form did she choose? She she is.
She is feminine in shape. She doesn't really have more
defined features than just the evidently generic.
Mannequin. OK, Yeah, basically generic
wooden mannequin. That's a good.
Like hairstyle or clothing style?
No clothing honestly at all really.
It seems to be on her. Her hair is a bit more defined,
but it seems to be just kind of long and flowing down her back
but kind of kept off to the side in the front with no bangs.
And she's opening up the barrels.
She gestured at the one of the OR a barrel that was that was
brought up on there and goes. I can open it if you like.
I think there was a smells of dried apples and pears and the
like. It's nothing kind of some some
other spices that they may have used but I'm not sure.
Then what kind of shuffles forward and like, yes, I'd, I'd
very much appreciate it if you could help me open this.
Absolutely. So when it's open Nimoy, it's
kind of like looking around, seeing if there's any berries,
specifically raspberries is what she's looking for.
You probably see some smaller berries that resemble the
Raspberry. OK, she's going to pop one of
those in her mouth. You grab one and you pop it in
your mouth and you, you taste actually, surprisingly, a a
Berry that you've had before but can't quite put your finger on.
But it's not. It's not not a Raspberry as you
were expecting, at least to what your senses are telling you.
Because it's sweeter and slightly less seedier.
OK, what color is it? Oh, Purplish.
Well, even though she's a little bit disappointed by the cold
sandwiches, she's happy to have the little dried treats.
So she she's kind of makes herself content with what food
is available. She hasn't eaten all day so
she'll take anything at this point, though it is not the the
cuisine she is used to. It's OK, we'll be a rich soon
and then we'll have a palace. I would have I would have spent
some of the the gold you left me with two to get better
provisions, but I just didn't know how much the dock workers
would respond to my form first and foremost, let alone my
requests for finer things. Oh, by no means is Nimway
ungrateful. She's just unaccustomed.
And she doesn't seem to be responding to like your, your
mood or anything like that. She just says that out of
nowhere it seems like. Top and I turn and say don't I?
You should not be ashamed of who you are.
You are unique and beautiful. If they can't accept you for
that, fuck them. I'll kill them all for you, but
you deserve to walk in the sunlight.
You deserve to go to the parks and see the art and all the
things. You're a person.
She like you're? A marvel.
Puts her hand over her mouth and if you could imagine that she's
probably blushing at your statement even though she can't,
and just says don't. Worry.
Well, I'm sure I it does sound lovely, but I I meant more so
that I I don't know if they would let me into their minds to
even ask the question. It is a very rather unique
situation. I need to get you the vital
speak. That's the next great task for
us. Once you can fly, you can see.
You can fly next, you can see things, and then we'll get you
like a magic set of hands where you can already interact with
things. That does remind me the the
runner from earlier he did let me into his mind because he was
aware of the situation already, I guess, and had inquired if I
was ready to begin my transformation with Ferris,
which he seemed to think would take only a few days.
But I. Should delete.
When the Catholic comes back, you'll be ready.
I wanted to make sure that I was I wasn't needed for anything
else before I took took my leave to begin my transformation.
Don't think so. We're going to be here for the
next few days until at least until the, you know, ceasefire
ends and then hopefully, if you can fly by then we'll have
another option for escape. And I will leave with my
siblings, with you, to guard you, to make sure that nothing
happens to you or you're in your vulnerable.
State that's off that was she said a few which you know more
or less 3 and then you to begin her process and then you've got
that was the probably the first day already of the ceasefire is
over. So you've got one more.
Got it. Just claim a reference, hats
off. We're probably going to end up
needing our shit. Well, what do you guys?
Think my transformation ends while you're off I I can
probably meet you if we gave gave me a designated location
that I could find my way to because I have eyes now thanks
to you. Yeah, you do.
We don't know where we're going to be in a few days.
That's the problem. Oh, I think I thought I'd heard
tale of the Lava Tower when you were last on my decks.
I don't remember. That was yesterday.
If that's true, then that's great.
But how do we get there? Well, I suppose we could fly.
How far away is it? I think you guys have a map that
you've been referencing. The maps I can read the map.
I have this power map city map of Socrates no Shantar's Island
Rs globe. Yep.
And at that point to Nima Way, you're probably looking back
through your notebook and find the sketch that you were drawing
out of a globe and realize that that image has taken more life
than itself from when you would actually drawn it to the point
where it to the point where it looks like the page is the map
that you were looking at before. And as your hand brushes across
it, it, the globe itself that you're looking at spins on the
on the page. The one that I drew.
That's it. And am I able to find the spot
on the map I drew that matches what Rawson is looking at?
Yep, yeah, You zoom. You remember from before that
you kind of take your hands and pinch them together and spread
them apart. You can see in the middle of
Gargantuum a fissure that's opened up late that's calling
itself the Lava Tower. OK, and what that?
OK? They're Gargantuum country, that
one. Oh wow, and was that lava Fisher
there when I originally drew the map?
Yes. It's only just coming back to
you now though. OK.
And does my map have any details that the that Rawlson's does
not? Other than the fact that his is
only over the the area here, when you zoom in you're able to
see that the lava around the base of it has cooled to this
point and the the tower has become more defined.
Looks like it's being hewn out of the cooled magma or lava
rather I guess. So I'm having trouble imagining
this. There's a huge crevice.
Is the tower coming out of the crevice?
The tower is inside of the crevice and it doesn't quite
protrude all the way out. Wait, I know.
We'd be looking down at the top of the tower when we're looking
in the crevice. Yep.
OK, and the base of the tower is cooled lava.
Can we see the ground going from the edge of the crevice to the
tower, or is it obscured in the red smoke that I'm seeing in the
on the map? It is relatively obscured.
There is some forest around it as well that has been maintained
that you do notice on the map that's called the spiral wood
forest and there are trees that all look like they're spiraling
in One Direction somehow. And you said Veralesen's map
doesn't include the crevice, it's only of the immediate area
of Socrates. His his he has a map of
Socrates, but he also has the map that's similar to the one
that we're that I've that you've probably got pulled up, which is
the Taurus globe one. Actually, wait, no, would you
have that? I don't think you would actually
as well. I mean.
App. Yeah, I don't remember ever.
Shooting. I don't remember ever getting an
app. Yeah, I was going to say never
mind then you don't have that. I have no idea where we are, I
just go along with it. Next, the two locations.
Yep. Oh, OK.
So I was trying to identify what, what's the difference in
these maps and what information am I able to provide?
All right, so she's she's going to lean over and show the map to
the group. And is, is this more, is this
more helpful? Sure.
And she she describes how she was able to get a glimpse of
this a large table. She she already discussed with
the table with the group, correct?
Upon getting here, at least with rural for sure.
Yeah, I'm wearing that table. The entire very unfamiliar
world. So has this gravis always been
here? No idea, not from here.
So is this. Where the answer?
Is in this tower sense. I do know because I believe so.
That's where it was a little hazy for me as I didn't have
eyes first and foremost, but I was also inside of a bottle
during that time, so not not much understanding of what was
going on around me besides those that were coming back to my
decks for safety. So we need to learn the.
Fiery pits of pain and doom is. Is that what what I'm gathering?
But we'll be travelling soon to here.
I think so. That's the case, yes.
Nice little vacation, maybe, And she's kind of doubting what she
signed up for. I believe when she was with us
she'd had more introspection on the issue because her teacher
had told her it had something to do with the your rhythmic
veracity or something or other and the timings and she should
have paid more attention in her studies or something.
And that because because they hadn't the the 1st gates of hell
were released from that point. You're here and you're in the
back of your head. Holy shit.
That's that's it's right there. Oh, you guys are fucked.
What was that? If I'm correct and I'm getting
any impressions from your head correctly like you might have be
looking at a literal portal to hell.
And if I know the other the your opposition, they are racing
there as quickly as they can. Our opposition.
Yes, who would be opposing us? I know.
Yeah, actually, you weren't hearing that particular
conversation. It was happening inside of Moe's
head. Yes, the the competition.
As we've talked about before, the gods have forced each other,
forced people to fight each other.
You are up against another team of individuals much like
yourselves. At least as far as I understand.
They are currently working their way up from the bottom portions
of hell and are attempting to escape.
One of them has the capacity and desire to kill everyone on the
planet, and they are on the way. Is what's to stand in front of
this. Yeah, you guys, the good
campaign, if I'm being honest, is kind of just fucked around
for a while, while the evil campaign guys have been pretty
hard at work at bettering themselves.
Really makes it. It's really easier when you're
willing to level out an entire city's worth of people in order
to power level. But Yep, they're on their way.
They know about you because the gods say so.
And you hear derision in my voice.
Oh, what? Happens if we don't.
I don't know you. Maybe you can talk to them and
come up with a third option. This all seems rather dramatic
if you ask me. Yes, yes, it is a game.
Well. Sounds like we need to go
shopping tomorrow. Yes, shopping.
We need some better gear. You do need some better gear.
At that point too the the sun has gone completely over the
horizon and the second moon of tar Earth is rising so.
And the. And there's I.
Figure everyone's starting to yawn.
Exactly, and there's some bumping lights and such coming
from the city with a bit of a vibe.
Party never ends. No way.
Gladly. Good session.
She's not a a partygoer, at least not of that type.
Maybe if there's some violin involved.
I mean, I don't know if this is the court for that, but.
Yeah, this, this, this particular court is made of orcs
who are very much into the party lifestyle, especially queen
theatre. Who is I?
Yeah, labeled Party Queen Theatre.
Yeah. Fantastic.
You're in my notes, but yeah, she's wild one, right?
Oh man, your pressure is on Franklin.
I got to get Franklin to convince these fuck heads to get
out fast before we close the portal.
God. So the good the the portal is
this fissure and the good campaign is trying to close it.
I that was. That was.
Originally, yeah, the plan way back when, but then the PNCS
just been setting up shop in the meantime because when they went
to go fight the big bad instead, they they, they were fighting
them and they're like, we aren't going to win guys, we just need
to come up with a better plan. So they just convinced them that
they were part of their group and yeah, and said that their
name was the Whisp Action and I. Don't know who all of these days
are? I apologize.
The the so the Rum Rollers were facing off against Ashuma the
big Bad, and he'd just been summoned into the world after
who knows how long not being in this world.
And is it? God.
Yes, the first level of Hells God, going back to that map, so
believe if I remember correctly, it was the Lost is what it says.
Yeah, no, yeah. So somehow a God from a level of
hell got into the good campaign from the bad campaign.
Not some, Yeah, sure. Yeah, Yep.
And when? When?
The group open the portal. Yeah, the the.
The evil campaign opened the portal to hell.
That's how that happened. Then they got stuck in hell.
OK. Yeah, and now we've we've been
digging our way out though I was not, I was not with the group
when they went in joined since. And why did they open the
portal? So the evil campaign was kind of
a brainchild from the the idea that I had other people that
wanted to play that just kind of wanted like another setting.
And it seemed like the other crew was leaning towards in
general, you know, the neutral to good and they just kind of
wanted to, you know, be murder hobos in some some regards,
which I was like, OK, I can get behind that.
So came up with the idea of an evil campaign where you'd have
evil characters that just do evil things And the they started
off in the labyrinth because I wasn't was for sure not setting
a whole group of fucking evil people in the middle of a city
to burn it down. Which is what happened later
when he did put us in the city for the first time.
Very first time immediately, exactly as that allegedly,
allegedly. You said you put.
Them in purgatory. Well, so they they were in the
labyrinth and I gave them the option to go to hell.
And of course the labyrinth is was its own separate thing that
I was hoping that maybe they would resolve some of their
immediate issues of being terrible to each other and
themselves, but they didn't. So they just dug their their way
deeper. That's amazing.
Life finds a way. It does so they're.
Going deeper, how do they open a portal going back up?
There's there's quite a lot that goes into that question.
So the very first thing to, to, to note is that they are in the
labyrinth, right? They've kind of taken out the
directions that they could figure out in the labyrinth,
thought fuck it, let's go to hell.
When they found that door. And I, even though I told him
you probably don't want to go down that door.
So I had to come up with kind of like an intermediary, like
stopgap when they went through the door, which was purgatory
because yeah, in between those two layers and everything.
So then in while I was building that area out, they went through
a little bit of purgatory and then snuck into hell through a
back door in purgatory. But at the same time the gates
of hell had been given a chance to open with them.
One opening the back door and 1st opening the the the gates
the the original gates of hell down into purgatory.
So the first level of hell was easily broken upon breaking
those seals. And they, they, they, they
wriggled their way through the shadow realm, which is the back
door into the through past the first level of hell and into a
true in between space that was run by a demon who they were
like, how the fuck do we get out of here?
And he's like, well, I don't know, you have to pay the price,
I guess. And they went, they found
another bar that was connected to his in between space and they
killed a random guy that was just hanging out there.
He was isn't even being that annoying.
That's what I remember. He was.
Accidentally opened up the big fissure.
Too many, too many doors to hell were open.
And so like some pressure, I'm imagining like a pressure or
like a leakage and it just burst open or something.
Kinda, yeah, I guess. Yeah, you could say it like
that. Sure.
Yeah. OK, is there, Don't tell me if
like what it is, but is there some other reasoning deeper that
our characters just can't know yet?
No, I mean that's, that's the most the the mostly the
reasoning behind why that first level had had happened as well.
I guess the deeper one like to answer your question, yes,
there's there's always another meaning to everything.
Wow. See that mean a lot.
Is this a dumbass? Met another dumbass who met
another dumbass and they became the dumbass trio.
That's great. OK, so this.
Big Fisher opened. Why didn't the evil campaign
just turn around and go out the Fisher go back to the first
level of hell? They didn't know that the that
that gate had been opened because they went in through the
back door, right? OK, so they've just been going
deeper and deeper all the while this huge ass portal is open.
Kinda, as well as that the once you're into a certain depth you
can't go through the other ones without opening their seals as
well. But they came from those, didn't
they? No, somehow we somehow we
skipped from 1:00 to like 5 or 6 or something like that and have
been slowly working our way back up some.
I don't know how, but somehow we were on like level 6 or five and
trying to get back up and out. Currently we're on three I
think. 4. 4. 3 is already open. Right.
And we've got a very limited amount of time to get out
because of our good campaign. So my plan is in the evil
campaign, we have an item that is essentially a date to each
level of hell if you roll a high enough arcana to unlock it a
key. And if we can unlock level 1 and
just go to level 1, we can just leave.
But we need smart people and then to be like playing at the
right time. And they're, they're trying to
get out before the Good UK closes the portal.
Yeah, I mean, we can try to probably reopen it eventually,
but if we if we continue at the pace we're going by unlocking
like the different levels of hell, like they will have closed
the gate and have a permanent guard on on file.
It will be much easier for the evil campaign if we can get up
and either take over the PNC or just get out and then start
doing our own thing. Professional necromancy cult.
They apparently worked on level 1.
OK, OK. And that's the tower that you
can see when you look down. Yep, Yep, full circle.
OK. Thank you.
Starting to piece together how the world physically is.
Hopefully I. Remember all this in two weeks.
Yeah, if you don't, it's OK. It took me like 4 years to get
to this point. So right when he created the
place. I got a lot of catch.
I think it's more of a garden situation grew.
Up. Yeah, well, I do have to head
off to bed this past my bedtime in real life.
Yep. Good night.
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