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Tara through the campaign. Many polos fucking.
Jigger Egg. Is everyone here going to who's
going to be here here? Pretty sure all right.
The Hand of Fate tosses the dice rolls, spins, turns.
A campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that becomes
stories. Stories flow out into the
infinite sea, painting it with legends.
Legends wash up on the shores throughout the infinite sea,
fading to myth until myths are forgotten and the campaign that
gave it birth comes again and again.
The hand of fake tosses, the dice rolls, spins, turns.
The two we left our adventures on, known as the Shadow Seekers
on the fourth level of Hell Greed.
Not long after they had blown up, the Goblin Town allegedly
rode in the orifice of Ogramach as he cleansed the remainder of
the debris from the chamber or Kai Shen.
After setting them down on a cliffside face, the Shadow Sea
Ogremack set them down there and the Shadow Seekers see the metal
doors that are leading to some interstitial spaces in between
some of the chambers that they've been to before.
One of which they know of is the Church of Kaishen.
On the other side they choose one of the doors, and on the
other side of the door is a metal hallway maze that they
realized that they'd set off some minor glyph alarm wards and
start running as fast as they can until they come to a dead
end with a door which only seems to have a ship's helm wheel for
a handle and no other way to interact with it.
Warren and Vermeira try their hand at opening it before Faust
says open Sesame and a boisterous knock emanates from
the door. Ash tries pushing on the door
before realizing it's a pool and they walk through the door
before everyone. As they do though, everyone
experiences stabbing pain in their brain.
Faust, Mama and Franklin are the only ones who don't.
You also a wriggling in their minds.
Ash, Ezra, Warren and for Myra hear a greeting in their heads
from Kai Shen who asks for gold from them as the coins
disappeared from being held over their heads.
Franklin cast Locate Object on them and it points the Shadow
Seekers to the familiar church where Warren and Faust are
already headed to and he As they open the door to the church,
they see the coins materialize over a reflecting pool before
crashing into its waters. Ezra bolts directly to the him
preacher through Warren and Faust while screaming the whole
time or growling rather the whole time.
Lunch, lunch, lunch and the unhinging his jaw and swallows
half the goblin legs first while he was screaming and to begin a
battle. Combat immediately went
underway, during which the goblin most of the goblins die
to warns flaming sword and Franklin with Ash's and Faust's
help. Oh shoot, Ash isn't here.
There was a banished thing. The banished.
Yeah, the fight's going to start immediately again.
There was the yeah. Which one was it?
Flaming statues, yeah, I I don't think it's on the map because
it's banished technically, at least not to the air visibility.
And then Ash learns that Bob needs a vessel that can hold a
soul to take over. Vamira and Ezra tribe biting and
scratching with they're daggers on the stone statue clock works
to little avail, realizing that magical damage seems to affect
it, but nothing else. Finishing off the stone statue,
Guardians Ash and Franklin trigger a chain reaction of
exploding smaller goblins and spill the molten metal in the
stone smelter pouring across the floors.
Vermeira also at the end captures the last live goblin
worshiper hiding under one of the hues in the church, and Ezra
rips out the golem the stone golem's throats to finish them
off, with Faust Bass blasting a few chunks here and there off of
them. And Hammett puts into existence
just at the last moment, getting off a shot or two with him as
well. The dust settles or starts to
settle as Kai Shen's laughing and a slow clap starts from his
head that's still floating over the reflecting pool with him as
well as Mommy walks into the Church of Kai Shen to behold the
destruction of their compatriots, which they'd have
avoided trying to join in the whole time.
Let's find out what happens this time.
So yeah, does that mean about that mean my second?
Does that mean my snack disappears?
Because Ash gave me a snack. I don't remember the snack.
Warren Parps and back into the existence because I think I
missed last session in this campaign.
Correct with most things on fire or down into rubble and dust and
stone and. I'm going to pretend I was here
the whole time because I was. I was.
Totally. I was just in my visibility
cloak in the corner. Well, you guys got experience
all for the the stuff. You were hiding the whole time.
What the fuck dude, we were dying.
I wasn't here last but I killed like the first 3 gums in a way
that in my best role yet ever. Yeah, that was pretty awesome.
Like, I like how I like, I like how in the last three episode
sessions, we've been in a fight and what's essentially happened
is like two or three people every like 20 or 30 seconds keep
popping in and out of existence, firing shit shots off and then
disappearing again. Like reality is just like
breaking around. Us Hey, have you ever heard of
that like concept that like the more people you have in a bear
attack, the better because it confuses the bear?
Well, that's just our strategy. We just pop in and out of
existence and they can't focus on which one is is the problem
because we're all the problem. Yeah, so also Vomiter.
Vomiter and Flint both pop out of existence while you pop into
existence as well as the goblin that Vomiter is holding.
Yeah. We can take them out there when
the snack. I thought that might have been
the goblin that you were talking about, but I wasn't sure.
Going back to the conversation you were just you were just
having with with you there Ezra I I 'cause I couldn't remember
ash giving you a snack necessarily.
I remembered all of these goblins over here exploded and
then started melting in and are on fire now from the Sholton
metal that we the. The three in the center should
be nicely roasted. Oh yeah, yeah, they're not.
They're they're dead, but they're only slightly.
It's OK, we can crush them if if that thing hasn't popped into
existence immediately. Yeah.
So that did pop right back into existence and now that I'm
thinking about it. Like in the same combat, like
was there a break or was there? It would have happened just
right at the end when Kaishen was clapping and everything.
Right before that happens, Warren goes, can you explain
what you're talking about? Because I feel a little bit
woozy because I don't remember any giant family thing.
Any what? Something about a banishment of
something or other. We banished one of the big or
somebody banished one of the giant golem guys that was
attacking us and now she's not playing, so it's going to pop
back into existence. What happened to the other one?
We killed It lies dead on the floor with a giant insect.
Let's. Do that again.
We totally could. We, we will, I think in five
seconds when Josh does. This thing, oh, for sure.
This thing is already like. I don't think it actually took
any damage because Ash banished it almost immediately.
I wanted to say no, it teleported you into the into the
molten metal and then ash banished it.
That's right. I've got that.
OK, not this hide, not this hide and not this hide.
OK, so the oh, OK, I think that's that's that now save and
breaking this up, make sure your token is selected if you are
planning on rolling initiative, but you may do so Prost see.
I. Believe someone here that I do
not know I. Don't have my laptop.
Oh, you don't have your laptop? I apology, I thought you did.
No, you're good. I just don't know if I do I need
to roll initiative or not. You should, yeah.
You're inside the church currently.
Yeah. Estrus gonna roll initiative and
punch people in the face. Like I said, I believe there is
someone here I do not know. I got a test.
Maybe. I was going to say everybody was
here the last time you played, but it was it was the first was
the first. I think I.
Came late if it was the. Second, yes, you did.
That's right, Teen 19. Yeah, Phelps did come late.
The last session you were there so.
Was that the one I do? I don't know.
You tried to open a door? A door with the ship's handle.
That's what I was talking about there.
And 20 for Ezra. I hope you don't take any
offense if I don't remember you because I my memory is fucking
it. None at all.
I I I have a memory of a goldfish that was raised on
TikTok. It's real bad.
Oh, did I'm reading these off just so I got these right.
Mommy, did you get a 10? Yes.
OK, so everybody else I just confirmed, but I didn't see
Faust's initiative yet either. Oh.
Damn you beat me shit. Sounds like yeah I.
Get to add my intelligence too, so it's.
Sounds like fast be going be going first and then Ezra and
then the flux, then the thing and then my.
Initiative because I'm. Level.
Don't forget you guys have pokeballs.
Or let's I don't because I just hit level.
Eight I gave. When we got the pokeballs, I
gave one to each of them. Oh yeah, I forgot.
We do have the Pokeballs. Yeah.
Where's the thing? I gave.
Pokeballs. I don't think you were.
I think this is, yeah. When when I traded, when I
traded some of the Astro Diamonds for three Pokeballs, I
used one on my own thing of this that we had captured, and then I
handed the other two, one to each of these guys.
Can I pokeball? Can I just poke my own?
I didn't want to hog them so I was sharing them well.
It sounds like I thought you might have.
And I definitely don't have one, so I think you're talking about
someone. Else.
Oh yeah, Faust and Ezra, I believe.
All right. I'm going to pokeball.
No, Regina. Regina, it was me and Regina.
Yeah, it was. Me and Regina had the Pokeballs.
I think there was only one left because you'd use the other one
on Ferdinand. That's right.
That's true. And.
Well, find steed is is like find familiar where you like summon
them I think isn't it? Oh, OK, let.
Me look, let me look continue on I.
Think you're right, but yeah, about if you're if you're ready
enough. This thing is here in the middle
of pretty much everyone other than Mommy, who's the farthest
away and has the respectively the lowest initiative.
Yes, you can. I'm going.
To throw a spell at it, I guess I'm just going to throw a
cantrip at it because I think there's something way scarier
than him for it very soon. So save big spells.
Agree. Are my right?
I'll figure out the late level stuff in just a second.
Aware this bails acid splash. Let's go bop, make a fortitude
save. 1st we got a week. Constitution.
Constitution I play too much Pathfinder second edition.
He thinks is. I can on the.
I can translate it, don't worry. Unroll 20 though.
Yeah, it's a deck save. My bad.
Oh, I'll roll that. I'm guessing the one we're
fighting is outside I. Think it's this thing.
I don't remember seeing this a second ago.
Yes, that is correct. It is a a molten looking
animated kind of stone kind of metal and still kind of.
Fire probably wouldn't affect it.
Yeah, it doesn't seem like. How smart is Warren?
He's average intelligence. I think he understands that fire
is not. But there's the the the time
honored adage of fighting fire was fight.
It's easier to fight fire with explosions.
That's true anyway. Nine damage, I see.
I believe anything called both. OK.
Is that all you're doing then? That's all I got.
All right. Debating between a min maxing
choice and a flavor choice. It's in tight.
Am I still? Going to gang the gang up on
this thing. And I'm am I still in cloak?
I believe so all. Right.
I changed the name by the way. Of.
Of the cloak, it's basically the same name, but it's funnier
cloak. Did you read it DOI?
NA snick. A snick doing a snick.
Did you did you read all of the I I wonder actually, if I yeah,
if I put the the thing that I'm thinking about in there because
I have to go and check. But if that was your turn,
Faust, it is Ezra's. Hey Matt, do you remember how
the pokey ball works? It is the iron bands of binding.
Correct. 5E. Iron bands of binding worthy.
But it looks exactly like a pokeball and it does a blue,
blue, blue blue blue blue blue sting and then it goes legally
to. Sting.
If there's supposed to be something funny in it, I do not
see it. It looks more like regular text.
Let's see here. Yeah, it must have been
something that I've been holding onto in the back of my head
until you try to do something. Oh, great.
That's that's just so confidence inspiring.
Josh, you're. Welcome.
Remember how cheap you remember how cheap you got that for I?
Didn't think it was that cheap, was it?
I think it was like 10 gold. No.
It wasn't. Cheap it.
Was way it was like it was back when like Josh wasn't sure how
to like price stuff. He's like 10 gold and we're just
like we've got like 800 gold. OK, I don't.
Think I think it was closer to like 100 gold.
But still a very good cloak like that the an item rarity of like
a invisibility cloak is like pretty high.
Which I didn't really truly understand so it's partially my
own fault. But don't worry, it's nothing
that's going to like really detriment you from a combat or
anything like that. It's just it's all flavor.
Alright, it was free to me. OK, here's your cat, paid for or
not. OK so I I throw the thing and it
and it has to beat ADC 20 strength check to not get caught
C. 20. Yeah, big boy.
Here's the thing. Should we keep it in case we
have to catch the God? No, you'll probably not be able
to get caught by this Pokeball. We need a master ball. 9.
I got a. Question about.
Description of my cloak, it says.
Wait for your for a bit. Well, yeah, I'll, I'll wait.
Let's see here. I don't know why.
All was rolling the strength, but I got a nine.
I caught a Pokémon. Hey baby, we got one together.
Say Pokémon. We could play Pokémon together.
So. So you threw you you threw
visibly. What happened is like you threw
this ball and it went flying through the air and as it struck
the target, it it went out around it like in in these like
ribbon like looking things that just like sucked it into a a
space. And there was a bit of a flash
of light before going as you described, legally distinct.
Oh my God guys, is that the answer?
So I got I got a question. These these legally distinct
capture balls, are the captured creatures under your control
when they were released, or are these just prisoners?
As far as I know, no. We've, I've, I've caught the
first one and I haven't let it out.
I was going. To stay the first one, the first
one you, you, you, you made unconscious or killed, you know.
So every time you release it from the from the iron bands of
binding it will just that on the floor.
Living things can't survive in a bag of holding, can they?
Not for more than like a minute. Yeah.
We can test, we can test this idea if we want to just throw
one of the pokeballs into the back hold even to try to open
it. Luckily, well, this is a
construct as. Far as you can tell, are not
living correct. But I turn to the others.
You could totally get out of there yourself.
It's sneak out to heaven. Or like the real world, Like we
have three of them. We could, we could we could at
at eurythmic ferrasty each get into a poker ball at the end of
it and then just. Can can humans go on poker
balls? I mean when preachers.
That would be a really fun fan fiction if you know people start
goals on each other. I think I've, I think I've seen
that fanfic actually, where it's Pokémon that have been capturing
humans. There there was a game released
recently that was also legally distinct from.
Oh, I remember that one. And you could definitely capture
people in that power world and make them do your shit.
Shit for. You is is that where they come?
Is that where everybody goes when they like disappear?
Is there's just like a poker ball that like everyone like
teleports into when they're non existent?
Now, now, now the bear question is.
The other place at the other campaign has the come closet,
and this is we're just Pokémon. I've just been.
I've just been imagining it, at
least that it's like banishment in the sense that it's in a
pocket universe as it describes or whatever.
Yeah. I imagine there's several
timelines happening all at once so that we keep phasing in and
out of. Oh yeah, if there's already at
least 4 confirmed. But why do you guys are?
There's a timeline for for every individual, like singularity of
like one of our characters not being here and still being here.
Oh yeah, that's for sure been determined I especially if the
one shot that Matt threw together technically.
But yeah. Kai Shen finish finishes his
slow clap and is just chuckling over top of the reflecting pool
currently. Because there's still money fall
falling in the reflecting pool. If so, I'm going to like snap my
fingers and be like get a ball like a bag, just like tape it to
the just tape it to the opening for while we're like talking as
it. Turns out I'm just going to
imagine Warren's been doing that well and cloak the whole time.
He's just holding out the bag. He's like backpack of holding
just over it just like. While you guys are trying to do
that, because the coin, the coins seem to materialize just
in the spots where those things are not.
And he's, he's laughing. He's like, hold on, hold on.
You've seemed to have finished the initiation behind the
curtain. So if you're willing, I think I
have a proposition for you all. We can do lunch.
OK, but no blood stuff. Why does every big bad guy want
us to work for them? Because we're high quality
individuals, I say, And I'm as as much as I can sawing off as
many of these guys as heads as I can with like a rusty knife,
like putting them in like a bag. So you gave up on the trying to
capture the coins I'm guessing? I mean, if it if it if if it's
seems like they're like like avoiding the bag, then I'll just
like lose interest, hop down and then pull out a long rusty like
machete, start hacking the heads off I.
I wish my I had something to craft because I would really
love to craft Franklin like a headhunter badge.
Just making sure before I ask for any roles because I, I'll, I
could I, I could have you roll for one or the other, but I was
going for the, the heads specifically in the sense of
either a dexterity or, or, you know, the sleight of hand or
your crafting skill that you actually have as Franklin could
also technically. Yeah, well, I was going to say,
if George Warren says that he was doing the coin thing, he can
do that, and then I will do the heads.
I mean, I'll collect as many of the corpses as I can, but.
Ezra has invited. Ezra has invited him to do
lunch. Haishen, you mean?
Yes. OK, like it was would.
You like to do lunch? It's eating.
I don't really eat in a traditional sense.
And then you get a flash of an image in your head of just a
giant brain in a VAT. Warren's going to look over at
Ezra and go, I'm going to teach you better grammar.
Oh, Ezra is Ezra is currently salivating because he just saw a
big tasty object. That's kind of dark.
You enroll me. By the way, Warren, if you're
trying to catch any of these coins.
Also a sleight of hand. Well, I'm good.
Because they're. Yeah, Because they're, they're
they're, they seem to be dodging your efforts to do so as you
hold open the bag and we will roll.
Mama just hanging out at the door.
Yeah, Mommy, what you doing? Yeah, You know, I'm watching,
you know, Warren just sort of like salivating and trying to
capture, like obviously can tell Warren's a visibility cloak and
trying to capture these coins. I'm watching Franklin just like
collect heads, right? I'm just kind of like standing
there watching like what? What is this?
OK, Just like amused, just leaning against a wall just like
sharpening an axe or something. Just like K and I'm, I guess I
looked at Kai Shan and I said, you know, I have a proposition
for you. And I said OK, but no butt
stuff. We've been in enough butts.
Yeah, we've done enough stuff. He he he giggles at that comment
for sure. And then he just I guess narrows
in on fouls to seems to be doing nothing else.
And then everybody else, you seem like you might be the one
to talk to. The everybody else is little
preoccupied. My wife is being very loud in
the back so I'm being quite quiet.
My wife. Yes, she's I beg one SEC my
wife. Mm hmm.
Shut up. Yeah, no, that's all Ezra's
thinking about right now. He's like, like from across the
way, Mama. You're literally seeing his
salad, him salivating. You.
What are you looking at? So in response a.
Tasty thing. Cheeking to him, he hasn't had a
projection of like, yeah, I have no reason for him to know that
he this thing is an elder brain. Like, I don't think he conveyed
that to me. No, and you currently do not
have a mental link with the this this individual Kaishen.
Well, he did just what The Who was speaking to me.
He's he's speaking. To you, he's speaking to you,
but you didn't get the image that Ezra did.
Because is what I mean, Because. Because he's not inside of your
brain. Terribly in the habit of
negotiating with deities. We don't negotiate with
terrorists here. That's, that's fairly wise.
I, I, I commend you for your standpoint, but considering the
circumstances and you just, you don't see a see him shrug, but
you see his eyebrows go up and you kind of see his head Bob up
and down like he's shrugging. Can we get back to doing lunch?
It seems like you've got limited options.
So what did he say? Because.
My wife is talking shit about me behind me.
Seems like you've got limited options, Warner.
Seems like you've got. And kind of like looks around
and goes the fuck that mean? Are my options right now.
I don't think I am a terribly poor negotiating standpoint.
You get a, you get about 39 gold coins by the way, while you're
doing your thing, Warren and he just goes well, as you can see,
I'm quite wealthy and I have wealth on many on.
Top. And you seem to be capable
individuals. So my proposition stands such I
currently AM just and he sends those that are a link to him
which is only Warren and Ezra. I think that here this evening,
the image of him as a brain in a VAT, giant brain mind you.
And he goes, I'm it's a bit of a limited capacity and a bit under
others. Will if you if you, if you can
say that because my my workers are aren't always that capable
as yourselves. And sometimes I have need for
other things. And specifically, yeah, more or
less to to those that that can see.
And he basically goes on to say that, well, there is a seal on
this level. Someone has asked towards it.
I currently have no interest in breaking it though because the
limited control that I already have would be even more limited.
I'm sure you've spoken to Manny Polis.
Sounded we never fully released Loki, did we?
Loki is released, yes. OK, Manny Polis, Ezra.
Ezra leans down, leans over to Faust, and kind of whispers in
his ear. He looks like a yummy, yummy
brain. We should go do lunch with him.
By by lunch, I mean he's lunch. Would it be Arcana to identify
him for what he is? What is it to identify an
aberration? Following knowledge religion or
knowledge Arcana. I I would say in this particular
case, you're looking, depending upon what you're looking for, to
try and define this because they're not inside your brain
right now, but you can feel them pushing against it.
So yeah, Sionica Bill like identifying from for what he is.
He just described him as a giant brain and.
You could also just make an assumption, yeah.
Yeah, but I, I, I don't know that Fausta knows what an elder
brain is. They're not exactly something
you've see at the local pub. Right now a.
History check, that's what. I'm asking.
What would be? That would probably be the
closest to what you're trying to look for.
I would say either that or honestly no, that would honest.
You could technically go into the realm of religion, but
history would probably be more accurate.
I have a + 3 to everything that's been so far so I got +8
rather. So I want to try history.
There you go. What you're saying is they have
pickled eggs at a pub and pickled onions at a pub, but
they don't have pickled brains at a pub.
Maybe at the elevated pubs I'm. Going to say those are top shelf
items. They're not at every pub
anyways. With a 14 you at least pick up
what he's laying down in this and can picture more or less
true to what he's saying, but maybe not have a full, you know,
list of abilities or I'd understand exactly where or why
these things exist. That sure knows what they.
Exist. I know what an elder brain is,
just not the full extent of them.
Right, you you, you get an I maybe even not even the like
name Elder brain. It's just like the idea that
it's a sentient brain that has psionic powers and and have
control and magical abilities and to the point where they
could be misconstrued as a God. Fucking God.
See his. Honest to me, like as a power
source. His objection to God's is, not
is. You need a new generator for the
race. An objection to this sort of
power to begin with. I don't believe that I have any
interest in working with you, but I am listening.
OK, so and he kind of turns to everyone.
I assume you don't speak for everyone either, but you were
just the one that seems to be at the most viable ear currently.
So the. Poke my head up.
I've Can you get us to the surface?
I could manage today at least very close.
And if we can't break that seal, that's the only other option.
Yes. So that is actually you know, so
the only thing that I have to say I guess to all of this is I
wouldn't like I would like the seal broken, but I wouldn't like
it done without without a certain other chain of events
happening. The problem that I currently
stand is that I am more or less bound to not only this space and
the people that follow me and everything that holds up my
reality of being a God here in the fourth level of hell.
And he just kind of sighs. And it was, this might be above
you guys pay grade, but we used to sail through the Astral Seas
and I was the engine for the ship that the crew that stands
inside of these tunnels live. Franklin takes out a cigarette
and smokes it and once pulsed. Yeah.
Franklin, did they teach you that in Boy Scouts?
What's going on? Do you have a badge for that?
Is that like a skill? Yeah, it was.
A Catholic preschool thing though.
Oh, I thought you were talking about his rolling smoke.
Bag no Ezra's looking at like I will.
I will help you as long as we do lunch.
Do lunch, Yes, Warren looks. Up and goes.
Are you offering me an honest day's labor?
Anything yet? I used to.
Saying it used to be an engine. What?
Yeah, What do you, what do you want?
I don't think he just goes on to say I don't think it's an honest
day's labor because there's going to be some lying involved
inside of this church. You will see, if you look
closely enough. Glyphs that ward any scrying of
such, including those that are my helpers.
You can yield the air quotes even though you don't see any
hands that go up, but they are not only not the best of their
tasks but also unfortunately just limited in their abilities
and many other. Ways and try to limit me in
their same ways. I would like for a better crew
to man my decks and to escape from all of hell.
But I think and he looks over at Faust again.
I've been sensing something from you that might help our
situations. 10 to 1000. Out of the Rubik's Cube puzzle
thing. And he goes exactly so.
As it stands, the first level or seal of hell has been broken.
Which? Allows the PNC access to Taurus.
Unfortunately, the second level of hell or the seal on that
level has not been broken, I don't think.
We've been there yet. No, all of we're going the other
way. All of the preceding ones that
that follow you know that that. In chronological order.
Man, come on, this is hell. We're going backwards.
I don't think we have been doing chronological order.
I think we're bouncing around. I've heard that the the the 3rd
and the 5th levels and now speak with each other and have a been
able to work around some things, so I'm guessing their fields
have been broken as well. Unfortunately I am.
I'm still holding holding out because I don't want them into
here. They could fuck my day up pretty
good. Being there, you are here.
I am. It's quite nice.
Here I've come up with the system.
What? Are you looking around for
secret doors? Second level of hell if it's not
UN not released, all of the other levels of hell will be
continually fought over until a a a seal is again placed until
they can separate themselves. The these seals not only protect
Manny Polis's prison, but also the realms of the individuals
that are in inside of them. So.
How should we care? Eternal fighting, but fuck with
me. You were apparently you were,
you were in that region of the fifth level or someone was.
I'm hoping it was you, you guys that broke that seal because.
Yeah, we were out. If that's the case.
I heard birds are real like. I'm.
Going through my character sheets, that was.
Actually, oh, you're good. I don't know what to tell you
about birds. You could probably ask your
compatriots about that one. But.
They're tasty where I where I stay real.
The the problem that I have yes is not only that my seal is
intact, but also the second level of Hell's seal is intact
and I would much prefer the second level get broken before
mine. Well, beggars can't be.
Shooters. True enough on.
The brain. True enough, you can roll a
into. It's not intuition.
What the fuck is it? Insight.
That's the word I was like,
that's the word I was looking for terribly.
Good. But he would continue to blabber
on on the fact that I would be amenable to helping you as much
as possible to break this levels seal before you move on to the
second. But it would be kind of one of
those things where the seal from my level is broken at the same
time that you go to the second level.
So I would solve that. And he nods towards the try the
tridecahedron, the 13 sided Rubik's Cube.
Don't we have two of those now? No.
Or it's somebody. Oh, OK, that's right.
This is the one from Griselda, right?
And Faust was playing with it because everybody else is like,
my intelligence score is not high enough from Nosebleed.
Is there a way I can sniff him out the branch?
Yeah. That would be.
That is salivating. It'd be another.
Oh, you mean like his location? I want to track him.
I am Ezra Sullivan. He keeps showing him images of a
big fat brain. He's like, I'm so hungry.
You got, you got a scent from that, from the image that was
placed in your brain, but there is nothing even lingering in the
area that you're at that matches that scent.
Just wants to pull out a smart. Model just.
I'm voted by Franklin. You have create water.
I wish I did. Prestidigitation.
Can I do it with presti? Yeah, you can give him the
sense. Yeah, you can give him the sense
of being wet even if he's not actually wet.
Word squirt. Use it.
Yep, down boy. So this is hold on.
I turned to the others. We should talk about this in
private before we do anything or say anything, but this could be
another alternative way. I guess.
Pressing on a rock to make it taste better and hand it to
Ezra. Oh, so mommy's going to pull out
the instant chef box and have the Little Chef make AI don't
know beef jerky? So you open it though, and you'd
see the Little Chef in there and he goes, what, what, what is
going on? I think I've brewed you a sauce
from the last time we spoke. It's been long ago but you gave
me a giant coin, fed my family for months, going on a year do.
You need ingredients. No, the the salt I've I've
jawed, I've jawed and made from the basil that you gave me.
Oh awesome. How many jars are there?
They're they're pretty tiny. I I couldn't make so many maybe
in your size, but it's and he starts.
He pulls a box, like a wooden box out from somewhere else from
in the backroom and he comes over and he, I think I got about
12 and he holds them up for you. Awesome.
Wow. And.
There's 12. This is great.
This is amazing. Thank you so much.
I thought you'd forgotten about it.
I have not planned for this eventuality so just.
I definitely forgot about it. I'm going to ask the Little Chef
if he has enough ingredients to make some sort of meat dish.
Meat dish. I could use another of those
large coins if you do have it. It could provide for my family
quite well. Again, it'd be great if you if
if it wouldn't be too much trouble.
Yeah, sure, it's a gold coin. Oh, well, whatever you have.
I mean, for a meat dish. Yeah, a giant.
Yeah, I'll hand him a gold coin. I'm assuming that's a giant coin
to him. Yes, exactly.
We, we, we could. Hand him like 1 platinum piece.
And he just goes look at the I think this would this will this
will be perfect for many other occasions that you have.
Just make sure to make a note I I might forget in the years or
months to pass, but this should should be good for any meals
that you want. As he goes the jars out of the
tiny chef box too. They resize to fit your hand.
So as mommy still holding that box with one hand.
Oh, that's awesome. Wait.
Oh yeah. If, if what?
What, hand him another gold coin and then ask for it back?
I just want. I just want to test the theory.
I don't want, I just. Want to see something?
Did you take her off? Taken.
How much space do you got in there?
I'm just going to hand him one gold coin and ask him for, you
know, the meat dish. I'm going to take the sauce and
put it in my backpack. I'm assuming it retains all of
the the properties of the basils.
And then some. Like I said, I haven't come up
with all of that, but I can when.
Yeah, that's fine. I just added AI, added 12 to my
inventory just so I didn't forget about it.
But when the time comes to use it perfect.
I'm making a note to make it currently.
The bad campaign is the one with the with the magical.
Mangoes. Tangerines.
Coconuts. Mangoes.
Mango.
Tropical for mangoes. We have some planted now and so
so hold on back to the task ahead.
This guy wants to get out of hell, take us with him, but also
destroy the like the rest of the seals to get himself out so he
doesn't have an alternate way. He's just asking to hitch a
ride. Well, it sounded like he didn't
need all. This good?
And he just needed the ones that are in front of him, and he's
broken. Right, Yeah, he wants his first
seals. Well, he's not hitching a ride,
we're hitching a ride, right? So he is going to, I don't know
where his ship is, right, 'cause he used to be the engine for the
ship that used to sail the Asheville plane.
So I'm assuming he's going to let us ride on the ship out,
right? So we're going to enable him to
leave and we get to hitch a ride on the way.
It's a lot of trust that we're putting in this giant braid guy,
this God of agreed. But then again, we're also doing
what the God of deception wants us to do, which is also
questionable, but this one? At the.
Very least could be fair. We have just kind of been
murdered, killing our way through to hell.
It's kind of. Just we're in hell.
We need, well, here's, here's the overall like objectives,
though, right? Because we're talking about
like, like this is a choice that we're making, but we have to
make a choice before that choice, right?
The big choice is, are we a free Minneapolis and destroying the
entire world and rebaking it in our image, which is what'll
happen if we break up all the seals that he gets released,
right? I have double Nosebleed.
I think we've been told about this in game.
What makes this? What makes this guy different
from Minneapolis then? Nothing because that's that
that's going to happen. It no bad if we do this guy's
deal regardless right Like we break all the bills anyway.
Well. I don't think we need to break
all the seals. I think we just need to break
all the seals in front of him because he's.
Oh, and then leave this one as the stop gap behind.
Like I, I, I, I. Think God this guy can't leave
until we break his seal. His steal in the second steal
and then I think he's he can leave.
Who is crunching? That was me, sorry.
Oh, it's this is this is totally in Canon.
He's definitely crunching in Canon too.
Oh, he's, he's already, he's shooting as we're salivating.
He's like. Food.
Food, that's what. I'm trying, I'm trying to get
the Time chef to cook something to give to Ezra.
That's the sound of the tiny chef cooking furiously from
inside the box. We would need a lot of we would
need a lot of a lot of play from this guy to trust him though
'cause if we break the seal of the second level, we're assuming
he's going to give us time to get from there back to here.
Before you leave until we break the seal.
Right? That's why he's the.
Seal How do we get from the seal to here again?
He tells us how to use the Deca Cohedron 13 shot but.
Will he leave first? He can't leave because we're not
going to break this seal. I forget what level we're on.
Four, he's saying he, I think he would say, oh, wait, hold on,
he's on 4. Four until we break the seal on
four and we haven't done that yet.
So if we go to. Two first, but then what happens
to three? 3 is already broken.
I, I, I think we've broken the ones on 1/3 and five.
Correct. Oh.
Yeah, so there's two and more left.
So he says don't break four first, break 2 first and then
come back. But regardless, then we're
breaking all the Seals and Minneapolis gets out and the
world is remade. According to him, no.
No, there's. 13 regardless that that.
So what do we get out of this if everything changes afterward?
I'm going to look at the giant floating head and be like yo
head. How many?
How many levels of hell are there?
Well. There are certain 13.
So there's 13 seals. There's 12.
Ultimately, the 13th is Manny Polis's prison.
Yeah, man. Yeah.
You need all of those seals to be broken.
So far but. Basically.
Get us the fuck out of here. The way I'm seeing it is that
each level of hell is like a gate.
Or like a. Gate on that level of hell and
like we need to break all of them to let things from those
levels out which. Means if.
We break 2 and then we break this one.
My assumption is all of the ones behind us are already open.
Except for two. That's.
What? This is all of the ones behind
us. So from 5 to 13, are they open
or closed? Because if they're all open, OK.
If they're closed then then then we have no problem.
We could go with this dude's plan so long as we have enough
leverage against him to make sure that everything goes
smoothly. We should ask for his first born
son. I feel like we're the only
idiots running amok in hell right now.
Right. That's not quite.
Sure, the only. Idiots.
Idiots are dying. We're the.
We're the most. Successful idiots so far.
Running or muck in hell. So like, yeah, it sounds like we
could use this guy to get out of both hell and not blow up the
entire planet, which is what the God of deception wants us to do,
Which I turn to the others. I don't know about you, but I
don't trust him and I, I guess I, as I say this, I'll take my
like torque off and then like put it in an iron box or
something, I point out. Them, you take them.
Off you take them off because I've given Rural gave his away.
He goes, Kaishen goes some lead boxes, those could go in if you
need. Oh God, I've been looking for
lead boxes for forever. Warren speaks up and goes I'm.
The only thing I'm concerned about is if he's actually going
to turn us into gods or we're going to turn to gods if we do
what he says. The war rolling up I really
don't give a shit about. I look to Warren and I say I
have some opinions about that. Do you want to be a God?
Here's the thing, right? Well, I don't not not be a God.
I don't know, because it seems like a, it seems like a
gentlemen's club, like an old, like a, like a, like a, like a
gatekeeping method, because like I turned to Kaishan.
You're an old dude. Breathe here.
Before the gods were like a system.
I turned to the others because I don't think they're immortal.
They're they were human like us or mortals like us, turned so
powerful that they became God like entities.
And then do you know what they did?
They just closed the door behind them and now they choose who
becomes gods. Godhood is the purview of
tyrants. I have no interest in it.
Exactly. I don't know.
I tend to the others and after the things like our torques are
in a box, I think we shouldn't become gods.
I think our goal, our true destiny is to kill the ball it
free. The.
Entire world, no God, no masters, only us.
I mean, here's the thing. If there's a way to like, suck
up their power and use it all in one moment to be like implement
some sort of level system like maybe 1 to 20, and then put a
cap on it so that no creature or entity could ever become
powerful enough to become a God. Just pick madness.
But there is some sense to it. I don't know and I touch my
book. Ezra just looks at you and goes
what about you promised we would any air quotes to you do lunch
like you promised you said we would do lunch.
And you don't think that God could be the tastiest lunch
period? Matt.
No.
Ezra's reminding you that you said that Ezra could eat.
You could eat that he can eat. I can.
Yes. He's reminding you that you
promised. That's true.
OK, what about this?
What if we asked for his first board side?
It's dead. Why are you?
Why are you assuming he has sons?
He's a God. I don't know.
No, he's not I. Don't think he is both fuckers
fuck all day. I can have some children.
Haven't you heard about Zeus? I'm afraid I'm not educated in
whatever. So every God ever has to have
like a harem? Is that what you think?
I mean, I guess it depends on the God, right?
Like. This man's just greedy.
He don't fucking have anybody around him.
That's just more people steal from him.
I mean, or is he greedy in bed? Oh obviously, but that doesn't
mean he has people he wants around.
Sure. I mean, no, I mean, he's a giant
braid. He doesn't have a sexual organ.
But God, man, I did promise you that we could eat Chishad.
Chishad. Maybe he would let like us just
a slice, just like a little slice.
I really hope Chishan has a room that has an organ in it that he
plays like bedroom tunes on and he it's his sex.
That's great bedroom tunes. To be the others?
I don't know. What do you guys think?
This could be a ticket out of hell without having to destroy
the entire planet, and we'd get out a lot faster.
I like. Faster.
I don't try. I mean what are what are we
trying to do though? Like what's we?
I mean, I what? What happens after we get out of
hell? We just I.
Have no idea. I've never been I know get a
shadow. I don't want to do that.
We. Kill the gods, or we place them,
or we find a way to put them in hell.
Yes, we limit them or capture them and put them away, separate
them from this reality, maybe every reality, true equality.
Because think about it, that's exactly what they're doing.
They became so powerful that they became gods, and then they
turned around and closed the door.
How do you kill a God? I don't know yet.
Well, wait, no, I have AI do know that because we've had
Eurathleen. All their followers.
Or you kill them with a God tear weapon.
Or you make the world not need them anymore.
Good luck with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
If they don't have any followers, the gods don't have
any. Yeah, I've been working on this.
Yeah. I take out the plans for a bomb.
Am I in a prequel I. Don't have the key components
yet, but I was thinking I could use this to kill an entire
planet's worth of people. One of the ingredients.
Is in a prequel your bomb, no description.
On how to. Acquire or make that.
I shouldn't seems to have like gotten glassy eyed and just
stared off into a wall. We're ignoring you.
You've made your proposal. You guys are making the claim
that all gods are bad no matter what.
Well, here's the thing. All gods are.
So you've been to your rhythmic. So you remember every six months
they force people from around the world around realities come
together and fight and kill each other for their entertainment.
Do you think that sounds like a like a good like a good society?
Like you want to join that club? You want to be that guy?
I mean, I kind of do, but like, I have a morally great
character. Does anyone want to hear no the
other side? We're having a real God.
We're we're having a conversation.
You can stay up, fuck out. I'm going to ask Kashan a
question. Hey, Kashan.
So, so if we go break level 2, right, you said we can't really
break level 4 until we break level 2.
I'm assuming we want 135. You could.
I could hold my own enough time for.
I believe is at least as fast as.
You've broken this level to the point of where you are at
anyways. I think that you could do so to
level 2, but. Yeah, she said.
Like, everything's hinging on Level 2, right?
We can't. Break.
Do we get more dynamite? Well, yes.
And overall, it might seem like it might be easier perhaps to
break this seal first, as in the fourth level where you find
yourselves and then break the second level.
But it would be in breaking this level seal we I think was the
deal that we were coming up with, that I would solve the
puzzle that you have to get you to the second level at the same
moment. Otherwise you would just pretty
much go there after breaking the seal anyways.
But at least with this solving of the puzzle, you can get to
multiple levels of hell. Wait, what?
What can you explain to me what solving the puzzle does?
I believe at least it gives you the trust in me and gives you a
key at upon which you are not locked into anyone particular
level of hell but can move between them.
All right question. Really without their seals being
broken. We have we been on the second
level of hell. So we've jumped around.
I don't know. OK, if we have the.
Meta wise, hat off No. All right On no.
I I ask. We need guarantees.
What is the second level of hell exactly?
Like what? Level.
Yeah, Yeah. Tell us.
Yeah, didn't we start on Level 3?
But regardless, whatever is on there.
So why don't you just solve this for us now?
Why don't you show us, take a, a, a step of good faith.
I just saw you before. Really can't until you break
this level seal for two reasons. One, my telekinesis does not
work from this distance. OK, then show us another step of
faith and show us where you are, that I can catch the truth on
you. And then you'll make sure to
tell the truth. OK.
But like, here's like a really sad question.
Like, would you be at all compliant with the idea of just,
like, a little slice of your brain getting cut off?
So my friend over here doesn't eat you.
I did kind of promise that he could eat you.
Honestly, that sounds amazing. I then I won't have to think
about so many things. It grows back, so I'm not
worried about it. And if it's just a little slice,
I mean, I can be dumb for a little while, and that's kind of
nice, honestly. We can cut out holds out his,
holds out his hands this big, like he opens his arms really
wide this big. We don't know how big the braid
is. That could be bigger than the
braid. All right.
Where are you? Not.
I promise doesn't do any hard deal.
I say holding my thumb finger. And level of hell is lust.
Oh. Oh great, I think we should
stock up on what the hell. That's what we're here, lust.
What is that? Does the total just down the
cigarette in one breath? Hey children spoke all over the
world. Yeah, and they had to do the
other thing all over the world too, from in my experience.
I turned to you. Yeah, I know.
I was raised Catholic. Oh, that's why that explains it.
Lots of children, no lust. Yep.
And then to answer your second question, I will be able to hold
off some of the magma preachers on the bridge that you had seen
just to the South of the church. But if you go across that
bridge, you will find another door and it will be unlocked
now. But on the other side of it, you
will find some of my followers who are not as keen as I am to
being back into the astral space.
They quite like status quo. Oh.
Fuck yeah. We just like hell.
What did you do for them? I, I, I As I said, I was a
engine for a ship and the creatures on that ship are not
exactly keen on me having my own personalities.
Wait, so these are the original like crew members of your ship
Still I. Don't know if all of them are
original, some of them might be, but they've been down here for
many generations. Turn to the others.
We need all their heads. What's up with you and heads all
of a sudden? Well, I recently gave to do.
How do you say aptitude? A level so you can speak.
And now I can speak to the dead at will.
I would say that it might be wise that if we could convince
them that none of us know how to fly a ship designed for the
astroplanes. But.
They don't want to fly, they want to stay here.
I didn't say that they would do it willingly.
Or I eat this. They try to like commandeer the
ship, turn to the thing. What?
Do you think about being an engineer before we?
Commandeer it current crew. Learn how to fly it.
OK, OK. And then perhaps, we let them
go. I think the best option may be,
and I could be wrong because there is not many that have made
it past that door that you're about to go to, is to request a
parlay. But as soon as you do so, know
that you will be under watch from many of the other crewmen
and I don't know where you go from there.
You could negotiate your ways past them and you have your own
captaincy. Great question.
I want to say somewhere in. That sounds like it takes a long
time and I'd rather violate 550. OK.
You well you could, OK. Good is is fast still holding
out the 13 sided Rubik's Cube. I'm going to try.
Oh, he's. Fidgeting with it, he's like
tankering with it. Taking a look at I'm going to
walk over and like hold my hand out and see if you'll hand it to
me. Go ahead and roll an
intelligence check first. Fast.
I believe prior managed to argue in our kind of check.
Sure, Yeah, you're 1 square away from solving the side that he
thinks that you need to go to. Nice to stand there with their
hand out. Yeah, and you hand it to Mama,
then I'm. Trying to remember how I
acquired it. You were inside the pocket
rocket. I remember I have it, but yeah,
I'll let her. Yeah, so mama's going to look at
you with her hand. I'll be like, I'm going to give
it back. No, he he's going to give it to
her. Apologies.
I tend to get focused when I'm working on something.
I was just going to give you like a salute and walk over
right in front of the head. And you hear as you're walking
in front of the head, you hear from the box.
I don't know if that came through.
No it did not. Oh, just a high pitched, like
far off in the distance kind of sound of your muse right now.
So of course I'm going to walk over the box and grab whatever
the tiny chef has prepared. I made a meatball and bolognese
sauce basic about the delicious. Perfect.
I'm going to steal one of the meatballs and pop it into my
mouth and then walk over and give it to Kieran.
There are. Hell.
Both meatballs on the plate and you got three health back from
the one meatball. Three health.
Yeah, I'll take that. You can roll AD 4 for each of
the other 11 meatballs left. That's rough.
Wait, what do I got to roll for it?
That's. 1111 D Fours. 11D Fours. You even need it.
He was fighting. I don't recall exactly if you
needed it. So roll 11D fours.
While you're doing that, you walked back in front of Tai
Shen. Front of the head the yeah oh
forgot gonna hold it and be like tell me how to solve it.
I hate to say that it's a bit of a trade secret.
I can give you the written instructions after I do solve
it. I can't give you a clear
solution currently, only because I can only trust you all as far
as you've destroyed my workers. And he looks around the church.
It's totally fair. Hey, the guys on the other rope,
they're the last of your like followers here that your support
staff. They are the closest to me, yes.
But that's all the flux. There's.
Nobody else besides them. And that would come to my aid.
I walk to Mama and I whisper into her ear.
If we kill them all, he's totally reliant on us, otherwise
he'll die. And then like, help me solve
this. Like I say, we go kill all of
his people and and then kill him and then they continue on our
merry way. Yeah, we take it.
Of enslaving him and turning him into a ship.
Turning him into our ship. Exactly.
He could power the entire pocket rocket and this is all like on
the torque or not on the torque. But like, I guess we would
probably have to be in secret like a.
Like a huddle, we're just huddling in the corner.
Like a yeah, just a huddle. I've got mine.
Ezra's tail wagon the whole time.
I'm OK with just letting Ezra eat him at this point.
See. He's really valuable.
They said. He's an engine for like a
spaceship, whatever the fuck that is.
We can. Astral Sea, An astral sea ship?
What was that house that's. What that could reverse?
The astral plane might be our only way out of here.
I agree. And here's the thing, like I
think this is the plan. Like we got, we should use this
guy to get out of here, but like at the same time, he needs to be
reliant on us. We can't trust that he's going
to, like, not try to fuck us over, right?
Is 1. Trying to play more coins in
this time. Sure.
You need. Another slight of hand, Sure.
I mean, I could kill a lot of people at the same time.
Like a lot of people like you open, like you crack a crack
that door, if they're all in there, I'll just cast a spell.
We close the door, we hold it closed, and then like a couple
minutes later they'll all be dead.
I really want to say something to Franklin along the lines of
like Fisher friends and not food but fuck it kill them all.
I get an evil brain on my face and my eyes go black.
Yeah, I stayed a little battle the last time we fought like I
have. I have axes they need to use.
I barely bet I mean. So since the end of the fight I
was at 96 HP. Since then rapidly I healed to
full naturally. As you guys see like all the
damage just like start to like naturally heal itself like perks
to be and be or perks to like my position currently the deal I
made. Change on easy glances with the
other partners. But don't heal me.
Don't, don't, don't heal me for. The record kind of pick up the
tiny chef box and put it back bag just for the record must be
known I still have. It I believe I was close to
solving the puzzle if you wish to return it.
Yeah, yeah. So I'll walk back over there.
I think he's right in that we should unlock level 2 first, but
I think we should kill all of these things and make him
subservient to us or kill them all and leave him helpless.
Well, we go do that and then come back and then be like
Saxnet. Have anyone to help you?
Huh? Do we want to?
Yeah. Regardless, I think we should
kill all of his helpers. I'm OK with that, yeah.
And him. Helpless while we are away would
be a shame of our new. Thing guide.
Strong word if he's devoured by some fiend.
Well, here's the thing. I could.
Create. Two undead servants.
I could create 2 undead servants that that feed him, that do his
basic sustenance while we're gone.
And they're mindless, so they can't be can take it over,
right? Or he could solve a 13 sided
cube, I'm saying. So he I.
Mean he. Yeah.
Or that. He just chimes in in the middle
of this and he goes. I've been listening
intermittently but I'm OK with you killing all of the servants
and you guys just being my only ones that I have to rely on.
Way to one board kill him. No, I don't say that.
If you did kill me, it would set at least a fraction of me free.
I would. While we're continuing to
discuss, I would like to take another stab at the puzzle box.
But if that takes too long, it's fine, I can wait.
You can. Oren's done collecting cubes.
He's going to try to open up his own box.
You mean gold coins? Yeah, he's done collecting gold.
Coins, boy, that's my scale. He's going to try to open up the
box he has. OK, which also has three of the
13 things on it lit. I believe in my imagination of
imaginations. Column.
With. I mean, that sounds right.
Imagination. I'm also very unreliable at
remembering things. Anyways, trying to trying to.
Solve the puzzle box. Me.
You didn't lose. You lose a couple.
Oh, go ahead, I guess. I lose a couple.
OK, God damn. It no, this is things.
Are. Oh yeah, it uses Arcana.
That's what he was. I made the argument using.
Currently he allowed, yeah. I have a + 12 arcana.
How do I have a + 12? How do you?
Have a + 12. I have a + 11.
Which is what you were using. I mean, I'm a high level.
Yeah, my, my. Oh, the 15, yeah, OK, With a 15,
you, you're staring at the box, like pressing, twisting,
turning. Nothing's moving.
With a 15 there 1. After SO we've broken 3 seals
out of five or out of. 13 out of.
We're yeah out of 13 and we've been to four levels, this one
included. Yes, because you've gone to,
well, technically 5 if you count the labyrinth, but.
Can I see like the? I'm guessing there's like some
sort of like lights or like glowing objects or something on
the box. I have to like indicate
something. Yes, on the on the, that's what
I was trying to look at. Where is it in your?
Is it in your? It's it's in Frederick's but.
It's in Frederick's. Oh, it's in Frederick's.
Oh, so you haven't, you haven't switched it over after the last?
I've been trying to, that's why I clicked on it earlier.
Why don't I take him with us? If we kill all of his like
people, why is he staying here? He didn't has told us where he
is. Right, but he said he could.
But like. I'm to the South across the
bridge. I know so like what's?
So why could is it that your ship is here?
Did you say come across the bridge to the South?
That's where he is. Good luck there's.
A bit more tunnels in that direction.
Remember, there's that big crowd of people.
A lot of my people in between me and you.
But I feel like us are just like leaves.
I think he can. Break his?
I guess so. I just don't think he can break
the seal on level 2 and I think if that if he breaks his own
seal and doesn't sure on level 22 something bad will happen to
him. But like.
I also am incapable of breaking my own seal as it requires an
act opposite to that of greed. But are you the seal?
Because why couldn't we just take you, put us it, put you at
our house, and then we teleport using the Rubik's Cube to level
2. We break that seal and then we
all just just. Wait is it going to be like some
Avengers end game shit? Is someone going to have to
sacrifice themselves anti greed? You probably have to give
something up like a cherished item or a very valuable item or
something like that. Looks like.
Killing my book closely. I don't.
Yeah, I don't.
Want to do that? I'm good you guys can do that.
Yeah, though mine is too valuable to lose.
If I throw this away, I'm pretty sure I'll die.
Is there just just starts to walk and he looks at mommy as as
he struts out lunch, lunch lunch lunch lunch lunch I.
Guess I'm gonna follow him so he doesn't get killed by the giant
Bob of things go to. Get that lunch.
'Cause he's definitely gonna go fight all of them right now.
You guys figure out what we want to do?
I mean, I think our decision was just made.
Yeah. And that I mean.
Here's the thing, this guy, well, here's the thing.
We need to question. Like, I'm fine doing this and
escaping because this is a nice alternate option, but we're
taking a lot of this on faith. Nobody's rolled in insight.
We need to throw a zone of truth on this dude.
What it's happening is that we're we're discussing whether
or not we're helping him. It sounds like we're very
certain on that we're just going to go kill all the rest of his
followers anyway, no matter what.
Yeah, no matter what like we need get.
On to it with that. Yeah.
And then we'll think on the other one.
His Ezra's team. Maybe, maybe his rest of the
followers, like Plea for their lives, will convince us that he
is either worth saving or worth killing or worth something.
Right, I say we go kill all the other people, take off their
heads, maybe question a few of them, get there, say so, come
back, figure out where he is. Throws a true thought of
teleport to level 2 GTF he. Just told.
He just told Ezra. Yeah, yeah.
My mom is also going to like take one last look at the
floating head and like shrug, like kind of like you did, you
did this, this is your fault. And follow Ezra as well as like
on the way out. I'm assuming Franklin's walking
was on the way up. So Franklin like this this whole
head thing. It's we might need to talk about
this Franklin like. Well, it's it's not a bad thing.
It's it's not about like like I'm not trying to collect heads,
right, but like to in order to cast the spell speak.
Well, that's true, but in order in order that I cast the spell
speak with dead so that we could question them at a later time,
it requires that I have their head at a minimum so that they
could speak. So I'm collecting.
I mean, I'm I'm in reality collecting all the bodies, but
I'm separating the heads. So like, if we ever need to like
question these guys about anything like we have, you know,
a body of are you putting are. You putting all of them in the
pocket, rocket? That was one of my questions
that I have yet to ask. Right now they're just like in
two piles until we like decide where to go and then I will
pocket rocket them. There's like.
Yeah, Frankel. But at some point there's going
to be more things than you can never ask questions.
And like they're going to be from so far back that their
knowledge is not going to be useful like we should probably.
Then we feed them to the skeleton monster, which grows.
It becomes more powerful. Yeah, but at that point, they'll
be all like, decayed and gross. We've been through this, right?
Or like you can't just like hold on to dead and decay.
No, no, no, no, no. I was either going to smoke a
bunch of them or feed them to the the hive.
Which reminds me, I need to call them today.
Later. I'm back.
Actually, hold on, maybe they could live here.
I pull out. Amos.
Hey Amos, I think this guy may be vindicating this this cavern
soon. I know the population density of
the hive city has become pretty tight.
Why don't you take like a good like 40% of them and establish
colonies all over this level of hell for me?
I could certainly do that, but as you're leaving to the church,
Kaishen just goes you. You might not want to do that
only because there aren't many food sources down here.
I was about to establish another goblin colony in the region that
you blew up. Allegedly.
But it might take some time and I don't know if it could support
so many all at once on in that particular region.
I do have another goblin colony, actually three others that I
could supplement such I could probably sustain about 20% of
potentially. I'm assuming I'm assuming some
numbers here, but also I wanted to make a note that as you guys
all leave, just next to the door is where the lead boxes are.
Please take one if you would like to put your whatever
devices take if you do not. Anything past my doors are out
of my control from insight into other gods and the like.
Yep. Good.
Makes sense. We should all wear lead helmets.
But I mean, right now. I wave my finger.
I've got a ring on that like hides me.
But like, we should definitely utilize these lead boxes.
Yeah, let's go. Let's go kill the other guys and
go find Kai Shine right in Burston.
Yes. Kai, Shed, Why?
Why don't you come with us, right?
I don't think we asked you personally Come with us.
Like, you come into our house, right?
You stay with us. And then when we break the
second rule like do you need, is the ship here that you need or
do you just need to be free? So it's sort of complicated, but
the seal that holds this place intact grows through me.
Oh, gross. Yeah.
And well, if you were able to break it then I could
potentially come with you, but I don't know how much use that
would be inside of wherever you call home unless you have some
way to feed me. Got an entire hive of it sucks,
but that's probably more than you could take that you need and
already supporting a small village.
Shit. Oh yeah, yeah.
Well. What do you guys want to?
Do if you're able to, if you're able to take out everyone, it
might be advantageous of you to also gain my ship that I reside
in. So there's there's the OK here.
How's this for a secondary option in the intermittent space
while we go to level 2? You have the remainder of your
goblin population cannibalize the ship in preparation for and
the other goblin villages in preparation for us to leave.
With the assistance and at purview and overview of Abel's
here, make sure you do whatever you got a part of par and then
when we come back, we'll be able to apply the technology of your
ship to our pocket rocket and then hopefully use that as an
escape mechanism because your ship I don't is are we a large
of crew to like? How is that like something like
that? Oh yes, yes, you would ask for
numbers earlier and I was kind of doing a little bit of
calculations off to the side, but I think we're in the range
of somewhere in between 100 to 300.
It's, it's hard to tell exactly, birth rates, death rates,
cannibalism was was a problem at one point, but I don't think
we're dealing with that anymore. Sure, but like how many people
have run your ship? Run to run the ship you you
probably could run the whole thing with myself included.
Obviously if you don't have me in there, you were.
You're looking to need at least another 10 to to 50 just for.
Myself and we don't need him. Under 50 from just myself, but
for the rest of the other functions you could probably run
the rest of the ship off of just just a crew of 100.
Turn to the others. Should we make them show us the
ship after we kill? Slaughter all these people.
You would have to let me into your minds that fuck now as it's
currently buried. Oh, it's buried.
Why don't we ask one of the crew members where the ship is?
Why don't we, like, get some uniforms, like we're some sort
of like, inspection agency and we tell them we need to inspect
the ship. It's been too long.
He said I was buried. You've.
Been in Yeah, so they can like show us where it is.
Oh, we've been inside it. Yes, you've experienced portions
of it. You know those metal hallways
you've been through? Yeah, those are weird.
Those are portions of the ship. Some of those no longer function
as part of the whole unfortunately, as they were
broken off in entry and. So this is a repair job too.
Well, I think I could get it. Up and read it and repair.
No, I think I can get it up and running in the interim while
you're on the second level. Actually, it's already up and
running. That is the incorrect
terminology. I meant clear C ready, infinite
C ready. Turn to the others.
But you just, you just kind of buried and that pieces of it are
like scattered. Well, I don't need every one of
the pieces that were scattered. They just were opportunists in
the sense of how it broke. They were able to partition some
of those faces off to connect others.
Like the chambers that you walked from from over there to
over here. I'm sure you were in a metal
hallway at some point. Those metal hallways were built
off of some of the scraps from our ship.
Our ship was quite large. At one point we housed an entire
civilization. You were an aircraft carrier.
Probably more appropriately named a generation ship, I
believe. OK, the greatest.
Nation. OK, OK, OK.
But like so you crash landed here and then establish yourself
as just like the ruler of this level full story like.
The summary and or footnotes would just be that we'd crash
landed on tariff at the time of its remaking, partially because
of the increased levels of magic, in hopes that it would be
able to be harvestable. Unfortunately for us, we were
incorporated into its remaking, into its structure and being who
I am, I ended up on this level and in its remaking we were able
to don't. Worry about an engine.
I was. Oh, you probably had like a low
mileage, like a really greedy, like a gas guzzler that way you
were he came here. I'm sorry to interrupt this
store, the world building, but I I gotta get off.
I'm gonna work tomorrow and I'm tired.
Like, no worries. I'll see you some point, OK.
Hi, good night. Hi.
Alright, let's go kill all those guys a second 'cause we're just
sitting here chatting. But is everyone?
Oh, Ezra wasn't chatting. He Ezra.
'S like I've seen that, yeah. Yeah, yeah, I'm walking out all
on Ezra. I'm gonna look behind and like
motion for everybody to follow because I hate the party being
split. The party's going this way.
Come on. So if you can get down to the
bridge or at least in that general direction, it will help
me. But and I see I will grab mommy.
I think I can grab mommy. There we go.
You said something that Faust. I'm assuming everyone else is
leaving. You haven't I'm.
Grabbing all those of my those lead boxes, I'm suggesting one
round put the torques in. Oh, that one for everyone.
We were talking about ships and I didn't realize we meant like
an actual bridge. Yeah.
One of my one of my students brought this little kitten in
that he that she found in the parking lot and it's the most
darling little fuzzball that took her home.
Take care. Of you don't need more, she's
up. You don't need no more go.
Home for my wife to take care. They don't need no more.
They're the babies. How old is it, do you think his
eyes open? Six to seven weeks.
Eyes are open, then she's. She's very underweight, but
she's eating solid food. Yay, that's good.
Well, she's it's a good set. Great thing she.
Is. No, Jacob.
It's too late. What do you mean you have?
The with if we keep wind up keeping Kershel make #6I.
Feel it. That's what I just mean.
I know someone who got so into animals and animal rescue that
they are currently on the front lines of Ukraine rescuing
disabled dogs. So I I've moved the book.
Jacob, sending me the adorable picture of the kitten does not
help. Your case did.
You put it in chat, please put it in.
Chat. I sent it to him directly, but
you know what? Screw.
Up. Put it in chat.
I moved the bookmark over.
There with the clock. Across the.
I'm waiting to see if there's like a big crowd ahead anywhere
I'm. As you're moving towards the
southeast, you'll notice, Oh my God, she's so cute.
Lunches are these lunches. You see a lot of bugs, bugs that
seem to be lining the chains of the bridge, maybe be being the
first thing that you see, but they they chitter and scratch
and then Tai Shin says, says to Ezra, who's the only one now
that can hear him in his head as Warren poofs out of existence.
Don't worry, I've called including the other magma
elementals that guard this region, Says to you, Ezra.
You might. You should probably inform your
other colleagues. Don't worry, lunch.
I mean, it's fine. And your senses too, would be
pretty evident, at least as you're getting to the end of the
bridge. A bit of a chug chug and
clicking of clockwork that you see spanning the chasm of lava
that you're crossing currently. Some of the clockwork makes
itself visible off to the southwest from your position.
Jacob's sending more Kitty cat pictures, isn't he?
I know, he's so freaking cute. Jesus, he's not eating right.
I'm done. So guys, make it across the
bridge no problem. The sky shine seems to be on
your side currently and working with you of course, and you make
it to another what appears to be some Cliff face with a couple
metal doors in it that you noticed as you're walking across
the bridge. As well as looks like besides
the clockwork to the southwest, to the North East some piping
with grading and such across it. What about that?
As I should. We're all these people.
There is no risk. Oh.
Look at Ezra, ask him. Where do people?
As soon as you get on the other side of those unlocked doors
that I have unlocked, the those in the Cliff face, they're the
metal ones. They will more than likely be
alarmed that you have made your presence known.
They'll probably wait until you've gotten a little bit
farther along in the corridors before they set upon you,
though. How big is the space behind
those doors? Beta Ezra, As if assuming he
responds this. Sorry.
He he said he can't talk past door doors.
Big stuff in there. What?
OK, stuff is in there. Yes, he's like longering it.
Ask him. Ask him how big the space is on
the other side. How big?
He's just, he's like thinking like he can.
How big is the room? Big arm gestures as he's doing
it. And then you just get a picture
of like 7 football fields and a slight Nosebleed.
Big room. It but then he goes on to say
the whole space isn't that big. There are corridors connecting
it all. Just in general there, it's
there's a lot, lot of space on the other side of these doors.
It looks as big as a deep valley.
That's big. OK, well, I was going to just,
if they're all like waiting on the other side, I was just going
to open the door and like cast the spell, close the door again.
But sounds like we have to crawl, turn to the endings.
What order do we want to go ahead?
Just remember, if you stay within 10 feet of me, you get a
bunch of bonuses. OK, I'm proud of this thing.
I'm going to show it. I got also send it by familiar
swarm that could go invisible and they could go find them.
Oh, I thought that. Well, we just sit here.
Yes, but I walk up to mommy. But UPSI uppie uppies, I have to
look through their eyes. It's like hold a hand out and
swing them up onto my shoulders. Yeah, I nuzzle in and then my
eyes will go white and all the familiar will leave off of my
skeleton, leaving just the pristine white gnawed bones and
fly in the air. And then stop at the door and
then turn and be like turn back to you because the door is
obviously closed. No, they, I mean they'll try to
open it, but it looks like their weight can't open it.
It's not that the door is locked or anything though.
They stop and turn around, make a gesture make make 2 arms as a
as a shape and shrug and then make a big hand signal and
pointing at the door and then a lock symbol or a knob symbol or
like a turning gesture and then point at someone else.
I can't speak right now. Nobody does anything.
I'll come out and be like someone, open the door, go back
and do it. Can mommy walk over and open the
door? Yes, you, you.
You go up to the door and spin the wheel that's on it and feel
it get to an end point and pulled it open the inside and
you see another little hallway that's lit by red lights.
You then you send the swarm in as you said.
Yeah. So it's based on the closet like
we had discussed before, which is familiar that I get.
And then it has the ability to become invisible, which I think
would just take the form of the disperse to the point where like
it's not a swarm, but they're still moving in the same
direction. I don't know.
Can still see Ferdinand's point of view though, right?
Yeah, I can still see from their point of view and they have
blind sense as well, if anything is.
Do we want to like, follow behind them or just wait here
and let them scope the whole thing out?
Also, I can't see through Ferdinand's eyes.
No, no, let. Me.
See here for a second decision's on.
Weird. Yeah, I can see you moving,
Ferdinand, but it's all black. Yeah, I can see him, but it's
all black here. You want to just copy.
Franklin, it might be that or it might be something else that I
did go to here. You should be able to see like.
Let's just add that there. That's close right here.
Work can. You see stuff now?
I see a door. As Franklin's familiar, no.
Eddie Franklin. Hello.
You still not see stuff? I.
Think Franklin is muted or Franklin took a nap?
Matt. No, I can still not see stuff
from that. Did he?
Fall and was he not able to get up?
Hope I fall and I can't get up. That work?
That didn't work. That's weird.
Oh, he must be talking but but not be able to, you heard?
You can't see Andy can't speak. Man, what a life.
Some issue with that first hallway for some reason too that
I couldn't get it in. But can you hear us now?
Is it working? We can hear you, I think.
Son of a bitch kidding me. Yep, I can hear you can.
Definitely hear you. Yes, if we keep having technical
difficulties, I would not be upset if we wrapped it up early
tonight does. This work.
I can hear you all. Right, sorry, my phone died and
I got booted. What was going on there?
Yeah, I was like talking for a second and then I looked down
and then like no one responded. I was like, Oh, my phone is
deaf. We were talking to you too, and
we were like, hello? Hello.
No, sorry. Hello.
Last I knew, I sent these things in and visibly to scout it out.
Yes. Do you see stuff?
Now I do see stuff now. I see many things now.
OK, so I just put Ferdinand in the hallway for the swarm.
And yeah, so you see the hallway before you as it as it were, if
you want to describe it. Sure there is.
I mean, I'm assuming I can see only what Ferdinand sees versus
the entire thing. So there's a large metal hallway
very similar to what we've seen before.
It extends down for like 150 feet before ending in water on
the end. There's multiple shaft exits to
the right, however I don't see anything unless they're
invisible, but there are many. A little 1234 now I lost sight.
There are 4 little like doors off to the left or to the right.
So weird. Wait, wait, wait.
Now safe. There we go.
It's because the limited vision
for Ferdinand was set to 0. So as I make forward, I look
through the bug's eyes, inspecting everything.
I have a passive and passive perception and investigation of
22. As I move.
Through the space, yes, Franklin sees all.
You are being a lot of metal, but you can only assume again is
lead along with all the lights. That if it's LED, oh, the door
is open, right? The door that you guys came
through, yes, but. Yeah.
Otherwise everyone else can't. Everyone else can't see.
Oh, I see what you're saying. Everyone else can't see though
how far you've gone down to the corridor.
Yes, correct, because the first corridor is again similar to
what we're describing here, but there are a lot of other side
passages, pipes, lights. Things buzzing.
I'd look at the walls to try to look at the signs, but Franklin
can't read so. Don't worry, neither can't Ezra.
Lots of. What's Lang?
What language book do you know? What right now, Franklin can't
read. So you know no language.
Does it? You, I mean he, he, he knows
spoken languages, but he cannot read.
OK it. Was never taught to read.
That so you see signs, but they're illegible.
I heard momma saying something. Yeah, don't you have the
Pokedex? Yeah, but it talks to me.
Oh, that's new. OK.
All right. So we know there's signs.
I assume that you bury around too.
Well, that is the Pokedex. Oh, that's true.
It speaks to you in your mind, sure.
As you're reading it though, as if you could read.
I mean, it's a magic object. If they can, are there any gaps
under these doors? You click on that door too,
actually, or is it? I think it's actually, it might
actually be locked. Locked.
Yeah, that's what it says. OK.
And is the seal solid? Open one second.
I'm doing something here. Sure.
Why? Oh.
OK, so I have to do this. I have to unlock it.
OK I see, so yes you are able to fit under this around 1 of the
seals on the door. It doesn't seem like it's as
good as it used to be. There's a bit of a crack for
some of the bugs to make it through.
They put their head in and look around.
There seems to be a bit of a control station with a bunch of
levers and more wheels and cranks and such.
Yeah, he doesn't know what those do.
Generated room. I don't know if they want other
people to see this just so they have something to look at.
So it's not all black, but you. Shouldn't still be able to see
the screen that they're on? I I've somehow I can I can move.
I have figured out at least how to move into bookbarks.
Yeah. As far as I understand.
So I turned. So for you guys, I turned to the
right most turn, went under a door and entered into a small
chamber with a bunch of buttons and mechanical stuff.
Control room, as he says, But Franklin doesn't know what that
means, and he has moved down to a larger area that has ballooned
out that has seems to have some sort of machine in the center of
it. Which seems to be humming
softly. Doesn't seem dangerous moving
down to third turn. There is a long corridor to my
right. At this point, would you mind
rolling me a stealth check? Sure, at advantage because it's
invisible. OK, mine or it probably it.
Yeah, it. So it has a + 3.
Can I click it in here and it will click that go X 3 + 3?
Let me do one more. 18 Perception is wisdom based,
right The heck it's. Yeah.
OK, fine, that's fine. Oh, wait, yeah, yeah, I'm
hiding. Never mind, I've applied.
I have advantage on perceptions too.
Nothing happens currently, you're still moving through.
That's sexy. Do they hear anything because
they're also on the lookout for thousands of habitation
Exception. Can I use my passive?
Which? Or do you want me to roll plus?
It's a 22 but I can also roll at plus 12 so totally up to you. +7
I think at this juncture it would be a roll.
OK I will roll 21 one less than my passive.
You hear some breaths in this vicinity, off to and left.
Sounds like Mama is out. OK, Suddenly Mama just pops out
of existence. I follow the ground.
You don't notice because you were inside the form.
OK, I will try to investigate that area and get eyes on this
crowd quietly as I can. Inside that just these 4 logo
boys. What did you get on that self
check too already that you just rolled let?
Me. Roll that.
Nope. I froze.
My whole computer froze. Oh no.
Oh no.
What are we going to do, turn on my other computer?
I'm gonna bow out too. I'll see y'all later.
OK, I mean, it sounds like we do we want to pause if.
Yeah, I think we should pause. Yep.
Oh, but I did send AI did send a really cool.
I did something send something really cool to the chat.
If I want to see my my dude, my new devilish creation, sure.
I'll take a look. I'll also just end with simply
as you come around the corner looking into the room, you see a
gathering of greenish yellow creatures that have appearances
mixing between elf and goblin. How many?
At this Vantage UC 5. Yankee guess Spanky.
Let's do it. I let the.
Team know I could attack them from right here, but I'm not
going to. My good.
Night. Night, buddy.
OK, missing out this last couple minutes before you rhythmic for
Franklin He OK does he need does he need anything?
I guess I will cancel my. Subscription to Life.
Yeah, you know. Or on life.
I forget that was a magazine for a while.
It was. I don't think there's anything
that like he particularly needs to do.
Left. He's got the ring, revive,
gentle propose. I think I'm ready.
Touch himself. Franklin just turns to Ezra and
he says, Are you ready for what it's about to happen?
As everybody else is pooping out of existence.
Yeah, it's like. They they're getting summoned to
Eurythmic. It's just like to lunch.
No, I walk up to him and I hold his face in my hands.
I say, you're going to have your world expanded.
I think before we go 'cause I'm trying to decide no, I won't use
the hell brick yet. I don't know how to best use the
utilize that yet to send things to low to the first level of
hell. I was thinking of calling my
calling my swarm and sending a bunch of them to hell or to the
first level as Lemire's, but I don't know if that like releases
them from my contract or like if they just get sent to hell.
I would say that I just generally would say that it
would release them from any sort of binding, whatever contract or
whatever, it'd be who you because they are, they are
reforged as new entities, yeah. OK.
And yeah, I mean. But I wouldn't want to do that.
Maybe. Maybe it would help the pocket
rocket though. Well, would that's why I was
trying to debate about having them set up shop here in the
interim while Kai Shen is getting the ship ready as like a
either to help and to keep an eye on them, but we can do that
later when we actually teleport out or we do.
This Ezra, I, I had been thinking that it it, you could
potentially leave a larger contingent of those Ugg
creatures here while you go to the second level to help with
anything. You might have to, at least if
I'm not able to have direct contact with Franklin,
understand their language and perhaps, you know, get their
their language downloaded into my consciousness.
They speak buggy. Hey, Grade does even know how to
speak bug language. What a joke.
Are they just the dialect that I have a problem with?
They go. I could put one of the I could
infect your elder brain with these bugs and then you could
talk to them, but you will probably die at some point
unless I have them removed. I could trust you with that if
you let me into your mind. Yeah, fuck no.
All right, I think we'll leave it there for this time.
We'll think about it. Turn to Ezra.
Ezra, I'll see you on the other side.
If everything goes correctly, I'll have a snack for you soon.
It's. A big snack.
Not a big snack like a human sized snack.
I haven't decided which part yet, but Oh yeah.
As we teleport away, as I tell him my plan, I'm going to drink
the memory forgetting goo I have, focusing on my plan to do
myself additional harm so that I don't remember.
When I go into the white void as Franklin, he's trying to trick,
trick, trick, trick the the system of the download.
I don't know if it'll work, but right now the plan they decided
upon, plan between three of them, is that Franklin gets to
kill Matt, but not do him any sustained bodily injury, like
removing limbs so that he could be revived.
Franklin intends to remove limbs.
Just just as a just as a buddy helping a buddy here, you know
when you go into the white void, you get all of the memories of
the other individuals. So of instantaneously Franklin
would know the the plan again. Even if he doesn't or oh,
because I have the plan or what? Correct, Correct.
So you would have to as Franklin in the voice.
You would have to as Franklin in the void.
Then drink the memory goo. OK, I ready my action.
Got it. Wink at wink at Ezra.
This is going to be good. Oh, he trusts you, he said.
Yes, Snack, snack. And yeah.
Well. Conscious show yeah we start to
sparkle away as the plans aligned in at least in this game
a. Grand and wonderful.
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