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Manny Polos. Yeah.
Hi, Craig. Craig.
The Hand of Fate tosses. The dice rolls, spins, turns.
The campaign starts and ends, leaving memories that become
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 Fate tosses, the dice rolls, spins, turns
Hitherto we left our adventurers, the Shadow Seekers
on the 5th level of Hell in the center of the phallic shaped
maze In the of the phallic shaped maze in the Acropolis.
After braving the maze's perils of undulating walls, skeletal
beasts, demonic servants, and gelatinous memory eating beasts,
they came to a doorway with an enormous eye.
Deftly solving the Riddle, Ash, Phelan, Flint, Franklin, and
Mamay enter the chamber that the eye revealed with a flash of
light. Inside, a demon sits in front of
a mirror over a mirror overgrown by an enormous, decrepit pustule
laden tree atop A zigarette, jumping down and announcing
himself to be Fraz or Fraz for short.
Claimed to be this level of Hell's Seal as he began
attacking the Shadow seekers with gusto and enjoying the pain
all the while as the melee came to a pinnacle and mommy chopped
off his tail which had grappled ash.
Fraz Resign rescinded his claim as the level seal left in a
bloodlust, drunken haze, and now stunned by this latest reveal,
let's find out what happens this time.
So yes, for the most part, other than Regina, you guys find
yourself in a chamber. Oh, and this is something of a
detail, because you did have to jump off there last time, Mommy.
That I did leave off. I know you didn't know that you
had chopped off a a piece of the the beast, so to say.
But you when when you were attacking and your axe chopped
AT and actually dropped a piece off of it, it started to open up
almost as if it were a mouth and chomp at when it made that final
cut. And you could all hear it in
that entire chamber. Now I don't know if that came
through Belch. Yeah, yeah.
That was good. That was good.
It was a solid. Success.
What? What?
Belch. What?
Your your axe.
My axe chomped. Oh, OK.
Yep. So did it eat the tail, or is
the tail just hanging out somewhere?
There is a chunk of the tail that was eaten as it was cutting
cut from him and Ash, I think I'd said it was his leg, but it
was towards the end of the session and I think it made more
sense that you would have been aiming for the tail because I
was kind of fighting for you at that time.
Because what had happened was Ash had been grappled by the
tail. So I think he would have gone
for the tail actually, rather than his leg, because Ash was
still would have still been grappled by him.
Gotcha. Do you remember which axe it
was? It was your bejeweled great acts
of justice which is the one that a.
Good one. Yeah.
Awesome. OK, so that now eats people.
Good to know. With with that I mean the the
best maybe segue or slow segue in the things might be from
Regina's perspective who yeah it's still in the pocket rocket
trying to see where we left your oh you're down here.
So you did, you did witness as a as with your child as the
happenings of crushing Griselda like a tube of toothpaste and
into a barrel. But then you didn't really move
after that, You were kind of in that chamber, so.
Yeah. Actually, I don't know if she
was here when it actually happened because we had Hamilton
do that. That's.
True. I think I was there when you
guys were talking about. We were setting it up.
Yeah, setting it up and then. But I don't think she was there
for the actual actions of it. Well, yeah.
So what you would would have witnessed after Hamilton fell
out of his hammock, I think that may have been some of the last
things you were you you would have been perceiving is that he
came out and proceeded to squeeze all of the blood out of
her while mommy hold held the the corpse that curled up like a
that they curled up like a tube, like a log and threw back into
the tub that floated on the top now without any water in it.
And the barrel only filled up like less than a little over a
gallon, which is a 53 gallon. So it's only like the bottom
couple inches inside the barrel that's got goo inside of it.
That was her blood. Nice.
Yeah, we need a better. We need like a gallon jug.
We need more goo. What'd you guys do with the goo?
Just the sitting there. Yep, in the barrel that's in
here currently. Assume we want to put it on ice
or some sort of like put it in the bag folding so it doesn't
get bad. Whoever's got a bag of holding,
I think if somebody does. Does anyone have a bag of
colding? Oh.
No, but that'd be fine. There is an ice box of colding.
We should have shoved it in there.
Do we have that? In the inside of the pocket
rocket. Oh.
Yeah, we should throw it in there at some point.
Whoever remembers. But I'll remember to do it.
Leading with you, Regina, just so that in case there was in the
interim time from when you had seen that happen to when they
were inside of the chamber and and such if you were doing
anything inside of the pocket rocket.
What's the status on my mom's skull?
It was like just starting to animate when we left off, but it
wasn't. It's still in the more or less
the same state. You were petting it and calling
it mom and didn't make any noises or anything or move, but
you were to what? I understand.
Oh, OK. Being it as your mom, though.
Oh, gotcha. I'm just chilling.
I think I took a long rest at one point.
Yep. OK, I'm just kind of chilling,
meditating, sleeping with my eyes open with my mom's skull.
OK. I don't want to feel out and see
what's going on or I make any. I'm in the pocket rocket by
myself. Well, at least in this
particular Chamber, the only one that is awake and or conscious
so to say, besides the giant skeletal monster you can hear in
the chamber next door that is rattling against its holdings.
And just as a what you're thinking about too, you realize
you have a the the torque that you that the necklace that
everyone else has. And you've seen people
communicate with that to each other.
And I didn't see where everybody went.
You know that they left the. The pocket.
Yeah, they were. They were going to and they said
they were going to figure out what or who was the manager of
the Acropolis, the this dungeon that they've been in, so to say.
Gotcha. I think I'm gonna use my little
charm to find everybody else, 'cause I am scared, alone and
disoriented. So I just full send and I'll
exit the pocket rocket. Oh, OK, Grab you here and go
back over to the other map. Yeah, I didn't know if you were.
You'll see more So what we're dealing with here.
Yeah, I didn't want to mess with anything in the pocket.
Rocket Where? Is the Pocket rocket Where do we
leave? Did we take it with?
Us assume. I assume we have it if we're
outside. Yeah, it's in Franklin's
possession, I think, if I recall correctly.
Yeah, I don't. Think we would have left it
behind? Then do I just on out of the
pocket rocket in Franklin's hand then or?
No. So in this particular instance,
and how this magical item works is that you turn into purple
smoke as you touch the charm and imbue it with your intent as you
leave or enter. And as you're leaving, you turn
into that purplish smoke and appear basically standing next
to Franklin at the corner of a ziggurat and a tree and a
chamber that I described. How come?
Who else is in there? What?
Do I see? You can see some other other
folks, probably, but especially the prominent is the figure at
the top of the ziggurat who's standing in in front of the
mirror with demonic features. OK.
Don't hit him. Just don't.
So some of the ziggurat is. Who's that friend?
The ziggurat is like that stepped pyramid.
It's not a friend. Now.
Yep. Shit.
And then puts his arms down as if he was trying to hug about to
go hug him. That a friend.
No, not a friend. What?
What I mean you cut off my tail, I think.
You were into it. That's not friendly.
It was nice. I liked that.
There are children here. Do you mind if I take that tail
back? I could use that later.
And he goes, he's still in a very large form.
He's like he he's like at least 10 foot tall.
So he's just kind of leans over to start to grab his tail and
sees if anybody stops him, picks it up and like shoves it in his
belt, the trapped off piece of tail that he just had.
Yeah, but it was like I was just saying that I'm not the.
I'm not the seal on this level. Do you know what is the seal on
the left? Well, of course.
Will you tell us? I can.
Will you be truthful? Yeah, and I think I think it's
about time. I'm quite tired of being the
manager here, if I'm being honest.
So what's the seal that we need to destroy he?
Just kind of rugs and gestures lazily and kind of bored at the
at the mirror. It's rather obvious if you think
about it. Well, that's not helpful.
I think he means the mirror is the thing we need to destroy.
So we should break a mirror, I guess.
I don't know. That's seven years bad luck.
Honestly, at this point, we're at a lifetime bad luck.
What? Seven more years.
I would advise. Someone look at them mirror to
see if it's a mirror or if it's something.
I mean, I can head up there. I can.
I can go up there and look at it.
The lowest level is suggesting to do so.
I mean. Suggest that someone look at it.
If the lowest level wants to do it, go for it.
I was just saying it because no one else was like jumping up at
it, you know? Literally have those kind of
skills. I mean.
I guess I. Can look at it.
I didn't hear that, Mommy. Is it supposed to be real dark
in here because I can't see shit?
Oh, I think I know what it is. I didn't put any light sources
in this particular part of it. Let me let me fix that for you
technically the whole. Tree like I I barely see our
like, dude, I cut the tail off of and like, I can kind of see
stuff, but I like, I don't know where the mirror is so right
next to him. Yeah, it's right in front of
him. He's kind of half facing
towards, half facing toward. Yep, exactly.
Gotcha. Let me see.
See the? Am I like poisoned?
Is that why I have a little symbol or is that because my axe
is alive and eating people? It's on daylight mode, so you
should should be seeing things, right?
Let me see what's your character token?
Good question. It looks like stuff's like half
transparent. That might be the tree itself
because. It's a tree.
There's a tree that fills the entire chamber, so rather than,
you know, not being able to actually see down through the
tree, I just made it transparent.
Oh, OK, OK. So as long as I know, I mean,
I'll go up and check out the mirror.
That's fine. Do I have to, like, go past the
Mama? You can or I can, since I'm kind
of dexterous. OK, I mean, I'll let you.
I just don't. I don't know if I can, like,
walk straight up because I'm, I can like, check the traps and
stuff too. Oh, that's probably smart.
I should probably let you do that.
I mean, you could have this guy where he says we should look at
it. I point to the demon.
He said we should look at it. No, that we should not, he said.
I recommend not, I think. And then I volunteered to look
at it. And then everyone said not the,
not the squishy one. Yeah, so.
Can can we just ask the demon if the mirror is real or is a seal?
Not that we know we could start there, but we could probably
start there. Yeah.
I think that might be a good idea.
Start by asking. See what he says.
Yeah, who knows? Sometimes we need to ask for
instructions. Well.
That's OK. Well, the Mia is the seal, as
I'd said, but I just wouldn't suggest, you know, gazing into
it with full intent as as it were.
Maybe we can behind. Well, if it's the seal then.
We. Totally grate the mirror.
Grown into this tree behind would be tree.
It is inside of the tree. Let's see.
We chop this tree. So the mirror is inside the tree
or the seal is inside the tree? The the mirror is inside of the
tree and the mirror itself is the seal.
What is the? Seal Got it so I could like
throw a hand axe at it from a distance, since I've just
confirmed that the mirror is the seal.
Why? I can confess to not having
tried that per SE, but I'm personally not the expert in
this particular magics. But I don't think that's going
to be the only thing that's going to work.
Well, who was here when we broke new deals in the past?
Who was here? What?
Was who in our current party was present, present when we broke
seals in the past? Oh.
Several people, mainly on the third level.
How did you guys do that? I cannot recall.
You. Musted up.
Some some rock formations. Oh, that's right.
Bells and underneath were some wire cables.
That's how you got like 50 feet of copper cables.
Yeah, we hacked it at Loki's because that was holding Loki
Loki down. OK, so it was like a melee.
Yep. You didn't use magic to break
the seal? No, I fucked him up with Bruce's
strength. It require your magical items
but. I have the magic that does force
damage. Your it did require there was
like a force field around the tables after you'd busted the
formation that required magical. I think it was me and Mariel.
It was quite I have. I could cast out of truth if we
were to ask this guy actual questions.
Yeah, He might not know, though, because he just kind of alluded
that he's tried to break the seal.
Does anybody like, detect magic or like, oh, I don't know,
what's that one? Some sort of Arcana something or
another? I have Augury, so we could like
ask if this it's a good idea to outright attack it.
I have detect thoughts. That's a good one.
I think we should use that. I love that spell so much.
Does anyone have? I have intimidating presence.
I can frighten a. Creature plants.
Speak with plants. Of the tree.
Can enter a rage, I will detect his thoughts.
OK. Yeah, like has to detect
thoughts on the dude. I can.
He has to make a Wisdom saving throw.
Somebody was going to say. Something if the mirror.
Good. If the mirror's something we can
go through, I can make a magic token and we can like put throw
the token through do we? And then I can like see through
the token. That would be cool.
Is it that kind of a mirror? If it is, I can do that.
Look at. The Mirror.
I don't know if it is or not. Because we're trying to destroy
it, right? We have to destroy all the
seals. Yeah, we have to destroy all the
seals. For free the evil God, right?
And that he's going to let us out.
Yeah. So I have like was mentioned, I
have where is it 10 lbs of copper cable.
Yeah. So basically when we when we
free, Manny will be free. Yeah, so, he says.
So we believe, yeah, I can just like 10 lbs is pretty heavy.
I can just like, you know, wrap the copper cable up because it's
like of already of a same sort of, like material that the seals
are made out of. Maybe, you know, like destroys
like that's that's how that phrase goes, right?
But we could try breaking it with the copper cable that I
took from the last seals. If the axe doesn't work, I still
suggest we use the axe first. The tough one.
It looks like he just failed the DC with a 13 'cause I think you
needed he needed a 14 he. Needed a 14.
So he he is thinking specifically about the pain that
he just received and the raging erection that he currently has.
So you get an image of that. Do you pull back immediately?
No, I'm still going to power through.
It but. God, that's the worst you can
see. Phelan's face just turned to
disgust. When we all see it.
No, you can all see my face. Yeah, I don't think you could
see the erection. He's got pretty loose pants on.
He's a thank God. There are children here.
There are there's two kids here. And.
I was just inside someone. Oh.
My God, right? Weren't we the Big Baze back
there? Excuse me?
Oh yeah, we did make a reference to the idea that we were inside
someone this whole time, yeah. Does that mean?
I've been changed. Phelan dies right then and
there. I'm just reading through all of
the rest of the text that was sent there.
You. Yeah, I know It's a lot.
It's a lengthy spell. It is.
It's mainly all descriptions portions there though.
So that was his surface thoughts that you delve deeper under
which the wisdom save was what was required to do that and
underneath he is kind of thinking about the fact that he
is you can you can tell his his true intention is that he's in
he's tired of being the manager of this place and is hoping that
somebody does you know manage to do what what you guys are
talking about as breaking the seal.
But he isn't unable to in his current vessel.
Those are all. True vessel.
OK, interesting. I'm just going to say, so how do
you guys think we could break this thing like out loud?
As a general question I. Don't know.
That's what we're talking about. And.
I'm just waiting to see what his thoughts are for.
That. Oh yeah, got it.
You guys don't realize that what you're doing?
I guess. I feel like Franklin actually
turns her and is like, that's what we're talking about right
now. We're.
Talking about that right now, you pay attention.
He's just fragging at him. And you guys both make direct,
intense eye contact for a second.
Not you and Franklin, but you and Fraz Phelan.
And he he can because he can tell that you're digging in his
thoughts and he he doesn't even design to respond to you.
But you can tell that he know, because he knows that you're
digging in his thoughts, that the the response in his mind
basically is I don't fucking know.
Why would I have? So mad he probably.
Doesn't like that I'm invading his privacy of his mind, OK, so
he doesn't fucking know I'm literally out loud.
I'm just going to say, well, you're no fucking help.
Well, you guys were some help, so I guess I could at least tell
you the things that don't work. Brute force.
If you stare into it, it will attack you, but you can fend it
off if you have apartment minds for the for the.
Apartment minds, the mirror attacks you.
Yes. Like psychologically or
physically, Yeah, he pulls out that one.
He pulls out a chocolate size and just pops it in his mouth
and. What is that?
Chocolate. Have you not heard of it?
Oh my God, what it that spells so?
Oh God, is it laced with anything?
Is that a thing that you're actually asking him or?
Yes. Just supposition here.
I don't know, he goes. No, I'm actually asking that.
I feel like I've adopted the fucking mother role and I hate
it, but here I am. He just goes, I mean, depends
upon what you mean by laced. I didn't sow anything into it.
Are there drugs in it? Is it drugged chocolate?
Everything is drugs. You're drugs.
I'm drugs. She's drugs.
They're drugs. I don't know what you mean.
What? I'm a no.
Franklin sits down. What does the chocolate do to
you besides taste good? Oh, this similar effects of the
the. OK, you know it's laced.
It's laced. We're not giving it to the
children. You don't want to give your
children love, That's on you, bud.
But anyways, they're. Near Franklin nods.
That's about right. They're.
Not my kids. What?
Can we take candy from strangers?
No. I am, so he's not technically a
stranger anymore. He's still a stranger.
So the mirror that I was just talking about, yeah, it's.
I've tried. I've tried to beat it up in this
form and it doesn't seem to really take, but magical effects
do work on it. Unfortunately, I just wasn't
able to overpower it myself. God, it has to be powerful
magic. It seems so well and as like I
said, if you stare directly into the mirror, you're more than
likely to be receiving a mental attack.
At the very least, it could devolve into more if you're not
got a strong mental fortitude, as I was alluding to.
I have a strong Betel Fortitude, he says, fully knowing that he
broke down crying about 15 minutes ago and then he murdered
someone like 20 minutes ago. And it looked like you March up
the steps directly towards the mirror, unless I'm
misunderstanding your tokens placement.
Oh no. I was just walking forward when
I saw he had chocolate. Oh, OK, so you're behind the
mirror, holding your hand out. Still I got you.
He looks down at. No, no.
Down at you in his 10 foot form and he goes, oh this must be
intimidating and he shrinks back down to his like normal stature.
He's like, sorry kid, I don't have much experience with you,
but I assume this is more what do you want?
That chocolate. No.
And he turns his head over to you, which you know he you can
still. He can still feel you in his.
Mind, she's not my mom. He can still feel you in his
mind and out of spite he just puts the piece of chocolate in
front of. His head.
It only lasts a minute. What do you mean?
It's just ending as as he know, as as he's as he as he's handing
the talk. I can send a message back into
his mind because I have telepathy.
Now, yeah. I took that feat, so I'm just
gonna say bastard into his mind. He he chuckles and he goes,
well, actually, I never did know my father, so I guess you're
right. Is everyone just not OK?
Well, we're in hell. We're all dead.
Annie. I'm pretty sure we're not real.
Is she new here? He says, leaning over Whispers.
Franklin. The answer is yes, there's no.
Therapist out here. They care about people.
They go to the other place Franklin like, skips away with
his prize and then watches Franklin do.
Not eat. It puts it in his pocket.
I want to look at it later and test it on one of my bugs.
OK, that's fine. I'll eat it.
Mama is going to like, walk over to Franklin.
Oh, OK find. Franklin.
He'll break half off and give it to her.
Awesome. Where are you, Franklin?
Right here. In yourself thing there.
OK. So I guess I'm going to walk
around if I'm able to do that, yeah.
Oh, where are you guys are? Horny Goliath, this is what's
going to happen. Surrounded by children.
I'm just going to. I'm just going to eat the
chocolate. You're just going to eat the
chocolate? I haven't even made the
chocolate. Yeah, it.
Was. Just pure.
That's your fault. Constitution.
What happened, dude? Chocolate's great, guys.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Saving, you say? You gotta tell me what it tastes
like. I've never had chocolate before.
22. Does it taste like chocolate?
Oh it definitely it. It is chocolate for all intents
and purposes and you don't feel anything currently besides the
the the relaxing sensation of having Mama chocolate.
Yeah, so Mama is going to, like, take their hand and I don't know
how far Franklin is below me. I'm just going to put my hand on
Franklin's shoulder, close my eyes and be like, best decision
I've made today. The chocolate's amazing.
He scribbles that down in a notebook.
All right, I'm going to check with you every 30 seconds to see
what happens. It's.
Probably smart, honestly. Franklin's getting very good at
experimenting in people. Not concerning at all, all.
Right door should be beer I I don't have.
Arcada. I could inside it.
I could medicine check the Marcada.
I could persuade it or handle it edibly.
That's that's what I got. I have spells and that can be
used to help try and destroy it. I have all of my second level
spell slots. Wait, are we Are we doing this
wrong? Hold on, I tap my torque.
Hey Maniopoulos, how do we destroy this thing?
Is catching a drag on a SOGI? Oh, probably at an awkward time.
Sorry, you pooping. Sure, if that's what the kids
are calling it these days anyways.
We're at one of these seals right now, and we're trying to
figure out the best way to destroy it without killing
ourselves again. What seal is it?
Hold on, is there a video feature on this?
No. What seal is this?
I asked the guy on. The fifth level, Fifth level.
Can we destroy? A.
Also, we should talk in code because there's another team on
the good side that have one of these so they could probably
hear us right now. So the eagle is trying to
destroy the nest. I'm just going to go with what
you said first and 5th level I think I heard in the background.
Well, oh God no. I have second.
Oh fuck. This is the if it is truly the
fifth level, it does have some magical resistance.
Magical resistance, Yes. And.
True magic or resistance to non magic?
Resistance to magical damage, as it were.
Oh. And without saying physical
damage, if it's already existing magical, why not both, they say.
But it it it is also something that you will, in destroying
might destroy yourselves. That's the only thing that I.
I destroy yourselves. Only thing that I am aware of
into this I I you know This is why they don't give me
information about all the seals. Yeah, it's otherwise, how would
I be stuck here still? True.
You ever asked about like blast radius?
I looked to one of my to one of my familiar swarms.
Hey buddy if I have to go kawakaze this one.
Still have axes. That that definitely is not
information they that that I was pertinent too.
Obviously if I if it were destroyed I would have known to
tell you, but it's never been destroyed before so.
Maybe we just kind of stand slightly outside the door and
just throw some magical shit at it and see what happens.
That I can do. I got some stuff does.
Mama have a clear line of sight from where they're standing
right now. To the mirror, Yep.
And you're going to need to make if you're looking at it anyways.
Are you looking at it? Not like intently.
I'm going to throw some axes at it.
All right. It's just like side eyeing it
then right now or what you doing?
I'm like more trying to make sure that the the who's who's
our lovely friend here? What's his name?
The demon of deception, right? Fraz fraz ur Liu.
Yeah, I'm more, more or less making sure that Frazz is not in
my line of sight. I'm like looking at Frazz and
looking beyond Frazz and just saying if I throw it from here,
am I going to hit Frazz? OK.
So you're just looking to see you're looking at Frazz, but
kind of like using your peripheral to look at the mirror
and you're? Yeah.
At that point you'd gone to the second step, so to say, of the
ziggurat, which puts you at 10/15/20 thirty feet away the.
Mirror, I'm messed up. Closer.
It's too far. OK, so you go up.
To so I can't. I think the mirror's here is the
mirror, not here. It is there I I I added.
I added some intervening space. Because it is vertical is all it
is higher than where you stand. Oh.
So do I have a clear shot to it though?
You do at that at that step, absolutely.
Because you're what, 6 foot something and each step is in
the range of a few feet each way, yeah.
I'm 7 feet. OK, Yeah, you definitely have at
least a peripheral shot on it from that angle.
And even from the bottom, you guys could see like there was a
mirror in the top of the mirror, because the mirror itself is
quite large, talking 15 feet by 15 feet.
All right. I'm going to throw Wolf Wolf.
I'm going to throw all three hand axes, and the first one was
a natural 20. Nice.
Just out of the room. All of your All of your axes.
Wait, let me see when I get to go back to it.
Now 2328 and 16. That first one, the 28, was a
natural 20. They all do hit.
They're they do bounce off immediately and poof in the air,
back to your back, to your back to their sheath on your belt.
OK, healing on the you know the but everyone make me a
Constitution saving throw. All of us.
Yes, you're within 120 feet of it.
Oh, that's such a big range. Destroying ourselves.
Scary. Yep.
I thought I was far enough away. Pods two should say big throw,
Here we go did. Not mean to roll twice this the
first one. Oh, mirror, mine did not pop up.
Let's see why I got to finish it.
That's why. Damn, I'm.
Going to look around at the party and be like, what did he
say happened again if you looked at the mirror?
It attacks you. I had a thought about that.
I wanna bet you just subword. You you hear him gonna go from
the What happens as you strike the mirror?
Actually, I think it would, because it's in response to
damage. And you, Stark it three times.
You my guys might need to make three is actually what I'm
seeing here. God.
No 3 Constitution saving throws. Oh no, And with that first
damage, Oh no. All right, well, I made two.
I need another one. OK, I feel fine.
What's the save that we have to make?
Yeah. What's the?
16.
Oh, 16. Failed one.
I failed two. I'm gonna die, guys.
So you took if if you if you didn't make the save, then you
took full damage each time, which is a total of.
Somehow I had 31 twice. It looks like 31 + 31 + 2284.
I don't know. Did we long rest anything
slapping? This shit out of Robin, That's
just. Because you just fought.
You just fought, Fraz. You guys were all very well,
much damaged. I was feeling like no damage for
that, but I'm always you know. You said 84 damage.
Unless you made a save. I made one of the saves, so 84
is the total for three. Yep, 84 is the total for all
three. The first one, the first one was
31 and the second one was 22 and the last one was 31 if you.
Made one I saved it would be. Half of that damage?
What's? That.
Oh, OK. So I'm.
I'm dead. I'm like, full dead.
There's no way I can baby bird or somebody well and no.
Like y'all, I have 26 hit points maximum.
Yeah, I'm. I have 27.
I'm dead. We're like only at I was only at
3 or 33, so I'm dead as well. Franklin Turds did Mabe.
What the fuck? A little with axes.
Are you? Are.
Are you also down? Franklin then with.
That I don't think so. I was full health at the start
of this, and I succeeded on two of them.
Oh, nice. So the first, the last. 2.
The last or I succeeded on the last two, so I need to figure
out that damage. Half of 2211 and half of 3116.
So plus 16. Plus 31. 27 + 30.
One, he is down. Fuck.
As he goes down, he points to the to everybody's necklaces.
There's Healy. Good here for everyone.
Oh yeah. God damn it, Bobby.
What exactly can you describe? What happened that just killed
us all? Yes, I was getting to that.
I I so you. Oh is is everyone down or is
Mama still up? I I survived all 331 I wrong.
Very dead. You did you succeed?
No, no, no. So if you succeeded to save, if
you got 16 above, then you took half damage for each one, which
would be 16 + 16 + 1143. Oh, I'm still.
I'm still OK. So you look down at all of your
fallen compatriots after what had happened, which was you, all
three of your axes directly at the mirror as Fras was talking,
and they they're doing sushi. They kind of like they make that
bounce noise as they hit the mirror and fly back and then
poof, back to your belt. And then there was a slight
pause where everybody kind of oh shit.
And the the air around everyone sort of fractures as if they
were glass and you just feel it to your core just?
Curse. Is it thunders through your
beings, or everyone in the room, including Fras, who, like I was
starting to say there at the beginning, was at the exuberance
of pain? So how much damage?
Did Frost take? Good question.
I should roll his thingies constantly.
Am I the only one left standing? Axes are slashing.
Damage. Right.
They are magical. Slashing though, so.
He did not make his first. And last, so 3131. +1173.
Go back to the encounter. This is the.
Encounter, he is still. Standing.
All right. Well, who is closest to me?
The Pulmyra. I'm in the corner.
This is Regina over here. The.
I'm gonna walk over one that looks like they've probably been
brutalized from the inside out at this point.
Anything. I'm gonna.
Walk over to Regina? Does Regina?
Have a torque, yes. Yeah, I'm gonna, isn't there?
A charm on the. End of the torque there is.
One there is not the. Other that you might be thinking
of? The Franklin added.
One, because Regina was not there at that time, 00.
I assumed they. Gave her one.
But I have up to 10, I thought Franklin.
Had given her one because I remember him explaining it to
Regina. I have enough for. 10 people.
That could be I. Did I?
Think I did get one, Yeah. Because that was a.
For this very situation. It was a crab claw.
It was a. Crab claw is what that term was.
Yes, yeah, I'm pretty sure I had one.
Yeah, OK. I don't think you.
Might bring a crab claw. I don't.
Think I added it but. So make sure.
Everyone. Pretty much got a crab claw from
Franklin as you're painting in our inventory.
I mean if you put it in there. The Pez dispenser thing it.
Yes, that's the IT. Has a good Berry stored inside
it for emergency uses. Oh yeah, you did give.
It. That restores.
You to 1 HP. And I have 10 of them, so I
would hand them out to at least everyone in the party.
I don't remember. Getting that but.
That's not the Pez dispenser though, right?
That's something else. It basically works.
Like a Pez dispenser? I would think so, because what
happens is that it's a crab claw charm and you like you like
touch it on on on it with intent to use it and it opens up and
spits out the good Berry which you have to eat.
OK, yeah 'cause I just. Remember I wrote down a
Goodberry Pez dispenser, but there's also a Talisman for the
pocket rocket. It was like a dual Yep.
Yeah, he probably. Gave you both.
At the same time then? So, so, DM, are we?
Are we doing the rule of like you know, yet negative your
total hit points of damage and you're like dead dead.
It's gotta be. I think we said it was like 2
times your total. Doesn't it like if?
You like I? Have like 20. 6 Max.
And if I get struck down to -26, I'm like dead dead right in one.
Wasn't that Pathfinder? I think so.
Are we playing 5E? Are we playing 5E rules?
Because 5E is when you hit zero, you hit zero, and you just have
to rule that some people in general.
Even with five. E adopt that rule, like most of
the people that I play, kind of adopt that rule because, I mean,
I've never played. I've never played.
With people who? Do it that way I've.
Always played with. The the three death saving roles
like you hit. Zero.
You're at zero. You don't.
Do negatives? I think that's a Josh.
Question. God, what do you think?
God. Josh What?
Are the rules. What?
Are the rules what? Are the rules.
If you're playing the rules, how do you play D and?
DI can. Make an.
Overarching decision or we can make one together.
That would be my alternative to you guys because it's just
that's the way that I've always played it even.
With 5E. And so that's why I was kind of
like, oh shit, I'm like dead my $0.02.
On it are is in situations where we have characters that are
level 11 and characters that are Level 3.
It's very likely the Level 3 will probably have that happen
to them. So based on that I would just
vote for the three death saves. But if you went down and after
the first hit, the next two hits were hits against you while
unconscious, which is automatic fails or even credible.
That. Is true.
That you'd still. Be dead and.
Some of you may be dead. I would have gone.
To I. Would have gone to.
Zero after the first one because I failed to save.
So did you. Yeah, 2 days.
Did you go to date? To date, we have never played
with negative. Hit points to date.
It's always been the death rolls.
Yeah, Yeah. So I don't know if you want to
do a. Historic precedent or?
So then, so then Regina would have two failures.
I have one failure for death saving and I would have two
failures as well. So long as you're doing it to
where if you don't hit, if you hit a like person that's down,
is it 2 failures or just one? Normally you're saying.
Like when you create someone, it's two.
But yeah, when you hit someone when they're down, it's
typically two. Yeah, yeah.
And. And.
And follow. Follow all of.
This up the. Fact in this particular instance
because you guys have made contingencies in my mind for
this which is the good Barry that you have in your necklace.
You've thought of this this is gonna happen.
I would say that you could use that and get.
It Could be. It could be replenished late at
a later date to automatically get back a death saving throw.
So you would. Have an additional.
Chance to to come back. I have one left.
Is essentially what it would be. What do you mean?
Like. It's so I got.
Hit by like all three. Essentially I went down after
the first one. Are we counting getting hit by
it as two criticals or one critical?
Because if it's. Two, then she's at 4 fails or
one failed. For a singular hit from that.
A singular hit would be. 1. In my mind it.
At least because of the total damage comparatively, like
you're talking about. But that's that's like.
Because you you went. Down with one and you have.
You don't. The the Pathfinder rule that you
were talking about right too is if you take double the amount of
your hit hit points. That was kind of how my mind
would work, for if you took twice as much as you'd have
total hit points in damage for one blow.
OK. Then you would.
Take two. Death saving throws.
So I think currently, at least in my mind.
Regina. And.
Hey, Phelan, both. Have two death saving throws.
Unless I'm misinterpreting because I think like essentially
we. Would have gone down and we
would have gone down to 0, but then the good Barry would bring
us back up and then we would go right back down and then get hit
once more. So we would be at one failure,
yes. OK.
So the goodberry is gets automatically.
Activated. That's sweet.
I would. I would.
Guess that would be your guys's cursing into your mouth, OK?
So then I lost. Health on the first.
Actually, I liked it better. Yeah, you guys.
You guys fall unconscious and the little legs pop out of it
and the crab claw opens up and it crawls into your mouth.
OK, so then I lost health on the first one, went down on the 2nd.
Crab claw climbs in. Brings me back and then I get
hit down to 0 again. So you would get no failures.
You would just be no failures. I'm just down.
OK, yeah, but potential for roles in the future if no one.
You guys want to take turns making the rules because.
We're not in combat currently or.
Well, my guess is that after. A period.
Yeah, Mommy. You're standing alone.
With Frezz and you guys are both kind of like the entire.
Person, because my guess is that after.
A certain period of time we'll have to roll for a death.
Saving if, if. Mommy doesn't bring like get us
up in in a short period of time. We can just start clock well.
Here's the thing. With this, I would be up then
because I didn't go down until the last one.
And if my thing goes off, I pop back up with one.
OK as well, OK, cool. And then I'm a cleric.
So nice. That's good.
And I walk over to mom and I slap the.
Shit out of her and I'm like, what the fuck are you doing?
And. Then I hug.
Her and hips. All right.
I didn't. Need to hit you?
Yeah, I feel like you're going to go.
To slap mommy. You're going to hurt your own
hand, and Mommy's just, like still just going to be like
it's. Going to be an.
Emotional wound for mommy, yeah. He wells up crying and then.
Runs away because his hand hurts and then begins to apply
identify. The ones that are the most.
Critical and then very quickly move through and start applying.
Let me see, what do I have? Oh, thank.
Goodness, I still don't spells. Especially not I have.
All that Mama can do is like. If you want a mango and baby.
But who's? Who's at the most danger?
Of dying because I assume you're going to have to.
I have one failure I think so far.
Phalen right I have. One Regina.
Probably. Yeah, and.
Phalen as well. Spellcasters.
Spell cast Earth I will run. Over and I will cast Cure Wounds
on Damn, how do? I do this.
I can't cast two level spells. Do I have?
Yes, I run over and I touch Spare, or I spare the dying on
Regina and or Phelan and then run over and cure Wounds or
Healing word Regina so that I can use my action economy before
they have to roll. Cool.
That means I automatically. Stabilize so Regina.
You're going to heal for. 7:00 nice.
Phelan is now stable. So he will run over to who's the
next people that are down. Think Gloria down.
Yeah, I'm down but. No.
No failures? And then who do we have any
people that are any characters that are in the room that I'm
not on tonight? Yeah, I'm just.
Rolling forward that we need to that we need to.
Figure out. Hold on, I want to write.
Hamilton. Something really quick.
I don't know what you do but. I can see.
Things now. When I.
Run up to each of. Them and.
Cure wounds. And then you stare the dying.
I'm going to pull a little bit of hair out of each of their
heads and put it in my pocket. And I do this for everybody.
It's not crazy weird. You can't.
You're going to. Thank me later.
He points at his necklace, at your unconscious forms.
But yeah. I'll go through and I will use.
Cure Wounds on. The other two, since they are no
longer in danger of dying, and I will that will tap, Is this the
end of it for my? Mom's Skull failing.
Gets 5. Do I?
Call for no. The mom's goal, I don't think
would. Be targeted in this particular
scenario as as the mom's goal is a familiar but it's a summon
familiar. So the thing with those is you
finished your you're finishing your ritual on them while you
were in there. So I think what would happen
actually in this instance would be the first time it hoofs out
of existence for you and you kind of freak out for a second
and probably think about it and it re it.
It kind of. It kind of grows up out of the
ground next to your foot actually and just mimes talking.
But it doesn't make any noises. It's it's mouth is just.
Grab it in for a hug, I thought I lost.
My mom again. Oh.
God so. Franklin, he gets 5 and he gets
10. I was the point, I believe,
yeah. And then he'll go up to Mama
again. And cast heat cure wounds on
her. And then just whisper to her.
Wanna wait until you? Realize that Ash and Flint are
both down with one singular fate.
Oh my God, on their saving. Throws.
Yeah, we forgot. That they were here.
All right, I. Do the same for them.
And I also take care. So they.
Oh. Jesus.
I use. The spare, Spare the dying.
As I need that one. 'S A at.
I. Can't.
You don't have to. Yeah.
And you don't have to roll the saves all.
Right. That's for those two it.
Was the first one, sorry. And which one are you doing it
to? Which do I guess?
Whichever order I get to them. So let's see.
Who was it again? Flint and ash.
They are Flint's next to Phelan there, and Ash is just below
then. Flint, then Ash, OK and the
first. One because it'd be one, then
two. I've seen 13 for the second one,
but I just. Didn't see the 1st 177.
Thank you. Apply.
He's back up and he just goes, I'm fucking done with this shit.
Flint go to the Pocket Rocket and they.
Both go, they both tap. Their poop charms and.
Go to the Pocket Rocket. My approach Mommy.
I walk up to her and I say. Just remember next time, dot,
everyone here is a Goliath that has a giant health pool.
I point to Regina. Some of them are literal
children. I'm crying.
Right now. I'm like.
I cast cure. Wounds on her at second level,
on mommy. And then as I do, I like get a
little blood out of my heads and put that little jar, shake it at
her. He'll.
Thank me later. And walk away he just.
Stole her blood. Yeah, Frankel is.
Angry. He looks he looks very annoyed
right now. So maybe.
We. Rest and then brainstorm.
Some other ideas? Besides checking axes at it.
Would I be able to analyse and? See what kind of magical
resistances this thing has. From the direction you're at
you. Can see the the side of it.
You won't see the front of it, but you could roll me want to
see the front of it. You could roll me.
An Arcana check on it. All right, let's let's trust the
D. 20 I don't have any modifiers to this, so let's see and tell
me how. You.
Are checking it. I know that you're standing
quite a distance away, so I'm guessing you're using your
eyeballs more than anything else, yeah?
I got a 19 and I mean I. Feel like?
I'm pretty well versed in the way of just like innate magic.
I don't know. I'm a sorcerer and I guess I
would be kind of looking for like, well, any sort of like
distinctive runes that I could recognize as like an enchantment
to prevent. I don't know.
Force, like lightning, damage resistance, you know, like
anything that like gives an indication of like certain type
of magical elements that it's like potentially.
Resistant. To.
You can. You can tell.
From just looking at it and the magical nature ascribed to its
detailing, it's they aren't necessarily runes.
They almost look more so as you're kind of gazing at the
frame around the mirror that's inset into the tree, these tide
twisted knots along the sides of it that you're only cursorily
familiar with, but you do know at least the knots, as opposed
to runes, which you're used to are.
Insinuating that something. Is trapped inside of this mirror
and it is what is providing the force and damage that is that is
protecting the mirror, so to say.
Interesting. Hey, guys.
And and and yeah, you get it. There's something trapped.
Inside the mirror. So maybe do we need to go
through? The Mirror.
I don't know about that. One 'cause that might trap you
inside the mirror next and give us whatever is inside of it, and
we I could try to. Put.
I could. Try to put a token through.
Am I familiar? Yeah, I suggest the the cricket
one. Brave cricket.
But first I think we need to go to bed.
Yeah, long is probably a good idea.
But I do want to look at some. By cleric spells to see if any
of those might be help us of this situation.
So let's speed run a a sleep session.
All right, long resting or short resting?
Long rest long, so I'm just going to curl up in the corner.
I tap back to the pocket. Yeah, I guess all of us tap
back. To the pocket rocket, oh.
That is there is that. You should probably go slip
there just goes controls up in the corner of the fucking.
Inside the room in front of the dude.
Oh, we're, we're gonna. Say anything?
Yeah. So we're gonna.
Say anything to our friend here, We all just gonna disappear.
No, we're all just gonna disappear.
I'm not saying shit to him he doesn't deserve.
I like that. Fuck.
That guy agreed. The warning I'm.
Throwing my axe at the. Mirror would cause damage to
kill my whole party. Would have been a nice warning
the more you know. I think you did say that.
Yeah, so I'm completely ignoring the fact.
That he totally did say that. You know, I'm.
Gonna blame it on him. Basically, move back into where
you were in the pocket rocket before, which is directly next
to a corpse. Oh good, I can't get it.
Yeah, you kept moving a. Corpse you don't recognize.
The corpse. It's.
It's our friends. Because that does compressed
corpse, most of pulled up like a thing of toothpaste.
Yeah, I did that most of. Which is?
Mass. Is actually in her backpack that
has yet to been completely looted.
Bless you. Thanks.
Otherwise, her the rest of her meat, it's been compressed quite
thoroughly. I completely ignore that.
Stumble to my bed. Fall.
Into. It pass out and then in the
morning I wake up, I'll take a little bumpski and I'm ready.
To. Try to figure out this mirror
again. All right.
I think. You decided this bed in the
middle was yours. Could be wrong Mommy's.
Somewhere in there with. A bed I can't remember.
And I don't think Phelan, Regina or Franklin think I picked the
red one. Actually, well, that's possible,
I know. For a fact I do not have a bed.
Franklin. Sleeps in the hive.
Up in the up, up in the ceiling so that you you, you start
talking to your cricket friends in their language and they just
pull you up into the reaches recesses of the cavern and.
Hold you there. With some of their Biddle and
whatever else adhesives they have to the cavern wall.
Interesting. Going to my shell.
Oh yeah, he has a shell. He doesn't need a.
Bed I carry my home with me. Wherever I go hope, How about
their edge? I don't know which beds are like
available. I feel awkward.
The only one that seems to be. Taken, so to say, is the one
that a crocodile is mostly mostly in.
There's a. Crocodile.
It's just Bob. No worries.
Yeah, that you. Can see with ash, probably
mostly under at this point. Under the crocodile, that is
where. The heck?
Did they go? Oh, OK, that's solace.
That's an interesting choice of a cuddle buddy.
It's better than the Giant Skeleton.
Monster, or the headless corpse, that is.
True. Which?
You aren't very far from Franklin, instructs one of his.
Guys before bed to put the the goo in the ice box.
Oh. Yeah, we need the blood goo.
The blood juice to be put into an ice box fando.
Winks it. Yeah, got it, got it.
Sir Regina's going to go pet the alligator.
Crocodile. Yes, alligator crocodile that.
Is exactly how I've referred to it as well, because who knows
the difference the yeah. The jaw How?
Big is it? The jaw What happens when I pet?
It it's just. In in pleasure.
Oh my God, purse cute. Does anyone have?
Something the blood, the goo, something to transport it in
case we need it on our person ever.
What do you think? That's a excellent question.
I. Have a one ounce.
Bottle of ink of which I can. Bump out and.
I. Have a water skin that can hold.
4 pints of liquid. I have this plastic one gallon
jug. Of milk.
That's. Right, I have a one ounce
bottle. Of ink that I can bump out.
How much is in there? It's not much.
What? What?
Else I think she's. She said no in the goo.
What? Blood goo.
Did we get how much we looked? At there, I think there's only
four pints of blood in A. Body, right?
Didn't we like, look this up last time?
There's like. 5 pints in that there is.
I can hold. 4. So it's probably best to do we
can. I think that's good.
Then we make. Little shooters that everyone
hold. Yeah, like we can keep in the.
Cooler and then we. Can each carry like an ounce of
blood with those or something? Yeah, there's like one point. 2
to 1.5 and just for easy math, I kept it at 1.5 gallons.
Yeah. We'll have to.
Figure out exactly how. Much a dosage dose is I turned
to the OR well, I'm sleeping. There's a whole laboratory set
up on level 1 if you want to let them know.
Yeah. Fernando comes back after
placing he he you could hear him really struggling that anyone
that's awake currently with the barrel and some other crickets
trying to get it into a crate that's the about the same size
as the barrel, along with some other stuff that we totally
offer to help. But I have a 7 for strength, so
that's probably a bad idea. And you you can.
Hear, hear them. Just like you probably can't
understand them either, because they're talking crooked, so
they're just like chittering and.
To each other back and forth. On how to get this in the
cooling crate, which they end up moving the 1.5 gallons of stuff
into varying bottles that they place into the cooling fridge.
I don't know if anyone actually is around for that then, but
that's what happens. Good at the jobs.
I am very pleased. There's no like.
Beginning of a horror. Movie.
Things that happen, you know, besides crickets divvying up
blood like. Like bad cursed things could
happen. But they didn't like Oh yeah.
Biblical. Stuff.
Yeah, I. Guess you end up with biblical
of this. Shit, kids. 5.5.
Bottles of 1 oz each. One liter.
That doesn't sound right, OK? They're they're full leaders.
They didn't. They didn't.
No one asked them or said anything to them specifically
about leaders versus Oz. So they just grabbed whatever
they had. I mean these crickets.
Obviously are in tune with the correct system for measuring
things. It's only Americans that use.
Imperial. Yes, and the Brits in like a
few. Very small countries.
Weirdo. Yeah.
Metric is the superior system, definitely.
Which is why they're now called freedom units.
Really. Some.
No freedom. Units the same way that fries.
Are Freedom Fries the OH? You've never got.
It, yeah, that makes. More sense.
Yep. Freedom Toast to be.
Honest. That sounds way better than
Imperial. I mean, come on.
Yeah, Freedom. Units it does it's it is it is
more. Palatable.
I'll give it that. All right.
So you guys rested long rested looks.
Like, I don't know. Regina, you didn't choose a bed.
Are you sleeping in that chest? That looks like it's well suited
out for a bed as well. Or Oh no, wait, that's me.
Regina's already in a bed. Sorry.
Failing. I'm gonna go.
Sleep in the corner. These aren't necessarily your
beds. They're.
Just beds. So yeah, this is my bed.
Last. Time.
I've peed in it already, so I don't think I know I don't I.
Don't. It's been marked.
I don't know. You guys guess?
She never was potty. Trained you guys have tabs.
As like a tool. Because you could mark your
beds. That's.
Just, well, I mean. People can.
Sleep in it, but there's no cover on it.
There's just an animal skin soaked in elf urine, Dark elf
urine. Dark.
It is. It is a dark, dark urine.
Well, I think you're a DRO right.
Yeah, yeah, I am. That's another name.
For him is dark. Elf is all.
I was making a joke but. I got it.
I. I don't need to explain.
It, I suppose. I think actually.
You might need to describe. The color of dark elf urine now,
'cause I don't think it's been described in our campaign yet.
So it's black. It's like Inky.
Like wooden black. Oh God.
Now this is. Canon for both of us Do you do
you have black? OH.
Yeah, yeah, you are. Oh yeah, we're both.
In drows. It's.
Black and it's thick. Like ink?
He could write with it. I mean, I do have a one ounce.
Bottle of ink? Is it ink?
Never an or is that? Ink just.
What it looks like? If it quacks like a duck and it
looks. Like a duck.
You just tell. Everyone that it's.
Ink because it's more acceptable.
It's like a squid. Squids ink like just elfs ink.
You ink when you're nervous. Yeah, I am a.
Child running problem. I had nightmares.
My guess too is that since elves.
Live so much longer that they don't pee as much in general.
So it's like you age? You get less wait is peeing
associated. With Jordan lifespan I I mean.
I don't know. I've been.
Drinking so much water at work and.
Going on so many times, I've been eating myself so much. 9
out of 10 doctors now think that.
Peeing causes cancer. Oh jeez.
I mean everyone that. Dies does pee, so that's true.
Guess we just got to stop peeing.
And see if we don't die anymore. That's accurate.
Yeah, I see that. Like, people have done that.
I think they die. This is the thing that is talked
about. Before you guys go to bed, so
you guys all fall asleep eventually we're talking about
urine. We all have wet dreams and pee.
To bed, I mean, you could. Constitution save your for that
but. Disadvantage probably in
Regina's. Case but you know.
Because that's apparently the normal part.
Of par for the course, but yeah, I mean.
I am but a small abandoned. Child.
Ouch. Ouch, exactly you guys all.
Wake up. And the run any constitution.
Saving throws so you guys all wake up at the same time, same
time. What, Staring at each other?
Awkwardly. Synchronization.
We are becoming a team. How weird would we sync up like
that? He says from the ceiling.
Not in the same room as everybody else.
On his torque. Is it weird that we know?
Over here adding everyone's. Bodily pieces to my inventory.
Well, that's just creepy. You should see my inventory.
It's just a bunch. Of random shit rock dirt.
So did. You add Chris Elda's.
Body log to your inventory is what you're saying or?
Yeah. Is it?
In that case, you might be staring at.
It and going particularly drawn to something.
In the inventory of Griselda? That was left I unlocked.
I lower myself down with 1000 bugs, bring myself to her
without touching the ground, and I pop out my little arms and I
start going through her. I start unpeeling her look at.
Through her. Flesh pockets.
I don't know what she's holding the stuff in you unroll her like
a fruit roll. Up and you look at the bags
openings inside and there seems to be a 13 sided, I think we
called it a tridecahedron that more or less floats to the top
of her inventory and into your hand.
He snatches it. He.
Looks around. A roser back up.
The turret or his pocket too that.
Goes back up to the ceiling. And then lowers down, it acts
stormily. Normally he runs around.
Saying hi to all the turtles that are in the water and every
single bug until these guys get up.
Hi, Fernandad. Hi.
Torito Hi. Oswald.
Hi, Oswald Double. 14 Sounds like everyone else has.
Accepted their feet inside the beds.
I don't. I don't know.
I've been a little, I did a little bumsky right, my stiff.
Go ahead and Constitution save. For that one. 3/3.
With a four, scroll back down. Talking to me to scroll back
down or? No, I was talking to myself.
Because I was like, I don't know, I don't.
Know at the MSG. There, AKA fairy dust AKA
Ambrosia. You take a, take a bump and do
your. Yeah.
You. You.
Don't feel like that did it.
You just feel like it it it kind of hit the first levels of what
you need. Kind of like.
Your eyes wouldn't open, but now they're kind of half lidded and
you're thinking about taking another bump before you even try
to do anything else. Cool.
I give it a second. Just.
Kind of like see what everyone else is up to right now.
Just kind of like laying in bed listening to the.
Like sounds of the room, Sure you.
Have a -, 1 to all stats currently OK
because I think we'd already upped it to stage 2 for the last
time you'd done. It Peter what you do when
failing. Start from the bottom up.
She. Resigns herself, wishing that
she kind of wakes up thinking it was all just a bad nightmare,
but it wasn't. Shake the oh sounds of.
Fraz no, she can't. She's.
Very traumatized. She's just gonna kind of.
Just roll out of bed and will herself.
To make it through another. Day and I guess is determined to
figure out how to break this mirror.
You jump, you, you roll out of bed.
And you're standing there, yawning and stretching.
Yeah. And looking at Regina.
I. My eyes shot open when everybody
else woke up and I start wailing and sobbing.
Why, mommy? Why?
Why must you hurt us? I'll tell you the.
Same. Thing.
But I'll tell anyone yes, axes are always the answer.
Did they answer this? They.
Give it an answer that's true. Can we change the question?
Sure. OK, I
that's all I got. I.
Sorry, I was. Trying to look at something.
Yeah, that's all I got. I was just going to say wisdom
saving. Throw for Mom A, though, in
either that or technically that. That's usually the counter to
Charisma, which it it seems that you're kind of leaning on there
a little bit, at least in my professional line.
Because a small child is complaining.
About you in their sleep and after their dreams and bed
wetting. And.
Bed wetting. And whether or not it.
It. Hurts your moral being.
I have to roll for that. That's what I'm saying it.
Yeah, I. Have.
To roll for that, traumatizes a child, you.
You what? About Mama.
Mama Just. Killed.
Their whole party, I think Mama is traumatized.
Already. That's true.
I guess this could count. For it all.
I mean, it's kind of like a like a like a fuck.
Moment. For you, things you love the
most or hurt. You the the the deepest.
Yep. You you do.
It does. It does linger in your mind, but
maybe the axes aren't always. The answer?
Yeah. Please don't hurt makes Mama
his. Brain hurt a little bit.
As as. As your brain hurts a little
bit, that's when you're waking up.
To be the next how you're doing the.
Not you're all waking up at the same time, but I'm looking at
you next. So I was just asking how you
would. Be getting up.
Oh, I'm going to try. To ignore.
Getting up for as long. As possible.
They're like, Oh my God, like my head in real life.
Your head's under your pillow as everyone.
Else is standing up and stretching I guess it seems like
or taking taking a bump or possibly a second bump as the
case may be because the feeling is.
Not going away from -1 to. All stats there but Myra.
So if I. Succeed on a Constitution saving
throw. I'll go down to stage 1, Yes.
Or like OK. That did not happen.
Because I think it. Increases as it says.
And you're with a 10. You're you're.
At stage 3 which is -2 to all stats and you just.
Fuck everything. Requires 5 times as much fairy
deaths to trigger a high currently.
You you do have plus 10. To movement speed, but
everything else is -2 well advantage on Dexterity and
Strength, saving throws and. Rolling for initiative but.
Yeah, everything else mine's too.
You also cannot sleep from now on currently.
Oh my gosh. That's serious.
I think we'd. Talked about an addiction.
Being a What was it not a it was AI.
Just I'm just trying to. Figure out trying to figure out
I just. Don't fully understand how it
all works. It was similar to poison.
I remember that like if you wanted to like use a cleric
spell to cure it or something, you could like whatever was.
Effective Lesser Restoration. Was effective against.
It Well, I think it was. I think it was.
Not poison. I think it was a disease.
I think we'd know which lesser restoration should take.
Care of OK. Yeah, so you have that.
In your in your voice. Because do I do I?
Do I? Roll for.
An addiction? Every time it takes some because
it says 'cause if it requires five time in as much ferry does
to trigger a high. I see what you're saying.
So technically, yeah, you would have to have taken it three
times at the stage 3 for it to trigger the third stage.
I see what you're saying. So you've only taken it twice
today. So you're still at -1 to all
stats. I see what you're saying.
No, that makes sense. Yeah.
And also it says. Also, there's the.
You roll a whale, which is a Wisdom stave, to resist the
debuffs. Yeah, I don't know.
No. No, I think you're on the right
track. I think, and that's why I put it
in, pinned it to the chat because it's not easy to deal
with either which way. So I think you're I think I
think you're correct. You are currently still only at
stage 2, which still is -1 to all stats.
But it is, I think, what we were trying.
To assert is whether or not it was a disease and whether or not
it could be cured, which I think that would be the case that it
was a disease and not a poison, so to say in this particular
incident. Either way, if it was a poison
or a. Disease, lesser restoration can
take care of it, I believe. Cool Dad.
Probably. Had a cleric.
Mommy was the last one. Waking up there, I think we had
already talked about Franklin and how you'd woken up, so guys
are all. Awake inside of the pocket.
Rocket. Doing anything?
Franklin's. Preface of spells while you
eaten. Some cereal for breakfast?
Does any of us notice? The whole, you know, doing
drugs. Oh.
You can roll a perception. Oh, I'm not that perceptive.
But would it be? Against would it be?
Against my Would it be like against my stealth or sleight of
hand? Yes, if you're.
Being inconspicuous with it, Yeah, Yeah, I usually always.
AM. Oh, I'm definitely I am.
Unless I roll a natural 20, I am not going to see this.
So let's just see. That's a natural one.
I don't see shade. You're still rubbing your eyes
while you hear from my and stretching, so just you just
think that that she's taking a deep breath while stretching.
Yep. So I guess we got to figure out
how to break this. Mirror without it killing us.
Well. He said someone said that.
There's something. Trapped in it.
Yeah. So maybe we try to free what's?
Trapped inside The thing is is that.
Yeah. I'm thinking that whatever is
trapped inside is probably what the seal is, and by breaking the
mirror we potentially kill what's inside, or vice versa, of
the mirror itself is the seal, and what we need is sealed
inside the mirror. And so by breaking the mirror,
we break the seal and Fray whatever is inside or the mirror
is just out here protecting us from the seal that's actually
inside the mirror, that the mirror is acting as a seal to
the seal that we have to break. Pregnant loudly slips No.
Coil. This goes odd.
Watching well, cuz, Bryce said. The the mirror is the seal, yes.
And that was. Truthful.
I made sure I dug into his brain.
So we just need to figure out how to break the mirror without
dying. And so whatever is inside I
guess is protecting the seal. It could be.
It could be that. The mirror is siphoning the
magic from whatever is inside and protecting itself and using
the thing that's inside as like, you know, a big.
Chunk of magic. You got a big siphon.
So does. Someone want to gaze in the?
Mirror or just someone to try to like touch the mirror, see if
they can like go through it, go through.
It I think we had talked about throwing something.
No, we're not sending a child in.
No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm.
Not you're. Throwing something.
About it, Yeah. A no.
I. Have a combat.
I would have ruppage her out of my backpack and pull out a mask.
I've been holding out to this. This is a mask of true seeing
that we got at some point, so whoever looks at it and I point
at my book. I'm also prepping a bunch of
spells to like, give us more information to detect magic and
stuff like that. So, whoever.
Looks at it should use. This thing.
Or maybe you'll see something real, like whoever's trapped
behind it. Interesting.
Well, if a certain. Someone who is strong can look
at the mirror without hitting it with an axe.
Then maybe things can go well. I just wonder about that.
Is it mental? Fortitude or physical fortitude,
He said. Adept mind.
Yeah. So maybe someone?
Who's wise because it might be wisdom based wise or intelligent
because I've wise. So I think it's probably.
Going to be wise because when I think of psychic stuff, it all
has to do with wisdom saving throws.
So this is sad. That's me, a guy.
Why do? We Why do?
We keep having to sacrifice the child.
It's OK. He's.
A. Child.
He's a driven beard is. He a teenager I thought he was
a. Child No.
I'm a tween. I'm a late tweed.
Like that age where they start going to.
Jesus concerts. So the full awkward.
Stage. Oh, that's so good.
That's so accurate. Shine right?
Shine I don't think you ever rolled damage for me by.
The way mommy on those 3X strikes if you could.
I took it. No, you the.
Damage you did. Correct.
Oh, I thought you said I. Didn't do any damage.
No, you hit all three times. I didn't roll any damage.
I was just thinking about that, OK.
I just assumed I. Didn't do any damage.
No, you did. 6516 total. Yes.
Nothing. Yeah.
Nothing else transpired in that. I just wanted to make sure, Ted.
I. Look over who is it that is
addicted? I'm so bad with names.
Not my man, the Myra. Right, The Myra.
Where are you guys congregating, by the way?
I'm eating breakfast. I'm still.
In bed here. OK, I assume that we.
Moved over there then. And I get out of bed.
We figure. This is like the place.
To like beat there's. Like a table?
And there is a giant hive of insects.
Watching you. Not off putting in the least.
Bit actually at this point I'm used.
To it, you and I. Had like bonding moments outside
when I was covered in fog. Kiss Bob Regine.
Says. What's with the bugs?
Those. Are my friends which ones?
Because they're all doing different stuff right now.
Are there any little? Ones within reach.
Of me? Probably.
I'm covered in them. I'm going to pick off a.
Bug and eat it. That's fine.
You had one earlier. Yeah.
If you want more actually. Hold on, hold that thought.
This morning I was baking and I pull out another tray of good
berries. Oh, everyone.
Put these back in your. Things They're fresh and
stealing. Thank you.
So we run and try to work. Yep,
anyway. I got a.
Bunch of spells and stuff to. Like investigate this thing, see
if we can learn some more information about it.
That's good. God.
Let's see. Augury detect.
Magic detect. Evil of good.
Protection from evil and good. That's about the extent that I
could use. Oh, sanctuary.
Maybe it'll protect us. I don't know.
As. Long as they're not area of
effects, then yeah. Yeah.
So I don't know what your guys's plan is, but I was thinking, as
I gestured one of my crickets I should.
I put this mask on this cricket and then I go send the cricket
out and look and see through its eyes and control it and then
start casting some spells to see what's going on with the door
before we all get murdered. That's.
Probably a good plan. I like it.
I cast like 1/2 glance. At mom, eh, but.
We should all be ready, just in case.
Shit. Hits fan.
Because if there's something trapped behind there, we break
that mirror. Who says it's not angry?
And who says it's not going to be angry at us?
Oh yeah. No, those are absolutely.
Possibilities, yeah. Mama is just going to sort of
look at the ceiling. I get up and I walk over to her
and. I hug her.
I forgive you, but please don't do it again but axes.
Axes are great, but the guy. Literally said, it'll explode if
you hit it. Are we just going to start
believing? Any stranger we meet in a
strange cavern? Honestly, I don't.
I don't think we. Should believe that guy at all.
He's the devil of deception, even if we all believe him right
now. But I believe people generally,
with their warning, be about danger.
Or at least they take cautionary steps.
A looker at the others. I should be the adult in the
room. I'm just a child.
You are just a child. And you're being super adult,
like very proud of you because I'm wise.
Anyway. He gets up, pours out another
big. Bowl of fruit.
Loops. What do you guys want to do?
And looks to the other guys Cricket loops.
Cricket loops, there's. Little bits of protein.
In there. Oh.
My God is still. Alive.
They really. Like it?
It's like a bath and then you burn them.
Yeah. Sometimes I look through.
Their eyes as I eat them. Oh my God.
And I skip away. Are they still alive in the
book? Why?
It's one thing we say to my. Children.
It's another thing to be surrounded by really fucking
weird ones. Who are you calling me,
everyone? All of us.
I. Don't have a mother here.
I pet the mom skull. And I cover her ears.
Don't listen to them. It's a skull, right?
It's like a root of a. Plant that looks like a skull.
That's also it's a plant. Yep, Yeah.
Oh. My.
God. Yeah, it's the one that.
Turned skeletons into living skeleton or into skeleton
monsters. My point at the giant skeleton
monster. Yep.
Yeah, yeah, I'm going. To lose it here.
This is this is the end for me. They're really hell.
Yeah. I'm not even in hell in this
place. We're technically in a pocket
rocket, that's true, yeah. You try hard enough, you can
always be. In hell.
I don't feel like I have to try here.
You're here vaguely in the. Background When you're going
through hell, just keep going. All.
Right, so. Now that we know at face.
Value. You're the way that axes are
intended to be used. The axes don't work.
I'm not saying the answer, the axes are not the answer here.
I'm just saying the most obvious way to solve the problem with
axes is not the solution. There could be another solution
that involves axes. What do we think guys?
Let's put the axis. In the back burner.
But there's so much more than just the.
Blade. There's the back, the
counterweight, there's that handle.
Hitting it at all with an axe is going to cause it to do what it
did earlier. And that's my thought.
Last. Time, as we saw, none of us are
going to survive another one. Yeah, I'm not going to throw it
with this. Where you gonna stand there?
It's. Going to reflect.
Back any damage? Certain kinds of damage back to
a general area of effect. This is magical.
So so if we damage. It.
It damages us. What if we like, compliment it?
It might compliment us. Yeah, that's what I'm trying to
figure out. Does anybody have?
Like a nice soft. Cloth can we like Polish it?
I have AI, have a charm person spell.
Try and charm the mirror. You could create a bunch of
steam and fog it up that way. It can't.
We can't look into it. Well, my other thought.
Is. I still don't trust this
deception. Guy.
What if we had a second mirror and we stood there with him and
then put a mirror between them so that he's forced to look into
the mirror? Oh, I.
Like that. That's a good one.
And. Then it hits him and.
Then we kill him. I mean, at the very worst, it's.
Free XP at the best we become Princess as hell.
I mean, so it's. Better than my only.
Other option which is we need to find a Medusa.
So instead, I like the idea of putting the mirror in front of
the mirror. Oh, make the mirror and.
Look at itself, he was being. Truthful about the whole He's
not the SEAL and he doesn't like his job anymore.
I try to work. But he's also.
Literally the day. A bit of deception at where
level, yeah. And I.
I. Explored his.
Mind. I went into his head.
I explored his thoughts slowly. Yeah.
We just. Give him some drugs he'll like.
That. Everybody likes.
Their jobs more when? They're on drugs, right?
I don't know if he'll like his job more, but he'll like drugs.
And then we can put the mirror in front of the mirror.
Where are we getting the second mirror?
There a mirror in the. Pocket, I mean some people, I
think. Adventurers packs dormally have
like a little beer, but when they look.
Literally any surface until. It's reflective you.
Could that that? Is true.
I turned to the others, nodding like, vigorously.
As in like, come on, she needs this, so you'd have to have a
very Polish. Can you do that?
I need a really soft cloth. OK, so.
Looking into the mirror. Is the problem and we could in.
Theory. Make one of you blind while you
Polish it so that you do not have to look at it and that's
what you. Close your.
Eyes. Yeah, like, I suppose.
I don't know. I think we need more
information. About this thing and I hold up
the the mask. I've got some stuff that could
give us more information. But I I will acquiesce to.
The group. Are there any mirrors in the
pocket? Rocket I want to.
See if an Adventure Pack comes with. 1.
Does Vomitra have any? Two cents too.
I think that's the only one that we haven't heard from.
She's just kind of taking in. Taking in.
The. The.
Conversation. Kind of like.
Moderately agrees with the whole like double mirror.
Idea but. Doesn't really like say
anything. Theory.
Maybe axes are the answer. Is your axe reflective?
Yeah. Yeah.
So I'm saying, so I have by I'm looking at my inventory.
Right, so the three vicious hand axes are pretty small.
There's a bejeweled great axe which is not going to be very
shiny. Well, it's shiny, but from like
being bejeweled, not from a solid surface.
Then I have a great axe. I don't.
Know. Probably the best option.
Yeah, yeah. But I can't.
Tell how flat the Great Axe is. I would Google.
Great Axe. That see what that looks like
to. To to.
Circumvent that a little bit. It's.
It's a curved surface, more or less, but it is.
Solid. And it's in.
In the great X shape and it's probably about.
A foot and a half two foot you. Know edge, edge, distance point
to point, so it it you could potentially Polish it to be a a
larger mirrored. Ish.
Surface it is. It's not engraved with any
designs. Or anything.
No, it's just a good solid. Honest.
To God. X OK, Yep.
So I'm going to pull I have. Some grain ethyl alcohol.
On my. Inventory, I'm going to pull
that out and look around. Maybe I'll go grab.
Like a pillowcase off the beds or something.
Although we are in a kitchen, there might be like a tea towel
or something I can grab. Yeah, you could roll your
cleaning. Skill that you created forever
ago I. Did that, I believe.
So. I believe it was mommy that has
a cleaning and. Organizational skill.
Where would that be? I think you can add them to the
bottom. Like your like your skills list
you can like add. Things at the very bottom like
it's. Listed alphabetically but then
you can like add there are. Additional skills, yeah.
No, I remember doing that, but it's I don't see it on my sheet,
which means it must have been neme.
I was pretty sure it was. Mommy, because there was an
instance in the third level of hell that it came up.
But in that case you don't have to name it cleaning, but perhaps
sharpening. In this instance, polishing,
polishing. Polishing.
Weapon Maintenance? Restoration.
Oh yeah, no, I added it to me. May I have?
A skill? It's just called running shit.
No that. Was that was definitely.
From the cappeting, I remember that.
Yeah, I thought there was one though from.
Mame from Cleaning. Because it was from the third
level. It was like after you guys had
destroyed something disgusting. Anyway, I'll add it.
I don't remember this. Happening.
But Oh no, you you don't have to.
You're you're the runner of your own skills there in that regard,
but it would be, in this particular case, dexterity
based, which you know, sleight of hand and and weapon
maintenance. OK, so dexterity.
I'm assuming I had to roll. I got a. 3020 Oh, nice it is.
Quite shiny that you can see yourself in it at the end of it.
Perfect. OK.
All right. All right, I'm going.
To hold it up so everybody can see it like, does this, does
this look good, guys? I'm going to like hold it up so
they can. That's going to reflect back at
them, it looks like me. I.
Act like I'm blinded. I give a thumbs up.
Amazing. We're ready
you guys all. Purple smoke out yeah all.
Right. I want to look at the door
first. Before we do the splat, you want
to just take first. Once we get out there, I have a.
Series of spells that I want to cast.
Oh, sure I was. Just once we get there.
I think I should be all there now.
If the demon's still. There, I hand him a bowl of
cereal. He is still.
There, and he's looking directly at the mirror, apparently having
no effect on him, and he looks over his shoulder at you and
goes, oh. You guys are back.
Yeah, we had to lay down and thought you said that this
mirror does bad. Things he.
Pulls the rock out of his. He puts his hand.
Down his pants and. Hands you the rock.
This is left behind when you guys left.
Oh my God, I. Don't want to touch it, but I
don't want one of the kids touching it, he he handing it
to. Franklin, who is currently
walked up to him. Is it the pocket rocket?
It is the Pocket Rocket. Yeah, I'll take it, Don't worry.
I bet it Betty adult bets. Pants you.
See that it? Is been some places anyway.
It was it was fairly nice. For what it was, but it could
have been a little bit bigger. But Oh my God.
I have some alcohol to sanitize that with.
I hold my. Hand.
Out. I don't bring it shutter.
Duck the. Whole thing Just shutter.
Wait. Yeah, Mom, I'm holding.
It with my skeleton. Hand that's better.
Just. Pour.
Pour a. Copious amount of alcohol over
the Yep, that's good. Rocket, thank you.
I did name it. That was his name.
Means we. Know where?
We were for the last 8 hours. Oh God.
Anyway, I didn't think you were able to look at the mirror you
said. I point to the others who said
that it was everyone else. That's not.
Able to look at the mirror. It's only me.
Well, I've been looking at it for a while.
It just happens to be the case when it comes to bonding to it.
I don't know how I'll still explained it, but bonding to it,
yeah. It's my particular.
Like attainment or like, yeah. He's A2 mirror to.
To watch over it and this particular part of hell to in
this vessel. You keep saying in this vessel
the. Fuck do you mean?
Oh, he's like Bob, you you say? You say that out loud.
Palin or yeah, yes, he just goes.
Yeah, well this isn't. My only.
Origin. So to say.
Most cards are that way. If you haven't had, this is one
of our planes of existence. But you know.
We're pretty good at. Multitasking as it were.
All right, I guess. So I mean not.
Me particularly, but my my other forms.
This is only an aspect of myself which.
Aspect. I mean that is a good.
Question I couldn't tell you it is one of the multiples, don't
know how many. So, like split personality
disorder? Are you OK?
And a lot of. Faith for a demon, not.
Quite split. Personality more so, like.
Cloning if you. Will but like.
Does each clone. But does.
Each clone. Have the same personnel.
I'm going to keep talking to him.
You guys can keep doing. Things.
Am I close enough to the mirror to?
Hold the axe up. Can I, like, hold it in front of
me? You can.
You were you're going to want to roll me a performance probably
to see how well you Orient and do it without to him noticing, I
guess if. That was the mask on at the same
time. And to.
Answer your question, Phelan, he goes on to say.
Could you potentially? Rephrase that.
Simplest answer would be that we we don't we.
Start with the same. Personality as our originator,
but it diverges from there. Cloning, you know, I don't, like
I said, I don't know if you've heard of that, but essentially,
Oh no, I I understand. The idea of cloning it was more
of the question of does each clone end up like I guess
showing off a? Different version.
Of what the original could be based off of what he gives into
more you know like split personality but not actually
splitting the personalities. I I would, I would say that is.
Accurate, astute perception. That too, because the fact that
I couldn't tell you what the other rest of me are doing, you
don't know. Where they are.
No, we do. We are not.
Connected. Interesting.
Are you like a simulacrum? That's a good question.
Google what is Simulacrum? It's like a it's.
Like a, it's like a. It's like a.
Robot. It's like a it's like a robot, a
construct, but not actually a construct.
No, no, no. We're not sibling full clown,
yes. Yes.
Oh my God. Full being talk.
Of the other. Individual.
Simulacrum. No.
What you see first, Franklin, you're going to actually want to
roll me a perception and. We'll we'll talk performance.
For you, Mame, you are able to Orient the axe into seeing the
mirror in its entirety, and in the center of the mirror you do
see a being. Actually, maybe is that 3
beings, two of which seem to be familiar to you.
One maybe is that Mario and the other is Zolus and the other's.
Definitely gotta be. A beholder.
It's got a singular eye, with multiple eye stocks standing
behind the other creatures in the mirror.
Look familiar to us all? Good.
Ousting enhanced ability on myself.
As I do this, what's your verbal?
And semantic, let's see, I think.
He will kind. Of curl up into himself.
And say you could do it, Franklin, you're basic, you
could do it. I believe in you.
It's not like before. This time will be different.
You could do it. He shakes a lot.
And then I will take up the owl's wisdom, Owl's wisdom.
Just advantage on Wisdom checks. And abilities and stuff.
So perception. 16 then I. See.
And then 2D6. No, that's temporary hit points.
You put on the. Mask of true site and you see
the mirror as it truly were, which is the entities which I'd
I'd described to you being, well, Mommy, that is, being that
they. There's a beholder behind the
glass, so to say, along with two of your companions that have
wandered off in the meantime into this seems to.
Be into this. Arity area.
Damn. And.
You will need to make a. Dexterity Saving through
yourself. Oh no, you feel you're.
Being pulled towards. The Mirror.
But you. Heard the.
Look away and rip off your maybe rip off your mask.
I'm not sure about that particular aspect, but you look
away from the mirror as quickly as possible before you feel your
entire being pulled towards it, knowing that you yourself.
Could be. Could, could.
Have been lost. Into the mirror.
Oh shit. OK, yeah, a little way.
Kind of sit. That back down on the ground.
Breathe heavily. Oh, so Mama, seeing this happen?
Is just going to. You're.
Going to. Actually need to make me a
dexterity saving through with advantage through the axe.
OK, I was like because I'm not like looking at the.
Mirror, I'm like holding the Mac the the axe up.
But I will, I will pull up. You said Dexterity saving.
Yes. With with advantage.
With advantage. Oh, fuck.
Well, that's good. I'm glad.
There's advantage.
There we go. We'll do that.
Suck upon. That's much better.
What was that, 19? OK.
You feel the same. Thing that Franklin did, which
is as you're looking at the reflections in the mirror a a a
pulling on your inner being towards the mirror almost as if
you would, you were losing yourself into.
It and then. You look away very quickly.
So I'm gonna, I'm. Gonna hold the axe and.
Away. I'm gonna like, raise it so the
axe is between my face and the mirror.
OK. And break line of sight.
OK, I still want the mirror to be looking.
At itself. Interesting,
it's. In.
Looking at itself. Starts to kind of shimmer in
place before it holds in it's it's being and no one's.
Looking at the mirror currently, so I I.
Don't. I don't know.
Let. Me know if anyone else looks
back. Either at the mirror or the
reflection. I don't.
I'm just going to hold. So I'm just going to hold the.
Axe and like I don't hear anything.
I don't see anything. I.
Guess I could ask. Fraz what he sees.
But for us? I can try looking.
Through my familiar. Maybe that'll help.
One will die. But I had billions.
Oh, then we could know what's on the other side.
I turned the word. You didn't see it.
I mean, I see the appearance of what's.
On the other side, I don't know if that's actually what's.
On the other side. I hold up the mask.
If you want to look at it again, this is a basket true seeing, so
it'll be what's really there. What did you see?
I saw a giant. Ball with eyes.
Oh, I know. I'll pull up my Pokedex.
And hold it towards the mirror. Have you recently looked at the
updated Pokedex I saw? A little bit of the.
Text only directly to Intelligence check.
Magic. How do we some magic viewer?
Though the topic is so directory.
Creature. Well, that's both.
Something large, bold moves creature.
Codex. That's a film manuscript.
Well, that's very nice. It's.
Evolved. It's evolved.
And. It's being all.
Right, I note. That nod.
To myself. I'll take a look at it later,
but I will make the Intelligence check all right.
Wow. Let's see, man.
I wish I was. Intelligent.
Because I got a negative. 20 Sheath Don't you still?
Have whatever on. Wisdom saving throws.
I know this is intelligence, but.
Yeah, but the the item I. Have specifically says I have to
make an intelligence check. So here goes.
Come on, big papi money. Oh, yes, 19.
So 17. Because -2.
You you're looking at the book, it opened, pointed towards the
thing, and it flips through its. Pages.
Landing on something that's called a fractine or fractine,
however you pronounce it, and is an embodiment of prison that
holds. Entities.
Within itself those. Entities.
Increase or decrease or change the varying effects of the
fractine. I relay this.
It's a prison. Pretty sure there's a creature
there that looks like a giant ball with eye stalks.
This thing doesn't say anything about it, but the prison is
called a fract. Heed.
That's a powerful object guys. We should take it.
I was just going to say. Should we take it?
I mean, we totally have room for it in the pocket.
Rocket I look at the tree. And then I look at mommy and her
axe. Baby axes are the solution.
Always the solution. Interesting.
This creature, though, wants to draw it, wants to draw us into
it. But why is this I look?
At the other guy I turn to. The others could we?
Holler at it. Sure, sure.
We. We huddle.
I look at the guy. Here and in the.
Corner Should we huddle over here?
Troy A Pace. Cigarette.
By apartment. So I'll have to go move.
Myself. All right.
Regina hasn't gone. Up and licked the.
Mirror yet, but continue that's. What it needs maybe?
Anybody ever touched? It no.
Don't do it. Who gets close?
Even the child. Knows better.
That's really it. Might be.
Might. Gina might be.
Reeling from the fact. That that rock was once in her
mouth at. Least it's this this.
Like turn of events and not the other should.
I put it in my mouth now. No.
It's alcohol. Nope.
I'm good. Needs a.
Good scrubbing all. Right.
I just want to lay out a few facts.
Because I'm still pretty. Sure, this.
Guy's lying through his teeth. I know you look to do his bide,
but let's take a look at the facts.
I feel I'm being real. This man is not the SEAL and he
hates his job. Totally believe you, but I
still. Think he's tried to take us for
over, for one? Because let's look at the facts.
This this object is a prison. It holds a person to there,
right? He could look into the prison
and talk to it, because he's bonded to it.
This not not the prison, but the person beyond it, I bet.
Or the ball, I don't know. I think he might be bonded to
the. Prison itself, because it's a
magical thing. And you know, we can bond to
magical things. Maybe he's like a prison guard.
Yeah, he could be the prison guard.
Should we? Should we sit here for an?
Hour and attune to this magic beer.
I think he would have to. Unattune.
To it, sure, but he hates his job.
So he. Says What if we make a big hand?
And make it touch the mirror. See what happens.
Yeah, I can send one of my crickets.
Over there to touch it. But I'm pretty sure.
If we go over. There can I make an insight
check based on the? Feeling I had.
On that it was drawing me into. I want to know if I focus on
that, does it feel like it was trying to swap places with me or
just draw me in and do I know? From this.
Book of From the book I have. If.
This is A1 occupant cell. The book does not elaborate.
Currently just looking at it you can.
Make an. Insight Check on that
particularity knowing whether or not it is a multifaceted cell or
a singular. 16 you're quite certain that it?
Is able to hold multiple people, considering that you had seen
your companions in there. Wait, the ones that which?
Ones Zolus and. Mario.
You have yet to meet Mario, so you're unsure if they were.
Actually a companion. But there is a second and third
person there, so you you were unsure exactly whether or not
you could hold. More than the three.
That are already in there. So you're you're.
You're guessing you. Could possibly do so.
I turned to them. I totally forgot.
There's more than just the ball with the eyes on it.
There were two people in there too.
I have no idea who they are, so I don't care, but.
Baby you do if you. Look, I don't know, Zolus.
You do? Know.
She. Was the one to have been held by
the crab creature and struck by everyone else.
All right. When was that?
Not too long ago. Once we.
Passed the room that jizzed coins.
Oh, remember. Oh, they wandered off.
That's. Right.
Eternity. The others, Actually, I.
Do know them, it's. Zealous and.
Someone else? Forgot their name.
I got told that about. 5 seconds ago, but I've totally forgot it.
They're our allies, though, so they're.
Real gosh. Should I send the?
Cricket in and then. I can see and speak through it
inside the mirror to web, yes. I support this.
I hope it works. I just I want contestants for
the. Group I don't want to do all the
yes. I turn to one of my crickets.
You're a brave soldier. Hey boss, do you want me to send
send myself through Torino or none of my support?
No, absolutely not. You're far too.
Valuable, said one of the drones.
OK, we can send. One of the newbies what's Let's
send Jeremy. Jeremy go through.
Yeah, and one of you feel a tickling as one of the crickets
scroll through your. Shell and out to your shoulder.
And jump off. Yeah, where am I going?
Go up to that. Beer don't.
Touch it first with your eyes closed.
If that doesn't do anything, that'll open your eyes, right?
I'll look at the others. You guys didn't hear that
because I was interpretive dancing.
I told him to go up and touch. It with his eyes closed first.
Then to look through it or look at it if that doesn't do
anything. That sounds right.
Cool all. Right, I'm going to sit.
Down in this corner, right here, because I'm not going to be.
Able to see or hear anything? From this ad, so I'll continue
talking about what I see, feel, and experience and.
We got it. We'll.
Go from there. He sits down, and then his eyes.
Kind of go like Milky white, and his veins kind of start popping
out on his skin like a deep black inky color as Franklin
looks through the eyes and takes control of this familiar.
Jeremy walks up. A Ziggurat.
And gets to the mirror with his eyes.
Closed following the stairs all the way up to the top and
touches it, and nothing seems to happen at first before the
cricket. I don't think that sound came
through, it just. Splats, no.
It died. On the spot?
There jolt. Upright.
Does it break my thing or do I still see something?
You walked up to it. It and Jeremy had his eyes
closed. The sensation that you felt was
that of it's it's walking. As he was walking up to it, he
touched. It and tried to kind of.
Force his way through with his entire body.
But it it did resist him in the sense that there was a there was
a solid surface belong beyond there.
But as he forced his, you know, put his full might and force
into it, that's when he squashed in place again with that same
kind of, like, shattering force damage that you felt before.
Maybe the? Eyes have.
To be open and you have to like Will yourself through, yeah,
kind of like the pocket rocket. Yeah.
OK, I turned that just like. Force or melee or like anything,
it's. Give his family a.
Stipend and send the next one in.
Don't tell them what happened. All right.
Well, I. It's unfortunate what happened
to Jeremy, but we've got. Gerald Gerald here.
Gerald. I.
Repeat and my the. Those instructions I want.
You to go up. To the beer with your eyes
closed. Then put your hand on the beer.
Don't force your way through. Open your eyes and then will
yourself through the mirror, right?
I look at the others open eyes. Yeah, make sure their eyes are.
Open. I just.
I'm worried if he. Triggers like like the the
whatever that. Well, I guess it well, though he
would get pulled through. So just look at it.
Right. Because he'll get pulled
through. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then after he gets pulled through.
I'll look through his eyes so I don't happen to get pulled
through two if it. Still works if the connection
is. Still there?
Then Yeah, right, if that. We need Debra.
Three. And then we'll try it the other
way. I look at him, I mean.
Debra 2. It's Gerald Gerald.
All right. Off you go, soldier.
He just starts marching. Up the.
Stairs, eyes wide, you see the mirror in your sight as he's
reaching the top and inside. Of the mirror you see the, the.
Same image that you'd seen with your true sight before you were
able to pull away. I have to go to the Dire
crickets thing. Because I do.
Not have their. Information pulled up currently,
but they have to make a Dexterity saving 0.
Unless you have it pulled up. No, but I can pull one up IV dat
block. Dex is +3 so.
Let's do one. D20.
Plus 3/20 but no get. Let it happen.
Give it.
To give it to the pole. Don't fight.
It I see it. A 17 out.
Of my oh so plus I. Got you.
So as they're walking up to the top of the of the ziggurat,
looking directly into the mirror, they see the image that
you would you'd seen before you inside of the mirror and with
the intertwined knots around surrounding the mirror, and they
resist this pull into. The Mirror.
Before they heard your command. And then Gurald hears your
command of let it happen and relaxes into the fact that they
are pulled into the mirror and they are another image that is
seated inside of it. Yeah.
All right. And from the inside.
You feel almost. As if you were pressed.
Between two things, and have become basically only
two-dimensional, so you can only look forward and backwards.
Forwards is outside of the mirror.
Backwards is the ever expanding expanse of the mirror and.
There is no. Side to side, there is no up and
down. There is just front and back.
Interesting. So.
I will speak. Through him and call out inside
the mirror. Hey, yo, anyone in here?
Echoes resoundedly. Around him man and.
Oh, so he can't? See the other.
People in there 'cause he can just see forward and back,
correct? We should I should get a bug
with? Eyes on the side of its head.
Space versus 4. Dimensional.
Space, which we find ourselves in, or three.
I turned to the others like I said.
Two more guys in there and tell them each to look left and right
before they hit the mirror. I'm going sideways.
What do you think? I don't think it's.
Going to work like. That.
Yeah. Oh, you don't want to try to
cheat? System.
All right. I mean, we've got.
I mean if. We've got the crickets to spare.
Might as well give it a shot. I mean even.
Magical devices like this have flaws.
If you throw it off, lives at the situation.
Oh, Franklin's grown up. All right, turn back to him.
So he's still alive. He's chill.
He's a better place. I need two more.
Do the same thing. But have.
Your head turned in opposite. Directions 90° Angle.
Let's see. I turned, I turned to mommy.
You're probably gonna need to use your axe so that they can
see the mirror so that they're looking forward while their head
is turned 90°. They shrug and oh.
Yeah, hold. Their axe up.
Oh, I was talking to Bobby, but you guys too.
She's got a shiny axe. Yeah, they.
They shrug and hold their axe. Up.
Oh, oh. She dropped.
Off. Yep, got it.
I have them do that turn dealers?
I'm not really sure what's. To do with this situation, our
friends. Are in there, but there's also.
Beholder in there or all with? Tentacle Eyes.
Well, let's. Do let's try the.
Left and right crickets. And then see what happens.
And then the two-dimensional crickets.
See if you can have them, like, come back out of the mirror
after they go in. Sure.
I doubt that. Or see if they like are stuck.
In there. Yeah.
I'll work back into it. They walk up.
Looking at the X in the they're they're looking at the X in the
distance right? And then walking up to the
mirror. If I am understanding the
situation correctly, well the idea would be like.
The axe would be angled at a 45 between their turned heads in
the mirror so that they're looking straight forward at a
90° perpendicular angle with the mirror, but then get the
reflection of the mirror so they get sucked in that way.
OK, They would also. Yeah, so, like, they get they.
Get sucked in, but like, they're they're like looking left and
right. Yep.
A. Dexterity.
Saving throw. I tell them, just let it.
Happen. OK then.
You don't need that I. Guess because they accept and
and are absorbed into the mirror and inside of the mirror.
They. Look.
In the. Directions they were placed,
however, they only see more emptiness and mirror dimension.
So to say they. Don't they don't see the out
outside of the mirror I have. Them look backwards and
forwards. And I start like you know,
bolting through the different tabs.
Dab they still they still can. They see each other.
Can they see? What can they see?
Each other? They.
Like other. People in the in there.
Or just expanse none of the crickets can see.
Each other and none of the other entities inside of the mirror
can see each other. That is what you're observing
with three crickets in there. You can all between all three of
them, but all three of them only see expanding mirror or outside
of the mirror. Wow, can the crickets try?
To speak to each other, to see if they can hear each other.
I attempt that they could all. Just be in they.
Could all just be in their own pockets.
I think they are. They attempt to do.
So and hear none of the speech between them.
Wow guys. We should take this mirror, try
to see if you see if. They can walk.
Back out, Yeah, try to exit guys.
They. Cannot.
Yeah, that's gonna be a rough. One for you guys, let's.
See the? The the two that.
Had already walked in willingly, Did not make or did not make a
Dexterity thing through. So you could make that at this
time if as they were trying to exit.
Sure. Four and natty 20 natural 20 +
1. What?
Is name 3 but. What?
Do you guys? Think what I need another good
name, Something that's Latin. Amos.
That's.
His name? Amos.
Walks back out of the mirror, back as if he'd been
back-to-back with another cricket beside him, and looks
around and goes. How do you feel, soldier?
Next order? Reality is a lie.
I know I walk up to him. I put my.
Hand on his shoulder, I look deeply into his eyes.
I know you're staying with me now.
He must just. Shudders and crawls up your arm.
And into your shell. Yeah, it took me a while too.
Don't. Worry we've got.
A plan? I turn to the others.
Do we? Turn to the others.
I'll just see what. Their.
Opinion is I relay all of this
information as I was like seeing through their eyes.
Oh well. Could we try to talk to Zolus
and Muriel through our torques to tell them to, like, come out
of the mirror? Maybe, but it seemed.
Like if they they had to have gone it willingly.
But we could try. We don't know.
How they got there? Right, Yeah.
Or if the torque works, I don't want to send a torque in there
though. No, no, don't.
Send a torque in, but like, just try to like, talk to them
through the torque, yeah. Or.
Wait, I hold. I bring the pocket rocket up to
the mirror. If they could hear us, we could
tell them the will of themselves into the pocket rocket and maybe
that will work. Well, they need to.
They need to. Know about it?
Yeah. We got to be able to talk.
To it first, so if you want. To go ahead and try.
Your idea? Gina, if you wanted to.
Put anything else in your mouth before you go.
He's still on or. Also seems like.
Probably. We're getting to a stopping
point. Yeah, I would say so.
Yeah, do just want to. Stop here and pick up.
Yeah, we can keep. Theorizing about this over the
week? Yep.
Sounds good to me. Cool.
Thank you for the session that was.
This is an interesting puzzle. I am glad.
To I'm glad I can provide still. Yeah, a little little brain
stumped right now. I mean, the choices are.
We blow it at a distance, right and get everybody out.
Or we just step out? Step outside and just nuke it
from outside and hide behind the walls, right?
Cut it out of the. Tree take it with us and accept
the losses of our two party members.
And just and just throw all our enemies inside And yeah, in
fever for an. Unstoppable weapon, you know.
These are options that. We can, yeah.
We still got to keep in mind that.
It's a steal that we need to break.
That's the thing though. Do.
We That's like the tricky part. I'm still unsure because I feel
like somehow we got to break figure.
Out. How to break the seal?
I mean here. Well, here's the real thing.
Right. The SEAL.
That's the rule, the goal. Is to leave.
Hell. Right.
By any means. Necessary.
The seal is. Do that by.
Freeing. The nipples.
The God of evil. Yeah, yeah, this is evil
campaign. True.
I mean, Franklin doesn't care, but there are other options of
getting out. I think.
So I feel like we've. Explored those and didn't get
anywhere we got. Part way I mean the.
Problem is, it's all about timing, right?
You have to have everyone in the pocket rocket, and then you have
to have one of those weird dreams that we have and we have
to swap everyone over and then see if that works.
But I mean, here's the other thing.
We could use the banishment spell if we haven't tried that.
On the mirror. No on ourselves.
Oh. 'Cause this is a plane if if.
This is a plane and I quote my fingers.
Oh, banish us to a different. Plane, and maybe we'll pop up on
the Material Plane. Well, the rules of banish.
Are if you're banish for the full.
Minute. If.
You're banish for the full bit. You go back to your home plane.
Oh yeah, if you don't say. I think I knew that.
Where you came from, yeah. I mean.
Maybe it won't work because we've got literally a God.
And I point to the necklace, listening to us at all times,
but comes to you to work or we just.
Or we just pop. Back to the very beginning of.
Where we popped in could. Be if every one of these.
Is like a different plan. I mean, it really depends.
So like go back to the. Fucking start of the.
Start of the if we're all oh. Back to the.
Maze, if we're all alive, then yeah, you would go back to
whatever planet you came from. But if we're all dead, actually
dead it is. Hell, then we'll just go back
that oh, we'll work. Things to think about.
One spell slot.
Who has one spell slot? I said it.
And it only costs one. Spell slot to find out only
costs one. Spell slot, but I don't know
Vanish Vanishment. 5E do I have? It or can I take?
It I can. Take it, damn it.
Long rest again, I made. We can.
We can end here. And then discuss it again later.
That's a good move. Then.
Franklin Kind of like. Thinks into himself and he's
like, I don't know if it'll work on me.
I think with that I'm going to. Drop off.
Thank you so much for the running.
Absolutely. Thanks for jumping out everyone.
Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thanks.
And yeah, I got my fancy laptop.
Charger. She's all sturdy now because I
broke mine on my birthday. I should.
Yeah, end of the day on my. Birthday and I snapped the
fucking thing and I was like, bro, are you joking?
Just need to upgrade to a A. Big boy computer.
I know I'm going. To, But I got, like, so scared,
'cause I was like, Oh my God, am I gonna have to make this
investment early? I wasn't ready for this yet.
Like emotionally, Like emotionally, or mentally a
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